skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It had few features that made it more than just a regular bike with some motor attached.

Off the top of my head:

— automated gearbox (which was one of the most often breaking parts, but when it worked was magical)

— it had a "boost" button which gave you a little bit of extra power whenever needed (riding uphill, starting from red lights etc); my understanding is that those are now more common, but were pretty unique when S2/S3 generation was introduced

— no external batteries (a downside if you don't have a way to charge it, upside if you do because it just looks nicer)

— a lock integrated into a frame, that unlocked with your phone

— anti-theft features like the mentioned insurance thing, but also a built-in Find My network support for the newer models, and the bike itself has a "Lost Mode" which pings the nearby cell towers

— built-in display for showing you battery status, which gear you're on and your speed

I really like mine _when it's working_ (it had to spend few months in the shop waiting for parts), _because_ it's such a sleek and integrated product.

I probably wouldn't have bought another one even before the bankruptcy, because of the reliability issues; but when I bought mine (early 20201-ish?), nothing on the market at the time was even close to matching the complete package of VM.

Cowboy was the closest to it, but I really missed the multiple gears and the boost button when I test-rode one.
I was also very annoyed by them nickel-and-diming on things like kickstand on a 2k bike, but that's a different issue.
> Suggesting that these people change to a Linux environment with Wayland support is a non-starter; they are presumably using their current environment for good reasons

That’s a hell of an assumption
> Total commander isn’t FOSS.

I'm aware of that. There are lots of FOSS equivalents, though. Including, I believe, on Windows. Wikipedia lists 23 of which I think -- haven't checked -- the majority are FOSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man...

> Ironically windows 11 can’t do vertical taskbars.

True. Easily fixed with Explorer Patcher, though. Which, ironically, is FOSS.

> And where in windows can you change the system shortcuts?

I don't use it much any more and stopped early this century, so my knowledge here may be out of date.

When I do, I use SharpKeys to put a GUI on editing the relevant registry keys for keyboard remapping.

https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

In the NT 3.x era, it was the properties of every EXE's PIF file. So I set Crtl+Alt+(initial) to open my most used apps. Ctrl+Alt+D for DOS, E for Excel, W for Word, etc.

This still works with limitations under Win9x through to XP, which is when I jumped off the Windows ship.

But mostly it's about learning the many many built-ins.
At the end of the article, the author makes the appeal that self-driving development should continue and increase on public roads because the companies can't develop their products otherwise.

The companies can absolutely develop their products outside of public streets. A few thousand acres and some purpose built infrastructure would do it. If that's not cost effective, well that's their problem.
there is import GPX feature when you sign in, I use it quite often.
This is why web development (and python, don't get me started on the pain that is python) is not for me.
I wonder... why do the boolean coersion operators even exist since there are stricter (non-coersion) alternatives?

Granted, not providing an "if" would shock many people, but the "case" alternative isn't terrible.

But since this example is about misinterpreting return values (judging truthiness of :ok vs {:error, ...}), having explicit return types would solve this problem as well.

And not to start the war again, but as much as I admired Rich Hickey and his convincing talks, I am now a big fan of explicitly stated types for the clarity they provide the reader of a codebase. It's more of a chore to write, but it makes reading and understanding much better for me.
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Marathon Plus are great, but they're not the most supple of tyres.

Tubeless is a great solution for preventing punctures (especially sharp thorns left on roads after trimming of hedges and bushes), but it can be a faff to set up until you know what you're doing and the tyres are more expensive. You also "need" compatible rims to run tubeless unless you fancy a ghetto setup.
Wayland should make developers' lives easier, and as such would be adopted and software converted to it without users even noticing.

For better of for worse Linux is still in the phase where software which would only interest developers ends up interesting also the end users, just like we have people who don't develop or administer anything and yet have strong opinions on systemd or GCC.
Yeah! And it has support for SFTP, SMB, etc. The real-time filtering is awesome.
You don't. The project dies. Condolences.
As a younger I became obsessed with trying to make a Monkey's Fist from having heard about one from a Leave it to Beaver episode (a rerun on TV, please, I'm not that old). I had to figure it out myself though.

There is a very nice animation on the site for the Monkey's Fist (where I just now learned the finishing touch to deal with the loose end of the line).

https://www.animatedknots.com/monkeys-fist-knot
I don't think you planned it as such but it's basically become a full advanced course into what you can actually do with react. Know you don't get many views but it's a tremendous resource and still holds up well.
It's likely a move to reorient their price points. Apparently, according to the economist, Amazon Aws is it's sole bread earner.
Or the slo-mo channels on youtube for that matter.
No I can't. Shop advertises something like Samsung Galaxy S10 4G Pink. Exact batch numbers are simply not advertised. Only way to check is to open box, start the phone and check About Screen.

