skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all anecdotal, but a couple of decades ago I was riding road bikes with standard 622 rims shod with 23 mm tires. In the 2000s I shifted to riding road bikes with 584 rims and 42mm tires because they were frankly just more fun for me (lower pressure = greater comfort and better suspension meant better handling on our rough Northwest roads). The outer diameter was about the same, so I didn’t have to do something weird with the geometry of the bikes.

When Jan came out with 55mm super-supple tires on 559 rims (again that would keep the outer diameter the same) I thought what the heck and got Seven Cycles to build me a custom around the new tires. Now that road bikes run disk brakes, you can run multiple rim size on the same frame so I figured I could always go back to 584/42mm if I didn’t like the crazy wide tires. (I was worried enough that I actually got somebody to build me a new set of 584 rims for the new frame.)

I’ve had that bike for about 3 years now and have ridden several thousand miles on it. Only a few tens of those miles have been on the fancy 584 rims with the (equally nice) 42mm tires – the 55mm tires are even more fun than the 42's were for me. If you ride on mixed surfaces, the extra suspension you get from running low pressures (I run around 26 PSI front/32 back) makes a big difference (or at least it does for me) - both in handling and comfort.

Downsides are increased weight (the 55mm tires weigh about 420 g a piece which is impressively light given the amount of material, but still a lot heavier than those old 622/23 mm tires back in the day) and the increased maintenance of running them tubeless (though of course you can run them with tubes-though given that I haven’t had a flat in 3 years and I’m riding on Seattle streets, I’ll put up with having to monitor the sealant levels every month or so).
Central planning has a great track record in corporate governance. Walmart employees 2.3 million people and as far as I know is centrally planned. Central planning can at least scale up that far. Sixteen states have a population less than that. I don't see any indication that scale is holding Walmart back.
So people with more money can keep paying to skip me? I'm sure that would work well in the US
US GDP has been lower than China GDP since 2019 and if anything the pandemic accelerated the process of Chinese economic outpacing the US economy. In China there is enough money for everyone to have living wage too. And you pay for you healthcare in China too even though their GDP is enough to cover it for all Chinese citizens. Apparently they are focusing on the big picture, i.e. becoming No.1 and surpassing US by a long shot. Making our currency inflate at 5% a year means we need to deduct that 5% from our GDP growth for that year -- its economics 101.
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"You can push while you pull" never made much sense to me on the road. Because, you're right, those muscles aren't as efficient, so you're just going to have to pay the expenditure back with interest.

But, off-road, it can occasionally be useful to give 'er one or two extra firm strokes to help power over a small rise or whatever.
If you are determined to pick middle of all issues, you are not superior neutral thinker. Instead, you are enabler for whoever is bigger lier or whoever is set up to cause more harm.

People dont have to have same opinions as me. But the contemporary idea that if you position yourself in the middle you are doing good by definition is wrong.
I've always thought that the real NSA ruthlessly prosecutes anyone who leaks to the press and the "anonymous intelligence sources" quoted in the press are always fake.
It doesn't seem like this was a proper whistle blower case. She did not use good judgement here, in my opinion.

But her punishment was overly harsh. Especially if you consider how much the federal government leaks, and how few people are prosecuted for it, and how little harm it does in most cases.

She was made an example of precisely because she was a low-level employee with no power or connections. Which is obviously wrong on a very deep level. And that's the big story here.
The comfort level you feel is also a form of efficiency that makes you faster. Vibration absorbs energy and saps your momentum.
Check out SymmetricStrength
It’s the future actually.

https://www.tesla.com/en_au/support/energy/savpp-faqs (South Australia Virtual Power Plant FAQs)

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/teslas-australian-virtual-p... (Tesla's Australian virtual power plant propped up grid during coal outage)

> Once complete, the VPP will include 50,000 houses fitted with 5 kW rooftop solar systems and 13.5 kWh Tesla batteries. Together, they will be capable of delivering up to 250 MW of solar power and 650 MWh of energy storage.

> So far, less than 1,000 homes have been completed. Still, the aggregated storage was able to make a difference.

With regards to Australian rooftop solar potential, it’s estimated at almost 179GW, roughly a bit more than 3.5x total current Australian generation capacity.
Does your gravel bike have road slicks? Is your geometry the same, i.e. your reach and drop is the same?
Make sure they don't know a backup exists though, or you'd have to unlock that.
Yes.

At home I am limited in my skills and in the quality and variety of ingredients. In a restaurant (one where the chef actually makes food, not a place where it's microwaved, cooked from frozen, or just repackaged restaurant supply food), I get a skilled chef using many high quality ingredients which I cant get my hands on for any reasonable price to use at home.

