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And there is chances of being automated out. Since I will just be the bottom fodder. Everything I use, read and learn has been already made by someone. I have never once truly made anything "original". The feeling after making things sucks a lot. The process of making it is a joy. But it doesn't give me any money simply by stealing information for others. I am getting nowhere. No jobs. Feels really bad to know that I came so far, just to realize this small fact. I have already invested a lot in the field to even change it now. The worst, I don't have confidence to ask others to pay me even if I do the job. However I need the money to live. It's such a weird situation.
They were going down a hill. It's trivial for anyone, even an inexperienced rider, to exceed 20mph on a downhill slope on a regular (non electric) bike. They also claim that the combination of disc brakes and a quick release axle is dangerous and can lead to the wheel coming off while at speed..............except the wheel didn't actually come off in this case. I feel bad for these people and their loss, but it's unlikely the fact that this was an electric bike, it had low trail, or a combination of disc brakes and a QR axle had anything to do with this. It's likely it was just the combination of an inexperienced rider, two people on one bike, and a steep hill leading to excess speeds, and would have happened on any other non-electric bike as well.
I have an ebike and actually prefer caliper brakes. I find disc brakes being a huge pain to adjust, but ymmv.
Pyjamas, guru, khaki, avatar, bandana, jodhpurs, and shampoo are but a few of the many words drawn from Hindi and Sanskrit.

Urushiol, kudzu, futon, and karate from Japanese.

Orangutan, bamboo, cassowary, paddy, ramie, rattan, gong, and camphor from Indonesian (and related languages).

Ammonia, banana, bongo, cola, dengue, ebony, and gnu are of African origin (numerous languages).

Algebra, algorithm, alchemy, and alcohol all come from Arabic ('al' is the definite article in Arabic). So too do numerous terms for textiles: chiffon, gabardine, satin, tafetta, and wadding. Tahini, tuna, tamarind, talc, tangerine, and talisman as well.

All these use a non-Latin script, in some cases no script at all.
It's called "social proof". You see this a lot in Japanese culture, it seems that all of Japan goes nuts for one thing or another that sweeps the entire nation like falling cherry blossoms in spring.

When I was in Japan in 2011, young Japanese women were pretty eager to make smalltalk with me (most likely to practice their English, I'm not gonna lie about how much of a stud I am), and they tended to ask me similar smalltalky questions like "Who's your favorite musician?" I would try to explain as best I could who the KLF is, and then I would turn it around and ask "who's yours?"

Every single girl had the exact same answer: Lady Gaga. Every. Single. Girl. Born This Way had just dropped in Japan, so there was a lot of promotion and Lady Gaga was everywhere in Japanese media, so Lady Gaga was the safe favorite artist to have at that moment in time; because everybody else apparently likes her, you won't be thought of as weird or an outcast for doing so, or be put in my unfortunate position of having to explain who the artist is and why their peculiar work is so captivating. That's social proof in a nutshell.

Similar things that literally all of Japan was fond of at the time included One Piece (which is evergreen) and the cartoon character Stitch of Lilo & Stitch fame (an anime featuring him was running at the time). I saw Stitch and his girlfriend Angel crop up in some weird places, including on a poster in an elderly gentleman's ramen shop which was otherwise free of pop culture; just a grotty CRT TV with a Hanshin Tigers game on.
Lol. No. The biggest safety risk is cars, regardless of all that.
We have two of these exactly bikes for the office.

Unlike Hydraulic Disc Brakes, Mechanical Disc Brakes ARE NOT self-adjusting! It is VITAL you adjust them as the pads wear!
But we don't have many instances of flat ground accidents, all the serious injuries in the article involved going downhill, from what I could tell. And that's what I'd expect, as you can decelerate fairly quickly even if your breaks stop working, unless you're headed downhill.
The child who was injured was not the driver. Two kids on one bike. The parents of the 11-year old driving, who survived, have paid out $1.2 million so far in a settlement.[1] Rad Power is suing them, on the grounds that the parents of the driver have to take on Rad Power's liability due to their child's bad driving.

