skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A year ago, my titanium fork broke (while driving rather slowly on good tarmac, photo here https://twitter.com/dothebart/status/1486765955254530051), and the titanium frame got a few cracks as well. My motto "the last bike I'll ever buy" collided with reality. Fortunately, I got away with just a few scratches - just a minute later, I would have been at 60+ kph downhill.
My new bike has a steel frame. I love it, but titanium was more flexible and more comfortable. And of course titanium is nerdier! :-)
Based on one guy who did a hobby research project based on GitHub issues?
I believe I have provided evidence it is a form of AGI. It is a generic type of request for it to come up with an analogy and it did so for me. I think arguing over whether it's general AI is quite similar to arguing whether uber is a taxi company. People pay to ride in someone else's car which gets them from A to B. It came up with that analogy at my request.

You can make chatgpt generic requests and it answers them. just try it if you don't believe me.

I asked it how it would solve not being able to get some cookies off of a high counter if it were a small child, it replied with its plans:

https://hastebin.com/raw/geponewiki

I had it generate a PDF of the latest advances in AI. It gave me something pretty generic and not that insightful. See for yourself:

http://online.verypdf.com/app/sharepdf/?url=http://online.ve...

That is a PDF titled "AI Advances:A Review of the Latest Developments in Artificial Intelligence". Nothing special as far as titles or contents goes. But an AI wrote the whole damn thing.

(Though it couldn't fix the broken formating when I tried to make a latext document out of it.)

But that's not the point. The point is I asked it to create an executive summary of advances in AI and it did as well as a seventh or eighth grader.

What you really don't understand is you can't just instantly apply the standard of "this thing must be the best at everything and never make any mistake" to be generally intelligent. Ask it some intelligence type of tests of a generic nature.

I mean what's more generic than some new question nobody has any reason to ask and that requires inductive and deductive reasoning to solve? https://hastebin.com/raw/gupevutohe

That's the definition of AGI. I mean what is your standard? What is AGI supposed to do that this thing doesn't do at all?

I just think that this meets my requirements for handling generic arbitrary tasks. Its input and output is language but it is able to think and keep track of complex thoughts including about entirely novel situations. It's usually pretty reasonable.

What more evidence of AGI do you need than that it can solve novel generic tasks it has never encountered before?
Houten has a population of 50,000. Plenty of American cities much larger than that have the sort of human-scale features and transit you’re describing—they’re all over Portland, OR.
> This is not the best explanation.

It's the best explanation I know of for the fact that there is no evidence that life has a purpose (at least not that I've come across). Can you suggest a better explanation?
My personal $.02 on frame stiffness is that it's way overrated.

The bike I personally spend most time on is a steel frame, but I've never once asked myself a question of "is this stiff / bouncy" enough. When I started having issues with too much road vibration giving me a mild case of cyclists palsy (temporary mild paralysis of ulnar nerve), it was due to the surface I was riding on (gravel) and the distances / times. Solution was adding suspension stem to the handlebar.

To me, the "steel is real" argument speaks about the general durability / repairability of the frame. But AFAIK, modern CroMoly steel butted tubes aren't "that" great for welding or cold setting either (to be debated). IMO the famous road repairs of 90's adventurers who had their cracked frames repaired by no matter what farmer with a stick welder in the midle of Kazakhstan are simply long gone now.

Personally, the thing I watch for in a bike frame first and foremost is the geometry and the actual personal fit (ideally by a professional fitter).

The number one issue I've seen most beginners have related to bike frames is simply being too optimistic on their abilities and spending thousands on frames that they simply don't have the mobility and flexibility for.
I wonder if the basic problem with super apps in the US is the market power of app stores and payment processors. (The complexity and multipolarity of the payment situation makes it hard for a big player like Capital One or Mastercard from starting a super app since it would blow up relationships in the industry)

I'd imagine that Facebook would have tried going in the super app direction if they'd thought it was feasible. (remember Libra?)
for me the only use of docker is "quickly reproduce whatever $LINUX_DISTRO my users run and make sure that my stuff builds & run on it without having to install a complete VM in virtualbox" ; I also don't really understand how WASM would help with this in any way
Your post feels like a dispatch from bizarro-world.

