skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave two definitions of velocity and you just used "that". I have no idea if we're in agreement or disagreement now.

If you mean that Scrum uses sizes, then yeah. It tends to be better aligned with what you want because it uses sizes and priorities. It doesn't just count the raw number of changes as the target, even for its velocity measure (which isn't the target, but a guide, at least in theory). The target in Scrum is getting what the customer (again, in theory) wants as quickly as possible which means focusing on priorities. Velocity is there to see how well you're operating rather than being a goal.

If you mean Agile (which version?) doesn't use sizes but just a raw count of changes for velocity, then we're in disagreement. I mean, there probably are idiots out there who do that. But that's not what's encouraged by anyone that cares about getting shit done. It's a useless measure especially if it becomes your target for optimization. Anyone can get high velocity if all changes count the same. Submit 500 change requests to add 500 logging statements. Wow they're fast! Also they're gaming the system.
I like shimano. I have an early di2 and loved the perfect shifting. But I have always wondered why wireless is even a thing - it just seems like a way to spread out batteries everywhere and allow signal variability to creep in.
It does, but I think we no longer live in that kind of environment. Distributed is the norm, and trying to shoehorn it into a mental model where everything is all in the same place adds a kind of accidental complexity to our underlying stack for simplicity at the very top.

As an aside, with the future as a (potential) interplanetary species, networks can't beat the speed of light, so we'll have to figure this out then!
Yes, but how do you get to breakeven? By reinvesting all your profits. High capex and no taxes because you don't have any income. And you can still raise money by issuing stock, which goes up in line with your FCF. You maximize growth at 0 profit and this also maximizes shareholder value.
> as you can see in the Chinese Room thought experiment

The Chinese Room thought experiment is a thought experiment, where Searle argues that the functional definition of intelligence is not enough, and he gives an example that might convince some that the "implementation" is important.

However, the neural networks in LLMs function at least superficially similar to our brains. It doesn't function at all like a "Chinese room" where predefined scripts are given to a simple machine. Even if we accept the Chinese room argument as an objection to the functional intelligence test, given that LLMs work more similarly to brains than a Chinese room, I don't think you could use the argument as a rebuttal against LLMs being sentient unless you could show that "similarity between us and LLMs is not enough".
If you're only relying on http headers, you're missing all but the most trivial of "bots". There are other things you could do with a backend-only approach but if your code doesn't run where the device connects to (e.g. you're behind a load balancer or other reverse proxy), those are largely unworkable.
Nice insight and agree with the sentiment. Get comfortable as I don't think we will see higher interests for a while.
I agree I could've been more clear.

Less than an ounce of weed per month for five years. Then an ounce of weed per month, every month, for another 5 years. Two six month breaks. One three month break. Coughing up black stuff from my lungs wasn't unheard of.

I had genuine concern about the damage I was doing to my lungs and brain, so I started trying to quit more seriously about two years ago. Two of the six month breaks occurred in the last two years.

I've smoked maybe a gram in the past month.

I strongly feel that I should not be a shining bastion of good lung capacity.
IMHO the key to usage-based pricing is that the usage metric that pricing is based on must always be a fraction of the value metric in the customer's head. Otherwise customers start thinking about how to game the pricing system, which leads to them using your product less and also getting annoyed that they have to think about pricing so much.

For example, let's say you have a product that manages AWS cloud spend in a way where you can always reduce AWS costs by 10%, and you charge 2% of cloud spend for this product. This is a great example of usage based pricing: whenever the customer is paying you 2%, they are saving 8%. This is a no-brainer, and the customer will use your product as much as possible.

On the other hand, lets say your product can sometimes save 30% on AWS spend, and sometimes it can't save anything at all. For example, maybe it's great at optimizing spot instances but not reserved instances, or it's good for some AWS locations but not others. Now pricing based on cloud spend sucks because you're forcing your users to think hard about whether to apply your product to each individual piece of cloud infra. This is a crappy user experience, and customers will leave if something friendlier comes along.

On a side note, a more subtle example here is Heroku. When you're a small Heroku customer, paying a 200% premium on cloud spend is fine because you save so much by not hiring a team to manage your cloud infra. However as you grow, the price you pay increases much faster than the value you receive. As a result, lots of customers graduate once they hit a certain size.

This is a general pricing principle I've been thinking about: you want your price to be proportional to your value. Doesn't matter if you're charging by usage, or per seat, or a flat price -- you want the decision to be a clear win for your target customer all of the time.
What could you possibly read as being political in that pedigree? That he went to college? That he was in the military? God help us if we consider either fundamentally political.
Using a multi-tenant SQLite setup helps ensure user data is separated into their own databases and won't be inadvertently queried by other users. Users can then choose to share the data they want to either via peer-to-peer or by aggregating to a postgres database.