I'll still avoid getting certain things at restaurants that I could make at home (many pasta dishes for example), but there are so many things I'd have a lot of trouble making myself.
I guarantee the masters of marginal gains, Sky (now Ineos Grenadiers), will have spent some resources on looking at which tyres are actually faster for them, regardless of fashion or sponsors.

I think it’s safe to say that whatever they ride on are the fastest options - and every other team would follow - or that within a certain set of parameters, it doesn’t matter.

I just tried to search to see if Ineos run different tyres on different race and stages, and found nothing conclusive.
Yes it absolutely is for international banking.
For anyone curious, since I turned that on 7 hours ago I've gotten 7 recruiters that have messaged me, and most look like pretty decent fits for my experience, better than the random messages I usually get (and I usually only get a few that reach out each month). Guess I should have done this sooner.
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The author starts from an arguably false premise:

Most stars in our galaxy are much older than the sun. If civilizations arise fairly frequently on some planets, then there ought to be many civilizations in our galaxy millions of years more advanced than our own.

This may be technically true, but effectively false: most of the elements that comprise terrestrial life are the products of novas and supernovas: the oldest stars wouldn't have planets other than maybe gas giants that are mostly helium and hydrogen.

There are probably other conditions that might mean million-year-older civilizations don't exist: the gamma ray burst frequency was almost certainly much higher a few billion years in the past, for example.

I conclude that this is just fear mongering, and WaPo published it as a sop to "science writing" or something.
Presumably they have alternate verification processes for such countries as are not supported, when they deem it relevant to their business to do so; I expect it’s handled more as a case-by-case consideration and less as a well-defined policy, but you could still ask Discord Support and report what they at back to us!
> This was ostensibly done for security reasons (citing zoom bombing, of all things, coz it was in the news).

I don't think this is without basis? Zoom got some bad press. Unsure if Teams is any better.

Zoom apps sending data to Facebook https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693792

Zoom lying about e2ee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25044254

Zoom installer on macOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706650

Zoom rolling its own crypto https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494
This and the OP seem to suggest there is something else going on behind the scenes than just abrasive personalities. Do the people who work on Home Assistant have some issue with NixOS?
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A useful idiot. Somebody or something that is, unbeknownst to them or their allies, so strongly under adversarial influence that they can be controlled. Imagine the potential chaos made possible by a double agent - without the natural suspicion that accompanies a self admitted traitor.
Compared to flats!
I also couldn't believe it at first.
I'm not sure the theory of it, but I've done long rides with people in both (80+km) and there was no difference in speed.
I also would do a 16km route as fast as I could, and there was no discernible difference in avg speed or time.
This is very worrying because I’m so locked into the app.
Tumblr/WP integration is the last thing I’d like to see in a private journal.

Just have to hope that Day One flies under the radar and they don’t try to squeeze every last penny from their vulnerable customers.

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>When you feel a civic duty to vote, but none of the candidates are really acceptable, I'll vote 'against' the worst by picking the least objectionable, until the whole country gets the Nevada option of 'none of the above.'

...you cannot vote 'against' anyone in an election.

In 2020, I think I wrote myself in for about 8 different positions in my locale, because I won't vote for anyone I don't support. Sure I may not have won that time around, but I didn't assist anyone I didn't actively want to win. Guilt free voting.
I've also had a doctor and surgeon with the last name Slaughter, but that's a much more common surname.
> The issue lies is the false dichotomy of the two-party system. Centrists I interact with often seem to view the world as if the two party lines are a single dimension and that a rational 'compromise' position can be found somewhere in the middle.

As a self-proclaimed centrist, it's weird to me that anyone who calls themselves a centrist thinks this way.

For me, I see both sides as being correct sometimes but also blindly agreeing with anything else they come up with even if it's wrong. It kind of negates any good ideas because, to me, they don't come from a point of reasoning or critical thinking, but from tribalism.

I disagree with a lot from the left, usually because (these days) it's unscientific. I disagree with a lot from the right, usually because it's uninformed, religious, or inhumane - and also, unscientific.

However, there are some good ideas financially coming from the (American) right that I think would work well for the US. I say this living in (and enjoying) Germany, which is largely what the left views as "socialism".

As well, living in San Francisco for a few years prior, there are of course a lot of good humanitarian efforts coming from people mostly based on the left - including renewable energy, for example, which seems to be wholly rejected by conservatives.

To me, what "makes sense" is oftentimes owned by one of the sides, and sometimes owned by neither. I'm often found to be politically homeless, and thus why I call myself a centrist - usually my viewpoints have some relation to one of the parties' extreme standpoints but generally nowhere near the fanaticism they exude (e.g. I'm what the Twitter left calls a "trans-medicalist", whereas the right tends to completely deny the humanity of trans individuals entirely).

