skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the model of the engine, in some cases the bore can be bored larger (and an increased size piston to match is used) in some the whole cylinder (and piston) is replaced with a similar one but with a larger bore.

But in many cases there was no actual need to increase the size of the engine bore, as more often than not the original engine has much more power and it is limited by external devices (once - think of the '70's/*80's it was common to have the same engine 50 cc with 5-7 HP reduced to 1.5 HP by using an undersized carburetor, a smaller exhaust and even - in some cases a simple washer with a smaller hole in the intake).

I remember how (again this is the '70's) most "legal" mopeds in Italy had a carburetor (a Dell'Orto 14/12, meaning 14 mm diameter engine side, 12 mm air filter side) that was often drilled to 14/14 or replaced by a 18/18 or a 19/19. That was enough, without any other change to go from 1.5 HP (the "legal limit" at the time) to 3-4 HP, then changing addtionally the exhaust it went to 5-6 HP, then lightly enlarging the intake opening and "transfers" in the cylinder (remember these were two stroke engines) and adding 2-3 "transfers" was what made them reach 7-9 HP.

The best (in the sense of funniest) performance kit[1] was one for the Ciao (and similar Piaggio light mopeds that originally mounted an even smaller 12/10) that added a second carburetor (not particularly uncospicuous), example:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCenA3H9siBLrpRUWCiLlWHw

[1] intended for circuit racing only ...
One major difference is that you can download it, run it, and edit the source code.
No, we don't. (Ditto about TVs.)
Dominos use electro cars for delivery. practicaly the same)
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15149179/dominos-electrif...
There's a lot of worry in tech hiring about the "faker", the engineer who lies or exaggerates on their résumé.

The irony is that the tech hiring process, especially the job postings, encourage the fakers to apply. You're practically beginning fakers to apply.

The most honest, scrupulous people tend to only apply for jobs where they're 100% qualified according to the job posting. So the system, which hires people who don't actually meet the listed qualifications, is systematically selecting against the honest applicants. Honest people can even be driven out of tech in virtue of being honest.
I would prefer there were just a semantic way to find out what exceptions a method might throw. I develop a lot of Java and often end up just rethrowing a checked exception as RuntimeException or AssertionError.

A long time ago, I developed quite a lot of code in Ada83. Our team found having to use documentation to express what exceptions might be thrown led to many errors. I was pleased when Java came around that this was expressed directly in the function declaration.

But then it became clear that it lead to a lot of boilerplate.

I would like the throws keyword to just be an indication of what might be thrown and not require that I catch it.
It depends, really. My first apartment was in a three unit building managed by a small management company. We mailed checks.

My next apartment was a condo we rented directly from the owners. We paid by bank transfer.

Then the third place I rented years later after moving across country was managed by a large management firm and they had an online portal with rental payment, maintenance tickets, and all that. We weren't in large building, it was a townhouse, but they had properties all over the region they managed.
When HR decided that it was the same thing as a systems engineer.

Just like one needs to take care with architecture roles, because for lots of companies it is just project management with another name.
Tell that to John Carmack or Lord British or even Microsoft. The wasteland of the 80s / 90s surely ended up their careers.
Johns Hopkins researchers question study linking Sturgis rally to Covid-19
due to US laws. Same reason Bitmex is moving to requiring KYC and Binance created a US only site - to avoid getting sued/shut down.
https://www.statista.com/chart/19937/europes-biggest-greenho...

Compared to other European countries, they are significantly worst.
Have you checkout the numbers for places like the Netherlands, or Copenhagen?

Sure, if you're in Dallas or Phoenix or Atlanta, it's not going to work, unfortunately.
Eh. I own a phone and am also not available immediately as often as I want.
WhatsApp predates Elixir by several years. And they are using Erlang (Elixir runs on top of Erlang VM).
While the article focused on how someone might bring a better algo webapp against goodreads, you've got to agree that Goodreads is badly maintained. The app is atrocious as is the website from the reader's PoV.

