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The problems with electric motorcycles are well-summarised here: "Why electric motorcycles are failing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zlYpy6QCM . It's just kind of a bad product/market fit. I am not willing to pay 6 grand for a bike with a 37 mile highway range, sorry. My equivalently-priced ICE bike gets two times that _per gallon_.

The key, i think, is to realize that what good electric motors give us is a moped that doesn't suck. It's a different market entirely, it's The Right Answer, and they are predictably selling like hotcakes. 3 grand, no license or insurance paperwork, you can use 'em on bike paths, and 50 mph range and if your battery shits out, well, you have a _bicycle_, you'll get home -- that's a city commuter worth considering!
Comic book villains aren't known for having complex motivations.
From my experience taking Amtrak cross country a few times, the places benefiting the most are the rural areas that Amtrak runs through. A large contingent of people on the train were traveling to/from places that had train stations, and no airports. There were very few people doing city-city trips. That isn't taking into account the Northeast corridor though.
My wife's an AP biology teacher so we've talked about this a fair amount over the years since she's found the history is often a good hook for students.

If you want another interesting bit of history, the Balmis expedition in 1803 is fascinating, too. Smallpox was a huge problem in the New World so Jenner's discovery that cowpox protected against smallpox was of enormous interest but they didn't have an easy way to transport since the trip took longer than the 10-12 days someone would be contagious.

They ended up taking a 22 orphans and infecting them with cowpox two at a time using a sample of the pus from the previous pair, which worked well enough to reach Mexico via the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico, and then from Mexico they repeated the process with 25 new orphans all the way to the Philippines.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/41/9/1285/278013
We've seen the same phenomenon in multiple directions. Crows were usually near habitations, and we've seen a lot more deeper in the forest, and smaller birds that were hiding in the forest have been more adventurous and come to our balcony.

I don't know how good/bad of a thing it is, but surely there seems to be something going on.

For what it's worth, people also seem to have rediscovered the forest, and I hope will get more emotionally involved in its maintenance and preservation.
They should move into the banned book publishing business instead.
It is non-standard and hasn't really caught on outside of your bubble. Most English speakers are much further from the direct influence of gender activists.
So calling out a non-substantial change designed to satisfy the bottom-feeders of the industry is “attacking”? Nice try guy.
But wouldn't you agree that the initial architecture is really important; It should be at least designed with scaling in mind? Since it can get difficult changing things afterwards.
That might be a personal preference but I don't mind movies that take more investment to really get. Some things you'll understand by watching it a few more times, some things you'll get by reading the book, some things you'll get by learning about the movie itself. Some things also take time to digest.
Foundation is verging on CW-level sci-fi writing
Would it be just one rogue order filled? Not sure how after-hours tracking works, but I assume that it won't have a very deep order book, so it would be relatively easy to manipulate it. Given that BRK.A has the highest share price among any stocks, that order book would be even smaller.
That's a deliberately misleading partial quote; leaving off the explanation:

", given that Covid cases that require hospitalization are generally more severe than myocarditis cases. The FDA also said that its estimate of myocarditis risk was “conservative,” meaning that the risk for children in the 5 to 11 age group might be lower."
No, Apple’s iCloud storage isn’t E2EE. In fact a lot/most of their encryption appears sketchy, as they hold keys.
>wouldn't it probably mean expanding the bureaucracy a lot too?

Not really. Like with most laws we rely on peoples willingness to follow them.

>But then, since most of them aren't agents of the foreign government

Those that take actions on behalf of a foreign government and have a connection to that government are by definition foreign agents.

>expense to decrease tax revenue.

What good is tax revenue without a stable government to spend it?

>Do you want people with dual US/Israeli citizenship to register under a revised FARA, or do you want them to choose between the two?

That's up to them. All I'm asking for is disclosure. Merely a disclaimer.

>problem if you want to target

I don't want to target anyone. I just want it disclosed if their actions are on behalf of a foreign power.

>Ostensibly, I think for security clearances, they already take dual citizenship into account.

If it is worth disclosing in that case I don't see the harm in having some more honesty generally.
"Everyone else" meaning who exactly?

Who is Amazon harming in the books industry other than small retailers?
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Sure, but that doesn't mean the majority of the network will switch to using that new fork.
I thought it was a legit question. So I don't understand the downvotes either.

iTerm2 seems to be what I'm looking for :-) I can do X easy enough on macOS, it's all the other stuff I was looking for.
Best way to handle situations like this is to not reply. You're not going to appease the far-left social activists and the right wing culture warriors in any situation. You can't lose if you don't play. Just update docs silently to be consistent with Amazon and stay mission-focused.
Well duh obviously it exists, arent you reading it? Therefore it falls in the realm of existence

lol jk, im just fucking around with the semantics of words here. However I have to admit, this thought about existence or truthfulness of concepts or statements being spitted out by unsentient machines that mix and match infinite "real" patterns, has me quite worried...

