skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ordinary upright/city bicycles have significant controllability problems at high (>50 km/h) speeds compared to e.g. cars. I think that's where "even bicycles" comes from, in this context.

(Why am I using >50 km/h as the benchmark? Because that's the sort of speeds you easily end up at if you try to keep up with cars downhill.)

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Edit: it seems that people are missing critical words in my comment:

- "Ordinary upright/city bike" means "not road/touring/etc bikes". They are constructed differently and comfortably do well over 50 km/h.

- "Downhill" means significant gravity assistance for a few seconds up to a minute, and not "sustained under pedaling power alone". I'd be impressed if you regularly did 50 km/h on the flats with one of those bicycles.
I don't understand why you and everyone else put so much focus on Google. AV1 is developed by the AOM, so why would Google be receptive to criticism of AV1? Why is it Google's responsibility to develop AV2? People keep directing (well-deserved) criticism of Google towards AV1/AOM, and in your comment you're directing criticism of AV1/AOM towards Google. Is Amazon, Cisco, Intel, Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, ARM, Netflix, Samsung, Facebook, etc etc. truly so insignificant in this that AOM and Google are basically one and the same? Why would that huge group of absolutely enormous companies let themselves be bossed around by Google?

Regarding patents: my understanding is that AV1, like VP9 but unlike H.265, is unencumbered by patents, and you can use AV1 in products and FOSS projects without paying a license/royalties. Is this incorrect? If so, why has nobody updated Wikipedia? They still list AV1 as a royalty-free codec. If it truly is just as parent encumbered as H.265 then I agree with all the criticism, and our best bet is to stick with the very first version of H.264 (whose parents will expire next year) and JPEG. Because surely any patents which apply to AV1 also apply to its predecessors VP8 and VP9.
I laughed -- you're correct.

It's so hard to say what a perfect 10 (or 1) is, that one could say that part is... subjective.
I never used Remix, why is it worth it investing in Remix?
…says a single study.
Facebook’s monopoly is imploding
Why not? The same brushless motors could be also used to brake the scooter could they not?
Largely because the people on scooters ignore traffic laws. I'm in an area of Atlanta where they are still allowed, and the riders regularly run stop signs and red lights without checking if a car is coming.
Kind of did, indirectly. Wasn't the shop operating at a loss to boot out the competition?
No Google. Comp Sci bookstores only in major cities with universities.
4GLs were state of the art (I worked on DataFlex) and OOP was new and strange to the broader market.
90-hour work weeks and constant crunch time. Pay divided by hours barely better than McDonalds
Has anything happened from it?
If one believes that autonomous cars with no limitations on environment will never exist, then no progress will get us any closer to infinity.
Good. We need to keep usable electronics out of landfills. A 10-cent capacitor fails and the entire device gets trashed. That's nonsense.
A helmet has probably saved my life several times when riding my bike. In all cases, it was only me, my bike, and my idiocy involved, no third parties. All it takes is a little bit of loose gravel where you don't expect it, or a wet stone in the path that's a bit slippier than expected.

Bicycles with helmets are fairly safe. Without helmets? No way, I'm not riding without a helmet. But scooters without helmets are much worse, I wouldn't dare go much more than 10mph on a scooter without a helmet.
Appreciate the link and it was an interesting read, but being biased does not make them extremists.
Well, https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont
The average speed system has an advantage for drivers: if there's congestion in one section, you can make the time up on the later stage of the road (because there tends to be no live enforcement).
Artists do too.
It was a special club that you had to earn your way into.
If you made business apps, then in some ways it was quite similar to today. You built a backend server sitting on top of a database, and and client app with a UI that made calls to the backend. You would have backend and frontend developers, just like today. The difference of course was that you built it on a totally different tech stack. If (like me) you worked with the Microsoft tech stack then you built everything as a native Windows app.
Is it legal to ride on them on the sidewalk? Where I live it is not. It is, in fact, dangerous for walking humans to coexist with scooters on the sidewalk. I personally had many close calls and a few bumps. The close calls would have been serious, possibly fatal, had I not jumped out of the way.
1. Regen braking
NASA proved in the 70s that some microorganisms survive atmospheric rentry. In fact, they could not possibly be killed by any means known to man, except for some enormous cosmic event with very powerful radiation / cosmic rays. This was done to question the idea of it being "safe" or not to travel in space or other planets, if it is possible to "scrub" our ships clean and avoid bringing germs with us. Apparently thats not 100% possible, some critters survive space and the harshness of re-entry just fine.
I mean, they aren't. The amount they are giving to this Information Equity Fund is a small portion of the endownment they are building up; plus it's not "random", it's something they decided was mission-aligned. You disagree with that assessment, but it's not "random"; they've always given other grants too, and continue to, I'm not sure if you and others are opposed to _all_ granting from wikimedia or just disagree with this particular choice. You are allowed to disagree with this particular choice without being required to object to all granting of course -- I feel like people are feeling compelled to argue that wikimedia ought to never give any grants to any third parties, when they really just don't like this particualr choice. There is no reason for such a compulsion. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start

But meanwhile... fund-raising to build up a "rainy day" fund of 5x your annual operating budget is... just not something non-profits generally do. It's certainly not standard practice. Of course most organizations wouldn't be able to pull that off even if they decided it's a goal, most orgs don't have the capacity to fund-raise an extra 50%+ beyond their operating budget "just in case". I think it's debatable whether it's a wise or responsible use of funds or a good goal.

