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I think adding Pinion, doubt they are dropping Bosch. Pinion has potentially a superior platform in that you have a fully integrated motor and gearbox, but this is a new item in the market. Bosch with Rholoff[0] is extremely well known as a platform, has high reliability and excellent efficiency across a wide shift range.

As a Bosch+Rholoff owner and a Pinion C.12 owner... I'd _loved_ it if R&M were doing Pinion in their cargo line. If something happens to your rear wheel you have to rebuild around your Rholoff. This might be hard to do on a tour compared to buying a new wheel if you had a Pinion. This assumes that your motor and electronics are not at risk of failing, which may be only reasonable if you're using Bosch...

I'm happy to see Pinion being picked up by R&M. I'd assume this is an excellent sign for Pinion as R&M's _schtick_ seems to be the customer experience (e.g. performance and reliability). This obviously signals that they are in some reasonable partnership to support this configuration for a long time. It would have been really nice to see Pinion offered in at-least one of their cargo platform though.

We just got a Load4 and I noticed that the Bosch+Rholoff dual battery configuration lagged in availability pretty significantly behind the other configurations. I presume this probably made R&M product management a bit irritated as the products form Bosch seem to be announced about a year before things are available. Anecdotally I believe I received 725wh batteries on my order when there is open discussion about how these batteries are not even in production by Bosch anymore as they've moved on to a higher density. Seems like with Bosch there is a big lag between announcement of a market disrupting product and when integrators get it on platform. Pinion may be faster?

Above there is a comment about Bosch being a ripoff (e.g. high margins), certainly it is but they are likely the only company you can build a product off unless you're going into race to the bottom price range. Propel has an interesting post [1] about going Bosch only. Now there are major providers in Germany also providing solutions: Pinion, ZF. I believe propel also started a thing called bloom [2][3] where I bet the "after sales support" portion of starting an e-Bike business is often times a discussion of why Bosch is safe.

[0]: https://www.rohloff.de/en/products/speedhub

[1]: https://propelbikes.com/bosch-only/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlexoIDBN9E

[3]: https://togetherwebloom.us/
My assertion was Iskander is one of Russias best weapons, arguably more effective than Kalibr per rate of fire and very likely equivalent to ATACMS, or possibly better in terms of capabilities given it's a larger munition.

> There seems to be a wide gap in capability between the two scenario

This is entirely premised on Russian air defense being equal in high value areas vs Ballistic missiles (which is easily the hardest test, even for the US). Patriot systems were tested many times IRL against SCUD missiles during Desert storm and more recently vs Iran, plus general skill available in US R&D/military, while Russia never tested their S-400 systems in (real) combat and is notorious for poor maintenance/training.

Unless you equalize these 2 things it's a moot point. RU missile teams have had plenty of press about improving their operational effectiveness in the last year. AA has not.

Additionally, these systems aren't that sophisticated, it's GPS+inertial navigation+maneuvering+maybe some limited anti-EW. The rest is intelligence, EW, operators, etc. ATACMS was designed in the mid 1980s after all...
This is simply not true. Just today an app asked me to use Microsoft Authenticator, and scanning the QR code with Google Auth and Authy didn’t work, earning me an “Invalid QR code” error and forcing me to install the app from MS.
> It's ultimately up to us to decide how to project our relatively young calendar system way back into the past before it was invented. Year zero makes everything nice. Be like astronomers and be like ISO. Choose year zero.

Or, just to add more fuel to the fire, we could use the Holocene/Human year numbering system to have a year zero and avoid any ambiguity between Gregorian and ISO dates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
Do not ever try putting something like “magnet water purifier” in Google, then. Or, if your results make too much sense, just add some bullshit like “crystals”. You’d be disappointed to learn that about 54,017 charlatans beat you to the punch. Some of them even got some articles in something that looks like a peer-reviewed journal…
> Many high power ebike enthusiasts (for example “High Voltage DIY Electric Bikes” channel on YouTube) argue that these low legal power limits actually make e-bikes less safe, as you need a good 2-3kw to actually ride with the flow of traffic. At US or worse UK power limits, you don’t get enough of a boost for that and you’re more likely to get hit from behind.

