skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very Eurocentric attitude. An eye opener for me was when one of my Hindu coworkers in SV told me that he used to believe the USA was less corrupt than India, but after spending a few years here he realized we were just more sophisticated about it. That experience has made me rather a lot more sanguine about westerners calling non-western countries corrupt. The Afghanistan debacle is arguably the biggest rooking of a populace ever.
> When Sweden decided for no lock-downs, we knew very little about the virus. It was effectively a jump into the unknown.

And lockdowns were a jump into an economic unknown, which also had very unpredictable effects. There's no way you can say it was an error given the evidence available at the time. We'll see how it works out in the end.
You sound like you have expertise, so could you have a look at his patents? I couldn't make much of them other than they looked familiar in some aspects and impractical/impossible in others:

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=...

I assume that this is pretty common in trying to improve linear motors - I am trying to get my hands on a small one to drive an air pump and it's just inscrutable to me.
The vast majority of users (the U in UX) do not ever need to see a dotfile. In fact, you'd not want them anywhere near one.
> That conversion is done by a crankshaft and once a crankshaft is in the system ... you get diminished efficiency because you're only getting maximum shove force in the middle of the piston stroke.

I don't think that's right. Why would diminished force when the piston is turning around lead to a power loss?
Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
> investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States

I mean, you’re not seeking to obstruct anything other than a federal agent looking at your personal pictures, which they explicitly do not need to fulfill their duty.

Now if you were removing evidence of your crimes.

Anyway, I know it doesn’t work that way, but I think it should.
I contemplated something like that 20+ years ago, but also saw that there was at least one option with a small 4 cylinder engine that was reportedly quieter and able to run on straight unleaded IIRC.

Edit: a quick search shows those still available in 38, 49 and 79 cc models depending on the power needed. 100-150 mpg
Don’t try this at home, but if any part of your body with that 90% air at car speed, what do you think will crumple first?

That crumple zone does very little to protect people outside the car.
> when equipped with specific headlights and optional front crash prevention.

How many purchasers are actually paying extra for optional pedestrian safety add-ons?
Worth pointing out that the energy may matter more on a per mass basis than strictly per volume in some applications. By looking at MJ/kg, Hydrogen even beats out gasoline[1] although that's not the case for per unit volume[2]

Special storage requirements are certainly something to considering especially with high pressures typically involved for gas storage or cryogenic temperatures for liquid. Although it's not as though other fuels have no special storage requirements - it's just that we're used to their complexities

[1] 120 MJ/kg for hydrogen versus 44 MJ/kg for gasoline https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage

[2] 8 MJ/L for hydrogen vs 32 MJ/L for gasoline
You were specifically complaining about my use of the words 'literally' and 'tantamount', which is why I focused on that language.

Why would you ask about those two specific words, if the thrust of your questions was essentially the thrust of my argument?

There is nothing in Orwell, or anything he wrote, that would suggest he has anything to say about people distancing themselves from those who use racist childish ad-hominem attacks in polite company and getting culled for it. (The author's own word for it was 'bigotry').

Just it's the opposite: an Orwell quote in this context makes no sense.

The onus is on the OP to justify their use of the quote.

You can say 'House Negro' is not very offensive, but obviously a lot of people are going to be offended by that, it's unequivocally offensive to call a Black person that in most circles, ergo, if an organization is going to err on the side of civility, they'll just move on from that person. That's reasonable.

Let's do a thought experiment: go and call your local campus Black Republican a 'House Negro' and consider the reaction. Do you think your arguments here are sufficient? Do you think you really think it's appropriate for you to do that under the banner of some Principled issue of Free Speech?

This has nothing to do with Orwell's concerns about newspeak, thought police, language, controlling minds by controlling words.

If the University had forbidden a professor from ever using that term, i.e. reading aloud in class, banning all books with that term etc. - that would be Orwell.

The person who used the term could have used any other kind of language (even if 'idiot' is a poor substitute) - to make her point, she was resorting to crude racism for no reason.

There's nothing principled to stand for here.
Isn't the video inaccurate about the force of current pumps near maximum compression?

The power put into the system by the motor is constant throughout the entire revolution. It follows that, since the piston moves slower near maximum compression, force increases (since power = force * speed). This is also intuitively the case: You need much more force to push back the piston (against a constant motor torque) near its apex because the moment arm of the crank shaft gets smaller and smaller.

Yes, at the maximum compression point the force is not well-defined. In a sense it is infinite (you could not actually turn the rotor by pushing on the piston). But certainly not zero.

I'm struggling to understand what the creator might have meant instead. It's not work or power (which, again, is constant). The rotary motion works, if anything, in favor of the system, as the force gets larger with compression (past the midway point). Is there some quantity I'm missing? Maybe something to do with gas laws?