The mother seems to be milking this for attention. Lawsuits, Twitter postings, a foundation, a mural, press coverage in People and the New York Times. But where's the forensic evidence that the e-bike failed? One of the arguments in the lawsuit is that the manufacturer is liable because, without power assist, the kids would not have been able to get a bike to the top of that hill.
That's pushing it.

For an alternate view, see this article in Outside Magazine.[2]

[1] https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2022/12/29/goo...

[2] https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/bikes-and-biking/...
Well that's a wild complex relationship I had no idea existed. Pretty fucked up.

What's the court # for that case? Are they explicit in their filings that they seek to change the case law?
It's happening. This is the most significant event of the decade.
It's unfortunate. Hard to have open conversations about this stuff because of how it reflects on one's moral identity. Vegans say "don't kill animals", nonvegans hear "you're a bad person". Nonvegans say "animals kill animals, why can't we?" and vegans hear "you are stupid". Probably not all that different to a lot of discourse really.
It's long form, don't expect a bullet point news release. The other family settled, presumably for whatever their insurance would pay. The suit vs RadPower is ongoing as far as I can tell.

There are two design problems. The first is quick releases, which no serious bike manufacturer would spec with disc brakes anymore; the actual industry had long moved on to through-axles at a time when RadRunner was still selling these bikes. They particularly don't make sense to spec when you are selling bikes to people who are expected to have no understanding of how they work.

The other design problem is that manufacturers like RadPower will install the most garbage flexy throwaway shit for components in places where they assume the customer can't tell the difference. That's how you end up with mechanical disc brakes; sure, they have plenty of stopping power when adjusted correctly. But they need to be adjusted for pad wear and a million other things, and when they were made out of sheet metal, that can be hard to do.

But we shouldn't lose track of the most likely cause - they were two kids on a very heavy bike with a very relaxed position (read: difficult to control) going down a 14% incline. They probably picked up much more speed than they were expecting to, panicked and binned it. 99% of the time, they walk away with scrapes, and very rarely, they hit their head in just the wrong way to cause massive damage.
Looks interesting, as others have pointed out this seems very similar to iCloud Private Relay. Curious who is providing the blind relays for Obscura, I didn’t see the info on the website.
I was thinking about doing something like this recently. I would be interested to know more about how Obscura does multi-hop. Does it use other VPN providers - if not, who are the other hops?

It's probably worth mentioning that such a setup does not provide you with the same level of privacy as Tor, especially if all hops are within Five Eyes countries.
On a tangential topic:

> Myuri Thiruna, a freelance photographer in Toronto, used to post frequently on Instagram and discuss photography with other users. But she said she had stopped two years ago, feeling “drained” by the demands of social media and the pursuit of followers and trends.

Don't we see this pattern by now? 'I was doing [fun/creative/innovative/passionate] work and then [0-3] years ago I felt [drained/depressed/despairing] and stopped.

It's time to live again.
> This climate change thing has not only become an excuse for government incompetence (fires, infrastructure failure, etc)

They can both be true at the same time, and it pains me to be reading this type of stuff on hacker news. This climate change 'thing' was predicted and talked about for decades while deniers said it was bullshit. When the effects are visible, it's actually just 'government incompetence'. When the government tries to shape up and propose a plan to deal with it, the plan is struck down as being 'neo-marxist' or 'radical left' because again, climate change is 'bullshit'. I swear, it seems like we live in a more ridiculous reality than 'Don't look up'.
> perform equipment evaluations in a rarely available live-sky spoofing and jamming environment

I'm guessing there are aspects of this prepared interference that are unique.

We've had a number of planned & unexplained outages/jammings in the US. I recall a planned one shaped like an inverted cone, with the impact broader area at higher altitudes. I was able to math the cone-point, somewhere out west and at a low alt.

