skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the points with regards to the brakes and the components. I even get the point that hydraulic would have better stopping power. I further get the point that you need regular maintenance on these bikes more than you do on the old beater bikes most kids used to use. (Indeed, my road bike is mechanical disk brakes. And we own some of these RAD bikes.)

None of that really enters here, though? The "wheel could have come off due to design" is irrelevant in a case where the wheel didn't come off. That it didn't have enough stopping power could be relevant? But even that wasn't asserted here, instead it was that the operator lost control and they crashed. Which sucks in every sense of the word.

Your gripe that they use cheap components would matter if you can show that this crash was a component failure. That isn't claimed.

This entire comments section is too filled with people grinding their axe to the tune of a dead kid excusing any logic to their claim.
wow x2. You're right video is where this is really cool. Take enough video of a scene and you can then create most any photo from any angle in it.
Ferrocene update
If vitriol has to be heaped I’d rather it be on the dead, though you could argue they can’t defend.

But heaping vitriol does much more against the heaper than the heapee, in almost all cases.
I don't think that saying "it's crazy" is even specific enough to be called an exaggeration, nor is it untrue. It doesn't take that many force multipliers to make your experience during these floods absolutely wild and crazy painful. Try being homeless, incarcerated, mentally ill? I mean, I'm glad you're comfortable, but the city as a whole has really had a crazier than usual day.
Thanks to this asshole I now have to put my flipper zero in my checked luggage next to my HackRF...
Texas has the most installed wind power capacity of any US state.

Many days the grid runs 100% off of wind energy.
You'll never guess which three genes to turn a tuber into a citrus. (okay, maybe just change the color.)
$15/mo is silly considering I could easily rent a VPS for that price
If these smaller turbines don't weigh much, is there really no cheap way to build a 40-50 ft tower where's there's more wind? And is there any hope there will be in the near future?
> I don't see why it's better than DoT or DoQ, except maybe a use case for censored countries.

This feels like saying "I don't see why we need oxygen in the atmosphere, except for people needing to breathe." Being able to overcome censorship is a huge win and is more than sufficient for DoH to be better than DoT, etc.

> Also, we are moving from your ISP knowing too much about you to Cloudflare knowing too much about you. It's one of the biggest DoH DNS services, often they see unencrypted HTTPs traffic, they also an exit node for iCloud Private Relays. ISP is left out, but Cloudflare seems to be able to consolidate this knowledge.

The key making DoH still a net win in spite of that is that your ISP has the mapping from your source IP to your real-life identity, but DoH providers like CloudFlare don't.
The answer to wind and solar power turns out to be huge, centralized installations, not a hundred million individual installations. There is a solar farm near my house, at a power plant, that is over two miles long. Windmills are most efficient when they are huge and slow.
> Singling out ebikes seems like status-quo bias -- they get disproportionate scrutiny simply because they are new, not because of the level of risk they present.

Yes. The local denizens of Nextdoor go on and on about the kids on eBikes, while it's the local drivers who are absolutely slaughtering each other and everyone else: https://ktvz.com/category/news/accidents-crashes/

Second the Strong Towns recommendation. They do great work.
> Still, some criticized Swisher and Code for "sandbagging" Yaccarino, needlessly putting her in a position to make her look bad in her appearance at a tech conference.

Yaccarino sandbagged herself when she took the job. She put herself in a position that makes her look bad. She decided the pay packet was worth the inevitable reputational damage.

> Asked by Boorstin if she is CEO in name only, Yaccarino called the question "not nice."

The truth rarely is.
Would it be enough to just retcon the elevated rail as rack and pinion track?
> NYC infrastructure is old and unmaintained. The sewer system is 175 years old. These floods happen every year at different magnitude.

Given the amount of money I pay for taxes to the state, perhaps the state/city should update that infrastructure.
How large and profitable does a company need to be, before it's worth adding a "Filter Section" to the Legal Dept. - basically a bunch of lawyers who spend their days skimming through the communications of exec's and managers, looking for idiots who never quite mastered the whole "Brain => Filter => Mouth" concept, and flagging them for dismissal?
I remember something like this from 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111015232120/http://navcen.usc...

“SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC COAST: GPS Testing Information
THE GPS NAVIGATION SIGNALS MAY BE UNRELIABLE FROM 20 JAN 2011 - 22 FEB 2011 FROM 0000Z - 0245Z DUE TO TESTING ON GPS FREQUENCIES USED IN SHIPBOARD NAVIGATION AND HANDHELD SYSTEMS. GPS SYSTEMS THAT RELY ON GPS, SUCH AS E-911, AIS AND DSC, MAY BE AFFECTED WITHIN A 150 NM RADIUS OF POSITION 30 49.09N 80 28.18W. DURING THIS PERIOD GPS USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY GPS SERVICE OUTAGES THAT THEY MAY EXPERIENCE DURING THIS TESTING VIA THE NAVIGATION INFORMATION SERVICE (NIS) BY CALLING (703) 313-5900 OR BY USING THE NAVCEN WEB SITE'S GPS REPORT A PROBLEM WORKSHEET AT WWW.NAVCEN.USCG.GOV.”

I specifically remember it because I was trying to navigate my roommate and I to the Atlanta IKEA but my phone showed me as being, like, south of Macon. ~100mi of error.
...and need maintenance, and cost more. It just seems like an engineering problem that can be avoided vs. solved.
NYer here also.

For the past 10-12 years or so, yes, this has been happening more and more. This kind of thing was not happening 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago, at this level any how. You can say now "these floods happen every year", but this used to not be the case.

This year New York was covered by smoke due to Canadian forest fires. I can't remember that ever happening in the past half century. I'm sure in a few years someone will these "this happens every year".
My general lean is toward subsidiarity - decisions should be made at the lowest possible level.

This is somewhat inefficient but it also minimizes major problems.
> cd ..

https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/13/23023361/e-bike-injuries-...

> Overall, the report concludes that the main culprit in all bicycle (regular and electric) injuries was the rider’s own behavior (44 percent) — a steering error, for example — while 32 percent was road conditions. And the majority of these accidents affected only the rider. Two-thirds of the 110,000 traffic victims treated in Dutch hospitals last year were cyclists, VeiligheidNL says. The survey was conducted with hospitalized riders between July 2020 and June 2021.

Even in countries with top biking infrastructure ebikes are significanly more dangerous.

Again - if I suggested I drove my kid to kindergarten on a motorcycle I'd have social services on my door. When I'm exposing them to a similar risk on an ebike that's OK ?

Ebikes are not bycicles.
DoH doesn't make the Internet any more centralized. Just as with insecure DNS servers, anyone can run DoH servers too, and there are a lot of public ones: https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-av...
> barely the first VPN or proxy service trying to make itself oblivious of the traffic it serves

That's an understatement. The earliest example that comes to mind is from over a quarter of a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Knowledge_Systems ZKS even predated Tor as one of the (if not the) first Onion Routing/Pipenet implementations outside the Navy's program. At the time, ZKS earned a lot of mindshare in the tech industry, but unfortunately they were a tad early to the commercial VPN party.
Can KDE learn something from Nextcloud?
Maybe? Not my cup of tea, but if I didn't trust my wife, and she allowed me to track her, maybe that'd solve whatever hypothetical problem we were having. Very unlikely, but I don't think the idea itself, doomed to fail or not, is a problem if both parties consent.

