skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article: "Users who reported any use of non-electric bicycle (including city bike, mountain bike or bike-sharing) but not e-bike were categorized as cyclists, those who did not report any bicycle use, as non-cyclists."

Aha! So, we're comparing mountain bikers and bike-sharers with e-bikes (which belong in the category of electrified city bikes). That alone should raise some informed eyebrows.
with arXiv the TeX source is available for download (under the "Other formats" link), which I think is what arXiv-vanity uses. I imagine it would be really tough to go reliably from arbitrary PDF to HTML without screwing up the math and figures.
eBikes open up that 10+km space, making my 12km commute each way take only 25 minutes (versus 19 to 45 minutes driving depending on time of day).

I also get to bike alongside the canal as part of my commute, whereas before it was a mere glimpse through the buildings and trees from the roadside.

I would not be biking without my eBike, Seattle's hills are too extreme for people who don't have strong chevrolegs.
> I detest touchscreens for most car functions

Agreed. I consider them dangerous, a threat to public safety, they should be banned by the NTSB, and some cars that use them should be under recall to retrofit them with mechanical controls.

Many states are now passing hands free laws that criminalize the use of phones or any other devices that use your hands while driving. The states provide exceptions for car touch screen use, but they shouldn't. They should criminalize the use of all touch screens when driving, not just some.
How is it far more logical?
you'd have to be to be "a devops engineer": an actually-full-stack developer

Completely false. A full-stack developer applies JavaScript frameworks to create websites. A DevOps engineer applies development methods to infrastructure i.e. infrastructure-as-code. Totally different both skillset and mindset.
I think it’s less about strings vs not-strings and more about practicality of metaprogramming with native data types. You can cobble some oddities together with Python strings and eval, but it’s entirely inconvenient and impractical. As such I’m not inclined to cal Python “homoiconic”. I’m OK with homoiconicity simply being a subjective and slightly imprecise term.
"Grand Unified Law".

Something like a Golden Rule?

(Something common to numerous major religious, jumping in before the critics....)
A very similar exchange with T-A happened back in the comment thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432975

As you and several others pointed out last year, the energy considerations here are good enough to invalidate the scheme.
It's not unique to you.
I think knowing the temperatures and such amounts to predicting the foggy state. Detecting it could look much different. Visual observation is obvious. With purpose built glass, perhaps one could look at electrical properties on the inside of the windshield. Maybe changes in the reflectivity of the glass could be used. Maybe some refractive index shenanigans?
Hmm, this doesn't seem to be a response to what I said. Maybe you accidentally replied to the wrong comment?
The Dayton shooter was not a white supremacist. He was Antifa affiliated.
Similarly, coming from CS:GO, I'm way better at Hitman 2 with mouse & keyboard than I am with a controller, even though it has great optimizations for controllers.
This seems unfortunately common across all industries. People focus on visual appeal only to the detriment of all other senses.

Fruit gets larger and brighter, but the flavor and texture go down.

Acoustic paneled ceilings are removed in favor of exposed ductwork and beams, but noise transmission between floors and echoes on the same floor get much worse. (I am torn about this one though)

Buttons with tactile guidance feel great but look too 1990s so everything becomes a glass rectangle.

I would really really like to see and participate in a renaissance of design that accounts for all of the human senses in all their forms.
Which acronym? Expanding "TOTP" isn't going to help anyone; what you really want is the short sentence that simply explains what TOTP is.
About half the article is about a regular named Richard, who dies:

> When I heard that Richard was in a bad way, I figured he was at a low point in another cycle. I expected that I would just see him at the Plough the next time I dropped in. Instead, he died.

Nothing is said about what killed him, but I suspect there might be a clue here:

> Arguably, their [bars'] lifeblood—alcohol—has destroyed more American families than any drug ever has. Now the owner of the Plough, I struggle with this truth. My own family has been afflicted by alcoholism, and while “the gene,” as it is often called, bypassed me, I worry for my four-year-old twin boys. Recently, one of them snuck a sip of my beer, then thrust his right fist in the air in triumph and shouted in his deepest voice, “I am a man!” before running away gleefully. I laughed, but the episode also stabbed me with worry that he may be carrying a ticking time bomb.

It's hard to imagine the mental gymnastics that must be necessary by the owner to keep this business going.

Some patrons may be staying home, but it looks to me as if a plethora of alternative hangouts and ways to meet, not centered on alcohol, have popped up over the years:

- Meetup groups

- juice/hookah/vegan/whatever bars

- exercise/yoga classes and groups

- hookup apps
I love this movement / idea.

I am however interested in what people feel the benefits are to the companies who decide to operate in this manner?
> That is in some ways the point of the subreddit. Many people are acting rationally, if not reasonably

I think you are mistaking commonality for rationality. That by no means sounds rational.