But the main benefit to me would be that user data will be more private and protected and configurable.

This gives someone much more fine-grained control over their data and how their data is stored. I think it ultimately makes the attack vector space smaller for any client data.
If you want a little more reading on the subject, there's a neat writeup here:

https://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/08/the-great-rot...

"(1) For every share of every asset in existence, someone must willingly hold that share at all times. If no one can be found who wants to hold a share, its market price will fall until someone is found.

(2) The total “amount” or “supply” of a financial asset is the total market value of it in existence: the number of shares outstanding times the market price. Asset “amount” or “supply” is therefore flexible for all assets except cash, whose market price is always unity. If there is more financial wealth that wants to be allocated into an asset than exists of that asset, the market price of each share of the asset will rise, which will expand the supply of the asset so that the demand can be satisfied."

"Money is not something that can go into or come out of assets; rather, it itself is an asset that is traded for other assets. The offered rate of exchange is the price. Changes in the price can create the perception that money is moving, but, in reality, nothing needs to be moving at all. Any movement that does occur is incidental to the underlying process.

Likewise, investors cannot leave or enter any asset class. All they can do is fight with each other over who will hold each asset class, offering to exchange money at various rates in exchange for the privilege of holding something else. The consequence of shifting preferences and exchange rates may be a destruction or creation of wealth in various places, but it is never a “movement” of wealth."
Meta’s testing $12 per month paid verification on Instagram and Facebook
> This likely suggests the future of an AI augmented economy: People become AI wranglers. Wordpress was supposed to make blogging easier, instead it spawned an industry of WP wranglers.

Good counter for "AI will steal our jobs". When competition starts to use AI+human, you got to level up. And since everyone has the same base AIs, the differentiating factor is still human.
Or. ChatGPT will overtrain on it's own data and go to shit the way google search did
Tom7 is a national treasure.
A) I just DID!

I DEFINE CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE INFLECTION UPON THE SUBSTRATE OF EXISTENTIAL BEING!

B) I say all life has some smidgen of this magic. It is non-classical and will not emerge out of complexity. All humans do not have “an equal amount”. Next argument may be of capacity.

The universe is the medium, consciousness the inflection, life the technology which animates.

C) voices in our heads. I know, I know, you don’t want to believe that either. Pay attention, check back in ten years. Hear them? Doubt we’re being screwed with? That old “master mind theory” from a hundred years ago touched upon this before our taboo of speaking of these voices dismissed them as crazy. Snail telegraph? There are clues throughout history.

We’re entangled, and it’s more of a hassle than a gift.
Can you expand on your idea of why you think Shimano doesn't look relevant now? Not to play favorites, but they seem to be the biggest manufacturer of high-end bike parts in the world. On road, every World Tour team, save 3 are running Shimano. Campagnolo seems the company that's becoming irrelevant, with SRAM being second, but doing some interesting stuff.

In my experience, jockey pulleys don't add too much friction, as they're not under a great amount of force and don't fail all that often - for the same reasons. It's the derailleur arm itself that's very likely to take damage from abuse (by bending out of spec).

I would say the use of a clutch on a rear derailleur - something your SRAM 1x most certainly has, leaks more watts (tho v. v. little) - the compromise is certainly worth is, especially for the gear cluster spread you're running on the back.

This design looks just to be an improvement of some sort of clutch system, with purpose to try and move the derailleur arm out from being so low, where lovely things like rocks can hit it. That seems like a win to me, given my own assessment of how these things become worthless paperweights.

SRAM actually seems to be all-in on making rear derailleur replaceable in piecemeal, which seems to be a nice improvement over the design, in a very Right To Repair kinda way.

https://bikerumor.com/next-gen-sram-eagle-direct-mount-derai...

I'm not sure why such a design can't be run wireless if that's your preference. Looking at Shimano's offerings, even the 105 is electric these days.

But again: this is just a patent for an idea - it's not the first time Shimano has done this obviously

https://www.bike198.com/shimano-gearbox-patent/
I've been using Blender a few times for 3D printing. Functional parts with playful/artistic touch. I can recommend it for that. I tried FreeCAD recently but it feels, well, constrained.

FreeCAD is like entering values into a form, while Blender is like playing around with the model interactively. You can drag anything around, tear it apart, fix it again. It's possible to keep things editable, almost parametric, but this requires more planning and knowledge.

For getting started you definitely want to follow tutorials. One for basic mesh modelling, and one with focus on CAD. (How on earth are you supposed to figure out that you want a "subdivision surface" modifier. It's the first thing I add in every project.) But I'm thinking now FreeCAD may be just as hard to learn as Blender (unless you already know CAD).

