skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen to that! An old steel bike like that, aside from lasting almost indefinitely if you don't let it rust to pieces, is a platform.

I could take the bike shown at the top of the article and upgrade it to a modern 2x11 road geartrain, with external bottom bracket bearings, hollow shaft bottom bracket, brifters, the whole works. Longer axles on modern rear wheels? No problem to bend the frame slightly - it's steel! - to make them fit perfectly. I've done it. I have a 40 year old steelie that is currently at 2x8 and could go to 2x10 without changing the rear hub again. It rides at least as nice as a modern carbon fiber marvel. It is of course heavier (12kg all up).

Another of my road bikes has the drive train from a similar vintage mountain bike. I wanted a triple, and the simplest way was to just transplant the long cage derailer to go with it.

Modern bikes that I see in the bike racks at work? Carbon fiber marvels with integrated e-bike drivetrain. They're only a motor failure, or even a worn out battery pack (assuming not available any more from the manufacturer as spares) away from being e-waste just like all other modern gadgets. Retrofit to different brand stuff? Forget it. The frame is an integrated design with the drivetrain.

But how do you roll back time and get people to ride "sensible" bikes again? When the modern marvels can be manufactured just as cheaply and they're just so much cooler? Good luck with that.
Am I reading that right (and are you sure)? The cost of permitting alone in your are can add $180K +/- to the cost of a house? If true, that is truly shocking.

Where I live the building permit fee is $8 per $1000 of estimated building cost. A one million dollar house would pay a fee of $8000 total (and most houses near me cost a lot less than that).
So kids will lie about their age. They've done it before
The fact that just a few years ago even parsing the question would be an achievement. I feel like people are just glossing over how incredible this answer is.
Can you make a Game with only AI in an afternoon
Raphael's Influence on Ancient Greek Philosophy
I think it's available in most of Western Europe and Latin America.
Yeah this is a good tool, if annoying at times.

A better way would be to not allow user accounts to deploy anything in any sort of prod accounts, instead only allowing this to happen through CI.
Eh, here in the UK I think cyclists are just, well, cyclists. At least in cities.

In the US I don't think cycling is a thing that's even worth bothering with outside of NYC or SF unless it's purely for leisure.

The cities there are built around cars, they're too big. It's like trying to make cycling a thing in the rural Highlands. Just not happening.
It's a mix. On mid-size urban roads, the bike, ped, and auto lanes tend to be separated, but usually at the same grade. On smaller urban roads, bike and auto can be mixed, but speed limits are generally lower there than in the US. And in the suburbs/rural areas, there are definitely completely separate bike paths (in addition to mix of other layouts).

Typical urban road...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XuBdf9jYj7o/maxresdefault.jpg
https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/cyclelanes0...

Mixed on a slow neighborhood road (30kph is 18mph)...
https://coordinates.ce.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/images...

Completely separate bike path...
https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/cyclelanes0...
Yeah I'm fairly proficient with CSS, having written it for over a decade, and as I skimmed the article I found myself getting a bit overwhelmed. Seems like quite a bit of effort.

For years I've been working on a programming language for UI designers, and this was one of the stumbling blocks for me. It's definitely a hard problem.

My solution was to enforce unique names for every element, and then you could use a simple syntax for describing positioning constraints between them. For example:

BlueSquare {
width: 100px
height: 100px
top: 0px
left: 0px
}

RedSquare {
width: 100px
height: 100px
top: @BlueSquare.bottom + 10px
left: @BlueSquare.right + 10px
}

This code would anchor the red square to the bottom/right of the blue square, with a 10px spacing between the two. Super simple! Far more difficult to implement a backend that satisfies this of course, which is why I haven't made much progress lol.
Every few years I have to look up what the current state of the art is for centering something in CSS. I've so often been shocked that there still wasn't something as simple as <center>. Similarly, I couldn't believe how long it's taken to get something as useful as tables for layout.
> How terrifying is that, busting ass from your 20s to mid to late 50s

Agreed. I'm all onboard with delayed gratification. I'm onboard with "putting in the work." But waiting (literally) decades before living it up... sounds totally backwards.
Ohh my bad. I always thought it meant YC founder, lol
I'll own my shame instead of editing my original comment
How to sell a developer tool with 1M users
Hi,

We are three developers and we have built a developer tool in our free time, This tool is a subset of Project management tools and mainly used by development teams. Long story short, during Covid it became very popular and still is Number 1 in organic search on Google. We have more than one million users from every company in the world you can think of.