The groups are so badly implemented that it takes multiple clicks to do ANYTHING and there is just no "timeline" like thing where you can post on a group. It won't take much time/resources for a social media to act like a 21st century social media right? Especially since it is owned by the company which created AWS?

from the author side:

I have a very common name and I've got an ebook up on Goodreads(I did not add it & I've not, for the life of me figured out how to submit the book)

But because Good reads thinks that because my name is what it is, they merged my profile with someone else with my exact same first name and last name.

I've done all I could to get them to change it, but they didn't bother to respond.
Facebook is doing a Libra Presale
I keep being drawn back to Elixir because of the error messages alone. Just look at that beauty.
Marketing is far more than just ad spend.
Do most devices wait until 0% to turn off?
Yes, by living in the 80s and 90s (and even in the 2000s where the phones were "not smart")

It sucked.

Not being communicable where you were and having to depend on fixed places for communication (phone booths, etc) sucked.

Not being able to access some information quickly (maps, etc) sucked. Ok maybe sometimes it was fun, but it overall sucked.

So thanks but no thanks

You can always set your phone to "Do Not Disturb" or "Airplane Mode" if needed. Or, you know, not look at it immediately after getting a notification
Its not like you are obligatory to answer.
Depends on your lifecycle. I honestly couldn't imagine living in a big city without map/taxi/metro apps. I love getting lost, but not on a daily basis.
Can someone explain why this is newsworthy, or why Snowden's words in particular are valuable?
Meth contaimination is a huge problem and can be very costly to remediate. It's mostly from cooking meth but even using can contaiminate a house causing 6 figures in damages.
My guess is more simply that "tardigrade" contains the substring "tard", which is sometimes used as short for "retard" in their state of the art regexp filter.

Their filter is probably like /iran|tard|cuban|.../i (see also: https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/paypal-w... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24359821)
> 1. And most anti-virus are considered a scam by most people

Many people consider iPhone prices a scam

and yet...

> 2. Apps that make egregious use of device APIs to implement tracking won't be flagged as a virus.

That's true for the iPhone as well

Apple itself track its users.

from a news report in the Washington Post

> Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week

The point was that the check could be implemented by third party software on the device or by a software specifically crafted by the publishers, you don't need the Apple check, which is also very opaque.
> and observe that everyone who's worked with that person shows up regardless of the org chart

Too bad it's only a handful of people.

Well, maybe less than a handful because most of the people you saved in the past 3 years have moved on to another company or another role. They're not here for you anymore.

However the manager got that power instantly since the minute he joined, by virtue of the position. It's not an apple to apple comparison indeed.
Totally this.

You are now given more options regarding daily activity + safety which aren't obligatory.

I was recently thinking what was in my parents heads when I was lost in the mountain storm during regular ski period in 90s.
I also have experience in both. Cpp is just a pain.
It's alright if they bought it, and it is a very bad social media. You'd think that they'd improve the app right?

Facebook/Instagram should just add a books section to their main page as a challenger to goodreads, maybe that'll help?
How many users Facebook or Instagram has is beside the point which is that Apple is most definitely abusing its market position.
The all first part of my life :)
My life improved measurably once I got a phone. Many events happen more or less spontaneously and people will message me in the moment if I want to join something. Since joining facebook and whatsapp I have become a much more social person (in real life).

I don't use facebook for posting, just for messaging. I don't install works apps (teams) on my phone, so if I get a notification, it's usually positive/meaningful one. I mute all group chats.

This is how I keep my phone a positive object in my life.
I cannot relate to, after two miserable phone interviews with Google I told them on their third request, that if my CV looks so great (by their own words why they were reaching out to me) and yet I had to deal with such interview processes better not bother me ever again.
Running it on the same machine would defeat much of the purpose.