There is a good amount of second-order evidence that the proof is wrong. Further, I skimmed the introduction, and it seems the indicated approach cannot possibly work. My guess is that both authors are senile. (They're quite old.)

If you give me decent odds, I'd be happy to bet against you regarding the proof's correctness. Would you take 1:1?
Intelligence is what you know, and wisdom is knowing how to use what you know.

It's intelligent to know how to start a fire and wisdom to know where NOT to start one.

We've got enough intelligence and enough wisdom. What we also have is collective, weaponized purposeful ignorance. People who know better but believe that by banding together with other people, they can force society to abandon both their intelligence and their wisdom.
Either Windows or Linux can do it alone (now that Proton works well), but I use both.
High-confidence Lifetime Checks for C++ in Visual Studio version 17.5 Preview 2
But, "It works for me."
> Jitsi Videobridge passes everyone’s video and audio to all participants, rather than mixing them first.

This seems excessive. What would this mean for the bandwidth requirements for each participant?
My favorite failure: I ran a voluntary botnet
Tata’s Bigbasket Eyes IPO by 2025 After $200M Funding
Rather than getting into that debate, it's probably more practical and efficent to just create a new verified dataset.
Don't. Use AEGIS instead.
Great idea. Looks good. It's always great to develop something for your own use. Years ago I used a similar site: https://750words.com/
> Currently about 1% of the JVM runtime is implemented in C

The JIT is probably half of the VM and is written in C++.

Github [1] says (for the whole JDK, not just the VM):
Java 75.1%
C++ 13.4%
C 7.4%
Assembly 2.3%
Objective-C 0.4%

[1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
I created something similar to this [1] a few years ago. Before the proliferation of web crypto apis, I just used a WASM’d libsodium. It adds some page weight but whatever…

My use-case was for traveling, it seems like a good idea to have a backup photo of my passport and credit card in case I loose everything. Sure I could put it on Dropbox, but do I really want to log in to my entire Dropbox on someone else’s machine?

Ironically, it has yet to be useful. Just a fun project inspired by the realization that you can base64 just about anything in an HTML document.

1: https://github.com/ccorcos/encrypted-html-vault
I wonder how a service like this would look like over IPFS. Or if one could somehow merge the distributive power of IPFS with sharing of end-to-end encrypted information. Or perhaps there's already one? Or perhaps Jami is already superior?
About once a year, Musk announces FSD is getting a total rewrite.
This is 100% how the first permanent (i.e. not tin cans) lunar habitation will be built, possibly Mars too.
A good amount of “legacy” bike advocates are actively hostile to e-bikes, equating them to “cheating”. It’s gatekeeping bullshit.

Anytime someone asks me bike buying advice, my only reply is “go to your local dealer and talk with them”. That relationship and taking a few test rides are far more important than any spec on a sheet.
> To create such a model, ... [they] ... obtained ... cells previously collected from a person with ... an extra X chromosome

So, the title is rather misleading. They just had to get cells to shed one of the three chromosomes, they didn't get an XX female to somehow produce a Y, nor an XY male to duplicate their X.
Supporters often call the free phones "Obama phones" too. Just like Obamacare started off as a slur towards ACA, the party saw Obama's name as a way to link a benefit to Democrats and détourned it. It's like the Bush tax rebate or the Trump stimulus.
It does feel like the author has somewhat missed the fact that Twitter has become a space in which, while you can technically say whatever you want, is driven overwhelmingly by opinions on topic-du-jour social issues.

Further, the communities on Twitter that aren't part of this are largely segregated from the hive by virtue of consisting of users that are explicitly trying to avoid it. And there's a perpetual risk that the forerunners of those communites are eventually sucked in by the Borg Cube of banal political debate regardless - we've all seen this happen in our feeds, and there's a good chance you've unfollowed or muted at least one person for abruptly and loudly picking up on some political or social topic.

