skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it actually does, maybe in theory, we would assume these companies would be incentivized to optimize for speed and experience but you can't use "the exception that proves the rule" when the majority would fall into the exception category. There have been countless diatribes about how in B2B the purchaser is not the user, so speed, user experience, and functionality are all at best second order priorities. The apps I name checked above all probably provide the base level required amount of functionality that covers the needs of a lot of large privately held and all publicly held US companies, they are looking for the corp equivalent of Wal-Mart shoppers not Nordstrom shoppers (this dove tails into penny wise/pound foolish quarterly earning mindset, corporate America is dumb AF.)
ya'all are talking non-sense.

someone used the word on my once i think. 'concession'. they made a 'concession' for me. don't think i twisted their arm or anything.

don't like these games these big players play.
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Maybe because he holds incredibly uncompromising views that he defends with much fervor? Sometimes, it appears as if an overeducated child throws tantrums. Mature individuals understand that nothing in the real world is black and white. Even when one holds strong beliefs, it's essential to try and find a compromise. Otherwise, one's rhetoric doesn't differ much from religious fanaticism. Having a fanatic as a leader guarantees to attract haters.
>Reynolds, a British manufacturer known for its bicycle tubing, found that making a steel frame costs 17.5 kg CO2, while a titanium or stainless steel frame costs around 55 kg CO2 per frame – three times as much.

For the uninitiated: that is less than one tank of gas (ca 70 kg CO2) in my Toyota Prius.
I agree with both the sibling comments. However, in my opinion, in a scenario where the customer is not clear about what they want without something in front of them, it is better to create a high fidelity click through design prototype, rather than actual code.

Finally, I'm personally very averse to finalise requirements where the customer is suggesting or dictating UI. Many times, there's a better way to fulfill their requirements by identifying what they want, in textual format, rather than asking them from the UI perspective.
What makes it post-crypto?
$22k worth of plex would last you the rest of your life in free game time.
From what I've observed, moderately priced bikes tend to be more sane in terms of adhering to mainstream component standards. For instance I bought a fairly generic "sporty looking hybrid" in 2006 for which I've had no problems sourcing parts -- although very few parts have been needed. Outside of competitive or off road use, good bike parts are actually quite reliable and last a long time.

Trek, Giant, Specialized, Raleigh, Fuji... Some of these have become "just a brand name" under new ownership.

I also have a bike that I threw together from 40 year old parts, and can still get any replacement that I need from Amazon or eBay. I suspect demand from overseas may be keeping some parts for older bikes available.

I think you can contribute a lot to the lifespan of a bike by learning to do a bit of your own maintenance, so you can spot minor issues before they turn into component failures.
But how can Bitcoin migrate to a new crypto core? I assume that would require some consensus
I think you mean "the JSON standard doesn't define any schema".
If I understand correctly, https://htmx.org/api/#process
Coca-Cola among brands greenwashing over packaging (June, 2022, report)
Soothing.
How to Power an iPhone Without a Battery? The DT880, an Essential Workbench Tool
The problem with any cooperative feels like a human one. Keeping everyone informed and active communicants. People like to forget about things when they're stable.

A coop loses so much value when it just becomes a one email a year affair with "Hey, it's that time to vote for things again!"
What a beautifully organized website. There’s a bit of 90s throwback to it. May I know how this is hosted? Is there a CMS behind it?
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35520178

Which was flagged with 80+ upvotes and buried. Why an article about trade between Ancient Rome and India is front page worthy on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516231), but the largest grocery store in the global hub of the tech industry closing because too many people are robbing it and doing drugs outside the front door, is a mystery to me. But I don't control the algorithms.
> Can it do compression at playback time too

Yes, it has dynamic range control too.
I think to claim either side entirely is inaccurate. Only a Sith deals in absolutes
please don’t link to partisan political bullshit
Is it the real reason though? There was the Walgreens that claimed to close due to crime but later admitted it wasn't just due to crime like they originally claimed.