Those "High power ebike enthusiasts" are actually "small electric motorcycle" enthusiasts.

The point of the regulations is to keep the power levels within the range of what's expected for a bike.

I'm fine with a separate class of regulations allowing higher power, but only if those vehicles are easily disallowed from bike trails. If the goal is to ride around with cars in traffic all day, it shouldn't be a problem to be banned from bike trails. There's a real problem of overpowered DIY or hacked e-bikes tearing up trails everywhere and getting out of control.

3kw is 4 horsepower. It's more than even the world record for peak human power output and far more than any human can sustain.

I think it's cool that people build these high power machines, but let's be honest about what they are: Electric motorcycles, not bikes.
For a while this was basically how it worked for all intents and purposes. I assume it's not like this anymore, but we used to do this with live tv broadcast material: rush out a private youtube video of individual segments for Content ID to ingest while on-air (because somebody else was posting clips from the show faster than us, claiming Content ID and stealing the ad revenue from the broadcaster's official public video of the final show)

Getting Google to care enough to fix that problem was harder and slower than a technical solution.
Agreed, this is a delightful presentation. I know it’s great because didn’t think pixel fonts was an interesting subject: I think of them as an unfortunate transitional technology. But this talk was fascinating.
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Yeah, but global temps have climbed ~1.5 degrees since then, so lowering them by 0.5 degrees wouldn't have the same effect (crops freezing) as it did back then.

But if it's just a temporary fix for one year, then it's probably a bad idea.
The likes of Goldman have been doing ML stuff (which is generally marketed as ‘AI’ as of a few years ago) for decades, but it’s generally not generative AI.
There aren't LLMs that are free to run.
> It’s important to be able to see where the async function might pause execution.

Why? Your example does not prove the point.
Information leakage like the other person said but also if you ever move to a distributed db v7 uuids can lead to hotspots.
They will have to do this in real time for twitch streamers.

There have been some pretty funny instances of people on among us competing against streamers, so they play copyrighted music to keep the streamers away.

It was the first time that DMCA acted as a paladin-like aura in a video game.
Zebra printers only print on the surface and have the usual limitations of thermal printers. P-touch TZ uses thermal transfer which enables a variety of foreground and background colors, different cover laminates, ribbons, and heatshrink tubing. The laminated tapes are printed on the back of the lamination ensuring the image can't be removed and is immune to subsequent heat or fading with age.
Oh, I re-read your original comment and you're right. You said the origin of life is mysterious/special, and that we can't find how consciousness starts, but never attributed that mystery/specialness/lack of evidence to magic.

I think the wording made me assume you thought those processes had supernatural aid instead of the the incessant trial-and-error of the universe. That's a common argument when discussing the origin of life and consciousness.
Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
Sure! Now define “brain”
Oh goody I can sell seven models, one for each day of the week!
Cloudflare blames recent outage on BGP hijacking incident
I don't think most programmers are removed of usage of software. I have to use Google Workspace daily and I'm not sure how Workspace team doesn't have entire GooglePlex hunting for their head. Likewise, I'm shocked that Microsoft Teams is not secluded for their own protection. I've got a laundry list for Azure Team and most of Microsoft employees I know have same list yet it remains so some outside force is driving this.

However, I think it's clear why it's this. Business team wants cheaper developers and hope is that if you put enough abstractions out, they can turn over Development to AI or monkeys with typewriters trying to create great works of Shakespeare. I remember reading Log4J exploit and wondered which Log4J developer thought it was a great idea to allow "feature" they added in the first place. Probably someone trying to prevent the monkey from destroying the typewriter.