I don't think people who claim that all issues can have a solution "somewhere in the middle" are centrist. I think they're undecided, uninformed, weak-thinkers, or people pleasers - or some mixture of those things. I myself have strong, solid opinions that oftentimes don't align with either side - hence why I call myself a centrist.
>caused a labor shortage and inflation.

The US Government printing money is why used cars, washing machines, and hotels are getting more expensive, while other categories stay generally below historical levels?
A lot of holocaust survivors have made very cogent cases against deniers, you may be underestimating their strength. Maybe some people couldn't do that, but other people could. It is a lot of people we are talking about.
Thermal insulation, whether we're talking about a blanket, a winter jacket, or the foam stuff in your walls, generally involves a layer of some thickness within which there are many tiny spaces full of trapped air. It's difficult for heat to propagate across those spaces. The author's point is that mylar emergency blankets do not provide this thick layer of "trapped air". It's true that they prevent air from crossing, but only for the very thin layer of the blanket.

I'm not sure exactly how effective the mylar blankets are and under what circumstances, but this is what "trapped air" refers to.
Pretty standard in Nordic countries. The source of heat is real question, but there are some options like burning garbage, or waste heat from factories, data centres and so on.
I suspect that 42mm is already into diminishing returns for road cycling.
> One aspect of centrism is that it's generally people who either benefit from or want to maintain the status quo, without incurring the conflict that comes with stating so.

This absolutely is not true, it's simply the straw man that polarized extremists use to lampoon centrism. It's based on two faulty assumptions:

1. Centrists believe the right course of action is "in the middle" of both extremes on all issues. This is like assuming that every movie that gets rated 5/10 on average got rated 5/10 by everyone who watched it, rather than 1/10 by 50% of people, and 10/10 by the other 50%. It's certainly true that sometimes centrists will believe the truth is somewhere in the middle, but it can also mean that they agree with the more extreme view of one wing on some issues, and strongly disagree on others.

2. It also assumes that neither wing of the political spectrum is never interested in maintaining the status quo, which is rarely the case. There are some issues for which progressives are pro-change and conservatives are for the status quo, and vice versa. You could conceivably have a centrist who is for raising taxes and government provided universal healthcare, and against affirmative action and for increased border security or against legality of abortions. All of these positions would represent upending a point of the status quo that either conservatives or progressives are for maintaining.

The point is that too often, centrism is lazily painted as apathetic, uninterested in change, or unwilling to take a hard stance on anything. In reality, many centrists are simply not falling in line with a particular political faction consistently enough to be a supporter of any of them.

And this doesn't even consider those who are skeptical of the self-perpetuating propaganda narratives that have been increasing in intensity as the internet has matured. Some people are centrists not because they aren't for change or taking a stance, but because they express skepticism at the narratives constantly being thrust upon us through the media and the internet. This doesn't equate to "both sides are right", or even "both sides are wrong", it is closer to "both sides have demonstrated a willingness to lie for their agenda, so I want to take things on a case by case basis rather than blindly throw my support at one".
Is Hillary Clinton and CNN a credible source?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-excl...
I'm amazed at how much PR matrix gets for an opensource project not supported by any company. Congratulations to all supporters
Point is, that you can not finish VDF twice as fast (and probably not even by any other factor >1) with two CPUs, because they can't share work.
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I think classifying 'stolen' data that is accurate being released as "disinfo" is a horrifying and dangerous precedent.

Where do you draw the line between what wikileaks did and other investigative reporting that uses information from whistleblowers? Were the pentagon papers disinfo?

It seems like your position taken to its extreme would disregard all information except info willingly broadcasted by the state, and make us blind to stories of war crimes, corruption, anything else that embarrasses or threatens the state.
In my town, the leftists still put up "Viva Chavez" banners on their balconies.
GNOME people are lost in politics and constant power struggles, along with the hostility and snark that @broknbottle mentioned, making the project very unapproachable to new contributors and the curious.
It's all part and parcel of the same problem. The default media narrative bubble leans heavily to the left.

People trapped in that bubble are overly confident in what they believe. They aren't often exposed to arguments and data that are contrary to what they're told to believe over and over whenever they turn on the TV. So when these trapped people are confronted with opposing arguments or data, they resort to the easy mechanisms that relieve their cognitive dissonance. "You're a racist" "You're a homophobe" "You're a white supremacist" "You want sick people to die in the streets"
Here's what to do.

First of all, find out where the jobs are. Some board for your niche or something like that. For me it's efinancialcareers. Now efinancial is still a black hole if you try to use it to apply through, but what you're really after is the recruiter details.

You then phone up the rec, or you write to him on LinkedIn. A lot of them are crap at responding, but that's how it is. Phone a few, and convince them that you are the real deal for whatever it is he recruits for.

