skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's still a mountain bike to 95% of people.

Pal, come _on_. Read my initial comment, and any other comment thereafter. I was very clear and explicit that I was giving this criticism from the perspective of not "anybody" but rather someone who actively mountain bikes.

You're still not understanding. Those bikes you were talking about - while they may be marketed as 'mountain bikes' (a term anybody can use for anything) - are not fit for the purpose of mountain biking (a set of well establish sports and related types of riding).

You have now moved on to confusing the way marketers lie in their descriptions of bikes in order to sell to the ignorant, with the actual and established sports that comprise mountain biking and the bikes used therein.

> The top 1% definition of a thing is not the thing exclusively.

Everybody who mountain bikes (more than once har har har) does so on an actual mountain bike. It's not the 1%. It's more like the 99%. People don't repeatedly take these wallmart bikes down trails. Nobody survives that setup long enough to make it in to the group you can by any good standard call mountain bikers.

Go to your local trail that isn't some fireroad or featureless single track, and tell me how many people you see on shit bikes like this.

You know, I'd normally agree with you about this diluted point as it relates to many other things, but I can't here. For example - car racing is not just formula 1 or other top tier engineering categories. The vast majority of car racing is amateur and hobby stuff in comparatively low or very low spec vehicles. The difference is that you can "technically" compete with a formula one car on a racetrack in a 1997 nissan micra with 40hp. The micra can cruise around the track basically indefinitely, stopping only for fuel - and complete the race days after the f1 car. A road is a road.

This is not the case with mountain biking. All non mountain bikes basically explode on contact with mountains. It's self selecting such that people who continue to mountain bike past the first outing or two, must do so on a purpose built good quality bike.

It is in this distinction, that you are missing the point.

It's unacceptable to me that when I have _clearly_ been talking in the context of real mountain biking, you are now deciding, it seems, to take the totally walked back, side stepped, and frankly revisionist approach of only now saying "well technically these bikes are labeled mountain bikes so I'm right". Nuh uh.
It's not just recipes. There are tones of questions I often search which have a very specific and short answer. E.g. "how many kangaroos are there in the world?".

Ideally I would expect a page with my question and a number with link to the source. However in the real world I get various pages with somehow related title and tons of text inside I don't need. Often times without the exact number I'm looking for.

I guess that most likely nobody wants to maintain such a resource since it might be hard to make it profitable. Still it might save a lot of time for collective humanity.
The weird thing is: I think i remember seeing this sublot when i first saw the matrix on some bootlegged VHS... perhaps some mandela effect thing..
The sinks I use have 3M integrated pads. They might not be the highest performing ones, but they're pretty decent for their size.

As I've said, it's attached to a OrangePi Zero which has a very small, epoxy packaged CPU. So tension-mounting, lapping, or using higher end compounds are out of question.

The whole point of OrangePi Zero is being small all over, so it's happy temp-wise with its normal load, I'm not planning to work on it further for now.

Raspberry Pi 4 is different and has a whole-body heatsink, and its paste is good for now. If it starts to lose cooling capacity, that'll be a different matter all-over.
If you're interested, the most important thing to know is that there's real, low-level work happening, but you won't read about it on HN, at least not now at the beginning of 2022. Looking at the low-effort/dead comments on this thread should help you understand why.

I'll let someone else speak to specific projects, but I'll note Block (neé Square) and Meta (neé Facebook)'s made big moves last year near/adjacent to web3, so there's interest in it from monied groups.

As far as software engineering for Web3, the Untrustworthy Pinball Machine[0] and Year token[1] hint at the complex, low-level machinery that web3 is built on top of. Implementing non-trivial programs on top of the EVM, or other blockchains (eg Solana) is one area, as is web3.js wallet-enabled apps/webpages on the frontend a place for skills development. I've had difficulty finding some of the meanings and ramifications alluded to elsewhere in the space[2] though.

Thing is, because this is all built on top of cryptocurrency blockchains, you do have to get engaged with cryptocurrency somewhat in order to engage with web3. That doesn't mean you have to make irrational financial decisions but eg taking the time to understand the implementation details of NFTs is going to be difficult if you can't get past how dumb they are.

[0] https://medium.com/@kanewallmann_71759/an-untrustworthy-pinb...

[1] https://twitter.com/cat5749/status/1476813266462539779

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778852
I ran a very popular site for a decade and won multiple writing awards. There are many elements that make a well written piece, and of course, spelling and grammar are two important ones.

