skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems more about the parent's attempt at image management (cover up own failure as parents). The article does not mention any technical fault with the e-bike, instead mentioning two minors riding it at full speed on hilly ground.
Blogs don’t make sense for the most prolific creators. Here’s something I saw recently

> I gave up blogging after decades because the ROI simply wasn’t there any more. Why spend hours on a post that will get hundreds of views when a tweet composed in minutes gets tens of thousands to millions?

https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1559852146601799683

And it’s the same with Scott Hanselman, who’s quoted in that tweet. Hasn’t blogged since last year, stopped after 20 years. He’s big on YouTube and Tiktok now.
And they’re already dumping way more ammonia than this could leak directly into the ecosystem via fertilization. It’d take a lot of these leaking to have much impact. (And maybe the plants around it will do better for a bit when it does leak! :-)
> I have looked around the website and I really have no idea what this is.

Judging from the browser developer tools, something that (very slowly) sends the client stuff via a socket.
I'm no expert on 1800s London, but I'd expect the average person couldn't afford to own a horse and instead walked everywhere.
That's why heavily regulated banking is so important. Banks need to answer to the people. It's the price for being allowed to integrate into society in such a fundamental role.
Because it's his choice. Why should we care why?
A new wave of company creation [audio]
The interesting thing is I doubt the government explicitly contacted Github, it seems there's a somewhat vague "Tornado cash is sanctioned". You could imagine that Github's lawyers aren't going to take any risk. But the government could argue that Github is overreacting.
This twitter thread is excellent. Here are selected tweets to highlight the crisis from hospital and ambulance waiting times.

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"England & Wales as the only part of Europe that has recorded sustained and rising excess mortality over the last few months with no obvious natural explanation."

"Patients who waited 8-12 hours had a 16% higher chance of dying in the subsequent 30 days than average."

"This was after adjusting for a huge range of possible confounders, i.e this was not due to those patients’ characteristics, conditions etc, but due to the length of the wait."

"You may have heard almost 30,000 people waited 12 hours in English A&Es in July, but that figure actually only refers to the wait after initial assessment"

"Thanks to @Rebeccasmt’s reporting, we know that if you include all time spent waiting, 100,000 people waited 12+ hours!!"

"Take ambulance delays, for example: for emergency situations including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the average wait for an ambulance to arrive on the scene is now one hour, and 40,000 people with these sorts of emergencies waited 2 hours last month."

"As before, the peaks in ambulance-related harms broadly coincide with peaks in England’s non-Covid excess mortality.

"It’s a grim picture, and an increasingly conclusive one."
Yes, I do not expect any substantial movement for wealth redistribution on the federal (nationwide) level.
Yes and no. No customers and no owner to serve soon.
~Same story, 12 days ago, 430 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411493
“Without cellular connectivity” ≠ “without internet”.
I think people on HN forget that the biggest problem with full E2EE is individuals losing access (similar issues with crypto). I believe this is one of the big reasons (not the only one) Apple hasn't added E2EE to everything yet. Permanently losing access to health data is different than losing access to decades of pictures.
Fast client library to query Cardano blockchain written in go
A program might ultimately succeed if it invigorates the market - eventually helping to bring down the price of e-bikes. I feel like (home) solar subsidies did that.
The issue isn't about what's "right and proper" - it's a risky decision to do business with a company with this business model. Even if it's not "wrong" it's better value for a business to work with other businesses that treat them as a valued customer and not as replaceable fodder to fund an unsustainable valuation.

If Stripe want to sacrifice customer experience to chase a higher valuation that's their prerogative. But their current investors better hope they can cut and run before the core business substantially declines.
> There is no credible replacement whatsoever for what it does.

I'm compelled to agree with this under protest. There was a language called Dataphor based on D and the Third Manifesto, it's unfortunately hard to find even sample code any longer, but it would be a strict improvement on SQL.

Did I mention you can't even find a corpus? Good luck running any implementation on a modern system.

I'm reasonably content writing SQL, but I know a syntax with the same power but lacking several disadvantages is possible, and I'd rather use a mature implementation of that instead, if I were able.
Sanctions compel everyone to take sanctioned content down - not only the gov't.
As somebody else in this thread pointed out the numbers don’t stack up. This thread is subjective at best
Probably the ones least able to afford petrol though?
Doesn't the system eat itself in the end? False flag 10%, remove those users, falsely flag some more, remove them, and so on until all that's left are people who don't use it or just send pictures of their food?
But apparently only expensive and new electric bikes, not regular bikes or used bikes. And you have to make 900 euros a months, otherwise you're not worthy of assistance, but also you have to pay 60% out of pocket....
Does the web have something to do with it? Everything is photographed and put online these days, and I wonder how that affected how people think about color both on and offline.
> The EU Commission is apparently aware of the problem and is consciously accepting it.