They'll all want an updated CV. They need it to be able to proceed, nobody will place you without one. Good news is it isn't that hard, just highlight the relevant bits for reach recruiter.

The rec will then say "I've got a job at X, Y, and Z. X is a this kind of co, Y is looking for blah..."

When they have some of those details it means they actually have something. Otherwise it's just a generic company that they will find later. By find, I mean they will forget you by the time the job comes. One guy told me straight up the ad I responded to was not a specific job, it was a honeypot to lure candidates.

So now the companies get your CVs, and they decide whether to interview. If the recruiter is good, they will interview you maybe 3/4 times. Companies often screw up their own internal hiring process and ask for CVs when they aren't ready. But the other companies should be willing to interview you. This is where you find out if the rec is crap, because a fair few of them will just not tell you anything about what happened to your CV.

It's still a numbers game. I've got over 20 recruiters listed on my Trello, most of them did nothing useful for me.

It's probably worth cultivating some relationships with the recruiters. You learn a lot about what the market is doing for free from them.
There exist more or less standard times for fixing security bugs. Let's say 90 days. If a company cannot provide security for their customers in a reasonable time, they must be held accountable.
> This is especially true for foreign relations.

Their latest issue literally has a massive article against vaccine nationalism. Their opposition to breaking of the Iranian deal.

> A good barometer I have for journals as far as foreign policy is their coverage of the Iraq War before it began

That's very arbitrary, considering that 18 years have passed. The Economist has changed hands and most of its staff.

> 4 centrist anglophone sources

4 sources that aren't radical, have clear motivation behind them. Money makes people write in a particular way, that is easy to gauge.

Also - why would I read insane crap on either side, my job isn't to read news all day.
Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
Considering average human body area is around 2 square meters and body temperature is around 37 degrees Celsius I get around 1000 W of radiation from the human body according to this calculator: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/radfrac.h...
Then I think you make a very good point.
I think they're referring to Greenwald. I'm guessing this describes the interaction [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/05/14...
I agree, but also don't be afraid to voice new ideas.
I wrote a script that would build a list of printer brands and their corresponding toners.
https://github.com/kurcz/PrinterTonerDB
I’ve heard this said, but is this accurate? Would love a source.
Wait, doesn't this open the doors to all kinds of vulnerabilities?

Like https://www.cnet.com/news/javascript-opens-doors-to-browser-...
Believe it or not, I have actually researched the "do wider tires grip more" topic (though not recently). I'm not simply extrapolating from high school physics class on friction. But, that's the executive summary.
Are you sure that's NixOS? Perhaps the issue is that NixOS doesn't have an official spokesperson?

I'm sure someone like that would do a little more diligence before blasting on the home-assistant community forums about one of their moderators (and apparently the 4th largest code contributor to the ha project overall).
> I don't think that's a considerations for most. Salary differences internally in both the US and Europe are large enough that there's a huge overlap.

How does that work? Presumably if the median salary for a given field is 40% lower, then the jobs which pay at my well-above-the-median salary are going to be much fewer and farther between with more competition. Add to that laws that (understandably) favor EU citizens and it seems like it would be quite difficult to get one's hands on those positions?

> Tax rates also depends greatly on which locations you're comparing. Between e.g. California and the UK the difference was small enough when I looked into it that it'd be easily eaten up by healthcare.

Yeah, like I said, I'm less concerned about tax rates. No surprise that California tax rates are comparable to London tax rates though; California is notoriously expensive and many Californians seem eager to move to other parts of the country.
There’s no “labour” shortage. There’s a “wage” shortage.

Companies aren’t really complaining about a labour shortage. They’re complaining that no one wants to work for their ridiculously low pay while the board and CEOs sail around in their yachts.
You could do something very basic with discrete components for controlling wireless lighting systems but system starts to get out of hand when you need to have a bunch of lights nearby. It's much cheaper, simpler, and smaller to reduce it down to a chip and move to a digital RF system. I've got a bunch of RF controlled outlets in my house but it's just about the dumbest system you can buy. It's on par with the typical remote garage door opener. You can program the on/off buttons on the remote for each outlet but that's as far as it goes. I'd like to be able to remotely control them away from home or be able to give each light or outlet its own schedule and that requires either a central controller or each device having network access for network time and remote control.

Interestingly, a friend rented a house in college once that had a system of low voltage light switches that ran back to a cabinet filled with relays that controlled light switches and outlets. No major benefit to the user other than a control panel in the master bedroom that lets you control the exterior and some interior lights. It was a neat system but definitely outdated. I'd imagine a retrofit would be to drop all of the relays for solid state and provide a networked controller to monitor status and provide remote control.