This is pretty much exactly what Mastodon is trying to avoid. Having over-subscribed political debate forums hang a sign over their door is definitely fine by me.
Classic HTML gmail https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en (final link on that page)
I think this argument is an ad hominem. Attacking the person and their motives does not address the actual substance of zir ideas and current actions.
GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.org/
> You don't apply via Twitter DM, I hope.

I was hiring recently, and one of the ways we advertised the position was that I tweeted the job description, and I arranged with the our social media team for them to retweet it for additional visibility. Candidates responding to that tweet generally contacted me via twitter DM - why wouldn't they?

It's not like I conducted interviews in that medium, but it's not really any different than the people who initiated contact via email.
VSCode text buffer reimplementation (2018)
Maybe. Like music, movies and other media, twitter both reflects the times and affects the times. Advertising and other influences do work in the aggregate, otherwise they wouldn't be performed. If you're a Muskie, you're prone to shifting in his direction. And there's a lot of them. If you thought he was a dipshit, nothing's changed.

This all has shown some limits to Musk for sure, but steering his new toy and steering conversations are separate and the piece is much more about the conversations.

Trump is not book-smart but he is people-smart about a significant set of people.
Thank you for the pointer

https://clipperz.com
Eh... I don't really see it. Erlang is good for the WhatsApp problem; shunting binary blobs around between lots and lots and lots of clients, and maintaining some sort of shared state of what clients exist and whether they're online or not.

This is not really a problem that Twitter has, though. Or at least not a significant part of Twitter's problems; they do have to do some web-push stuff, and sure, they could use Erlang for that, why not, but it's not a big part of their problems. And as for the rest of Twitter... well, Erlang is notably bad at handling _text_, for a start.
We generally have mini roundabouts for that situation or give way signs for rolling stops.
I wouldn’t disagree with you except to point out that they do exactly what they’re intended to do. Protecting the lender. Even then, it’s just one of the many checks in the underwriting process.

They do however tend to thwart rapid price surges in the market. Depending on if you’re buying or selling will change your opinion on if that is good or bad.
hahaha this was funny
Most hobbyist FPV drones are DIY and built from individual open source components like betaflight. You can find some of the hardware with open source designs too. Most people in that scene including myself buy the motors and various components to preference and lay out the drone the way we want it. I custom cut my drone frame for instance and 3D print my self designed canopy. About 80% of the software on my drones is open source (the major exception is the DJI VTX).

Do a YouTube search for joshua bardwell he covers how to do this in exhaustive detail.
Great Mars-dust-wiper pads have little Mars-dust-wiper pads upon their backs to wipe 'em.

And little Mars-dust-wiper pads have lesser ... pads, and so ad infinitum.

It's pad's all the way down.
TSMC’s 3nm Conundrum, Does It Even Make Sense?
It doesn't matter. They're legally forbidden to ban classes of people from service. They're perfectly within their rights to ban specific groups because of actions they've taken against them.
I though that there were some "GPU accelerated path rendering" already 10 years ago ?
https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering
https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering

(OK those links are for NVidia, but if they can do it I guess others can too ?)
(also see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262357352_GPU-accel... )
I think lack of demand, and a fragmenting of the component standards, are hurdles. Those old Schwinn (and other brand) frames were made during a time period when there was a lot of interchangeability, and most spare parts are still available. Today, standards for things like bottom brackets change every three years. There's no part on my 1985 frame, that I can't replace today, cheaply.

I can get a brand new lugged steel frame that would be perfect for my use -- a Surly Cross-Check. Seriously the only deterrent is a minor injury has forced me to re-think what my future needs are for geometry. I may need to adopt a more "comfort" posture. Better than not riding. Sucks to get old.

Despite my above comment, and thinking about it more, I want my next bike to be modern in the sense of accommodating fenders and much wider tires. I need horizontal dropouts and to be able to set the rear dropout spacing, to accommodate an internal gear hub (IGH).
Thank you!

Git log tells me I started in November 2019, so 3 years, but the pace of work definitely varied a lot over that time. Sometimes I was putting full days of work into it, sometimes stolen moments here and there between paying work, and some long stretches of just not working on it at all.

