skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Differentiating between pedal assist & throttled e-bike serves no great purpose.

There should be no distinction, legally, between a normal bicycle and an electric bike of any kind (throttle or otherwise).

Personal Electric (micro) Mobility is the answer to many problems, let's not add any roadblocks to adoption. Other than keeping powers-that-be comfortable and sparing the feelings of cycling puritans, the distinction is useless, bordering on harmful to the environment.
I'm surprised that booster shots had eligibility requirements to begin with, it didn't seem like there was a boatload of general interest in getting one.

For people outside of Cali, the requirements are pretty broad and the forms themselves state that no one will ask which of the requirements apply to you. One entire class of requirements is for working in "high-risk" settings. The medical risks requirements list is a mile long, and includes a BMI of >25 kg/m^2, which includes upwards of 75% of Americans.

Now is prime time to be giving out boosters. With the holidays coming up, waning immunity from people who got their vaccines early, and another wave on the horizon, it makes complete sense to let as many people get boosters now, that way, they have maximum defence coming into the holidays.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we ban such accounts because we're trying for a different sort of discussion here.

I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
$80 a day could have prevented $600M Flint Water Crisis
> We also have to delineate between a daydreaming cyclist who's top speed is slow, and a hard-core cyclist with a $3000+ bike that can hit 40 mph in the right conditions.

Are there not speed limits for bike lanes? Most cars have a top speed well above the freeway speed limit too.
I couldnt find that process in W11... however - I did a hard reboot and it came back to normal, but first I went in and turned off a lot of autostart cruft - but after doing that I rebooted and it still didnt fix it until the hard reset.
There's nothing that specifically limits travel by those in O-1 status. The challenge is getting a visa application appointment.
Are you complaining about working from home? If I never go back to the office I'm fine with it.

Maybe it would help to work from a cafe, or even outside on a picnic table. You can tether to your phone.

Of all the things I miss from pre-pandemic life, commuting in to the office is NOT one of them.
Wait, so in year 1 and 2 I'm getting large cash bonuses? That's still inferior to getting cash upfront.

Say after 10 months you have a medical issue, that means you quit to focus on healing and lose your bonus.
Hi Peter Roberts, I am henry from Nigeria with a wide fascination for building real world stuffs but do not how, for now I am about to learn Lisp since Paul graham recommend it for building things fast. Do you think my path is the right path
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I hope every last person here who thinks the vaccines are amazing gets themselves and their kids shots / boosters!
LENR scientists are using palladium and nickel to compress hydrogen up to 100k atmospheres (90 hydrogen atoms per 1 atom of palladium) at room temperature and pressure.
Back in the day the $400/hr lawyer was making copies.
Today, he's trying to fix autonumbering and styles issues with Word.
Both are horribly wasteful.
Does your spouse have a booster?
Also grep.app for searching into repos really fast.
The difference is that 1 big functions naturally encodes the ordering and dependencies between things that happen inside - because it's linear and has nested braces.

10 or 20 small functions with no nesting inside still has all the complexity, but none of the structure to help programmer understand it.

Functions can be called in any order, any number of times, and you have to trace the full call-stack in your mind and keep it there to get the same understanding of what happens that you had just by looking at the linear code.
What did you end up calling the squirrel
> I cannot agree with calling complex numbers just two dimensional.

I once read, imaginary number is isomorphic to 2d vectors.
With a single settings file how do you handle things that should only ever be configured in a specific environment?

Django debug toolbar for example for a development environment? It needs to be listed as an installed app.

Or something specific to tests when the CI/CD pipeline is running the test suite.
Oof, $1500 per kWh.

I keep hearing about lithium ion batteries getting so cheap per kWh; when is that going to make it into reasonable-quality products?
> While PCs appeared in the 80ies, it was not until the very late 80ies and early 90ies until they had some significant home usage

That might have been true in Germany. It wasn't true in the United States. IBM PC (and moreso, PC clone) adoption was quite strong in the home from the mid eighties. That's all I meant by the question about nationality - I really do think there's a difference there when it comes to market share. (I probably shouldn't beat the subject to death but it was an interesting discussion)
You're in the realm of replacing original parts with the new battery mod. Why not replace the Bosch motor controller with any available motor controller that lets you configure your throttle inputs however you want?
I don't think you understand how enterprise managed windows machines work. They come full of very intrusive tooling and usually custom built windows images.

Dell on the other hand - on of the largest suppliers of enterprise PCs - offers no warranties for any custom image Windows machines even if they use Dell official driver bundles.