The tool is based on a freemium model with most of the features available as free, and we have a paid tier as well. The tool is used heavily with 180000-220000 users sessions and around 15000 new signups every month. We have spent zero amount on marketing and have not spent any efforts on sales etc.

All the growth is organic and word of mouth marketing. We believe for the people with sales and marketing skills there is huge potential to either make it a real business with a very good MRR or it can be a good strategic investment for any big player like MIRO, Monday or click up etc. Where they can acquire Million users from large enterprises and then use their sales teams to generate revenue out of it.

Now we are looking for some advice on how to approach those large players and negotiate with them etc. What is the standard process in Silicon Valley around this, we are based in Europe and would like to get some advice, input or potential contacts etc.

Thanks in advance!
I know. My 2500k wasn't reaching almost 5GHz with just a nh-d14 because they were struggling with the foundry, that was clear.
> I'm chewing on a lot of blog posts about this

Care to share some of your favorite findings?
> You can't train a language model capable of helping a high school student pass an introductory physics or chemistry class if the training data was filtered to the extent that the same language model can't explain how to build a pipe bomb.

Why not? I'm certain that "introductory physics or chemistry class" doesn't cover pipe bomb construction. There's literally no reason the model needs to even have the vocabulary term "pipe bomb" or all kinds of practical information required to construct one (e.g. explosive recipes, exact chemical make up of household chemicals, impurities and all, etc).

I see a point that restricting training data of such a model might not be able to prevent it from being used to help with subtasks for "inventing" a pipe bomb (e.g. could you suggest a reactions between solids that releases a large amount of potential energy very quickly), but it feels like you'd already have to know so much about pipe bombs at that point to build one yourself without help.

And even then, I'm not sure restricting training data couldn't help. Why train the thing on the reactions used in explosives? Why not leave a gap there, so the only reactions it knows about are only as energetic as the ones that would be performed in a classroom?
"Forging a Katana"[1] is a fantastic documentary! I learned to appreciate steel as a material and what it takes to create a steel blade. There is so much craft and experience required to make one. Here's[2] another documentary about making of Santoku knife.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_4zHNcieM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbky_RwFyc
The author is French, the usage of quitted is more likely a mistake outright. As for the quoted version it's explained next to it, he's quitting professionally but likely will continue as a hobby, in French you'd use quotes to highlight the fact it's not to be taken literally.
> internal props in any way for doing things it enjoyed doing or that proved to be useful.

Yes.

> whether a while loop is sentient.

My point with this exercise was not to prove a while loop to be sentient. The idea is that any definition of sentience you can come up with can be artificially defeated. I’m not claiming that ChatGPT is sentient, merely that you can not prove the opposite with our current understanding.
Appears to be down. Archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230301110743/http://h14s.p5r.o...
Linode increases price of compute plans and more
I considered submitting that instead, but unless you already know what "RTX Video Super Resolution" does the headline is less descriptive
s/this//

When you get older you lose the fun of learning new stuff, and you are paid to do what to know.
On mindsets, mind shifts and wins
A 10-year (ish) retrospective of self-reflection and improvement
From a sysadmin perspective, these things are so unbelievably frustrating. Just give me a list of things we need to do and we will do it. I don't want to hunt for the requirements and need a law degree to implement it. I looked for what we need to do and I can't find it.
No One Knows How Much Covid Is Silently Spreading Again
> I wouldn’t take too much stock in one guys opinion from HN.