Sometimes I find myself reading at a whole discussion thread, and I get the uncomfortable sensation that everything I've been reading is a bunch of bots training each other's models...

Not quite when the concepts are complex enough, all right, it is easy to spot pointless mouthfuls deviations of a main subject being discussed, but what about, for example, the user reviews on an amazon product? Or a youtube's vid comment section? Or whatever shit you consume from the internet.

I'm by no means any expert in the subject, and current state of the art of the Turing test, but I've seen just enough GPT-3 whichcraft to start being totally skeptical about anything I see online.

sorry for the huge rant, but i took a great effort to make it sound like its coming from a real person XD

also, to @turtlesoup: Thank you, that was wonderful. I hope you enjoy this cup of coffee too :-)
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“It’s not perfect yet, so let’s not do it” is not much of an argument, especially from cryptography wonks with no experience in public policy or law enforcement.
I remember reading about of projects, that were trying to extract ontology data from wikipedia. Does anyone know, if these efforts were successful?
I think what it does with real words is almost more interesting. The definition it picked for the word "real" was accurate, but kind of odd. If I recall correctly, "real" was defined as, "committed", or "dedicated", as in "real fans only like the vinyl edition of that record." Which is like, true for sure, but not in the top 10 things I'd think of first.
Like you are going to have a choice. There is going to be a day you can't register a combustion engine vehicle, but frankly given motorcycle manufacturers are doing everything in their power to make their bikes as loud and obnoxious as possible, it's going to be much much sooner.
IIRC it was the book The Meritocracy Trap that detailed the change from past generations, but I don’t know the numbers or underlying sources off the top of my head
Why would they? What is their motivation to do so?
That’s exactly what this and all the efforts to control Facebook are - a power grab.

Slap some “feel good” language around protecting democracy (ha!) and they can nicely make sure it’s their message that’s approved (of course! They are protecting democracy) and not their opponents (they are harming democracy!).
> The effect will be to force the same sticker price everywhere, as intended for years now.

So in the end the seller with the best service will win.
Carabineri.
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Can anyone else who is using Firefox read their main page? All I get is a white screen even after refreshing.
Shit(or really effective depending on perspective) search engines.
(2020)

Plenty of previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962
If I want to distribute an application that relies on other charts, I should not have to include them in mine.

It's like saying "you can build your own apt repository and embed your dependencies in your .deb package".

This is not a viable/scalable solution. This is exactly the tar.gz on Slackware.

The key point here is that I don't want to deploy an application, I want to distribute it to others so they can deploy it. And the more requirements you have, the more complex your installation procedure become. Which is error-prone and can be a barrier for adoption.

If I want to distribute a .deb, I can specify dependencies from the distribution's repository. I don't need to take care of that myself, and I do not need to tell my users how to get the dependency, it will be the package manager's role (apt, dnf, ...).
Some sort of way to say “hello”.
As of a few days ago (Apache Spark 3.2 release), you can use the pandas API on a Spark cluster: https://databricks.com/blog/2021/10/04/pandas-api-on-upcomin...
"stay on topic" first it's "I missed America being destroyed" now it's "biden gets a cut?"

Hard to stay on topic with you moving the goal posts...

Can we get an itinerary so I know where the goal posts are going to be? That way we can try to synchronize what "on topic is" since it apparently changes from one post to the next with you...
well, if math is "racist" what can you expect

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-mathematic...
Is it any different than Bosnia and Herzegovina? Or Sao Tome and Principe?
"Taxes are paid independant of usage"

False.

That's only one example of a tax. How about gas taxes to pay for the roads they use?
I was taught the semicolon is when you have a list within a list.
I wonder how much it costed for the patent troll?
Or with more stores, longer hours, free shipping....
I don't have Apple Wallet. How did Apple get my cards an info?
All these fall into "having the best service" IMO.
the only reason i wouldnt buy an electric motorcycle for that price is because a car driver will eventually run me over
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Today it is easy to create zone files from free, publicly available internet scan data, e.g., scans.io and censys.io. This is arguably a better solution than zone files. Not every domain name in a zone file necesarily corresponds to a website. Whereas scans allow to focus only on websites.

