skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not dutch, but Chris Hemsworth could perfectly fit in the role of a --slavic-- people in an history of slavery. The first slaves with that name where white. In this particular case the history is easily translatable to a different location.
Also: Methalox rockets are proving to be a better choice than hydrogen powered rockets, and while you could store methane in that tank, it's about the most expensive way possible to store methane per litre.

More SLS brain damage.
My position, for what it's worth, is that it doesn't matter one inch what the actors are, if the quality in general is good. They could be cats and dogs and I would enjoy it if it was Good. That some of them are black is so irrelevant that it's, frankly, fucking absurd to even talk about it.

Rings of Power, as far as I can tell after watching a single episode, wouldn't be good even if every single detail was exactly as Tolkien imagined it. Because the quality is just not there.

I'll be watching it to the end though, it's not impossible that it might become good.
This is one of the many reasons why I NEVER buy any type of HW that requires a cloud account to even function. There is no sales pitch or value proposition so good that it can overcome this downside of Cloud/IoT in practice.

I was looking at a weather station recently that used some pretty innovative sensor hardware but then it only works with a cloud account. Literally if you want the data on your phone, you have connect the station to your internet connection, let it upload the data to the cloud, and then have your smartphone download it again. A thousand-mile trip for a 10 foot distance. F___ that noise!

When you live in an area with spotty internet service, this is utterly Epic Fail.

So it was an automatic no-go. No sale on that fine weather station. Hope you go broke!!

Instead I'm building a system from scratch with professional grade components that use 4-20 mA wire links that I'm connecting to an RPi. The cost for the components is definitely higher but they are the same as what the NWS uses. And I can chose whether to upload or share any of the data. And I will have access to MY DATA for as long as everything powers up and operates.

F___ companies that require cloud access to your own data

F___ engineers who design such abortions
Thanks for the heads up and the subsequent discussion.
>there's gotta be a reason they chose moratorium...

There was no way this was going to be allowed to happen during the worst of covid.
That sounds rather Euro-centric. Non-majority-white countries are also heavily represented in academia - China, India (and most of Asia, really), and the Middle East pop to mind - whites don't enjoy "intersectional privilege" there.

In fact, at most scientific conferences, Antarctica is usually the only continent not represented, so it's doubly unusual for academics to suddenly become so blinkered.
What a vapid article from someone who cares far too much about conventional appearances.

E-bikes are fantastic for a ton of different uses. It’s not supposed to be a motorcycle and it’s explicitly not supposed to be exercise equipment.

I feel like the author just hates themselves and is trying to sound snide about e-bikes tbh.

I agree it doesn’t have the same aesthetic flair of a badass motorcycle or a Vespa, but that’s a lot of whining about it for someone who apparently doesn’t own either of those things and is mad that the e-bike they bought didn’t make them as cool as they had hoped.
Your complaint has virtually nothing to do with the article, which is about a widespread and serious problem in academia. It's not about wokeism; it's about labs in which PIs berate and grind down postdocs and employees. You won't find many academic STEM professionals that don't have horror stories, and there are whisper networks about which PIs to avoid.

The topic of "whiteness" comes up in a small section of the article that discusses the fact that there has been far less reporting of the phenomenon than would be expected from how "open" this secret is. You can agree or disagree with whether whiteness or maleness has much to do with it, but you can't reasonably disagree with the broader point of that section of the article: academic STEM research is way worse than you'd expect looking at it as an outsider.
Think about all the work done by people that you are discounting...
Ask HN: Anyone using elixir in production?
Looking for stories / experience / learnings from people who are using elixir on systems in production. I’ve read a few articles from discord and others who use elixir, would like to get a fresh more up to date perspective from software engineers about the pros and cons of using elixir. What problem are you solving and how does elixir help you? What’s the infra/deployment story like?

I’m currently learning it so I can build a custom notification system which it seems great for.
Why even use stdlib? Or an OS? Just write everything every time down to the bare metal.
If the work is repetitive I'm not sure you can say it was good experience. Your time would have been better spent learning or creating, I assume. No reason to want your children to work.
Best comment yet but zero replies. Would love to hear about how you jumped into 2m$ roles after working at FAANG. Is that still consulting?
I worked at an ai startup that was trying to generate products to sell. The AI engineers didn’t understand that the image isn’t useful, but only good for judging whether the design looks good. It needs to spit out json schematics for the product in a way a specific manufacturer can understand.

There’s also the problem that AI can’t be specific. I can’t design merch with a specific video game logo or band name. The output always has that “AI dream residue”.

This is a useful tool only for creative inspiration.
This person also wrote "There is no anti-mimetics division", a terrifying SCP file.
Just build it on AWS lambda, so you pay for a whole VM for each concurrent request. Progress!
Placebo? Situation changing day-to-day? Diet? All kinds of variables. But in this particular scenario, likely placebo.