I'm also skeptical about the illustration with the additional magnets to contain the magnetic field lines. As drawn, that would not work for AC as the magnetic field would be the wrong way around half the time. Maybe they just use extra iron to shape the field - but that is extremely far from being innovative and more like electrical engineering 101.

It could well be that I'm missing something, but overall this video had multiple strange explanations that lower my confidence in the overall accuracy of the reporting...
Anyway to change the storage backend from iCloud to something self-hosted that has all the Apple Notes features? In my experience syncing works fine with IMAP as backend storage, regretfully without most of the rich-text features.
We saw this in my philosophy class 15 years ago as a classic opportunist's dilemma.

What you are describing is basically what happened though.
> This article begins with the clearly implied belief that "Science" is not political, and degenerates from this false assumption into a paroxysm of wounded cries over the renaming of buildings and other, may I say, even less weighty matters – comparing them to the gulag and mass murder.

Science is not partisan. Saying "Something is political" is not precise enough for different listeners to really understand what you want to convey when you say it. If you meant "political" in any other way then please explain what you meant. Saying "Everything is political" is a perfect example of sophism in my book.
Fair, but it's not vastly superior for the majority of computer users, whose experience revolves entirely around the mouse. That's what I was getting at with macOS being better - generally, obviously not for every person.
> The underlying fundamentals of finger prints are solid.

What exactly are these underlying 'fundamentals'? Nobody even knows if everybody has unique fingerprints, it's just an assumption.

Beyond that, it's not all that relevant since as you mentioned how the matching is done is largely subjective, and it depends a lot on the number of "points" used and who does the matching, and that should really bring the accuracy even more into question. What exactly is the statistical probability of an incorrect match based on the number of points used? Good luck answering that question.

IMO the situation is made a lot worse by the fact that the public generally assumes fingerprinting to be extremely accurate (or 100% accurate).
I enjoy a lot of YouTube content, I just reacted to the 'revolutionary' assertion attached to it. I'm not going to watch your links right now at least, but I assume they are not announcing breakthroughs, that they are great content sure, but following earlier press releases, publications, whatever's applicable?

I believe HN is quite efficient, in that I expect to see AC 33% efficiency boost in paper/startup/PR/etc. form. Then maybe the 'how it works' or explainer videos later, sure, but you can't claim 'revolutionary' at that point.

Someone else pointed out it is new, it's just that for some reason the submittor chose the video instead of the company site announcing it which includes the video.
There are some cool, non-invasive thistles but Canada thistle is definitely not one of them.
The statistics you cited show more "urban" than "rural", yes, but nowhere do they explain the distinction. Both words are poor descriptors of areas with unlimited access, 45mph roads linking gas stations and big box stores. In all likelihood, they just slap one word or other on to each death based on the municipality it was in, which is worthless for most places in the US.
The first video was founder Jawed Karim visiting the zoo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

It gets pulled out as a factoid periodically.
I think I'll stand by 'not revolutionary' then?
The most astounding thing is that the people who are so confident that their current understanding of morals is absolutely correct and there is no possible reason to debate it or challenge it were, not very long ago at all, just as confident and vehement about things that they now consider morally abominable. This is very obvious in rapidly-changing areas like trans rights, where you can see people insist that only evil bigots would be uncomfortable with trans activists beating up elderly lesbians just for holding views that, only a handful of years earlier, the same people insisted it was bigoted to even criticise in any way.
Better hope nobody uses 5555 as their pin then!
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> Is the US somehow immune from this same threat?

Of course not.

But if you want to convince US lawmakers that US cops and spies shouldn't be given this power, convincing them that Russian/Iranian/Chinese cops and spies have evildoers among them is simpler than convincing them that American cops and spies have evildoers among them.

I mean, US lawmakers have literally allowed a secret court passing secret laws for spies, so they're obviously a lot more trusting of cops and spies than your average history book reader.
There is very little proof that lockdowns worked. We had no clue if they worked going in and we still can’t prove they worked, let alone well enough to justify their immense societal costs.
This entire comment proves my point. To you - a developer / tech pro, you feel Linux has a better UX.

My point was generalised, and I think generally the average computer user is going to have a better UX on macOS than linux. If they can figure out how to even set up Linux of course.
Road deaths in the US are highest in Wyoming:

https://twitter.com/Maps_US_EU/status/1429034525242318848
The pipeline is welded the full length, so a linear leak rate doesn't really make sense.

Where it could leak would be at valve station flanges, which by code are required every X km depending on the land risks.