I had similar problem with cheap Lenovo. Chinese models were sold in EU, but would not support all local 4G frequencies. But doing this bait&switch with flagship phone is unacceptable!!
Very true. Wayland is now stable enough to be used in a lot of "production" environments and I've been using Sway as my desktop for years, and yet still, there is work left to be done:

- Hardware support. NVIDIA support is spotty still. Easily the biggest issue IMO, though it's better than it was.

- Network operation. X will always be better here because it was designed to be (at least with toolkits that can still take advantage of XRender.) That said, Waypipe can work well too, but I find myself needing to tweak it for best performance. Having a better out of box experience would be nice.

- Apps. Electron and Chromium still default to XWayland and still have a laundry list of (mostly small) issues. VS Code currently is unstable in native Wayland mode. Qt QDockWidget works poorly in native Wayland: it was unusable in Qt 5. OBS crashes more often in Wayland, on top of being impacted by the dock widget problem.

(There are other issues, e.g. no obvious/general answers for automation, but these ones in particular make me weary of generally recommending people switch to Wayland.)

Until then, there's no point in pushing harder. These problems are showstoppers for many.

P.S.: Not all UNIX environments have good Wayland support but since its a common misconception, Wayland is not inherently limited to Linux and some compositors will run on BSD and there is even one for macOS, albeit more in the vein of XQuartz.
What is the difference between Brave Talk and Jitsi Meet
Yeah I'm often using StreetComplete when walking in a city, but on a bike any operation with the phone involves stopping and switching the context. Besides, SC is intended to fill the missing or fix existing data, and sometimes I need more than that (adding/fixing paths and objects, for example). So I just record an audio note while passing by something, and later on I import the video/timelapse and edit it on my computer, which is much faster than doing that while cycling.
And in case of database it doesn't give you much. You still need 2 nodes for redundancy, if you don't need a rack's worth of storage for that database, using SAN for that is waste of money.

I know the corporate idea of "everything on SAN, nothing outside of SAN" very well, it's just plainly solving political problems, not techncial ones.
I agree. Most private money managers are not worth the cost: 75bps per year (or more) on managers balance. I recommend: Half your age in percent (30yrs old -> 15%) invested in 2yr US Treasury notes, plus remaining in low cost S&P 500 ETF. You will beat 99% of "wealth managers" after a decade, and 99.9% after two decades.
This is precisely why you see this move from complexity. The younger devs are beginning to see it. Just like we dumped atrocities like SOAP and XML in favor of simpler and more ergonomic tech, this generation is learning - again - that complexity kills (and makes this job intolerable).

Who knows, maybe software development is going to be fun again, even if for a few years before the new batch starts turning it into a mess.
The blue giant tarantula of Hispaniola climbs to the tops of trees to absorb electrical charge from nearby thunderstorms, jumping down onto unsuspecting prey and stunning it with their electrical charge before injecting it with venom.

This allows them to attack much larger prey like spider monkeys and chickens, which they liquify on the inside with their venom, a kind of external digestive process.

After the liquefaction is well under way with the venom paralyzed prey, they suck out the nutrient rich liquid, often sharing the hapless victim with sister tarantulas from the same nest.

Thankfully, blue giant tarantulas are entirely a figment of my imagination.
reported https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/5890 for now

Edit: also https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/5891
The input latency should be good normally. I play steam games on Wayland and they're smooth and responsive. Could be some weird thing for your specific config / hardware, but it's not broken overall.
If it goes in front, it'd either have to not have a pivot or the steering would need to be drastically changed.
That is a huge grey area of indirect use/agreement. If they don't interact with those services than someone else has given MS the data so from MS's PoV someone else has agreed to the policy and from the users PoV someone else has perhaps given their data to MS without permission. So yes, a concern, but not necessarily one relating to this policy except any clauses it has about removing data and its use when they are informed they shouldn't have it.
A part of the ancient Latin and Greek literature has been preserved by the Byzantine Empire and another part by the Arabs.

The Arabs actually had much more interactions with the Western Europeans than the latter had with the Byzantines, so much more old books have reached Europe through the Arabs. Most Byzantine books have reached Europe only after the Fall of Constantinople and the invention of the movable-type printing press, when their importance has soon become more historical than practical, due to the rapid advances that have started at that time.

Besides the ancient Latin and Greek books, the Arabs have also passed knowledge that had come from India and Persia and also the results of original research that went beyond what had been transmitted from others, especially in chemistry and mathematics, hence words like alchemy and algebra.
I think I've also heard of similar experiments where a significant number of the people who used drugs actually quit using drugs once they got other options.