So they're fine to read 10% of all messages? Probably more, because of context? Besides this obviously being a massive DDOS on whatever dystopian spy center of sanitary thoughts they want to build, I wonder how the big EU honchos get their free pass on that? Or didn't they simply not consider that they're going to get monitored as well?
By that interpretation, any takedown under sanctions law would be considered a first amendment violation. Which I believe the courts have already rejected.
> "Saying that this is about child protection is a blatant lie."

Why do you think this? What evidence would convince you that they are sincerely trying to protect children?

Helen Lovejoy wasn't lying, she was sincerely (but irrationally) concerned for the children.

HNers believe this conspiracy theory about their own governments (that they are deliberately secretly plotting to be despotic, and using the cover of trying to protect children) with no actual evidence, just a lot of winks and eyebrow wiggling. Complete abdication of rational thinking.
So socialised medicine works?
Obviously because of how they targeted people and not that they targeted a demographic. 13.5% of the population has access to $300, which is fine but is probably not a the typical market for expensive bikes, and $300 will only get you 5-20% off (not including a helmet).

A lot of these programs are made to sound good on campaign platforms but don’t do much at all IRL

Finding a way to subsidize conversion kits + local shops to do it would be a good way to actually help poor people https://www.autoevolution.com/news/skarper-s-revolutionary-e...
And in the meantime, I—an iPhone owner—should not be able to have group chats with my Android-using friends?

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

RCS may not be perfect, but it seems to have nice things over and above SMS. I have no objections to adding more nice things to RCS (or whatever comes after it), but why shouldn't we implement the nice things of RCS in the meantime?
It also helps criminals in government, the most dangerous of all.
You’re still disproportionately burdening the middle class versus wealthy, causing a bi-modal distribution.

A lot of these schemes to “help the poor” in fact “cement feudalism” by destroying the middle class to the benefit of elites.
This has already been ruled legal in the past.
So, where I'm at, there's at least 2 months a year where it would be miserably hot to ride a bike for any distance. At least 3 weeks this summer, it's been dangerously hot. We get about 1.5 months total of days at or below freezing. Another 1.5 where you'd really have to bundle up. Then add in days when it's snowing or icy. Then add in days when it's pouring rain.

It would probably be possible to get away with a bike around here if you lived near everything you needed and really planned things out as far as getting places early in the summer and having an emergency plan if something happened and you were stuck somewhere in the freezing cold. At least you have some time in a vehicle cab before the temperature drops dangerously low.

There's definitely places where an ebike can replace a car. There's a lot of places where it would really limit your ability to get anywhere outside of walking distance.
In the U.S. your insurance obligation will then plummet, registration fees evaporate and I suspect maintenance costs wither as well.
What evidence do you have to support this? Everything I can see suggests that they sincerely believe this will help protect children.
Because poor people need to spend a larger portion of their money just to live.
It is, and that's fine, but it's important to call out things like the search example above to people actually know what that means. There are some things where it's required, and some things where a 10x increase in how long it takes to do anything is not acceptable.
Two problems with this:

1) Like a car mechanic, these people get paid to sell you solutions and they are incentivized to sell you more.

2) Plenty or honest people have biases because of what they do. If you spend all day thinking about security you might be overly concerned about things that are actually not that risky.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t great people working in the field. But it’s daunting from an outsiders perspective.
Interesting. Runs app on the server, does final rendering of the UI's scene graph on the client (within the browser).

It's not clear from skim reading if the client side rendering is implemented with the DOM or a canvas element.

I've always thought it'd be hysterical to use canvas. The whole browser just to hoist a client side frame buffer. X-Windows reinvented.

FWIW, JavaFX is so close to The Correct Answer™. Definitely the best effort thus far. (I haven't used SwiftUI yet.)
It would always be nonsensical unless you were running on the database you were targeting (or one that contained similar data distributions).

However, with Postgres its pretty trivial to get a JSON format of the output if you needed a machine parseable answer. I don't know of a library that does this for you, but it wouldn't surprise me if one existed.

explain (format json, analyze, buffers) select 1
The poorer you are the higher a percentage of your money you typically spend.
2008 is the year Apple bought PA Semi, an independent chip design house, which formed the core of their semiconductor design team for Apple Silicon.
What will change society forever is when the hardware required to run this software is available in the latest medium/high end phone and 100's million of people can download the app to say what they want.
VAT rate isn't the same in the EU either, but each member country has to have at least 20% VAT.
Not entirely relevant since I'm in Belgium and not France, but it's a similar type of scheme with similar intent, get cars off of the road, and I think it deserves some attention.

