skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't think it's that expensive, comparitively. Electric bikes are around £2000-£3000 (though both the new Vanmoof and Cowboy are right at £2000), so this seems to be just priced a bit more premium for a presumably lighter and more premium bike.

Sadly it lacks things like the insurace/bike theft protection that others have, which is a huge deal breaker.

I do like the look of this bike, and if i was a bit more richer i would definitely one. Looks nicer than my Vanmoof.

> wouldn’t they rather go for a scooter/Vespa at that price

They're different things. You can ride a bike in places where you can't ride a Vespa.
You can buy a carbon bike at any mainstream bike shop, they aren’t just for pros anymore. I ride one because it feels amazingly sporty. I’m an enthusiast but not very athletic. The super light, stiff bike is just fun to ride.

The aero features like integrate stem and bars is mostly found on time-trial and triathlon bikes. In contrast you can get conventional road bikes, gravel bikes, and mountain bikes in carbon at any nice bike shop.
Loads fine for me. Firefox 84.0b5, ublock origin 1.31.0, privacy badger 2020.10.7. No custom blocking rules.

If you're on the Firefox beta channel, ask me anything and I'll work with you to troubleshoot.
Tesla isn't a car company. It's an energy company that started with cars.

That fact isn't sufficient to justify its price, but it's a critical component. Just measuring it against car companies misses a large fraction of its value -- maybe even a large majority of it.
>Not anymore, firefox has it by default now, just gotta turn a setting on.

I don't use Firefox as my main browser. I use Yandex. I do sometimes wonder if HTTPS everywhere is becoming a bit redundant these days anyway. Most sites seem to have moved to HTTPS these days.

>Sadly this [uMatrix] is dead

Yes, that's a shame. It still works though. Hopefully whoever takes on the task of keeping it alive via a fork will make it a bit more mobile friendly. [The same could be said about uBlock Origin]
> whose performance bottlenecks are imposed by the bike instead of themselves

I'm a fluid dynamics researcher, and I'll tell you the money these people spend on "aero" and "weight saving" and "higher drivetrain efficiency" stuff is 99.9% snake oil. Unless you are among the top 1000 road bike racers in the world.

Increasing your exercise load by half an hour per week, or spending a little time understanding and implementing aerodynamically efficient body posture or other forms of technique, will both yield improvements that are several orders of magnitude higher than the marginal improvements achieved by spending $$$ on "aero" and carbon fiber.

I've seen detailed calculations of rider performance that indicate a 500 g saving in frame weight (which is huge), over the course of a 120 km race with 1200 m climb, will save you a whopping total of 15 seconds on ~4 hours of race time.
All in for an H-1B, anywhere between $5k and $10k depending on the legal fees and whether premium processing is used. So a company would avoid these costs if hiring US workers.
It's generally accepted in psychometrics that general intelligence does not change in adulthood : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950413/

I personally think it's not something that's really true, but it's how I learned it in university and seems to be the default position of experts in the field.

This is of course assuming no traumatic brain injuries or the use of psychoactive substances.
From the payments revolution to the reinvention of money
What does "Assistance up to 20 mph" mean?
If my partner leaves, there's more room for bikes!
Union politics in the west in the post WWII period started looking more like guilds and less like the pre-WWII left wing unions that dominated the 20s and 30s. Those unions were far more concerned with broader social transformation than those that came after, who were primarily interested in protecting only their workers and locking down seniority-based privileges. Corruption and conservativism ran through the labour movement in the latter half of the 20th century, and led in many cases to anti-union sentiment from the people they were supposed to be organizing. It will take significant rebuilding and rethinking of what a union is before they can have broad resurgence. Organizing in individual workplaces and industries means little when the vast majority of workers are working odd hours in multiple service industry jobs among several employers.
I have the same reaction with coke zero, but I am perfectly fine with diet coke. Not sure why.
This reminds me of account security questions. They ask things like "what's your childhood nickname", "what's your first pet's name". To my Chinese mother-in-law, who was born in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, when food was scarce, everyone was poor, education was not easy to get, government was non-functional due to anarchy, and when her first priority was to survive, all those questions are just weird. They reek of first-world assumptions.
This looks like a nifty bit of kit, but even if I could afford it, I probably wouldn’t buy it.

Personally, I’m happy to add weight in the form of a steel frame in order to gain longevity and comfort.
I start by getting clarity on the experience I am working to enable, then revisit frequently along the way. For every decision or element, consider how it contributes to the experience you are enabling. Then, fill out the scope of any large project by talking to others about it, and ideally, others from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. Even some of those who don't appear to be relevant to the effort.

