skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of the reason manufacturing is so expensive in the US.
We stayed at an RV campground out west this summer and I was blown away by the number of kids on e-bikes, zooming around the campground. It was nearly 100% of all kids bikes there. I guess if you look at a bike as a toy that never sees any roads, it makes sense. But I wouldn't give my kids an e-bike for our city-folk trips around town. They don't have the tuned "street sense" yet to be watching traffic at high speed.
One day they’ll maybe get the idea to refresh their recommendations that I haven’t been interested in for years.
I doubt many people would actually replace cars with bicycles.

It's not the same use case and in congested places like central Paris people who need a motor have scooters.

Feedback stats on these schemes are important but rarely conducted or published in a transparent way as the government obviously has a vested interest in claiming that they work great.
These kinds of roundabout ways to help the poor always end up with complications that waste time and resources at best, and open up avenues for corruption at worst.

https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-grocery-tax-exemptions/

I always try to advocate for KISS, keep it simple, stupid. Want to help poor people? Give them cash. Want to prevent political fighting about who constitutes poor people? Give everyone cash. And then take back based on marginal income/property/sales taxes.
Or maybe a water main breaks during vote counting and everyone is sent home. Except one party that keeps working. But of course nothing suspicious about that.
You're very lucky, then. It's probably been 20 years or so since I've even bothered attempting using an email server on my residential connection.
"Public transit is a reflection of the society in which it's located"

Exactly which is why shitting on public transit for revealing the flaws of the society it is in instead of having a conversation about those flaws and the cruelty at the heart of it is absurd. It is like seeing someone break down crying and then yelling at them for being weak and crying while ignoring the reason why the person is crying.
The car color graph is very effective, nice work.
Very true. But I have specific reasons for wanting to use vs code in this instance.
Dave Snowden: Sense-making in strategy: opening
And the color of the then car? I’m hoping the truth is a funky color like bright orange.
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
If we globally adopt RCS now, we're likely to be stuck with it for the next 20 years.

I'd rather hold out for something that's more than a tiny incremental improvement over SMS.
This reminded me-- years ago, I ran into an old high school friend and asked him what he had been up to. He had gotten into graphic design and wound up partnering with a couple of guys who had a recording studio. They had a niche product and needed cover art -- and lots of it. He explained to me that they would release albums of fart noises on iTunes -- like many, many albums -- and the tracks would get a ton of plays, and people would purchase the albums. The partners made enough to pay him a good salary for just illustrating fart album cover art.
spotify is usually on people's personal device like a phone not on communal device at home like a TV.
As an EU citizen I didn't know exactly what that Chat Control thing was, so I web searched it:

> The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. [1]

Yeah, that will go down well, a central government checking our private conversations for "suspicious content". Of course they would use the "think of the children" trope, they could also have gone with the "think of the bad terrorists" trope, but that would have been too American, too cowboy-ish, we need to feel special, we're Europeans, after all.

Minus some street protests I don't think we can actually stop this, and, even then, I have my very big doubts. It so happens that I live in the EU periphery (I still need to present my ID card if I want to travel to Budapest or West from there), and it sickens me to see that my privacy depends on countries and electorates on which I have no say (like Germany, with all due respect to the Germans who still care about their privacy). Why should my privacy be made fun of because of decisions taken by some people from half way around the continent with which I have no direct connection and no shared past? Did they have a Securitate-like thing? Many of them didn't, and even those that did (like the same Germans), it looks like it doesn't matter at this point, they're all too happy to see their private political conversations be scrutinised 24/7.

F. that, the only viable solution I see for my country is an exit from the EU, but the money (still) coming in from Bruxelles is too good to leave aside for pesky political principles, so of course that no serious politician from around these parts puts the problem that way.

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...
Pretty sure this is a clickbait ad
But what has caused the collapse of emergency healthcare in the UK? A lack of supply or an increase in demand?
Be nice then.
Nurses are leaving a ton of places in the US for better pay elsewhere, too.
"This Twitter chap" is a journalist at the Financial Times and is a senior fellow at the London School of Economics. He's not just some rando bashing government...
The counter-argument is that nothing prevents governments coordinating on this in a supranational manner, anyway (cf. the planned, but fortunately rejected ACTA).

In the EU enforcement is mostly decentralised, anyway.
Preventing ddos is like manufacturing Zyklon B?
I think this is fairly well solved from a mathematics point of view (high-school level k-means clustering). The unsolved bit is simply how we get the Spotify et al. product managers to care.
Never had issues with the beta (before it, I simply did not use WA), but then I also never used it heavily.

> Also there is still no official way to have the same whatsapp across multiple phone\tablets devices.

