skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the motor and a straight handlebar the bike pretty much fits into the gravel bike category, which is doing extremely well at the moment.

Those are rather versatile bikes, which one can use for anything between commuting, bikepacking and not-fully-competitive road racing. At least the mid-range bikes in this category are already out of carbon. It's far more common than exocitic nowadays.

The price of 4500$ actually doesn't feel too excessive, given that a Specialized Diverge with similar components is 3900$ (https://www.specialized.com/us/en/diverge-comp-carbon/p/1752...) - without a motor. But ok - Specialized is also one of the most expensive brands.

I bought a gravel bike this year (Trek Checkpoint), and I'm very happy with it. If I would have a strong use-case for an e-bike - like a longer commute - I would definitely consider something like that Prolog.
These are exactly the problems https://histre.com/ [1] is working towards solving. Take a look at https://histre.com/features/ as well.

[1] Disclaimer: I'm working on it.
Apple One Needs Apple VPN, Apple Event
Hey Peter,

Me and my partner recently (1 month ago) got our green cards via my employer.
My partner had previously started green card process through their work as well which is currently in PERM phase.

Is there any value in continuing my partner's green card process through their work?
Is it at all common that EB green cards are rescinded? I have no reason to suspect this, I am just being extra careful.
I wrote some Python glue that constructed a bunch of dd commands to run concurrently which helped when I last cloned a 1TB NVMe drive. Resulting commands:

dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=0 seek=0 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=1302349 seek=1302349 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=2604698 seek=2604698 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=3907047 seek=3907047 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=5209396 seek=5209396 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=6511745 seek=6511745 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=7814094 seek=7814094 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=9116443 seek=9116443 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=10418792 seek=10418792 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=11721141 seek=11721141 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=13023490 seek=13023490 count=1302349 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=65536 skip=14325839 seek=14325839 count=1302358 status=progress &
dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/nvd1 bs=4096 skip=15628197 seek=15628197 count=6 status=progress &
@slg: I believe CB has internally discouraged politics in the workplace not related to the mission since before 2020
The only feature I'd like is to be able to collapse threads. When there's lots of comments it can sometimes be almost impossible to work out what comment someone is replying to.
Iconik – Unifying Creative Minds
TheBrain 12 Beta
I guess it depends on the problem domains you work in because I've never once needed to speak on the PNG format with authority.

Similarly, finding authoritative comparisons of which image formats do what best is pretty easy.

I've also never run up against shortcomings of existing PNG solutions. Even in assembly for the Z80 I remember using a PNG converter that would handle greyscale on a calculator!

But 3 or 4 days of work! Mam I can think of a lot of things I could do with that.

If it was for the fun of the experience I'd totally get it, but spinning it as an "I needed to do this", I don't think I could go that far in the areas I've worked in
You missed (3) where independent thinking isn't valuable you find the unhappy and the conventional; the latter group having a fairly large stack of poor qualities.[1]

Oh, and (4) how do you know you're really independent minded? It's "more a matter of nature than nurture" after all. Someone could be lying to themselves. "Conventional-minded people don't like to think of themselves as conventional-minded. And in any case, it genuinely feels to them as if they make up their own minds about everything."
Dunning-Kruger and all. In fact, you can't even trust the ne plus ultra: the conventional minded have to be curious in order to find out what the conventions are, no? But then, I'm being critical here, and feeding "a firestorm of rage from the aggressively conventional-minded"; I clearly show all of those poor qualities.

(I'm trying hard to figure out how "One of the most effective techniques is one practiced unintentionally by most nerds: simply to be less aware what conventional beliefs are. It's hard to be a conformist if you don't know what you're supposed to conform to" doesn't imply that ignorance is a virtue.)

I am a bit disappointed Paul doesn't mention some of the downsides to independent thinking; he seems to regard it as an unalloyed good. "Founders can delay the problem by making a conscious effort only to hire independent-minded people. Which of course also has the ancillary benefit that they have better ideas." The problem here is that those independent-minded people are going to want to see their ideas in action---even if those ideas disagree with those of the founder. (Hence unhappiness and the promotion of conventional thinking.)

(I notice that Paul picks out "administrators" and "middle management" as specifically conventional. I wonder if extending that to "management" would strain the cognitive dissonance of those readers he personally knows?)

I do like the fine distinction of "Fastidiousness about truth doesn't imply that an independent-minded person won't be dishonest, but that he won't be deluded. It's sort of like the definition of a gentleman as someone who is never unintentionally rude." I certainly have always found it advantageous to prefer the presence of those who know they are lying.