Unfortunately, over 12 years, I had two spelling mistakes slip through my hours of editing and proofreading. Some people absolutely eviscerated me for it. I mean, how could I not know how to spell X word? I must be a moron! In my opinion, these "simple-to-catch" errors are not always simple-to-catch when the writer knows what it is supposed to say and they are trying to proofread their own work.

That said, it proves you're right -- people do think less of you when you make such a mistake. I think we should all strive to cut people a little more slack, at least on Slack.
>This doesn't align with what my friends have experienced.

ok ? But you are white. yea?

What you described in your original comment is a white person experience. No asian is rushing to get their picture taken with an Indian, lol.
I later learned that having your picture taken or having a white 'friend' is some sort of status symbol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_monkey

> The phenomenon is based on the perception that association with foreigners, specifically white foreigners, can signify prestige, legitimacy, and international status.

> Regardless of skin tone they've been treated much better in Asia than in America.

This might be true but i was talking about overt racism. I've never experienced this total shameless overt racism outside china. It didn't even occur to 'locals' that totasting to white women's beauty had anything wrong with it, it just made sense to them that white = pretty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/opinion/rent-a-foreigner-...

" Clients can select from a menu of skin colors and nationalities; whites are the most desirable and expensive."

this shit is disgusting.

watch what the 'locals' think of you here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctbLEQCuJUg
> Without copyright, the value of a book's contents is $0

People don't buy books because of the "$$$ value of a book's contents".

> because the mean cost† for (re)producing it is $0.

That's not the mean cost of reproducing a book, not to mention making it available to you.
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I agree. I think, just as Flynn effect was due to environment and not eugenics, loss of Flynn effect reported here is due to environment and not dysgenics.

On the other hand, if you take Flynn effect seriously, you also should take loss of Flynn effect seriously.
Louis Rossmann just weighed in on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVqUuzUWEY

He says the "not permitted" is evidence of our receding risk tolerance.

I agree. Warn me of the chance of sudden painful death, sure, and thanks. But to forbid me, presumably an adult, is a different thing. I prefer to own my own property.
You could say the same for BMI. e.g. most NFL running backs are considered "morbidly obese." But if the BMI of the population increases by 5 points, that's very significant. In the same way, I take population IQ measures a lot more seriously than individual.
> Use symbol versioning.

That doesn't mean anything.

> Anyway, I feel the author is a bit unfair. He traded supporting multiple compilers

They wanted to support multiple platforms, that multiple platforms implied multiple compilers was part of the portability issues the original goal led to.
It could be something as mundane as the writer liking the sound of ‘five’ and ‘sixth’ in the script.
It's visible on your video ;-)
You can feel burning stuff from a distance using your regular caveman-era human hardware. Not necessarily high voltage electricity.
I think many people are confused about this post. There is no need to believe that nobles were initially "superior", and that their initial superiority was the reason they became nobles in the first place. The increase in "gene quality" at the top, and its diffusion to the bottom, can be understood as the simple result of Malthusian constraints, and high survival rates for nobles (as compared to the harsh conditions of the lower classes).

Imagine you start a society where nobles have the same "gene quality" as everyone else. Some nobles are pretty smart, others not so much. As nobles would have more children surviving into adulthood (due to better nutrition and living standards) compared to the amount of land/titles they could distribute, some of the children of the nobility would be cast aside. The assumption, and I agree it's an assumption (although a rational one in my opinion), is that the smarter children would tend to inherit, and the less capable children would be dispossessed.

Over time, this constant churn would lead to a concentration of "good genes" among the aristocracy, which would trickle down into the lower classes when every generation some of the nobility lost their position.

I believe that this "trickling down" phenomenon has been proven to have occurred in England during the second millennia by Gregory Clark using census data, although I'll admit I've only heard of his work, not read it.
Your claim regarding deprioritized search results for example - where’s the proof?

If what you are saying is true it should be trivial to give sample queries so we can test across all search engines and see if it’s true.
At a minimum Rust would have to run the C initializers as these are used even in pure Rust code. It might also make use of the security cookie but I'm uncertain about that. Also the C runtime is needed by the SEH handling code (in vcruntime) so Rust would have to replace that before it can replace the C startup/shutdown.

To be clear, this is feasible but it'll require someone knowledgable to put in the work of rewriting this in Rust.
ha, I always have to navigate whimsical tales of Italian grandfathers etc to get to the actual recipe so this is a good idea
Like a lot of the comments here, this seems to conflate education and intelligence, when in reality the relationship between the two is tenuous. When talking about the attributes of highly educated people, the most common trait you're likely to find is diligence, which is not at all the same as intelligence though perhaps more important.

