skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point about the quick release that can open too wide is well made, but to find those on a modern e-bike would be pretty strange. Usually those have been made post that particular recall. Someone might have made a Frankenstein bike but then you wouldn't expect them to sue the manufacturer.

If done properly there should be two pieces of metal hooked into the frame on either side of the shaft to ensure that it doesn't accidentally fall out, long before your wheel falls off you should see it go side-to-side and steer erratically if you don't fix it. Plenty of warning there.

And e-bikes should cut off the motor automatically if the person stops pedaling, if it doesn't then it isn't really an e-bike anymore but more of a moped. So I'm not sure what the power issue with the motor was but that sounds like a lever set to provide continuous power even absent pedal input.

As for that bike: it is't street legal where I live (and was used off road as far as I understand the article), clearly had a maintenance issue rather than a structural defect and the kid that rode it should have never been on it in the first place, these are not kids bikes.

From where I'm sitting it looks like an attempt to assign blame/grab money when blame really should be assigned to whoever let these kids have a bike like that. And if the kids did it without permission then it's on them, which is super sad because of the ending but that's what kids will do.

E-bikes with motors that powerful are not toys, and are not meant to be used by kids. It would be interesting to know if they ever took the front wheel out themselves and maybe forgot to tighten the retainer, or if they self assembled the bike.

Lawyers tend to see problems through a legal lens, and if they can blame the manufacturer they may feel that they have absolved themselves of responsibility, but in my opinion that doesn't really change anything.

Lastly, bikes are always risky. You need to keep your bikes in top condition to be safe (and that can be quite expensive compared to the same number of miles driven with a car) and you need to have some mechanical ability to spot problems. As a (hopefully responsible) parent I always look for trouble on my kids bikes and teach them about it by fixing things together. So far only one of them has fallen and that ended with a couple of scrapes (damage in the schoolyard caused a fender to come loose on the homebound trip). Ironically the person that had the worst biking accident in my extended family is me.

Finally: the bike I ride is heavy and fast enough that I looked for one with a front axle that goes through the frame rather than a dropout. This is not because I'm afraid my front wheel will drop out of the frame on its own accord but simply for reasons of strength, a shaft going through the frame is a much stronger setup than a dropout because it allows for a larger diameter shaft and symmetrically tightens up the retainer nut.
What is the point of the traffic signals? A big part of it is safety.

I promise you, no matter what cyclists are doing at red lights, cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous than cyclists.

Cyclists should obey the law, but people focusing on cyclist skipping red lights are missing the point: cars kill people, cyclists don't.

Moreover, if a cyclist causes an accident, they will almost certainly be seriously injured even if they hurt others too. Meanwhile, car drivers can expect to walk away from any low speed accident, even if they just plowed through a crowd of pedestrians.
> Have you like… ever been on a bike in a country where cycling isn't normalized? There's no need to look for these people, they'll find you

Of course, and I never claimed otherwise. I'm just saying, these articles are not those people.

> ... stuff the British tabloids make more sense when read as bad satire ...

Sure but that's different from what's happening here. The article I quoted has a particular point to make and the use of cycling as an analogy is totally incidental.

[Edit: OK, looking back, maybe some of them are just trash tabloid stories. In that case they're just saying anything at all that stirs up emotions to sell papers (it really is like Twitter). Note that many/all of them are not "cycling is bad" but "we heard some people saying cycling is bad". My overall point, don't take them too seriously, is still valid.]
git grep, vim
I prefer my own, that I wrote. But then I would. (-:
Immigrants take note of what your fellow software engineers are saying here. If you join a union and make it strong, that's what it will look like. Then they will kick you out once you help it be strong.

Watch out for tech unions.
Well... just because some countries prosecute drawings (or homosexuality... or homosexual drawings) doesn't mean there's any logic behind it. There can be enormous, totally illogical public will whipped up in favor of banning all sorts of things people consider abnormal. We can definitely have that discussion, as to what thoughts or creativity cross the boundary to criminal behavior, because likely at least some of them toe the line. But let's at least acknowledge the gradient of criminality between crimes with victims and those without, and not muddy the waters by pretending that every victimless crime is a stand-in or call to arms for a violent one. That way lies totalitarianism. Let's call it what it is when we want to jail people for having sick ideas - or for creating disgusting art: it's persecuting bad aesthetic choices. It's Thoughtcrime. Either this actually harms humans (crime) or not. Either it leads to a crime (prosecutable) or doesn't. The rest is in the realm of policing people's minds, or the future. And while some countries do that, they tend to be places people who have unique ideas to contribute don't want to live, because that type of control is never limited to one particular type of image or another, but mainly serves as an excuse for imprisoning political enemies. Those countries end up poorly because they shoot themselves in the foot by driving away anyone who might paint edgy art or say things like the earth revolves around the sun, or that God doesn't exist, for example. I'm not saying a society can't make the choice to prosecute thoughtcrime, I'm just saying it's a bad idea. And it's especially bad to mix it up with prosecuting real crime, because criminalizing thought is the onramp to the corruption that lets neighbors turn on each other, everyone bribe the police to arrest their petty enemies, and brings societies down. CSAM is an actual evil, one of the most evil things on earth. Using that fact to prosecute people for drawings or offensive speech or thought (since there is no limit to what can be found offensive - even this conversation is criminal somewhere!) is really cynical and purely for power, if you think about it.
It can be very hard to understand how to move safely on a bicycle if the infrastructure is just built for motorists. The choices of different groups are motivated by different priorities. You have to understand.