So I disagree with both of y'all!
I got this from reading Supreme Court rulings.
> As you say it is technically the solution.

No, I said technically people will adapt and take the shitty and overrun public transportation because there's no other option. It's not a solution because it often drastically increases travel time, put people in danger because public transportation without proper security is much more dangerous, and overall it will rightfully piss people off.

The solution is improving public transportation. This isn't something that people are advocating for. They just want the cars out.
Blazor to be honest.
I got burned bad by both Vue and React, and the constant changes on the "right" way of doing stuff.
"Did not pass?" Well, but that is rather obvious. The palette is complete garbage. Why did anybody up-vote this post?
I have an account but I can't remember last time I logged in.

Maybe it is users that are forced to use it to check some restaurants or likes Facebook page? And even then be annoyed about the popups...
Thanks for that comment, but one small thing - in the military it's really not 'planning' so much as it is 'training' (or 'preparing').

This actually makes the analogy a bit closer to startupland.

The #1 factor in terms of predicting project outcomes is the 'quality of the people', so 'training' speaks to that.

This is why I believe good early stage startups are so often focused on teams, not business models, because the later will change as the team orients dynamically towards 'something that works' and the analogy is right there for software as well.

Embarrassingly, I'm working on a project now that would have been done 4x quicker were I to have known at the start what I do now! But that's how it works.

This is quite a bit different than 'premature optimization' however ... but maybe it's related in terms of idioms and architecture, which are derived from experience.

A good dev/architect can probably identify the 'roughly appropriate architecture' very quickly for something, which is the expression of a lot of built-in knowledge, and might encapsulate a lot of things. Aka: 'yeah we don't need protobuff for that or anything fancy, it's not worth it, just use json over http and you're good' etc.
Journalists, especially political ones, gets impersonators. Usually with intention to harm you and your reputation. That is why, so that impersonator does not have blue check.
A limited exchange between a subset of current nuclear powers is even less deadly. If we assume China, India, and Pakistan, who all have nukes, don’t participate then the worlds economy might not collapse. Similarly an exchange between India and Pakistan would only disrupt most of the world if it involved salted nukes or similar horrors.

On the other hand WWII involved most of South America, Africa, and Asia to some degree. If WWIII got similarly out of hand then nukes might take out all of the worlds chip making capacity, oil refineries, and deep sea ports as strategic assets making thing far more unpleasant.
You read it backwards. He claimed 10-1 managers-to-devs.
"Pass through GPU configuration" means that GPU memory is mapped directly into guest address space in hardware.

Bandwidth from a VM partition should be identical to that from the root partition.
A speed governor is not draconian. Limiting things to the maximum speed on federal roads would be a start. Further location based speed enforcement would require some investments.
I think they meant the scooters have firmware which can limit the top speed of the rider.
That was quick.

Probably better for the planet this dying quickly.
> never

Never?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
Elon doesn't understand that software companies aren't about the tech but the people.

Wouldn't be surprised if Twitter loses some 9s & other quality and a competitor eats their lunch with a clone. Reminds me of the death of Digg.
Don't forget wet leaves. I was riding my bike well after it had rained, and most of the path was dry, but there was a shady spot under a tree that still was wet and I basically lost all traction on it. Only time I ever "used" my helmet.
Do cars collide with people on sidewalks that frequently?
I think we have to adjust our understanding of what 'using' Facebook means.

Despite its flaws FB has done a good job of layering useful products on top of the social network despite the original purpose of Facebook seemingly losing popularity. In my circles, the typical news feed and posting updates part of Facebook is pretty much dead, and I never use those features personally anymore. BUT Marketplace, Messenger, and niche groups are all very valuable. It's changed from 'something cool' to a utility.

Also, given these DAUs are measured in billions and there are users all over the globe, chances are usage in different parts of the world and for different ages and demographics looks incredibly different.
> Conventional languages follow a pattern and you can get somewhere because the syntax will seem vaguely familiar if the paradigm is the same.

Got it, so all languages should look kinda similar so you don't actually have to learn them to grok the code.