That seems dumb. Luckily not an issue for me.
After converting several bikes to ebikes from kits, it takes a lot of trial and error to get braking right. Obviously one of the most difficult and important parts of the bike is braking. I've tried different types of discs, pads as well as wired and hydraulic systems. And I agree with others posts here, higher quality pads with disc brakes make a big difference, but hydraulic systems are by far the best option for more stopping power. Most motorcycles use hydraulic systems for a reason and in my opinion ebikes are much closer to a motorcycle than a bike.
When presenting the original iPhone Steve Jobs announced that it ran OS X. I'm not sure how far apart they've grown but at that point they were probably very similar.
I don't know about Arm & Hammer, but some companies don't produce and sell the entire phage but only a specific phage enzyme, that the phage uses to lyse (ruptering of the cell wall) the bacteria (they are called endolysins).

They are much easier to mass produce than phages.
I'm not sure that social sharing of knowledge is what I want from a "notes" app. That sounds more like a text-based social media app.
The rule of headlines: if there’s a question, the answer is no.
Much worse than that: cancels were unauthenticated. Anyone could cancel anything, and it was up to individual NNTP servers to decide whether to respect it or not. Usually they had some level of whitelisting to prevent total anarchy, but it was definitely a problem. NNTP was a true decentralized system, and people trying to build decentralized social media and discussion platforms really should learn from all the problems it never managed to solve.

https://circleid.com/posts/20191125_the_early_history_of_use...

See also the Russ Allbery spam rant https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html
Accidents on bikes happen, which is a generally accepted risk among parents. I think they'll have more luck with the helmet manufacturer lawsuit, given that the girl died of a head injury.
I've never had a problem, but I've joked that all of my QR equipped bikes (which all have disc brakes) have "lawyer tabs" for years. Kids bikes have them too.

It goes around the skewer into an additional small hole on the bike with the intent that it will hold if the QR is slightly loose. I don't think it would save you, but it is there.

Check your wheel tightness once in a while, everybody.
Kinda silly that we're putting motors on bikes that outclass the braking system though, yeah?

Imagine a Corvette with the brakes of a Malibu. Would chevy would be torched for creating an unsafe vehicle? Kinda the same theory here...If you're selling a package make sure all the components are sized to work appropriately together.
From what I understand, the bill was ready to go. Everyone had gotten their pork… especially Manchin. And it was Sinema who was the last hold out, and the biggest concession she wanted was this.
Not slow trickling, people flooded the marked with overpriced cars. Once you see five other offers for X at 30-50% inflated price you start wondering why would you give up that 30-50%, and so now there are six offers at 130-150% previous value. Someone else looks at it and immediately jumps in trying to buy all the X listed at normal old price for a quick flip.

This is how trading scams work in EVE Online, this is how people made money taking over some rare but cheap retro game listings on Ebay by buying up cheap inventory and relisting at 5-10x. This is how great vintage video games scam of 2021 by Heritage Auctions/Wada Games works. $30 Mario 64 all of a sudden selling for $1.5 million because cellophane!

Wata & Heritage Auctions Game Scandal Blows Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9EZQ6bott0

people who got scammed into believing in those prices already lost 1/2 of their "investments": CRASH of Sealed Video Game Prices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuD4KEFEfnk

Of course that record $1.5 million sale of Mario 64, most common N64 game even, went to:

>The game was bought by Jim Halperin, Heritage Auction founder and co-chairman, coin dealer Rich Lecce, and game store Just Press Play owner Zac Gieg.

Jim Halperin and some other coin collector? interesting considering Halperin already was in trouble with FTC once for scamming people by inflating value of collectible coins, Im sure its just a coincidence! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-10-vw-88-sto...

>But what happens if the grading service misrepresents the grade of a coin, thereby increasing its value? The commission determined that overgrading coins was a “deceptive and unfair act” prohibited by the 1914 law that created the FTC.

>Charged with this practice were two Texas-based corporations, Heritage Capital Corp. and Numismatic Certification Institute. Also named in the action were Steve Ivy and James Halperin, prominent numismatic figures.

In 2021 name of the game was hoarding and flipping asset at inflated prices. Be it cars, computer chips or houses.
I think I don't like this idea for the wrong reason.

Making sales tax less regressive would be a good thing.

The implementation difficulties don't bother me per se; I think what's making me not like this idea is that it wouldn't do much for wealth disparity. If you're Wealthy with a capital W, you don't really spend that much, compared to your income.

But even if I'm also interested in tax policies to decrease the accumulation of massive amounts of wealth and the accompanying power in the hands of a single individual, I shouldn't dislike a tax policy that would do a different good thing -- if it could be implemented -- just because it doesn't do the other thing I want.
This is the most interesting thing I have read for a while. Beautifully written. Accessible for lay person. tl;dr: just read it!
> the argument that without the motor the girls wouldn’t have been able to climb the hill and therefore the bike is bad is a terrible argument

I think it is a good argument. There is a difference between powered and unpowered vehicles.