Maybe I'll do another post with a graph, haha.
So many of these investment amounts were exceeded by the payments the company agreed to make back to Palantir. Giving up equity for an "investment" that basicaly equals a free trial of some Palantir software seems like a terrible deal for the company. Is there a valid reason for this aside from the obvious ones of corruption and incompetence?
Downvotes without replies is always disappointing.

I would be curious to hear what is wrong in my comment above from anyone who has actually worked on general purpose packaging (e.g., written a package to be included in or overlaid onto a ports tree, maintained RPMs built from RPM spec files, run their own Ubuntu PPA, etc.), implemented tools that scan containers (e.g., SCA scanning or SBOM generation tools), or done reproducibility research.

Would someone with an awareness of full-fledged package management solutions based on or built with containers (e.g., Luet, Distri, Flatpak) really argue that having fine-grained abstractions for reasoning about dependencies or shared runtimes, performing security updates, etc., makes no difference as to what kind of software we're talking about and what problems it solves?

To me it seems obvious that

- not all software distribution mechanisms are package management solutions
- Docker cannot see or reckon with individual packages
- the Docker ecosystem relies on rather than replaces package managers, build systems, etc.

and so on. Are there serious arguments to be had here about those things, or do people just feel like my earlier comment was somehow unkind to Docker?
as other commenters have stated, pip-tools is a decent alternative. It does have some issues around platform dependent packages (like libuv and windows), but that's solved by managing a different compiled requirements per environment.
I think the entirety of Hotspot is written in C++ [0]? The standard library in the JDK is mostly written in Java, but the VM itself with the GC and JIT code is in C++, which makes sense.

If you do not count the standard library as part of the JVM (but part of the JDK), then the JVM is written mostly in C++.

[0]: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/tree/master/src/hotspot
F-You skills are not technical in nature (above a certain level of competence and willingness to work that most people in tech jobs have). They are people skills and a basic safety net.

For me they seem to be:

1. Having an emergency fund and plan that can last you 6-9 months if you get fired or burnt out. Think about your expenses and get rid of ones that you don't want. Plan out if you'd need to downsize some things or make changes. Having a good buffer will help you be less stressed out if your work gets really shitty (you can quit) or if you get fired (you won't be wondering how to pay rent while interviewing).

2. Being generally pleasant at work.

3. Don't spread stress and bad feelings. If you are stressed out and someone asks for help, help them or tell them when you can in the future in a positive way. Don't complain about things over and over.

4. Keep loosely in touch with people you got along with at jobs, you might be able to help each other in the future.

5. Be willing to grind to get a job if your network can't help you in the future. Start practicing interview questions and applying when you notice a lot of frustration in a job, not just when have 100% decided to leave. This will get you prepared and also can help you feel agency that might make you realize you don't want to leave the job.

6. Work on your psychology to gain confidence. You deserve to have a decent life as much as anyone. Your work or pay isn't a reflection of your value, but if you enjoy the work, that's great, it doesn't always happen.
> The 3 most recent nationally representative data sets from NHANES.

See also:

> "The NHANES dietary data are physiologically implausible and inadmissible as scientific evidence" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5573021/

There seems to be an entire industry around extracting nutrition research from these deeply flawed self-reported surveys ... on the grounds that it's the best data we have. Which is like looking for your car keys under the street light because that's where the light is.

So while I sympathize with this story and think it shines light on the process of institutional character assassination, it's about replacing one set of non-probative data with another.
Just curious, what are the potential effects of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-out of SRY in adult humans?
Try to get a bike fit first. Ideally after some basic stretchwork / few classes of mobility training just to get the feel of what Your body is capable of in the short term.

It sounds like waste of money for something people feel like they should be able to judge themselves, but bikes aren't shoes. The issues often develop only after some hours of effort. If You're a beginner, chances are the flexibility of Your back / hips / joints will be the most limiting factor.
This capitalism you're talking about is an imaginary construction. It never existed, never will. Why are you being a demagogue and defending an ideal? You know very well what people refer to as capitalism, the one that exist in reality. Not some lofty idea you want to defend.