Red lights are there to make car travel faster, there is ample evidence that running redlights on bicycles can be safer. But as I said it is not always clear how to act that will make stupid mistakes more frequent.

This is a subject that is hard to discuss even in the Netherlands, were they frequently remove red lights for cyclists but still fine them until it's gone.
Just this morning I was walking down the street on a sidewalk and as I crossed in front of a driveway - having checked first - a car pulled out of the garage right up against my leg and stopped, and when I stepped away they started moving again to get close. The stuff people do in cars when they don't have right of way is absolutely deranged sometimes.
I've been to Austin and while you can definitely live without a car I don't think it's going to be ideal. It's definitely a grid city that's optimized for cars. I'm not sure about Boston, it's pretty spread out as well but it's enjoyable to walk in, I still wouldn't compare that to any city in Europe.
The Great Dropout? Why more US students are choosing careers over college
People can’t be sent home because English people don’t give a shit about their family members. Brits think that the government should provide everything for them, even something simple as looking after an elderly person who is otherwise fine. What happened to family bonds and a bit of responsibility? Every winter around Christmas young family members (40-50 year olds) refuse to take their parents home because “they don’t want them at home over Christmas as it’s inconvenient for them” so they literally demand from the hospital staff to keep them in hospital for 1 or 2 weeks longer. Unfortunately the NHS is not allowed to dump these patients on the street. The problem is brazen entitlement. The NHS needs reform. Zero tolerance for those parasites, charge people for not showing up to appointments, charge people for simple medicines, charge people for choosing to be obese through an obesity tax.
Also previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29766658
> Updated 19 November 2012 | Published 20 November 2012

Not only is this an old post published just after DO lunched - but it apparently was updated before it was published…

Anyone who was new to JS in the last five years is going to see the older syntax in this post and be like “what ‘prototype’? Why aren’t they using ‘let’ and ‘const’? Why aren’t they using forEach to loop through that array? Why isn’t this in TypeScript?”…
Facebook can scale because no correctness is needed. No QA needed actually !
The issue with the particular quick release that was deemed to be problematic is that it allowed opening so far that it could end up in the brake disc rotor. The 'lawyer tabs' prevent the whole wheel from dropping out if the quick release accidentally activates, they don't prevent the release itself from opening.
Regular bikes are lower risk to steal and easier to sell: The owner is less likely to go after you, and the purchaser also less likely to ask for proof of ownership.

Stealing a bakfiets is pretty much like stealing a car: you need to have operate in a network to make a profit. Otherwise you are stuck with an expensive stolen bicycle, with the owner very likely trying to track you, and nobody willing to buy it without you proving that you own it.
Strange Facebook bug is spamming everyone’s feed with celebrity page posts
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20171223233604/https://www.newyo...
Perhaps the voting system will handle your game just fine.
Another trick: engage the brakes, one at the time and rock the bike forward and backward, any slop will instantly show up (sometimes in places where you really don't expect it).
The Tern GSD can be stood upright, on its end, with the handlebars folded over, to reduce storage space. Not cheap but outstandingly good bikes.
I'm sure the privacy aspect of it must be very tricky; Apple collects a lot of information when using Apple Pay, and I can imagine that German banks might be hesitant to share such granular details.

Here in NL Apple Pay works fine with a lot of banks -- and they're still just Maestro cards.
Yes same here. If a facebook engineer is reading this, you need to offer a "updates from my friends" timeline, separate from the rest. Make facebook a useful tool again, and add additional functionalities in a non-ambiguous way (so either not to the timeline directly, or in another tab)

Oh and, bring back a clear way to make the timeline chronological. This is the first sign that facebook is not designed to be useful, but designed to increase engagement. Let users choose. Power users will tweak their timelines and make it chronological, while others will continue to use the default way.
You need the physical key plus a password/PIN that deletes the data after N wrong tries.
Yeah, it might very well be that they flood the timeline with crap to hide how little actual content there is left by now.

Still, this might or might not be the case. It would be really interesting to see some kind of study that would analyse how much non-commercial content is still posted on Facebook - but I guess Facebook would fight tooth and nail against anyone actually attempting that.
Cars kill someone every three seconds.
> don't know. For western European: Oh my god YES!