However, it's excellent article and I await the next installment.
We have lived through too many cycles of unintended consequences to entertain the idea that today's idea promising a free lunch will be fare any better than the last one million, three hundred eighty seven thousand, four hundred and eleven free lunch ideas.

There are no free lunches. And the only free water or energy are those you can scavenge from existing waste. And even then, restrictions apply.

The moisture in the air you exhale reduces evaporation downwind from you. Or increases precipitation. People fight over water. This thread started with the phrase, "If this was deployed at scale".

Context matters.

ETA: The best use for tech like this is going to be dehumidification in places where water is a problem. The Pacific Northwest. Thailand. Warehouses. But these places don't typically have shortages of water, unless it's shortages of potable water.
Ah yes, you’re reading me correctly now! Apologies for the lack of clarity.
Tell that to the quintillions of electrons hopping between orbitals taking tens of attoseconds to complete :)
> The peak power seems maybe higher than Bosch CX at 850W vs 600 but continuous power is similar 250W. 800Wh max battery pack size is also not entirely out of the ordinary.

e-bike power is limited by regulations. If they created a higher power system, it wouldn't be allowed to be called an e-bike. 250W continuous is the limit, and therefore the target.

Battery pack size is a weight versus range tradeoff. Again, not going to see much difference from competitors.

The difference would come from the efficiency, the GaN fast charging (mentioned in the article), the control unit, the display, the app, and other features.

Hardcore DIYers will turn their nose up at the other features and try to turn this into a specifications races, but people who don't want to DIY and fiddle with things all the time will appreciate the cohesive package.
I'd trust their intent to create a good product (rather than aiming for something that will look good enough for just long enough to get you to buy it), their general manufacturing, and even engineering, but with the forces and water/dirt involved, I am not confident they'll succeed in the first few iterations.
I liked the way you showed the problem as ongoing in history. Indeed, the phrase "software crisis" is nice because it references the first point when the situation was articulated.

That said, I think the reason the situation is not going to change is clearly economic. That's not saying that bad software is cheaper. But there's a strong incentive to cheap, bad practices because cutting corners allows one person/organization to save money now with the (greater) costs being picked by the organization itself later, the organization's customers and society at large. Moreover, software isn't amendable to the standards of other sorts of engineering and so there's no way to have contracts or regulations demanding software of a certain standard or quality.

Edit: The only imaginable solution would be a technological revolution that allowed cheaper and better software with same technology also not allowing even cheaper and worse software.
For one, you would have to determine whether physical laws are computational processes. Stephen Wolfram is trying this, but it requires some incredible assumptions.
He is saying that the person in the Chinese room doesn’t understand Chinese.
There was an airport-novel series about a future where people's surnames are the company they work for. It was called Jennifer Government.

Some of the characters in Death Stranding, namely the main one, have a given-name, profession, employer convention -- as in Sam Porter Bridges.
Now that I've gotten some notifications, one suggestion:

The notification email's subject is always "New comments/replies on Hacker News"

This causes Gmail to sometimes combine them into a single "conversation."

So it would be nice if the notification email included the title of the post.

The title and original comment would be useful in the body of the message, as well.

(See how https://www.hnreplies.com does this)
Only tangentially related, but I've been auditing "The History of English Podcast"[0] and if this sort of thing interests you, you'll probably like that too.

[0] https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/episodes/
Sure, and hijacking the cockpit of a Plane also requires physical access...
Taste is subjective, and if you find her style boring I can't dispute that, but it doesn't match my experience at all.

I think judging her by the most popularly-upvoted snippets on Goodreads is doing her a tremendous disservice. Her language is not particularly flowery, and she writes using simple words, which are often the ones that have the vaguest meanings and the most room for nuance. If you take a single sentence like that from a story or novel, and remove it from its surrounding context, you strip away a lot of that nuance. By reading the sentence in isolation, you only see a pale shadow of its intended meaning.

