skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in NYC and I think for A to B travel, an e-bike fits the size of the city well. It's not a tiny city by any means but I can often get to/from places quicker on an e-bike than taking the train or a car. If it's nice out, I may prefer it even if it's slower.

The problem for me is that riding a bike in the city can be unsafe - often my area is full of double parked cars even late at night and no respect for the bike lane (which to be fair is just painted on).
Pro cyclists average about 500w and can go much higher over short periods.
I had a great experience with Stacksi, they helped both created the policies and answer the questionaires semi automatically based on the policies.
Ok, was able to read it finally thanks to the archive link someone posted below.

Yeah the "vaporizing" part is definitely wrong, as is the C4 comparison. It's pretty easy to figure out how much energy is involved. It's just a matter of multiplying the volume of the interior by the external pressure, in this case I don't know the exact dimensions, but the inside looks like at least 48" wide by 10ft long.

You'll end up with a number around 100 million foot-pounds, or 135MJ. (Or, for a more meaningful number, about the energy released from burning ~3 liters of gasoline).

Still an enormous amount of energy, and enough to turn people into tiny little pieces, but it isn't going to literally convert you to ashes like the article implies. It might barely be enough to boil 1 "person's worth" of water under ideal conditions.
E-Bikes need major reforms, at least in my area (Toronto). The problem I see it is you have two categories of the product labeled the same. On one hand, there are conventional bicycles equipped with pedal-assisted motors, designed to mimic typical human-powered speeds. On the other hand, there are E-Bikes marketed as potential substitutes for motorcycles.

Most of my issues come from people riding the latter of those two categories, however some of the concerns directly relate to both.

E-Bikes have a huge part of their ownership caught up into two groups that are doing the entire sector harm as well, the first group causing harm is those who are out modifying these bikes and getting them up to highway speeds in some cases, the second group are people who are turned to these as a mode of transport because they have lost their licenses due to DUIs and now take those same impairments to the E-Bike world.

Several crucial problems exacerbate the situation: the absence of mandatory safety equipment such as helmets, the lack of insurance coverage, insufficient training provisions, and the absence of mechanisms for accountability and identification of riders and their respective bikes.

In my personal opinion, a comprehensive solution for my region involves licensing all E-Bikes under the moped or limited-speed motorcycle license, requiring license plates, and implementing cost-effective insurance options (possibly achieved through government subsidization).
Locally hosted LLM use cases?
I’m curious what interesting use cases people on here have thought of for locally hosted llms. I’m also curious what form factor will need to be supported to make you use case.

I think because of the large amount of ram that’s needed, something phone sized could not be that useful.

But I could be wrong, maybe there is a use case for a really dumb small model that can be used to great effect.

Thoughts?!
Look for something with a Bosch or Shimano setup and not some no name ali express brand.

Then for the bike side, pick one which has a wide range of non electric bikes too.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online.

Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast.

Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?
The main issue I see with that option is space and power, the micro-form factor (NUC-sized) clone systems that people are discussing in here are quite nice for that. Functionally an old Dell tower should be fine.
The guy said he was trying to be helpful after hearing the annoying alarm by turning the electricity on.

Either he's really dumb, or he just doesn't care about the consequences and then makes up some bs excuse after. My money is on the latter.
> private companies build homes, not governments. And if it's not profitable to do so, it will simply stop.

> There's an economic downturn and the building of new homes slows down or stops. This happened over here from 2008-2014 creating a massive backlog, in turn leading to a pricing boom in recent years. Ideally, you'd keep building during a downturn but nobody knows how as there's no buyers and it's too big to subsidize.

If the return of demand was predictable then deep-pocketed investors could have kept the building running and made a big profit. Why didn't they? In my experience this is usually down to overregulation one way or another, either rules that make it too hard to invest in housing or because rules that make new homes a lot more expensive than existing ones (e.g. you mentioned energy rules, accessibility requirements, that sort of thing).

If the return of demand wasn't predictable, then stopping building was arguably the correct move.

> Surely the entire western world would not have this problem if it was a simple as a policy change.

The correct policy change is known but counterintuitive and unpopular. (And for many of the voting public it's not seen as a problem; they benefit from rising house prices, so who cares about the young people being priced out?)
>If you're down for hard grueling work but doing so with a bunch of brilliant people and care deeply about the mission it can be an incredible opportunity and open many doors. If you're wanting to be chill and have "balance" it isn't a place for that. They have some of the best tech on earth and are among the most innovative companies in history. They work for it though.

Not quite.

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376?...

There are definitely some smart people, and things move fast, but there are 2 sides to the company I had friends that worked for Space X and Tesla, and I have worked for a UAV companies, and its the same story over and over again. My CEO straight up told us "your reward for working hard is that you get to continue working".

