skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct tread pattern and pressure for conditions will make a significant difference in rolling resistance, far more than just about every other tire property (weight, suppleness, etc). Different conditions require different tread patterns and different tire pressures. As for weight, you’ll save maybe 100g of weight per tire, which is admittedly amplified due to rolling. Drop a single water bottle and you’ll be back on top. You won’t of course find many “performance” bikes with wire beaded tires.

Most paved paths are best paired with slicks/semi-slicks, even when wet (snow/ice is a separate discussion). Yet many hybrid/city bikes are equipped with a bit of tread depth. The tradeoff is durability and puncture resistance - slicks/semi-slicks can’t compete. And for people buying these types bikes, it is far more important that they reliably get from point A to point B without any flats or maintenance costs than saving a minute off their daily commute, so it is a fair trade off.

As for tubeless setups, I would hesitate to recommend those to anyone that needs this site (not that you’re suggesting that). If you don’t know what tire you need I would be willing to bet you have no idea how to fix a tubeless puncture, top up sealant, or remove/reinstall the tire.
What kind of truck do you currently have? What's your thought on F150 lighting, Rivian, and Cyber truck?
I agree, but I think there are three reasons for the bad results:
- Google tweaks. They target more and more the main stream users and thus neglecting the power users with their Google hacks knowledge
- Content drain. More and more content is created in walled gardens, like discord, facebook, etc.
- SEO. These optimized pages pollute the results
Australian government uses voice recognition to identify callers for calls to Services Australia, is this the same kind of thing?
Yes. We all get that Bitcoin has failed in payments and is a complete disaster to the environment. Its characteristics alone make it extremely easy to make an argument against using it.

But once again, not every cryptocurrency has the same properties as Bitcoin. The author continues to yet again create a sweeping generalization on this. I would only agree with that if Bitcoin was the ONLY cryptocurrency or if PoW was the only system used. It is not.

It’s like making an argument against driving anything with a wheel for environmental reasons, because most vehicles are still running on either petrol or diesel. (And willfully ignoring alternatives like electric cars)

Instead of continuing to generalize all cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin (and PoW), criticize the others that are either PoS, or use their own consensus algorithm and assess them if they are environmentally unfriendly or are unsuitable for payments.

Since clearly the author keeps recycling the same known predictable critiques on Bitcoin which does not apply to all cryptocurrencies.
yes, the entire article is singing the praise of the necessity of darpa and OWS

when biontech and pfizer succeeded without any of it
I also disagree. Nobody documents or publicizes the small labs doing small "useless" stuff. The kind of stuff that seems irrelevant but that slowly piles into a mountain of new information. As a PHD myself, many times I thought to myself: "this research is quite insignificant" and what we found was truly small potatoes, but I can only hope that, in the aggregate, all of us that did small stuff during that period advanced science in significant ways.
I don't know, I think we trust people to make decisions about complex subjects all the time when it comes to their personal lives.

I think the problem is this, in a reasonable society we would say: here are the relevant facts, here's the supporting data, make up your own mind. In reality what our society now does is says "_you must accept conclusion X, and if you don't you're an idiot_" with absolutely no real justification.
Maybe only one person in ten delivered results - then you'd have both results and 90% crud.
Just like we recognized tabloids for what they were, we need to recognize social media for being the same phenomenon disguised in a "grassroots" cloak (i.e. crowdsourced tabloids)

There is nothing organic about the speech that happens on YouTube. Veritasium explains the shift that happened when youtube switched to an algorithmic model from the subscriber model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsa9DqmId8 - you need to carefully manipulate people to click your thumbnail based on the picture and the video title.

Making outrageous but believable shit up to sensationalize your content is a well known tactic of tabloids (which does continue today to some extent). YouTube and other social media incentivise exactly that.
Science is a tool for falsifying hypotheses, not dictating policies or individual choices.
Personally I find the inside of Tesla’s unappealing and not something I would willingly pay money for.
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> The biggest problem science is facing is not an external threat from a rabble of ignorant science deniers, but the complete degradation of quality within the scientific institutions themselves.

You're correct, in that what you describe isn't a threat to the ivory towers of 'science'.

Unfortunately, here in the real world, outside of academia, those people's unassailable belief in all flavors of bullshit has quite a negative effect on the quality of life of the rest of us. But at least I can sleep soundly, knowing that 'science' isn't being harmed by them.

When, say, the planet burns down around us, because of inaction on climate change, I'll take solace in knowing that the science behind climate change was never in any real danger - unlike the rest of us.
Does anyone else find it boring to kibitz on how an absurdly powerful company could become more powerful?