Which is what you do when you work for an employer that wants to track your entries/exits into their buildings. You consent to allowing systems to be put in place that serve as placeholders for when trust isn't yet or won't be established.
Ehh this stuff gets put to use on their pixel phones
Is this the thread where the web developers speculate wildly without facts or evidence and pretend to know more about airplanes than the aerospace engineers who built it?
12 miles on a single charge sounds very little.
> Even in countries with good biking infrastructure ebike accident rate is comparable to motorcycles

Well, sort of. If you go by count of any incident regardless of severity, sure. But stratify the results and the picture becomes very different. Motorcycles are far more likely to be seriously injured in an at-fault crash, whereas cyclists are far more likely to be seriously injured if the other party is a car and at fault.
I think there's a huge difference between "maybe there is a backdoor" versus "literally all of microsoft, across all orgs, is owned and they have to shut it all down and start from scratch", call me crazy.
China Eastern Airlines just made the biggest C919 order ever, for 100 planes
Here's a quote which I got from comp.lang.lisp, long ago:

Here's an anecdote I heard once about Minsky. He was showing a student how to use ITS to write a program. ITS was an unusual operating system in that the 'shell' was the DDT debugger. You ran programs by loading them into memory and jumping to the entry point. But you can also just start writing assembly code directly into memory from the DDT prompt. Minsky started with the null program. Obviously, it needs an entry point, so he defined a label for that. He then told the debugger to jump to that label. This immediately raised an error of there being no code at the jump target. So he wrote a few lines of code and restarted the jump instruction. This time it succeeded and the first few instructions were executed. When the debugger again halted, he looked at the register contents and wrote a few more lines. Again proceeding from where he left off he watched the program run the few more instructions. He developed the entire program by 'debugging' the null program.
They can compete in one case - the transfer of human remains. Go trains?
> fast ebikes will also require a tachometer in 2024.

Do you mean speedometer? I don’t see how motor speed is relevant to safety.
Is it different than prior mis/disinformation or than addictive media like computer games? It's just a way to spin your wheels endlessly, in a way that satisfies some neural perception of activity.

Play that game all night - you know the feeling, so intense and addictive as you are playing, and then in the morning the bizarre empty feeling that you are nowhere; you are living nowhere and have gotten nowhere.

You feel sick or you are concerned about something, and you Google some mis/disinformation (who can tell the difference?) on someone's blog, Twitter, etc. Just like playing that game, while you're doing it you feel like you are doing something. But you are just as sick, your concern is unresolved (though with mis/disinfo, you don't always realize it).

Now we have immersive 3D worlds and AI illusions to occupy us even better. Our technologists are innovating ways for us to go nowhere and stay nowhere ever better. Apple's choice to make their goggles transparent, with reality visible to the user and vice-versa (the user's eyes visible to others), is an interesting philosophical choice in this context.

... In fairness, it doesn't have to be nowhere. Art can be an alternate reality that is somewhere and gets us somewhere.
He's kinda wrong, but not when you take into account RF modulation. The first "useful" application for the Altair was having it play music by making it run various delay loops at different speeds that generated RF frequencies that could be picked up as tones on a nearby AM radio.

You could even faintly hear the CPU or the video chip working on old bitty boxes like the Commodore 64, VIC-20, or TI-99/4A because it would leak through to the audio portion of the RF signal to the television. VICE even has an option to emulate this for a more authentic feel of using an old Commodore machine.
I had to tackle this problem for my index card app, Card Buddy. [1] It was definitely a fun challenge and I still found a better way to do it later.

What I ended up doing is when you pick up a card, I compute the layout as if the card was deleted from the board, and then it becomes easy. Wherever you hover the mouse, I just displace whatever is there.

There were still tons of edge cases I had to work out, though, especially when you start editing a new card that hasn’t been “committed” to the data model yet. I had to add the option to shift existing cards out of the way to make room for a phantom card.

It helps to recognize that there are just lots of edge cases you have to manually handle. If you try to tackle it as though there’s a more generic/homogeneous solution, you end up going around in circles a bit with the design. I should probably create a blog post on all the different edge cases.

As I said, though, I found an even better way to do my layout, which saves on unnecessary computations and makes the layout engine more flexible and user-friendly. (It’s amazing what a difference your choice of data model representation makes on your solution.) It’s been a fun puzzle to solve!

