skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to encourage you to make your experience (semi-)public in your local community. In times of campaigning, talk to people at campaign booths. Tell the members of the city/local council of different parties about it. Go to the mayor's public office hours.

And look for a group of people who want to something about it. There are also a large number of Germans who find the racist discrimination by the police scandalous and think that it is high time to do something about it. Best not individually, but collectively.

Then attitudes can change, even in conservative circles. I come from a place that recently elected a mayor with a Turkish background who was supported by the conservative party (CDU). Something like this would hardly have been conceivable twenty years ago, but I hope that it will now become the norm.
Toyota have their head in the sand. Their roundtable in Dec 2020 shows them cherry-picking facts, stating that though they have a lower rate of electrification than Norway, they have a higher volume of EVs on the road in Japan. However this fails to take into account the per capita stat, with a population of 126m versus 5.4m, Toyota is once again manipulating the stats

source: https://toyotatimes.jp/en/insidetoyota/111.html
> The lack of noise, combined with the discreet positioning of the motor and other components, makes it hard for anyone to notice that I'm on an e-bike.

Sorry, buddy, but in your dreams only. It is blatantly obvious for anyone if you are riding on your own, or if you have assistance - your body position is different, the power exerted looks different, not even mentioning the battery pack on your back wheel, and the motor behind your bottom bracket. So "OK Boomer" indeed.

On the other hand the real problem is that people who cannot really ride bikes now get easy access to speed. I regularly see them on my daily commute here in Vienna, where - despite the 25kph limit - these boomers ride in a way that scares the hell out of me. They go fast when they shouldn't (combined bike paths with lots of pedestrians), go slow when they don't have to (downhill), and generally are visibly uncomfortable on a bicycle.

I cannot imagine what would happen if you took an elderly person with an old bicycle and converted said bicycle using an unrestricted motor... that's really just asking for trouble.

I mean, people can be generally stupid - just last week a 78 year old driving a moped (!) was caught on the motorway driving in the wrong direction (!!!) in the inside lane (!!!!!) for a few km's before police caught him. And he wasn't even drunk.

Perhaps the solution is to introduce a driving licence category for e-bikes. And if they are unrestricted then they should be banned from cycle paths too.
From what I remember from that age, it was the sweet spot for having the intelligence, the enthusiasm and the time to just grab a problem and completely loose myself in it. I didn't care at what time I slept, there were no children requiring attention, my bachelors was pretty easy and didn't require much time investment. My parents were also pretty easy and let me be at my computer for very long times at very strange hours.

It was a nice time for me to learn Linux, compile kernels, install Gentoo. For me this was about 2004 btw.

Ok, this is pretty next level and way cooler than what I did, but my point is that people at this age are not to be underestimated, they are smart AND have resource ;) (Note that I'm also not claiming that this is what is happening here, but it could be).
Well, yeah, sure, we can pretend that's what parent was saying, or maybe the top comment could just bother actually providing said anecdotal evidence. Saying you have anecdotal evidence is not the same thing as providing anecdotal evidence. Nothing is even communicated by just vaguely gesturing at all of the poor melty peaches except that you spend far too many hours on YouTube, and on one specific region of YouTube in particular. Nobody can interact with your anecdotal evidence if you haven't actually said what your anecdotal evidence is.

Edit: It's worth noting that when the commenter actually did name the examples they were thinking of, it was entirely related to right-wing YouTube personalities, so it looks like I was on to something there.
The author gives three examples of queries that they liked:

surreal ideas amidst a maelstrom of color in the style of art nouveau
the cat is sleeping under the promethean cloud
astronaut floating in pink outerspace

and three queries that are "random, trolling-type inputs":

rabbit eating human
mike tyson as a clown on a building
moms spaghetti

> These random inputs don't reflect an art-making intent

Yes they do. All six are pretty equally abstract, the author just doesn't like that the latter three reference pop culture.

> What's further surprising about this is that VQGAN+CLIP was never designed to generate truly explicit content, which begs the question of the intent of these users. Is is that the internet just craves NSFW content so much that they will type it anywhere?

It's the scientific method. It would be pretty neat if VQGAN+CLIP managed to spit out something that looked like porn. It can't, apparently, but you may as well try.

Obviously, the author can use their GPUs for whatever they want and they can blog about whatever they want, and if the internet didn't use the tool in a way they would have liked, it's fair for them to be disappointed. The upshot is that the post gives off "old man yells at cloud"[1] energy.

