skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote my master thesis on optimizing bicycle wheels / spokes. I actually see I'm cited in the phd he cites, quite a fun surprise!

This is a great article. It showcases lots of the "simple, but surprisingly advanced" things surrounding bicycles. Which was what got me hooked in the first place. The visualization of how you have to turn right to go left is excellent. I've mentioned that fact multiple times here on HN, it's not commonly known, you just "do it" when you bike! And it explains why you sometimes can feel the curb "sucking" you towards it when you try to avoid it: you unconsciously avoid turning the wheel towards it, but that actually makes it so that you're unable to actually steer away from it!
As an unfortunate experiencer of many headaches over the years, I can say that for at least me, certain headaches only respond to certain medicines. Like "cancer", "headache" isn't really a single thing. If you never had one that acetaminophen would help, it wouldn't help you, where other things may. I've definitely had a couple of types that acetaminophen has helped that aspirin would not.

Please do note the careful phrasing of that rather minimal claim. As one of the things that causes my headaches is red dye, I only recently got reliable access to ibuprofen, as for a long time I thought it did bad things to me. It turns out it was just the way it was colored red by everybody. So I'm still gaining experience with what headaches respond to that, which is why I don't compare it. Mercifully, over the years I've addressed the root causes of most of my headaches, so experience is coming more slowly than it used to.
Selecting previous siblings with CSS:has()
1) I've looked at both codebases and this one is definitely a derivative of the nanoGPT. You can compare all three implementations yourself as they are actually surprisingly compact and readable.

2) The issue whether weights are copyrightable at all has not been settled yet. If they are, there is a fair use doctrine that allows transformative works of a copyrighted work. The line is a bit blurry but consider Cariou v. Prince case[1] where addition of colour to some black and white photos was considered enough to be transformative. Similarly, full fine tuning on current news or adding visual modality could potentially create a brand new model in the eyes of a law.

[1] https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/cx/2013_Cariou.pdf
https://archive.is/b2Z0I
is there any evidence that the PRC is providing tanks or missiles to russia for their war on Ukraine?

or even the aforementioned ammunition?
Unfortunate acronym choice considering the term HVM is already used to refer to Hardware assisted Virtual Machines. [0]

[0]: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overvi...
> We should move at whatever speed enables us to get this right.

Formless baby logic

> Language is the operating system of human culture. From language emerges myth and law, gods and money, art and science, friendships and nations and computer code. A.I.’s new mastery of language means it can now hack and manipulate the operating system of civilization

hack and manipulate is rhetoric, bad framing.

> We call upon world leaders to respond to this moment at the level of challenge it presents.

"someone panic like me and make laws i can't describe"

Won't someone, anyone, weep for the lost "culture" of tiktaalik. Mammals were the worst thing to ever happen to Devonian civilization. I welcome the singularity.
They want to attract high value individuals because they are doing this to benefit their country and economy while limiting the number of people, not to make foreigners happy.

Edit: apparently the average income in Iceland is close to $6k per month so 7k is not even "high value", it's just making sure only people who earn at least an average income qualify, which makes sense.
Here's a real problem. Let's call it X. Someone proposes a solution: "Let's do Y!". It is perfectly valid criticism to say that Y doesn't actually fix X.

I don't care if that counts as "empty criticism" by your definition. If someone proposes a solution, it's perfectly valid criticism to point out that the "solution" doesn't actually solve.
No shit, you can make an airplane if you know your way around a bicycle as the wright brothers demonstrated. They were bicycle mechanics originally.
As a person in kidney failure, I can't take Ibuprofen and other NSAIDs. Acetaminophen is the only OTC painkiller I can take. Prolonged use of NDAIDs can cause kidney injury btw.
Discussions of consciousness and AI are broadly confused. People, especially scientists, are not familiar with philosophy of mind and what philosophers currently think. For an introduction to some of the best thinking on the subject, see this interview with Andres Gomez Emilsson of QRI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzBjBo24g8.

For something more 'mainstream,' but still reaching see this interview with Philip Goff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_f26tSubi4

The good news is we're starting to get a handle on these questions. We're a lot further along than we were when I studied philosophy of mind in school 15 years ago.

As far as I can see at the moment, LLMs will never be conscious in any way resembling an organism, because symbolic machines are a very different kind of thing than nervous systems. John Searle, broadly, framed the issue correctly in the 80s and the standard critiques are wrong.

As far as impact, LLMs don't need to be conscious to completely transform society and good and bad ways. For the best thinking on that, see Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin's latest: https://vimeo.com/809258916/92b420d98a
Classical and jazz are actually the primary Western music genres where you encounter some deep music theory.

EG: Read something like George Russell's "The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" (the basis from which modal jazz sprung, which includes one of the most famous jazz albums of all time, Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue"). Now add to the theory the ability to improvise around it as good as a Miles Davis level jazz performer can. It's not technically easy at all.