Unpowered vehicles are safer for you and for others since you are limited by your own body and it serves as a natural barrier.

As soon as you add an engine into the mix to remove that limit, vehicle and the rider should be subject to very different rules and regulations out of concern for public safety.

This is not happening because they are electric bikes, which is good for someone's OKRs. Use of electricity prompts many municipalities turn the blind eye to the fact that it has a motor, like a motorcycle, with corresponding problems.
I voted against an Alternative Vote, I do support Proportional Representation.
> the US, the largest exporter of the commodity is having problems

I can't help but laugh at the fact that infographics on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding literally have the iconic Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II as the choice of the plane that would do the seeding.

I wonder why don't they just do this now?
Well, immigrants are not immigrating because they are delusional. Life in United States is really, objectively better to the extent that they will risk their lives for it.
You shouldn't expect to profit if your product is completely substitutable with another 0 cost product (generic background music)
A child died in my city tobogganing last winter.

Now the city posts tobogganing hills when they're too icy.
Yes — the nominal amount spent is a different fraction of their income for different income brackets, leading to a regressive tax.

Your final point is a non-sequitur:

The objection to an exponential function isn’t the technical complexity, but the behavior of exponential functions. You’re just dressing up “seize the wealthy’s money” in fancy math.

Though, you’re also understating the complexity of having such a variable tax and the second order impacts you’re likely to cause.

Edit — replying here as I hit my posting cap:

We care because our goal is a prosperous society for our citizens, for which we need a robust and active middle class.

We don’t exempt those goods from taxes (as we do with the essentials). My point has been that your vision for taxes creates a bi-modal distribution between rich and poor by laying a heavy tax burden on the middle class, until they wither — essentially creating feudalism.

A healthy society (with progressive taxes) creates opportunities for the poor to advance their well-being out of poverty by not over-encumbering the path to a middle class life. Regressive taxes are antithetical to that.
Do you have some source for this?

According to the linked website:

> This video features an electric bus with a new type of lithium polymer battery
The Greens in Germany are basically a more serious/realistic Pirate party when the topic is related to the internet.

Honestly I vote Greens because of that alone. The fact that the rest of their program is sane is a cherry on top.
Publishing a detailed report of infrastructure and specific CVEs would be irresponsible and malicious. If that is off the table the only thing left is ambiguity. Also, the audience is important. They are going for maximum outrage, not glassy eyes.
I'm no interior designer, but I think it's fun to let decor mutate slowly instead of "redoing the living room". If I see a chair I like, what do I need to change for it to fit in with what I have? I don't know if it's cheaper in the long run, but it does keep things more interesting imo.
Which is why consumer product safety in the US is very high.

Also did you even read the article? They argue the brake failed because of the design of the bike.

"The suit goes on to argue that the quick release came loose as Steinsapir’s friend was applying the front brake, which allegedly caused the wheel to wobble and ultimately caused the crash. The plaintiffs also say that the surviving girl—who we’re not naming because she’s a minor—attempted to turn off the bike, but that the electrical power failed to shut down."
Businesses will act in their best interest to protect their profits. That's the base of capitalism.

If we don't like that we need to enact regulations
> For corporate environments it's about ease of repurposing the space and to be the least bit disruptive to where they're doing business. It'd cost a lot of money to remodel all the old red steel roof McDonald's if that lot were ever sold.

One of my favorite examples of this is the old Red Barn Restaurant chain [1]. The buildings were barn shaped and when they went out of business, they often times were repurposed as something else. They still stick out so much anywhere you come across them and I always am excited to see what business occupies them and how the the juxtaposition between the building and business is. One of my favorites is this one, which is now (or at least was at the time of this street view), a Sushi restaurant:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1006047,-80.743547,3a,75y,21...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barn_(restaurant)
Yes I have thru axles on my road bike. I much prefer them to QRs because now I can change a tube and put the wheel back in and not have to worry about rubbing brakes.
> If all you have (for both worldview & skills) is a hammer...

Yup, it's a fishing expedition:

> arguing that the helmet Molly wore was defective

Really the bike and the helmet? what else is to blame, the hill?

They may or may not have had any awareness their kid was going to ride on a friends e-bike - but this is the real issue, e-bikes are not much different to small motorbikes, powered cycles are one of the most dangerous modes of transport, society needs to start appropriately considering them as such.
Sometimes people do abuse the system. Sometimes they have a real medical issue. Sometimes they're being treated badly at the office and they're just desperate to get out of that environment and don't know how to tell anyone or get help. It's not always obvious what is happening or why.

