skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ebike.

Bought a REI Cty 2.2 for my wife. Buying Yamaha CrossCore RC for myself next year.

Unless you are extremely fit, an ebike will literally change your life. It is so pleasant to just be able to bike for 30-40 miles at 20mph. I would recommend torque sensing mid drives without a throttle because you can still get some exercise.

I used to bike hard in teens. As I aged things got harder, I then had some mild nerve damage and my muscles now get tired quicker. Ebike makes me feel like I have teen legs again and it feels amazing.
We are actually running out of places in our history to fit a great filter. Most of the events in our evolution seem probable, even inevitable. In fact the only place IMO that's really left is the emergence of the first self replicating RNA molecule. But even that seems too probable to be a great filter.

And if its not behind us, it has to be in-front of us or we are under a great misapprehension about the nature of the universe.
> poorly designed table relationships/indices that lead to maintenance nightmares.

Like what?
/. already jumped the shark for me, back when it got bought around 2013. Around the same time that somebody forked the slashcode and started https://www.soylentnews.org/ which is somehow still going. It just lost its luster. I was glad to find HN after that.
<< "polymorphism" - too close to hermaphrodite, must be eliminated.

You do not eliminate, you disintermediate.

I will admit that this may explain some of the general public's attitude towards academia and higher learning.
> Radio City Music Hall is a private venue, they can ban or exclude anyone they want

I don’t think anyone is arguing that this is outside of their legal rights.

Things can be undesirable without being illegal, and just as MSG can legally punish this lawyer for distant connection to a lawsuit against them without violating the law, other people can note the behavior, criticize it, and even punish MSG for it in their business relations without violating the law.
You're not wrong; it would probably make sense to have first/second/third level degrees instead of BSc/MSc/PhD (and their equivalents). We might even get there eventually. But the reason this would be desirable has nothing to do with etymology of "master's degree" (or "bachelor's degree"), nor with the hypocrisy of a university declaring the word "master" as offensive, while not renaming the corresponding degree.
It's good to hear there's some places that don't buy in to the rampant silliness. You'd think a bastion of free speech like the USA would be one of those, but apparently the political polarization has caused people to lose their minds.
Yes, thanks for the correction
It’s a conspiracy to watch me do laundry. I have evidence on a wall of random photos and newspaper clippings pinned together with yarn made from ugly sweaters’ red dryer lint.

I think there’s a subset of people who make up and believe sinister intentions for a litany of motivations.

It’s simpler than there being shitty situations large and small for no individual reason if there’s someone or something in particular to scapegoat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury#Christianity

It sure looks like direct words from Jesus to me, not to expect anything in return for a loan. It’s just that Christian culture chose to ignore this rule in exchange for capitalism and colonialism.
> There shouldn't be such a thing as an "OpenPGP smartcard" (yet there is), there should just be generic programmable smartcards I can program with an application of my choice.

That's in fact very possible! I've been doing just that, i.e. running an open source implementation [1] of the OpenPGP smartcard standard [2] on a physical card to which I have the root keys.

The card specifications themselves are presumably behind NDAs, though, so I do have to trust the vendor to not have built in anything nefarious, e.g. a predictable/keyed RNG.

> And you can't have one.

I have three :)

The specifications are indeed behind NDAs, but you don't really need those – you can just work with the (publicly accessible) Global Platform application management commands and the Java Card API. The excellent GlobalPlatformPro [3] can take care of much of the former.

[1] https://github.com/anssi-fr/smartpgp

[2] https://gnupg.org/ftp/specs/OpenPGP-smart-card-application-3...

[3] https://github.com/martinpaljak/GlobalPlatformPro
You are forgetting that they have the right to not sell tickets to whomever they choose, but once that ticket is sold, they are on very shaky ground to ban someone unless they misrepresented who they were when buying the ticket.

Tickets are contracts!

How can they prove this isn’t some bogus way to account for oversold seats? What if an airline did the same on oversold flights?
> - "Consider using 'devoted' instead of 'addicted.'" I'm sorry but you don't develop a physical devotion to heroin. It's an addiction.

Err, do they mean that these words shouldn’t be used at all, or that they don’t want them used as expressions outside the correct context? Like it is not that uncommon to hear something like “I’m addicted to this new game” or “I’m addicted to that new Poke Bowl place” or whatever, that usage could be seen as trivializing and… I mean some people will disagree but it is at least a coherent position. Similar for “committed suicide” although that comes up less often (but like “I was so embarrassed I wanted to kill myself!” could clearly be seen as pretty trivializing — I think this expression is currently falling out of the lexicon for that very reason).

