skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work for the company. I came on during the pivot to scooters, so this is just my (probably wrong) opinion.

IMO the reasons it never took off were:

- Expensive. You can get an electric bike conversion kit for $500 or less, compared to $1000+ for the Copenhagen Wheel. Don't get me wrong, the engineering on the Copenhagen Wheel was amazing, definitely worth the extra money, but it was too expensive for delivery guys to use.

- No replaceable battery: again this rules out delivery guys, as well as all-day rides.

- Requires a smart phone to use it. This was the biggest reason I stopped using my Copenhagen wheel. You needed to use your phone to unlock it or change the speed settings. I don't want to need my phone to ride my bike. What if I lose my phone or the battery dies? What if the server goes down or the company goes under?
I mean what if apples search decides that I am suspicious? Will they unlock my keychain and give all my logins to some police or worse random people somewhere to check my stuff? Very disappointing indeed
If you think electron is anything at all like Lazarus, you must never have used Lazarus.
Also not a biologist, but on the point of vaccines and whether they prevent the disease full-stop or just reduce the risk of serious illness, that's covered in the article.

My synopsis of that was that it was not expected (by the developers of the vaccines) that it would prevent people getting the illness, but that it would considerably reduce the risk of serious infection.

Some early trial results raised hopes that it would prevent people getting it, but with Delta that's not been borne out.

That said, in addition to reducing the risk of serious cases, it does also help reduce transmission as vaccinated people who get it, generally have less serious cases, which mean they are infectious for a smaller amount of time.
We had a decent solution to this in my undergraduate school.

Tests were basically all theory. Practical knowledge came from labs and everyone did the majority of their homework on lab computers that had no network connection. Not everyone was a rockstar of course, but as I recall pretty much everyone was at least a passable programmer in the end. Of course that was the early 90s...
Through highly intentional selective breeding.

Mind that the domestication of dogs also presumably resulted from artificial selection, though with a far weaker understanding of principles involved.
Basically every other vaccine is, that's why they're not leaky.
> The distributed work is valued not because of the material (a piece of paper) or its contents (a rendered image), because it was distributed and signed by the artist's hand. Anybody could photocopy that print to produce the same rendered contents, or even print their own copy if they have access to a high resolution file and inkjet printer, but the copy would be worth no value, because it did not come from the artist's hand.

But that would require a distribution of NFT in excess of 1.

People are not minting 50 or 500 NFTs which are all the same as in your example.

People are minting 1 NFT and selling it . At that point one person (the buyer) has the original and the rest of people on the internet just screenshots it to have a 1:1 identical piece of art, which are all just the same as the original.

Plus your example also forgets one important element: the scarcity of the time and the social relationships of the artist. The 50 printed and signed editions are considered worthy because the artist had to subtract time from whatever other activity they had planned in order to sign the copies.

Once you make the process of "signing NFTs" automatized (like for example making a transaction on the blockchain via smart contract) the whole magic and scarcity of it disappears.

Maybe you could secure the scarcity by making it expensive for the artist to mint the NFT, but then they'd be the ones protesting and not adopting the tech.
It's unclear to me that being allowed to work at a specific company without taking a vaccine is an "essential Liberty".

I don't believe that attending public school while unvaccinated is an essential Liberty.
Medicine is a field notorious for its gatekeeping.

But a lot can be done. In Italy during the height of the pandemic, they "emergency graduated" 5th (or maybe 6th ... near the end) year medical students. I really wonder if there's any data whether they provided worse care after some on-the-job training than "fully educated" practitioners.
The other practical solution from "host yourself" is "maintain, in the long-term, multiple email accounts with multiple providers" so the blast radius of running afoul of one of these providers is curtailed. Fine advice, but in practice few people are willing to shoulder the inconvenience of doing it (and the bookkeeping to preserve it).

Ironically, this is one of those places where in the US, government intervention could help... Not with regulation, but with service provision. A ".citizen.us" account provided through a federal bureau could be constrained legally in ways that a private email account currently cannot and serve as an authorization provider for citizens who don't want to entrust their digital identity to a megacorporation.
IANAL disclaimer as well but each component (hardware block, x264/x265 instance) is (IIRC) considered a separate "unit" [0].

[0] Slide 10, bullet one https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/avcweb.pdf
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That is only unpopular when it serves as an excuse for being against mitigation measures. Those same people are clogging the hospitals, diverting medications from people who genuinely need them, and raising the noise level for real advice to overcome. Everyone wants to go back to normal. The people who from the beginning were contrary just for the lulz are ruining our return to normal.
Simplifying an efficacy percentage down to a binary "working or not" is a common disinformation tactic. When you do this, you are rounding 90% down to "doesn't work". This doesn't help the discussion. The vaccines reduce chances of death, reduce chances of severe symptoms, reduce chances spread, and reduce chances of infection. But none of them 100%. Boiling that down to "doesn't work" is kind of silly.
It's not an emotional appeal though. It's pretty clear that a high vaccination rate will be beneficial to the overall health and prosperity of a population. I don't care about people getting vaccinated because it makes me feel warm and fuzzy, I care about them getting vaccinated so that we can ramp down restrictions and get closer to normality.
Yes, lifelong MacAddict here.