I once came into a Windows Enterprise shop with the same arrogance and thought I could easily fix their issues, but I was proven wrong. You're welcome to try it yourself.
Yikes, to equivocate the impact of taxes and regulations to that of comedy clubs, I can’t imagine being so naive.
But if you just bought+held, even with that those periods (which are the minority of time), you'd lose.

https://bit.ly/3n6dE6t (Citation to PV)
Really the only way to do that is via a self-sponsored green card which is going to be extremely difficult unless you have won major awards in your field.
You can get a booster shot pretty much anywhere in the US by self-declaring you're in a high risk category. Since that includes being overweight, a lot of people can get their boosters in full good conscience. Walgreens is one place where there's almost no wait.
I'm thinking this might be what they meant by "Kelly Girl": https://www.kellyservices.com.pr/pr/about-us/company-informa...
We can do almost a decade better :-)

Pages 26 through 28, "The Evolution of Smalltalk: From Smalltalk-72 through Squeak"

Proc. ACM Program. Lang., Vol. 4, No. HOPL, Article 85. Publication date: June 2020.

http://worrydream.com/refs/Ingalls%20-%20The%20Evolution%20o...
One of the easiest ways to make code clearer is to have well-named single-purpose functions that are used in many places.

One of the easiest ways to obfuscate code is to have control flow obscured by hiding it in functions scattered around the codebase.

Getting the former without the latter can actually be difficult, particularly with large teams.
The recommendation wasn't about vaccine supply. It was about the dubious benefit of boosters for the general population.
Isn't "Q" only a general top clearance and not really revealing how many people are privy to important secret information? I understood that Q indicates someone could be given access to certain information from a risk point of view, and only with some further project-specific reason would they actually have access to actual secrets.
But why does anyone actually care if you technically need to be pedaling in order for the electric motor to engage? Surely an electric bicycle could still go arbitrarily fast while arbitrarily requiring the pedals to turn. Isn't this whole thing just a silly loophole in what is considered a "bicycle"? What if instead, bicycle lanes just had rules regarding top speed, weight, form factor, etc.
Excellent. I think you'll find that knowledge invaluable in the years to come. :-)
Perceived scarcity often generates demand that would not be there otherwise.
Speaking of gatekeeping...

A lot of people, adults in particular, appear to have an aversion to riding bicycles due to their inability to place both feet on the ground while seated (and I'm speaking here about the standard bicycle geometry, not recumbents, etc.).

It's too bad too because you would love to get more people out of large steel cars and into efficient e-bikes/scooters.

I wish we could lighten up a bit with regard to requiring pedals/pedalling and try saving the planet a little.
After spending years in functional-land, I find the for loop (and while loop) construct maddening; you have to maintain the state of the entire enclosing scope system in your head, whereas enumerable constructs like map and reduce close (ideally read only) over variables in scope and if you need to keep state you have to use reduce, which explicitly tracks what changes between iterations and nothing "unexpected"... In a general sense, FP enumerations are more explicit than control loops which are implicit state machines.
You might try Mellel, which has baked-in right-left language support. (You'd probably have to buy it from France though). I haven't tested its collaboration feature, but if you want to switch from L-R to R-L, Mellel is your friend.

Merci.
They don't end up with a 53% rate. Just a tax dodger who's trying to avoid giving back after they've benefited from a system.
The biggest danger is cars that kill 2 million people every year around the world.

Everything else is so tiny as to not count.
Can you move the main taskbar off the main screen?
This is an interesting example that the internal models of two programming languages can be quite different, even if they ostensibly support the same features.

a=a['k']={} is also valid JavaScript, however running it throws an exception and generally works as OP probably expected the statement to work.

The reason is that in JS, the statement is parsed as

a = (a['k']={})

where (a['k']={}) is executed first and also returns the assigned value.

Meanwhile in Python, apparently multi-assignment is a grammar production of its own, so the above would be parsed as sort of:

multi-assign(a, a['k']) = {}

and therefore first assign to a, then to a['k'].
I once did a digital detox which included no music. When I finally listened to music it felt amazing. Way better then before. I would suggest to try it, even if its just for a few days
My point (poorly made, perhaps) was more that lots of kinda-reasonable-sounding stuff like (1), (2), and (4) doesn't much matter if the final reality of the law is often more like (3). At least in the U.S., my impression is that (3) is rather often the case.
Integration tests can become heavy for complex systems, and unit testing then gives you faster test-modify loop when developing code.
CDC shifts pandemic goals away from reaching herd immunity
Got it, though it wasn't meant as a dismissal...just surprise.
I was referring to the final stage of the GC process (not the penultimate I-140 stage), an I-485 application filed with USCIS and an immigrant visa application filed with a US Consulate abroad via the NVC. The former is speeding up and the latter is a slow mess.
We’ve been using this for a while after we found pgbouncer became a bottleneck - it’s so much faster and has been totally reliable. Thanks!
Get two different locks, one cable lock as well.
> They cause problems.