> Every word that contains "man" or "woman" as part of it just lazily replaces it with "person." I'm sorry, but "congressperson" is never going to be a word and nobody is ever going to use it in any serious context. "Member of Congress" has been around for a couple hundred years but mention of that completely acceptable alternative.

I think “congressperson” or “congress-member” in my head. The word congressman would typically not occur to me first. I wonder if this is a regional thing or something? I’m not that young, (30s) but I did grow up in a pretty progressive area.

> Nobody has ever said "landlady"

This one does seem a little odd to me, I’m sure “lord” has a gendered etymology but it is pretty neutral feeling in modern English, right? Maybe I’m showing some ignorance here.

Landlady is definitely a phrase that’s been used right? But it seems a little dated and weirdly gendered nowadays, IMO…
Hyperphagia. That’s what it is! Everything sounds better in Latin.
Term limits don't matter when the politicians are in the pockets of billionaire donors. (Pick your preferred boogeyman Thiel or Soros). In fact, they can make things worse as now a Representative needs to ensure he or she has their lobbying job lined up for when they can longer run for re-election.
This is an amazing product & given that gumroad has recently increased prices, the timing could not have been better. But information architecture of the landing page needs to change. I am left with the following questions after reading the content on the website.

1. How much margin does the platform charge?
2. Why can't I see a preview to what I am paying for?
3. How is it better than Gumroad, Stripe and others? Margins, ease of use etc, whatever your arguments are, I would love a detailed explanation.
Can’t go wrong with Fastmail: https://fastmail.com/
Any link to what you refer as fullstack typescript?
Been Looking into it and seems uneconomical (in CA) to pay equivalent of 16 years worth of electricity cost upfront just to set up panels.

How did you come around to this ?
> However management often confuses precision for accuracy

One of the best tools for estimation, I've discovered, is not an estimation technique at all, but a communication technique:

Build error bars into your estimates when you deliver them. My preferred way is to give 30/60/90 estimates: I'm 30% confident it'll be done in 20 hours, 60% confident it'll be done in 45 hours, and 90% confident it'll be done in 60 hours. Deliver estimates thusly to management and they can determine how safe they want to be. If they say "great, we'll plan on 45 hours," remind them that there's nearly even odds you don't hit that. If they complain that the range is too wide ("how can it be 20-60 hours?! I need more confidence!") then you can use that as justification for exercises which increase confidence (prototyping, more detailed planning, research around any unknown systems, etc).

The exact format doesn't matter - maybe you prefer to give ranges or standard deviations or what-have-you - the important thing is to make it impossible for someone receiving your estimate to ignore the uncertainty in the numbers you give.
110k staff total post-layoffs.
Lot of confidence that our careers are going to be OK.. I'm suspicious because if there were sufficient AI to replace us, we would be in the position of our salaries depending on us not understanding that fact.

Seems to me that the only thing stopping AI from doing our jobs in 5 years will be the legal department.. at that point I guess my last job will be to set up the on-prem/cloud infra that runs the model. AI doesn't change the requirement of owning your own data. After that, I dunno. What jobs will be left? AI trainer, mascot at Disneyland, and CEO?

I might have the time horizon wrong but I do think it's going to be a bloodbath. There's nothing about previous industrial revolutions to suggest it would be anything but. And if you think you'll be able to see it coming, have a look at https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/ . This problem space is starting to feel less like fusion and more like flight
Obsidian is the tool I wish I had during grad school. Thank you for the continued improvements and dedication to modularity.
> Is there a mathematical reason why

No. Here's another topological map of the contiguous US that's all rectangles, arranged in a triangle: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gy2jq6/the_topolog...

I'm not sure how much I'd overthink this map, since it appears to have been created as a puzzle for children to help them understand the concept of topology: https://www.1001mathproblems.com/2015_11_01_archive.html

> Does that notion generalize to all border maps and if so why?

No.

> Is it related how border maps can all be colored with only four colors?

If you're talking about the four color map theorem? Instinctively, my answer's no, but it might be a fun thing to prove.
This is great, feels like Miro or Draw.io inside Obsidian. I’ve been a long time obsidian subscriber and really enjoy the software.
Just a fantastic novel, and a staggering debut.