You are over generalising. I don't know where you are but where I am in western europe cyclist absolutely cross intersections like a vehicle.

The trick is to take control of the lane. If you are sticking to the side cars won't see you. If you take up space in front of them they will see you and include you in their calculations.

And before you or someone else jumps here to spread some fud: No i am not advocating jumping in front of cars with zero warning. Or whatever silly idea you have based on what I just wrote. I see this done all the time, and I do it fairly regularly.

You have to be seen. You have to be predictable. You have to know where you are heading.
No red lights are not a safety measure, they make car traffic go faster. Most intersections have better throughput without redlight for smaller vehicles at slow speed. As long as the speed of cars is lowered to something safe they are also a lot safer.
There's a big difference here. DALL-E (or any other similar tool) is not an artist, it is a commercial product that can produce something that might be considered art. The usage might be ok, but the product itself might not... if I paint using stolen pigments (not saying that DALL-E is alike to this), my painting would be legal, but the fact of having stolen the pigment is very illegal...
FB is on the descending end of the hype curve. Maybe they're just trying to squeeze out the last drops of revenue before it dies.
Blockchain based decentralized social networks offer the interesting option of charging a small fee for every transaction, potentially making spam unprofitable. E.g. having to pay $0.001 for every post and comment or something similar.
But this is just not feasible for something like termux. Termux is the equivalent of a Linux distribution on Android. If they would let that go there would be no reason for it to exist.

The Android way would be to publish all packages individually on the app store. Termux has tens of thousands of packages. This would simply be insane and Google wouldn't permit it.
Kodi is (can be) client for Plex, so those are orthogonal pieces of software.
Because Linux is not exposed to userspace.

All you have access to are Java, Kotlin, ISO C, ISO C++, and NDK libraries.

Nothing about Linux is public, other than APIs used by OEMs themselves.

Since Android 8, even Linux kernel drivers are considered legacy and all new ones are required to be Treble based.

All the LinuxSE, seccomp,...are also not exposed and can only be customised by OEMs.

People like to pat themselves on the back regarding Android, however it could start using any other kernel and the apps sold on official stores would at most need to be recompiled.
Read the article https://spuder.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/lack-rack/

"The 21-5/8” racks are the exact dimensions of server equipment."
It looks like classic mathematical demonstrations in old books, before they learned to use algebra for everything :-)
A lot of people have no idea of the destructive power of the three ton death machine they are in command of. For that reason I think it should be mandatory to volunteer in a crash recovery ward at a hospital for 100 hours before getting a drivers license.
The secret phrase is “Hey I’m the DD tonight, can I have just a coke?”

You’re welcome.
Is your argument for why it's not misleading "but journalists and politicians repeat what academics say"? If so that's not very convincing and exactly the kind of argument I'm talking about. Headline writers are not exactly highly trusted.

Anyway, I disagree that's true. I don't recall ever seeing a discussion of "price inflation" on it's own, headlines are always about RPI or CPI, i.e. where adjectives are used to narrow the range of prices being discussed. Even there, the definitions are certainly controversial with many prices that affect ordinary consumers being excluded, and hedonistic adjustment frequently being a source of surprise.

It's also the kind of thing that led to catastrophic economics over the past 15 years or so because central banks kept rates very low and then near zero or even negative, printing lots of money that inflated giant bubbles in housing and then the stock market. They did this because "inflation is low", due to definitionally excluding the prices that were going up. Many people have tried to sound the alarm about this and central bankers (who are usually ex academic economists) simply ignored them.

But again, really, repeating my wider point, your response is exactly the problem I'm talking about. A normal person will interpret "price inflation" as almost definitionally redundant, because inflation is a general rise in prices. There's no reason to expect anyone to interpret this as excluding wages. Same as how public health researchers define "unvaccinated" as including lots of people who have taken a vaccine, or "COVID death" in such a way as to include traffic accidents. When these people blame the reader for assuming a plain English definition, it's the sort of thing that just leads people to assume nothing academic can be trusted.
Of course not! That's why people do black-box reimplementations without ever seeing the original source code.
Sadly I think it will be the last iPhone with a home button.

Interestingly enough the site doesn't allow you to create a bigger bezel, so you have a place to put your home button.
I'd been considering working out a way to do this over Bluetooth networking for a while - have a Pi0W on a power bank in my bag, hooked up to phone over BT for when I want to test something quick on the go (ideas often happen on buses, subways, etc).

Might tinker with it this evening.
Though a left turn on small roads (e.g. in the city centre) is fine.