Let me guess, you also dislike Lisp, Smalltalk, and Haskell?
There's been a push since 1997 at least to have gatekeepers added to the Internet.

All kinds of politicians, international and national, including Hillary Clinton (senator and Secretary of State, 3rd or 4th in line to the Presidency) have been saying for 20 years they want gatekeepers.

There were laws passed that specifically enabled consolidation and centralization.

You figure that congress and the senate "just happened" to pass those laws?
Ive always wondered how electric scooters would fare if they were speed limited. Something like 6-9MPH (~15km/hr) . It's still much much faster than walking, but still about 1/2 the top speed currently observed.
Yeah, I've asked them to escalate and if that doesn't work, this is pretty much where I'm headed next.
What does VanillaJS get you over jQuery? The only practical argument I can think of is the performance improvement of not loading another library and loading all the extra KBs.

But nearly every Shopify website’s hero image itself would completely dwarf any bandwidth concerns jQuery might cause.

In the meanwhile, jQuery is a much better known API among developers, there’s far more and higher quality documentation and snippets available in it on the internet, and there are fewer foot guns.

jQuery easily seems the superior choice over VanillaJS, with very few downsides given Shopify’s use case.
Pretty much word for word what I say about Mozilla and their constant "need" for more money.
Most people cannot ever get to that, hence the whole "enjoy the journey not the destination". When I read your post the main takeaway I got is you made too much money.

Tell me if you started from scratch right now you'd be worrying about this 2deep4u shenanigans instead of doing cool shit again?

By the way, I really respect your work and think you've done great things and enjoy reading your rambles a lot.
"Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

(Shapes: Man in Hole, Boy Gets Girl, Cinderella)
> He walked free because of some jurisdiction bullshit and his judgement is pending retrial to this day.

Collaboration between prosecution and judges [1] is not bullshit.

Also his judgement is not pending. Some charges were dropped by the new court because there were not enough evidences and the other case is now prescribed [2].

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/04/brazil-crimi...

[2] https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/juiza-federal-do-df-reconh...
The catpuccin/vscode repo does have screenshots. They're collapsed under the "Previews" header, so you have to click each of the variants you want to view. Annoying, but they're there.

https://github.com/catppuccin/vscode
What about six years until the country gets liberated again?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_government-in-e...
Yes. And WCAG applies to webpages.
8 weeks is impressive for something like that, and it goes to show just how powerful our off-the-shelf tools have become.

I think it's also a bit scary, because 8 weeks is very little time for testing, tuning, and validation of something as opaque as a machine learning model. If it worked right the first time, that's great. But there is still a lot of inherent uncertainty in ML projects. Decision makers need to take that uncertainty into account when planning.

That, or, the 8 weeks only covers the final training runs and the implementation/deployment, and doesn't include time spent developing and tuning proof-of-concept prototype models.
> In this case we're talking about within the Datacenter

Oh gotcha. It's right there in the title, but missed it somehow :p
Developing for the Semantic Web (2020)
Bicycles are significantly larger and harder to maneuver - and a non-electric scooter is about as useful as a wagon would be.

At least for me. I have a very short walk to the store, and I'd consider a scooter but using the bike is just too much of a hassle most of the time.
They have been at it for two decades already. It mostly just propped up house prices near jobs.

(And, no, they are not allowing houses to be built at anywhere near the rate needed to meet demand.)
We have all sorts of telescopes that can see things many light years away. Humans didn't evolve to know about black holes, yet we can image them now.
Wouldn't the path of least resistance here be giving cars the surface layer?
Because people who self select to drive some alternative vehicle for fun are a safer demographic than the general public because the "I don't like commuting so I'm gonna do my nails and post on HN about how cars are evil while sitting in traffic" types are absent in the former group.

If the general public started driving motorcycles it would get more expensive.
It's not propaganda or fascism, it's game theory. Why are you throwing around labels like that? It does nothing for the conversation.
It's a comparative study of several insanely small datasets over an exceptionally small period of time with no experimental controls, just retrospective analysis. 12000 MARTA trips, 120 Mercedez Benz trips and 34000 scooter trips... in a metropolitan area with 2.6 million homes.

I don't believe this report is proving anything it claims.
> I'm finding that increasingly, whenever I read "X is a myth", it turns out to be mostly a myth. I guess it's a popular article form, it gets clicks, it doesn't have to be completely true, right?

Betteridge's law - "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
I think, if the net was meant to maintain military communications after nucwar, it would have developed TOR much earlier and made that the default, so it wasn't clear where communications were being sourced or delivered. We'd all be exchanging messages that might be part of the critical infrastructure.

