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An article about the evolution of bicycles and not one word about recumbents.

I saw my first recumbent bike as a child in the 1970s. I didn't know what it was but I did know that it made sense to me. I have been riding a recumbent (as it turns out, not that different then the one I saw over 40 years ago) for over 12 years now; and it's contribution to changing my interaction; no, my relationship with the world around me cannot be overstated by calling it eye-opening.

In my teens I was at competition level cycling. But coming from a small town, and a poor family there was no way I could ever compete. I cycled everywhere, as that was the only way I could get around. I would even ride to nearby towns 40 miles away, just to see if I could; alongside a 2-lane highway.

Cycling was how I explored my world. Computers & books fed my mind, cycling fed my heart and my insatiable wanderlust. But even with all the freedom that a bicycle gives you, that traditional diamond-frame upright bicycle limited that view to 4 feet infront of the bike. The uncomfortable hunch, bent neck, and numb genitals was a labour of love that while freeing me to explore, still left me shackled to a narrow view of the world. Riding a recumbent opened that view into a panoramic vista.

This is now the 3rd age of biking, electrically assisted cycling. The more people that try it, the more people will want to do it. It is fun in a way that awakens the inner glee that only comes from childhood. There will always be 'purists' that believe that the way they suffer is the only "real way to do it".

You don't have to suffer. Embrace the evolution, and enjoy the ride.
Also an interesting Wikipedia entry here,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_thorium#Thorium-22...

Fascinatingly weird physics!
Yes. Well, this process takes months. Do you want the empty house to sell or use? Or would you rather wait 6+ months while stuff slowly clears out?

Edit: for the replies: that works in populated areas. Rural MO, WS not so much.

Edit2: also, arguing with kinfolk about stuff or waiting for probate (in the absence of a Will)
> There are public companies that are pre profit

I love the term “pre profit” instead of “losing money”.
"Well there's your problem" and NotJustBikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm29fd-s7tQ had a discussion about [John Forester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forester_(cyclist)) and that generation of cycling activists in the US. For whatever reason, they were extremely vocal about having cyclists treated the same as cars; they're the people we have to thank for Sharrows, denoting car lanes as also valid bike lanes. Its unfortunate that the kind of rider we need to enable is precisely the kind who doesn't care enough to advocate on their own behalf.
Having done this experiment with a few variations over the years, maybe a dozen times, I've found that the first $100 is the roughest.

I'm currently in one now with a buddy and we're going for a grand sum. Exciting. But, we started with $20 each in the pot.

When I was in college, I had two concurrent experiments running. Player one was only allowed ethical & legal investments. Player two, well, basically did whatever. Player two crushed player one. It was the 80s. Each player started the contest with one penny. Player one ended up with about $80 in 60 days. Player two was something like $1200+.

I promise to plug it here when its done, but we're documenting this game and also publishing a pamphlet / ebook on the basics of playing. Like I said, there are some real challenges getting past the first few dollars. Depending on your rules of course.

It's all good fun, if it is for fun. But it's also good to remember while playing a money race, the times when you were flat broke. And if you never had that challenge, try to imagine people who deal with the struggle to eat and shelter every night. Of course, this is another version of the game - Walking Out. Take only what your seed for the game is (one cent, $100) and walk out of the house. Good luck!
>I'm actually surprised that there isn't more direct action against overly aggressive drivers.

What direction action could a cyclist take on a car driver that intentionally buzzed them while passing? I suppose if you happen to catch up to them at a light you could vandalize their car. Make a habit of doing that and you'll wind up the victim of an unfortunate accident that no one will be punished for.
two avid cyclists I know, (off road) say that the ebike has revolutionised "cycling together" for people of different abilities and pedal cadence. She can now keep up with him, for a 60km ride, compared to 20km before. Same amount of physical effort, more companionable, better outcome overall.