A better idea is to just turn it on for 2FA, then turn it off again.
An update to our gitlab server changed the link, it's fixed now:

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/releases
I almost got run over by one of those quiet electric scooters. Using sound as a cue isn’t gonna be very useful and it’ll take a while to get used to these things
I did this intentionally for a few years about five years ago and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The only reason i ended up getting a phone afterwards was to develop mobile software.

As i notice myself get too attached to my device i miss those peaceful years. At the very least leave it behind when you go on holiday if possible.
When I have broked my last hpone, I spend several days without anything. It was hard but in some case greate. I had digital detox)
> Ironically installing every virus scanning software at the same time results in massive issues.

That's both fun and saddening, and also true

But I have to say that Apple store policies results in massive issues as well

The illusion of choice is more dangerous than too much freedom.
Higher Brain Regions Use Higher Frequency Waves
Is that really the case? Or rather caused by our current limits of observation?
I second this. SwiftUI 2.0 is nearly out and it's a huge improvement and far easier, faster and more enjoyable than React Native. Swift itself is one of the more productive languages around IMO and it can be learned gradually, it's a complex language but you can be productive using just a subset of it. Open XCode, select a starter template and away you go, no fiddling with npm dependencies or a bunch of cocoapods and objc bridging code.
I want to try this once. But I'm so much into WhatsApp, Instagram. It will be kind of digital detox. I had deleted twitter and Facebook 6yrs back that was once of the best decision I had made. Now I'm kind of addicted to that Insta feed and Youtube feed. I will be deleting Insta account. But hope will come over the need of WhatsApp and other cool apps and ditch phone completely.

But if you suddenly need a document and you have been out for some work, and you don't have mobile to receive it ? This is the only thing I'm not able to cover it up. Rest if I ditch I can come over it.
If 1 based indexing is the most you have to deal with, you aren't doing something very difficult.

Also you usually iterate through tables without using an explicit start index.
PostgREST and Elm are great.
> Simply adding the author's name to any query will always take you to the book you are looking for.
> ... searching for 'holiday heart robayo' does

Well, this already makes Goodreads worse than any local librarian/book seller. I could go up to the counter of my local library and ask for Inferno and the person at the counter would ask "Are you looking for the one by Dante or by Dan Brown?".

> if you were at a bookstore you would always tell the clerk the author's name and not just say "Do you have Holiday Heart?"

I find this disingenuous. Bookstore clerks don't hit a dead end just because of some missing parameter in the question posted to them. If they did they're losing a lot of potential sales. Plus, any decent inventory software could aide them.

There's any number of authentic reasons why a customer might know only partial info about a book and it's a clerk/librarian's job to help them. "Do you have Narnia books?", "Do you have Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe?", "Do you have this fairy tale from C. S. Lewis" are all questions I'd expect a clerk/librarian to be able to answer adequately.

Even worse, quoting from the article:

> the first five suggestions were books that didn't even contain both words in their titles, despite the site having an entry for the book.

What kind of search system ranks books that don't even have the query that high?

(Disclaimer: I tried searching for "holiday heart" on Goodreads while logged out as a matter of due diligence; I did not get these subpar results. While Robayo's book is nowhere in sight, the search results at least have the search query in their title. Reasonable enough.)
Things like this typically require a monolithic kernel.

NetBSD's rump kernel drivers might be portable to userspace
My phone melted down last week and spent a long weekend without it. It was very refreshing, and tempted to stay phone-less, so kind of regret that I used the warranty and received a new one.
What a coincidence that I just wrote about the brief experience a few hours ago: https://ivanluque.com/unphoned/
TL;DR: social book metadata site Goodreads has stagnated since being bought by Amazon.

This pattern has occurred repeatedly with metadata associated with digital media; CDDB vs. iTunes, IMDB vs. Amazon DVD listings, Goodreads vs. Amazon book listings.

