skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dominant share of vehicle miles are commuting to work. If you work 9-5 and there is a charging port at work, you plug into it when you get there and you're charging during daylight hours. Meanwhile the average commute is 16 miles each way against cars that now have a ~300 mile range, which is plenty of slack for the odd evening use while still not needing to charge outside of work on anything but rare occasions.
I've had a Spot ACME with belt for about 6 years. I've used in on my daily lunch ride 4+ days a week. I was worried about all that stuff, I love the bike and was worried about nothing.

Belt damage? They put these belts on motorcycles, it's possible to damage them but they are insanely durable, probably stronger than your typical chain. Somewhere I picked up a staple on mine, I'm going to get it replaced but I've done several hundred miles on it with no issues.

The IGHs are a different matter, they're pretty sensitive and if you get them off a little bit they work but your shifting will be hosed up. Bike shop fixed it all though. My advice? Don't mess with it, get it set up, make sure the little connector on the cable is tightly attached and you probably won't have issues, I had some slip on mine.

I've been running Conti touring tires with some mixed tread and pre-slimed tubes, I've not had flats but I've worn out 3 or 4 sets of tires. It's not a big deal to change it though. It's a commuter bike so it has bolts rather than quick release skewers, I'd use slime and maybe even kevlar liners if you get a lot of flats and just make tire changes a wear issue. It's a heavy bike, it's not a carbon roady by any stretch but it has been as close to zero maintenance as any bike I've had. It's actually required more maintenance on the disc brakes than the drive train, they were getting a little squishy but just rebleed them and they're good again. The only "issue" I've had was when I got a lot of dust on the belt, it was kind of squeaky for a while.

This carbon/ceramic drive shaft is kind of interesting. I always thought that the chain to pully and gear touch point was where the friction loss was, not interlink on the chain itself. For years and years, they've offered bigger pullies for reduced friction. This drive shaft will still have a similar touch point; also seeing as how both pieces rotate, it looks like there could be side to side friction as the cog on the shaft touches the gear on the wheel and they both rotate unless the cog and gear have some very special shaping that I'm not seeing.
As the cog rotates, when it first can engage the gear, just the tip will be touching the gear but as it continues it will push more of the tooth on the cog in to the gear, am I wrong on this?
> "it was a while ago" is not really a defense when you're still distributing that content.

I think you're missing the point here. It was published 9 years ago. He didn't continue "distributing" it, he published it once and Twitter distributed it for 9 years.

The point, as I understand it, is that Twitter passively agreed that the tweet was just fine for their platform for 9 years. Then, after doing so, their standards changed. Fine, standards are supposed to change. However rather than simply delete the tweet, they suspended the account.

So, in effect, "your account did something that is against the rules, before it was against the rules."

I won't wade into the politics here, but I'm curious how you know that he dismissed her ideas because of her gender? Is there any reason to think that he would have embraced her ideas if she was a he?
Doesn't AWS make their own NICs to support the security features in their custom network stack?
Ya, the Quest has been one of those lifestyle changing devices for me. Still, you are kind of stuck with limited mobility even without wires, but at least you can setup the space you use for VR almost anywhere.
> I took a one-way plane ticket to the city of their HQ

So you live there now?
The issue is that for every kilogram you need to get into the air, is another kilogram of fuel that you need to carry onboard. Airlines, and by association, Boeing are very conscious of weight over something like airgapping.
AFDX protocol stack is unidirectional with no ACKs or anything like that, which makes use of physical data diodes trivial.
What I've found helpful is to list out what you want in a culture ahead of the interview and then asking questions about culture of EVERY interviewer. In fact, it even makes sense to ask the same questions on culture of every interviewer since often you'll get different responses.
Common topics to discuss:
* Work-life balance - are people doing just 9-5, longer, is there flexibility on when you come in (ie could you do 10-6?), are you able to work remotely if something comes up (building issue, family emergency etc)
* Team building exercises - do they have any, are there ones that don't involve alcohol, are some of these charity events?
* D&I - current ratio of m/f, or minorities on the team you would be working with, what's that ratio in management, is there a plan in place to encourage outreach
* Supportive environment? - is the environment and coworkers supportive?
I think that misses the overall point: OP is saying the personal emission reductions themselves don't matter AND providing this as absolution kills off the available attention spans that should go towards real solutions.

It is akin to saying 'I recycle my meagre household waste, I am doing my best!' while that's addressing probably 1% of the actual problem (most recycling ends up in garbage and corporations are bigger polluters than individual consumers).

If I am to put words into OPs mouth, we should be pushing for real changes at a society level. This would mean a bigger and more intrusive governance which will come in the form of things like no meat, 2 children per family, all electric cars, no 2 day shipping and so on. I am sure there one in there that will hurt everyone, which is where people should be willing to put their energy into.