As a non-ebike rider I admit my lack of peripheral vision (age) is making the zoom! of an ebike or scooter past me increasingly scary, but the fact is, my declining vision is more of the issue than the ebike is.
“Here's the plan: When someone uses a feature you don't understand, simply shoot them. This is easier than learning something new, and before too long the only living coders will be writing in an easily understood, tiny subset of Python 0.9.6 <wink>.”

― Tim Peters
Good time to go to grad school, if the recession gets bad.
Here I am trying my best to get my favorite videos OFF YouTube given that they could disappear at any second because of an account block, or just "reasons", and this link suggesting storing stuff with YouTube? By god, why? Sure, it's free, practically "limitless" slow file storage, but what a bad idea nonetheless....
Don't forget openly pushing political positions from a tax exempt status.
https://eloquentjavascript.net/ is a great book for learning how to program (in JavaScript).

For your goals, you can probably just read chapters 1-3, 13-14, and 18.
Disclosure: I used to work on GCE.

EC2 has historically not focused much on instance boot time. We did for GCE and drove it down pretty heavily. The post here from fly has a good set of sequence diagrams for "what are the various phases of creating an instance from scratch" that are generally applicable.

I'll note though that different users have different targets. Some people care about "time from request to first instruction ticks over" while others only care about "time from request to ssh'able from the public internet". There's an interesting middle ground of "time from request to being able to talk to other services like GCS or S3".

It's not clear to me what the networking / discovery story is for a Fly Machine that is stopped and then starts. That is, how long does fly-proxy take to update (globally? within a metro?) to add and remove the new Fly Machine? I vaguely recall that only external endpoints support IPv4, so I assume Fly is reserving and registering the internal IPv6 endpoints in the more expensive "create" step and then "start" is just about propagating liveness.
There is a huge number of other vendors supporting Webauthn apart from Yubikey. (From the top of my head Nitrokey, Solo, Tomu, Mooltipass, Ledger, Trezor, Google Titan, OnlyKey, Token2).

You could also use the system TPM (https://github.com/psanford/tpm-fido).

A brief search didn't yield any FIDO2 software-only solutions for Linux, but I see no reason why in principle you couldn't implement it (perhaps interfacing https://github.com/google/OpenSK through hidg - similar projects do exist for U2F).
Yeah, Critical Mass is the one org I’m aware of that does direct action, and it’s moment has kind of faded, for various reasons.

But yeah, I don’t really take it in stride, I go home and whine about it, but getting spit on, called a faggot, driven off the road and hit by red light runners is just normal for biking in the US (and it doesn’t vary that much regionally either, when I lived in California people yelled slurs more, but maybe drove a little more reasonably than where I live now)

There is not really a natural coalition for this topic. Cycling is kinda seen as a crunchy or vaguely liberal thing, but in local politics the left is pretty strongly against doing anything punitive, for principled reasons. Which ok, no technological enforcement, no stronger license requirements, no more stringent vehicle inspections, I get why, but sorry, funding the bus system does nothing when a large part of the problem is people doing it on purpose. The guy doing 25 over the speed limit in the wrong lane running red lights is doing it for fun, not because his bus is 20 minute headings instead of 15.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488436
If all you want is exercise, you might as well just go to the gym and ride the elliptical. But most bikers like the experience of seeing the outdoors and covering distances. With pedal assist, you still get exercise but also are able to ride faster and for longer.
> I still wonder sometimes whether an infinite composition of continuous functions has to be continuous (limit of a sequence) ...

No, as you expected. Take f(x) = x^2 on [0,1]. Then f(f(f(...f(x))) converges to g(x) = { 0, if 0 <= x < 1; 1, if x=1 }
Before someone says “that’s median, not mean”, remember average is an ambiguous term that can mean either.
My expectation is that a free market of ideas would allow superior modes of education to rapidly emerge, which would then be slowly and poorly copied by the mainstream. If I'm understanding you right, you're saying that by allowing a parallel education system with freedom of choice, all the smart and rich people would abandon the old one to die. (It would be kept alive, of course by taxes, in body, if not in spirit!)