It is this sort acceptance and worship of echo chamber nonsense that I deleted my Reddit account. If I enjoyed being called names or slapped in the face by ignorant fools I would go work in a child day care or with developers too scared to death to read code in their primary language.
Ah, the good ole “Think of the Children!” propaganda. What a lazy excuse. It’s like they didn’t even try.
Consumer Reports Finds Numerous Home Routers Lack Basic Security Protections
never heard of my dad then that will put a dvd in on loop for a few weeks. He has a player going into a TV splitter, so or movie channel is literally _a_ movie.
I hate CloudFlare as much as the next guy but you can change the DoH server, can't you? I hope Firefox will expose the option in the interface and not in about:config. But we all know how Mozilla are...
Being cynical about human nature this technology scares me.

Specifically, is there anything that stops the technology from being used against ethnicities, say by targeting the RNA of Jews (id guess very specific due to matrilineal inheritance of Judaism)?
> people who realize their own limited impressions of the world don't always reflect universal truths.

You defintiely wouldn't get that impression by reading the comments on "hacker" "news", where many of them are people arguing that their anecdote is more correct.
And you've gotten to the root of the decline of places like pubs: Inflation with mostly stagnant wages. Sure, you can have a "cheap" burger and beer, but more often than not you'll end up eating roadkill and drinking chemicals.

Most people just can't afford to hang out the bar all the time anymore.
2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked
This is exactly what your national and state parks systems do, along with all manner of other protected wilderness.

The wonderful thing about the system that's already in place is that you can contribute to it without being wealthy, just by visiting any of them for a day and paying the entrance fee. As an additional perk, you get to visit all of that protected wilderness, while other people have maintained it for you, and you get to increase the total visitation numbers which in turns helps to keep this and other protected wilderness secure for the future.

Go out and enjoy your local public lands.
Can confirm. That voice gets really annoying at times.
> can stand up well in harsh environments.

As an anecdotal evidence...

I was working with one team that was tasked to create device for work in harsh environment. Problem is that they cannot use even mechanical knobs there. Capacitive buttons were the only option. But the control panel can be dirty preventing normal operation.

They came up with the smart idea - in order to start the device operator shall rub all control panels of the device so touching two adjacent buttons (by special scouring/cleaning pad) and in particular order.
Hearing a voice that may be mean to you sometimes is pretty normal. Does it prompt you for answers and you respond? I usually vocalize both sides of the conversation.
you appear to have jumped to step 2 in the masterplan, and completely skipped step 1. It's not even mandatory yet, but when it is, the choice will be between N<10 providers, most of them almost certainly American companies
Easy is a side effect of the 'homo' part. You have one tool for any layer you want to manipulate.
Another problematic bias from the article: "Respondents stating that they used an e-bike were categorized as e-bikers, independent of whether they also used a conventional bicycle."

So, since belonging to a group of bicycle use (leisure, sports, commute) is additive in the amount of exercise one receives, the e-bike group is automatically larger than the non-e-bike group.

How does this pass peer review?
Due to exactly this issue, an increasing number of languages have an operator just for "if exists and not null": the null coalescing operator[0].

What "exists" means depends on the language; it can be as loose as checking if the variable has ever been set (PHP), but generally has nothing to do with truthiness/falsiness status.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator
Here is one in 4 lines: https://github.com/stolendata/totp/blob/master/totp.php#L42-...
There is a massive difference between:

1) A company that is sustainable and effectively “runs itself,” growing linearly, generating passive income, and default alive, but without much input or massaging from the founders outside of thinking about and implementing strategy, and,

2) A company that intended to be a startup, that still requires heavy support, tons of the founders’ time and effort, and is constantly still trying to figure out how to acquire new users. It’s profitable, but only because of the founders’ active efforts.

One of these is depressing and leads to burnout. The other is fine.
No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives?
There's an interesting discussion in this about how early market advocates assumed that in a free market almost everyone would be essentially self-employed, and how the industrial revolution broke that. It's especially interesting to think about that in terms of the gig economy.
> I am sure this problem is unique to me

How does a seemingly intelligent individual say something so patently moronic?
Simulating Futures in Extended Common Lisp (1988) [pdf]
You can get a basic bike at a big-box store, or online, for between 100 and 200 bucks. If you attend to basic maintenance from the git-go, you can have a functioning bike.
I'm not sure what you mean in regards to non-electric bikes. In my experience (living in U.S. cities), there's an extremely wide range that you can spend on a bike, from a hundred or so to extremes of multiple thousands. But you certainly don't need to spend thousands even if it's your daily commuter. One of the keys is that bikes are really really good at being refurbished; an old frame, if it's not in bad shape, can get cleaned and have new parts put on and be literally as good as new.