Okay, but if they cause problems then that's already...a problem.
A wiki is hard to mail around and archive offline.
I desperately want Android apps on Windows. But not as much as having my taskbar on a secondary monitor.
The radiation in the article is modulated by shielding and deshielding the neutron source. How would you modulate a neutrino?
gotcha - thank you! We'll make a note :)
252G?
A typical standard lib may have thousands upon thousands of functions with many less commonly used arguments and options. If you are saying "memorise the lot" is the only route to productivity on lisp then I'm out, because that's unrealistic. And let's not get into libraries outside of the standard lib, am I expected to memorise XML parsers, graphics APIs, and so on as well?

If you are saying "memorise what you commonly use" then that's fine, except that any typical program usually involves a lot of "lesser used" stuff as well.
Yes, it is true. Here is video evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sanbI_ze8c&t=111s
Take a look at some conservative designed portfolios, eg. the Ivy Portfolio, the Allweather portfolio, cockroach, etc.

Many are designed to have smaller swings up/down. While they may miss booms and spikes, they draw down less during volatile markets and downturns.

I dont use it but many on internet (and coworkers) use M1 - you can just set a target ratio and the service will auto rebalance for you.
I don't have a wardrobe in spandex. I ride bicycles for fun and commuting, not sport. Only time I rode a bike for any kind of fitness was long long ago in offseason for running sports. My pedal bike is a beach cruiser and has 3 gears on it. Not getting competitive with that, and have actually been told to get out of the bike lane in spandex wearing asshats.
> Thinking that we’ll be able to achieve some kind of threshold where there’ll be no more transmission of infections may not be possible,” Jones acknowledged last week to members of a panel that advises the CDC on vaccines.

Vaccines have been quite effective at preventing cases of COVID-19 that lead to severe illness and death, but none has proved reliable at blocking transmission of the virus, Jones noted. Recent evidence has also made clear that the immunity provided by vaccines can wane in a matter of months.

The result is that even if vaccination were universal, the coronavirus would probably continue to spread.
Most Python translates into Nim quite easily, actually.
What's the difference between that claim and the claim "if cars which can go 120mph are legally considered cars then every jackass can zoom down the highway at 120mph"? The difference, of course, is that highways have speed limits.
> If America proceeds with a very costly modernization of U.S. nuclear forces (many hundreds of billions of dollars) [emphasis added]

You say billion like it's big. It isn't. The US is a 25 trillion dollar economy, and growing. A trillion dollars over four or five years isn't much.
Leaf blowers do more to simply disperse debris than they do to clean it up. Leaf blowers also add air and noise pollution. Saving time a the expense of everything else - how very WSJ.
A Q clearance could mean you are privy to absolutely nothing. The janitors cleaning the buildings in the secure part of LANL all have Q clearances because they might, might, be exposed to classified information. Needless to say, just because they might poke their nose in the wrong office, doesn't mean they will. The less you know, the less the Lab wants to track your whereabouts after hours.
These days you need an ATS-compatible machine-readable cv because no human being is going to see it.
Text works perfectly fine.
1. This will depend on where he will be living/working since the PW is location-specific. 2. He can work remote but the company still needs to have physical commercially zoned office space even if it rarely used.
Hi Peter, what's the easiest way to set up a profit-sharing agreement with people working with me? Is there a standard contract?
> "We paid for people's McDonalds in return for testing our app" -Matthieu Rouif, Cofounder, Photoroom

Has anybody else tried anything like this? Does it actually work? This had never occurred to me, and I'm interested in hearing from anybody who's tried it before. It seems like a low cost way to get some eyes and opinions.

Tangentially, also, does the opinion/result show any deviation pre-meal vs post-meal? Would love to see a paper on this, as weird as that sounds.
Yeah, because Google don't list some searches(popular searches) for users so that they might love to explore what others love, so I might build one that does that.
That was my first thought - PNNL spits out a ton of people with Q clearance
The E-3 visa is the easiest visa to renew by mail by far.
One of the newer (newer than C, C++, Common Lisp, ...) languages I feel comfortable about regarding this is Go. Definitely feels like I can write a simple Go program to generate a static website for example and it'll probably still work in that same state for a while.
Ask HN: How do I achieve success with severe childhood trauma?
Hi HN - longtime lurker here. Early 30s, grew up in the US in a very traditional immigrant family where physical and emotional child abuse was rampant. At school, I barely got by. I failed socially and personally to thrive. Pressured to study a major I had no interest in and continued to grad school where I came to my senses and dropped out.

Around college I learned of YC/HN and was bit by the startup bug. That interest stuck with me through grad school and shortly after leaving, with no experience or network or even my own mental health (unbeknownst at the time), I cofounded a startup where for the next 3 years I failed massively.

After entering therapy, I came to learn that much of my ineffectiveness as an adult was due to severe childhood trauma that has manifested as intense anxiety, depression, and cognitive impairment. I am not resilient. No self esteem, no adult efficacy in managing relationships and workload. Absolutely no executive functioning ability. I can’t process info at the level most of my peers can — my brain feels shot most of the time.