You can test to see whether the flanges are leaking, and you can tighten accordingly in most cases. Effectively this leaking can be avoided in a transmission/industrial sense with the right amount of applied effort.
FT The Uber Game – can you make it in the gig economy?
China undertakes long term projects with big payoffs. Twenty years isn't necessarily the huge obstacle it seems in the grand scheme of things.
Phenomenal work by Alyssa, she and her contemporaries are making excellent progress on this project!
They changed up the title. I just copy/paste from their site provided it fits. Perhaps dang could update it.
If you are serious about diy ebike be sure to check out these two links:
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=21

http://ebikes.ca
This was my experience as well -- having the less worst med. Withdrawal was hard, but doable. I've been clean for a year and a half. My symptoms are still wild but it was a choice I made, I was medicated for about 5 years with different meds, trying out different stuff and it got to the point where I didn't really know what was working and what wasn't. Now that I've been off meds for this long I feel like I can re-evaluate them again. I guess I'm trying to say, it's hard but doable.
That's a fair take from my words but it wasn't the intent. Really I just meant stick with consistent hashing, queues and the like. I guess really the "leverage existing tools and patterns" would have covered it sufficiently. I'm by no means a micro service fan. It reminds me of people abusing containers the way people abused the nosql movement. It has its place. I think we agree at the end of the day, and it's difficult to put into words.
Drug overdoses were up like 20%.
There's also plenty of examples of political ideas being dressed up as morally neutral science, the classic example being eugenics.
Can it run anything with thumbnails in the filepicker?

I kid. Now what I really wanted to ask.. Is it using Wayland?
mainly cost. trees are cheap (~$100-300) compared to tarps or other fixed shade options, though i'm down for any and all shade. for comparison, bus shelters are estimated to cost $5K-30K each ( https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/04/12/little-things-... ).
I did find the link, but was blocked by a login popup. It must be an A/B test.
Moldable Emacs: Vega-Lite, Nyxt and Emacs Towards Sustainable Development
> The bits of a float as an integer literal are proportional to its log2 value (plus a constant), …

I watched a video[0] a while back about that. Once that coincidence(?) was explained, Q_rsqrt finally made sense.

[0]: https://youtu.be/p8u_k2LIZyo (~20 minutes)
My claim was simply that the White House directed information/accounts to be removed. Your response was "The government wasn't telling Facebook to remove stuff." which - according to the video I cited - is clearly untrue.

I'd love to understand your point but I'm not going to engage further with someone pedaling misinformation.
I’ve heard Dr. John McDougall say this too — he recommends less sleep than most doctors for this reason.

[1] https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2002nl/mar/sleep.htm
Even if they “did it right” and “took it serious” there is little evidence that the outcome would have been any different.
Our minds are closely integrated with our bodies.
Medically, I’m entirely willing to believe there’s an X-phobia for any X. I just doubt this particular one would cut off more people than avoiding unreasonably long phrasing would include (let alone the weird French lingo the English-speaking world seems to insist on), and making a text accessible as is to literally everyone is plainly impossible. For regulations you’ll have to arrange special accommodations for some groups in any case—it’s only a question of which ones; for contracts it’s just another thing to negotiate.

Culturally, yes, and I can’t help but be awed at how stupid and self-inflicted it is. (See “Mathematician’s lament”, et al.) Introducing algebra into legal practice now would probably be a spectacularly bad idea even if it were possible. That’s why I mentioned “more widespread application and understanding of formal language”. Passing this hurdle is a massive ordeal—if I meaningfully contributed to it and knew that, I could probably die a happy man—but, I mean, we were talking disembodied brains in VR here.

By the way, can anyone explain what it is people actually like about A Brief History of Time? I went on to study some of this stuff, but the book appears both unnecessarily convoluted and surprisingly stingy with actual information compared to my preferred pop sci fare. I like me some enigmatic promises of explanations, but Hawking’s were left mostly unfulfilled, or so it seemed to me.
Another big issue is stealability - as a cycle commuter I considered an electric conversion right up until I remembered my office is in one of Oxford's black spots for bike thefts (the whole area is bad to be honest, but I'm in one of the worst places for it). The key to preventing your bike from being stolen by some fifth generation product of inbreeding isn't to have the best lock, it's to make it less worthwhile to steal than the bikes around it. The crappier your bike looks the less likely it's going to be stolen, an obvious electric bike parked with any regularity is going to vanish pretty quickly to a thief with a bolt cutter no matter how good your lock is.
Do note that Magtor is currently only claiming to be able to compress air, not air conditioning fluids / refrigerants. They add that "[a]lthough air compression is a first milestone for Magtor, the medium-term goal is to bring Magtor efficiencies to climate control engineering allowing products such as fridges, heat pumps and air conditioning units to become 30+% more efficient" [1].

It's hard to verify more on the design. They offer a lot of explanation and tests, but no independent review is given. Main question on YouTube about scrolling compressors (used in newer fridges) is anwered a bit vaguely [2].