My personal belief is that the death of the old education system is over a century overdue.

We don't need to kill it, just stop making alternatives illegal and the problem will solve it itself.
That first paragraph, not a great start when I have to do mental gymnastics just to figure out what the blog post is even about.

If you can't write about a subject directly, use creative license and make the situation up. Nobody knows / is going to find it different and it will help get your point across. I bailed on this article after the first paragraph.
Have you considered that some people believe most everyone is wrong, that they won’t be told what to do by others, that they are or should be in complete control their lives, that they live by their own rules, that The Man is keeping them down, etc? Musk personifies that belief system.
Was that your takeaway from reading it, or something else?
You unfairly blame motorists. They are pissed off because bikes don't belong on roads, but politicians make them ride there. They'd be angry if you drove the same speed in a car, too.

Blame the politicians for refusing to fund separate infrastructure so bikes, cars, and pedestrians don't have to share the same piece of asphalt. As a car driver I don't want bikes in the lane with me. And as a pedestrian I don't want them on the sidewalk with me. We know the solution but refuse to implement it.
>Push through constitutional amendment that lets you 'rule by decree' when in a state of war, then declare a "state of war".
Could you expand on what you mean by this? What kind of new social structures are enabling progress in this way?
> A reputation for drives that fail faster than their competitors

How can they get that if they stuff enough fake reviews, plus the legion of consumers who would have no idea that the drive was the issue and not "viruses".
Graphene is simultaneously the easiest to install and most robust rom I have ever installed in my years of it. It is a gem.
Is that because it would ease creating all aspect heat seeking weapons?
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Model Serving
The TLA+ Lectures are awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54W-XOIEF8

[suddenly in a clown costume] "What kind of clown am I, claiming I can make you think better? Why should you pay attention to me?"

[in a suit] "This is not the time to be modest. I have done seminal research in the theory of concurrent and distributed systems for which I won the Turing award. You can stop the video now and look me up on the web." [long pause]
Remote desktop client with RDP, SSH, SPICE, VNC, and X2Go protocol support
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is a good car, but it costs a lot more than a third of the price of a Tesla Model Y. And at the moment the price is kind of moot anyway since most dealerships are completely sold out.
How do I tell I am not in the 80's. I just requested a repeat prescription in 30 seconds, requested a pizza in 60 seconds, purchased some stock in 60 seconds, paid a trades-person in 30 seconds. I can buy stuff at any shop (99.9%) around here without my wallet. I haven't spoken to someone at a bank branch for years. I don't have something ... I can order it online and get it the next day. I can have access to courses that are 10 times better than $2000 week long in-person courses of the 90s, for free or little money. Where does it end...?

If we are measuring by using dollars, well that's silly. We could have $100TN or whatever of tokens in circulation and be living like wild animals or colonizing the solar system.
I think the author is just being wistful about ageing, which is inevitable.

E-bikes should take over in most cities. All but the most disabled can ride them. Cities like Taipei and Barcelona that already move on scooters would get much cleaner air and have the same low-cost mobility. New York makes no damn sense for cars. Even large spread-out cities are easily traversed on e-bikes. Assholes on e-bikes can be annoying but rarely deadly. Drivers who kill cyclists should be imprisoned until too old to drive again. Cars should all be required to have passive braking that won't come within 6 feet of a cyclist or pedestrian. regarding pedestrians, we could start by recognizing that "jaywalking" isn't a thing.
More economic and political seige and sabotage than anything that might be misconstrued as a "natural" economic fluctuation or condition.
That is much easier said than done.
Maybe because out of the 2.7 million developers in the US, most are “dark matter developers”?

I know plenty of developers who “only” make $150K-$160k a year and are living in their nice house in the burbs with 2.1 kids, the white picket fence in the “good school system” with a spouse making decent money and don’t have a care in the world.
Ask HN: What do you want to learn next?
https://archive.ph/mUkHM

TL;DR: As bodies age, they lose muscle. Eating protein and being active preserve and build muscle. Protein powder has protein.
My grandfather walked out of "charge of the light brigade" (1968) muttering to my mother the particular snaffle bit wasn't invented at the time of the Crimean War, and the Morgan horse was not used by the lights or dragoons..