Within the company, there exists a clique of upper level managers/engineers and some lower level engineers, where the talent lies. If you are part of this clique, you love it, as you get a good amount of input on how your work goes, what areas you wan to take on, and it feels like you are doing cool shit with friends where you can easily work 60 hour weeks because you are having fun. And if you do quit, you always have connections and stay in touch and are able to find work .

If you are not part of this clique, you work on stuff you are told, have to put in extra hours to get shit to work because of barriers in the way, you have no say in any direction, and you eventually get burnt out.

The thing is, to join that clique, you have to be hired based on reworking through someone in the clique who can vouch for you, or spend a shitload of time in a company suffering through the burn out to get into an established position when other clique members quit (and hope that they don't hire someone external to fill the role rather than giving it to you).
> Current SD1.5 models that can generate consistent high quality images have been fine-tuned and merged so many times that a lot of general knowledge has been lost,

You say that as if it was a bad thing, but it's actually good: GPU memory being a limiting factor means that general knowledge is mostly overhead, it is much better to have 50 specialized model (that you can all store on disk for cheap) that each takes 5 time less GPU memory than a big general model that you'll constantly under-use but still have to load entierly in the GPU memory. And it's even more true for LLMs.
> when you offer subsidies for electric cars you can be damn confident that it will displace a gas car. For e-bikes it's less clear

Is it? I could imagine someone saying: "Driving my new Model 3 is much cheaper than my old truck, and more comfortable, so I take more trips around the city. Congestion isn't so bad with autopilot and podcasts."

Or, someone in a dense city: "We got by without a car at all, but we thought about buying an EV and this subsidy made up our minds"
My hat to their growth hacker, they managed to raise 200 millions.
2012: Steve Ballmer invents Typescript after losing a chair-throwing contest with one of his VPs. The language fails to convince any bored grandmas to switch back to Windows from Linux, and a bunch of them write the first version of VSCode with just 640k of assembly to flip him the birdie for getting rid of Clippy.
I mass deleted all of my comments a few weeks ago, and some of them reappeared about a week later.
I think we need some kind of education around them. In cities I've lived in people are extremely reckless on these bikes.
I prefer ‘til personally, makes it a bit more explicit what word you’re using.
Wikipedia has been backfilling slang terms lately, in competition with urbandictionary and knowyourmeme. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheugy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%2BRatio etc
In the geospatial data import and integration game since ~ 1990 sits the BC, Canada company Safe.com and their swiss army knife product FME

https://www.safe.com/company/

Today we provide a range of data solutions for over 25,000 customers and over 200,000 users across 121 countries. Which is a whole lot of solutions for anyone who’s counting.

I'm not spruiking here but it's a handy bit of kit for anyone pulling (say) land lease boundaries and tenement data from hundreds of different local government | state formats to integrate into a single XXX database (PostGres, MS, etc).

They're currently expanding from ~$70 M / year to a goal of $250 M / year .. but this is likely more through market expansion than software development.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230413005193/en/Saf...

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Fugro is not a famous software company, arguably not even a software company .. but they have a lot of in house geospatial, geophysical, software ranging from firmware to desktop applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugro

I have very mixed feelings about Fugro and haven't worked for them (having turned down a very good offer) but they did absorb a rather large chunk of my own personal codebase.
One thing about e-bikes is they are targeted by thieves due to their price. Don't expect to own it for too long. I'm good with my regular bike + bus. There are so many free bikes around, I found 3 free bikes this week. Two needed some oiling and tuning but works well. Third one has a heavily rusted chain but I can handle it.
In high school I easily got all my writings and reports to have a higher-than-average grade despite an average quality of writing, just by having the best quality of typography with LaTeX.

Yes I did change the font, to some pirated Adobe Font Folio fonts. I loved full justification but hated hyphenation so much that I would rephrase my sentences to avoid hyphenation. I can't remember if the microtype package was a thing but I probably used it. I most definitely made the left and right margins different according to odd and even pages.
Aussie pedal-elec regulations mean they only help you up to 25kmph, over that and you are just pedal power. Which is to say, the full 250watts is only ever used when taking off or going up hills in practice.
Honestly, I’m probably going to update my own (mostly node) apps to dump such information to `stdout` when they’re first fired up, at the very least.

It would have saved me time today when re-visiting and extending a service that I’ve not touched in two years.
Yes! I definitely also saw this one long time ago. Most likely my "independent" idea from post above was my brain just re creating this very product from memory :] GAL, few TTLs, SRAM? and a DAC, easy and cheap to manufacture and obvious once you saw IMS G171 being released in 1986 (year before vga). Another missed opportunity by Commodore, A500 should have had a socket for INMOS G171 right on the motherboard in 1987, maybe even a flap on top of the case for easy upgrade access.