[1] Unskeptical, indifferent to truth, herd-minded, humorless, and incurious, with poor thinking and poor ideas.
The new 'cyber security' ones crack me up.
If you order the claims in the article on a scale of not racist at all to clearly racist, you'll see basically all of the corroboration comes from claims on the left side of that scale, and few if any on the right side. The claims I was specifically thinking about were things like:

> One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun, trading on racist stereotypes. Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable. Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees. The accumulation of incidents, they said, led to the wave of departures.

These have no corroboration, even though they allegedly happened in front of multiple coworkers.
Coke Pepsi good. Mmmmmmmm Starbucks yum.
I am sure that if you took the other path you would likely regret it just the same. Grass is always greener on the other side.
The Embassy in Chile is clearly acting badly. So far it appears that you have received an informal opinion from the Embassy but there is a formal process under these circumstances that would reaffirm her green card status and allow her to travel back to the US. The document is called a returning resident visa and it probably makes sense or her to apply for this and force the Embassy to review the evidence and make a real decision. She should consult with an immigration attorney, however, possibly the immigration attorney for your employer, to help her with this application.
IANAL but I have been DN for a few years, albeit not a US one. In my reading, US citizens are responsible for US income tax regardless of where they are in the world. Some of that is balanced by double taxation treaties, but this doesn't apply if you're floating from one place to the next.

While it's possible for some digital nomads to become a (tax) resident of nowhere, falling into a loop hole, it was my impression that this was not the case with US citizens. It's anyone's guess as to how long this will last, especially with this years uptick in remote work (if that is coupled with a return to the ability to travel after COVID).

In the case of self employed digital nomads it's possible to structure your businesses to legally minimize taxes. I run my business out of Estonia, which may not be the cheapest tax wise but has the benefit of being an EU country, and somewhat transparent about tax.

Estonia has flat 20% tax on share distributions. This is also great for startups. Money that comes into the business and stays in the business isn't taxed, simplifying growing your business.

https://nomadcapitalist.com has some good reading on the subject, both blog or book. Regardless of whether or not you agree with his observations on certain things.

I'm far from an expert, but if anyone wants to talk about my experiences, my email is on my profile.

Edit: Is it allowed to add answers in AMAs, I'm not across the etiquette.
It's rare such a negative comment gets voted up. Very rare. On this page graham is idolized.... and positivity and agreement is rampant for articles like this. Your reply is much more common and generic then the poster.

So who's the independent thinker? You or the poster who reacted negatively to the essay?

I would say that the majority of independent thoughts and ideas are distasteful to the majority. That's why the majority often avoid independent thinking.
If they meant undifferentiated, then it’s homogeneous.
it reminds me of whites only establishments. the ignorance is supreme. not everyone can pass a captcha. no internet for them. wake the frig up
> the leader of a political group with 7 seats

Or, you know, the minister of justice.
Towers of Silence: The Zoroastrian Sky Burial Tradition
How is Israel/US getting people in and out to do this?

Similarly -

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri...

Do they supply the mafia, or a opposition party? Use domestic flights? Offer citizenships/$ to citizens? How do they protect the families of those who help? Where did the pickup truck they blew up come from?
"adopted" is a strong word. They dipped their toes.
Great presentation, and there's quite a backstory to it getting posted:

NumFOCUS Apologizes to Jeremy Howard, Posts "I Like Notebooks" Talk to YouTube
https://slashdot.org/submission/12741216/numfocus-apologizes...
In this article, I am struck by how closely PG is echoing the developmental theory of Harvard psychologist Robert Keegan, which I first learned of from this sequence of blog posts on how to be an adult[0]. The good news: with some work we can move from the great majority of adults and have a separate identity, making our own rules (35% of the population). The bad news: only 1% of us reach the final stage of adult development, where we hold many identities and embrace paradox.

"We grow by moving more and more of what is unseen and unexamined in the way we understand the world (those things that are SUBJECT) to a place where they can be examined, questioned and changed (where they become OBJECT)."

According to Keegan, these are the most important ways to move toward stage 5 development:

* Understanding our self: Constant awareness and humility

* Sharing our self: Honest, real conversations with people we trust

* Transcending our self: Experiment with self-transcendent experiences

[0] https://medium.com/@NataliMorad/part-3-how-to-be-an-adult-ke...

[1] diagram of stages 3 through 5: https://miro.medium.com/max/875/1*QKt0kDlG-S65Oz-LBiGNQg.png
Why would I chose this over Postgres and Timescale?
You are talking about something that is so wrong it warrants a front page NYT expose and results in potentially multi-million dollar lawsuits. I can understand why a company wouldn’t want to promote sessions where everyone accuses the corporation of systemic discrimination.
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> It is possible that an Nvidia/microsoft relationship could develop somewhat similar to the Intel/Mcrosoft partnership, but unlikely. The market is different and the regulatory environment may become different.