(But now that I know the basics of CAD workflows, CAD Sketcher looks interesting. Before that, I wouldn't have seen the point.)
When I was singing, I could hiss for 90 seconds without specific practice. For definitional purposes, a hiss was an unbroken, continuous, audible, 'sss' sound. This was an exercise our chorus director sometimes did with us.

I get bored more than anything else. Just did 70 seconds with one deep breath of prep. I have not sung in years.
Oh, I believe they're capable of figuring these things out. My question is whether they did.

For example, I could imagine a founder who knew what a real business was, but just said, "In crazy times we'll do crazy things", took the VC money, and mainly shut up about the problems, while quietly trying to mitigate the risks.

Or I could imagine that the OP is literally correct here, that many never bothered to figure this stuff out because it did not matter for the short term, and in fact would interfere with them projecting an SBF-grade aura of extreme confidence.

I've certainly met people in both camps. I'm just wondering if the latter have truly become very common, or even possibly the majority in some circles.
I had some fun yesterday when ChatGPT hallucinated a bibliographic reference to an article that didn't exist. But the journal existed, and it had plenty of articles that made ChatGPT's hallucination plausible. I think that at least this use case can be fixed with some pragmatic engineering[^1].

[^1]: Which may take a bit to happen, because our current crop of AI researchers have all taken "The bitter lesson"[^2] to heart.

[^2]: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I'm not sure encryption really solves the root issue that is autonomy.
In theory and depending on the shareholder makeup. In practice, the board makes the decision. Recall the controversy of Musk making fun of the Twitter board for not acting in the shareholder interests.
$12 a month, or nearly $150 a year?! Wow... how much "customer support" do they expect the average person to need in the course of a year?
Not that I disagree but in this case it seems to be mostly about "free" cloud storage ending:

> Starting April 1, the company would no longer support models that included no-fee seven-day rolling storage of video clips—a well-advertised selling point.

And cameras were still being able to be used with external storage

> Instead, Arlo device owners could upgrade to one of the company’s paid plans, starting at $13 a month or buy an add-on device to store videos.

Which is... exactly what you'd have to do with fully open source system anyway, buy a box to store it or pay someone for storage.
Well it depends what your optimising for. If you just want to heat your house in the cheapest way possible, maybe gas is better in some situations. If OTOH you want to signal to the market that you give a damn about climate change and act as an early adopter of technology that's going to be crucial part of net zero, then perhaps the equation is different. The benefits aren't just "a warm house".
I saw this Twitter thread the other day (https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1617704787235176449?s=46...) about similar problems, and some comments suggest using Docker. I couldn’t find any guides or ways to do this for a Python project; anyone here know more or has done this before?
Those things aren't mutually exclusive imo. You can be helpful and extractive. A good example is implementing automation that replaces a job and not advocating for retraining for the people impacted or implementing procedures that encourage human oversight. Another is creating targeted tracking systems. Advertisements are generally viewed as a positive for the business world and a net negative for humanity. Working on the more inane parts of these systems doesn't make you less culpable.
Used ribbons to hang them from our fruit trees to keep the birds off.
Ask HN: Why are popups still being used today?
I have a question (actually a confusion), that my habit is always block a website (means hardly i'll revisit it again in future) if it has popups for marketing purposes.

Does that strategy actually work for them ? I might consider myself in minority here. Just ask for some curiosity facts.
People like clean cockpits, and threading cables and wires through the headset is a PITA if you ever need to adjust the stem, handlebars, fork, etc.
you do it all wrong, it's 90% accurate and 90% sucessfull - its goal to be as inaccurate as possible without its audience realising.

If fox news deletws the last 10% of reality from it's broadcasting, the people might start catching on. Although these days i am not sure
I appreciate the tools that release a self-contained executable using something like PyInstaller. I don't have to worry about dependency issues and it runs without needing a whole Docker container.
isn’t this essentially asking anyone who runs a model to flip the evil bit[0]? People who want to misrepresent model output as human written output will trivially be able to beat this protection by removing the signature or using a version of the model that simply doesn’t add it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
I have an old di2 and it seemed to allow that.
Are there any other processes in our universe which are non-computable?
I felt the same way. But I’d love to read a specific critique. Have you seen one?
I really enjoyed this article. Thanks for sharing.
Actually this explains a lot. Language might be the stuff dreams are made of, but not the stuff consciousness is made of, so a specialized form of perception, a layer on top of visuals and hearing, with just another layer of logic on top of it.

We still have a coarse understanding of brain processes, but if they use parallelism, they could be probabilistic in nature, so these language models would be more similar to ours than it seems.
Links have previously been made in multiple studies between the use of anti-microbial mouthwash and increased mortality risk. One hypothesis is that it disrupts the nitrate-nitrite-nitric acid pathway as the below linked review article goes into details on. Use of anti-bacterial mouthwash has also been linked to blood pressure rises, possible explained by the same mechanism.