Look, they at least tried. Archaisms and anachronisms abound, everywhere. I am willing to bet "master and commander: far side of the world" (2003) has mystic seaport forum going gangbusters on how the bowline tied around the port side belaying pin is wrong for that decade of napoleonic warfare rigging.

But that aside, well done. A tour-de-force tracking down silly avoidable font mistakes.

Personally, I think attempts to re-create rostrum camera title shakes of the day are mostly wasted. I can't decide if its because they were shot well but printed badly, shot well but projected badly, or shot badly: something about digital artifact overlay to "recreate the title" doesn't work for me.

In 50 years time, we'll have somebody complaining the particular use of papyrus font for the remake of Avatar is just completely wrong, the bitstream-vera remake Papyroid is nothing LIKE the original...
We went through this ten years ago with my wife's dad. He had a lot of stuff, but he had a lot of hobbies...there was relatively little "junk," and he used a lot of it until just a year or two before he passed. Some of it went to fellow hobbyists. Some went into storage. The stuff we just couldn't deal with were sold, along with the house, to a professional flipper who conducted an estate sale, hauled the rest away, and remodeled and sold the house.

My mom was smart, for the most part. My parents weren't really big into accumulating stuff, beyond what people without many hobbies accumulate over the years. Twenty years after my dad passed, my mom downsized before she sold the house and moved into and independent living community. We got professional help downsizing further when she moved from independent living to assisted living, and finally got rid of almost everything else when she went into memory care. As much as she'd gotten rid of, she still had an amazing amount of stuff. It was a little easier doing it in stages, I suppose.
Ya, here in the lower Mondego river delta it’s clay AND calcium concentrations that make water filters die in short order. They do rice here.
I can’t imagine gypsum helping anything here.

They still burn the rice fields like morons every autumn, despite the dense clay here… I tried mentioning how even Cambodia prohibited burning and uses enzymes and got blank stares.
Holy smokes! Where will Clark change into Superman?!?
There are definitely people who will move every single thing out of a house in a weekend for free. That's how storage unit auctions are done, and buyers even pay for it.
I'm not intimately familiar with all of the AWS infrastructure around a running EC2 but I imagine a lot of time is spent on creating the associated Elastic Block Storage, allocating an Elastic IP Address, creating an Elastic Network Interface, creating a default security group etc, then attaching all of those things to the EC2, then attaching the required resources to an Internet Gateway etc.
Looks like a neat book but $170 is a lot for an intro.
I'm sure there are logistical hurdles to this that aren't occurring to me, but I was basically thinking along the lines of posting GoPro videos with visible license plates to an online community of like-minded folks and "allowing nature to take its course", so to speak.
A Timeline of Car Radio History
I wonder why it’s only record highs and not record lows, too?

I’d be interested to see extremes on both ends.
So that means that there is a vendor lock in and I can't just move over to say IBM Cloud Functions (despite both being based on OpenWhisk)?
This may be somewhat anecdotal, but I founded a product in the recruiting space and my daily active users and key metrics are all well within expectations and trending up.

I would say we are doing fine, do not let the fear mongering get to you.
That makes no sense.
Why would organic material not be replenished?
Plants die, cover crops intentionally so.
There was a Virtual Paris for Mac which was the same as Street View.

Also, Encarta and such had 3D views too.
> Why is the mechanical keyboard community so elitist?

I think this is a fundamental element of modern 'advertising on social media'. This and 'scarcity' of product 'drops'.

My teenage son was sucked into this nonsense about two+ years ago. The PCBs for the keyboards (purchased from multiple vendors) are terribly-supported Chinese garbage. Official tech support is junk, and if you ask a keyboard community, it's taken as an insult to the community.

