skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bikes (at least used to) come in different frame sizes. If ordinary commuter bikes don't any more, at least mountain bikes still tend to, as I understand it. And those have the top tube of the frame lower anyway, and with that usually also the top end of the saddle tube (that the saddle post slides in).

At 5'10" -- which is about my height (am I 5'9½"?) -- I'm fairly sure there exist bicycles that let you put the saddle low enough that you can reach the ground with your feet. [1] Sure, pedalling isn't super-comfortable at that height; it's a bit more effort than if you have your legs almost straight at the lower end of the stroke (but then you can't reach the ground while on the saddle). But it's not all that bad, and it certainly doesn't wholly prohibit the use of the bike.

Once you've used it for a while and got your sense of balance, you may not need the option of foot-on-the-ground-from-the-saddle any more, so you'll be able to raise the saddle to the "correct" (=more comfortable for pedalling) height. Or if not, the little bit of inefficiency will mean a more efficient workout! :-)

And hey, if you're really nervous about finding your balance, do what everyone recommends for little kids and remove the pedals, and use it as a "balance bike" to begin with. Anyway, I'm convinced you should be able to find a used mountain or "ladies" (=step-through) bike to try this stuff out on. Talk to the folks at a bike shop, they're often (not always, of course) knowledgeable and enthusiastic, and therefore helpful. Good luck!

___

[1]: Dunno how tall the guy in the video is, but this sure looks like it should fit you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV88C5ZK0x0 . Not that I think you need that super-heavy brute, specifically, but the frame looks like quite a lot of mountain bikes you see around. So here's a cheaper alternative that also looks OK(ish, for its price). : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLPpTFLgEb4 .
> In addition, all native Americans have US citizenship.

Yeah easy to do since almost all of them were exterminated. Why shouldn't all their old lands be brought back to them? Why do they have to settle in a few tiny reservoirs?

What about all Mexicans ? Plenty of them would like to move to the U.S, and as we saw some of them have legitimate territorial claims - why won't you allow them - are you pro apartheid? Because that's what the word means - separation.
Let me guess - it's way easier to abolish other people's countries than your own for the sake of impossibly high morals right? It's way harder when you have actual skin in the game.
Firewood, Coal, Uranium – Bitcoin: The Next Step in Energy Transport
This is wild...
More like bashing Enterprise Java Beans?
Maybe. It's pretty weird and I'm still thinking about it.

You can't throw junior engineers working on an issue under the bus when they clearly can't do that. Or at least it takes some effort. In return you may coach them and hope they eventually improves.

Devin does look like junior engineers, but I've learned to just click "Terminate Session" immediately after I spotted that it was doing something hopeless. I've managed to get some real work done out of it, without much effort on my side (just check what it's doing every 10~15 minutes and type a few lines or restart session).
There's another problem nobody ever talks about. The way our RGB monitors work, some colors will be more intense than others at the same brightness. A red or blue patch will only emit half as many photons as a magenta patch, because magenta includes both red and blue. The non-linear response of the eye helps here, but not completely.
The achievements you quote are highly overblown. SpaceX sells capacity to orbit somewhat cheaper than anyone else on the market, but not by some huge margin - half the cost or so, at best.

They also don't have any fully reusable rockets today, and Starship is still probably a year or more from being production-ready. It remains to be seen how reusable Starship will actually be, how long it will take to refurbish and get ready for spaceflight, and how many reentries it can actually take. And it still remains to be seen how much Starship will actually gain from being fully reusable, by the way - landing a rocket costs lots of extra fuel, so it's not a no-brainer that a fully reusable rocket would have a much better cost/kg-to-orbit than a non reusable one. Especially for anything higher than LEO, Starship can't actually carry enough fuel, so it depends on expensive additional launches to refuel in orbit - a maneoveur that will probably take another year or more to finalize, and that greatly increases the cost of a Starship mission beyond LEO.

Finally, Starlink is nice, but it's extremely expensive for most users outside very rich areas of the world, and has in no way had the impact you are claiming. Laying out cable internet is FAR cheaper than satellite internet can ever be, especially in rural areas, so beyond cases where cables and even wireless are completely impossible (ocean, war-torn areas), it doesn't and won't ever have any major impact. I'm also very curious where you got the idea that it "saved countless lives".
"Yeah, we equipped your car with heated seats prior to transferring its ownership to you, but heating your seat is a license-protected comfort which requires a subscription"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated...

Many of those "features" were walked back on backlash, just to then be bundled "free" for the initial buyer only...
> this dude doesn't seem to care enough to even the slightest bit of research

It was a rant not a thesis. I get frustrated by a lot of what he talks about too and many of them could be made better and without much cost. It might even be a call to action, shine a light on the nonsense so people do better next time (hopeful thought).
Software development isn't free, but someone buying a camera shouldn't _need_ to pay the manufacturer to ship them custom software for scenarios such as this. The manufacturer should include documentation so that anyone owning the camera can write software to integrate with it.