100% this!

It could be that there are 500 other viewers being turned off silently, but conversely there could be 500 viewers who find it all appealing.

> Test your design and see if it works.

How would you go about doing this? A redesign and show it to a sub-set of users and see if there is any measurable difference in conversion? This is one of the hard things I struggle with, and seems OP too, is how to actually measure stuff that doesn't have a (single) "correct" answer, such as marketing choices.
I've been in this position a few times throughout my career. Try looking around and see what else is out there. Maybe consider a smaller company that doesn't have the level of politics that you've described. Wish you the best!
A bitshift oneliner IS nicer.
Nassim Taleb has advice to follow something called "the barbell approach" where 90% of your money is super safe (all stock market index funds/t-bonds/etc.) and 10% of your money is in some super speculative asset.

I don't think it's bad advice if you're willing to commit to the speculative asset over a long time horizon and you don't have unrealistic expectations.
Yeah honestly I'd argue it's not actually in human nature to bestow equal rights. The default is to climb to the top of the tower and go "fuck you, I got mine" then shift focus to keeping yourself in that position.

See also: US police, dictatorships, conservative governments, every -ism or -phobia, Reddit moderators, Twitter witch hunts, almost any scenario where someone has authority or leverage over another person.

We probably don't want to teach a sapient AI that one, haha. Armageddon will be measured in minutes.
I mean, investors have never in the past pursued fads or trends or technology they didn't understand the first thing about. Quick, follow that invisible hand!
That’sa good point. There’s a paper that talks about the non-linear nature of these models. That is at some very large size they seem to show a leap in ability.
This lady has Patrick Bateman level cold. What if it doesn't work out? You've brought two kids into the world that you'll hardly see. You're not a teenage meth addict illiterate who hadn't much choice. You're a grown, educated person. Morally, you are at level zero.
Perhaps his epic work ethic is partially the result of a genetic trait and/or the influence of good parenting at an early age… which would be pretty lucky for him.
$200ea @q1: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/21287

> 37-138 MHz (downlink), 148-150 MHz (uplink)

Makes me wonder how this deals with local noise. There's rather a lot of extant traffic in that range already and its worst in populated areas; even rural tho there's going to be things wandering by that speak loud in that range.
I swear that Intel had VPU "AI" blocks in some older laptop CPUs, but I can't find a source beyond the flood of SEO garbage (best intel gaming CPUs! How to pick an a laptop CPU!) Google is giving me.

Anyway... this is interesting. And will probably cause widespread outrage when Microsoft announces the hardware requirements.
Please don't destroy people workflows into a locked up app and then run off to the next gig.
Small bit of feedback - you have a pricing page [1] that has no prices on it. It offers me the chance to start a free trial and says it's priced per server, but I'm not going to sign up or start a free trial if I don't know what the price per server actually is.

[1] https://edgebit.io/plans/
Given the typical failure rate of acquisitions, this is even more impressive.
Looks like it tries to make a dplyr-like experience for python, not replace dplyr in R.
Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon by Brendan Gregg (2022)
Ask HN: Why are threads showing misconduct of YC members removed from frontpage?
I had seen it a bit before but now it is super obvious with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979981

570 Points and 5 hours ago posted at the moment. EVERY thread on the frontpage is older and/or has fewer points (often both). Why did this fall from rank 2 of the frontpage within seconds to the second page (rank > 30)?
But the hive mind is saying the singularity will come soon. He is part of the hive mind and not going against it.
Then NVidia re-used their design on ARM as Project Denver.
my friends, consider only working 4days a week, 6hrs a day, and your profession not defining you, your value nor your ego. Its not a simple matter but worth the effort. Full disclosure i struggle w self value statement constantly still
Might sound wild but network-order bytes are pretty platform agnostic.
The problem is usually that all the Android APIs are designed for Java/Kotlin and extremely opinionated on top. Using those APIs from other languages is a royal PITA.