Requesting zone files from the registry was the traditional method. ICANN tries to require registries to provide them to the public, with limited success. Downloading com.zone/net.zone from Verisign should be relatively straightforward (not sure if edu.zone is available anymore). However with gTLDs there are hundreds of registries now, with potentially hundreds of different rules on zone file access; some registries like ccTLDs never had zone file access programs. Even registries that seem like they would be easy to deal with can have silly restrictions, e.g., the .org registry used to have a requirement that the requester needed to have stable IP address.
Eventually batteries will hopefully come down further in price to make these things more competitive with traditional bikes. Personally I love the idea of an electric bike for the commute, and I think that one of these would be amazing to take out into the bush for camping (or in particular, hunting - going through a track completely silently would be great). The range is the big issue in that regard of course.

As with all of this tech, it's just early days I suppose. If you wound the clock back 150 years a fuel burning bike would likely have comparable problems
> Do keep in mind that these raw counts are meaningless, and arguably scare-mongering. Some number of people will have a heart attack regardless of whether they had the vaccine... If all these numbers were zero, we should all get the vaccine simply to live in perfect health forever!

The question is really fundamentally simple for a massive vaccination campaign

Expected injury rates as a % of the population

Actual / Reported injury rates as a % of the population

Even while accounting for the low likelihood of even receiving reports of things.

We already know that some of the injury reports coming in have been independently verified by other nation's health departments. After all, there is a reason for some of the vaccine pauses among the young and healthy in the nordic countries.
I find it somewhat incredulous that anyone could argue that the existence of Israel doesn't involve religion. American politics or foreign policy?

I don't see the threat, do enlighten me.

>If you don't want to know the truth about your obstacles, you don't believe in your own goal.

I am aware of my limitations, I do not have dictatorial powers. What I have said here is merely what I see as the correct solution to US foreign policy. I have no grand designs nor plans to somehow convince the rest of the country of my correctness. I do not pretend to speak for anyone but myself.

I do believe however that one can have convictions absent direct implementable practicality.
Programs? Aren't we talking about variable and function names?

But for the general case, Lisp does use puncuation and symbols. It just tends to use less. The other side of the balance is operators like ~+#>. Most languages are in the middle ground. All of these options are fine and have their uses. I wouldn't like to see stuff like ~+#> every day, but I like being able to implement <.
To prevent a tragedy of the commons type situation. I may think that local businesses are better than online monopolies. However, my purchasing decisions, whether I change to local or buy online, will have a negligible effect on the market. Might as well save myself some money if I won't be saving local businesses.

If everyone thinks like this then the tragedy of the commons occurs. Everyone prefers local businesses to exist over the online monopoly, but nobody changes their purchasing behavior from what is cheap and convenient. By voting restrictions on online monopolies people avert the tragedy of the commons by coordinating (and compelling) what they want.
While that's the law, the big factor here is actual regulatory and agency pressure to scan for CSAM for the images they harbor, given they were previously only doing so when CSAM was manually reported to them by users (as in, probably, given they only submitted 265 reports to NCMEC in 2020[0]). Think "we regulate a second iOS app-store or you fix your CSAM problem".

0: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On....
From the context, I think they were talking about discovery, not whether the books are available for purchase on Amazon.

Personally I don't think I've ever become aware of an interesting book via Amazon, but I've also never used it for discovery. Certainly you have to troll through a lot of nonsense results even when you have a good idea of what you're looking for.
It’s their cloud service. If you want to upload to iCloud, you must agree to use their client, and their client implements CSS. If you don’t want to use their client, don’t use their service.
Yeah, I feel like they’re being weird because you haven’t heard of such a common tool, but I figure you’re just one of the lucky ten thousand [0] today!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy it! I only recently realized it even can fire off notifications when onscreen text matches a regexp pattern [1], which has been fantastically helpful for some scripts I use for work that take forever to run and I don’t want to babysit but want to know if they error out.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/

[1]: https://iterm2.com/triggers.html
As I said here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28948168, this is just an attempt at "it's secure because someone in authority says you can't look it at". That's not security, and looking at the information sent to the browser cannot, in any circumstance, be considered "unauthorized".
Your impression of ad blockers and the market for them is a bubble/wildly off. Likely drop in bucket compared to rest of real world out there! c'mon.

(aside: what ads? why are you surfing so many sites with ads where they're a nuissance? I don't even notice them on the few sites I come across them/what I do see is manageable, no plugins or extensions needed ever)

Search is the key - so many listings intermixed with search results, and search is a major part of everyone's life. And whether people are clicking them or noticing them is another thing but alot of ad sales are on the page impressions alone, so that's not nothing based on billions of daily searches.
Yeah, I think a relative difference would be more helpful than the absolute number. There are lots of admin people so lots of jobs are likely to end up marrying one.
Why would you assume that the person responsible for a thing doesn't know what they're doing?
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Any data to back that up?