In reality, they worked on radiation-hardened point to point multipath comms that allow them to evade jamming and know who they are talking to.
Chain effects are strong with this one. This seems significantly better than GPT-Instruct.
could you characterize the difference you see between them? (to someone more familiar with nextjs?)
Shopify probably employs many devs whose job is likely to pretty much operate as consultants for some of their larger customers.
It's worth checking out our take on a lot of these problems: https://buf.build/blog/connect-web-protobuf-grpc-in-the-brow...
Up to but not including "constructive dismissal". The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC) provides a three part test to evaluate constructive dismissal[1]:

1. a reasonable person in the complainant's position would have found the working conditions intolerable

2. conduct that constituted discrimination against the complainant created the intolerable working conditions

3. the complainant's involuntary resignation resulted from the intolerable working conditions

The test isn't necessarily something we would be able to make a definitive decision on here. It is intended to be used in the courtroom where each component would be necessary to establish constructive dismissal and evidence for and contrary to each point would be presented to a judge/jury.

As you can rightly assume "reasonable", "intolerable", and "discrimination" are doing a lot of heavy lifting, and I'd expect and decision to rest on what constitutes "reasonable", "intolerable", and "discrimination".

1. https://federalemployeelawblog.com/2017/07/10/constructive-d...
Ideally the brake is applied to limit speed, not reduce it. To keep you capped at a safe speed, rather than allowing an unsafe speed to be reached then slamming on the brakes to reduce it.
Lmao, of course, thanks. I knew there was something wrong with the word but I couldn't think of the right one.
I don't think that the safety problem with nuclear power lies in the reactors themselves. It lies in the fragility of the human civilisations operating them.

Even a flawed design is safe in the hands of responsible, sane, civilised people who get to perform their jobs without disruption from war, natural disasters, famine or whatever else. And if those conditions are removed, no known reactor design is safe.

The main problem with nuclear is that nobody can guarantee - let alone pay for - civilised, sane conditions for a sufficiently long time period for the operation as a whole to be considered safe (or profitable, all things considered).
It will make homes, 25 miles from the city center, nearly worthless. People will want to live into the denser, walkable neighborhoods. They limit the amount of mixed use, medium density housing because it would crash the market for new car dependent suburbs which provide the funding for road maintenance and construction.
I'm more surprised that they were able to test those platforms until this release.
First, you won't use arch on production servers. Second what you said is incorrect. Arch Wiki has info on a lot of topics, but mostly for desktop or casual server usecase and certain aspects are completely ignored. Arch's Wiki is excellent but its also about the quality of documentation and how its structured.

RHEL's docs are simply unparalleled in the Linux world. I only wish search was better, but if required I can download them and use my own search anyways.
They were talking scooters, they are a huge pain in the ass with people leaving it in the middle of sidewalk, riding like maniacs, often drunk (especially tourists).
you dont know what a communist is
All the ones in Sweden use the electric motor to govern the speed downhill, limited to 20 km/h.
> Put it how you want, the entire west is at war with Russia, and they are holding much better than we'd like to admit.

You are framing it wrong. The west is not at war with Russia, Russia is at war with the west (via Ukraine). The west didn't start the war and saying that it doesn't matter who started it by calling the discussion trite is, well, itself trite because you're just seemingly trying to avoid the difficult point that the war was in fact started by Russia.

And sure, Russia hasn't collapsed, but I don't think anyone expected Russia to collapse 8 months later and in reality they really aren't doing well. If they were doing well they wouldn't have needed to call a conscription and put policies in place to prevent bank runs.
i looked at your account and, were you ever involved in real estate?
I haven't run the numbers but at that size I would expect them to get very, very warm.
My condolences for the 3 users this affects.
IMO it's because Switch adopted the great XMBC UI. That's probably why. Wii's channels for me (and I feel most based on how I saw others use their Wii) were useless...
Yes, that is what's being claimed by the plaintiff and if you accept their characterization it does seem like an easy case. That's probably true for most cases.
I moved away from the DC area long before electric scooters were a thing. Does metro PD still give jaywalking tickets to pedestrians being loaded onto ambulances (this used to be a thing)?
> Are you conflating liberal and libertarian?

I don't think so. Old school liberal and modern libertarian are fairly closely related. The term libertarian has appeared I think due to the changing of the word liberal.

> MLK, of course, coined the phrase "content of character not color of skin" and he was very much in favor of affirmative action.

Sure, at least sort of. But this conflates a principle (the thing I quoted) with one man's politics.
Smash Bros. for Wii U let you use a 3DS as a controller. It was awkward - you had to download the “Smash Controller” app onto the 3DS from the eShop - and didn’t have any kind of video streaming, but the connectivity was there at least.
Ah, this is an excellent point
> How are those "metaverse"?

Good question. My guess is because those things are all 3D virtual worlds (to some extent) and/or a platform that is focused on social connection. Obviously they all need some connective tissue and evolution before they are a legit meta verse.