As for some context, in Belgium we have a high tax burden on wages and one of the ways this was historically cushioned was by allowing companies to offer certain extra benefits to employees at a big tax advantage. One of these things was salary cars and it has resulted in an absolute explosion of subsidized cars among white collar workers. There's about 650000 of these cars on the road, and that's in a country of 11 million people.

About a year ago the government came up with a scheme that allows people to turn in their salary cars and receive the same tax advantaged amount in the form of a monthly mobility budget that can be spent on alternative forms of transportation. I have a little handy app that allows me to get rent scooters, do car sharing, get reimbursed a rental car. It's cumulative in the sense that whatever hasn't been spent by the end of the month, just rolls over into the next months balance. Last but not least, like the French scheme, it's allows for the purchases of e-bikes, bikes, electric motorcycles, scooters etc.

The French scheme seems a bit too binary in comparison.
As a kiwi in the US I had the opposite experience. At least where I live in New Hampshire, everything seems gray and drab compared to New Zealand.
Would federal excise taxes count as close enough to a sales tax? And for the purposes of comparing to VAT, is VAT considered an excise tax too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excise_tax_in_the_United_State...
If you're looking for a good sql library to use I did a review/survey of parsers in a bunch of major languages. Most of them are full postgres or mysql parsers.

https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-04-11-sql-pars...
Or you could sell your car, or trade in your car (+ money) for another car

It's limited to one per person anyways, it's not like the mafia was going to buy 500k cheap cars and get 500k brand new free electric bikes.
I would say it’s because we burden the middle class — causing a bimodal distribution (wealthy and poor) without any means of upwards mobility because small businesses are regulated and taxed beyond what they can sustain.
Yes, it's very important piece of Spotify's rev share model, it has arbitrage built in(!), most people are not aware of this.

Spotify pays PER STREAM, meaning that a bot account can funnel a massively disproportionate amount of revenue compared to a human one. In fact, you can generate more revenue than your subscription costs. Artists have complained about this forever, because 24/7 playlists at the gym with Justin Bieber on repeat would "steal" from the indie enthusiasts. And they are right! If I use my account to listen to one band only, my $10 contribution should go to them (modulo taxes, margins etc).

I'm sure they have "patched" some of these holes in recent times (ie some half baked abuse detection system that scammers can circumvent easily). But the per-stream principle remains, and it's such a massive incentive fuck-up from every angle, beyond salvation. And now they have (predictably) content farms and money laundering at their necks, and they're still not patching it.
Release Radar by its nature will try to recommend tracks with very few plays (if any). It is supposed to solve the "bootstrap" problem in recommendation systems.

In retrospect, I think it's more likely that Fake Fanny Mendlelssohn did NOT inform Spotify that they were a different person, and Spotify only split it out after a lot of Felix/Fanny fans clicked "I did NOT like this" when the track was put in their Release Radar.
It's certainly far from perfect, but it's still replacing cars with bicycles.
Nah,

> I should note that the data is sourced from Poland, but if you’re hoping for the situation to be any better in the U.S., unfortunately it isn’t. Over 23 percent of cars last year in the US were white and another 23 percent were black, while purple languishes, unloved, as the least popular.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car...
I have a better comparison.

It is as though we lived in a world where, like our own, Lisp invented garbage collection. But unlike our own world, in 2022, Lisp is the only garbage collected language anyone uses. Others were invented but that mostly stopped by the 80s.

Many people would like to replace Lisp, and keep in mind this is Lisp so lexical scope is only available in some implementations and people who want cross-platform compatibility don't use it. But without it, you have to manage your own memory.

That's SQL and relational databases. Relational databases with ACID guarantees aren't optional, they aren't a nice-to-have, they're foundational.

And we talk to them in SQL because... we talk to them in SQL.
Government spending is neither fixed nor wholly paid for via taxes (a lot of it is deficit spending). So while it's a stupid group to give a tax break to it's not necessarily a tax burden increase on the rest of us.