And before anyone says, "bad assembly" -- my son is certified from a three-day long Haako micro-soldering course, so he knows how to solder.
Not very worried. I have a pretty stable position. If the stock market goes down - I’m at the height of my earning power (so far). I’ll be saving away.
I think you can do better than using crypto as a flat incentive to apply for jobs.

A better application, in my opinion, would be to create a matchmaking market.

From the view of the job seeker, they would see a list of jobs sorted by how good of a match they are for the job, and they would be presented with some crypto incentive for interviewing for the job (proportional to how good the match is).

Same view for the hiring company - candidates sorted by quality match with some crypto incentive for interviewing the candidate.

From the matchmaker point of view, they would wager some crypto amount that a candidate is a good fit for a job.

If the candidate is interviewed and doesn’t get the job, the wagered amount is paid out to the company and candidate. If the candidate is hired, the company pays a commission distributed to all matchmakers in proportion to their wager.

This is actually a very nice usecase for distributed decision making because you have binary outcomes with discrete reward values.
It will be handled the exact same way it always has: 90% of the time it's off-loaded at a garage sale, at Goodwill, on E-bay or otherwise sold - almost always below market value because the survivors can't be bothered - they just want it gone.

This is the very basis of yard sales and antiquing.

It's how I get a 1999 BMW Z3 with 20K miles back in 2008 for $5K bundled with a Mac Cube and several $K of other goodies from a widow of a former Apple employee. She just wanted it gone. I didn't even "hardball" her - I gave her what she asked for all of it!

I got a vast stamp and coin collection from my father: my sibs who live within 50 miles of my mother wanted nothing to do with it; she's getting on and needed to deal with it - I was willing to come across the country to take it all. Now I have quite a collection of both valuable stamps and a ton of gold and silver.

It's how you get cheap Ham radio gear, machine tools and furniture also - estate sales.

The article is ignorant of all of this apparently. Never had anyone close to them actually die perhaps. The "problem" will solve itself and no one will notice it ever was a problem!
Planes allow you to perform multiple parallel operations a single die (assuming it's the same as the raw SLC I work with).
Where I live, it would also dramatically limit where you could ride. Different strokes for different folks, I'd hesitate to call one choice objectively better than another.
The title skews quite a lot what happened.

Here's the link to the ruling.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/20-1009.html

The quote about innocence, is not actually a quote about innocence, and is not given by a judge (justice) on the Supreme Court. Let's look at it:

"reasonable probability that the jury would not have unanimously convicted [Jones] of any of the counts"

This judge does not express a view that in his opinion there's evidence for innocence. He just states that there's some probability that some members of the original jury might have found grounds for reasonable doubt.

In any case, this judge does not say anything about innocence. His opinion was that there was not enough evidence for guilt, not that there was evidence for innocence.

You could say it's all the same, just semantics. After all the principle is "innocent until proven guilty".

It's not just semantics. The title here suggests that the Supreme Court justices have seen actual evidence for the innocence. What could that be?

The uncontroversial fact is that a little 4 year old girl died because of ruptured internal organs. She also had injuries consistent with rape. The jury, after seeing whatever evidence the prosecutors presented decided that the defendant was guilty of rape and murder.

Evidence for innocence would be an alibi. Maybe the defendant was in a different country at the time this all happened. Alternatively, evidence for innocence would be evidence that someone else raped and murdered the girl.

But that's not what was being argued. What was being argued was that somehow the girl was raped and her organs ruptured and then she died, but the totality of evidence leaves some room for reasonable doubt that the defendant was the rapist and murderer (but with no alternative perpetrator).

So, the whole ruling of the Supreme Court is about various technicalities about incompetent counsel, and when a retrial is warranted. But nobody in the Supreme Court ever said that "evidence of innocence is not enough".

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1009/166813/202...
there are about ~300 sinkholes in that particular county. Not really a big deal. Some of the sinkholes are already developed as parks I assume