[1] https://www.kapwing.com/ai-video-generator/61237ae901d7a3003...
Are you aware of the strings attached to 'development aid' ?
Exciting news: Vegas casino adds $500M of other casinos' chips to its balance sheet. Visa will soon be out of business.
> The method for texting without looking I described was only limited to writing, but it's also something I've done in practice before smartphones, in particular on a Sony Ericsson K800i. This was possible because of good-quality keyboard (and joystick), and good UI decisions. I don't know if they put an actual soft-realtime OS in there (I suspect so), but all the UI delays were always the same - so I naturally memorized sequences like "unlock, menu, texting, wait ~0.5 second for it to load, open thread, type in message, send". It probably takes teenage-level or business-professional-level of use to get that kind of muscle memory, though.

Wow, this threw me back. :) Indeed this was not only possible, but actually easy. I don't think it took a lot of effort or any conscious effort even, actually, the UI was so good, but most importantly there were no unpredictable delays and no unpredictable inconsistencies!

Why is modern software so bad in comparison? Sure it can do more things, but it does them worse. The interface of everything is constantly changing for the unfounded whims of designers who simply think "this looks prettier to me", things are not laid out logically, adverts permeate the interface of most products from phones to TVs...
It is worth to study Psion story 20 years ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/another-...
> The above definition of add is equivalent to the one using static_assert.

They are not though - the equivalent C++17 would be

template<typename T>
std::enable_if_t<std::is_intregral_v<T>, T> add(T a, T b)
{
return a + b;
}

The difference is that these make the function unavailable for overload resolution for non-integral T but another implementation might still cover them while the static_assert version leaves the function available for overload resolution but then errors if it is selected.
It's good for a trackpad, but I personally really don't like it; it's too big and I'll take a Thinkpad with smaller trackpad, 3 physical buttons and a touchpoint any day.
It is my belief that many, if not most, people believe themselves to having never changed their opinion, even though they have done so many times. To admit to yourself that you once were wrong is to admit that you were imperfect; it is easier to believe that you have always thought what you currently believe.

And, consequently, if you have never changed opinions, your current understanding of things must therefore be correct and unchanging, and policy can be written and implemented with this assumption.

In a way, it is the antithesis of science.
According to Wikipedia:

> The 9-9-9 format was chosen based on the 'button A' and 'button B' design of pre-payment coin-operated public payphones in wide use (first introduced in 1925) which could be easily modified to allow free use of the 9 digit on the rotary dial in addition to the 0 digit (then used to call the operator), without allowing free use of numbers involving other digits

There's a citation, but it's a book from 1950, so not particularly easy to verify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(emergency_telephone_numbe...
>It has lots of meanings but the main one could be summed up to "what?".

my experience - although based on neapolitan usage - is more WTF!?!
Thank you - this an area of interest for me as well (my mind wanders away trying to imagine the nitty-gritties of the lives of ancient folks). Will check it out.
I did a couple of conversions but mostly just replaced the rear wheel with a built in motor. It is a dirt cheap mod and it is very modest optics wise. Unlike other options. In general it is very advisable to look for spots on the frame where the power of the motor will be attacking. Most parts are designed to handle stress just from one direction only. That is why I am not a fan of conversions that utilize front wheel motors and/or big guns like 500W+ motors - even for the rear wheel.
What a humble person, that is very rare.
The number stack goes like this: naturals -> integers -> rationals -> reals.

Trying to simplify this by removing any stage doesn't really work. sin() over a rational should be a compile time error.
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I see what you are saying. We don’t need to build something as smart as a human. It just needs to be as smart as a horse. ABI. We can even train ABIs using horses. Where are you from? East europe or central asia? South america? I imagine itd be easier to train ABIs in certain countries. Heck even in western europe they can start with the beer deliveries. In america, the ABIs wont be so smart, they are limited to safe tourist areas.
Infrastructure in Code: Towards developer-friendly cloud applications
That's why I started a Patreon for this, and set a minimum threshold below which the project would not start. I've been there and done "fun challenges only" ports (e.g. PS4 Linux) and I know things never get to the point where they need to be if people are only working on it for fun.

The Patreon turns this into a job, which means I have reason to keep chipping away at all those "minor" things. It also means everyone else working on the project can choose what they work on, and I pick up whatever is left that nobody wants to do.
export aluminium - often called solidified electricity.
TIL thanks.
> ...a majority rule that protected its minorities was the best way to secure long term stability and welfare.

Huh. I hadn't connected the dots between minoritarian rule and surveillance (capitalism) until now. Thanks.

They really are codependent, aren't they?

So advocating majoritarian rule -- more democracy, consent of the governed, etc -- will weaken the pressure for surveillance.
Trying to make the term BCHS a thing just isn’t going to happen.
You must be bullied as a kid, and now hate other people being free in the path to self-righteousness.
These are customers they already know I presume. So they have an inkling of the expected mileage (at least: we price on expected mileage). So you repeatedly sample dropping some samples to get enough filling in all mileage baskets. It’s a stratified sample and random.