Fun fact: excellent mystery author Tana French is also a fan, to the point that her novel The Likeness includes an extended and overt homage to Tartt's book.
Incapable of what?
Data collection / sharing regulations should absolutely be passed in America asap. Laws re: facial recognition are being passed in part because it creeps us out but that's just the tip of the iceberg. EU is taking the lead here because these are American companies, but I no longer look at things like "right to be forgotten" or GDPR or whatever and scoff at those wacky Euros.
I don't think a question about evidence or roots of my assumptions is a bad one.

I'm basing my assertions on my experience with Meditation, Cognitive behavioral therapy, and similar things. From my understanding, mental health is severely damaged by negative internal narratives, and CBT and meditation attack (sorry, treat) these negative internal associations and narratives directly, and produce reliable positive interventions for PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc. Check out Happiness Hypothesis for a thorough grounding on all these statements.

In this case, I'm suggesting that by focusing on harm, and introducing new harmful associations with otherwise benign words, we're circumventing the intent of the speaker, and introducing the negative narrative. It's like reverse CBT.

Here's info on CBT:

https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/cog...

(Seriously, look at that page and tell me that "identifying all possible negative associations, cataloging them, and relying on collective authority to minimize harm to self" is a helpful psychological strategy)

And yes, there has been research that trigger warnings (sorry, content warnings) have the opposite effect -- they almost encourage people to feel anxiety over the content that follows. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/harvard-pr...

That is why I believe that the story we tell ourselves about an event is actually more harmful than the event itself in most cases.
I think the intention with non-synonymous examples is to use those as replacements for non-literal uses of the term. E.g. reserving the use of the term "addicted" for someone who actually has an addiction; only saying someone has OCD if they actually do and otherwise calling them detail-oriented.

(I agree that the document is silly but I don't think it's quite as bad as your interpretation.)
> conclusion that for actors like Russia and China, lower-yield nuclear weapons have military value.

That's not a fully warranted conclusion. Russia just discovered that its conventional forces are quite ineffective, and its military industrial complex is not able to produce enough materiel to adequately supply a large offensive.

China is quite the opposite. Of course, until the actual fighting happen, we can never be sure, but it appears China has lots of soldiers, they are well trained, it has a huge conventional military capability, and a huge economy that can be redirected to war production, and can produce an overwhelming number of missiles, artillery shells, drones, landing craft, you name it.

It is not in China's interest to use tactical nuclear weapons. Its official nuclear doctrine is of no first use. Of course, they can decide to use that doctrine as crumpled paper, but they don't have any reasons to do that. From their point of view, the best use of nuclear weapons is for deterrence. They can draw red lines in the sand. As long as their conventional forces can achieve whatever goals they have, using tactical nukes would just be dumb.
It's not about not trusting automated generation of certain artifacts. Stamping version numbers may be a fair idea. (A changelog entry needs human review and approval, in my book.)

It's mostly about the flow of data and control: source files, beside some known auto-generated files / single lines, are the source, and whatever is generated is downstream from them, not altering them. It's like a React app: data flows through props in only one direction, you don't patch DOM in event handlers, or something.
The headline and subheadline should be updated, though. Plenty of folks won't even read the first paragraph, and they'll show up on all the social media share widgets when people share the link.
With such stunningly intellectual tweets as "Interesting" and "Wow" it's really no wonder he's managed to establish such a powerful cult of personality.
> It’s a corporation, which blurs the notion of what it means to be “private.”

Legally, under established precedent, it does not, though a legal doctrine that as creations of the state through law corporations are bound by the same due process and equal protection rules that would affect all other state organs would be interesting, as would the corollary that foreign corporations, as creations of foreign states, are arms of their governments, and that their agents, including employees and domestic subsidiaries and their employees, are agents of foreign governments subject to all the rules and restrictions applicable thereto would be interesting.
Indeed!

I read it new, but I was in an English department at the time.

(Like a lot of technical-career people my age (52), I have a liberal arts degree.)
> England didn't take words from French, the French inserted them by force.

Is "reverse cultural appropriation" a thing then, or do we have a better phrase for when it's no longer appropriate for a population to use words that were inserted into their language by force?
Yes. It’s easy. Easier if you pack up your stuff yourself. And obviously the less stuff you have the easier it is. But of the tasks humans find themselves endeavoring away at, it ranks among the more straightforward.
Nice. That will simplify my installs and my backups and their reliability. There are not many writes, very few concurrent ones, accesses are mostly cached using a WP cache extension. I have a lot of trust in SQLite's reliability. It should fit right in. WordPress is the only reason MariaDB is installed on my servers. Nextcloud too, actually, and SQLite might not be a good idea for this.
Maybe concentrating all the "fun stuff" in one street in one city in one country is not a good thing at all.