Developing an understanding of the experience you want to enable and the scope of implementing it are obviously important. And for me, the specific objective is to avoid doing the life's work of implementation only to discover it didn't turn out the way I wanted.
Coinbase Downloads Balloon as Bitcoin Hits a Record High
Discussion on spaced repetition quickly move on to Anki invariably, but I would like to highlight org-drill https://melpa.org/#/org-drill too. If you are an Emacs user, that is...
Growth is relative, my friend from Mississauga grew up around farms now surrounded by suburbs, but from 80s-20s , dwellings "only" increased from 120k to 240k. Population 350k to 650k.

Building 120k dwellings in 40 years / 3000 per year is pathetic. Export some Chinese construction over capacity. The residential district I lived in China housed 80,000 (condos). It was built in less than 5 years, every unit was larger and nicer than Toronto new constructions.

Regulations, NIMBYims plays a part, but at western construction also simply isn't competitive enough to address changes in immigration patterns.
Sorry to hear this.

I am partially in your situation (just much less successful and wealthy, but enough to be relaxed about my career and money), and I am doing quite well, despite this weird covid year.

Have you tried to speak with friends, assuming you have a few?

Your depression / anxiety is exactly what good friends are for.

If I can be of any help, drop me a note ($HNusername at gmail), and stay anonymous if you'd like. I'd be happy to chat with you. Strangers have helped me in my life; I don't mind reciprocating.
Carbon fiber frames are now quite common in mountain biking and road biking, many enthusiasts (just quite average riders) buy them.

I think this bike for wealthy commuters and city dwellers, could replace public transit or Uber rides. People seem to have taken up cycling in cities due to the risk of riding on public transit. And as someone else said, taking a 50+lbs (25kg) e-bike inside or even upstairs is a pain.

But I think most of all, this is sort of a "halo" product - the best bike they could build, probably very expensive, but "sexy" and definitely news-worthy - as this HN submission has shown. And in the future they can launch cheaper alu-framed versions of this bike when this bike has established LeMond's e-bike reputation.
Yeah, you're right he is still relevant to that specific but small crowd. A crowd that might be described as having similar flaws to PG.

Maybe it would have been more accurate for me to say "culturally relevant". He is increasingly seen by younger people, even engineering types, as out of touch and tone deaf. And too many of his recent essays feel like they are a reaction to that. So much patting himself on the back about how the crowds are wrong and he as such an independent thinker has got it right - and so little vulnerability. My gut tells me that he is trying a little too hard to convince himself and others.

He'd be a far better essayist if he were more like Johnny Cash at the end of his life and less like Liam Gallagher.
For what it's worth, you do have to pedal yourself (its e-assist), but you just don't have to pedal as hard.
> There is very little reason for one man to raise the child of another man in such a situation where multiple new partners are available without any obligations

...or even own child, especially if there is a pension system and centralised care system.
Probably his son Geoff.
Recently, I've been working hard on the very problem described. One thing that is crucial is having a model of the information hose. This information overload is ultimately a psychological problem and having a way to conceptualize the issue can help these sorts of problems.

The way I approach this is to have tiered system of files. The source is Tier 0, your cache (downloads, undeleted emails, etc.) is Tier 1, deliberately saved files in a structure are Tier 2, and whatever you are working on, view regularly, or feel particularly pleased about is Tier 3.

Here's a short blog post I wrote on this.
https://blog.abnry.online/2020/11/18/digital-file-management...

There is obviously a lot more to discuss on this topic. But this is a start for me.
In physics, it is something related to removing divergences in bosonic string theory, I am not an expert in that. Here, however, is a fantastic article that shows how -1/12 is actually derived: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-ramanujan-summation-... (spoiler: it is really easy and could be done by a high schooler).
Netflix just made a 3 hour movie about this - The Irishman.

I had to keep pausing and checking if something was real as I couldn't believe how bad things got
> "Buy the M1 and switch to a fully remote development experience."

At least you'd be getting the impressive battery life from the power efficiency courtesy of RISC ... Still rather silly though.
Yes, at various levels of the stack. One thing worth checking out is TI's "Hercules" processor family, which is a low-cost, entry level, but very well implemented "safety processor." If uses a combination of ECC (not just on caches and main memories, but on peripheral FIFOs) and lockstep computation (running the same instruction through two separate cores in parallel, using them to cross-check each other) to convert malfunction (undefined, arbitrarily complex behavior in the case of a fault) to loss of function. At the system level, two such parts can be used in a failover model, for example, without needing complex voting logic -- anyone who's sending you valid messages must be functional.