[1] https://www.ussherpress.com/cardbuddy/
What's this got to do with the price of tea in China? Not once anywhere have I seen someone claiming 20mph speeds powered by meat motor. Where are you coming up with that?
8 means, ‘great, everyone is performing above expectations’
Having separate code paths for "it's a press", "it's a release", "it's a drag" just turns into a nightmare when you actually use all 3 input events extensively. Remember that while the motion events of the drag might be the visually interesting part, for the most part the interesting stuff happens at the beginning and end of them - i.e. the press and release.

It becomes massively simpler conceptually (and even in the code) to treat any button press as a potential drag, and a simple click becomes just a drag-with-no-movement.
Even the pastafarians get to wear strainers on their heads in driver's license photos. Some religions are exempt from paying social security. A group of adamant people is a powerful thing.
Show HN: Monkey patch linux inotify events into macOS
> DHCP is group policy for network configuration.

The real Group Policy only affects computers that a local administrator explicitly joined to a domain. DHCP shouldn't have any such control since it's not trusted.

> If you're connecting to a network where you don't trust the DHCP server then don't use DHCP for DNS

But that's exactly what people are complaining that Firefox enabled.

> The application default needs to be the system DNS and the device default needs to be DHCP so the device owner can feasibly change them.

Once every common end-user OS has default-on DoH, then that would be better, but until then, I think individual programs using DoH on their own is a net benefit.
Clojurists together:
https://www.clojuriststogether.org/
Quarantine means 40 days. We had kids out of classrooms for 2+ years.
I had 2.5ft of water in my basement and my kids school was flooded, all of pre-K had to be taught in the cafeteria.

Just because nothing happened to you doesn't mean nothing happened.
Organization keeps a server on-prem that saves + shared boards, and enables collaboration with other people on-prem. Data from the boards are owned by the organization, and can be used as long as they need to.
I suppose they are at work to work, and not to listen to you babble on about what you find interesting. Every minute you talk about your 9600 baud modem is either a minute later they need to work, or a minute less work they get done that day. Nobody needs to know any of this to run a k8s cluster, or whatever.
From what I’ve seen the newer UWP descendant WinUI/Windows App SDK is starting to get some traction. Apple uses it for some of its newer Windows software (beta Apple Music client among others), presumably because they want their apps to look at home on modern Windows with the newer more pretty UI widgets. Some indie app devs also use it, and MS has transitioned Power Tools to it.
Let’s say I want to know the conversion rate of my payment page. I need to know how many unique visitors viewed a page, and how many of them went on to complete a payment. I’m pretty sure this is not possible without a unique identifier. And if you are using (ip address, user agent) as a proxy for such an identifier, is that any better or legal than using a cookie in the first place?
Ah, it's Sir Humphrey Appleby.

>Propose sane, gradual changes without all the "world ending in 5 years" rhetoric

We did, 50 years ago say "whoa, lets slow down this climate change thing"

And guess what. We didn't.

And by the time you wake up, the only thing you're going to have to say is "Well, it's too late to do anything now".
I realize this is a quibble, but two people riding down a steep hill on a single bike would have been a really rare -- if not practically impossible -- occurrence before the advent of e-bikes. Very few conventional bikes were ever sold with capacity for a second rider, and getting to the point of trying that stunt would have involved more endurance than most kids are likely to possess.

On the other hand, many of the the newer motorcycle-style e-bikes are being designed, marketed, and sold, as two-seaters.

One of the rules for the "progressive drivers license" in my state, for teenagers, is that they can't have more than one teenager in the car at a time.
I’m sure a mod that increases ramp length will be available shortly before release ;)

It’s already a low gravity planet and I’ve seen electric rail climb some annoying steep roads.
Yeah, totally.

At least I would try to communicate on important decisions. However, I have zero interest in making decisions, making presentation, trying to prove things or any of that. All I want is a task that is achievable in given allocated time and fits my skill level.

I have given up on hopes of learning. There is no such thing as learning after highschool. It's always one thing after another. College is chasing grades. Post graduate chasing papers. Never got a true chance to dive and learn. There is no room for failure. All I had to do was put of patch work to clear the subjects. How can I expect myself to be good when I have cheated the system throughout my life.