Something open that beats Apple's ecosystem doesn't yet exist today. But you can help it get there by being a customer and telling companies what you want. Re-creating an E2E iCloud suite doesn't seem impossible. For example Standard Notes is close to beating Notes - but it's still too complicated but with focused work on the UI it could win.

Discussion of open source phones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208

Discussion of open source laptops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266315
> There is a large continent of space, ideas, and legitimate reasons between "trust everything government/big pharma seems to have panicked agreement on" and "the government is trying to microchip me".

This is lip service to make it seem like vaccine hesitant individuals have a legitimate argument when they actually don’t. It’s impossible to have a clear-headed discussion when the other side’s argument pretty much comes down to gut feel at best and government conspiracy at worst. If you are (oddly) skeptical of MRNA technology, then the J&J vaccine exists and is also free.

There are well over 100MM shots administered since April and the worst side effect as been a dozen blood clots in women who had a pre-existing condition that caused them. Anyone who tells you they aren’t safe is trying to sell you a bridge. If you want to argue against hard data, then you must have an actual data-backed argument or we can just assume you aren’t a serious person.
Heart inflammation. Weighing of peronal risk factors, e.g., age or lack of comorbitities. Weighing social factors, e.g., prevalence of breakthrough infections and concomittant low value to 'health of society' from inconvenience of one or two injections that are required to achieve official vaccination.

I'm not prejudging how an individual's assessment of risks and benefits might shake out and I personally feel it's not a huge deal either way. That said, I very greatly disagree with the sense of entitlement baked into the comment I'm responding to, e.g., that I and all others should collectively drop everything and abandon all personal preferences and goals to focus single-mindedly on defeating the virus. The flaws with the majoritiarian premise are at least three-fold. 1. We most certainly will not defeat the virus in any way-- history teaches that we will at best coexist with it. 2. The viral risks are not infinite and easily may be overshadowed in many cases by life circumstances-- I am not required to quit my life and livelihood to serve majority sensibilites or lack thereof. 3. Before this pandemic I had some sense that my choices are personal, sometimes private, and always mine-- the pandemic has made me realize those sentiments are not universal, but have not persuaded me I'm wrong.
Another factor is used bikes. It's hard for a company to compete with that on price.
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It does, actually. Bigger is better for wind. A lot of the costs scale with the width of the tower (more expensive tower, tougher to build, bigger generator, etc) but the power output scales with the area covered by the blades, so the power output grows more quickly than the size/cost.
That is fake news, sorry

The law to imprison yourself (isolate) still is very much a law.
That is very interesting. I have just been to some clinics to get examined for laser eye surgery and found that I am not a good candidate because my pupils get too big at night.

I wonder if learning this skill could fix that.
In this case though the greater good is very easily expressed in a quantitative way: more vaccinated people means less people dead and incapacitated by the virus.
The article explains why a vaccination is not a long term guarantee you will not get and or spread this new flu.
Maybe because the vaccines are looking like they aren't going to be be as effective as they were originally made out to be, but I still think we need to return to normal at some point.
I do, here they require no registration at all and they are considerably cheaper than ebikes. Also, I stated earlier that I don't feel entirely comfortable with the implications of lithium mining so I do try to minimize that as much as I can.
I think your argument should be rerouted to browser standards and possibly browser vendors, but not websites. prefers-color-scheme is the only signal given to a website. What should a website do if it is set to "dark"? The only reasonable conclusion is to render a dark theme. Also offering a choice on top of that is a nice thing to do, but I can't agree it should be a requirement.

Possibly browsers could offer per site prefers-color-scheme values, and that would probably solve the problem you're having. Even better, it'd solve it with no changes needed for current websites.
This "show me data" line works well in debates, but not in the real world. You often don't have the time or ability to wait for data to roll in, do a study, have it peer reviewed, and then make a decision. In real life you constantly have to make decisions under uncertain conditions with limited information of unknown quality. And that's the situation we're in right now.

We can send the kids back to school with no vaccines, no masks, no precautions, and say "We don't have any data that this thing is dangerous for children". The obvious problem there is that we don't have a ton of data in general with this variant. So, if we're wrong about the danger, we risk harming a lot of children while we dutifully wait for the data to roll in.