That's why webview apps are so popular in the first place, because you don't need to deal with the actual Android APIs.
The old Italian classic movie “Bicycle Thieves” is almost 100 years old now.

In many places (I’m most familiar with Seattle) the rate of bicycle theft is so high it has to be organized crime. I once saw (assumed “homeless”) people on Capitol Hill openly carry around bolt cutters while looking through bike racks and taking whatever they could. They had at least a dozen bike haul and it looked like the police didn’t stop them. There’s no way they are pawning off that many bikes. There are at least a handful of sophisticated fences and a real crime ring in the city targeting bikes, creating a huge incentive for addicts to steal them. And I don’t see much political will to take these down.
Haven't played the game in ages. But wasn't the biggest threat always other humans instead of zombies? I feel the show seems to be portraying that pretty well.
> In more situations than not, the paying company would then ask for and prefer that I maintain all copyrights for all the changes and that I not make it publicly noticeable that this was in fact paid for by this company. For the casual outsider, it appears as if I just had a period of extra motivation and energy and one fine day delivered this feature.

> Why companies would not want to use their sponsoring an Open Source project for marketing purposes and good will always baffle me. I have heard it explained by things like that the company does not want their competitors to so obviously spot that they use this project, but that seems like an odd and weak argument.

Thoughts? My guess is because if it becomes known they will pay for feature requests on open source, they might worry other open source projects will ask for money for features they would have added for "free" otherwise.
I’ve always found Deleuze and Guattari’s comments on chess vs. go to be interesting. Some of the terminology might not make sense if you’re unfamiliar with their work, but I think you can get the general gist:

Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the state apparatus in the context of the theory of games. Let us take chess and Go, from the standpoint of game pieces, the relations between the pieces and the space involved. Chess is a game of the State, or of the court: the emperor of China played it. Chess pieces are coded; they have an internal nature and intrinsic properties from which their movements, situations, and confrontations derive. They have qualities; a knight remains a knight, a pawn a pawn, a bishop a bishop. Each is like a subject of the statement endowed with relative power, and these relative powers combine in a subject of enunciation, that is, the chess player or the game’s form of interiority. Go pieces, I contrast, are pellets, disks, simple arithmetic units, and have only an anonymous, collective, or third-person function: “It” makes a move. “It” could be a man, a woman, a louse, an elephant. Go pieces are elements of a nonsubjectified machine assemblage with no intrinsic properties, only situational ones. Thus the relations are very different in the two cases.

Within their milieu of interiority, chess pieces entertain biunivocal relations with one another, and with the adversary’s pieces: their functioning is structural. One the other hand, a Go piece has only a milieu of exteriority, or extrinsic relations with nebulas or constellations, according to which it fulfills functions of insertion or situation, such as bordering, encircling, shattering. All by itself, a Go piece can destroy an entire constellation synchronically; a chess piece cannot (or can do so diachronically only). Chess is indeed a war, but an institutionalized, regulated, coded war with a front, a rear, battles. But what is proper to Go is war without battle lines, with neither confrontation nor retreat, without battles even: pure strategy, whereas chess is a semiology. Finally, the space is not at all the same: in chess, it is a question of arranging a closed space for oneself, thus going from one point to another, of occupying the maximum number of squares with the minimum number of pieces. In Go, it is a question of arraying oneself in an open space, of holding space, of maintaining the possibility of springing up at any point: the movement is not from one point to another, but becomes perpetual, without aim or destination, without departure or arrival. The “smooth” space of Go, as against the “striated” space of chess. The nomos of Go against the State of chess, nomos against polis. The difference is that chess codes and decodes space, whereas Go proceeds altogether differently, territorializing and deterritorializing it (make the outside a territory in space; consolidate that territory by the construction of a second, adjacent territory; deterritorialize the enemy by shattering his territory from within; deterritorialize oneself by renouncing, by going elsewhere…) Another justice, another movement, another space-time.
CP/M didn't require a floppy. You could boot it off ROMs, tape or even paper tape (ASR-33s were fun). There's even a RDR: device that was supposed to be used to load from a card reader, tho I confess I never saw that in the wild.