FWIW at a macro level, I do see the point. I can put money on the fact that people won't elect or push for societal changes that actually affects them though. These are the reasons why giant systems pretty much never completely overhaul themselves: They might course correct a little, but unless aliens invade or a giant conflict happens - we are kinda set. (Do you see my cynical side yet :)
So you're basing it on nothing?
Our New World Without Kith or Kin
Not cool. We've banned this account.
Converting to Geothermal Energy
right, just ignore your feelings. put your head down. do your work. nothing to see here.
Not necessarily. Not always.
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Why 7? Is that the longest key the NSA can crack quick enough to mount the attack?
Why does this feel like a giant screen splash that contains virtually no information about the tech itself
They are locking their Android friends out of group messages, which are very popular among that age group.
He said:

> If someone cant handle a verbal insult over the internet, I don't think they are fit for office

Then many people immediately jumped on him and made the assumption that he is justifying insults or "toxic behavior". I do not see how this would be the case. Care to explain?

It is not a justification of insults or toxic behavior. He is merely pointing out the fact that if you cannot deal with insults, then this and that. Toxic behavior is, well, toxic, but you have to be able to handle them in a manner that is, say, not self-destructive, while at the same time you being against said toxic behavior.

I agree with him. If you cannot deal with insults thrown at you on the Internet or in real life and it leads to, say, psychological turmoil or whatever, then you should probably do something to alleviate this negative effect insults have on you. This does not justify insults or toxic behaviors. Do you disagree?
The issue with this argument is that there can only ever be once instance of my car in existence at a given time. If you take my car, I don't have it. If you download a copy of my software that I give away for free and use it in a way I don't want you to, that doesn't stop me (or anyone else) from using it. That's not to say that there isn't some argument that using software against the terms of a license should be illegal; I just don't think the analogy to physical goods is a very good one.
If nobody ever asked "should we be using slaves?" perhaps slavery would not have emerged in the first place.
Thanks for this description -- yes the tweet was stupid, yes the person could eventually get fired after someone digs it up so twitter was doing them a favor, blahblah none of those other threads are why this is an interesting post this morning. "Ex post facto" is a bit jargoney, but you explained the issue right: the interesting question is how should we feel about retroactive punishments for something that wasn't illegal/against private ToS at the time.

A lot of people my age love The Office, but some of the earlier episodes... well, they haven't really aged well. The show was great at the time, but the first few seasons today would be a giant #MeToo fiasco. Culture changes and moves on, and what was acceptable then probably isn't acceptable now, but that doesn't (shouldn't?) mean Steve Carrel gets blackballed for the comedy he did at the time.

Early Disney cartoons were flat-out racist, but they're still available with a historical context disclaimer that basically says "We disavow everything in here, but it's a greater shame to pretend that this never happened so here it is for the historical record."

One of the most interesting conversations about social media right now I think is how does someone apologize for what they've done, and do it in a genuine and authentic way that can be accepted. When you serve prison time, the idea is you pay your debt to society and move on. With social media, I don't think we've yet figured out how to say "yes, I was a stupid angry person back then but that's not who I am now". Part of the reason is it's really difficult to figure out who's being authentic and who's trying to half-heartedly weasel themselves out of something.

And I don't think you CAN do that on social media because the only way to really make that decision is to know someone in more depth than some multiple of 140 characters. It's a decision that can't be made with the small bite-sized serotonin pings that we've started to define our relationships and judgements around. We've become jacks of all relationships, masters of none.
> I don't really feel like it's a Facebook product (yet)

Agreed. When they purchased it, people were obviously concerned, so they promised not to combine it with Facebook Messenger. But, at their F8 conference this year they announced they are going to unify them. So you're right when you say it doesn't feel like a facebook product yet. But, I guess it probably will at some point. I think we all knew this was coming though -- there's not much point in purchasing it if they're not going to leverage it one day.
Wow. I had the same thing happen in back in '08, but our insurance company pulled record of lightning strikes in the area to determine if lightning could actually have been the cause. Luckily, they determined that it was the likely cause - all in all, I had almost $20,000 in damages.
Having been in a similar situation once, my advice to you is stick to one project and focus 80% on marketing and 20% on dev.

Learn to sell and learn to SEO. Your traffic and leads make you money not the tech stack (but it's easy to always fall into that trap)
Tesla loses $5M Model 3 order over service and quality issues
It also offers path to cure cancer, create perfect cryptocurrency, stop climate change and legalize marijuana!

/s
There are three separate networks, with data diodes used for cases where information flows between them.