Rather than assuming that Amazon is strategically hampering Goodreads functionality, I assume that Amazon is a large company that misses opportunities to delight its customers. Giggles ensue every time I come across a "We don't have any cast information" message in Amazon Prime Video.

Hanlon's Razor [1] applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
This will depend on the solution - a common Enterprise solution, RSA SecureID SoftToken, includes the ability to IMEI lock the app on the user (I am not sure if this is required or optional, I'm an end-user not RSA admin) to ensure it only runs on company provisioned mobiles (many companies use further solutions such as MobileIron on all provisioned devices for fleet management).
Why should I do that? I remember the time w/o cell phones and it was horrible. I never want to go back.
The problem is: it’s China. No matter your argument, it’s very easy to respond with “but China.” Simply put: “the US doesn’t commit genocide, therefore, we’re better.” It’s a ridiculous argument IMHO, but it’s one that I’ve heard (even here) many times.
So more like race to the top?
that’s proven by all other problems we have working with. but you cannot simply turn it off since it has huge payment share vs other payment methods
Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
So with 96.1% of American Households having at least one television, you didn’t know that people still watch TV?

https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2019/nielsen-...
Very neat. I assume this would work work on a cheap Raspberry Pi3 or 4 too, via their Bluetooth and out via its audio jack.

Now I think of it, I seem to remember seeing a project like this to make use of old wooden-box speakers (with a small amp inside too.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
> Facebook app is completely made with react native

I don't think thats true unless it's changed, it's mostly Objective-C with some React Native views. It's slow because it's a bloated, poorly-written mess.
Can anyone who knows these things please tell me what good does banning an app do to a country?

India banned loads of Chinese apps, sure, "to put pressure" but is that "pressure" meaningful enough?

Will it work only if all nations decide to do so to counter China? Will that ever happen?

Are we heading towards app-diplomacy?
No, but the higher the depth of discharge, the worse the degradation will be.

See: https://batteryuniversity.com/index.php/learn/article/how_to...
The "0%" is somewhat arbitrary, this is also why it's recommended to keep lithium ion batteries between 25% and 75%.
> “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

I think the problem is he already had the bike. If he followed this maxim he wouldn’t have needed to start the project at all.
You do know that China filters what the Chinese can see. How is this any different? If China doesn't trust it's people using US sites and apps, why do you commies cry when the US does it?
I really don't understand the panic about Chinese surveillance with TikTok when we have Facebook, which is far worse in the depth of what they collect. This just erodes the confidence in American rule of law for no particular reason.
Modifications were extremely common with 2-strokes engines. Now (since about 10 years ago) mopeds must have 4-strokes engines and even with modifications they aren’t very fast or sprinting. Maybe for this reason I have seen many more electric mopeds in the last few years.
USA would rather see Google China close than a forced sale
Show HN: Ruby Jard – Just Another Ruby Debugger
There is an option in settings on iOS to block all network access per app?
The logo on every recycling bin is literally arrows that explain the order.
I'm not from the US and to me PayPal was always only a way to avoid filling in credit cards details on (random) websites.

it always feels a bit weird to see people elsewhere rely on it for much more.
Ooh so the "article" is really a marketing blurb for that other service!
Not using apps is way more radical than blocking almost all notifications.
I just gave in and made the switch to a smartphone. It's getting tough to find dumbphones that aren't limited to 3g, which Verizon (my carrier) is turning off that also have a QWERTY keyboard. If you can live with T9, you have a lot more options.

Last time I got a new phone (2015 or 2016), most of the QWERTY phones were just crappy or outdated smartphones. I found a slider with QWERTY that is apparently 3g only. Everybody hated the voice quality.

This time around, I gave in and got an iPhone SE. I hate the distraction, but I wasn't willing to live with T9 for texting.

