skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'd count the author's bike as being pretty close to being a moped. Except that it might get regulated as an e-bike, and it is possible to use it as a normal heavy bicycle if he wants or if the motor fails.
You would probably make your point more effectively if you could A) recognize that you aren't helping your case by being offensive toward allies who are not actually the people you are condemning and B) make use of specific details about actual events rather than just making it seem like everyone is guilty. If everyone is guilty then no one is, in reality, guilty. It's like saying all men are rapists or everyone who masturbates is offending the sacred trust of god. This way of replacing argument with attempts to trigger people is getting no one closer to goal that every one actually wants, which is justice.

When you say "the US" and then make an offensive comment as if none of us have ever fought for justice for anyone, most people just tune you out as obviously wrong.
I always thought it'd be cool if your book club could pool all their highlighted passages and notes -- so you could really feel like you were reading a book together.

It'd also be fun to see which passages were being highlighted and shared by celebrities or famous authors.
There is going to be another Rwanda-scale genocide somewhere because of rumors on social media, eventually. Billions of people without the intellectual toolchest to determine truth from falsehood, eventually it’s going to get out of control and a lot of people are going to get killed.

One can argue it’s already happening to the Rohinga.

I think we as a species need to make a serious effort to educate people in really basic critical thinking skills and teach people a healthy skepticism, and how to evaluate evidence and chains of reasoning.

It’s counter to everything we’ve been teaching the masses up till now, which is to respect authority, because it’s easy to control them that way.

Without centralized mass media, that’s no longer an option. Manufactured consent will no longer be available as a means to maintain stability in society, and we’ll have to figure out how to do it with everyone able to think and learn for themselves.
what is it like to be something which experiences and know you are that thing.

According to this definition, crabs are self conscious.
So previously you all were talking about filtering child porn, but now you admit the desire to filter out political content you disagree with? That's, like, dramatic reversal.
Make sure you take a look at something like a Chromebook Flip too. Bit cheaper and touch heavier, but bit larger and you get a physical keyboard etc.

I haven't actually bought one yet but if been using another laptop with Dane dude 1080p screen and it works well. Plus chromebook is pretty caoable as a secondary device so its relatively good value proposition.
I got a Liberty CXD and have been using it for over a year now with only some slight modifications -- I replaced the pedals (they were trash) and added fenders, a rear rack, and lights. I chose that bike as a good compromise between performance and not breaking the bank too much if it got stolen.

Were I to do it over again I'd get a nicer model, because in practice I almost never lock up my bike outside anyway so the theft concerns aren't an important factor.
I disagree. 99% of us are good people. The cesspool loves a stage/soapbox though.
I'll offer an alternate voice here - I take Vyvanse, and went without insurance for a few months two years ago. I tried Adderall and Ritalin, and neither had comparable impact. I ended up spend ~$300 / 30 on Vyvanse and honestly thankful that it was available at that price each time.

With insurance, my prescription is $50 / 30. I typically don't take it on weekends in order to limit tolerance, which further reduces the ongoing costs.
> I hear you. A lot of this is based on opinion; you find the duplication good, I find it near-unbearable. :)

I don't really find it good. I just don't see any easier to follow alternatives. Imagine getting a contract to add a new feature to C code written for an old mainframe in the 80s. It's a pain, right? Now imagine you just deleted half of the type annotations and replacing them with let. Do you think that would be easier to read? Maybe a better middle ground is left-justified definitions of types? I don't know.

I think that

vec<int> something = new;

might be better than

let something = new vec<int>;

We read left to right, the first thing on the line is the left most item, and the left side of the variable definition with always be visible (can't have a function call on the left hand side).

> If the compiler can figure it out, then so can any other tool

I understand that but most IDEs, outside of the ones supporting the new language server initiative, don't really talk to the runtime/compiler. It's also the case that architecturing your compiler/IDE this way is very computationally expensive. I'm on an x220 which is only a few years old and RLS locks up every time I try to load a non-trivial project.

> I do think that IDEs are a way to split the difference here; you can hover over people or plusOnes and see the type.

It would help but I have not had any luck getting a decent IDE setup for Rust. I know this is something that I am not alone on and (thankfully) this is a criticism the Rust community is very receptive to. I'd be really interested in hearing what you and many of the other core devs do for your environments.
Openly accessible "What Developers Want ..."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

obtained by pasting the title into scholar.google.com
It's hard to build an inefficient electric motor, and I'd think the headline figure is the motor power rating.

But even if we assume it's the power draw and the motor itself is terribly inefficient, we're still talking 80% efficiency? Chain drive is 95% efficient if badly maintained, but then the human power loses that, too, so we don't need to consider it. So we're still talking 800W, which is 3-4 times as much as needed to sustain 20 mph on flat ground, and utterly out of range of any human for any time period beyond a minute.