Education certainly does seem to decrease family size, particularly rates of female education.
dfrgui.exe

Though I guess if it's a shortcut you don't see the actual filename too often. :)
Isn’t there a thing about how mathematicians and scientists in the 19th century would carefully explain as if the intended audience we’re laypeople. Where as in the 20th century academic writing and popular science writing diverged such that an academic writer could say such and such is obvious and be speaking to a very niche audience?
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Older folks in India still refer to these as Jerrycans. We used to use them to hold kerosene when I was a kid.
what does italicized g allude to?
Try Node, if you're into JS, gets you off pretty fast.

When i first started learning Java EE (actual EE, not Spring), it did feel overwhelming. It is objectively complex. The learning curve is steep and intimidating, but so is anything else when you first start with it. What i later found out was that anxiety was all due to not knowing how the different parts tie together. In time, i got an idea of the purpose of the different APIs and how they are supposed to work together. This means that i didn't have to learn in details all aspects of the framework. You delve deep just in the part you need.

And i just read the docs (official ones, not 3rd party books), skim through sections to get a feel for it. In time, it will all start making sense to you. When you get to actual work, you'll know where to dig in for the details. This worked out great for me when i started on Spring projects as well. And at the end, i found that that the most difficult part was to overcome the anxiety of it all...

Will this approach work for you? Don't know, it's not a math formula.
Everyone, even the janitor?
Well, Raspberry Pi, with the Compute Module 4 has done this on the low-end and an ecosystem appears to be developing rapidly with a wide variety of carrier boards and a handful of 3rd-party compute module cards (e.g. Pine64 SOQuartz and the Radxa CM3)
I honestly hope they fund the Graphene OS project if they do this or if nothing else, make it clear that you could also do this yourself. /e OS tells you that you can install it if you havr compatible hardware or buy it from them, same for Calyx OS.

For those wondering why you'd want this - I use Graphene OS on an old Pixel 3 and battery lasts 2-3 days easily. I dont have to constantly fight all anti-patterns in modern day Android, but I can still chat, email, text, browse and watch videos...
It's only 95% of the internet.
You had the wrong link in your clipboard ;)

It's probably this one?

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

(PS: this is my favourite pet theory why UX is such a trainwreck these days, UIs are designed for an "average user" that doesn't exist, driven by "telemetry averages")
That's pretty good. I'm finishing a pure SQL merge replication for PSQL. This will definitely wrap up this little project nicely.
Ego products are great. I just wish the batteries were a bit less expensive.
If something moves, and someone rides on it, someone has probably also died on it.
You linked to the OP by mistake. Please share the article you were referring to!
I've been at the receiving end of stuff like that. Here's how it works. If the phrase is meant to make the recipient feel like a target, or feel inferior, and it does, then it's a slur. It's highly contextual.

If you peel things back a layer, it's all about someone being made "other." This is why some people in 2021 who tell themselves they are standing against racism read just like the racists who bashed me when I was young: They are the ones self-righteously justified in demoting someone from full human status. Yes, racists often convince themselves they are making the world a better place! It's that aspect that's key!

One doesn't fight othering by targeting a fellow human being as "other." One doesn't fight hate by promulgating more hate. The right side of history is about empathy, compassion, and convincing. The wrong side tries to disguise the opposite of the above as compassion.
They are insane. I bought one and learned how to ride it. It took a while and it was very frustrating before it clicked.

It's surprisingly intuitive once you get going.
Even if a Neoverse N1 core had a third of the performance of a Xeon core, the part has about 3x as many cores than a top-of-the-line Xeon for about 75% of the part price.

After reading the article it is quite obvious this has a much higher performance per dollar than a Xeon for less.
I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff but when proof of stake comes around won't there be no need for this mining pool at all? I thought under proof of stake you're just validating transactions instead of actually finding a hash, which doesn't require a big pool of workers. Seems weird for them to focus on ETH rather than BTC or something else.
We can't get Scepter MFC cans in the US, I've searched extensively. Not sure if that's due to California CARB or the federal save the children rules. We can overpay on ebay to buy them second hand from Canada though. It's a shame because I'd love to have a durable can that doesn't spill and leak like crazy like the newer ones. I'll probably try the Wavians, but plastic cans are superior to metal for my intended use so it's a compromise.
Bitcoin open interest matches record high
That is quite the landing strip of a trackpad. It seems they looked at what Apple did (touchbar + big trackpads) and tried to copy it without being obvious. I don't think I'd personally buy one of these, but I am interested to see if the target market of Gen Z'ers likes it as much as Dell seems to imply.
Windows 10 supports Cal­DAV/Card­DAV but limits provider-support (2017)
If Covid19 was not a lab leak (and their is no strong evidence that it was, mostly just what if's), then it would make more sense to spend more money on research to understand non-human zoonotic viruses, and rather than effectively reducing the research budget by shifting money to biohazard security. Some of the listed lab releases did not infect anyone, and very few infected even a dozen people.