Wouldn't it be more interesting for Microsoft to actually improve its products, e.g. stop Excel making a nearly irrevocable assumption that something is a date just because it has two numbers and a hyphen between them? Make a successor to MS Access that doesn't suck? Fix the shitshow that is figures, tables, and cross references in Word? Make a nice new product inspired by FOSS projects that are way ahead of them, or failing that, at least some decent craftsmanship on existing products?

At some point, doesn't the endless lust for monopoly power become boring? Why not just actually do a good job at the thing your company is supposed to be about?

How many yachts do Satya and the MS board of directors need? Why not do something beautiful instead? Who needs to spend their life replaying the modern equivalent of an ambitious feudal lord?
Really interesting research isn't done because of the risk of a negative result that can't be published.
Absolutely. Their takes on agriculture are also way ahead of anything people in flyover country have thought of.
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I really recommend taking a look at the "A=B" identity solver: https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html . The accompanying book is amazing.
There is a second reason as well: it is much cheaper for the manufacturers to install a touchscreen instead of physical knobs.
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Don’t worry, fixies are still cool among a select bunch of people. I’ve never cared for them, but plenty still do. There is also a budding fixie racing community outside of the track (including crit and CX), which is simply terrifying to me.
Not sure what you are saying, but I do believe that we scientist need an extra big dose of humility and we need to learn how to better accept when we are wrong.
(All responding to 1)
A. Binary dependencies were a mistake.
B. No, editions absolutely do not require all dependencies to be fully available in source. Editions are purely a front end thing and as long as you have enough info for the api/abi, you're fine.
C. Headers are still source code. You cannot use any dependency without partial source, meaning we'd be stuck with that anyway.
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This is nothing to do with GDPR, this is about workers' right against unfair dismissal. Being dismissed without warning, because of rules you cannot know, without explanation or right to appeal is ridiculous.
In case you're going "???"--MS-DOS and (until xx?) Windows treated some file names as special device names: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, LPTn, COMn,...[0] And even if Windows supports (or hides) it now, no doubt ramifications linger on in apps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#PC_DOS,_TOS,_OS/2,...
Because indicated electric vehicle ranges are never highly optimistic.

100 miles is a very, very short round trip in most of the US.
Funny how "don't believe, always question everything" have transformed back into "believe in science".

Believing in science is a very old thing, Maya have believed in their eclipse prediction science so much that were even making human sacrifice to save the sun from being eaten.

We should teach the public not to "believe in science", but the main skill of any scientist: to try to find errors in the theory you think is right with more ardour than in the theory you think is wrong.
> if it were a real problem why has hospital capacity been in decline this entire pandemic

We filled hospitals over capacity and burned out healthcare workers. They decided to quit rather than work in such conditions. Don't overwork healthcare workers and maybe they won't burnout so quickly.
> 99.9% survival rate

There are plenty of countries where it already killed more than 0.2% of the population.
> Somehow, Christmas 1996 came around, and Maxis did manage to ship all four games... or at least something resembling them. But no one was very happy about meeting the deadline, as corners were cut on all the projects. Wright was the most disappointed of all. "The low point for me was releasing SimCopter when we did," he says. "The gameplay was developing nicely, but we just had to ship it too soon."

As someone who tried SimCopter as a kid I have to agree 100% that it shipped way too son. It felt rough and incomplete, almost like a prototype to test gameplay mechanics, a far cry from the quality and polish of SimCity 2000.
Regardless of where you stand on whether this is the ideal truck for your particular use case, it's worth noting that Ford really nailed the general market aspect of this truck. It filled all 200,000 preorders in a few months, and has so much proven demand that they're expanding production lines. Hats off to Ford for taking a proven platform and electrifying it at a reasonable price without trying to be edgy (Cybertruck) or cater to a luxury niche (Rivian).
Of course, there are frauds in any industry/profession.

But in my experience (math, science, & engineering), it is actually far less prevalent than in other places.

Forget the overzealous #sciencetwitter people. I have found that academia is one of the rare places where people the absolute top of their field who are often actually modest & aware of their ignorance about most things.
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In the long term though this is not good for the home countries, they are left behind and at best become tourist destinations. There is no country that pulled itself forward this way, not even with remote work. Eastern europe is an example with very low growth rates since the fall of communism.
I visit Seattle frequently and had no idea this existed.
Brake light modulators are many decades old, generally illegal, and therefore aftermarket modifications. The ones that light up like a Christmas tree for feathering the brakes are obnoxious (other than for motorcycles, perhaps), but I'm totally on board with this being standard for ABS situations and similar.
I feel if Windows Mobile had just kept at it for ten years straight they would finally have had something - continually changing strategy killer any hope they had of being in a solid third place.
> Seeing as how 60-70 are both reasonable temperatures in Fahrenheit and speeds in miles per hour, it is not at all clear at a glance what that number means.