Diff sites track them.

ref: https://gpsjam.org/

ref: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps-problem-report-status
So the parents, attorneys, used their child's unfortunate accidental death to sue anyone they could - including their daughter's friend's family. This won't bring their daughter back, and it probably won't result in any improvement that would prevent a similar crash. It's just extortion because they can. And it probably will leave an even bigger emotional scar on the other girl who lived.

The fact that this was an e-bike is irrelevant, aside from perhaps the extra weight. It's difficult to imagine the kid was using the electric features of the bike while going down that steep hill, because you could probably coast on any bike faster than 25mph on a hill like that. Plenty of non-electric bikes could have a brake failure, assuming that was the case in this situation. And riders can misjudge their bike's handling/braking capabilities with the extra weight of a passenger. None of these things are intentional or justify lawsuits.

Perhaps the state should sue the parents for not helicoptering and ensuring that two kids didn't ride one bike down a steep hill. After all, if every other player involved is liable, then the parents should also be liable. Or nobody is liable because it was an unfortunate accident.
How many people need to be affected, in your opinion, to have a bonafide emergency?
I mean...I don't disagree about context-free doom, but unless you work from home and had nothing to do today, you were likely affected by this in some way.

Basically the entire subway and commuter rail serving millions of people was barely functional all day long, there was massive gridlock traffic because the highways flooded, many hours later three major road links out of the city (the Saw Mill, Hutchinson, and Bronx River parkways) remain closed to traffic, and there's widespread water damage to people's property–down the block from me cars floated out of the street and onto the sidewalk! Not great!
> The mother seems to be milking this for attention. Lawsuits

Which mother?
the NYC sewer backed-up into the apt. All the rain water and the sewer go to the same place because NYC's sewer system is from the 1800's.

If you do get a house, get one with a sump pump. if it's the bottom floor of an apartment building, get one with a back flow valve going into the building. When buying used, make sure to look over the HOA's minutes to see if they've had issues with flooding in the past and what repairs they've done to address those issues.
Drawflow is good
Unless you're on a fairly high end bike, you will start feeling uncomfortably wobbly somewhere in the 30-40mph range.
> How much time do you think someone peddling under their own power could maintain 20mph?

For as long as the hill lasts. I had a simple bike computer on my (not electric) mountain bike growing up, and once hit 33mph going as fast as possible down a hill in my neighborhood. Bombing down that hill I'd probably be at speeds over 20mph for a solid minute. A lot can go wrong in a minute.

Especially since teenage me enjoyed going fast, and would sometimes bike down the hill as fast as possible, then immediately turn around, pedal back up it, and do it again.
My setup to do the same:

- small Hetzner instance

- my domain's dns pointing to that instance

- frps[1] running on that instance

- frpc running on my local machine and connected to the cloud frps

[1] https://github.com/fatedier/frp
Here's a picture of me in the future.
That's "Top Shot" which is the entire frame. The feature I'm referring to would adjust multiple faces in a frame by selecting the same faces/sections from different frames to a single target frame
Do you use an IDE app? Or perhaps VS Code on the web?
> - Do it once you know that your product is compelling to your target audience.

I thought a good way to test if your product is compelling is to build a landing page, put out a little bit of cash for ads, and see if you get sign ups?
Yeah there is a version of the smart fill available on Pixel phones
When it comes to large sophisticated software the goal is not so much to improve it one self. Rather it is the knowledge that any anti-patterns will be removed by the community if it ever get added. Most of the time the community will not even need to remove anti-pattern from open source projects, since companies know that adding anti-pattern is just wasted developer time.
The issue I've always run in to when crunching the numbers on off-grid wind is average wind speed at any particular location. If you're within a certain distance of the Texas coast, you'll have the necessary wind, but average wind speed in the US is closer to 4mph, which isn't really enough to pull meaningful power out of a 3' diameter wind turbine. In many cases the power generated isn't enough to trigger the output relays.
I think there are a lot more of these stories to come.