If I tell someone that a tablet will make them able to do something and it's just a sugar pill, they'll likely be able to do it. The blocking factor is usually a confidence issue.
I would guess because the notion of telling children hard truths is not the key issue in this event, and you're kind of taking a moment for animal rights advocacy which people can find obnoxious. Both are an important topic for discussion, for sure.
Papers, please.

Some banks used to take a thumbprint when you cashed a check in person. Very few do that now. When they did it, it was more symbolic than useful, because they didn't have a useful checking system. Today, if banks took fingerprints, they'd find out more than they wanted to know, because immediate lookup is possible. It's not their job to filter the entire population for warrants and illegal aliens.

In-person identification is getting really good. Here's HIKvision's new ID unit.[1] Face recognition, iris recognition, fingerprint recognition, and RFID card recognition in one convenient iPad-sized unit. Iris recognition now works at 70cm range, so it can be used routinely. In China, there is no right to be anonymous.

Worth noting: credit card companies absorbing losses varies by country. The US is pro-consumer on credit card fraud, but not on debit card fraud. This differs by country.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29_WWuntxs
The only things here that concern a business using the product are price point and if there's an offramp in case it's discontinued. Business are used to paying for tools, have internet connectivity with at least three nines of availability, don't care that a vendor is measuring tool usage, and are satisfied by the contract that says how their code can be used.

Even at an individual level, people were paying for Turbo Pascal in the 80s and 90s.
If you aren't getting enough heat from whatever this fuel-cell thing is, you would just run another heat source. You could in fact just run a regular heat pump at that point, which would get you more heat for the house.
Well, green revolution have saved billions of lives literally. The food might be a little shittier than before, but it is cheap and scaled well (also, the patents have long since expired).
The parents were the ones who confiscated someone else’s property when the goat was sold. But yeah, I agree, they do, you’re barking up the wrong tree if you think you’re going to stick it to me with ACAB sentiment because I am no fan of the state or police. I am a fan of honoring contracts and sales.
What color skin did his father have?
What would you propose instead?

There were only these options:

1) Use Russian gas.

2) Build pipelines via Turkey and risk different dictators.

3) Build an enormous overcapacity for LNG via sea and eat the extreme differential in prices.

4) Build nuclear power plants and generate remaining necessary gas from hydrogen reforming.
I agree. I chose to focus about stable because that's where Debian "does all the tests" for its packages. I just threw in testing because it happened to have the same version of Firefox, but maybe that muddied the waters a bit.

The fact that the latest Firefox is in rolling release distros/channels but not in stable ones does prove the point a bit; you can either get a new Firefox, or you can get a tested Firefox. I generally prefer rolling releases, but I've had Firefox break in weird ways on Arch from time to time. The only way to get a Firefox that's both well-tested and up to date is to use builds from Mozilla where libraries are bundled, such as with a snap or flatpak.
And expected utility (and decreasing marginal utility of money) does a good job of explaining why most people would change behaviors as you scale the numbers involved even if you keep the ratio of expected values the same.
> actively marketing their ... quality

I'm reminded of a certain idiom about a thing you can't polish.
To contra the author, my partner who had ridden a bike once in the 10 prior years is now making 2-3 5 mile trips a week on an ebike.

To align with the author, the assist levels allow safer travel on streets, you no longer slow below 10mph on a hill. I was already beating cars off the line on a bike, now I can start and even switch lanes before cars are barely moving.

And it is definitely exercise, and you can choose levels of assist if you want to make it easier. A stationary bike also makes exercise easier, I hope the author writes down those next /s.
Duh you can't visit, the place/organization doesn't exists since 1966...

What you can visit, is the spiritual successor (debatable), which is Center for Contemporary Music (CCM).
Reading the first page of user reviews on RT, one thing I found interesting is that the low and high reviews said similar things.

The high reviews praise the set, setting, and production value.

The low reviews also like the set, but claim they spent too much on production value, and nothing on writing.
HomeKit is no better. You are merely trading one dubious supplier for another. Both can lock you out, intentionally or by accident.
I was thinking of making a site like this for the opposite ;p. "we work in person". Tired of this scam of remote working. (I understand it works well for some people and companies)
Just tried on firefox for android and it is working for me. Can you try again or from any other browser?
Do you have a citation on this assertion? I'm pretty sure when he said anything about it being a fake-prehistory, he said it was global prehistory.