Gotta be skeptical of this narrative. A lot of crime-hating HNers lap this up.
Background goes black when resizing the window, turning the text near-black on black. Can't select/highlight the text to make it readable either.
In the introduction it says HTTP is TCP but that's not strictly true anymore. I guess originally it is though, and they're going chronologically.
Related:

Multiplayer Deck of Cards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067301 - June 2019 (73 comments)
I've seen this first hand in the pricing strategy of startups I worked with who were selling to enterprise. They might not use the word "concession" but they know what they're doing.
Alpaca-LoRA, and all LoRas, are garbage. Alpaca is horrible compared to newer finetunes. Even cleaning the Alpaca dataset and retraining a cleaned Alpaca improves its performance greatly.

But newer finetunes like Vicuna go well beyond that, including hundreds of thousands of real human conversations with GPT-4 ChatGPT in the dataset (unlike Alpaca's fully synthetic dataset).

Vicuna-13B in 16bit is easily comparable to ChatGPT-3.5 in capability. Newer finetunes coming out nearly every day are going beyond chatGPT-3.5 and getting closer and closer to GPT-4 performance.

You don't even have to install anything to validate this for yourself. There's a live web demo of Vicuna-13B right here: https://chat.lmsys.org/ (disable ad blocker if it does not load)
Surly.
Kind of horrifying to hear ghostscript is being invoked on untrusted inputs via the web... that program must have an endless supply of RCEs if one just looks.
because the source is notorious partisan bullshit vendor and whatever the actual cause of a closing of a random store, you can’t take them at face value. Remember the shoplifting epidemic at CVS which caused them to close stores in SF? Turned out that story was right-wing bullshit. Surprise, surprise.
> What kind of weird brakes do you have on your bike?

Apparently hydraulics, instead of cables. Cf. https://www.bicyclehabitat.com/how-to/disc-brakes-101-pg362....

I have hydraulic brakes on one of my bikes too. They feel great (so accurate and responsive!), but I'm glad I haven't had to get them fixed yet...
I wonder if this is similar to when Walgreens said they shut down their stores because of crime, but that this was actually just a cover reason for poor store performance.

Here's an NYT article on Walgreens admitting as much [1]:

"A Walgreens executive said this week that the company, which cited “organized” shoplifting as a reason to close five stores in San Francisco in October 2021, might have overstated the effect of theft on its business.

“Maybe we cried too much last year,” James Kehoe, the company’s chief financial officer, said during a Walgreens earnings call with investors.

Mr. Kehoe also said that the company had “probably” spent too much on security measures and that it might have mischaracterized how much theft took place in its stores...

The San Francisco Police Department’s data on shoplifting did not support Walgreen’s explanation for the store closings, according to an October 2021 analysis by The San Francisco Chronicle. The analysis said that while not all shoplifting incidents were reported to the police, one of the stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...
When I lived in the ghetto you could go up to a window with bars and ask for something behind the counter. I wonder if they could put all the food behind bulletproof glass with an attendant and have the attendant slide it through a prison style food tray or something? You could prepay using an industrial grade impact resistant point of sale machine on the other side, and stainless steel floors with drains could be used to wipe the grime down daily and make it easy to flush out anyone camping inside.
additionally this history is supported by the Ashoka stamba erected at the historical birth site of the Buddha in Kapilvastu, Nepal as well. you will find though a recently inaugurated Kapilvastu city in India, and one can speculate around why :)
The story seems real no matter where it is plastered; https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/11/business/san-francisco-wh...
Get a 13900 or 7950X and 64 gb of ram. You can run llama 30B and 65B, slowly but surely. Play with that before buying a gpu. If you really, really see yourself getting into this, then go ahead and get a 3090 or 4090. But otherwise get a cheaper nvidia card and wait for things to develop a little more. You can still play with ML and CUDA but you'll have cash left for when 50X0s drop, and that will probably be right around when this stuff will really be getting hot (if the current plateau doesn't hold).