In many other countries, bicycles turning left are expected to move to the middle of the leftmost lane and make the turn exactly as a car would. It's hardly surprising that those countries don't have so many people cycling as Denmark or the Netherlands.
Its a horrible thing to have to manage USB for everything and yet another cable just for apple devices. I have met actually 0 people who appreciate this on Apple, everybody hates it with passion and during usual office day there is always somebody hunting for iphone cable to charge his phone.

For me, this was the reason which swayed me for Samsung galaxy S22 Ultra instead of iphone 13 pro max. Plus that fugly-as-hell notch, I mean phones look like cheap chinese phones from 2015 with it. Literally everybody on the market has figured a better way to do this.
> I spend more time tweaking types than I do writing library code.

This was basically me in a TypeScript React project, except that instead of being able to quickly iterate, instead I had to spend bunches of time messing around with types.

Of course, you could also say the exact same thing about using Java vs something like Python (though it has type hints available, of course; not that all codebases take advantage of it) and then have a discussion about what you think about strict type systems and where (front end/back end/DB) they're useful to have and in what capacity.

I guess it's one of those topics where thoughts differ, much like how some people might place a lot of emphasis on unit tests instead of integration tests, or even just (primarily) test the back end instead of bothering with front end tests, due to how much harder they can be to write, depending on the codebase.
Every time you use a street together with cars. It'd be easier to ask when it does not happen because that's the exception here
I'm reminded of https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt which is 20+ years old and remains true.

> Spam needs censorship?

Spam needs to be deleted or hidden by someone or something or your inbox/feed will be full of spam. Trying to manage this individually with keyword filters or even the more sophisticated Bayesian anti-spam is exhausting.

> But isn’t spam only profitable at scale?

Yes. So what? Spam scales. It's like cryptocurrency, you burn trillions of FLOPS of computing power to make a few cents.

> Can’t you just charge a nominal fee or something?

Fee? For Facebook? This absolutely kills customer acquisition. It has often been suggested and never worked; the only site I think that does it is Metafilter?

Facebook went in the other direction with subsidised data plans that were free to access Facebook. The economics does not permit them to charge the eyeballs to look at Facebook. On the other hand, they can't afford to let people advertise for free on Facebook, since that's the service they do charge for.

In practice this is why accounts get tied to phone numbers so often, because it's slightly more difficult to acquire another few thousand phone numbers after the first thousand are banned for spamming, than it is with IP4 addresses.
>As far as I understand it, anything a user installs with pkg that isn't included with the base system is installed into /usr/local.
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>For me, this is a nice benefit because I can know that anything installed into /usr/local can be removed and won't break the basic system's functionality. This organizational structure I think is also just very sensible imo.

I don't really see how it is relevant. First I don't see why would anyone want to randomly remove things. On my linux system everything that I compile or install by myself goes to /usr/local. Everything managed by packages goes to /usr, any thing that comes from a precompiled tarball is better installed in /opt. How is that different?

What I liked about freebsd when I was using it was the handbook that was fairly complete.
Why would you need a blockchain for this?
Same here, stopped drinking alcohol years ago, switched to non-alcoholic beers. There is a huge choice of them everywhere and local pubs are required by law to have them on offer.

Re social drinking, never felt any peer pressure, not now, not before. "The field where I grow my f*cks is barren". Don't care what others think about it.
Being able to use Svelte without having to mess with NPM packages would be neat.

(If it does not require pulling 1GB of Rust dependencies including the Rust compiler of course.)

A Svelte compiler in Rust might be a very interesting code base to work on / to study.
I think future is to use hypervisor as operating system , samsung actually did research on porting xen hypervisor to smartphones ,but was abandoned
VR is finnicky enough on Windows, adding Linux into the mix is pretty much a no-go for any game supporting it.
Rich Harris seems so nice.
Almost every anti-cycle tweet that I read nowadays is from very obvious spam bots (days old, one single topic, haphazard spelling, and typing mistakes). I blocked a few real people who were calling for killing others, and there must be someone who wants the bots to operate, but it increasingly feels like either an aggressive minority or some corporate interest that I'm not grasping.
Just checked mine and honestly not sure. It’s got more market stuff on there than normal. But beyond that it seems about normal level of broken - lots of ads and very bad AI guesses on what I may be interested in
EDRs decrease your enterprise security, unless properly hardened
> How is it that we have normalized leaving the car out at night, but not the bicycle?

In addition to the legal framework mentioned in a previous comment, cars are insured. Most bicycles are not.

I'm not sure about the availability of bicycle insurance worldwide, but in the Netherlands you will typically also buy an insurance plan if your bicycle costs more than a few hundreds of €.
Yeah I've had a police car leave a space of maybe 1.5cm between me and their VW transporter. They don't care either
Thank you for correcting me. Nothing to add in terms of AMD. But I could have sworn that there was a set of “demands” in terms of features from NVIDIA around the time I used FreeBSD on my desktop (~2010) in order to produce binary drivers back then. Perhaps I am misremembering?