Maybe this is a bad analogy, but it makes me think of how you wouldn't think there was anything interesting about Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture if all you heard was the cannon volleys by themselves, even though they're what make the piece complete.
While I don't like the radio analogy, I think we largely agree then.

If interested, the reason I don't like the radio analogy is that it presupposes that the configuration of the brain, and inputs isn't fundamentally the constituents of consciousness.

On the flip side, to fix the analogy: if I cut off the antenna of a radio, I would argue it ceases to become a radio by any reasonable definition (assuming we're talking about a device that receives radio waves and plays them back in the form of sound). You just have something that's very close to a radio. It has nothing to do with whether radio waves exist or don't.

As long as you agree that it's conceivable that there's experimentation (brute force or otherwise), then I think we're on the same page.
There’s no need since they are random, so you might as well generate them on your application servers which are easier to scale, to offload the write database.
You are, in general, n-1 years old in your nth year. Only when you complete your nth year do you turn n years old.
> who would even say that?

Writers.

And yes, cardinal versus ordinal is my point. The farther from the origin, the less people are likely to want them different.
Awesome. All those tools are so freaking expensive.
7-11 in Canada is just as bad.
Wikipedia has a table that claims your friend is wrong: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

I'm not sure I'd trust random wikipedia page to be up to date on this, but it's good evidence at least that there isn't a EU-wide prohibition on taking pictures of people (without publishing them) without consent. Also that there are some EU countries where it is likely illegal.
Yikes! Tough day today?
I think society has made it convenient for people to lend their creativity to someone else's vision. I don't think its a good idea for talented people to work for corporations that have no connection to the public good.

I don't think its a necessary evil, I think most people either don't want to work to realize their own vision of what they want in the world, or want more than they need and they are willing to sacrifice their soul for it.
While post sentience nihilism is one way of looking at the world, another is to see the problem as a symptom of a deeper problem:

https://tricycle.org/magazine/green-credo/
Amphetamines and opioids are very different classes of drugs. For one thing, ADHD is a much more narrow diagnosis than pain (the latter being something every single human experiences), for another amphetamine sulphate has been available as a generic for a long time so there’s much less incentive for a company like Purdue/Insys to lie/cheat/bribe doctors en masse in the same way.
Highly recommend checking out Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Some of the best fantasy I have ever read.
Can't say I love any books, but I greatly enjoy sci-fi (especially when they respect orbital mechanics). ULG's style reminds me of Strugacky brothers, maybe that was just typical in that era?

It might be that my memory is playing tricks on me, it was over 10 years since I read any of them (except for one non-sci-fi ULG book). But generally the writing style evolves end deeply personal style is much more common now then it was before. (I think I've read most of ULG and maybe half of B&A Strugackie's books).
Maybe it’s the fact they’re air conditioned, and an easy respite from 100 degree/100% humidity summer heat? At least that’s what it was for me as a tourist.
At first glance, this security incident looks like a non-issue for the most part. It's common that companies' customer forums or support portals are compromised. It seems like a common attack vector. While, I'm relatively certain some very nasty breaches will come with time and the proliferation of vendors, has there already been a catastrophic security incident that happened as a result of using proprietary, closed-source LLMs?
He was right about not getting involved in a land war in Asia, but not so much with iocaine powder?
Not to snipe but there does seem to be (as of this year) some folks doing cargo (e.g. longtail) with Bosch for USD ~4K.

The entire sector needs disruptive pricing on reliable sub-components. What it's been getting is disruptive pricing with unreliable products that fail silently/annoyingly (e.g. firmware) or catastrophically (e.g. fire).
I've mostly been writing bookmarklets lately.

