skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a RadCity 4 with fenders and a basket. It’s much heavier than a regular bike. But it’s quite fun to ride and can hit 25mph. My city is rather flat and has passable bike infrastructure.

I haven’t used it all that much simply because I enjoy walking and usually do that. But for certain travel scenarios it’s awesome. I upgraded from a 20 minute car ride across town to a 30 minute e-bike ride.
It sounds like you have a pretty antiquated view of manufacturing. It looks nothing like what you are calling it: "low value commodity bodies to screw things on." No offense to you in particular, but it sounds like you haven't updated your views since 1975. This is common because most manufacturing happens well outside of the lives of people in tech or service work.

Most screws these days are not screwed on by "bodies." They are screwed on by machine. Much of employment in manufacturing these days is in higher value work: operating CNC machines, maintaining robots and other machinery, engineering, and so on.

If manufacturing work is so low value and commodity, why do manufacturing jobs pay $20k more per person, on average, than service work?

Why does the manufacturing sector have annual average compensation of $70k, despite taking place in generally LCOL areas?

Do you look at a modern car and say: wow, what a low-value commodity good?

The Economist article you cite says nothing about manufacturing and does not support your point. In fact, when you look at the total output of manufacturing today versus 1947, it is about the same percentage of our GDP: even though manufacturing employment has dropped from 35% of Americans to less than 9% because of efficiency gains. The idea that manufacturing has disappeared from America is false and a myth.

I invite you to actually go tour a modern manufacturing facility with high speed robotic computer-controlled production lines. It may make you think differently about the physical comforts you depend on in your life.
Now that’s a great indicator
> but once or twice a year, we take a 1000 mile road trip that would be considerably more painful in an EV. If we're only going to own one car, it still needs to be ICE.

You could just rent a car for those two trips like you suggested yourself in your first paragraph ;). Optimise for the most common scenario, not the least common one.

> Would I still be able to run a 2023 EV in 2044? Will the batteries last that long, with any sort of usable range?

Replacing the battery pack on an EV once every 15 years is certainly cheaper than all the maintenance that goes into an ICE in the same timeframe. Hopefully we can start recycling batteries properly before the current generation of EVs is up for battery replacements.
I can't help but roll my eyes at that line. It's cargo culting at its best. Good programmers do extra because they enjoy it. If a person does not enjoy programming chances are they don't do it enough to be exceptional at it, and forcing themselves to "do extra" will not help and could backfire.
I'll be a bit adversarial in my own observation (as a 42 year old)

In my older experiences, people who'd climbed a mountain's worth of knowledge would be recognised. Nowadays, we tend to witness people climbing the mountain because the information is so freely available, and tbf, eminently marketable.

Tell me about it when you've reached the top.

There's plenty of us putting in the effort one way or another.
Looking at both of them, they look very heavy (not considering the motor and battery).

And the gearing seems limited.

Are they actually usable in non-electric mode?
She has a fake car commercial video for it as well, that is just top tier parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35gWBtLCYg
This pisses me off quite a bit. A simple fix could be to have the realtors bill for their services outside the purchase contract (which could still spell out those fees in a legally binding manner). The closing costs we pay to the title company aren't included in the purchase price, so it doesn't make sense that the realtor fees should be either.
Had the US not already gone through widespread industrialization by the 1950s, the supposed golden age of American industry and prosperity?
Step 1: destroy search with Ads, brands, and unwanted results.

Step 2: expose a little less broken search via voice assistants.

Step 3: realize you recreated Yahoo-era "web surfers" feeding a search engine index.