There's other lockstep parts out there, and alternatives to lockstep -- for example, triplex redundancy converts (single) malfunction to correct function. But Hercules is well-documented, with interesting white papers, and definitely worth understanding as a starting point.
I love (and identify with) the sentiment of your last paragraph. One of my favorite cities is Sao Paulo. All outdoor advertisements were banned in 2006.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
This a great example of how being against "politics" is really just upholding the (garbage) status quo.
Plenty of cyclists in central London have carbon fibre commuter bikes and wear lycra and cleats for a sub-20 mile ride, stopping traffic lights every 2 minutes. I don't think logic has much to do with how most people choose cycling gear.
Do it! I use it for a project documentation tool, for every customer/project one db, i write howtos/documentation into the wiki, code or patches to the repo and tickets too, at the end of the project i send that one db file and that's it. I just love it, because tickets and documentation belongs to code+comments. And whats always important, the tooling is good, change to git and md's...no problem.
It's only ad hominem if you reject something because it came from someone.
Careful now, if you mention protecting the American worker you might get flagged and woke scolded by dang.
Sounds like the H1B program.
Not realistic for everyone’s workload.

Especially if you buy M1 hardware to take advantage of the machine learning enhancements.

You could buy a chrome book for less than Apple silicon and do remote development.
I get the Macbook Air (waiting!) to replace my mac mini, but for this and be able to run Windows instead of pay forever a remote host I buy one of this babies:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkc...
> Bryan Caplan in his book The Case Against Education suggests that employers value college degrees partly as a signal of conformism, and that that's the reason college is so hard to replace.

Perhaps, but in high-skill fields most qualified people will be graduates regardless. Whatever you think of college degrees as an employer, most of your employees will have them.

It's not entirely obvious demand for formal education is driven by the industry.

It's tautologically true that college signals conformism since most (in a given field) go. And companies may indeed use it as a signal for conformism (or lack of the opposite). But it doesn't necessarily follow that the industry actively thinks college is uniquely good at creating this signal.
I really think #3 is the way to go.

I’ve been in the same camp, making $1M+ from W2 and being taxed like crazy, a few times also with premature AMT due to ISO exercise (though I later took advantage of long term capital gains on disposition, but still an incredible gamble to avoid golden handcuffs).

I am thinking of actually quitting my current job since it’s all W2 (finance, bonus heavy) and it’s not worth the stress considering what remains after taxes, it’s personally demotivating having to work 80 hours a week and have 50%+ go down the drain. I think getting a less paid 40h/week job with an effective 25-30% tax rate might be better.

Also, I’d suggest to shove all your take-home in index funds, and enjoy the low taxes on the dividends and capital gains. If you have a $5M portfolio, it will throw significant dividends and capital appreciation, that will likely continue to be taxed very favorably in the future.
Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos.

https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...
Generally, Americans consider what marketing tells us to consider.
Why did you move the goalpost towards "innovation"? If you're on an H1B visa, you're probably contributing to some company attempting to be innovative. If not, who cares? The economy doesn't run on innovation alone.
I worked at a company once that decided to add an entire range of IP addresses to their firewall’s deny list. Seems an executive had their personal home network pwned, and an unknown figure told him it was from a certain part of the world.

Said executive made enough noise and put enough pressure on the network engineers to get it done without question or delay or...most critically..a reviewed and authorized change control ticket that would have caught what was about to happen

Following Monday help desk was underwater triaging tickets from the entire office full of team members we had just denied from the corporate network, and customers who now couldn’t use our product at all.
>She starts with describing two essential spirits, one being conservative and steady, the other one being progressive and unpredictable. It becomes clear these spirits both inhabit everyone in some way or another and society reflects that as a whole as well.

Reminds me a bit of the Catalonian characteristics of Seny (wisdom or sensibleness) and Rauxa (sudden determination or action):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seny
Interestingly I had read that erythritol, which does not ferment in the gut, does not impact blood sugar in any way, in contrast to other sweeteners. Requires a larger body of research.
From a personal perspective, I agree. You and I seek new information when we read online. Subtack siloes don't serve our needs very well.

However another pretty important "job to be done" when people read articles is moral affirmation. I need moral affirmation as much as the next person, but I solve this problem with different products (personal conversations, etc). If you use digital media as a reminder that you you're right, substack seems like a good deal.

It seems like that's the majority of digital media consumers, but I might be wrong about that.
Bicycle stage races often have a "prologue" (typically a short time trial) before the regular racing of long, full-day starts. That is probably the inspiration for the name, and "prolog" is just an unconventional marketing spelling of it.
I think you can count on Biden, if he is elected president, to do everything in his power to completely get rid of borders and twitter and fb to ban even talking about them.
Sent from by device built my slave labour in China.
>Prosecco is also not Champagne

Indeed: Prosecco is a spumante.
Ad hominem is simply a judgment made on credibility. One does the same thing when you look for a doctor. It’s not that an unofficial doctor has no merit, but rather that they have negative credibility.