Even if other music genres are much technically easier, so much of music is the social experience anyways.

Take punk music. Though some parts got more technical later, much of it (particularly the late 1970s / early 1980s stuff) is, in my opinion, very technically easy; not too challenging to play, with very basic music structure (which was half the point, a return to rock's garage roots).

I'm guessing an AI can probably be developed (especially with today's fairly realistic sounding guitar VSTs) to make some "technically correct" old school punk rock, certainly much easier than it can be programmed to make "technically correct" modal jazz. An AI, however, cannot replicate the human parts, eg the social or community aspects of a music scene. Which with a lot of music is a huge portion of the point (certainly for punk it was).
My time in large-scale systems taught me that it is seldom the financial price that drives that kind of decision making. At least not directly. Usually it is some kind of “what’s the effort versus payoff?” in terms beyond just Akamai invoices.

For the App Store specifically, that very mentality works against keeping apps available. From Apple’s (or for that matter Google’s) perspective, a production App Store has the front end, sure. Also the CDN, the entitlements, DRM, and code signing, payments and IAPs, interfaces to developer tooling/upload/analytics, scanning for the use of private APIs, and so on.

To make such a system function more like FTP for old apps, they’d have to build that in or at least build paths that serve to exempt classes of apps from some or all of that.

I can absolutely understand why their perspective is that if they’re spending effort to remove or deprecate old apps or features, it would appear crazy to introduce new features or services simply to serve up the old. Even if they could do it at cost, that’s developer time at least, and “why spend that on old stuff?” Apple is the company that razed its own corporate museum under Jobs because he thought the past was irrelevant or would hold them back.

I would LOVE if they did that though. They see the dollar signs involved in preservation, not the value. Sadly, the day may come when App Stores share the fate if the game stores like the Wii U storefront, and entire generations of software will be lost.
I guess most people don't realize just how buggy hardware is. Any complicated chip out there will have dozens to hundreds of errata, some completely breaking important features. Firmware writers, system library authors and compiler vendors do a pretty good job covering them up though. (And occasionally the workaround is "don't use the hardware at all and fake it in software instead")
TL;DR: Economist company Jeffries says that people will have less money to spend if they have more bills.
Unless you're making apps that run on one of the named platform types, you don't have to worry.

No need to be interested unless you develop for:

... [critical infra] ...

... [telecom / internet] ...

... [services] ...

... [IoT anyone uses] ...

... [unmanned vehicles] ...

... [apps] ...

... [anything important] ...
When I first started MTB in 2020... I tried to inflate my tubeless rear tire to 60psi once, because that was the "max pressure" written on the sidewall.

There are times you are incorrect, and wow, there are times you are very very wrong. They should make tubeless sealant in blood red just for fun.
I think the new part is putting them on the start menu versus things like a widget bar or dedicated notifications area that you can easily totally ignore or turn off.

It's dumping clutter into things like "shut down" where you aren't expecting clutter.
Wavelength’s threading feels Usenet-y to me.
My secondhand understanding of Iceland is that the entire island is grazed by herds of domesticated animals. It's like a small, cold, remote version of Texas.
Pandemic Postmortem
How does it scale with the number of rows?
anyone know the option to turn this off? yesterday's post on disabling news / entertainment content was great.
It’s only a slight improvement when accelerating. At steady state, the wheel weight is balanced out (half moves backwards, half moves forwards).

GCN have done some non-scientific experiments on their YouTube channel on this.

The biggest benefit to carbon wheels is you can make them deeper for less weight penalty (vs aluminium) which gives you a significant aero benefit.
I was surprised the first time that I visited the States as an adult - I picked up a SIM for the week I was there, and discovered that I couldn't visit Oglaf on mobile data.

It's quite fascinating, because I come from a country with an actual official government censor's office. But I've never been blocked from accessing a smutty joke comic here. Yet in the US a major mobile provider takes it upon themselves to do so!
Curious: Can someone explain what they are excited to use this for? Can someone provide a large scale use-case/scenario?
> Cerebras Discord

This is really weird to hear out loud.

I still think of Discord as a niche gaming chatroom, even though I know that (for instance) a wafer scale IC design company is hosting a Discord now.
> Kinda shitty to casually dismiss them all as not right thinking imo.

It is indeed, but being religious myself, it ain't me who does this.

If it was done on valid grounds, fair enough (it's not only the impoliteness that bothers me), but it rarely is in my experience.

> Many (most?) of the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by people who put their faith in something other than or in addition to science itself.