In addition, I think Nvidia's tendency toward extreme secrecy would quickly become an obstacle.
If you can’t identify a yellow taxi cab I’m willing to loose the sale vs. not having the captcha at all. The fact is the number of people who can do it who are also your prospective customer is still very high.

It’s impossible to find something that is 100% culturally universal. To use the Internet at all it requires it’s own kind of special knowledge and culture so I don’t think the argument is correct.
Ask a Palestinian, their view will be different.

If you believe that majority (just become more people are influenced through media with the same view as yours) can force a political view onto a minority, then I think we need a more serious talk on whether or not you might find a better life in China or Iran.

I am serious here. Do not think I intend to mock you. Rule by majority is not what I approve for myself to live in US.
Big coffee (Aka starbucks) in full force on HN today.
Working in Tech and Worrying About Getting “Too Old”
maybe because when i see one i dont even bother
You cannot be a rebel if you don't wear the right uniform.
Ask HN: Open-source databases with document level access control?
Hi y'all,

I am looking for a database system with document level access control, or an equivalent level of granularity wrt the data model of the database -- so for a graph database this would be at the node level, or for a RDBMS at the row level.

So far I have only found two options, and they are both cloud-only. MongoDB offer DLAC as part of Realm [1] and Fauna offers attribute based access control [2].

I can see CouchDB are working on document level access control [3] but it's not shipped yet.

Are there any open-source databases which have this in today?

Thanks :)

[1] https://docs.mongodb.com/realm/mongodb/define-roles-and-permissions/#select-a-collection-rule-template

[2] https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/security/abac

[3] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1524
(Sidenote) Although it is true that Gavin Harrison has been most visible playing with Porcupine Tree and Pineapple Thief (also King Crimson), both describable as "prog" with some level of accuracy, he doesn't really like to be thought of as a prog drummer at all.

He grew up surrounded by and listening to jazz; he is very vocal on the need for any professional drummer to be able to play as wide a variety of styles as possibles; his own albums feature distinctly non-prog styles.
Oh, you have to go down that rabbithole.

https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/

Trust in notalwaysright.com/all to suck up even more of your life than the orange site already does. Also, clientsfromhell.net and askamanager.org. And I’m certain the Daily WTF, Acts of Gord, and BOFH need zero introduction here. Good luck in trying to distinguish if it’s day or night—never mind what’s true or false—by the time you’re done with that little lot!
The future of food is being farmed in a warehouse down the road
It's going to be tough because the EB1A standard has gone up considerably and is tough where there's limited public/external evidence of achievement. That being said, it's still possible where an applicant can be linked to the major achievements/product of his or her employer.
Just give a refund and resell the tickets last minute. You can probably sell them for more last minute.
It feels like you are not really following the trends in bike designs.

Carbon frames are really common now, and are available in mid-range road, mountain or gravel bikes. You can even order one on AliExpress for cheap and build a decent road bike around it. And it’s not only the weight that carbon frame bike owners are after - the material gives much better ride quality than aluminium.

Deep rims are nothing spectacular either, their weight penalty is nicely offset by aero gains, and this effect is noticable even at non-pro speeds. With disc brakes there is less concern about the longevity of the carbon rim - so why not use it?

One chainring is all the rage in bikes now - since the advent of super-wide casettes with multiple cogs (reaching 13!) there is no real need to add a front deralieur. It’s a component that breaks down frequently, multiple chainrings weight a lot, the chain wears down more… The recent popularity of 1x11 or 1x12 drives is very well-deserved.

Mudguards and simple handlebars make this bike utilitarian and well-suited to commuting, while the other stuff is a collection of things that are common and highly praised by cyclists nowadays.
Where I live, dubstep has mostly supplanted garage.
I’m going to date how old I am. I remember when LeMond was the spokesperson for Taco Bell at the height of his career. It’s weird hearing his name again and that memory being triggered in me.
> they focus on small enterprises and medium sized businesses

Some of the largest companies have emerged in Switzerland.
Well, let's consider these one at a time:

> - "Connections" used a substantial amount of acted historical scenes. Creating them in such a quality (and not some sketchy animation or a re-cut of existing work) is still a challenge today. You need half-decent actors.

But is this core to the value? I find a lot of the animated versions, Ken Burns, and stock footage on Youtube to be way more than good enough. It's exactly as you said: It's about the content.

> Just because paper and ink got much cheaper since the 16th century, we didn't suddenly produce a Shakespeare every 2 years.

We kinda did, actually. He's hidden among a massive pile of stuff, but he's there. Brilliant books come out far more frequently than I can read. I'd place many well above Shakespeare, not in fame, but in quality.

> So far, I haven't seen any historical documentation on YouTube which even compares to the depth and width of "Connections".

My favorites are Extra History (history) and 3Blue1Brown (math). I think both have at least the same depth and width, albeit in a different direction.
That's pretty awesome indeed.