Legalizing (and regulating, especially health-wise) prostitution and marijuana in other countries would solve many of those problems, and regulation would solve many of other problems around prostitution and drugs (mostly crime-related).
States encouraging individuals to enforce the law is highly problematic for several reasons, but primarily because it avoids pre-enforcement challenges.

When it came to abortion and Texas' SB8 ( Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson), the problem was that there was no State representative responsible for enforcing the law that could be pre-emptively sued to prevent it being used.

It seems that the California law was ill-conceived to test this aspect of citizen enforcement, because the challengers did not seek pre-enforcement relief, but maybe I missed that aspect of the ruling. I would be interested to hear the thoughts of others.

Here is the ruling I was able to find, Ironically from a much better sourced, if more biased NRA article.

https://shared.nrapvf.org/sharedmedia/1510684/2064261_2019-0...
That's a policy choice in a few cities[1], not an unalterable natural law. It's also confounded by how you do the comparison. If you're asking how much it costs to buy a 4,000 square foot single family dwelling, yes, cities are far more expensive but it's not that simple because, for example, suburbanites are far more likely to need cars ($11k/year average according to AAA) and people who live in cities don't need as much space because e.g. rather than having to pay for a lawn their kids play in the local park.

It's also again important to consider how much of this is policy. For example, Tokyo is far more affordable that many American urban areas because they didn't have policies preventing density and the city wasn't gutted to provide highways for suburbanites who only contribute minimally to the economy and culture. In the U.S. the history of racism behind the rise of suburbs makes that really complicated because the neighborhoods most likely to be bulldozed or cut off for highway projects / parking lots were the poor neighborhoods, reducing the supply available for low-income residents.

1. And, for example, the median income in NYC is $43k so there are definitely reasons to question stereotypes: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...
> And for all of this, you don't pay a single penny. Yes, you'll get a few ads. You can even block those. An incredible amount of value offered, for near-zero costs.

Interesting how you think that the only costs could be financial.

Also, the presence of ads is only tangentially related to impact on privacy (yes, another huge cost).
> I have heard actual reports of people feeling uncomfortable with these terms, for somewhat obvious reasons. The same can NOT be said, to any extent, about... master branch

Master branch is exactly the term that was in question. I did some research and found that it was related to "master recordings" in the audio production industry, which itself is a direct reference to a master/slave dichotomy and used as such in the recording industry. Changing the name of the "master" repository to "main" is no cost to me, doesn't impact the lesson plans at all, and makes my students more comfortable. Why wouldn't I make that change?

> These documents are about policing the speech of all members of the organization, not self-censoring by the authors of this ridiculous list.

At the end of the day author of the list is a department of Stanford University, so Stanford is policing itself, as all organizations do (don't tell me your organization doesn't have a brand style guide).

> And no, my seeking to ridicule this list is not in itself an attempt at policing speech - as in the old tradition of intolerance against the intolerant.

So you are policing speech, just speech which you deem to be policing you.

> That is, they are a small group seeking to use their position of authority to police the speech of many many others, and I am seeking to defend myself pre-emptively by seeking to stop them from propagating the concept - not the speech itself.

How are they seeking this? They say it's about their communications. They say the words only have only "potential" harms depending on the context. They say they are not looking to address informal uses of language. So how exactly are they "seeking" to abuse their authority? Because all they've done here is post a list to a website. Is that what you consider to be abusive? Or is it because employees are expected to abide by certain style guides? Because if that's the abuse, all corporations are equally abusive toward their employees free speech rights.

Them: "Here's a list of words we don't want to use ourselves."

You: "You shouldn't tell us the list of words you don't want to use, because then in the future someone might prevent me from saying those words."

Tell me where I'm getting this wrong. How is what you're saying not policing someone else's words, whereas what they're saying is?
My favorite thing about mastodon: I'm not asked to sign up as I scroll down the page.
Ugh; one of our profs had spent some years in Switzerland working on control systems for tunnels or something like that, and made modula-2 mandatory for our data comm course even though students were proficient in C/C++ at this point and preferred it.
I did the ‘blahfhahabfwhehe’ thing at a cougar once, and she just stared at me.