My town (Boulder, CO) is inundated with what look like 12-17 year-olds absolutely tearing around on e-bikes. They are rarely petaling, 50/50 on helmet wearing, and often going 20-30 (or more) mph. I assume they have just defeated the speed governors. This particular group is essentially underaged, unlicensed motorcycle riders that uses roads, bikes lines, and sidewalks as it seems convenient. One of the fundamental safety problems is that although people are very used to cyclists here, they are not used to the car-like speed that these things go.
There should be a big "X"-shaped button for simply dismissing the banner, deferring the answer to a later time. After all, if someone is visiting your website for the first time, they likely don't know your site well enough to know whether they want to accept or reject.
Back end and devops probably give the best combo of pay and work life balance.

Front end had you chasing frameworks. Front end for you own projects is OK but for a company get ready to learn the latest React nonsense while supporting Angular, JQuery Plugins and everything else that was in vogue over the life of your codebase. Unless you join a disciplined team that doesn’t chase fads or rewrites everything each time.

Game dev is famous for bad work life balance. Not sure about pay? Working for Roblox is probably decent?

The best paid will be FAANG (USA only) or Fintech esp. Trading.

For career development if I had
time again I might go more into sales
engineer, with the option to into pure sales or start a business with the help of all those friends you made! Or be a business analyst for a year or two.

Inside the Engineering wheelhouse it feels CTO is the real career progression and if you don’t want to be on that path it is harder to find career opportunities.
I worked at a company that used badge-in data to determine how many people to expect for lunch (which the company provided). Given the terribly ancient tech that system ran on, I'm certain that around 11AM every day the person responsible for producing lunch would import a CSV file into Excel and tally the list, all in plaintext.

Granted, that's probably an odd exception to the norm, but your comment reminded me of how badge-in data presented a clever solution to a problem, even if I shudder to think of how that data could have been used for harm.
>where will your precious environment be then, hmm??

As a Texan I feel compelled to answer this question. You will find the environment right out there where the front fell off.
*Bad plans are struck down, because they're bad.

The "do something, anything" crowd got to run the show for a bit and the results were nothing like promised.

Things like plastic straw bans that accomplish nothing, or ideas like banning airplanes entirely. These are radical extremist ideological views driven by fear and emotion - just like religion.

Climate change activists shoot their own foot off with every opportunity. Propose sane, gradual changes without all the "world ending in 5 years" rhetoric and you will accomplish a lot more.

It's a religion today. And just like other religions, it has it's own purity and ideology tests.
As a boss of quite a large team, I think it's ok to not have everyone be hyper productive 5 days a week and I don't want people cramming 5 days of work in to 4. I want a little slack and room to pivot for my team during the week. I need people to have a spare few hours in the week that they maybe feel is unproductive in order for them to be able to pick up a couple new things that crop up. I'm not able to schedule 40 perfect hours of tasks for people to start on from 9am Monday. Where are as a team Friday 3pm looks very different to where we'd be Thursday 8pm if everyone was nose to the grindstone the whole time.

Also if youre a business that is basically a team for hire to a client who works 5 days a week, what do you tell them when they come up with some valid but urgent request during "normal" business time and that key person isn't there because they've already done their 40 hours. "Sorry we'll have to pick that up next week" very often doesn't fly with them ("what do you mean that person only does 4 days a week, we need that thing done today" is not a conversation I want to have). I cannot always afford to hire more people to cover that unicorn 10x team member who wants to work 4 days.
Well, in 1920 to live in Midtown you would have had to be able to drop $3m ($55m inflation adjusted) for a ground-level mansion and now you can get an apartment there for under $1m, so I would say the cost has dropped precipitously over the past hundred years.

Demand is only induced when you give the thing away for free.
> NYC resident here. It is not "crazy bad". Other than the trains not running (which, let's be clear, is unfortunately not super rare), I barely noticed a difference.