The power and speed limit of normal ebikes is a feature. It keeps us from making the same mistake we have with cars, which only ever got faster while driving discipline declined and were at any point beyond human ability anyway.
I think a lot has happened in the past few years, so that it's worth trying an improved motor and battery system.

Winter is a great time to get geared up for the next season, and there might be some seasonal discounts to take advantage of right now!
It's still not quite the same. In Germany, Australia and NZ, you can send money to anyone at any bank, for free, and you don't need to use their phone number or e-mail address. It's mandated by the government.

It'd be more like the Federal Reserve enforcing free customer-to-customer ACH for everyone. There are some banks that do offer free person-to-person ACH (I believe 5/3 is one of them).

Zelle is basically the banks getting together and going around that critical lack of infrastructure. It does look like they have a lot of major and minor banks. Mine is still missing from the list though, and I suspect it will be years until everyone is supported or banks will feel they need to support it to enter the market. So no, the US is still way behind.
And? There are folks with various skin colors around the world. The only thing your comment really illustrates is the stereotype you have of possible Nigeria-based scammers.
The US ACH system does rely upon COBOL mainframe systems which only support batch processing. But that constraint does not cause the multi-day process. In fact, since September 2017, the US ACH system has supported same-day ACH processing (with a slightly higher fee of 5.2 cents).

The main constraint has been more related to operations. There are thousands of people whose sole job is to process ACH files. They mostly work at bankers' banks and corporate credit unions (credit unions' banks). But also at financial institutions that range from under $1mm in assets to over $100bn. Most of these jobs could be fully automated away, but they haven't been yet for a variety of reasons.
Oh, you're right. I forgot that they moderate things that are illegal in nature.

But it's still the bare minimum.
That sounds like insanity. My country by comparison is too far at the other end of the scale. Anyone can buy (or make) a boat, with a 200 horse motor, grab a six pack and a tank full of fuel and hit the water and go anywhere, into any harbour, with no training whatsoever.
Can you pedal and use the motor at the same time in a regular ebike? I think what the parent posters want to be able to turn off the motor completely.
> I think the problem is range, you won't be able to hide much battery, the one on my bike weighs 6LBs and is quite bulky.

Interesting, that seems to be exactly what I was thinking of. The good thing is, it seems you could use it without a battery, or with differently sized batteries depending on need. If I'm reading this right, the motor, wiring, etc, weighs about 1000g, then a 6Ah battery another 850g, or a 9Ah battery 1250g. So only an extra kilo if you just wanted to use it as a normal bike, and if you're commuting, you might know exactly what capacity you need, and could just take that. Especially in cities, there's a lot of carrying bikes up and down stairs.

Just needs to be a lot cheaper than 3000 Euros!
If you take the prescribed amount, addiction is not likely. --nothing bonkers about that.
You know what? I don't care if colonialism stayed, if it also made Bolsheviks in Russia go away. I would be just happy.

I didn't get anything for me out of this decolonization-by-communist-competition deal. Anything but humiliation.
> There is going to be another Rwanda-scale genocide somewhere because of rumors on social media

"A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’s 'Muslim-free' villages, which bar Muslims from spending the night, among other restrictions.

'Kalar are not welcome here because they are violent and they multiply like crazy, with so many wives and children,' he said.

Mr. Aye Swe admitted he had never met a Muslim before, adding, 'I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/myanmar-rohing...
There was a period in time when I also experienced an extreme burnout. Once, partly because of it and the entailing lack of interest in life, I wasn't paying attention descending the stairs in an old house and hit my head against a hard furniture (truth be told, it was the stairs leading to the upper floor. The stairs were located one above the other in that house) and got a concussion. I took 2 months off in total and then returned to work as fresh as before the burnout.
During the time off I spent a lot of time recovering from the injury, sleeping (partly because of the side effects of shitty drugs they prescribe here) and strolling across the city. I also listened to a couple of audiobooks in English (which was entertaining in itself since it's not my mother tongue) and read a couple of great books
This site is fantastic!
Yes, it's homicide for both parties. Considering that this is the first swatting death, I have to disagree that it's an _attempt_ at homicide, which would imply premeditation/first degree murder.

From the wiki page you linked:

>defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person.

That definition could apply to manufacturers and vendors of firearms and weapons.

Police (and soldiers) operate on unreliable information all the time. They should be held equally responsible. I've heard plenty of veterans deployed in actual warzones show more consideration for human life. Whoever makes the call to pull the trigger needs to accept the consequences. Being a police officer is extremely difficult and dangerous, and is compensated accordingly.