You should have no trouble getting a very reliable, pleasant ride in the sub-$1000 range from your local bike shop. That's certainly far far less than any other form of transport. It's probably even in line with a year's worth of public transit, and will last well more than a year.
This report will make you wiser gauranteed.:

Obama rapes & kills 2 boys. DeBlasio 5, Buttgieg 5, Cuomo 4, Murray 3, Dorsey 3, Thiel 3. Trump $4 billion to cover. Pelosi $3 billion, Harris $1 billion, Schumer $2 billion, to help bring the boys over the border. See pages 18-23, 8, 11, 12, 35, 45, 61, 62
Oh the irony. Do as I say, not as I do.
Wouldn't a keyboard be considered a mechanical interface still since you have mechanical springs, switches that convert into a digital signal which is what is used for most games.
> $9.99 is just too low, many books are worth more than that.

Worth is a very amorphous concept, but I personally am not willing to pay more than that for any ebook. Some books have definitely in hindsight provided me more value, but I haven't finished (and probably never will) reading most of the ebooks I purchased, since they just ended up not interesting me enough. My time is very limited and being able to read a bit of many books is very valuable to me. From this perspective, I for one am very thankful to Amazon for reducing the price of ebooks.
Sounds like ocd
Why would DoH become mandatory?
> For example, I can instantly appreciate Elixir's pattern matching capability because it makes control flow fades into the background (in addition to simultaneously destructuring variables), removing a lot of noise ...

But where does that stuff come from? Structural pattern matching appeared in Lisp.

See papers like:

Format-directed List Processing in LISP [1966]

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/633242.pdf

METEOR: A LISP Interpreter for String Transformations [1963]

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6106

I'm pretty sure that the word "destructuring" comes from the Lisp culture. Fifteen, twenty years ago, if someone used "destructuring", it had to be a Lisp programmer.
I think this is a nice idea but HN already has those discussions.
HN is not a single unified voice, absolutely. Some of us have been championing GDPR, etc. ;-)
I founded a DevOps consultancy (Contino.io) and have been involved in hundreds of DevOps engagements.

I’ve always been comfortable with the idea of DevOps as a role. If you work on Terraform, CI/CD, container platforms etc and have knowledge of both Dev and Ops practices and engineering mindset then it seems like a fine label.

We really took a bet in the early days that DevOps as a discipline as well as an operating model and culture would emerge. We are now approaching 400 people so we are happy with how it’s playing out. I think it’s very early days too.
You are not mentally ill. We have the ability to have more than one identity/ego in our heads. It's only a problem when it's damaging to you/your life.

You can also have no ego/identity, which is the holy grail of many religions/philosophies.

Lately some communities have formed around creating additional identities personified as fantastic beings they call tulpas. Some of the people there can even see/perceive those identities.

Managing our egos/identities is a very powerful tool.
Fair point. Note that I didn't say you should never try to get recognition; Only to consider if that's really important for you.
I can't see into the future, unfortunately, but you're welcome to bookmark the parent comment and set a calendar entry to compare it with reality about once every 6 months. It's possible to speculate, though. Google have been engaged in open war against ISPs for most of the past 10 years, it is in their every interest to commoditize the pipe between the consumer and the datacentre as far as possible. Removing DNS from the link is eliminating another source of risk

For Mozilla, I'm not sure, but they often follow Google's lead, and there is a strong case for Google to go that route

In any case if it ever starts defaulting to on in any browser, it's very likely the others will follow suit, as it's easy to imagine quite a lot of PR around the security benefits of the brave new world
Yes, RFC 6238 requires this too. Quoting from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238#section-5.2:

> Note that a prover may send the same OTP inside a given time-step window multiple times to a verifier. The verifier MUST NOT accept the second attempt of the OTP after the successful validation has been issued for the first OTP, which ensures one-time only use of an OTP.
"Well, the whole source file is a single string" just seems like a vacuous gotcha. It's not an interesting enough point to settle the matter.
Corporations and the government are not brightly distinguishable entities. Corporate execs frequently serve in government and oversee or give contracts to the very companies or industries they came from, and it's an open secret that when powerful government employees retire they get very well paid positions at those very same companies as rewards for the contracts they awarded or legislation they passed/opposed when they were in government.

Considering the amount of back scratching that goes on between government and the private sector, it's a true wonder that there are any consumer protection or labor laws at all, or that powerful politicians or corporate execs ever have to face any consequences.
You've made this so general that it applies to literally everyone in every contentious argument. We all have vested interests, deep misunderstandings, strong attachments, personal biases, oversimplifications, and everything else you mention. So in that sense, yes: there's falsehood and misinformation all over the place. But I don't think seeing others as the problem is going to get us very far; seeing others as the problem largely is the problem.
There are many technologies which are double-edged swords.

Encryption can keep things which need to be kept secret safe. They can also keep things which ought to be made open safe.

Anything can and will be abused by people who want to use it to hide what they are doing. That includes criminals.