(And of course, the main source file is named hooy.cpp)
Noticed your username, one of my favorite games for C64 as a kid.
> You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it.

Great advice for unicorn hunters, for indie hackers, not so much.
US agency investigating Tesla front suspension failures
Also Estonia has a Digital Nomad visa specifically for remote workers, allowing you to be in the country for ~1 year. Also a lot of digital nomads use https://safetywing.com for insurance. I believe they also have a remote team plan.
> tan(π/8) would be halfway between 0 and 1 ie .5?

It implies that tan(π/8) would be "halfway" between 0 and 1 in this sense of what "halfway" means. In this sense, 0.5 is not halfway between 0 and 1, 0.414 is.

It's easier to visualize it. You're standing on the roof of a 1-meter-tall building on a flat earth with a perfectly clear atmosphere. If you look straight out
(90°) you can see to infinity (tan 90°). If you look down (0°) you can see where you are (tan 0°). If you look halfway between those (45°), you can see 1 (tan 45°) meter straight in front of you. But if you look halfway down again, you won't see exactly 0.5 meters, will you?
I don’t think “desirable” follows from “useful to capitalism and science.” Those are pretty controversial activities, to put it mildly.

If PG can write an essay about Contrarianism Is Good and not inspire this reaction in anyone, then he’s not really talking about contrarianism, is he?
Why are you getting a TN if you will be living and working in Canada? You can work for a US company as an employee without having US work authorization if you are physically outside the US.
What I liked:

- Fast and lite.

- Sun/night theme.

- Syntax highlight for code.

- Instant preview.

What made me lose my mind ;-)

- When visiting the base site URL, no indication if I am logged in or not. No clear indication how to return to my profile.

- After some time I realized I need to click on Start Writing to access my dashboard. Ok, but I really think that should have a clear indication if I am already logged in.

- In dashboard post listing would be useful to have something indicating which posts are published. And for each post, a button allowing me to quick publish it or "unpublish" (make private again).

- If I am reading a published post and I am already logged in, add a link somewhere to allow quick access to editing mode.

Thank you!
As long as your site is fast, you're good. Otherwise you might try and hope that the user has seen that font somewhere before on the internet and cached it.

Interestingly, your fonts loaded quickly, but I got wildly varying results when looking at your site - for example it took me six seconds to download your 8kb background jpg on one load.
They actually weren't just paper returns. Like many ponzi schemes, he used late investor money to pay returns on early investors.
I'm not Peter but I'm happy to walk any founder through the different visa options available to them or potential employees. Have helped dozens of YC founders and hundreds of founders - logan@legalpad.io
With millions of videos on Youtube, it's sometimes hard to find the top 99.99th percentile, but it's there. I've posted references in other posts.
> unless you think our civilization is unique among all the others.

I don't think there is even a question that it's unique considering how far it's come in understanding physics math and engineering. To lose all of that would be a great disaster.
> Most wars don't end with the other country being occupied or its government being overthrown.

I thought that is precisely how most wars end.
Sometimes I think Paul Graham mentions high school he writes like he lives in Mean Girls
I'm sorry, but how on earth is the jedi contract any sort of meter for anything but the needs of the US DoD? Do you need what they need? Does anyone actually? Do they even bloody need it?

GCP have no special government cloud service, unlike Azure and AWS, but they're more advanced in some niches ( containers, ML).

Anecdotally i've never heard of anyone saying anything positive about Azure besides "it came with credits". Fundamentally it's an inferior platform due to less redundancy ( all AWS and GCP regions are composed of multiple zones, that's usually not the case with Azure, and as we saw a few months ago, even their whole auth is hosted in a single DC... Disgraceful)
It had no other ports.
So, a manager?
Excellent analysis
I think this is a misreading of PG’s essay and although I agree with some criticism of sorts that PG’s recent essays are lacking in what his early essays did for us, I really didn’t get that he was insinuating what you think. It was more of choose the career and surround yourself with the type of people that are good for your type..

But again, some criticism here is spot on for different resons while other is quite unfounded. But it seems to me that mr PG hasn’t changed much, his essays stayed pretty much the same while the whole landscape has transformed quite a bit since his early essays. If one of his vhehement critics is to read an old PG essay thinking it is recent they’d probably have the same reaction.
These tech giants are now becoming banks. And what’s that worth...

Maybe the valuations are right.
It’s the libertarian- particularly Objectivist- myth that valorizes the (capitalist) individual.
It looks like the issue is a little complicated, according to this website, they can but it the examples given seem to be a little more pervasive than just a single manager not speaking English: https://www.shihabimmigrationfirm.com/employment-based-immig...

On the other hand, if the product or intended market involved a foreign language it would definitely be okay.