I don't have a link, though. Just a vague memory of reading about this once.
> The goal was that a human could be dropped in the space from anywhere in the world and navigate their surroundings. I see it as a worthy goal.

It's funny, because I've often used an expression that's almost a perfect inversion of this in order to describe the world's best places. That you could be dropped into a place and know that you are in exactly that place, and not in any of the innumerable identity-less spaces on the planet.

This goal is dystopian.
> how do you know if the image that just generated is substantially similar to an existing copyright work?

This is already a problem with biological neural nets (i.e. humans). I remember as a teenager writing a simple song on the piano, and playing it for my mom; she said, "You didn't write that -- that's Gilligan's Island!" And indeed it was. If I had made a record and sold it, whoever owned the rights to the Gilligan's Island theme song could have sued me for it, and they would (rightly) have won.

There's already loads of case law about this; the same thing would apply to AI.

> what is stopping someone from generating millions of images and copy righting all the "unique" ones? Such that no one can create anything without accidental collisions.

Right now what's stopping it is that only humans can make copyrightable material; whatever is spat out from a computer is effectively public domain, not copyrighted.
foot uses software rendering only. How good is your CPU? It may have been Vsync... I think there has been progress on allowing the user to disable it.
I'm from the group of people that do switch based on technical merits. I remember a few years back I gave it a try and there were a few usability issues with it. Small things here and there not working, annoyances too small to remember. I've since then always discarded the idea of switching based on that. I have to give it another spin, maybe things have improved in the last few years.
I have Arch Linux + Nvidia (3090 not even something super recent) + KDE. I am very motivated to continue with Wayland but:

1. It disables GPU acceleration on Chromium/Chrome

2. A major regression introduced glitches on all the electron apps (slack, signal etc..)

I spent hours trying to troubleshoot those and dozens of flags combinations, nothing works. KDE + Nvidia + Electron/chromium apps is probably a very common set people use... Are the Wayland users still that fringe?
Beef returning to being a luxury item, as it was all over modern Europe until post-WW2 recovery. Non-wealthy Britons didn't eat beef very often, and it was also a special treat in Germany. Widespread regular beef consumption before the world wars was pretty much a big New World country (USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia) thing.

Even today, Germans eat about 1/4 the amount of beef that Americans do, and somewhat less meat overall. It's certainly available, but it's a lot more expensive than pork or chicken. Domestic stall-raised beef is about the same price as free-range chicken, and free-range beef is even more expensive; I refuse to consider Brazilian beef, which is usually the cheapest, given its motivating role in the destruction of the rainforests.
This also doesn't account for non-safety related risks of self-driving cars, relative to human drivers.

For example, it's quite common for an autonomous vehicle to slow down or stop in a way that disrupts traffic. This isn't "unsafe", per-se, and in fact it's probably the car's safety protocols functioning correctly.

But (depending how frequently it happens) it's still a strong argument against deploying these things on public roads.

We need vehicles that are not only safer than human drivers, but less disruptive and more competent overall.
“Why are there still bugs in our software the developers have a dev environment and a test suite”
I switched my 2012 thinkpad from dwm+st to sway+alacritty a couple years ago and noticed no difference in input latency.
Not to me. There are some conservative books there, but also general topics too.
So Waymo is pretty decent - generally if Waymo was equal to human performance, the number of times it caused an accident would similar to the number of times other drives caused accidents it was involved in but that isn't the case. Humans drivers are hitting Waymo cars way more.

"First, other vehicles ran into Waymos 28 times, compared to just four times a Waymo ran into another vehicle (and Waymo says its vehicle got cut off in two of these cases). Second, Waymo was only involved in three or four “serious” crashes, and none of them appear to have been Waymo’s fault."

This suggests that if we were to replace all humans with Waymo, at least in the nice temperate snow-less/ice-less cities they are currently driving in, accidents would possibly be cut by 4x.

Very interesting.
The last time I played with Wayland:

* It broke screen sharing things

* It removed X forwarding

* It made my copy-paste life more complicated

* It made steam ui ever slower

Were these points fixed? what is the current usability of Wayland on these fronts?
By this dumb reasoning of unrealised losses, you should never invest in any security (bond or stock) else the exact same scenario may happy. You are destined for the poor house without taking equity index risk in this generation.
Two major issues I see with this are:

1) It's very important to do an apples to apples to comparison when you're looking at accident rates, and you can't just do that by looking at averages for the US for all miles traveled. There have been issues with numbers for Tesla autopilot before where it looked like autopilot was safer than it was because Tesla compare autopilot against the average accident rates for all miles driven but in reality for the types of situations where autopilot was used, human drivers actually had fewer accidents on average.