But if every history-changing invention could have been stopped because of the potential of abuse, we'd not be where we are today.
Spying on HTTPS
Trump is a very wise man. I wish the liberal community could begin to see this.
Have they really hit that economy of scale point? It still seems like it’s at the niche point compared to the mature non-assist bike market – like cargo bikes or other not-uncommon but not yet highly-optimized markets.

This also matters because some of the components aren’t the same: for example, all of the e-bikes I’ve seen used disc brakes and many had heavier duty drivetrains due to the extra torque, so that part should be expected to be more like a mountain bike than a cheap city bike. As they become more common I’d expect those components to become cheaper with high volume.
Does the GP's internal voice have its own HN account?
Entrepreneurs, Then and Now (Andreessen, Horowitz, Butterfield)
The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story (2014)
I read scientific PDFs on a daily basis. I never knew that this was a problem.
Voice controls suck and are exclusionary as fuck. Maybe they work for the subset of the population who natively speak a very standard dialect of American or British and have no speech impediments; for those people it's just an annoyance to have to pause the podcast or music.

For the rest of the population of this planet, voice controls are horrible; either the user doesn't speak the supported languages at all, or speaking the supported language doesn't come naturally and switching to it requires mental effort, or it's an infuriating experience to try to make the bloody machine correctly interpret what you're saying.

That's even ignoring the complete fucking shit show that is software trying to understand natural language and infer meaning, without just turning it into a tedious form of a command line interface.
I have similar issues. To the point that I wonder about adult-onset Tourette’s.
" Would people and companies still want to be billionaires if that meant losing the right to vote?"

No problem there. Use your money to make other people vote for your stuff. That's what's happening already anyway.
The article mentions the "research" which, even though I think self-introspection is worthwhile, is extremely subjective and the self-measurements would influence the results. I wish social studies like these had other terms so that it wouldn't be conflated with real science.
I am not sure why would you need to take money (behind seed) even for a growth business. Can you just scale with customer money?

Also, why not play in a big, HIGH probability payoff.

For example, why not compete with Google or Amazon in what they think is their next market? This assures you a big market with at least 100M - 1B annual sale.
The brain inspires a new type of artificial intelligence
I hate the Google model, but the appeal of everything in one place is too high for the lazy!

The only way I see this changing and people shifting to an alternative search engine is if that engine is 10x better in terms of results...
Agree with everything you say except one bit:

“we couldn’t break it or trancend it”

The same thing has been said about many man-made electronic systems, and we know how that’s gone so far ;) So I think for 95% of people, nothing would change, but for the folks on the forefront of experimental / particle physics, quite a bit would change because we’d be looking for a whole new class of exploits/vulnerabilities/ways to affect change in the simulation.
I think it has to do with a working market combined with high demand. Compared to other areas with high demand but salaries are pretty much fixed.
Imo “learning to be wiser” is an oxymoron
The book does have some discussion of labor, but essentially alleges that the US labor movement is dead and new ways of thinking about the problem will be needed to wrestle with the problems of labor in the modern environment. I tend to agree, although the effort to recast employers as governments feels like a pretty transparent play to engage small-government advocates with the problems labor wants to talk about.
As any smaller bicycle shop will tell you, these are not bikes, they're "bike shaped objects" and fairly dangerous due to the poor manufacturing. They're also really hard to ride due to their weight and high friction parts. You can get a decent bike for maybe 500€, in my experience. If you don't have enough money for that, you're far better of buying a used bike.
E-bikes are a funny thing. Living in Seattle, they were everywhere. Having now moved to the flatlands of Chicago, I see more Ferraris than e-bikes. I’m a “conventional” cyclist but totally get the appeal of electricity in hilly terrain. Not everyone enjoys that kind of battle.

Having said that, the two (soon to be three) days I cycle the 30 mile round-trip to work leave me feeling great. Would recommend to anyone. Combined with riding Metra (our commuter trains) the other days, traffic becomes a spectator sport.
A video encouraging people to participate in an illegal gathering could in some jurisdictions be considered a form of incitement.
Agree. I took my a few years to convince myself that it's okay to be ambitionless, have no goals, and to not care about maximizing my potential.
While DNS over HTTPS has benefits, we should really be looking into distributed or p2p DNS.
Goodness no, this is much more common than you might think. My voice comes out when I'm trying to wrap my head around a tough problem, but it also comes out when I'm struggling to make a tough decision. There's nothing quite like an angry rant (while pacing about the house) to get the emotions out and clear the air, so that rational thought can eventually result in making the right choice.

I've never thought of this as particularly abnormal, it's sort of just how my thought process materializes. I find it easier to vocalize, and since I don't normally want to annoy my friends, I just talk to the voice, and occasionally entertain what the voice might say back. Obviously there is no voice and it's a figment, but it helps, and that's all that really matters.