I think it makes more sense to spend money to understand natural hazards we know exist, and could potentially prevent/reduce if we did more research.
Bing has always been very comparable to Google. Especially in certain niches. For example bing was better for social in 2010:

https://www.eweek.com/news/microsoft-bing-beat-google-in-soc...
Its annoying to me too. A lot of fluff. From what I remember, back around 2012, Google was facing a serious issue of content farms appearing in their results. These are sites that aggregate data and auto-generate articles about a myriad of topics. They were ruining search. So Google introduced a significant change to the way that they rank websites. They figured originality and authenticity was the key to identifying genuine sites. And how was this determined? Well, an article is written, it should contain a lot of text, more so and of better quality than an algorithm could write. And the content had to be original. If it was clear that the content was copy and pasted from somewhere else, then it was probably not original. So here we are, where a simple recipe has to tell the person's life story in order differentiate it from the junk of content farms. I am sure someone here remembers this Google change back then. It had a specific name. Everyone on the web who was concerned about SEO at the time was aware of it.
I instinctively expected to hear the notes of "Here Comes the Hotstepper" when I clicked on that video. I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ; which was somewhat popular to send around to show comparisons of how Compiz was so far ahead it could not just replicate Vista's interface, but could also better it in some aspects like the famous 3D cube.

Thanks to you and others for working on it! Looking at the video almost 15 years later, I feel wistful for the joy that accompanied some of these desktop effects, and wonder where it has gone today.
Actually its an advertised feature and you keep most of the ETH you mined: https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...
Usenix '21 – It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
You slightly misunderstood my cynicism: I don't think they'll overturn this convinction and cancel her sentence.

I think she'll only start serving time once the very last round of appeals ends - which is going to be many years after her death. They'll just Jarndyce v Jarndyce for decades to come.
The other common idiom in scripts that uses the : is

: > $LOGFILE

which creates a zero-length log file, and removes the contents if it already existed.
Certainly none of them are a patch on the original, which stands alone as a totemic duck press of action/sci-fi cinema, but Reloaded has some really fun wtf ideas that twisted my brain in the same way that the original did, as well as a set piece (the highway chase) that's on par with Matrix 1. I've tried to find value in Revolutions but it's a harder task for me.

I've seen Resurrections once and it's too early to say. I really enjoyed it but it hasn't sat well with me since viewing. Hoping to pop it on this weekend and get a better impression.
It's not just about what's technically feasible. He's making false promises every year and now released to public a Beta product that should have been Alpha or earlier stage.
I’m familiar with all of what you’re saying. I set up RTMP servers.

I’m more taking from the standpoint of like Apple or Google. HLS is by Apple after all.
Intel Displays Core I9-12900KS with 5.5 GHz Boost Clock
Intelligence has trade-offs, costs and other limitations or we would have maxed it out hard (ie. an "intelligence explosion" would have occurred).

Increased mental illness might be one, other one is the brain size being limited by the hips of mother. Brains / intelligence also has energy costs which we might not have been able to optimize for yet.

As such, I would say that intelligence is a cost that you run. It allowed for reproduction and survival for humans when they moved towards colder regions for example, but there's little to no reason to maintain that intelligence if you don't need to adapt anymore. I think you need harsh material constraints (I don't know, space faring) to keep it from shaving itself off in order to optimize the human machine.
Almost like having false dragons in the wheel of time, and also many predecessors who are real dragons...

To be fair though I always assumed the second and third matrixes were retroactive revisions. They are just so different from the first one.
Just because you're angry and irrational, doesn't mean that you're wrong. In fact one could argue being the only one to see the scam might itself make a lot of people angry
A wallet and mining client that uses 100% of your GPU if "idle".
But of course mining it's opt-in, and that's good because everybody reads all the text on a prompt before they mindlessly click "Confirm".
Ask HN:How many calories can non-athlete burn in one shot without been exhausted
Hi friends,

As a quite-inactive guy, I'm curious how many calories can you burn in one exercise session without getting hurt. By saying "getting hurt" I intend to include all minor injuries that jeopardize your next session or your work so that's why I put "exhausting too much" in the title.

I imagine for someone who is active and has good joints, he/she might be able to burn 400-500 calories every day BEFORE going to work. But is anything more than that, say, 800-1000 calories possible for you? I guess it's a completely different picture for athletes so this is targeted for laymen.