HW separation was enforced by FAA back when 787 was in prototype stage.
So the problem is the "hype" around electric cars, not the electric car itself.

Nobody said "buy an electric car, and you are done, the planet would be saved". And if some people do believe that, then it is an education issue, not an electric car issue.

A bit tired of people shooting for perfection and berating those who actually try to make a difference, even so slightly.

Maybe a more effective solution would be to ban any fossil fuel powered large ships and planes ("the 15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide as the world’s 760 million cars." http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-mo... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...). And yet we all know this is not going to happen anytime soon... and still we would keep getting blog posts saying that electric cars are a problem (of hype or whatever) for the environment.
Thanks for this. I have read "Code of the Lifemaker" multiple times for enjoyment, I will now get a copy of this one.
"Oz-tray-lee-ah"

Edited to reflect a pronunciation, not necessarily a correct or accurate one, from which it's easy to derive 'oz'.
I look at this more like an undeclared variable in a bash script. They probably use that photo and caption about 1000 times a year and forgot to set CALLEE="Bank CEOs".

"President Trump talks with ${CALLEE} on the phone in the Oval Office."
For BT, it's not a matter of transmitting first (for Wifi it would be), but rather transmitting in the exact time slot that the two devices are expecting each other to transmit. This is tightly timed in BT devices (tens of microseconds)--they are only listening on tiny intervals and only expected to transmit on tiny intervals. It would sound like periodic chirping if you were able to hear it with your ears.

Meanwhile, the two BT devices are going to be transmitting in their normal time slots, so you would need to prevent them from being heard by the peer-- otherwise, the combined transmission (of the attacker and original BT device) will look like noise to the receiver and the attack would fail.

The attack is certainly doable, but in a practical setting would be extremely difficult.
Because oz sounds like "aus"
Beat Saber is VR’s killer app ATM, especially for non-hardcore gamers and fitness enthusiasts. In fact, I think VR’s main appeal will be to non-gamers, which makes the less powerful GPU on the quest a non issue.
Driver gets caught pulled over on the highway with 8 phones running 'Pokémon Go'
But do they though? Does project zero review all products made by google on top of the rest of the web? I doubt their oversight happens at the silicon designing stages. Maybe once it's out they battle test it, but I doubt it'd happen before that.
The numbers I often cite are for the US market: 94.8 million head of cattle * 25 pounds dry weight * .01 = 23,700,000 pounds of AT per day or 11,850 tons.

You're right that we can break this down with more granularity between US beef cattle (31.8 million head requiring 3,975 tons AT at 25 dry weight pounds daily consumption), dairy (9.35 million head requiring 4,675 tons AT @ 50 dry weight pounds daily consumption), calves, etc. For these two markets, the total daily tonnage required is 8,650. There are cattle that don't fall into dairy or beef categories. For US cattle industry numbers and statistics, see: https://www.ncba.org/beefindustrystatistics.aspx

We should be careful we don't talk ourselves out of efforts that are good for the world simply because they're not a one-stop solution. If Good Algae can grow to address markets outside of the US, amazing, but we will start here. And I will champion those taking additional measures to combat the crisis facing our planet.
Coinbase Buys Xapo Custody for $55M
Sure but there are many houses that are surrounded by just more houses for many, many kilometres with the nearest concentration of offices and other places of work, stores, and transport hubs (if there even are any) very substantial distances away. It's challenging to increase cycling when that is the case.
The bigger problems is industry.

People have plenty of attention for the things they care about. What they don't have is the ability to change much at all about the bigger problems
There is IMO exactly one valid way to get data from the flight systems to the entertainment network: use a literal one-way connection. Not “the only supported requests are data retrieval.” Not “the software folks only transmit.” A bona fide physical connection where one side has a transmitter, one side has a receiver, and there is no physical mechanism to send any information whatsoever the other way.

These devices are often called “data diodes”. They are cheap. They cannot be hacked from the output side — at best a severely malfunctioning destination could send so much power the wrong way on the fiber or so much voltage the wrong way on the wire that the data diode fails. This would be surprising to say the least.
If Boeing decides to cut costs by using a single network for their entertainment, communications and flight control, who is there gonna be to tell them no? You would assume there is some oversight by independent security researchers who review these planes security, but this assumption seems unsubstantiated.

In reality, how is this separation of critical networks looking like exactly? MAC address filters? Are they air-gapped? I would venture to guess, nobody that isn't bound by an NDA knows.
At 200 microns across, I'd be worried about inadvertently causing puncture wounds. (Might be an unfounded worry.)
> I feel like it's generally understood that when mommy blogger talks about a product on their blog, they're being compensated for their time by whoever is calling them.