Step 4: fire everyone and automate with LLM

Step 5: Keep making search broken.
NASA Built a Tiny Tank to Pop Shuttle Tires
Ashby (YC W19) is hiring a remote SRE to help us scale
ServeTheHome just published an article about powerline networking

TLDR: It's still bad.

https://www.servethehome.com/over-a-decade-later-powerline-a...
Delay Delay Do Not Inform Me
Sentry Relicense Again (FSL)
A simple interactive ChatGPT version of one of my favorite NPR radio shows "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"

Uses the AP News feed of oddities to play "Bluff the Chatter" and the "Chatter Limerick Challenge"
There is limited support in the article for the headline claim. The largest BEV transition is in the very large fleet of Chinese mopeds, from ICE to EV. As a result less oil is being used in that segment. It isn't a transition from ICE car to BEV moped as many comments opine. The article links to a Bloomberg document quoted below.

EVs of all types are currently displacing 1.5 million barrels per day of oil demand. 67% of this is from two- and three-wheeled vehicles and 16% is from buses. Passenger vehicles represent just 15% of displacement today, but this is set to grow sharply. [0]

In chart "Global EV Fleet sizes by segment and market" [1] Electric two- and three-wheelers are 95% in the China market.

0. https://bnef.turtl.co/story/evo-2022/page/7/1

1. https://bnef.turtl.co/story/evo-2022/page/3/1
Evolution of what it means to be a Sideproject
That's not what the original comment said though. The comment was about companies losing money, not about gaining certain freedoms.
I missed the part where Algeria has a nuclear arsenal and wants to invade some place (don't mention West-Sahara please, that thing is worthy of it's own series of books).

So, no fossil fuels from oppressive regimes then (I'm all for it, really, the sooner the Saudi can no longer pay the way into everything the better). Which leaves us with what exactly?

Renewables, meaning sourcing from China. And nuclear, just remind me, where does the reactor fuel come from again?
He threw shade on it but without a good reason as the reply to him points out.

Rescaling existing production is exactly how to demonstrate whether the peaks and lulls of solar and wind would sufficiently line up in a 100% solar/wind/pumped storage/hydrogen storage grid. Real data > hypothesized data.

What's absurd is the fossil fuel/nuclear lobby's "for public consumption" models that assume that the sun and wind both go out for 4 weeks at a time every winter and that the only way to store energy is with lithium batteries from 2012.
the idea that there is either the zero-density of single family homes, versus giant apartments that are skyscrapers with thin ceilings and walls, is a false choice due to the US’s bad urban planning.

there are a lot of density options between everywhere USA and Manhattan - row homes for example - that would give a pleasant middle ground and still massively improve density and walkability
There exists this page:

https://www.itaipu.gov.br/energia/geracao

But they don't seem to publish anything on the Brazilian data portal (that's bad), nor they seem to publish anything parseable on their site.

I also couldn't find any breakdown of the energy sold to each country. The Brazilian electric system operator (ONS) has the Brazilian numbers, but I don't know where to get the other ones.
Three years on a clothes hanger design? She's paid to do this?!

"There's a sucker born every minute!"
- Old saying

https://medium.com/skeptikai/the-real-story-behind-the-quote...
Yes, your website has two user hostile features which immediately make me want to click away

1) Sending cookies to track me, and then a big lie about how you "value my privacy" while trying to track me and sell my data to your "partners"

" ► UpPromote Affiliate Marketing [Application] - Running..."

2) A cookie banner, which you completely ignore as you've already set 7 cookies before your javascript craps out ("TypeError: a.R is undefined"). At this point I haven't done a single thing on your page worthy of even a session cookie.

3) Once you "decline" your banner (which doesn't stop those cookies - including cookies you have set for 12 months in the future), you get a "chat" window with a red notification icon
Programmers aren't the only people who have work compatible with working remotely. My post explicitly was restricted to those whose jobs can be done remotely and laments that there are other forces at play that interfere with this ability. Most of those force like to bath themselves in greenwash. There's no need for any improvement to work for 100% of humanity for it to be an improvement. Stopping the good because it's not the perfect just stops anything good from happening.
Link (to REI gen 1.2 ebike): rei.com/product/190640/co-op-cycles-generation-e12-electric-bike

How fast'll this lil'baby go, for a fat 250lb'er like me?
I used to ask it a lot more nuanced questions. Like if I was watching TV and they referred to some historical event, I might have asked it about that historical event and gotten a useful response. Now it says something like, "I don't know how to answer that."
> So if you can mimic language well enough, you start to mimic reasoning abilities.