This is the same reason that most women (and many men for that matter) will cross the street late at night if they are on an empty street and see a large man approaching them. They have zero evidence suggesting that the person is a threat, but the cost of being wrong in such cases is very high. So, having limited data, they tend to take a very cautious and conservative approach and cross the street. In our case, just change, "Cross the street" to "Wear a mask".

This comparison is far from perfect, but you get the idea.
Did you attend elementary school in the US?

To attend kindergarten in California, you need to be vaccinated for polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatisis B, chickenpox.

To attend 7th grade in California, you need to be vaccinated again for tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and chickenpox.

Did you attend college in the US?

Many states (not California) require you to be vaccinated against meningitis before attending freshman year.

The specific requirements depend on where you live and attend school [1].

The "normal lives" that we have been able to lead (pre-covid) are in part because of these requirements -- we don't have outbreaks of 50,000 polio cases a year like we did in 1952.

[1] https://www.immunize.org/laws/
In fact Chrome has a "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents" experiment under chrome://flags that does the "make everything dark" thing.

Here's an example screenshot I took the other day of the HN frontpage. Chrome with FDM on the left, Firefox on the right: https://imgur.com/a/TiNxsR6
It was pretty much this for me and at this point more so.

I've received both shots and was pretty low risk to begin with.

However, local hospitals were shipping patients off to other cities, and sending adults to the children's hospital.

I don't think it's a stretch to believe that the outcome of something like being in a car accident would be worse now than normal.
There was a paper circulating on HN not to long ago about the potential for a vaccine to cause a virus to mutate and become more dangerous for those who are unvaccinated. Would you be ok with charging vaccinated people who get others sick as well? Remember, the vaccine doesn't always stop transmission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101752
There is no data to this effect. There are some anecdotes from hospital staff saying they're seeing more kids now, but you might expect that given that adults are vaccinated.

Until there is data that shows conclusively that Delta affects kids more than previous variants, you should not parrot lines like "that appears to be changing quickly". Substantiate your claim with data or at least say it's anecdotal. Alternatively, if you have data, please share it.
Australia’s annual contribution to global CO2 emissions is something like 1.3%.

Australia could stop emitting CO2 tomorrow and it’d have approximately no impact.
That's like saying "if you dislike any single black person for any reason you're racist".
If you log it, why wouldn't you just log it at creation time. Are you going to periodically scan all floating-point numbers used everywhere in your code to see where they are created?

> The behavior that's much more useful and enshrined in the IEEE spec is that you keep the original NaN.

I didn't realize it was in the spec. I just checked, and you're right! That does however seem strange - X was never set by operation NNNN, Y was.
The early Internet was the Wild West, but people didn't notice the lesson of how the Wild West was tamed, or perhaps assumed there was something ineffable about a digital network still rooted in physical infrastructure that would make it untameable.

After the frontier era came the company towns and the large independent communities... Then, eventually, government incorporation and legal control.
Spend a bit of time on the /r/nursing subreddit and weep.

ICU nurses have been worked to the bone for 18 months now, and often already at higher patient/nurse ratios that customary.

The coming problem won’t be one one of insufficient beds but insufficient people to care for them.
no it isn't getting full yes, and sending patience farther away yes, but overflowing and collapse of order like in Contagion, no.
self quarantine through the app couldn't be mandatory seeing as the app isn't mandatory

The only thing OP has a point on is travel abroad, which yeh as you say isn't really daily life for the majority of people and probably isn't too big a pill to swallow temporarily, and continued working from home, which to my knowledge is the choice of companies, not the government (though either way, I'm not complaining)
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Huh, my wireless mouse does all kinds of weird stuff. The oddest is that sometimes Linux decides that two mice are attached despite there being only one USB dongle plugged in, and the only solution is to turn off the mouse, unplug the wireless receiver dongle, plug it back in, and hope it worked. Otherwise it's either reboot or rmmod/modprobe.

Of course, the mouse is a Razer...
No. When someone forces on everybody else own understanding of the world regardless of what other people want that's an absence. Not forcing own defaults and giving a choice—that would be more preferrable.
At some point prior to saturation, hospitals and the public deserve to have unvaccinated COVID-19 patients (without a medical reason) turned away.

We can do one of two things as communities:

(1) Mandate vaccination for everyone, and provide everyone care

(2) Allow everyone the freedom to remain unvaccinated, and limit care

There's no other "normal" world where a highly communicable disease that causes a sufficient number of hospital cases exists and circulates in the human population.

* Where normal means "normal freedoms of movement" + "normal social interactions allowed" + "normal economic operation" + "hospitals aren't overwhelmed and have capacity for normal care"
Leaky vaccines provide a high degree of selective pressure on viruses. Who knew?!