TBH, this is true of pretty much any form of consumer hardware. But this isn't a technical problem, it's a social one. So we can't solve it with tech; we need legislation around this kind of BS.
> Arabs who live in Israel today enjoy the same rights

Uncook:

There is no shortage of examples illustrating the widespread view in Israel that Palestinians' political participation should be monitored, controlled and curtailed, and that their right to vote and run for office should be drained of any meaning.

The Military Rule imposed on Palestinian citizens until 1966 treated this entire population as enemies, severely restricting their political activity. Mapai (later the Labor Party), which governed the state and most of its institutions in Israel's early years, refused to take on Palestinian candidates until the early 1980s and set up satellite parties for Palestinian citizens, dictating who would run in them and how they would vote.

Efforts to delegitimize Palestinian political participation continue to the present day, clearly showing that some of the Israel's leaders and the public at large see such participation as undesirable.

The message to Palestinians and their candidates is clear: Do not seek full equality and recognition of collective national rights. Demanding equality on matters such as land, immigration and national emblems is perceived as repudiating Israel’s constitutional principles, as it undermines the country's definition as a Jewish state.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid recently spelled out this principle, saying: "Twenty percent of the population are Arabs. We can and should give them civil equality... On the other hand, we will not give them national equality, because this is the only state the Jews have."

Palestinian citizens who choose to participate in the electoral process have no choice but to enter the political playing field with their hands tied. The parties representing them are barred from challenging the fundamental principles of the regime that is dispossessing and oppressing them. They cannot seek to abolish the laws and systems that harm them, which are considered defining features of the Jewish state. They cannot fight for a core democratic tenet: full equality for all those living under the same regime. This limits political participation exclusively for Palestinian citizens. No matter what they do or how they vote – constitutionally, their vote is worthless.

https://www.btselem.org/publications/202210_not_a_vibrant_de...
> We'll develop mass production de-salinification plants and have enough water.

And then you'll have the brine problem.
Being database-agnostic is not a problem per se. SQLAlchemy provides highly postgres-specific classes for the databases. The way Django implemented database-agnosticism is bad, because it's lowest-common-denominator which dragged all implementations down with it. They are pulling back from that now with a contrib.postgresql module but it's too late, there's a lot of old cruft now that forced design to be less-than-optimal on postgres.

I've done all four approaches on four different startups. Pure Django; DRF+React; FastAPI+React; Django-Ninja+React. The last one is the best, but from my experience, it does seem like SQLModel/FastAPI/React will be the route to go towards, but with some solid libraries to replace the still-useful batteries in Django: Authentication, Administration, Migration.
Yes, doubtful with the US investigation going on on Adani.
Eh, Venice is also sinking regardless of sea level rise. That’s what happens when you build a city on top of what is practically a swamp. No surprise that big heavy buildings put on top of loose, waterlogged soil are gonna slowly sink into that soil.
I wonder if there is any place where one can look up all these sort of creative legal-tax shenanigan stories. They are so fun and such an interesting lens to see what _is_ via this interlinked, case-specific web of events.
FCC Seeks to Increase Broadband Services in the 900 MHz Band
European here - it's easy, the solution is called conduit
It's a workaround for the camera not bundling all the features that it needs to be a webcam, absolutely.

The standalone cameras I've used haven't included free webcam functionality and I don't think that's outrageous, but apparently many people here who've been downvoting me disagree.

Personally, I think HDMI is great for A/V tasks that a camera doesn't support out of the box since it's a widely supported standard.
The thing with AI agents I tend to find is they reveal how much heavy lifting the dev is actually doing.

A personal example, my best use out of AI so far has been cases where documentation was poor to nonexistent, and Claude was able to give me a solution. But the thing is, it wasn't a working solution, nowhere close, but it was enough for me to extrapolate and do my own research based on the structure, classes and functions it used. Basically, it gave me somewhere to start from. Whether that's worth the social, economic and environmental problems is another story.
> To be fair we are talking about an area of the country that is prone to seismic activity, it does limit the building materials.

Lisbon was destroyed by an earthquake/tsunami/firestorm combo in 1755 that killed tens of thousands.

When the city was rebuilt, they came up with the idea of using a wooden frame structure for earthquake resistance and masonry walls for fire resistance.

Nowadays, most new buildings seem to use reinforced concrete.