Say you have 10k customers with 1k women. You want to take a sample And want enough power to get answers on women. In that case you do stratified sampling.
There are only a few species that are generically predisposed to domestication. We have domesticated pretty much all of them - and the rest failed, despite multiple attempts across thousands of years.

Zebras, for example, not "eligible". It looks like a nice horsy but the things are totally wild, and happen to be the number one source of zoo injuries because people are fooled by the harmless striped pony.
Somehow I never see any such comments when white person get harassed, killed, raped by blacks, which happens thousands of times more often. White people avoid black gettoes. Actually black people avoid them, too, that’s why they come to white countries and start to complain. I wonder why this person didn’t stay in France? Maybe because it’s not really fun to live with others like him. And if you think germans are racists, visit Africa for a walk and compare. Besides, this original comment was 100% out of the topic, but it gets all the sympathy, while my comment being 100% true, will be downvoted. It’s disgusting beyond comprehension. It’s racism against whites that has never happened in history against any other group.
Comparing a virus that has an average age of death at or even above life expectancy with a suicide shows how weak your point actually is.
Let's turn it around shall we? We can reduce the amount of deaths from car accidents by 1000 fold if we limit the speed of all vehicles to 10mph. Should we do it or not? Ask yourself if you would be willing to kill yourself and 999 close members of your family if you knew it would make your taxi driver be able to drive a little faster.

If the virus was as deadly as people pretended it was we wouldn't NEED lockdowns or any government measures at all. People would stay at home by themselves. Instead I see people going shopping 3 times a week.

People are simply unwilling to admit they were wrong and bought into an unwarranted hysteria. The sooner they admit this the sooner this farce can end. The flu is more dangerous to most people in here, so let's react proportionally to what we did for the flu every year
I think it was this case, but I'm not 100% sure. I saw it discussed on a group...

https://www.antena3.com/noticias/sociedad/pederasta-ciudad-l...
> Even if synchronizing clocks is something any skilled distributed systems engineer would think of within 10s of deciding to design such a system.[1]

Except the patent you link to doesn't sync the clocks.
This. Big Apple Notes user here.

Apple Notes takes the crown for being the most unobstructive when it comes to taking notes.

1. Drag and Drop images, screenshots, annotate them in place. I cannot live without this anymore. Forcing me to first upload an image somewhere, and then use ()[] syntax to correctly load the file in MarkDown is the opposite of what I want my Notes application to be.

2. Sync - I write my notes on my Mac while working. I needed to look something up while I am waiting in queue somewhere? iPhone provides an excellent interface with usable Search while on the Go. Had a thought while I am traveling, want to put it down? Notes on iPhone. This thing is super convenient.

3. Shared Notes. My wife and I share a few notes with purposes - "Things to Know" - for the important tidbits that we end up sharing via Messages/email. Now they are in one place and recorded forever. "To buy" is our commonly used shopping list. "Household todo" - is our shared todo list for stuff around the house.

Now, the con is that deep lock-in to the Apple ecosystem. I am still waiting for an alternative that gives me the ability and ease to do #1 and #2 above. So far, none met my needs.

My eager bet is on https://www.serenity.re/en/notes
The dev has image drag and drop support on the roadmap. If it comes out, I will give it a serious shot.
I think that's wishful thinking, to be honest.
Ten-year hacktivist fugitive Commander X arrested in Mexico
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I highly reccomend buying a dumb 4K TV and if you really want to use Chromecast, buy a dongle you can upgrade as better dongles come out.

If you need a suggestion on where to start, Walmart sells Spectre brand 4K dumb TVs up to 75".
The article seemed to me to go back and forth between profound and tendentious. To pin down the ideas precisely, or perhaps to trivialize them, here's a simple technical + mathematical example: TCP, the congestion control protocol for transmitting data packets on the Internet. Here are some ways to think about TCP:

(1) TCP's congestion control is an algorithm. It maintains a variable "congestion window", and it has rules for increasing or decreasing this variable based on the acknowledgement packets that come back.

(2) TCP's congestion control is a mechanism that results in the outcome "throughput = sqrt(2) / (RTT * sqrt(p))", where p is the packet drop probability.

(3) TCP's congestion control is a system that results in the available capacity of a network being shared between all the active flows. Specifically, it acts so as to maximize a "total utility" function, subject to network capacity constraints [1].