Today $10 RP2040 pico board and a resistor ladder can implement it easily.
I sometimes use a class 1 electric mountain bike (250w, assist only while pedaling) and that is a fantastic workout...provided you are riding 10-15% grades uphill and (for the upper body) going down something similarly steep.

A throttle powered class 3 ebike on a flat paved path is going to be a different story. Likely less of a workout than a walk. Much better than a car though, for both the body and the planet.

Of course, assuming terrain allows options, one could alter their route to get a better workout. Reducing the assist would be an option too.
Post-it only got invented in 1968 unfortunately.
Electric bikes are speed-limited by law so that they are actually usually slower than what I'd ride a manual bike when I'm in a hurry.

> Do they belong in streets, along with cars? No, the rider is at great risk.

You could equally ask do cars belong in the streets, along with pedestrians and regular cyclists? They put every other street user at great risk. Yet we subsidize new electric cars with up to $15,000. How many people die in car accidents every year? How many die from bicycles?
You may be wrong a thousand times but right once... Benefit of doubt I guess
The skeptic in me wonders how many of those low-income buyers used this to just make a quick buck by reselling the bike. Potentially to someone outside of Denver, which might mean the taxpayers of Denver got 0 benefit for their $1200. That’s probably always going to be a cost of a program like this though - some of the bikes are used extensively as intended and some are resold/stolen/wrecked in short order.
I in fact own one, it's very nice. It also did not displace my car because I live in a burb and most places of consequence are a highway journey away. I don't think I should get the tax credit because of that. My environmental footprint hasn't really been reduced.
After some life experience, I honestly believe the default mode is to lose the second language. Both my parents could speak French but as an adult I'm basically starting from scratch on my own. What they didn't do is the extra effort. When I was young, I knew kids that were Jewish and had to go to Hebrew Sunday school even though they hated it. As an adult I know families that send their kids off to Bulgaria and Hungary during the summer to live with their extended families. Francophones in Ontario enroll their kids into French immersion classes, and others sign their kids up for after school calligraphy classes for Arabic. Another example is a local private school that is run by a Greek orthodox church which has Greek as a core language, the students' experience culminates in a class trip to Greece. It is a real uphill battle that takes time, money, effort, and access to some kind of community to maintain.
> Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?

I suspect the short answer is yes, and part of me wonders if this will actually be a good thing in the long run. It seems we’ve gotten pretty far from our social origins, arguably with some ill effects.

I’m more worried that this will usher in an era of draconian online verification out of apparent necessity.
This is mentioned near the top.

Docker have features such as layered images, networking, container orchestration, and extensive tooling that make it a powerful and versatile solution for deploying applications.
I rode motorcycles for 10+ years and gave it up after I read articles about people getting killed in my area every day for 2 weeks straight. I also had a young child at the time. I'm more afraid of riding a bicycle in traffic than a motorcycle. Some people are straight up aggressive against bicycle riders.
Why’s that? I actually like the api system for Ubiquiti gear.
> It is not time to subsidize e-bikes. It would be time if they could be ridden safely.

Electric cars can't be driven safely, but that hasn't stopped us subsidising them.

> Do they belong in streets, along with cars? No, the rider is at great risk.

Imagine subsidising a form of transport that only endangers the user themselves. That might subtract from vital pedestrian-killing funding.
The article says
“Docker have features such as layered images, networking, container orchestration, and extensive tooling that make it a powerful and versatile “
This is great, thank you. I’d never considered using time stamps like this before which is why I was curious, but I suppose now I can continue not using them slightly more confidently. What is programming really, but figuring out what not to do.
This seems weird to me. It's easy to convince me to use an "always-free" tier service. It it gets big enough to cost money, I'm usually happy. If it costs $7/mo, suddenly it becomes a dumb thing that has to be thought about. Are they trying to avoid locking me in?
I would only buy an e-bike with a premium brand name motor and battery. Bosch, Panasonic, Yamaha, Shimano, Giant. The next thing I would look for is 2 or 4 piston hydraulic disc brakes from SRAM, Shimano, Hope, Magura, Tektro.

As long as the bike has those three things sorted it's probably safe. Note that these things don't come cheap, so any e-bike with these parts is likely to start at $3000.

For specific bikes I like Priority Current. They're a little vague on the exact parts used because they may swap them out based on availability, but they usually pick real parts instead of cheap replacements.
They do way more than 250w and on a significantly lighter bike.
So buy an ebike from a bike company instead of some VC crap. Bonus: less likely to burst into flames.
> pick one which has a wide range of non electric bikes too

I was going to suggest any long-established bike brand with a broad product line. Trek, Specialized, Cannondale, etc.