MS-DOS was structured the same as CP/M: there was a small-ish machine dependent part you ported (called an 'OEM Adaption Kit' at one time), and a hardware independent kernel. At least through 3.0 and probably later, it did not require a PC clone. It ran on all sorts of non-PC 8088/8086 machines. Ever run MS-DOS on an 80186 with 8" floppies? I have. Now, your apps might not run because of machine level assumptions (video, usually), but MS-DOS did.
… but then the prices would - outside of occasional hype peaks - plummet back down to some realistic value instead of remaining at their surreal artificial high.
My landlord is raising rents but this apartment has always been below market. I think apartments that have been attaching a luxury price tag no longer can justify that cost.
If you want to maximize battery life on a Mac, you need to do Mac-specific things. The most energy efficient way to do things is to hook into proprietary APIs such as CTS and GCD. You can’t get around these by doing it yourself because they’re designed to coordinate tasks across all running processes.

This high level of coordination improves efficiency because the CPU can wake up, crank through the queue of scheduled tasks, and go back to sleep. If every process does it DIY, then the CPU just gets woken up repeatedly and your battery dies a death by a thousand cuts.
I don't see the problem. he's making some quite valid criticisms of OpenAI. Jesus himself could be in charge of policy work there and that wouldn't change the fact that "Open"AI is anything but open
One could be annoyed that the show went way overboard on the "Gay Bill" story considering how far it veered off from the actual game where it was merely (and barely) implied. Anybody who brings this up then gets branded as someone who wants all the gays sent concentration camps. There is no nuance on social media.

LGBT people get very defensive about anything that doesn't support more more more representation on TV despite what is already a statistical overrepresentation in media. And even though what I have said is 100% fact, I expect it to get downvoted and flagged because that is what happens in these cases, truth be damned.
So sixteen man-days of labour per legionary. And 924 kg of wood; if you get 30 tonnes of wood per hectare (this is a SWAG based on a quick google), that's about 300 square metres per legionary.

For 5000 legionaries, that's 154 hectares, which is about a quarter of the Presidio in San Fransisco, half of Central Park in New York, or a bit more than Hyde Park in London.

It's a lot, but it doesn't strike me as, like, a lot a lot.
I recommend smaller companies were you take an architect type role where you build the systems, or at least have a domain you control and are accountable for. I've been doing exclusively that since about 2005. It has it's own problems, mainly pressure to constantly get things done, which is fine, but it can be unrelenting sometimes.

The soul sucking large corporate entities, I couldn't agree more. Stay away from that if you can. You really only need one big company household name to spice up your resume and you probably have that already. I have mine and never went back.
That's insightful, but I still think the assumption that the CISO has to go when the company gets compromised is a bit issue.
Instead of security being a team effort, with the goal being making the hard choices together, finding the correct compromises to let the business thrive while being secure - it usually makes the CISO take an adversarial position to anything in their company - since it's always their head if something bad happens....

Amazing CISOs lead security by enabling others to make secure choices that still let them move quickly and deliver value. To do that - they shouldn't always be one hack away from losing their job.
I'm not too fond of Elon and have blocked him on Twitter because I don't like selfish personalities nor fanatism or personalism from the community, but he's saying normal and rightful stuff in these tweets. You can say a lot of things about him but not infer that with these tweets.

Sometimes these answers make me believe they are created for bot brigades and astroturfing.
As people noted in previous thread about it being invalid on thru-axle measurements, it's also invalid on cross-compatibility. All shimano road drivetrain components are cross compatible if they share the amount of gears https://productinfo.shimano.com/#/com?cid=C-453&acid=C-455. I can replace components on my 2015 11 speed shimano with ones from this year if they are also 11 speed.