You must not have been in BK. 1/2/3, 4/5/6, N/Q/W/R all stopped running or partial service in BK. Local and express busses down in that area. Major streets shut down, including the ones around BK bridge. I spent 4 hours in traffic picking up my wife today. Also saw 4 accidents, bc drivers here seem to prefer driving more reckless in rain. If that's not "crazy bad", I don't know what it.

> Zero-content exaggeration like this is infuriating. Obviously, if you're in an area that got flooded, it may well be the worst thing you've experienced in years. One person cannot speak for a city of 8 million people.

Too many new yorkers have adopted this attitude of "its not that bad!" when it gets ugly here. I get it, I like the city (when its working) too, but I want the city to be better. I have been living or consistently visiting the city (and by "city", I mean all of NYC, not just Manhattan) since 2011. Thing have been getting worse, especially since covid. I have seen a video of people open cooking a roast pig on the sidewalk. NYC is 3rd world. The only thing keeping me here is my job that requires me to come into the office 3x/week.
Do you really want to be "average" at your job? What do you really want to do?

I've worked with barely average developers and believe me, they frustrate the rest of the team. They'll copy-and-paste the same code 5x instead of asking where they should put a new module. They'll commit untested code into main, and leave it to the next guy to clean it up, just so they can close their ticket. Communication is often poor. We all don't know things. The problem with "average" is they don't ask questions.
Are they even doing "social invites"? It sounded like it was a queue where they let more users in as they gain confidence in scaling the platform.
> "Even when you're home, you're still at the mercy of your ISP." No, I'm not. If you think I am, then you don't understand networking.

If your ISP dropped all packets on port 53 that contained a response for example.com, how would you circumvent that and learn its IP otherwise?

> "What does preventing use of Edge have to do with DoH?" If you can't have basic control of programs on your own computer, tell me how you're going to control programs' use of DoH.

Name a single program (other than unambiguous malware that nobody would ever be okay with being installed at all) that always uses DoH regardless of any configuration by a local administrator.

> "You've yet to convincingly point out a single bad thing that actually comes from DoH." I've named many: we lose the ability to block ads, adware, Trojan CaC, spyware, et cetera. We lose the privacy of our own DNS lookups. Your suggestion seems disingenuous.

There are DoH resolvers that do ad and malware blocking. Moving DNS from cleartext to an encrypted protocol is certainly not losing privacy.

> "You can't make public Wi-Fi or your ISP's network better no matter how knowledgeable you are." No - YOU can't or don't want to, because you don't understand networking. People who want to can, though, and this is what I'd encourage, instead of enshittifying the Internet by believing companies like Cloudflare when they tell us our ISPs suck and we should just trust them instead.

How are you proposing that people make other people's networks better? And are you saying that Americans' ISPs don't suck?
The sentence is worded a little confusingly, but my interpretation of it is that for certain companies, since Amazon is a competitor in the business domain of that company, AWS is a nonstarter even if it's product offerings are a better choice. Walmart is the canonical example.
I guess you're one of those people who holds the opinion that people shouldn't debate. There are all sorts of opinions in this world.
Just have a look at that cassette tape drive for a PDP-11-style computer [1] (same channel)! — I was actually quite impressed by the production quality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7PQIRKF8wI
It does if you can drain into the body of water you are blocking with the seawall.
It was 2009, I think, when I found myself implementing a rudimentary Lisp reader in PHP, because while the client had proved fully to understand the concept of list syntax, the client also had proved wholly and with basaltic resolve unwilling to be parted from beloved Excel. Exporting to CSV for upload and processing was just about thinkable, and the only meaningful concession I managed to extract.

(The use of Lisp lists to represent tree-structured data wasn't a concession. See, you can generate those with Excel
formulas...)
I once found myself re-encrypting my entire password store because I realized my backup was not a backup at all.

Better that then wait until it was too late.

https://www.passwordstore.org/
John Titor, is that you?