He drew heavily from the European sources he knew, but I don't recall any implication that it was meant to be Britain or Europe only.
The way this article reads, goat was confiscated prior to auction.
It’s a custom PC, they’re lucky it wakes from sleep at all.
Why the obsession with total registered users? Do Twitter or Facebook even publish that data? I cannot find it. Every number they use is based on MAU or DAU. Which is because the registered users number is quite meaningless. It just goes up over time. Spammers, bots, multiple accounts, banned accounts. No business or service has a 100% retention rate. Half a million MAU is not the scale of Twitter, but it's not nothing, and it's way more people than you'll ever want to have in your home feed.
My best guess is they were looking for me to admit some negative emotion that I had when receiving criticism— but without being asked to describe negative feelings directly. In one example, I genuinely considered the criticism of a project helpful and unrelated to me as a person. In another I was far more concerned with my report’s experience than my own, so I didn’t bother mentioning it.
I'd long assumed that writing success was mostly a function of exponential returns on randomly-assigned initial success[0], so as someone who tries to practice Active Open Mindedness[1], I mentally noted this mere hours ago:

> I’m always suspicious that everything is fake and good writers aren’t actually good and it’s just a social conspiracy to believe that they are, but these results are a vote in support of our existing writer-identification-institutions (are they all Substack? I guess it’s just Substack)[2]

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full....
[1] https://rufuspollock.com/2017/12/10/tetlock-gardner-2015-sup...
[2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-contest-20...
In the case of the recent fast tracked FDA trials for MDMA assisted therapy, I believe those trials were being led by a non-profit organization, and they don't have any interest in patenting the drug, let alone selling it. Their interest is in the therapy aspect of it, for which cheap and readily available MDMA is a high priority. So yeah, the pharma industry isn't going to be profiting off of it, at least for MDMA.
Logical fallacy of composition/division. My comment isn't being applied to all these other scenarios, it is being applied to the topic at hand—psychedelics.
Actually thinking about it the conversion scheme (DC -> AC) used by the utility scale operator might be a bit more efficient. They'd care a bit more about getting that last 0.5% or 0.1% of gains than a residential customer.
There was this "Star Trek" game for the early PC. (Fly your ship around, defeat bad guys, dock at starbases...)

Pretty sure they managed to use every character in the character set, and every color as well.

It was real time, and even had good sound effects (for a raw PC speaker).

And it was unplayable off of a 4.77MHz machine.

Can't remember the name, but I recall it fondly.
It may be significantly worse in research:

1. PIs are under incredible pressure themselves

2. PIs are as a rule not formally trained in management, nor have they tended to "apprentice" in middle-management positions

3. Research is heavily reputation-based, which creates huge power disparities between employers and employees: lab employees need references from their employers, who can withhold them for capricious reasons

4. All of these factors also applied to the PI themselves, when they were starting their career, so it's normed; PIs may see it as a form of "dues-paying"

These dynamics are not in fact present in most ordinary market jobs. The jobs where the dynamics are at play --- say, as an assistant to a producer at a media company --- are notorious for it.
> lucky

Sure, it’s a stochastic process. But it’s also not stationary. Providing an agglomeration incentive for those who believe they have non-stationary characteristics is a valid strategy.
When was the goat sold at auction?
DuckDuckGo can generate QR codes for URLs
A mistake!

lol
After installing Microsoft flow on my laptop I had the same occurrence where it would randomly start in my bag.

Used powercfg to troubleshoot and saw the problem was with Microsoft flow and so I disabled it
C++ Puzzlers
No because each event is independent.
> he posits that bikes traveling 20-30mph will tempt riders to try and join traffic. who wants to tell him that that’s how fast human-powered bikes already go?

Maintaining 20-30 mph on even land takes enough effort, except perhaps on a road bike, that I doubt most commuters or utility cyclists regularly ride at those speeds for length, let alone in urban environments. A fit road cyclist will probably reach those speeds, of course, but I don't think that's what the author contrasted e-bikes with.

The article does seem perhaps a bit weird and the title is clickbaity but I can see how an e-bike at those speeds could be a bit of an inbetweener.

It's probably worth noting that if there's anything the article is probably quite right about, it's the relatively ambiguity of the entire concept of the e-bike. In many jurisdictions at least in Europe, e-bikes are legally limited in terms of powered speed (25 km/h where I live -- you can ride faster but the motor can't give power beyond that). In some jurisdictions they don't seem to be legally limited at all. There's a big difference between a bike that runs at normal commuter/utility bicycle speeds but helps you do that and what is essentially an electric moped.
Sure, they probably had a previous agreement assuring the auction, but it wasn't the police's job to make that decision.

They're the executive, not the judicative. A judge would've had to make this assertion, which clearly didn't happen as they didn't have a warrant.