And as I get older, I see peers and friends benefiting from the positive compounding interest of past successes, whereas it feels my curve is moving in the opposite direction. I’ve been in therapy for several years and have explored almost every modality. And while there has been progress, I feel so so delayed in my development that there is no way I’ll reach a stage where I can compete on the level of my peers (ie. to be as effective as them) in the foreseeable future. And I’m quickly losing hope. This feels like a serious handicap
that will forever render me ineligible to be an entrepreneur.

Would be immensely grateful to hear from any of you who’ve overcome similar struggles to find success.
For some value of "works". I would never entrust a document longer than 20 pages to Word for editing, because I've had bad experiences. I'd much sooner deal with LaTeX, even though it is missing an easy way to do many things.
When getting your motorcycle license here in Belgium they teach you to always take the lane. Ride 3/4 of the way in. If you give the car some space, they'll drive closer to you, try to pass and then get impatient & aggressive when they can't. If you take up all the space they'll usually just accept it.

Obviously rules for bicycles may be slightly different but more and more inner city roads here in EU are now clearly marked as bicycle friendly.
LyX is available as a (almost) WYSIWYG editor for TeX. The developers actually describe it as WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) but the key point is that the user is not limited to writing raw TeX code.

Fixed pagination is not guaranteed, even in Word. Especially when you consider features like change tracking. If you want fixed pages, export to PDF.
walmart pioneered negative working capital for retail well before amazon existed (70s-80s iirc). it's how walmart jettisoned itself into a retail juggernaut. carrefour cribbed that part of the playbook from them to expand across france and europe, and bezos very likely did so as well. it only works when you have enough monopsony power to persuade/coerce the supply chain into cooperating.
Assigning is different than appending, and is the case with a syntax ambiguity. But I'm also not a big fan of the implicit `global` in your example if it's not always implicit.

Fine, we want a test by using `global` to make sure we are doing what we intend when we assign, especially since I see python does not even have true constants so there is a basic lack of safety there. There should also be similar tests before passing every variable with the same name through our function and treating a single name as a list of references without a keyword `all` or similar. Or changing the type of a variable without explicit casting.

To me that lack of continuity just makes a language feel idiomatic and buggy.
There are alternatives (mostly diversification). Eg. Bonds won't lose value when stocks do typically, and def by lower swings. But if you're really close to retirement, it may be good to hold cash - only if you actually think cash is the right way to store wealth in retirement, which may not be best.
I had this sitting in my dropbox a few years ago, and Dropbox decided (from the extension) that it was now a special file that I wasn't allowed to delete or move.
Sure, but if you look at the chart the 60/40 US/non-US portfolio has only really outperformed significantly since around 2011. That's the last 10 years out of the last 35 in the bottom graph.

The question now is "what happens next?" given rising rates and crazy high US valuations
That's the point, I read the post as satire making fun of the top level comment.

"Free pass" for electric motorbikes? What is that person on about? Why have meaningless distinctions between pedaling or not, when the overriding goal should be "promote bike use over vehicle use"?

What societal good, what good to the citizen, is it to place burdens on e-bikes that are not pedal assist?
I’m looking at diff between two commits right now where someone decided to fix the indentation in a non-Python language. While the new code is very easy to read, the diff is very difficult to analyze.
It's particularly interesting that the article either failed to mention house brands / non branded alternatives. (or the numbers are so small they weren't worth mentioning...) For example I'm not talking about pepsi vs coke vs mecca cola, but something like Safeway Select or Walmart Great Value. As a consumer I would expect that to be the happy place for, no pun intended, great value for my money. These brands have nothing to offer but price and quality, and so I expect to get an excellent compromise of the two.
That's incredibly dumb. Like, wow.
TL;DR: SDL will develop a cross-platform GPU API that is easier to use and Just Works. Vulkan is neither because it needs 1000 lines to draw a triangle on screen and is so low level that differences between AMD and nVidia GPUs are exposed.

But I'm not sure this SDL effort is a good thing. SDL has always been behind on fixing its bug backlog for the hard things it does well, like supporting so many game controllers and audio backends, supporting iOS and Android, etc., and other efforts at an easier to use 3D API that better abstracts different vendor GPUs have been underway for some time:

- WebGPU

- Godot's shading language

I have always loved that SDL separates its libraries so you don't have to use what you don't need: if you don't need an audio mixer don't include SDL_mixer, etc. Hopefully those of us that don't need SDL 3D will still be able to skip building and including it, avoiding bringing in all the bugs, bloat, and complexity therein.
The path to bigger airlines depends heavily on battery advances, but it doesn’t mean it’s impossible, either. It just means the second market will be Philly to New York. Then New York to Boston. Maybe never across an ocean.
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