The patent portfolio page is very grandiose [3] but doesn't care to link anything. A quick search doesn't turn up much to do with air or fluid compression, only "Magnet device comprising stators and translators" [4] and similar, which don't mention compression at all.

[1] https://www.magtor.tech/who-we-are/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFiL5BM3ss&lc=UgxHEJkjlZ9fZ...

[3] https://www.magtor.tech/intellectual-property/

[4] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10943721B2
> but the complaint should be about the lack of epochs

Rather than something as coarse as epochs, C++ includes a lot of fine grained feature test preprocessor definitions such as (to pick one at random) '__cpp_lib_constexpr_algorithms'.

It's harder to make this work with breaking API changes of course. I assume non-preprocessor versions that work with modules will be available in C++23...and perhaps they will support API changes?
Interesting, I'd never encountered such bugs, but it makes sense
You’re right. It’s not so much the cars are larger that lowers visibility. It’s the design with the massive fronts and massive grilles that are higher than the average male’s height.

Some of these cars are really insane and it really worries me for the kids in these people’s houses.
the OP said almost been hit - I've almost been hit by vehicles while walking more times than that, usually because of a vehicle driver breaking the law. that happens a lot.

as far as almost being hit while driving, drive a small car and you'll find out how many large vehicle drivers just don't see you.
> It’s sloppy because it’s just a regurgitation of a talking point that has no logical basis.

It definitely is not a talking point. This is a stance I have arrived at after studying linguistics, philosohy of language and psychology then doing lots of traveling and spending over a decade thinking about it, all as someone who is inclined towards engaging in language pedantry. If there are errors in reasoning, those errors are mine since it is a stance I arrived at without hearing it from other people.

> How exactly would that happen?

How it always happens? How much time have you spend in multi-lingual contexts? How do you think creols and slang develope? Language naturally evolves to fit the needs of people who use it.

> I propose everyone who desires to participate in the English-speaking world voluntarily unite and find consensus under standard English.

Who decides what is standard? Can the standard change? Is it fair to set that standard as something that one group learns at home and another group has to study and practice to use?

> Stop taking something personally that isn’t personal

It's hard to get more personal than the language you think in and use to talk to the people closest to you.

> we may all better communicate and information can more freely disseminate across more populations.

You say "we", but the "we" for whom it is easier is limited to the people that already speak the annoited "correct" dialect.

> Imagine if people started making the argument that correcting incorrect Python was racist/classist and people should just start forking Python if they do not like standard Python.

Programming "languages" aren't actually languages in any sense that makes your argument here have any value. Programming "languages" are actually complicated mathematical notations. Funnily enough, your example, python, actually has two versions in use. If everyone refused to use python 3 because it was "bad python" then the communtiy would have been worse off.

The fundemental problem with your position is that it is inherently hypocritical, arbitrary and self-serving. You distinguish between the age of "as a lark" and "on a lark" based on an arbirary point in time. There are plenty of idioms / meanings that are younger than "as a lark" but that you hypocritically would accept as just fine. For example, you use the term "forking" in a manner that is both semantically and grammatically very new. If a word or usage arises as part of your dialect, it automatically becomes part of the "standard", but if it arises in the dialect of an outgroup then it qualifies as "incorrect english".

I am not opposed to developing language standards, but those standards need to be both responsive to shifts in the language and inclusive for a wide range of dialects. Ideally you can also teach this standard without impicitly judging people as stupid and uneducated when they use their native dialect. You also need to be careful about using adherence to this standard as a gatekeeper to prevent people from having equal opportunities.
Is it? He's describing "almost being hit." That's pretty squishy. I think most people who do a lot of walking or biking could come up with 10 "close calls" for some definition of that term.
There has been politically motivated academic censorship forever. See what happened to communist academics throughout the 20th century.
> The idea of e-bikes is to assist the user, on accelerating from a stoplight, on a hill, after a break, in a particularly strong gust of wind.

To me, the idea of vehicles is to get me from point A to B faster and with less effort than it'd take on foot. If muscle power isn't enough, then adding some battery juice seems like a great idea to go further and faster while maintaining the agility, simple construction, and cheap operating costs of a bicycle. Electric assist for hill climbing and acceleration is a thing for some reason, but it's totally fine to want and expect more than that from a machine.
Yeah I think you don't need to do this to an expensive bike. Mechanical disc brakes and just a front shock are probably fine if you want to go 50km/hr. A heavier sturdier frame and burlier tires are ok because it is powered.

I wouldn't recommend converting a road bike as they are more fragile.
It's plausible. Pro riders put out 400-500W to do ~30 mph, but are likely in a more aerodynamic position than most ebike riders (or drafting).