Antiseptic mouthwash, the nitrate–nitrite–nitric oxide pathway, and hospital mortality: a hypothesis generating review:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-06276-z

Over-the-counter mouthwash use, nitric oxide and hypertension risk:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31709856/
Sounds accurate and horrifying, I don't get the enthusiasm for this at all beyond a desire to be there first and make a ton of money. All manuscripts get a run through an AI editor, all business writing is even more soullessly devoid of purpose beyond accomplishing task X, all blogposts are finetuned for maximum engagement and therefore ad/referral revenue.

That's already happening I know but it will be amplified to the point that all humanity in writing in lost. All ideas in writing will be a copy of a copy of a copy and merely resemble something once meaningful. Time to go touch grass.
Huh? What stack? Python and Ruby take the same (I think better) approach of being written web server agnostic which requires you do some packaging work with your preferred wsgi/asgi server but after that it’s like everything else. In your container, copy all your shit over, install deps, pass envs to talk to external services like postgres/redis, run migrations, run server. Updates are just build the container again with the new version and run it.

I’m too lazy for that so in my own stuff I embed the web server in the project itself and start it programmatically (same with the migrations) so there’s less setup.

If the issue is the Docker container then that’s not really much to do with Python but that pretty much all software is written with that deployment strategy in mind. Those single file no libc statically compiled binaries are that way to run on a from scratch container.
> Continued existence of the entire country of Norway.

Compared to what? Quality of life? Median income per-person? Longevity? Norway existing and having this feature in absence of some comparable isn’t very helpful.

But also how are you going to account for cultural differences and expectations? Or are you asserting that this is good for all countries no matter what?

> It's a theory proposed in the defence of intellectual property system. There's zero actual evidence for it that I know of.

I don’t think it’s a defense of the intellectual property system although perhaps others have mixed the two. You don’t need an intellectual property system to find the behaviors of companies or other mercantile endeavors where secrets were kept to obtain an advantage. Many companies today don’t publish or try to protect their IP because the act of publishing it makes it open to reverse engineering.

Do you know of any country or even company for that matter that is completely open about all trade secrets, strategic plans, hiring decisions, or other business related activities? Can I see the CEO’s calendar, or read their internal chat messages or email?

> I don't do what you do because it wouldn't bring me any benefit.

> I have no idea why are you surprised by my reluctance.

I wouldn’t say I’m surprised, but it undermines your strong moral claims around transparency in my view. If you won’t be transparent, then why should others? Someone has to be first. Why not you?
Given that every iOS browser uses the same engine under the hood, this sounds like a Brave problem. Safari and Chrome are fine.
Market driven economies react to incentives. Regulation is one way to influence those incentives, but it’s usually slow moving (hard to put in place, hard to change or remove)

A lot of the incentives in the us market are very short term in nature, especially in publicly held companies. It seems like this leads to companies following hype cycles right off of cliffs even when it’s not hard to see problems.
I have their RB5009 with 1Gb RAM and I got 4 full feeds and have around 200Mb free. I do need to tweak stuff to get IPv6 working (again... only been sorting this out in the last couple weeks)
Facebook makes $43/y per user on average [1], but it's $69/y in Europe and $235/y in the US and Canada.

And then there's the problem that the users most likely to pay are more valuable than average to advertise to.

[1] Worldwide quarterly ARPU x4: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
https://archive.ph/TrMYP
If this is your own domain this is not really URL shortening, but an alternative, and, in your example, parallel URI scheme. And you could just replace your ugly URLs with the shorter versions.
People still talk about it incessantly. Mindshare is worth something even if you can't spend it. Like they say, no publicity is bad publicity.
The official python packaging documentation basically says, "here are 12 different tools that can do it, figure it out!" https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/managing-de...
Interesting projects, Thanks for the links.

As you say it's to early to judge but I like that the Fornjot author publishes regular updates on his progress.
CRDT is the dragon slayer
I always tend to present it to beginners as a way of the computer to tell you what is going on.

Programming is (among other things) the art of knowing how to speak to a computer and gow to interpret the things it says. That means everything that damn thing says gives you hints of how it "sees the world" and how you therefore need to describe things to it so it can execute them for you.
Cue vendors putting non-replaceable batteries that just happen to run out after 10 years, bricking device, and making effort to fix enough of a hassle most don't bother...

But yeah, would be nice. "No updates - give source code on OSS license + reasonably easy way to flash".
I've had a cable snap in a race.
Also, it's 2023 - please do not suggest approaches that do not use package hash based pinning. For example, use pip-tools.

Hopefully, in 2024, we will be able to say same thing about signing via sigstore ecosystem.
Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models [pdf]
I love SciTE. Have been using it for 20+ years as my lightweight editor of choice on Windows.