A non-cyclist might get sticker shock (an avid cyclist will think, "huh, cheap").
That's a major problem, I wouldn't cycle without good paths. The risks are too high, and I don't particularly like the idea of such an ignoble death as being smooshed by someone who was glancing at their phone and didn't see me. Death by tiktok, no thanks.

I do ride some shared roads but they are low-traffic side streets, and I have to zip down an inner city bike lane on my commute but again, totally different to a shoulderless high speed road.
Having recently rented a trailer, this doesn't mirror my experience at all.

Picking it up took an hour and was a pain in the ass. You still need a vehicle that can haul a trailer, and a compatible hitch. You have to drop it off by a certain time, so now you're rushing. If 3 other people in the area decided to move on that same weekend, you're now screwed because you have no access to equipment.
Exactly. People ride them on the sidewalk in many places. Makes them very dangerous for pedestrians.
Aventon Aventure 2

Get this one for the torque sensor over a cadence sensor, can't go wrong.
I bought one a year ago specifically to take my kids to school and it’s been an absolute delight. I get a slight workout, the kids get fresh air (and they love riding on it). I’m convinced everyone would be much happier if school drop offs were 70% bikes rather than 90% cars.

But the ride to my kids school has isolated bike lanes for the vast majority of the trip. Most people aren’t so lucky and will (rightly) fear the idea of taking their kids on a bike. It’s such a shame.
If you got rid of cookie cutter buildings because they might be fraught then you'd have to condemn most of nyc and most of london. The home era boom these articles all cite came because they were just churning out the same floorplans or more or less the same buildings with the same materials all day. In the US you could even order one of these standardized homes from the sears catalog, have it shipped to you already cut and build it yourself or hire a contractor who does these same homes all day. I really believe we are letting perfect be the enemy of good here, and saying we'd rather tolerate things like people living in overcrowded tenemant conditions or in cars or tents, because that's the status quo today for many of the working poor with these prices, over potential unknowns of reusing a building plan.
Requiring things like licenses and insurance would be a great way to drasticially reduce the uptake of ebikes, which seems like a horrible idea. I think this is a situation where your proposes solution (which I don’t think would be effective anyway!) is worse than the problem.
Thank you.

Really nice gallery. I think this will serve as a great reference material for me when learning.
It does seem like it would be rare, but it’s a valid concern. You can arguably gain any insights that time stamps offer by including them as metadata or in an audit log, right?

I find date and time data so difficult to work with that I typically avoid using it for anything important unless absolutely necessary.
Up to a certain point it's not much of an issue, but I had to re-read several sentences and I'm fairly capable of following written text. It's also an accessibility thing, screen-readers and dyslexics might have trouble interpreting the text.

I support bringing it up when it's frequent enough to cause frustration. Putting some effort once into the writing - typing correction occurs almost effortlessly on almost any device these days - benefits every reader.
I will subscribe to a newsletter when it provides an RSS feed.

Otherwise it's unwanted, intrusive, selfish, invasion of my inbox pushing content rather than allowing orderly pull.
Not really a great comparison, because none of the danger in those other cases could be trivially negated with a sturdy rope.

Lead climbing is plenty dangerous, but the danger is mitigated as a feature of the practice itself - you get ‘save points’ to literally fall back in case you fail. Free soloing chooses not to take advantage of this safety measure.

It’s be like saying “race car driving is inherently dangerous” while refusing to wear a seat belt and helmet. The no, safety gear exists and has been extensively developed over decades of practice - you are simply refusing to avail yourself of it.
The Super73 is a popular model.

And then the big bike brands like Trek, Specialized have their own bikes that are worth looking into.

The prices compared to the Ali-Express stuff might surprise you.

Reddit of course has an e-bike subreddit you can dig through.
I once replaced a battery, not by breaking the device (ebook) in two, but by making a battery sized hole in the backplate. I knew approximately where the battery was and there was not much danger drilling in to the dead battery.

Now, this idea was better than I thought. I could use bigger and fatter battery just by covering it with adhesive foil. And I could even use AA-shaped lithiums if the device thinness was not important.

As regards to electrical connection, you use the connector and controller from the original battery and connect raw battery lines to the new battery of your choice.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YxjgaVVpiPvygHXS8
Thank you for making this tool. So impressive how many features work well in this initial version.
Twitter: 2 designers, 6 iOS devs, 20 web devs, and ~1,400 sales and ops people
I've never seen this HN site feature before, looks like it was discussed a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809302

Why post it here? Any HN user can favorite comments they like, I don't see it controversial that mods have their own labeled favorites list.
Another way would be to allow higher price granularity to allow more competition on price rather than speed.
> We got by without a car at all, but we thought about buying an EV and this subsidy made up our minds.

There's no way given how much parking costs, the paltry subsidy wouldn't be the tipping point.
Sounds fun, I'll look it up.

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