Of course, the police are not here to keep you safe but to ensure society keeps functioning for those who control their payroll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
I get what you're saying, but in practice, cheap mechanical disc brakes also suffer from less braking force, whereas there aren't particularly cheap hydraulic disc brake systems, so all the hydraulic disc brakes do have better braking force in addition to greater modulation characteristics.

So to simplify the point I'm making, he needs better brakes.
SBO is OK for books that don't have many formulae. For those that do, I've found they usually have at least a few formulae that are illegible due to overlapping text, missing unicode or other related issues.

I don't understand why they can't fix this, at least for O'Reilly content. Even if they choose to use HTML/epub for SBO, why not generate the graphical version of the equations using the same technique used for the PDF versions?
I was diagnosed with moderate ADHD, inattentive type, as a teenager and prescribed adderall. I was also quite depressed, but I hid that from my psychiatrist.

The adderall certainly helped me to focus, but the side effects were awful and I stopped taking it regularly. I’ve since been diagnosed with depression and started on sertraline (an SSRI), and very soon after noticed an improvement to my attention, ambition, and ability to complete tasks.

It’s not surprising, I guess, but near-constant thoughts of worthlessness/desire to die can make it quite difficult to focus on tasks and generally function.
I think that better acknowledgement of mental health conditions is generally a good thing. There's too much stigma around something being labeled as "mental health", when really I think everyone should view their own mental health as a work in progress, just like how physical health always has some room for improvement.

For mild cases, I think it's fine to say that playing video games obsessively is potentially problematic (and in this case, I think "mental health" is the obvious category for that sort of problem), just like how not getting enough exercise can be problematic for physical health.

When it gets bad enough to the point that people feel out of control of their lives, it absolutely deserves to be called a mental health problem, and it would be incredibly frustrating to seek professional help and hear "your problem isn't real", when it clearly is causing suffering. Acknowledging that you have a mental health problem and seeking professional help is already hard enough.

Whether you use terms like "mental health disorder" or "mental illness" feels like just an issue of semantics, and my understanding is it's often more an indication of severity rather than being something fundamentally different. Just because you acknowledge a thing called "gaming disorder" doesn't mean it needs to be treated with medication or any kind of extensive treatment; you can still apply reason within any individual case about what the right course of action is. But if it's not even in the vocabulary, there's no reasonable way for the medical community to talk about it and understand it.
Unionization doesn't work very well when you can trivially outsource the job/task. It'd be necessary to entirely remake the US economy, because you'd have to enable union powers that could directly control all actions by the parent corporation, including setting up overseas / outsourcing.
I am also from Germany, but moved to the US for work. I am 29. Recently someone suggested to me I might have ADHD. After learning more about it, I had a feeling that many adults with ADHD have: I suddenly felt like my life story made sense.

People below the 5th percentile in ability to concentrate, as measured by this test.

My health insurance made me take a CPT test and it indicated that I don't have ADHD. This means that they refuse to diagnose me despite that I have ALL of the inattentive symptoms. I did a lot of research on ADHD after that. Those tests have a 40-50% false negative rate. Luckily I am changing insurance next year. I already made an appointment with another doctor who is an expert in adult ADHD.

I don't know false positive rates off-hand, but they are properly much higher. Pretty much any mental or psychical illness causes inattention. There is no reliable test for ADHD. ADHD is not primarily about inability to concentrate, but executive function.

Instead, we use the DSM, which advises us to diagnose people with ADHD if they say they have at least five symptoms from a list.

This not true.

1. You need to have them "often" (approx. 5th percentile in the population)

2. You need to have them since childhood.

3. They may not be better explained by other disorders.

4. Need to have significant impairment in work, school or personal life.

Those criteria are based on decades of scientific research. They are the best way to diagnose ADHD. There has been promising research in computer tests, genetic tests and brain imaging, but none of those are reliable. A good doctor should spend significant time talking to the patient. Ideally they should also talk to other people who know them and review documents such as grade cards from school.
Those old enough would remember fake news used to go through email chains. Even if we ban Facebook, people would do the same through email, should we ban or censor that too? Don't blame the messenger. People enjoy sharing fake stories that sound too good to be true because it makes them feel good, this is probably how most religions got to exist and propagate, way before facebook. This problem is as old as humanity and blaming it on facebook, social media or emails is a bit short sighted. We'll get through this :)
Possibly related, and enjoyable: https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime_from...

These don't document nigerian prince scams, but they are close.
We really need to quit forcing programmers to take calculus. Even set theory is a minority of us. Nobody actually needs order of magnitude either, so long as you can tell one thing is bigger than another which is about one day of learning after you cover polynomials.