> but you (of course) play big intellectual and pretend it is OK to ignore facts.

Grow up.
I think business schools teach business ethics just as much as tech schools teach engineering ethics. I.e. maybe some, sometimes, a little bit, possibly as an add-on course people mostly take because they need to take some filler classes.
I've ridden (mostly in the 60cm sizes):

- Steel Pogliaghi Track bike. 80's vintage, handbuilt. Thinwall standard diameter tubing. Probably the flexiest bike I've ridden, super easy to see BB and fork flex.

- Handbuilt steel road, mid-90s, Columbus OS tubing I think. Kenesis bonded AL fork. Pretty harsh. The carbon forks of the time were much smoother. When I get it from storage (where it's been for a decade), I'm going to put a custom steel fork on it and ride it on sunny days and smooth pavement.

- Handbuilt steel 26" road tandem. Late 90's. hand built steel unicrown fork. I _love_ this bike. It's running wide Rene Herse tires now. It is so planted on descents with bad pavement. My next single is going to try to replicate the feel of this bike in a single. (probably something like a Crust Lightning Bolt, if I can get one in the EU)

- An Al Redline Cross bike (kinesis unicrown alu fork, which was an out and out noodle), and later with a Surly crosscheck fork (harsh, heavy). Very comfy till I killed the fork. Sadly, there's a fatigue crack at the bottom bracket.

- An over stiff Al gravel bike (PlanetX Full Monty) w/ carbon fork, mildly redeemed by 650cx48 RH tires. It's so stiff that standing really isn't encouraged, the bike just feels dead.

- Inexpensive Carbon road bike (PlanetX pro carbon) with carbon fork. Nice enough for the 6k miles I used it, but I'm done with 25c tires and no space for fenders. It's no faster than the gravel bike, despite being 4 kilos lighter.

- Mid 90's Cannondale 3.0 frame. Stiff. I greatly preferred the Steel one that replaced it.

My experience would say -- The forks really matter. The lighter unicrown forks are so much better than the super stiff ones. Wide, supple tires matter too. They're a good 7+% faster on the tandem, and probably the only reason I like riding the AL Gravel bike.
LSEG recently used leverage to buy market data firm Refinitiv which was somewhere around 5x the size of LSEG itself. They are risk averse, but clearly not as much as they used to be. That acquisition came with a large amount of hardware in DCs around the world which MS has been gunning to get into Azure.
I have seen fireflies outside of Norrköping when I was a kid.
> Problem: If you sign up for say LEGO reddit, but want to post a geo-political thing, then suddenly YOU CANNOT because you need a new account.

Reddit doesn't actually solve that problem because subreddit moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with. If you happen to talk to the wrong people, you wind up banned and need a new account to talk to other people.
Buying a racing bike, which a lot of people do, is as silly as buying GS racing skis, which hardly anyone does for recreational skiing because it's a Bad Idea. You won't like it unless you are as fit as a racer. Even then you won't find either the bike or skis pleasant for any purpose other than training to race.

Elite athletes are a different species from you and me.
I meant something more like this (although this doesn't QUITE compile, but it's close I think):

static ubyte* [n*2] requires_ptr_twice_as_large_as_input(n : uint)
(
ubyte*[n] input,
ubyte*[n*2] output,
) {
output[0..n] = input[0..n];
output[n..2*n] = input[0..n];
return output;
}

void main()
{
ubyte[10] input = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
ubyte[20] output = new ubyte[20];
requires_ptr_twice_as_large_as_input!(10)(&input, &output);
}
Thanks for the tip, but I am practicing this with a teacher who has prescribed some similar advice. I've accepted that this just takes time.
Yeah, I'm not walking around on a pitched glass-surfaced roof that may be slimy with mold. Ever seen what a window eventually looks like in a humid climate if it hasn't been cleaned? Rain can wash off some surface dust but it doesn't really clean beyond that. Maybe this isn't as much of a problem in a desert.