Maybe some brainiac at Tesla thought that you can just accelerate/brake to figure that out. :D
>Most research is flawed or useless,

Also the research could be downright fraudulent. A very interesting case is the Schön scandal, involving organic semiconductors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal

There is an engrossing set of videos about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64
No,abrasives always win. It may remove a bit of the cutting disc, but the embedded silicon carbide ceramic is harder than anything else (except diamond and some exotic carbides, and it will still eventually win against those). It will trade a little unimportant mass off the perimeter of the cutting wheel for a very important bit of mass off the lock, and eventually the lock will lose.

Time is the only thing you can hope to achieve, you can buy a bit of that by wrapping the steel in a jacket of tough, gummy aluminum or PVC thicker than the radius of the cutting disc forcing the thief to clog the disc while they cut out a chunk large enough to get the tool sufficiently deep into the lock to cut the important bits:

https://altorlocks.com/products/saf-lock

...but it's merely a delaying tactic, not a cure.
I'm curious - what is the story of homeopathy in the United States? I know it is oddly popular in Germany.
I see that as a failing of the policy setters and communicators. You can communicate a simple message, but you have to show your work too. Pretending counter-points don't exist only leads to "gotchas" and distrust down the road. This has been the the theme of last few years for me. If you want more than a public policy soundbite, you should be able to get a public position paper describing the assumptions, arguments, and counter-arguments.
> If you need to take your eyes away from the road, it is a shit ui.

I'd add one more point specific to vehicle (or other safety-related) applications: if it keeps changing, it's shit. I shouldn't have to hunt around for where that control went today any more than I should have to hunt around for where it went the first time. That is why I think touchscreens with tactile feedback don't solve this problem, even though they're cool in general. That customizability is worthless because the controls shouldn't be changing anyway. Just put in real buttons, knobs, and so on.
Yes. I am not powering a nuclear reactor using the engine, so I can't give you any sort of hard-RTOS numbers. The kernel of the device itself uses Linux, which has been modified with "real time" patches. At some point, I'll have to publish data and benchmarks about performance to satisfy potential customers. I can say I would personally much rather use this device in a live setting than any desktop or laptop, unless I have aggressively modified the software environment of the computer. There are just too many things that can go wrong in a live setting.
Normal life expectancy is 80y. If you start work at 20y, you can expect to live another 60 years. Cut that in half to 30, and you die at age 50.

> at least think it through first

Back to you.
"Meritocracy" seems to have been coined in a dystopian satire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
They made $25.78 billion from the China, they will wear underwear and jump in a cold pool if that’s what CCP wants them to do.

https://www.thestreet.com/markets/apple-smashes-q1-earnings-...
The hi res version sibling posted at Wikipedia is very readable and very beautiful.
> For some reason, if you have other diseases your immune system likely provides some protection against re-infection, but we are being told covid is different. This just seems so likely to be a lie its mind boggling.

I don't know what you're talking about. There is some protecction, it's not enough to make things safe, what's the lie?

If you're talking about those people still having to get a vaccine, that's a whole mess of tradeoffs but also not based on lying.
Unless these people start building companies in said countries this does not benefit the countries. They re essentially tourists
It doesn't mean that but it should always be treated as a possible factor, and analyzed in light of other connections. Collusion is very real when billions of dollars are on the line and it is naive to assume otherwise.
Do we know what they ate in detail?
Hitting that button on any modern car (like say my 2018 Volvo) will turn the fan on max heat, directed at the windshield and side windows. and also enable the AC. IIRC a 1998 Camry I drove had the same functionality.

Confirmed in the ‘98 Camry manual: “Turning the air flow control knob to wind- shield position turns on the defroster− linked air conditioning. At this time, the ”A/C” button indicator comes on regard- less of whether or not the ”A/C” button is pressed in. This is to clean up the front view more quickly.”