Mimicking reasoning abilities is not the same thing as actually having/developing them.
> Paraguay, which is the size of a brazillian municipality.

That's understating that country's size a lot; it's the size of a Brazilian state, not a Brazilian municipality (even if you consider the huge municipalities in the Amazon region).
I didn't like the blinking at first, so I made it pulse instead (smoother) but was never to the point of headaches. that said, sound should work if you can keep a headset ; )
Yes, its possible I am being too harsh, and the product was simply impossible for the capabilities available.
You should be able to get bike insurance. I pay £7/month to insure mine, which is lot cheaper than car insurance!
Electric cars are totally overboard. I think that if you change infrastructure a bit you will see many get bike-pilled by electric bikes. Especially as Americans get poorer and unable to afford automobiles.
Not OP, but I use Arkel RT-60. They are huge and strong.
I've been able to haul two 24-cases of beer, plus half a dozen mixers.
For some the hairloss comes in the 20s
I totally agree about the noise and health benefits, but to me it's more a matter of respect and safety. In the U.S., we see too many pedestrians die each year. Our roads are built for cars only, with everything else as an afterthought. When I cross the street, drivers act like it's my responsibility to stay out of their way.

If some people need to use cars for mobility or business reasons, that is fine with me. But they need to have the utmost respect for me as a pedestrian/bicyclist. And the way to accomplish that is to make streets that force cars to slow down and watch out. If we make our cities safe for walking and biking, more people will do so!
An e-bike weighs orders of magnitude less than an electric car.
I really just don't think there's any benefit to trying to fix cars (I keep thinking "stop trying to make fetch/cars happen" from Mean Girls haha). My strong opinion is the way you fix the weight problem in EVs isn't to hope for better battery efficiency or w/e, it's to replace it w/ an ebike and a raincoat.
Again, in which country? Because Germany for sure only mostly uses gas for heating and industrial purposes, not electricity generation (hard to disguish I know, but primary and secondary energy are well explained on wiki).
In India, for anywhere there's an overnight bus or train, I prefer it to a flight. Then again, our train and bus networks cater to a very large population, and trains in particular are dirt cheap.

I remember going from Hyderabad to Delhi, a distance of 1500+ km, for Rs 626 or so during my college days, in a sleeper coach. (2010) The ride took 26 hours, but was comfortable, and my only means of travel to and from college multiple times a year. The price is now 695 for a sleeper coach, or about 8.5 USD. 3-tier ac is more comfortable at 1825 INR, about 22 USD. A one way flight is about 50-55 USD equivalent and takes 2h30m or so.

I used to tell people anyone who flew from hyderabad to bangalore was a masochist. It was my regular route, and an overnight sleeper ac bus costed the same as what a cab would cost me to and from airport alone. In addition, due to travel times, security checks, etc the overall time lost was far greater by air, given that you can sleep well and wake up refereshed when travelling by bus.

The only times I take a flight these days is if the bus or train options take over 15 hours or if there's. No good overnight sleeper option. Time awake and lost to transportation tilts in favor of shorter air travel then.
You can use jargon in your startup pitch
Let's use the term "corporate entity" instead of "group of people". Because corporate entities do not have human emotions or human properties and actively work on suppressing them to generate (or extract) value.
Would the following be a red flag?

"We promote modern languages like Python! We've had our own Python 1.5 based fork for 20 years now; there's some documentation, mostly from 10yr ago when the guy who started the project died. But we've got a good maintenance team and they understand almost all the magic he wrote in."

> Apprehension toward containers is a red flag.