These three levels of description are all true, all at the same time. When you ask "why did TCP give me this much bandwidth?", the 'why' can be answered at any of the three levels, and different levels will be useful for different purposes. Level 3 is close to 'purpose' and level 1 is close to 'cause and effect', but I think those labels get confusing especially when we talk about the intention of the designer. (In the case of TCP, the level 3 purpose-style understanding of TCP only came about in the late 1990s, long after TCP was invented and deployed.)

IANA philosopher ... but these levels of explanation go back to Aristotle. I think level 1 is the "efficient cause" (it happened because of an action), level 2 is the "formal cause" (it happened so as to achieve a certain form), level 3 is the "teleological cause" (it happened to achieve a purpose).

When I read the article in the light of this three-level picture of TCP, it seems to me that the "purpose" view of a system, which I take to be level 3, is just one of several equally valid views, not more nor less important than the others.

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/stochastic_num.pdf
The connection between the Pakistani ISI and the Taliban is very well documented.

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/117472/DP%2018.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/Afghan0701-02.htm

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/08/06/a...
crypto-mining comes to mind
Hey I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to write this comment.

That's a really insightful view I hadn't considered but I think I agree with you and will likely spend more time with React and Vue now to have that card in my pocket for the future.
Investors have found an easier way to milk the Aussie taxpayer and consumers.
If we could do that, could we merge brains?
Can't help but feel like this is part of the same trend that saw Palantir buy a bunch of gold... not sure I see the pattern though.
I suspect that if those numbers were significant they would have found their way into the headline.
Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch() happen!

Seriously, how are you supposed to pronounce BCHS?
I have to say this is one HN thread that could really benefit from memes, because Drax the Destroyer has some comments on that one.
Projecting much? That’s a really weird place to go in reference to somebody disagreeing with your cherished solar.
You're trying to make a point but think it'd be pretty noteworthy if a casino added half a billion in chips from other casinos.
I am not on the autistic spectrum, but in my experience walking does help a lot with thinking things through. Part of it is certainly the lack of distractions, but there is something about the movement too. I'm not sure why you've brought autism up.
I'm running a moderately popular website with this stack on a $5 VPS. More precisely I'm running an ARNPCoW (Cloudflare or WireGuard) stack. That is, an ARNP stack that serves https from behind Cloudflare and drops packets that don't come from one of Cloudflare's advertised IPs unless they are from a WireGuard connection.
Trump was a turd. He caused this.

But that doesn't completely absolve Biden. If he didn't like the treaty, he could have renegotiated it. And even if he did, what was the actual plan for evacuation of Kabul?

This whole thing looks like a dropped ball to me. So far, the Taliban have been very reasonable (not bothering US forces, not contesting the airport, not attacking planes). Imagine if they hadn't been.

Biden got a shit sandwich, but hes done a bad job eating it...
Hydrogen is a possibility. Some serious investigation are underway.

https://www.aemc.gov.au/hydrogen-new-australian-manufacturin...
+1.

As sweet as their hardware and ecosystem is, an open ecosystem is better for users. I'd move off if I could get most of what I enjoy within Apple ecosystem.
Like how syphilis was always the <X> disease, where X is a group you consider immoral and licentious.
European city bikes are most definitely not built to go 25 mph. A Dutch step through bike with a backpedal brake at 25mph would be very sketchy.
Seems obvious considering Australia is the world's largest producer of bauxite.
> people who cannot really ride bikes now get easy access to speed

Let's say there was a speed restriction: if you go above, say, 15km/h, the electric assist turns off and you have to pedal on your own. This would still be iffy in some situations, for example a busy combined cycle/footpath.

Maybe it would work OK if the electric assist was some function of cyclist's own effort. The more power you put out, the more the electric motor adds on top. But you'd need some sort of a power meter and more complex controller, so would not be cheap any more...
That too, it also depends on the facial expression. :)
Can't believe there are people that believe utter nonsense like this.

I walk 60 minutes a day. 90% of the women walking at any park in the US are women.

Downvote away. Don't let reality get in your way.
I remember hearing how the Chinese couldn’t innovate; only copy. It’s like… You do realize that the Chinese are humans, not Neanderthals, right? Humans are intelligent and innovative. Scrappy humans (which the Taliban are) frequently surprise with how much they can accomplish with so little.

Granted, the system and culture does make a massive difference in terms of the trajectory and compounding effects of a populace. But these remarks come off as thinly veiled racism, rather than a critique of the political systems involved— and I’m not someone who sees racism behind every blade of grass.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-finds-competition-con...

docket: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/nvidia-slash-arm-merger-inquiry
That is not a good comparison. It's not ok to pass casual racist comments.

Casual racists comments and jokes fall into the micro-aggression category.

Next time, I hope you build up the courage to tell your aggressors that you are not ok with racist comments.