The vast majority of us never use more than basic algebra. Counting, multiplying and dividing money, and estimating effort in story points (and maybe dollars as you get seniority) are the big math items.

I'm horrible at calculus, a fault that cost me around $30,000 in makeup classes and a delayed graduation as I kept losing scholarships.

Yet I have never, and will never, use Calculus in my field. This was told to me by the career coach in my intro class, who said almost none of you will ever use Calculus, yet my school still made everyone take up to Calculus 4. Who the hell is finding the area under three-dimensional curves without relying on a library? Madness.
Show HN: Yet another XKCD comic browser (implemented in Elm)
Man you guys really believe this shit?
I'm optimistic this will be solved in the near future -- it is a UX problem. Like the "Not secure" in browser, what we need is a "Potentially fake" icon that can be flagged/used on various platforms.

The advent of the fact-checker platforms is the first bit. Next would be API/automation, followed by the UI/UX changes.
They don't need to spend any time on it past the initial setup, you can have an automated system integrating the consumption pattern of an entire neighbourhood, and pointing out which owners are likely on holidays.
Heat sinks indicate sterling engine? The one from the first one is probably also sterling although not as obvious.
For point of reference, shotgun slugs can be stopped by modern armor. It still cracks people's ribs through sheer impulse. A 50 BMG has 5 times the kinetic energy and 3 times the momentum of that.

It's simply not enough to stop the bullet at these kinds of impulses, you need something to distribute the force over time as well as space. Cars use crumple zones for this purpose - the time it takes the front to deform is extra seconds over which the momentum change takes place, thereby decreasing the impulse.

Even if we could develop some sort of powered armor that let you carry absurd amounts of armour I don't see how you could really solve this problem. The suit is still going to push back into the wearer's body with the same impulse, and crack bones when it does.

Ultimately, the truth is human beings are just too squishy. #BringOnTheRobots
I've worked with Paul Jones in the past and he has actually modernized one of my own legacy PHP codebases. He wrote down his experiences and advice in "Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP": https://leanpub.com/mlaphp

It might be worth your time. (Edit: noir_lord also recommended the same book in this thread.)
These will probably be my 2018 goals:

1. No sugar foods in Jan/Feb 2018 (and limited sugar afterwards; one dessert per week?)

2. Exercise for 10 minutes, 6 times/week

3. Medidate for 10 minutes, 6 times/week

4. Write a journal for 10 minutes, 6 times/week

5. Walk for 60 minutes, in the morning, 3 times/week

6. Eat well

7. Sleep well (at least 7 hours/night, possibly 8 - 6 times/week)

8. Every month, write a summary of the month just passed.
That attached battery would get stolen in a pinch. Not practical unless you have closed/safe parking at every destination, i.e. won't work in Europe where we mostly park on the street.

I'm curious about the second picture: it looks like the motor is in the way of the pedal crank arm?
Then again what is the living situation ('use case') where an e-bike works? I also made the example with a house and garage. I don't see any killer use case but are happy to learn relevant use cases.
One of the biggest differences in my mind between the Internet described in the article and the social networks of today (at least for me) is the forums and IRC channels I frequented were filled with people who genuinely enjoyed talking to one another and even cared for one another. I still have friends 15 years later that I’ve never met and so many great memories. I can’t say the same for FB or Twitter.

And the “heart of a sysadmin” statement hit so close to home.
> And it's clearly not rational. As long as you assign positive value to your time.

I would say it is hard to live a good life if you don't value the things you create.

It is interesting to see that people weren't able to predict this behavior. However, people are unable to predict many of their own behaviors, so that isn't a damning result by itself.
> 1) Forums are dead for almost all but the biggest communities that surround a product of some kind. Social forums are simply dead.

The Something Awful forums are still pretty lively. The community may not 'click' for everyone, but some of the smaller subforums especially are very welcoming and fun places (like Automotive Insanity, the subforum where people post about their car projects and project cars)
All I said is that if video games were treated the same as drugs and alcohol they would be banned for minors.

Video games are just as addictive as alcohol, cigarettes, or cocaine and just as destructive in terms of seriously impairing the ability of addicts to function in a socially acceptable way.

If you think books or hobbies are as addictive or destructive as video games that is a matter of opinion, but I think most reasonable people (like mental health professionals) would disagree with you.

Even if any of the things you listed were as addictive or destructive as video games they are all missing one crucial aspect: the ability to optimize and enhance addictive properties over time.

There are billions of dollars being poured into enhancing and refining video games (making them more addictive) every year and the technology to do this (tracking player responses at a minute level and adapting games to maximize profits) can not be applied to any of the other things you listed the same as it can to video games.