I wonder if American children are taught the story of the three little pigs.
At this point in time the humanity has nothing to offer to any other intelligence (if there is any) out there, nor it doesn't have a need itself to go outside of its own planet, and the big mess that it made out of it. It's akin of letting a toddler walk out of the door and roam into a busy street merely for a satisfaction of its curiousity. What is more likely to happen is that the valuable resources that we still have will be gone (it won't take long, as consumption is growing at exponential rate), without ability to recover - a one way ticket to stone age. It's nice to dream and look at the stars, but can we please sort the shit here first?
This is the programmer fallacy if you have a bunch of code passing unit tests, it’s going to work when combined.
Wealthy Romans had a bit of a culture-boner for leaving a lasting legacy, maintaining the dynasty, and that sort of thing, and conversely often relied on ancestral clout to borrow credibility from. I don't think anyone today would try to base their credibility on being the distant relative of Ben Franklin in the way an upstart roman might invoke their familiar relationship with Scipio Africanus.

Makes sense they built stuff to last in such an environment.
I've found the WCAG contrast ratio to be almost worthless. Unless you have a legal requirement to use it, I'd stay away.
My 202x LG sound bar has 8 sound modes ("Music with MERIDIAN", or "Get in the zone during your game with vivid sound effects", ...). Who knows what any of them do, but presumably one of them corresponds to the loudness button.
Does anyone else remember the days of bottle cap instant-wins? I don't want these apps. Remember affordable fast food? I spent $14.74 to wait in drive thru for 15 minutes to eat cold fries and a slice of patty with cardboard bacon and solidified cheese whizz? Can't blame the staff, they aren't seeing any of those profits.
A giant backlog of tasks can help with strategizing a long-lived project. But I classify them as planning material, and when doing, I just create a new list based on them.
Easy test for good literature:

- if you get in bed with a book and fall asleep in 10 min, it's bad

- if you get in bed with a book and oh shit it's 4 am and you've finished it, it's good

Doesn't apply to books you expect to learn something from, but it does to fiction.
How come no one in company stopped this? How does company like Siemens get to point where this is released on their domain? This just utterly baffling...
There are several factors already mentioned, but also b/c it's not really required, given all those factors. From TFA:

TIL about Class A wood. It is as fire resistant as concrete, apparently.

The biggest predictor about what burned: Age

> The architect says that he’s done hundreds of renovations in Southern California to make houses fire-resistant. Driving along a stretch of beach in Malibu this week, Dawson says that he counted five houses left standing; three were his projects. “I haven’t had any house burn that’s been brought up to the latest standard.”

> The orientation and exterior materials, including a metal roof and metal eaves, prevented a fire from sparking inside the roof, which is the way most homes burn down.

We know where fires come from, and under what conditions they spread rapidly in LA - because the santa ana winds blow generally the same direction. You can design neighborhoods and houses to survive that.

We also built right up into the hills, surrounding them with natural vegetation. Pretty, but basically a tinder box.
Basically the entire eastern part of the US was denuded of trees, which have since grown back when uncompetitive farmland was abandoned.

Lumber is cheap because there's lots of land where we now farm fast growing trees.

Wood frame houses are cheap today because of the invention of the stamped metal framing connector, which has enabled large elements to be made off site in high volume. It's also why houses typically don't have attics anymore.
They clearly qualified it with "Not without steel reinforcement."

Anyways the difference in labor costs between wood and reinforced brick would be massive in LA county not to mention the additional cost of materials.
Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm
lobbying to get their business model protected
Using DuckDB with Apache Supserset, Bonus Spatial Data
Couple other notes:

You appeal to simplicity a lot, which is great! Contemporary frontend is way too complex. But a lot of what you're saying comes off as too black and white and rejects some of the learnings of the past decade.

Some examples:

- Inlining CSS is usually faster, but there are caveats to this. [1]

- You say, "the fastest page load is one that requires just a single request". This makes it sound like we should be avoiding the platform (the browser). Browsers can efficiently parallelize multiple requests. We shouldn't have the 200+ requests that many sites make, absolutely. But a rejection of requests entirely is not a goal. If you have a few interactive components that rarely change, having a few chunks that also rarely change means better caching too.

Point being there's no substitute to engineering and experimenting with what actually makes your site perform best for your users.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/performance-now-24-perf...

* related video to above slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5E_U_hu7g0
David Lynch: Heaven is a place on Earth (2013)
> IME balance bikes is the greatest thing for bicycles since the safety bicycle.

Since before the safety bicycle: Balance bikes came first. Then the pedals were added -- driving the front wheel, like kids' bikes still did when I was a kid -- then the front wheel grew into the "penny-farthing", then came the safety bicycle. But the balance bike -- for adults! -- came first. Invented by a baron (Carl?) von Drais; that's why they're called "draisins" in some languages. (Which is also the name for muscle-powered rail vehicles in some languages; presumably via pedal-powered bicycles --> pedal-powered rail carts.)
the camera indeed has USB-C port, 3.2 gen1
I use auto login (control userpassword2 still work to set that up on Windows11) on my gaming computer in the living room! If I could that user account wouldn't have a password.