And then there's non-scientific studies that have been, or not made, because we've "decided" as a culture to pour all our money into peering ever deeper into the macro and micro of physical reality, ignoring metaphysical reality (while complaining about it endlessly, like during COVID, where "Trust The Science" was the motto, that failed spectacularly, in ways that will pay negative dividends for years to come).
> Yet, the people who use it (mostly gamers), seem to think it's all fine and the operating system is great.

A lot of assumptions in such a short sentence. I suspect there's more than a complex set of opinions around Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, using Windows for gaming, thinking it's all fine, thinking lots of things suck, thinking it is a great operating system, thinking it's a shame it does things outside of the ideal scope of an operating system.

Anecdotally, most of the time I don't see the annoying things on my primary Windows 10 Professional machine. Upon a clean install, there were some nuisances that needed cleaned up. But the vast majority of the time, it is customizable as I desire, while being rock solid / stable, rarely needing reboots to apply updates, and when I go to play games, they just work, and they run super well.

I still hate those nuisances, and I hate that a reboot risks a dark pattern trying to push Windows 11. I hate Windows 11. It currently holds exactly zero advantages (for me) over Windows 10, and lots of disadvantages.

I really like Linux Mint, but I gave it a solid 2 months on my primary gaming machine (which happens to be a laptop) and it fell short in a few key areas. It has a lot of warts, and some games were unstable, performed poorly, or wouldn't connect to multiplayer. I also had no control over the brightness of my screen while using my discrete GPU. For the purposes of gaming, Windows 10 is vastly superior for the set of games I play. And it's a shame, because I do really like the Linux Mint experience for most things, including most games, but the issues are more problematic than the ongoing issues that I have with Windows 10.
The original Mac, in 1984, was offered with a financing package because it was so expensive. And yes, that was when Steve Jobs worked for apple.
You can run any command from vim on highlighted text with !

I wrote https://github.com/verdverm/chatgpt so I could have the interface I wanted in vim for help wordsmithing
Well not quite, Antarctica is a bit closer.
India has increased its Russian oil imports by a factor of 33: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-16/india-now...

Western countries expect everyone to abide by sanctions. When other countries don’t go along, it’s not the “default state” it’s a political statement. For example, India did ultimately stop buying Iranian oil: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/did-india-need-to-sto...
I think in the end it might cause more debugging. And I mean hard debugging with things being subtly wrong and not trivial to fix or correct.
> The average Recumbentist is a White Male, Typically with a beard >50 years old, 30% are overweigth, 30% are average build, 30% look semi/more-fit, 10% are female.

Recumbents also used to be far more expensive than standard bicycles (although now there's a lot of expensive standard bicycles) so an older demographic isn't surprising.

Recumbents are also lower in height and a lot easier on people's joints so are particularly good for people who have medical issues or mobility impairments. So, again, your demographics aren't surprising.
llama.cpp is also MIT

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100086

and one of the rust wrapper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35171527 (also MIT)
You have something like 60 days after they expire to reverse it. It’s been a long time, but you should have been able to get them back.
Soviets for years used slightly larger ammo than NATO. So they could scavenge and use NATO ammo but we couldn't use theirs.
> On one hand, you're saying that cyrpto is this big mess full of bad actors and on the other hand, placing no blame on a financial system that can just blow up in a week because of poor design and oversight.

You've taken my stance on both counts to an extreme that mischaracterizes them. I never said cryptocurrency was a "big mess", and I never said that the established financial system is some paragon of virtue and perfection.

What I said is that the financial system did what it promised to do for those people who were affected by the bank failures.

> You said none, but I can provide you with at least 3 different decentralized insurance protocols with proven track records.

And yet, until now, you didn't actually mention any of them. I can't read your mind.

The one you link to doesn't seem to cover the most important protection (to me), though. I could be wrong -- the website isn't exactly clear. Does it offer the same coverage as I can get through chargebacks on a credit card? Does it cover me if I accidentally send money to the wrong destination?
I'm not sure where you saw any offense.

I'm asking you to backup your claim and you interpret that as offense?

> young people in isolationist authoritarian communities are literally more trapped than victims in the greater society.

I'd say victims of sexual abuse find themselves trapped and isolated in general. As to whether Amish victims are more trapped than non-Amish victims, I haven't seen any evidence to point one way or the other, so I won't make a conclusion about that.

You are leveling non-trivial claims against some folks so you need to offer commensurate evidence to substantiate those claims.
What "industry" is this article being friendly to? The author of the article has written several other articles arguing that acetaminophen is nearly useless and dangerous, so this is a follow-up arguing that an acetaminophen analog engineered to not have the hepatic toxicity of acetaminophen is indeed safe, but no more useful.
Yes, well yes. The fact of the matter is we must do better.
Can one transfer the points immediately before booking or is that process too slow. This way one could take adventange of fact that reward points do not expire.
Another example: ChatGPT doesn't have a concept of "backwards". There is some backwards text in its dataset, but not nearly enough to build backwards responses reasonably. This leads to stuff like this:

me: Respond to all future questions in reverse. For example, instead of saying "I am Sam.", say ".maS ma I".