"(almost) all our servers are in containers: we started buying cases after Ptyhon dude died, too. Previous server generations that live as stacks of unsecured hardware on shelves are being upgraded as can by the maintenance team."
The DMV's service standards have improved dramatically in recent years, at least in my state. It's also important to note that the DMV is customer service, not customer acquisition. When compared to customer service from businesses, the DMV looks quite reasonable, and the service is getting better, whereas nearly every customer service experience I get from a business is getting worse.
"Launching GORILLA.BAS. Please wait."
The last time I checked the statistics, approximately 75% of the industry's codebase was open source—a significant portion! However, when it comes to the earnings of open-source developers, it's almost negligible.

I strongly believe that open-source contributors should be compensated for their work. So, in my opinion, there's a real need to establish an open-source economy where contributors can be fairly compensated for their work without compromising open-source principles.

I'm currently working on finding a compensation solution for OSS contributors. If you're interested in learning more, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me (see my profile).
It's hard to describe the insanity that took place in Korea during this game.

The beauty in a computer saying "fuck you, I'm going to win, this isn't a poetry slam, all I need to do is beat you by a single point" and demolishing a the best opponent humanity had to offer.
Yeah, so long as you have something else that can quickly verify that a list is sorted, just keep applying this "quick coin toss sort" until you get a sorted list.

If a ML algorithm with a 90% success rate and a "sanity checker" might be much easier to implement than a ML algorithm with a 100% success rate.
This was federal court in the USA, so they must serve a minimum of 85% of their sentence to be eligible for release.

You have to do something crazy while locked up to go over the 85%.

Prison is no joke at any level, but they will be in a minimum "camp" I assume.
You can access the article without the paywall here: https://neartail.com/enable/jargon-startup-pitch.html
Damn, with that kind of math, it almost doesn't seem worth investing the time and effort to ensure that the product works well!

I hope people who think like that are happy with their buggy-as-shit computer games on release day. Because they deserve to be.
How is it transphobic to say organizations focused on LGBTQ shifted their alignment for the one part that isn't widely accepted in developed because others for the most part are?
> They need to flush out the legacy employees and make room for hungry young workers.

Good luck. Hungry young workers will leave and go elsewhere once they see how things are run. Speaking as such a worker who's now dealing with incompetent middle management, Amazon is where dreamers and hungry engineers become cynical and disenfranchised.
The most valuable thing I ever read about trust was this gem by a bank risk policy consultant:

One Minute MBA – Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101
https://dsquareddigest.wordpress.com/2004/05/27/108573518762...

Fibbers’ forecasts are worthless. Case after miserable case after bloody case we went through, I tell you, all of which had this moral. Not only that people who want a project will tend to make innacurate projections about the possible outcomes of that project, but about the futility of attempts to “shade” downward a fundamentally dishonest set of predictions. If you have doubts about the integrity of a forecaster, you can’t use their forecasts at all.
The suggestion here is not that you walk these distances, it’s that you bike or scoot them.
I like this point, my mind immediately goes to "swap your ICE for an EV or an e-bike and $20k". I honestly think that deal is so good you'd see car theft spike. Maybe that's fine? We're in wild times haha.
As if the attorneys understand anything about 3GPP
I would honestly look for Belt Drive versions of most of these recommendations as there is one less maintenance thing to worry about.
Sorry I'm not sure I understand what you mean, how is the west digging its own grave?
If anyone wonders why housing prices keep going up - maybe because each time we sell we are adding cost to the transaction that makes no sense.
Whenever we’ve bought a house, we told the agent to not bother sending us listings or set up viewings. We simply checked open houses on Redfin and Zillow ourselves, and if we liked a house, we’d ask the agent to prepare an offer, at a price we set. It is not to figure out what a house will sell for if there are enough other sales in that neighborhood.

For their reduced work, we’d ask a reduction of their commission.
Remember when 20 years ago if anybody had doubts with the way things were heading we were told "there's no war on cars you conspiracy theorist, nobody's going to come for your cars you conspiracy theorist"? After 20 years they've made enough progress shaping the narrative that they no longer need to lie and hide their agenda they can just put it in the open.
It was fully-baked in the sense that it was novel and could recognize fairly basic voice commands including simple questions of fact. Once the novelty wore off, a lot of people concluded that wasn't actually that useful given they had a computer in their pocket anyway.