But my work computers requires a pin to boot and a password that only my yubikeys (bind the static password to the long press) knows to login. different policy for different context...
> The quality standards are so low…

Every so often they write an article talking about how great their several-years-long effort to switch to React Native is going, and every time I read it and come away with an even more negative opinion of React Native.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263896

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/1bxogd1/have_you_con...
I have the feeling on the other hand that we have plateaued quite quickly.

If you dig deep, what current AI companies do right now is not really better than what the chess and GO AI players were doing 30 years ago, the only difference being mostly the amount of storage available and the speed at which AI tools are able to use them.

And I have the feeling that we will already are maximizing on the amount and quality of data available, that we can't really grow and improve much better because the human quality content is already hidden by the sheer amount of uninteresting content being produced currently by AI tools. Also of what is left of human content, a huge majority is build to serve a marketing or political agenda, both using the same technics of lies, deception and fraud. What good can we get of tools built from lies and fantasies?
Honest question. Why when people describe wood framed homes do they always phrase it like houses made from "firewood", "sticks", "twigs" etc? It at least for me always detracts from the argument at hand. You could just as easily build a wood framed home with an exterior shell that is fire resistant using modern materials or brick.
Are there plenty of cybersecurity jobs in your area of the world? Look for the technologies the recruiters ask for and learn them. Then ignore experience requirements and apply anyway. Every time I have been recruiting I get candidates that don't match the spec at all put through to me. Specs are aspirations in recruitment. You may well get a shot.
Common Sleep Aid May Leave Behind a Dirty Brain
The Madcap Rise of Memecoin Factory Pump.Fun
Indeed, Arabic is an abjad.
So, watching loli porn is what exactly? Why would someone be sexually a aroused by small children (but animated)?

I agree that it isn't as bad as actual child porn- no kids are usually harmed by loli porn getting created.

But it sure does tell me a lot about the sexual attractions someone might have. I don't think the allegations imply that he ever harmed or hurt children, just that there's just as much of case against him being into pedo stuff than Stallman. (Which btw, I'm not defending, and in fact I usually argue with Stallman fans defending him more than anything else)
The question this article seems to ask is "is the world becoming insurable while maintaining a profit margin?", not "is the world becoming uninsurable?" These are different questions, with different answers.
A lot of what you said is intuitively/directionally correct, but misses a lot of important physics related to heat transfer in buildings and operational questions of space heating equipment.

This is your most accurate/relevant point:

> All of this is ignoring the fact that it’s easy to create a tiny personal heated environment around an individual (it’s called a woolly jumper).

Whereas this is plainly wrong:

> It’s much easier, and consumes less additional energy, to heat an occupied space, than to cool it.

And then the following is correct but the marginal reduction in load is minimal except in relatively crowded spaces (or spaces with very high equipment power densities):

> Thanks to the fact that your average human produces 80W of heat just to stay alive.

The truth is it is generally easier to cool not heat when you take into account the necessary energy input to achieve the desired action on the psychrometric chart, assuming by “ease” you mean energy (or emissions) used, given that you are operating over a large volume of air - which does align with your point about the jumper to be fair!

Generally speaking, an A/C uses approx. 1 unit of electricity for every 3 units of cooling that it produces since it uses heat transfer rather than heat generation (simplified ELI5). It is only spending energy to move heat, not make it. On the other hand, a boiler or furnace or resistance heat system generally uses around 1 unit of input energy for every 0.8-0.9 units of heating energy produced. Heat pumps achieve similar to coefficients of performance as A/Cs, because they are effectively just A/Cs operating in reverse.

Your point about a jumper is great, but there are local cooling strategies as well (tho not as effective), eg using a fan or an adiabatic cooling device (eg a mister in a hot dry climate).

> So cooling a living space is always more costly than heating a living space.

Once you move to cost, it now also depends on your fuel prices, not just your demand and system type. For instance, in America, nat gas is so cheap, that even with its inefficiencies relative to a heat pump, if electricity is expensive heating might still be cheaper than cooling per unit of thermal demand (this is true for instance in MA, since electricity is often 3x the price of NG). On the other hand, if elec is less than 3x the cost of nat gas, then cooling is probably cheaper than heating per unit of demand, assuming you use natural gas for your heating system.
The history of AI is big leaps followed by years of crawl.
> $5/mo, $50/yr

A one time payment would have been inconvenient, I assumed that based on the title; but that’s even worse.
The initial tweet says:

> we had an oxygen/fuel leak

If that's correct, then you can't just remove air. The only option would be to cool things down so it stops burning.
I am curious why you connected this to child poverty.

Are there things that you wish poor children had less of, with more stressors from poverty?
Sounds like a reserves position, probably in S6/Signal Corps given the description of dealing with IT.
Canon's webcam software was until recently free. It was the sole reason I bought a Cabin camera. This is a rug pull.