Any of these situations can mean someone isn't getting their work done. Their colleagues might be left to pick up the slack, which isn't fair on them either. Any of the people involved might start to worry or get upset about the situation, which can make things worse.

Whatever is going on it's management's responsibility to figure it out and then deal with it professionally and with appropriate discretion and sensitivity. The difficult part is figuring out what that looks like when the situation could be delicate and there might be anything from very personal medical issues to criminal behaviour involved.
Definitely not. Either l'Hôpital or l'Hospital
God Mode, from my understanding, allows a Twitter employee to have access to an account and allows for a post to be made, under that account's id, without the account being notified or seeing the post show up in their own timeline.

Is this an accurate statement?

If so, why did nearly 1000 employees (12% of the workforce) have access to this mode before it was restricted, and what's the business case for that?
P is not so special, several HTML tags do not require a closing tag. I think it's even a mistake to close "br", "hr" for example?

Even the MDN docs show "hr" examples without closing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/hr

Though they prefer to show "p" with closing tags (they mention it's optional though, and auto-close when one of several other tags are found: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/p).

HTML was designed to be written by hand as previous generations of typesetting languages. I think this is the main difference from XML, and this was the reason of a war in the 90's about making HTML a sub-set of XML: see XHTML (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/XHTM...)
White colour vehicles are often the standard colour and do not cost anything if you add a colour you may pay $100 to $500 for it. Seeing so many white vehicles may be just due to people with money issues.
You don't have to move to Asia for a cheap and decent living, you can try a modern city from the Eastern Europe or Portugal, you'll find nice communities, open with the foreigners, interesting projects, volunteering, a social and healthy life.
I don't know if other people do this (or if it's considered bad or not), but I often find myself coding error branches that in theory should never occur, and are marked in the code as such.

This serves two purposes. One, if for whatever reason you end up with a scenario you hadn't anticipated, it will be picked up and the program will exit gracefully, informing you exactly which supposedly impossible condition was violated.

The second purpose is that, often enough, inserting such an "impossible error" branch makes the preceding code much clearer.

I'm so used to this idiom, in fact, that I now rarely have an 'else' clause catching a proper fallback case, when dealing with an if/else block. I treat the fallback case via another elseif, and almost always the else simply raises an error if triggerred.
At this point, why even trust random corporation when they claim to be doing end to end encryption with some proprietary client?
It's still comes down to a matter of urgency or value perception.

You don't want your doctor to overlook any problems just because they are rare because your health is really valuable.
> The fact that I was wrong about graphemes, directly impacts the _example_ that I gave about the length of a string, but not the _fundamental principle_ of UTF-32 I was trying to convey (that you don't need to count lead bytes at the character level). Can we agree on that? If we can't, I need a more in-depth explanation on _why_ regarding this as well, and if given, that would mean I am wrong once again, and if that happens, I am fine, but it hasn't yet.

As I said in the other thread, to try to minimize confusion, consider Character and Grapheme as synonymous. They are made up of one or more codepoints. The world you’ve made up that everything is characters and they all take exactly four bytes in UTF32 is just wrong. Yes, many graphemes are a single codepoint, so yes, they are 4 bytes in UTF32, but not ALL (and it’s not just emoji’s to blame).

If what you’re on about is the leading zeros, yes, they don’t matter individually. Unicode by rule is limited to 21bits to represent all codepoints so the 11 bits left as leading zeros are wasted, which is why folks don’t use UTF32 typically as it’s the least efficient storage wise and doesn’t have really any advantage over UTF-16 outside easy counting of codepoints (but again, codepoints aren’t characters).
Would you feel better being passed around for hours, with the same result?
If they can't solve the issue, I would rather know it early and move on.
An interesting statement in a thread about widespread security weaknesses.
Most bikes with vertical dropouts have some kind of retention cutouts, so that if the QR was properly installed (i.e. holds the wheel on when closed), the QR is retained even when fully opened. You need to open it fully, then unscrew the cap a bit to make the nuts on both sides far enough apart to get outside the retention.

I don't know if that is the case on the RadRunner 2, but it's the case on most road bikes with vertical dropouts.
You're touching on an interesting point, so sharing a little data over time is less of an issue then sharing your entire life story all at once. Thinking of Facebook which slowly learned more and more details about all it's users and people where willing to share pieces of data that maybe otherwise would have shied away they would have been asked about all their data upfront.

To your second and last point: I think one can share all the data one want's the more difficult part is using said data. Under GDPR there are very tight limits on what one can use and what not, even inferred data are personal data [0] so I'd say it's a good start for framework protecting personal rights.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/02/cjeu-sensitive-data-case/