Literally hundreds of renowned virologists and epidemiologists, that's who.
> a high vaccination rate will be beneficial to the overall health and prosperity of a population.

Then say that, don't say "the greater good". The "greater good" means very different things to Nazis or Islamist terrorists. We should encourage people to say what they mean, not vague and meaningless phrases like "greater good".
atomic - bog standard engine

mecha - tracked

warrior - unarmed

robot - has a pilot

a true post factual headline

it's... it's a crane. a crane with two boom and some radiation shielding, which somehow gets called "armor"
People interact with deer all the time. They are all over neighborhoods in certain areas, people hunt them, they often are hit by vehicles, etc.
Imagekit.io is good too
Why is this different from other instances of governments instituting laws or regulations for the sake of public safety, of which there are already many?

Are seatbelt laws a mass experiment in social control?

Are laws mandating wearing underwear in public "about asserting control over population and making them obey"?
>Do I FUCKING LOVE BEYOND BELIEF that it means linux support is native and present at first release? You bet your ass I do.

Ironically, this thread is exactly about a Logitech app that doesn't have this.
> There are so many better options if you want a good type system

I am looking for basic type checking to prevent me from doing stupid things and catching bugs at "compiletime" instead of runtime.

Typescript interfaces with their structural typing do the job just fine.

I think people are underestimating the power of ecosystem. I use JS daily. Deno allows me to use it on the server as well without doing crazy things.

You have been able to do something similar in Java for a very long time with Mozilla Rhino (and now GraalJs) but without the same level of comfort and convenience.
So then you switch your domain to a different provider. Of course, the real trouble is when you loose the actual domain.
I disagree here. I use keyboard shortcuts on both platforms, but I can be fast either way on Linux, while on Mac I just can't get used to the acceleration curves and other odd behaviors that simply don't happen on the other platforms with the same mice.

I tried Microsoft, Logitec, and SteelSeries, which is about as great a variety of mice as can be expected.

I know I tend to be in the minority on HN in my dislike of macOS, but I'm trying here.

Conversely, I really really like the magic keyboard, and having an extra accelerator button is pretty nice (that isn't the stupid MS button).
I disagree completely. I use dark mode on my devices because I don't like glaring bright screens and light-on-dark text is easier for me to read. I'm happy when sites honor this choice without me having to fiddle with a bunch of stuff.
I absolutely agree with that approach.

Maybe it's just me, but "no" isn't as much of an option as it seems from the outside looking in. I've had much better results by refining and redirecting outside requests than by just denying them outright. There's also the chance that whoever you just denied will now just try to find a way to get what they want without you.

If you're in a place where you are constantly being asked for unacceptable things, there's a chance that one of the parties in those exchanges is going to be asked to leave. If we accept that premise, then the likelihood of you being dismissed goes up as you deny more requests from more people.

I use "no" rather judiciously and I avoid saying it in front of too many people at once. This isn't about cynically appearing reasonable as much as it is about being polite.
Lately getting excited about crypto mining.

Current project is to complete the rig that generates profits equal to my monthly mortgage payments.

Well on a way. And it's lots of fun - i never assembled computer before :)

To summarise:
Currently $10k investment in crypto mining generates about $1k/mo profit. You can proportionally scale it to desired outcome.
Jails are a FreeBSD concept, not implemented in OpenBSD. OpenBSD has a lighter form of sandboxing with `pledge` and `unveil`. My favourite explanation for these system calls is from SerenityOS, which uses similar versions of the calls:

https://awesomekling.github.io/pledge-and-unveil-in-Serenity...
What kind of silly response is this? Of course a rational society would look at the impact of individual decisions extrapolated over the collective.

If nobody got the covid vaccine, would things be better or worse across our society than they are now? Simple question, simple answer, but something you are ignoring and thus you aren't rational.
Your browser aka user agent is telling the web site that you prefer the dark color scheme (via prefers-color-scheme) so the site _thinks_ it is listening to your preferences. This means that your problem lies with what your browser is communicating. In Chrome Dev Tools, there’s a way to force prefers-color-scheme: light, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some Chrome extensions to make managing that even easier. There are probably solutions for other browsers as well.
Yes it's insane. The javascript world in particular suffered greatly from people carving up a name and conferences for themselves by building frankly ridiculous tools that the vast majority of people don't even need to reach for. But FOMO takes over.

Then you have the extremely low barrier of entry, resulting in `is-odd` packages polluting the shit out of the ecosystem.

Then you have everyone and their mother becoming a "JS coder" and bombarding twitter with dev.to articles.

You end up in JS hell.

The solution is to eject and avoid javascript as much as you can. At this point it's already too late to reverse course, or worse the majority don't even want to reverse course.

I've know many people, including my younger brother who said "fuck this" and went full backend to avoid working with npm/node/js.