Hence, if I get the chance, I would love to be average. No responsibility. Slightly better pay. I feel I can study what interest me just to crush my own ego.

Hope it makes sense.
It’s very similar to the sound that dialing a phone (touch tone) makes, but higher pitched and pulsed four times a second. It was VERY LOUD, enough to cause pain if you put it up to your ear. The idea was to help let you know that your phone fell off the receiver even if you weren’t nearby.

Edit: the reason this matters is that call waiting was not a standard feature. So if your phone was off the hook, it would not be able to ring and receive a call, the person calling you would just get a “busy signal” which is a lower pitched two-tone beep that is on and off every second. You still hear that from time to time in modern phone systems when they are overloaded.
These 6,000-year-old sandals found in a Spanish cave are Europe’s oldest shoes
You must have thought of this, then — Factorio trains corner at full speed, which seems an even grosser violation of physics than free ascent up slopes. Folks on r/factorio did the math — https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/16ujbyf/what_g_fo...
Western culture is for sure the same, but Stallman specifically would not mind that question.
There's no need for any corporate conspiracy. RMS does a good job of looking bad on his own, and the FSF barely shows up on Linux sites. I don't think the likes of Netflix even know the FSF exists at this point, let alone bother allocating any effort towards fighting back.
So you're working 3.5 days a week? This seems to go against the entire point of 4 solid days > 5 marginal days, which is how you're describing Fridays.
That's really exaggerated.

The first institute tasked with creating computers was set up in 1948, the same year the word "cybernetics" appeared. The USSR had nothing against computer science, and the initial progress in that area was not that bad (given the post-war scarcity). The USSR mainly had issues with some of the more philosophical parts of Norbert Wiener's books.

The USSR failed in its usual manner: the progress was great only while it required just individual brilliance, or something that could be constructed by small teams.

So the USSR had pretty decent discrete-logic computers, including truly innovative stuff like Setun' that was based on ternary logic. And then the USSR predictably started losing ground, once the world moved to integrated circuits.
According to X itself, which has the best data, all objective measurements of hate speech are down actually. Elon was just talking about it in his latest interviews with the Rabbis. They have seen a 30% drop in antisemitic content.

The Guardian and CNN have both been writing extremely biased articles about X and Elon ever since the takeover, so these articles have to be read with an eye for the bias.

As stated in your linked article though, X is complying with all the required laws from the EU. If the EU wants to start censoring people in their country, X has stated that it will follow the laws and comply.
Sigh. As someone who is making a company in the privacy space, I hate when privacy products make huge claims like this. Another big offender is proton mail.

They may not be able to track your stuff as it is today, but one single FISA order demanding they push a update out to just to a few specific IP addresses and it will be all the same.

All things you download and install to your device can screw you if they have any functional way to update or have any serverside includes. (like a analytics JS tracker that can be changed to a JS logger)

We run into this a bit with https://redact.dev , but for people who want to be sure the login information they provide is safe.
At the end of the day, you are always at the mercy of the courts AND the founders not doing evil things.

Heres a quick meme to better explain: https://i.imgur.com/Vnerxcb.png
It is, but it's further than I'd want to ride something like this, so it's fine.
> The solution is to remove DNS from your ISP and run it yourself

This doesn't work because if you run your own recursive DNS server, it will make insecure requests to all of the authoritative servers, and so your ISP can hijack them all. And DNSSEC will keep you from getting sent to the wrong domain, but won't help you figure out the right domain.
Not all operating systems have file systems that take the Unixoid "a file is just a hunk of bytes on disk with a name" (which convention DOS, Windows, and Mac also use). Some file systems do distinguish between text and binary files; others have fixed record sizes, or provide fixed-record-size files in addition to random-access hunks of bytes. Mainframe and DEC mini operating systems come to mind.
Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide
If they wanted to, they could find real pictures of you, taken by other Google users who were there at the same time.

I don't know if that's more or less creepy than the AI stuff...
Anyone know if it will be open sourced?