The officers still drove all over the state into a different jurisdiction (while using taxpayers money). They likely could've gotten the goat without making it into such a shit show, that's exactly the point I was trying to make.
Why would they consider the situation that it would not alter the course?
This is such a myopic take from The Atlantic. The ebike is a monstrosity IN AMERICA where there is little infrastructure for bikes. In Europe, it is changing the face of mobility for many for whom car ownership is out of reach.

Americans live in a world of subsidized petrol - a world that will come crashing down sooner or later. If gas is $10/gal maybe you won’t be so concerned about how cool you look with a battery on your bike frame.
Which of those helps day to day? I’m always going to say the latter lol
An rsyslog(d) syslog forwarding setup for Grafana Loki (via Promtail)
> hydrogen fire has no color and is only noticeable when something else starts to burn

I used to work at a company that had a hydrogen workshop. There were UV detectors all over the place to detect hydrogen flames. It was always fun berating the occasional poor sap who fired up the arc welder without making the area hydrogen-safe and pausing the detectors in the area. This inevitably resulted in evacuation of the building and the arrival of a special firefighting unit equipped to deal with hydrogen fires, all at great cost to the company.
Ah, right, because the objects that denote one a cyclist are not per se "status symbols", because...?
The article then immediately goes on to say

>Note that bullying appears to be related to power differentials more than to gender, meaning that the reason why perpetrators are overwhelmingly male is because men disproportionally occupy powerful academic positions. Obviously, women in powerful positions can be bullies, too [[29, 30]].
i got rid of my car right before lock down, and i have use a cargo ebike for about 1 year. i'm shocked at how much in the way of groceries i can carry. the 3 months of 100+ temps did make me regret not having AC, but don't miss the monthly fees related to the car. i was getting killed by the delivery fees that made me pull the trigger on the ebike. i could have a 2nd ebike for the delivery fees
Only if you are unaware that long HVDC interconnects already exist and have known, and low, losses,
I have a similar weird behavior where if I push in or out my chair from under my computer desk, my USB devices would disconnect and reconnect. My wild guess is that my secretlabs chair has some sort of magnet that’s causing it.
If that section has little to do with the content of the article, why include it considering it's obviously inflammatory point?
the company may not want to hire a contractor but only have regular employees that just happen to be living outside of the country.
Perhaps AI text-to-STL file, ready for 3D printing prototypes?
The pain of getting finance to approve recurring charges is quite real.
The black bald fairy is just a stunt to create fake controversy, to sell tickets.

And if any children read this, let me tell you that either you run to ask money to your parents and go to itchy and scratchy land, or you are a bunch of little racists. You are warned. Gimme money.
Money is everything to me because I'm not getting younger and I don't want to toil forever. I stopped caring about almost everything except my growing family.
> Anything 11th gen or newer locks libreboot or coreboot out.

Not all OEMs are doing this. (And some are even shipping 11th generation with coreboot). But you're right in that it's making things worse.
I weep at the number of seemingly illiterates reading this and coming away mad because they think it says "ebikes are bad".

Edit to answer hawski's question:

The author has properly identified many, probably even most, challenges facing us as we try to integrate ebikes into our societies. Some of these are fundamental contradictions in what we ask. They don't work like bicycles; they don't work like any other motorized vehicle. For both commercial and ecological reasons we would love for them to take on a larger role but this is unlikely until such contradictions are resolved, which also requires acknowledging them across a variety of domains (legal, technical, cultural).

As to the responses, I feel like people are jousting with some hypothetical version of themselves who they imagine would write this article, rather than what's actually written. Constant projection of the article saying some people will be concerned about X, to thinking the author is passing some judgement on ebikes due to X. Ian Bogost's for lack of a better word, schtick, for the past decade has been making a problem of what seems to be some kind of mundane ontological situation. That he's decided to turn his eye on ebikes this time says of his personal life only that he's recently gotten an ebike. (When it's about, like, shipping crates, HN eats this shit up despite it being equally indulgent!)

Edit again: You can even see the discussion recapitulating his points of contention as they're also mostly agreeing the article is bad. Total projection.
the best hard boiled eggs I've made are with the measure water to steam heat them (and have device auto turn off when water runs out). they come out hard but creamy in a way i've never gotten from dunking them in water. unitasker device, but works oh so well for what it does.
I always think self taught is a better pathway. You gain more experience making mistakes and learning from them that way. You also pick up more “best practices” by learning how shitty your bad practices of the past were.
Oh hey - that's new.
I think that's a Google-specific problem.

If Apple comes out with AR glasses with cameras, no one will bat an eye. (And if they do, Apple will already have a great story for why it isn't an issue.)
I can imagine that is true. I think OP has some rationale, but he/she has done very little second order thinking of the consequences of such isolation. It's very easy to make such harsh armchair statements on the Internet, but I think more reflection is needed.
Not sure how well that's supported by the empirical evidence there buddy.