Anecdotally, Philadelphia is the poorest county in our state, while Chester county is the richest. Seems like suburban areas bring in the most money and can afford excellent infrastructure, while infrastructure in the city is in constant disrepair.
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> you are unequivocally antivaxx

My vaccine record says otherwise.
> "... by individuals and small communities" almost invariably means "by experienced developers who want a playground."

I acknowledge this.

> "Why should an ordinary user care about this?" isn't asked nearly as often as it should be. And "Don't you understand the tech is fun to play with?" is not the right answer.

I have spoken to friends and family and they are perfectly happy with their mainstream computing choices.

I acknowledge that my preference for back-to-basics is partly due to fun. I'm not trying to change minds. I enjoy this small paradise for hackers.
I'm fairly new to lisp programming, but there's a language called Coalton that provides static type checking to Common Lisp. I believe both languages are one and the same, but Coalton provides some type guarantees while still being able to have all of the interactiveness CL devs are used to.

https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton
I only skimmed the article, but... is Cockroach serverless multi region?
> which is free to any citizen who qualifies to enter.

Ah yes, "qualifies".

How many citizens "qualify"?

The number of people who qualify is decided by two people - the person allocating money and the person running the education system.

The person allocating the money says "I'll give you {amount}". The person running the education system says "{amount} will let us educate {number}".
From my recollection, the primary issue is, or at least was, consoles. Sony and Microsoft required the games to allow players to have ridiculously high pings (several hundred ms).

If you play a first-person shooter with 300-400 ms ping and the game uses server side hit detection, you're not going to have much fun.

By moving to client-side detection, players hit what they "should hit" from their perspective.

At least that's how I recall it from when COD and BF moved to client-side hit detection.
> Seventeen different programs at New York University have negative ROI, with the worst among them (music) leaving students over $500,000 in the hole.

Great article. This is nuts.
Kirii? I don't mean to be pedantic, but do you mean kuru-kuru? Or is there another prion disease out there I'll be having nightmares about?
And you decide to install the update. If iOS 15 is the only option, such as on the 13, you knowingly decided to purchase a device with this sort of scanning happening. Once more, you also decided to sign in to iCloud and enable storing photos in iCloud Photos, thus enabling the bit that controls whether or not photos are scanned.
but again, you are missing my point focused on making your point. I understand that this site is suddenly missing some traffic due to whatever reason nefarious or not. That's a given. Only the people using the search phrase "wikivoyage malta" would realize this. The people that search for "travel to Malta" would just get whatever results that are available for whatever reasons those are what is available. Sure, these peple might miss out on some valuable information, or they might not and nobody cares except tech nerds. The world did not stop spining on its axis because of this.
Right above in the same paragraph in that article:

> After seeing the BMW, Boris decided to start some websites of his own. He already knew there was money to be made off the internet; for a while, when he was 17, he’d been one of the many peons around the world laboring online for MicroWorkers.com, earning something like a tenth of a cent for liking a YouTube video or leaving a comment.

I mean, this is the whole explanation for youtube as a platform, isn't it? You can't see who upvotes, so everyone can simply buy said upvotes. It also explains why google will play an endless string of youtube videos on my sleeping laptop despite me being asleep as well, and why Netflix auto-plays movies you scroll past.

The whole of the major internet sites (except Amazon, simply because it's a store) seems to be mainly concerned with rigging menial stats.
I liked the time spent on the visuals and music. It was dialogue that was missing. Long scenes that would not have been any cheaper or more expensive if characters had just spoken. Shadout, for instance, never got to be a real character. One scene of dialog, I think. Others suffered similarly.
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I'm interested in working at a local startup on a hybrid basis (in-office a couple of days a week). Anyone know a simple way to filter a job search to find these companies? Thanks.
Glad to see this on HN. At least not everyone here is anti education, unlike some… I won’t name names.
Programs are composed of those things.
How does this serverless offering compare to Fauna?
> It's more typically done by a mechanical isolation switch

Do you mean (automatic|manual) transfer switch? A transfer switch transfers the load to the generator and isolates the generator from the line side(utility side, or ‘mains’ for the two tiny islands that like silly words like ‘mains’)

A ‘mechanical isolation switch’ (safety switch, disconnect switch) is simply a disconnecting means.
unfortunately, this presumes theres a realistic profit motive for any social media site thst doesnt dabble in dark pstterns.

remember the dotcom boom? its because adsdvertisement distorts markets. advertisement is the deadend of capitalism.

take a look at all these "cancer awareness" campaigns that contribute nothing to actual cancer research or currs or support.

and facebook knows this. theres no v2 cash cow. in a dystopian nightmare, they capitalize on AR by immersing reality in a personal distortion field. imsgine taking all those camera filters and applying them to...everyone else.

its delusions all the way down. dark pstterns ad infinitum. thats the dead end of marketting.