Just how valuable is it to be a credible person, especially if you want to make an impact in the world, such as by being a doctor or researcher?
he is not the best. i am very impressed by how little his thinking and writing have improved over the years.

there is always a flavor of lecturing in his words. sometimes, it makes me wonder if i am just too stupid to understand his answers to all matters.

these days i could not finish reading his writings. his twitter feels like a talkative kid who hasn't learned self control. i have unfollowed him long ago.

he may want to be different. but how is he different? really.
you are not supposed to type realistic answers to security questions. Its better to answer in complete unrelated ways so its not guesable
Yes, I think the best approach is to combine tools. But what I think is a big problem is that people stretch the practical application of tools like Excel too far. They insist on using Excel far beyond its practical application.

Personally I never use spread sheets, other than some simple plotting. I often prefer using a simple CSV viewer instead. I find it more practical to use tools which work natively with CSV, as that is the format one will be using in Julia, Python, R or whatever programming tools you use.
Citing the ad hominem fallacy is pretty reductive; in dialectics there are plenty of occasions where the identity of an arguer is relevant to their argument. The internet's obsession with calling out this fallacy has sucked all the formal nuance out of its rhetorical usage.

It also doesn't apply here, because the grandparent comment is not trying to refute PG's argument, it's mounting an entirely orthogonal one. So yes, I do agree it's not directly discussing the content. But that's also pretty characteristic of most HN threads.

People on HN usually talk about the ideas they have which are evoked by the article. They do not as a rule engage in formal refutation or advocation of the article's core thesis, unless it's very technical in nature.
In my opinion, Dr Racket is the most bloated and most sluggish programming editor ever written. And the editor on windows constantly display strange unwanted lines (see for example this screenshot [1]. I had complained numerous times to Racket's news group because of this, but this has never been fixed. Very strange community, very poor tool.

[1] https://pasteboard.co/JCkb0tM.png
Because events other than crime can be newsworthy? Pro athletes make the news for winning games every week.
To be clear, I don't work for YC. I always was interested in US immigration and like just about everyone in the US (with the exception of Native Americans), my ancestors immigrated here. And the federal judge I worked for after law school was a strong supporter of the rights of those seeking asylum in the US. And then I was extremely fortunate to work for wonderful immigration lawyers early on in my career which solidified my interest.
I'm working under H1B. My PERM has been approved and I'm waiting to apply for i140. I'm getting married in few months (my to-be spouse is outside US and doesn't have a visa) and I want both of us to get the green card together.
Is it OK to start the i140 process without getting married and add my wife's name when filing for i485 (after wedding in few months?)?
hCaptcha engineer here: this is an issue with Google's approach, not all visual challenges.

Our challenges have average solve accuracy within 1% when comparing users in major African countries vs US users in our user testing. Nigeria does slightly better than the US, in fact.
If I'm specifically targeting that website, what's stopping me from writing a bot that would simply enter 3 all the time?
> Being skeptical of the conventional wisdom can be useful, but keeping yourself intentionally ignorant of it is generally a bad plan.

I can vouch for that.

I write software, but my original training was as an EE. My software development methodology was almost entirely self-taught.

This has been both good and bad. I will sometimes come up with some really interesting orthogonal approaches, but I will also sometimes "reinvent the wheel," with a naive approach.

Experience has taught me to seek out prior art, and established patterns. My creative way may still be the best way, but I've learned that is not always the case.
This seems inefficient especially if the answer is close to a power of two? You'll spend a lot of time bouncing between exponents instead of refining the mantissa.
> A centralized search interface for my digital brain

I actually spent years on-and-off building this. What I found is I don’t really care about MOST information I store, and the pieces I DO care about are kept in a place I can easily memorize (eg a couple folders on iCloud).

I ALSO found that nobody really wants to pay for a product like that (in my case, it was a desktop app that’d index everything on your machine - no cloud, etc). Similar products come and go every other month, and they usually die because 1) indexing isn’t cheap and 2) people don’t seem to use said indices much, in practice (crazy high churn).
Cool! As a kid I watched this on Discovery channel and I never learned the name nor found it again afterwards. I remember a connection between smoking and the Medici's in Florence and Migraine...
You put your finger on why I felt compelled to unfollow PG on Twitter. I kept waiting for him to hit me with valuable insights that rarely showed up. I took the time to learn Lisp because of PG and was underwhelmed. I bet Lisp was amazing 40 years ago; now it just seemed like a fetish for parenthesis to me. Lispy and functional ideas have moved into the brace block languages I've been using the last 20 years.
Both are lighter than most. Many e-bikes are over 50 pounds, sometimes way over. The Rad Runner is 75 pounds, the Strommer ST3 is 72 pounds, etc.
In firefox I had to enable autoplay (button next the the padlock / left of the address-bar) before the click to play button appeared.
> read all his essays. You'll learn more than if you got your MBA.

> Believe me, I'm not PG fan boy

Sorry, but after that first sentence of course I'm not going to believe you.
I would need to know a lot more to be able to answer these questions. Please email me separately.
This should be a canonized answer to that question