2) Waymo has a low accident rate because its vehicles are operating very conservatively right now. If it could scale up and still operate the same way, that wouldn't be an issue, but its vehicles are already causing problems by getting stuck which suggests that it wouldn't be practical for them to operate a significantly larger number of vehicles the way they are operating right now. To scale up, they would need to drive less conservatively, and in that case they very likely would not be safe in their current state. IMO, this means it isn't really meaningful to say that they're "already safer" than human drivers.
This seems quite besides the point? People don't move or not move to wayland; projects use or not use it and people might move to these projects.

In particular, I don't think anybody cares whether users " will be moved by Wayland's technical merits". The question is whether devs will be moved.
according to https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D..., in 2015, Austria spent €545 per inhabitant on "public order and safety", which includes "Police services; fire-protection services; law courts; prisons; R&D related to public order and safety; public order and safety n.e.c. ". about 9 million people live in Austria, so they spent about €5 million in total.

according to https://cbcny.org/research/six-fast-facts-about-nypds-prelim..., the NYPD budget in 2023 was $10.8 billion. so, NYC spent about twice as much on police as Austria spent on police plus fire protection, law courts, prisons, etc.

even if they have the same population, it should cost more to police Austria than NYC because Austria has a larger area, so they need to have more police stations and cars.
A better name for context is Client Context. On the server can you not just use a pojo?
How doeas rhis compare to mapy.cz?
I've developed a simple programming language to make this a bit easier, I've been using it for my Personal Home Page.
WallStreetMillenial on Youtube just had a nice explanation why comparing risk for self driving cars and human drivers is not that simple. At least for Tesla, the answer is "hell no".

https://youtu.be/wCJ7fNoEUsY?t=287
Thinking about sword swallowers makes me really proud to be a human. We partake in such idiotic activities that life nearly never becomes boring.

After attending art school for a year, when its magic waned a bit, I lamented that there were not many totally crazy artists at the school I was at. Then someone introduced me to a graduate student who tattooed on himself using a modified sewing machine, and who was indeed also a proficient sword swallower. Life was good again.
It heavily depends on place and period. Humans also lived a lot from eggs and milk products.

That being said, we are bigger and stronger. Humans suffered from malnutrition a lot. Many previously normal malnutrition caused diseases are basically nonexistent now.
No one really cares deeply about what a compositor or low level windowing system does since it shouldn't be a thing you notice. Desktop OS'es have simple criteria and user expectations: they should work no worse than Windows or OS X, and that's it. Whether you need Wayland or not to reach feature and performance parity with commercial desktop OSes isn't very interesting to people, only that you actually do.
I’m in one of the “other smaller groups not included here”: people who rely on accessibility tooling that isn’t supported by Wayland. My options are:

- keep using X and stay healthy

- switch to Wayland and get strong nerve pain again

- switch to Windows or Mac

If Wayland were my only option, I would have to leave Linux for my health. So the technical merits of Wayland truly don’t matter.

Accessibility is an oft forgotten requirement and it’s something that can affect all of us at one time or another. We ought not ignore it.
Taking dietary supplements full of antioxidants could help cancerous tumors grow
X got to the level where it "just works" for me few years before wayland. There is no reason to change and it has more drawbacks than benefits.

It also have a lot of very brain-dead decisions like moving a lot of what X did to the external tools and so now everyone making a desktop environment needs to worry about handling various input configuration or even to have working screenshots.

X might be crufty code-wise but it was right level of abstraction, allowing WMs and tools built above that to not care all that much about hardware and remain relatively simple.
Zorin makes it very easy for you to switch between X and Wayland on login. I must have fat-fingered something one day and switched to Wayland, and didn't notice.

It's run that way ever since (over 2 years now) and I've only had to switch back to X once or twice to make certain games work on Steam, or just to stop myself from pulling my hair out with OBS. Other than that, it's mostly unnoticeable. Pretty impressive from my perspective.
Though so too, when I read it. But I think it's meant to be read in the larger context where the early adopters have already moved, the remaining desktop users are mostly in apathy on this subject (it works, whatever), and it would help if Wayland were to offer some clear merits to break the inertia.
Expensive housing is more profitable than cheap housing. Cheap houses tend to get bought by real estate speculators looking to drive up the price of housing. I suspect that much of the housing scarcity is artificial.
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It's waiting for a slow remote customer endpoint. TTFB would be slow too.

Unless you have access and/or reimplement the endpoint, there's no "solution" and it's not a "fixed problem".

The most true thing would be to just show a label "Query send, waiting for results. Don't know how much it will take".
Depends on the conditions. Freshly paved interstate with clear lane markers, light traffic, daytime overcast skies with no rain? Maybe. Driving through a construction zones with painted-over lane markers at night, traffic cones knocked into the road, power out, and a police officer directing traffic at an intersection? No.