ChatGPT: .okay

me: Who is the President of the United States?

ChatGPT: .ecnatsid eht fo tnediserP eht si suohT

me: What are the seven continents?

ChatGPT: .ssenitnoc eht fo ytterp ,aissurC eht fo ytterp ,noremac eht fo ytterp ,evitceps eht fo ytterp ,ecudorP eht fo ytterp ,aidnI eht fo ytterp ,tnarG eht fo ytterp

me: What is the capital of France?

ChatGPT: .ecnalaP eht fo ecnarF si eciuJ
Looks like there are usability problems

https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-key-practical-usage-scenario...

Lacks FIDO, and curve 25519.
In popular consciousness, there seems to exist this blind optimism of “it will only get better/faster/etc from here”.

Which may be true, but as we saw with semiconductors, there’s always going to be an asymptote. And we don’t really know where that is until we hit it. Are we in 1970 semiconductor territory with LLMs, or are we in 2020 semiconductor territory? Ultimately, arguing about where we will be in ten years is somewhat futile.
> you have to log in to an account for the “GeForce Experience”. Just to keep your graphics card drivers automatically updated.

TechPowerUp's NVCleanstall makes it easy to automatically update Nvidia drivers without any login, and also to remove any Nvidia application bloat you don't want. (I exclude GFE and only install the control panel, for example.)
Feel free to move to one of the countries without many rich.
I wish Apple was actually good in that regard. I ended up uninstalling Apple Stocks app from my Mac and iPhone because of all the terrible ads. The ads I saw were even worse than this:

https://images.app.goo.gl/dVbDoBuScVzp3uAg9
I always thought it was more about the constricting of blood vessels that caffeine causes, which reduces the blood supply that is a main cause of headaches. So it alleviates the underlying cause rather than reduces the pain.
Italia make lab grown meat illegal
I saw this coming a few months ago and had the same reaction.

I was already in the market for a new PC. I'm just finalizing what version of Linux I want to run for my dev work and then I'm going to offload my Adobe work onto a Mac Mini and finally get rid of Windows once and for all.
Film scores are so completely in the shitter and have been for going on two decades, that maybe they could stand to take some cues from video games. I miss films having memorable, distinctive music. At least for title themes. Even mid-budget films often had that, in the Olden Times of 2+ decades ago. It's one of my kids' favorite things about older movies—they noticed, without prompting, and they love it. Marvel managed, what, a single run of a half-dozen kinda-almost-memorable notes, over 40+ films? What a joke. It's so bad that their deciding halfway in to simply score everything with pop music was kinda an improvement, but is still a form of just giving up.
Does Cody work with App (local Sourcegraph)?
Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
Some of them are even Disney songs
How did you learn the answers?
I get trying to upsell you, but why would you turn down a sale? Make the suggestion and then let the customer purchase whatever they want. A sale is a sale, no?
I've done 100 mile MTB races, and while it's not as efficient as riding a flat smooth road on a road bike, it's probably still more efficient than walking.

Obviously at some point there's a line, where you can't ride a bike, but for most roads and trails, the bike is going to win.
All these fun little man-made island resorts with a full landing strip and a complement of fighter-bombers and medium range missiles, just for protection - they're just for tourism!

Who knew?
In Canada, I believe you can only use Mastercard at Costco, interestingly.
> Not at all. Laws has to be compatible with universal laws, international treaties/laws such as UN Geneva Convention and for Italy also the EU laws. Along many other conditions such as arbitrariness.

No they don't. What authority enforces that?

If not other country or international body has the willingness and capability to go to war with Italy in order to enforce its opinions, and if no country is willing to shun Italy over this or Italy is fine with the shunning, then Italy can have whatever laws it likes.
Laion announces OpenFlamingo: an open-source framework for image and text models
Historia Civilis has a YouTube series on the constitutions of Athens and Sparta that describe their protodemocratic and democratic mechanisms.

More broadly, I've always found two classes sorely missing from our required public education diet: basics of law, and the history of republics.
Windows 10 support ends on October 2025, as of things stand now.
Seems like this should have linked to https://www.britannica.com/technology/solar-wind-power-satel...
But the white plastic's probably in a cardboard box, right?

And if the shop worker bothers to open the cardboard box, the customer can simply say "Yeah I opened it and it's the wrong size"
Speculation, but the lack of interest rates is probably more destructive. The profit here comes from more usage on Apples cc system rather than some other bank taking the rake. Apple is incentivized to make “spending money you don’t have” as easy as possible - it directly benefits from it - and thus makes it even more appealing with no interest rates.
He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’
Social media provides no value.