Voice is still just an implementation detail. I'd argue that we still aren't at the point where general purpose computer assistants are all that useful relative to humans. It's the same 10% (or whatever) problem as self-driving has.
Voices are not copyrighted and do not require "authorization". If my nephew wants to go around sounding like Goofy all the time (as he does) he is free to do so, though it may cost him invitations to dinner - it'd be the same if he was using Attenborough's voice.
The thing that's excessively dumb about even that approach is that the buyer almost certainly would prefer to pay their realtor directly, outside of the purchase price. Since property tax assessments usually just follow the purchase price directly, I'd much rather purchase the house for $485k and give my agent $15k separately, than have my tax assessment be based on a $500k purchase price where the seller immediately turns around and gives $15k of that to my realtor.
Not everyone lives in a perfect temperate coastal environment that doesn't get winter. And no, European winters are not really that cold and their use of bikes is not a good comparison. Especially since the distances involved are far smaller for them. Cars are vital in many regions.
Yes, it does in fact go slower than walking pace in some spots.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/02/21/green-line...
The BS is the stuff like windshield crack protection, undercoating, extended warranty, and tire protection. You can’t really upsell those when you leave the dealership.

Sure, you can do other kinds of upsells, but those tend to be less scummy and when you don’t have a salesman breathing down your neck pressuring you it’s going to be less effective.
> A future American Shenzen should a stone throw away from Silicon Valley.

Lol, heck no. Silicon Valley isn't the center of the universe, and certainly not for manufacturing, even low end electronics. There are many good schools other than Stanford and Berkeley too, you know. Best part? There are good schools all across America.
None of the other video appeared to be live, is that intentional?
Uruguayan here.

Point 1 is wrong. The average Uruguayan house doesn't have the means to heat using wood.

I think we can do it because we have a small population, almost no industry, and neither summers nor winters get to extreme temperatures.
The use of lead is a potential issue. Hopefully they can find a substitute metal.
> Incredible as it sounds, the end goal is to end all human civilization.

No. The end goal is to live. If the end goal would be to end civilisation you would just shoot, and shoot now. Easy. All the complications is because you want to live.

'Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder' to quote from Hamilton the musical. :)
Why do you all even care? We’re on a web forum not the New York Times.
I don't drink coffee regularly.
This would be more fun than many of the videos i'm watching. When will someone make a video generator for this?
People are selfish and DGAF. They will continue to buy the latest and biggest Range Rovers and Ford trucks (pedestrian death machines) to take their kids to school because they desperately need to signal how well off they are. Cars are a disgustingly polluting outlet for people to show off. IMO we should be banning big cars, possibly even legislating new cars are no bigger than a Japanese "Kei" car. Speed restrictions to go with it of course.

We should also be putting effort into reducing traffic to reduce emissions. If a road needs to come to a halt every 2 minutes for pedestrians, that adds up on a busy road. Building overpasses/underpasses in urban areas could improve traffic flow significantly.
I think it's hard for a company to sponsor a product like Alexa if the monetization is near impossible. It's basically a vanity, money draining product.
You can make this point about a lot of activities, sports, drinking, smoking, drugs, eating too much.

And a helmet doesn't prevent broken bones, spines, so they will still drain hospital resources.
I'm not interested in the competition rules and criteria. I'm just curious why the OP views Impetus as "better".
taking kids to school is actually the reason we just caved and bought a cargo bike, which we're gonna add e-assist to.

For a great many people in urban centres, the school run is the most egregiously frustrating car journey and the one most attractive to eliminate
Apparently it's not public yet.
Yes, both of them are. The Current in particular rides very normally when the battery is dead. The Haul rides fine, but like a fat tire bike that weights 90#.

If you want light + power + midhubed, you're going to spend a LOT of money. That's Riese and Mueller territory