Good luck!
I don't own a smartphone, and the main reason is that I don't want to spend all my day staring at screens. Thus, I have resisted the idea of buying one for more than a decade now. The thing is that I don't really need it. If it comes to maps, my car has an excellent GPS system. Music I don't need to listen to outdoors. E-mails and such well I have my PC and if I'm not at work what's the point of being bothered, it's not like I'm a medical doctor or anything remotely essential.

I own a Kindle for books, which helped a lot with my Internet addiction and the lack of focus, and for communication I have a dumb mobile phone with a battery that lasts for weeks.

Realistically speaking the only reason I'd buy a smartphone these days is for photos. Anything else is just fucking useless. I can't do work on a smartphone, and I don't even want to. I enjoy having time off of any electronic device because it helps my brain unwind and adds quality to my life.
One aspect I find particularly dystopian is the double-speak of "smart homes", "smart schools", "smart cities".

Whenever I hear the term "smart", I associate it with the countless real-life examples of privacy violations (bordering on unconstitutional), security snafus, and the power it gives to authoritarian tendencies in private companies and public institutions.
There is a reason that most discussions of Goodreads here and on GR itself tend to bring up complaints. It’s not so much that Amazon hasn’t upgraded the site to a "modern" web design – plenty of people like the old-school aesthetic and we don’t want endless scrolling and an attempt to maximize the time the user spends on the site (because we’re supposed to be reading books most of the time, after all).

Rather, the problem is the long-standing bugs that Amazon has never bothered to fix, because it can’t see any financial incentive to develop Goodreads further. The book database is a mess and even those of us empowered as "Goodreads librarians" are unable to help much. For example, today many authors might have the same name, a problem only made worse with all the self-publishing going on. Yet the Goodreads librarian UI has no straightforward way to assign a new book to this or that author of the same name. Instead, you have to use a hack where for author X you have to type two spaces between the first name and surname, for author Y you have to type three spaces, etc. It is totally amateur, and when you have 20 authors all of the same name you have no reference for which author has how many spaces typed between the first name and surname.
Sure. Doesn't make it a good way to communicate that surprise.
What if the world ends?
Spyder: A Scientific Python IDE with Numpy, Pandas, and Matplotlib Integration
Or just turn it onto airplane mode for most of the time. You get the benefit of having something with you to take notes, photos, videos, etc but none of the constant connection and availability anxiety.
I can relate to not wanting to be on a leash.

What I did is disable all notifications and ringtones. Calls go to voicemail and if people leave a message I’ll call back on my own time, otherwise I won’t. Only my SO has audible ringtones and notifications so I know that if the phone rings it’s worth answering.

I don’t install apps if I can help it, I havE gotten rid of Facebook twitter etc a long time ago and will use the browser for the rest. If they go out of their way to make the browser experience shitty on mobile (Reddit, linked in), well, more power to them I’ll only use my computer with ad blocking instead.

And of course I’ll never install my works chat app on my phone, nor will they ever get my phone number.

But I do find having a smartphone is convenient. Maps at the tips of your fingers when you’re lost, calling places when you’re on the go and need to ask or change something, gps for the bicycle, transit pass for public transportation and trains, music on the go... it feels like by disabling all notifications, no social networks presence, and no native apps if I can help it, then I have the best of both worlds. Oh and nextdns.io for ad blocking on the iPhone, it works everywhere except in the YouTube app and for websites that inject google ads after the page has loaded (only a couple of websites as far as I’m concerned)
Curious about what use-case you have where you'd need a document that urgently...?
We had a landline even when I was a kid... on vacations ?
Snowden is seen as a hero to many for fighting back against the “big guy” (US government). He was a nobody who embarrassed the government and now they want revenge. By not treating him fairly (such as refusing to guarantee a fair and public trial) and leaving him exiled in Russia for almost a decade, he’s become a martyr or sorts. It doesn’t help that the government has also intimidated people he’s been affiliated with (eg. Laura Poitras). As such, some view his words as having more weight than some Joe Shmoe on the street.

Put simply: he fought back against the schoolyard bully