I wrote a bookmarklet that flattens the comments on a substack comment page and orders them by date. It makes it easier to see the most recent comments. https://bookmarkify.it/64936

I'm a member of a private social media site whose UI I dislike, so I tapped into their phoenix websocket connection and I created my own web client. It's vanilla js/html/css using template literals as html templates. It kind of reminds me of those old template systems I used in the php 4 days. Anyway, the killer features for me are regex filters on content and seeing all of the replies from the people I follow.
OpenSRS for the registrar, and I run my own DNS servers.
I think your confusing regular mountain biking with ebikes. The people bragging about bike tech will most likely be looking down at people that ride ebikes on the trail.
I’m not implying causation here but I was surprised to see such a big smoking culture when I visited Japan. A lot of establishments have designated smoking rooms that are kinda cool and chic, with sliding glass doors and a motley crowd — young hipster types, business people, casuals. And the farther you are from an urban center people straight up smoke wherever. Watched the owner of a cafe make me eggs while casually enjoying a cigarette. I didn’t perceive as big a stigma and it kinda made me miss smoking.
For that matter, a lot of historical dates we consider important are only important to us because A) we're westerners and B) we got them drilled into us by textbooks and classes.

The remaining majority of the world (the west is a minority) sincerely couldn't care less about the American or French or Industrial Revolutions or Columbus (re)discovering America or the Hundred Years War or the Black Death or the Fall of Rome or whatever else.

Kind of like how we as westerners generally couldn't care less about Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Indian, or Polynesian histories.

The culture we grow up in and become indoctrinated by determines what is important and what is not.

And just so we're clear, this bit of ignorance is perfectly fine: Life is short, ain't nobody got time for shit that happened to people you don't even know who lived somewhere you will never see.
Not necessarily.

Large portions of the casual bike segment don’t care about weight - other than lifting it on and off their bike rack.
Oh, i think Rumudiez meant it as a general recommendation to everyone who might be interested to learn more. Not specifically to me. Or at least that makes the most sense so i choose that interpretation.

But yeah, there is a lot of stories about patients with bad outcomes with colostomy bags. It sure beats dying of course. As a general rule of thumb: every time you cut into a human there is a high chance of things going wrong. The more you are changing after you cut into them the more likely and more severe the sideffects will be. (Very rough approximation of course.)

This is something i constantly think about cyborgs. They are a a staple of scifis, and usually portraied as stronger and faster than regular humans. But every cyborg with lets say a cybernetic arm would be medically an amputee. Every amputee can tell you that stumps suck. They get infected, or get pressure sores, or their skin gets irritated, etc etc unless you are treating them just right, and even then sometimes they hurt when you did everything right. How would you even grow metal and muscle/skin together without the meat constantly pulling away and getting infected? That is the real scifi not the brain-computer interface.
> nobody says "21st year" either

On the contrary, enough people say it, it's a quora question:

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-be-in-your-twenty...

Authors love phrases like this. Which, in turn, comes from another ordinal/cardinal confusion stemming back to common law:

"A person who has completed the eighteenth year of age has reached majority; below this age, a person is a minor."

That means they completed being 17, but that's just too confusing, so people think you stop being a minor in your 18th year.
> muscaria

Wow who puts this in a candy bar?

https://paulstamets.com/news/the-fly-agaric

The critical take away, linked with the berserkers... so not a good time.
No clue, I too prefer Browsepilot over Browspilot
TinyBase v5: CRDTs for the rest of us
3kW I assume?
Spoilers: They couldnt even if they wanted, they dont have $budget for it. They even struggle paying normal developers, moving most of the stack to cheaper javascript.
do the the brother label printers have a backing to peel off?

I had a dymo d1 style label printer years ago and liked it, but it was a pain to get the backing to come off the labels when you wanted to stick them. (dymo labelmanager pnp)

Then I got a brother QL-1100 and it was a big step up. Labels easily come off the backing and if you want, 3rd party labels are cheap and available. I rarely pull out the dymo anymore. You can even print like from a database and it will spit out a pile of cut labels with no intervention. also linux software on github (haven't tried it)
Kinda like https://timesnapper.com/