Like the manual, I have always just called that functionality ‘defrost’, never defog.
If I got your comment right, I agree that Brazilian devs that are not good devs that are paid well are not good devs.
It's not a romance language, rather a west Germanic one.
The pilots never use the eject handle, so we made it smaller and moved it further under the seat.
No and this is where I disagree. The people that disagreed with my opinion believed that I was trying to censor theirs with my own. I posted my opinion and a lot of people made assumptions about it without asking questions and made their own response. I have an extreme opinion according to some people. I'm also not the best authority on all of this but the people that pile on are assuming my opinion is an affront to their safety/security. Do I care that these people may have a chance of a high hospital bill if they catch this thing when they could just as easily get something for free to protect them against this disease that right now has high cost of care once that care is codified. Hell yeah! Keep arguing against one thing when it can ultimately keep you safe from catching a cold that is lucrative for the healthcare business at the moment due to political division. My opinion isn't based in propaganda and is based more in a concern for the long term financial ramifications for most. Watch how many people have to claim bankruptcy, furthering their descent into wage slavery after catching something that can be postponed until it becomes endemic.
And yet few people want to hear "your family is not fine". Many people don't want honesty, they want comfort, and they (wrongly, IMO) look to experts for comfort. This puts doctors in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-dont situation. It's easy to translate "doctor was honest" to "bad bedside manner".
Medical experts have had a worse-off time than, say, physicists or chemists though? And strains of economics experts are understandably not trusted depending on one's income class, but putting economics on par with physics, chemistry and biology is complicated in itself.

The most troublesome parts of expert mistrust was one scientific group going after anothe, as with scientists of one specialty turning into epidemiologists overnight and claiming that vaccines have contributed to thousands of deaths. As a statistician, I had to deal with junk statistics and regressions in just such a pre-print that caused a lot of panic in my little research community here.
Having to support every timezone is my biggest pain. Occasionally Europe, occasionally India, occasionally china, occasionally eastern US.

Multiple meetings with random times between 0Z and 24Z in the same day makes it hard to plan on when to sleep.
Agreed, but heck any appliance. Email client moving sruff around? It should be for a reason, I don't want my daily tasks opting me into their idea of neuroplasticity training.

I would also be irate if my coffee maker or microwave rearranged it's buttons. Any argument that it's "good for you" is inherently hostile.
I’m in the Seattle suburbs and my farm truck is a 1999 full size Chevy van. Much easier to use in the rain and holds 8’ long lumber with 2’ to spare. The van has only 100,000 miles on it so I won’t be evaluating electrics anytime soon.

Besides, I don’t understand how the power grid can handle so many electric cars. As we saw in Texas last year, peak power usage can cause extreme problems.
Manufacturers are fully aware that knobs are superior to touchscreens. This is merely a cost cutting measure.
> The manufacturer changing the UI of a car after you bought it should be illegal or at least highly restricted

I cannot agree more. A lot of safety in driving comes from muscle memory and doing without needing to look so that focus is on the road.

No wonder Tesla fans are fan of self driving and afraid of human driving, the effing Teslas seem like a usability nightmare.
Yes, it’s incredibly ironic to be recommending Brett and Eric Weinstein in a comment about fraudulent researchers.
That is really interesting. Do you know if it's been used anywhere else? Even non-governmental type votes?
I would go further and say to not frame the culture problem as economic at all.
I'm skeptical that education is a solution to collapsing societal trust.

First, the primary organs that would be capable of this education are the media, who have a profit motive to stoke any and all fears (immigration, radiological warfare, world war, coffee being carcinogenic).

Second, I think this distrust goes beyond "the CDC said something wrong once, I don't trust them as much anymore." That could be solved with education. But we're seeing a more fundamental rise in broad-based distrust of any authority figure, and it's a much more instinctive response.

In a world where authority is more powerful and centralized than ever, some are bound to feel powerless. Someone's actions on the other side of the world have more impact on your life than they ever could (pick depending on your priors: a Wuhan wet market customer's appetite, or a Wuhan Institute of Virology employee's carelessness). With such an interconnected world, how could conspiratorial thinking not be appealing to some people?

Power inherently fosters distrust and cynicism. You can have as much pedagogy and education as you want: rational discourse just can't combat a fundamental instinctive reaction, a growing sense of claustrophobia and powerlessness that some people are bound to feel. And the response to this distrust? More control over discourse, over communication mechanisms[0], and ultimately, over citizens. Governments and corporations are more powerful than they ever were. Surveillance, and enforcement of rules, are easier and more automated than ever. How could our primitive, Dunbar-number brain wiring not react with distrust, or even hostility towards (some) authority figures?

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/politician-says-germany...
> I think the article suffers from a clear point that I can put my finger on

He doesn't trust LE not to hand over a mitm certificate to some us american three letter agency and therefor refuses to use it.

> "LE is definitely a NOBUS" sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory

It sure does.

> you have CAs in your browser/machine that are far more sketchy

LE is in the focus of the headline, because people keep bringing it up to him. That is in the first paragraph. People complain about their browsers having trust issues with his webserver, and then go karen and suggest he uses LE, instead of establishing trust between the endpoints.

> LE doesn't force you to add CAA DNS records.

That you seem to misunderstand. The large selection of sketchy CAs the browser trusts are the reason why webmasters should use CAA DNS records. His page has both a TLS certificate and a CAA record, but the CA that issued it and is named there is not trusted by the browser vendors.