Heck, if we stopped being world police or fixed our healthcare we'd have a bunch of slush money on the table for whatever boondoggle tickles your fancy.
Sooo... are they trying to destroy HC so they can rebuild it as the monstrosity we have here in the USA?
It's in the home page sidebar on old.reddit.com, or perhaps on /r/all only.
The calendar demo I tried was quite slow as well.
They talk about this being a known industry issue. It isn't. I hope the family finds another way to go through bereavement.
> No topic variation

Seems like an useless study then because most people would consider me antisocial but even I can rapid fire stupid generic smalltalk responses and questions which may very well have been that "constant topic" in the study because I know no other topic that literally anyone can talk about with such fast response times that you don't even have time to think.
You're still taking significantly less from the wealthy. Where then is money for the universal cash benefit coming from?
What legal and security reasons exactly?
"The whistleblower also says Twitter executives don't have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to."

I imagine this hurts Twitter's defense against Musk from pulling out of the takeover deal, or, is this whistleblower's account inadmissible?
What modern (last 10 years) web framework makes it difficult to have links be links?
I just noted: such «small library of 1000 volumes [which would] weigh around half a ton», in chars would be the capacity of a CD. Which would be, 550kg for paper vs 0.016kg for a CD - 35'000 times the weight.

Of course, other storage systems today would boost that number - though the dimension of the embedded library would be gigantic (one unity of measure above).
So they waited until now to do a co-ordinated mass de-platform of a single user to happen. Until a large enough mob and media outrage develops, all these platforms execute a mass ban. As what happened to others, this sort of co-ordinated action can happen to anyone else. Immediately guilty as charged.

But it doesn't matter, it is part of the dystopian big tech ideal that if the social media mob want you banned on one platform due to a ToS violation, then you will be banned everywhere else and there is no redemption as they find more 'villains' of the week to get clicks, outrage and as many eyeballs as possible.

So you will have no say and you will be still happy. [0]

[0] https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/wefs-global-...
Can't wait for an ideologue to use the situation to push their partisanship into an unrelated conversation by projecting their actions onto their ideological foes.
I've not lived in either but I've traveled through Switzerland and Denmark (and a few other European countries) and hotels and food were 75% to 100% more expensive or so in Switzerland than anywhere else including Denmark.

My brother lived in Switzerland and France (though not Scandinavia) and mostly confirmed that Switzerland has unnaturally high CoL for the area.
He was saying the USA should leave NATO. In our day and age you should be arrested as traitor for saying that. The man is an idiot.
To be fair this hasn't been the case for many years.
I don't think it is the manufacturer's fault and I don't think it's the parents' fault either.

The bike isn't marketed towards children specifically; the parents could not have predicted the front wheel coming apart, maybe it was the 100th ride the kids went on that bike.
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If you could find media content from the manufacturer that explicitly markets to children, or is exemplifying dangerous and reckless usage of their product, then they could have a case.
Won’t somebody please think of the imaginary children?
Java in the Browser, February 1996 edition:

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I don't think letting your 11 and 12 year old alone on an e-bike (or any motorised vehicle) is a good idea, but what do I know.. I checked, and this bike is not even marketed to children.

Sue-ing the manufacturer is insane in my eyes.
> For one, it costs more money to dye the plastic or paint/anodize the metal.

Ironically, I suspect the reason is exactly the opposite: that colour is now essentially free compared to grey/muted. I certainly don't think people are buying grey carpets, on balance, because it's cheaper.

It used to be that it was difficult to colour things significantly. In the long distant past, you can think of "royal purple" being so expensive that only the real elite have access to it. In early 20th century, that's no longer exactly the case but still I would expect colour fabric is somewhat expensive, so it's still the preserve of a richer class. When it become accessible in the mid 20th century, it becomes popular as people still think of it as being more premium. Finally, another generation comes along that doesn't think of deep colour as being a premium product (because everyone has it) and either rebels or just evaluates it on its actual merit.

None of the above is backed with any actual evidence. But that's certainly how elite clothing has progressed i.e. why world leaders wear grey suits today instead of elaborate coloured gowns.
Why do the marginal rates have to be set to disproportionately burden the middle class versus the wealthy?

I would think an exponential function would easily prevent this.
Honestly, I don't think it's any easier than in the late 90s.

If you research well enough and get components that work together (or are just lucky), then it will work, if you put it together correctly, otherwise it won't.

I mean, there are Youtube videos that probably help if you've never done it, and then you still sometimes make these small errors that you make if you don't do it all the time. I certainly had to reassemble everything twice due to some cabling mistakes (new case) and not having done it in like 7 years because the hardware just won't be obsolete so fast.

But I can totally understand why people would not find it easy. Mainboard manuals are still mostly a joke of a few sketches, you can be lucky if your case has a single sheet of instructions, there are now even more different sorts of screws, etc.pp.