I edited it for you to see if you agree that what's good for the geese should be good for the gander. If that logic won't fly for Mommy blogger with the FTC, why should it fly with expert witness? The stakes are WAY lower in one than in the other.

To be clear, I'm not supporting the idea of the FTC giving fines to anybody. But the idea of rule of law is that laws should apply to everyone, which is clearly not the case.

Your argument BTW, feels weird. Why would you bring up the idea of 'generally understood' when that can equally apply to the other side? To me it feels like one of those subtle defenses for the current system that don't actually spell out a defense, but tries to remove criticism with offhanded comments.
I can confirm this 100%. Having worked at an old (19 years) Java code-base full of unnecessary patterns & abstractions. Even with really great refactoring help from the IDEA, making meaningful changes is very very time consuming.
I've spent weeks on it.
The complexity was creeping in over the years and is almost impossible to get out again. But it has types!!!11!

And if I then look at the actual data transformations behind all this code: It would be a 2 day exercise in Clojure to re-build this from scratch.
It's very much by design.
Let me add my own cool but obscure project KDocker. You can use kdocker to move any app to the system tray :) These days it's maintained by john at https://github.com/user-none/KDocker

Edit: oh wow, I actually tried it again now and it actually works! Crazy, this was a tool I wrote like 12-13 years ago. I also found the initial sourceforge page - http://kdocker.sourceforge.net/
This is well written. Reading this, I can think of other pleasure-based escapes in life that follow the same pattern. Thanks for sharing this!
Now I'm genuinely confused: do you consider a program that diverge (as in reaches some exceptional state) not as a "crash" but as a form of termination? If so then I don't understand what your original point was; if you could prove that both functions always return some value then you can also say that composing them will always return some value.
What would happen if the neutron star were to "graze" the event horizon? Are the forces holding the neutron star together strong enough that it definitely would change its momentum and the whole thing gets eaten by the black hole? Or could it break, with the rest moving away as if the black hole took a bite out of the neutron star?
Ask HN: How did you figure out how to make progress in your software career?
Pretty self explanatory. How did you figure out how to rise in your career?
> Cost isn’t the issue, it’s mainly the fact that Autodesk effectively put Maya on life support.

Maya isn't on life support, it's simply that so many studios augment Maya with their own tools & pipeline that it's not necessary for Autodesk to update it with the same frequency that Alias did. It's effectively an OS for 3D content creation for some of the larger shops.
I was sympathetic until I read this:

“I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other topics, newsworthy and not, with a proud deftness and alacrity,” the memo reads. “From disappearing Malaysian airplanes to the spread of Ebola to the marriages and divorces of celebrities I’d never heard of, my teammates always had something to say about everything. But when it came to the violent policing of black bodies, they were silent.”

It is perfectly reasonable for employees to choose to abstain from discussing fraught political subjects at work.
What in the world are you talking about!? WhatsApp doesn't invade your life just to talk to your friends.
I think its on purpose. Associate an unpleasant color with Android so if you ever switch from iPhone to Android you know you will show up as the same unpleasant green on their phones.
It's not against any rules. You can follow the links on the bottom of the page to read them.
Bill Simmons Recognizes Ringer Union
Nobody says it with a z sound, always an s.
Education group urges U.S. Justice Department to block textbook merger
Leaving Flatland: Quantum Hall effect physics in 4-D (2018)
On mobile and don't have time for a substantive reply, but in my experience this comment is misleading. Rec drugs can be a waste of time, depending on how used and particularly when abused, but when used to supplement meditation, I find the experience much more informative than plain meditation.
It's interesting how food is always the most in demand and lowest supply commodity in socialist countries (or more accurately lowest variety selection since they can barely produce enough staple foods, so they shut down the production of nice things limiting the local cultures ability to express themselves and enjoy food). You see it happening repeatedly even today in Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, and historically in China and Russia.

You'd think farming would be something they could do right since they are obsessed with those types of workers, who are their bread-and-butter. But I guess it has more to do with the price controls (probably the worst way to make something 'cheaper') and inefficiencies in the centralized organizations who think they can plan this stuff.

The typical excuse used by socialists re: Soviet Russia was they were exporting food for guns (because evil America), but that doesn't equally to all of the socialists examples in history and is far more likely a direct result of their economic system.
Of course you buy apps from Apple. That's why Apple, worth gobloads of money, can impose a 30% tax on independent app developers' labor.

You can't even tell users how to subscribe without giving Apple a cut if you're on iOS. To any normal person that's an egregious abuse of power. Somehow people on HN just suck it up.

Does WhatsApp force a particular voice assistant or app store on you? No? Apple's lock in is abusive.

Stop prostrating in front of trillion dollar megacorps for $deity's sake. Apple is probably the biggest blind spot this site has.