Llama is basically an auto-complete right now. We're celebrating baby's first steps. It's not really worth the $600-1000 jump up from cards that can run all current games 4k60.
Of course it was, but it wasn't controlled by the Romans, so it features less in European history.
Lying Fallow: Masud Khan on Salve for the Age of Productivity and Distraction
Just by not showing random posts which the algorithm decides I should see on my timeline itself makes Mastodon leagues better than Twitter.

I've been interacting with only couple of people whom I follow and vice versa for past several months I've been on Mastodon and I feel great about it. I'm convinced that federated instances are the solution to the social media problems just by strong focus on the theme and inherent limit to scaling without any pressure from VCs.

P.S. Please consider donating to your Mastodon instance.
I don't know (US?) Copyright law in any detail, or any copyright law beyond reading debates about GPL and other licences (IANAL).

but wouldn't the fact that you have successfully passed off this fiction as fact for 16 years count against you in court? In a related point, do you have to assert copyright (like trademarks) to retain your rights? Have you done this with other users of your work? If not, then your failure to assert copyright previously may count against you.
What are you doing personally to care for and help the hungry? Please share so that others may get involved.
Probably the best and simplest indicator is to look for 8 or 9 speed on the back wheel, or a premium rear gearbox like a rohloff, or either a 3 or 5 speed sun gearbox like a sturmey archer or shimano 3 speed.

Brands will vary both in servicability between models and which hrands are available.

Avoid any integrated electric parts that the frame is builtaround (but a bolt on motor and battery is fine whether the motor is fitted to the wheel or pedals).
Man those horrible yuppies on HN who hate crime
Is your typical answer to any criticism of an open-source project: "You don't like it? Fork it and build your own!"?

It's like a child who flips the board when they don't like being told, "That's not how this game is played..."
It's good to sometimes get out of your bubble, dude.
Oh it's just partisan political bullshit you say? Enjoy your low crime rate in SF then. Just the other day Bob Lee got stabbed to death near SoMa but oh no it's just the repubs spinning the news for their gain!
Paul Theroux reflects on the evolving nature of rail travel
"Increased drug use and crime near the Whole Foods on Eighth and Market, which opened just one year ago, contributed to the store’s closing"

First of all, what a dead stupid place to open a Whole Foods. Second, drug use isn't causing any problems. Actual crime, the kind with victims, is surely a huge problem. But ingesting drugs doesn't cause problems automatically. Forcing people to engage with the black market, and buy impure drugs, and do them on the street? Yeah, that can cause problems. But the simple act of getting intoxicated is not the problem that needs solving. That will always happen. Th problem is how mind-bogglingly stupid we are with how we deal with this fact.
Regrettably, by posting your work on Wikipedia, you relinquished your copyright claim.
Ask HN: How Would You Raise a Child?
Given you had unlimited resources (including money) & if you had an abundance of free time how would you raise a child to give it the best chance as success & fulfilment in life.

What gender & why? Would you do anything to prepare like research any topics? Would adjust your diet/ health before you conceive to yield better genetics? What would be your preferred age of parenthood?
> Huh. TIL. The (Hindu) woman who taught me a few Indian recipes told me that the spices in garam masala were always pre-roasted, with the exception of the nutmeg.

> Maybe it's a regional thing?

It's regional insofar as the exact constituents of garam masala are regional - nutmeg, for example, is a pretty regional one and not super widespread.

It can be roasted, raw, or ground, depending on which stage you're using it in.
Ask HN: What if there was a non profit version of Twitter?
Curious to know what people think of the idea of a not-for-profit version of Twitter. Obviously the technology is not difficult to replicate and there are many competing companies attempting to build a version of Twitter ala substack notes but we rarely see anything that's for the public good.

Edit: Should note people are bringing up similar issues around moderation, hate speech, etc. Potentially solution would be to operate it much like a community run forum that self moderates and provides tools to do that?
I used to like the pentel sharp kerry but I've had two with feed issues so I can't recommend them. I don't consider them last forever. If you use them a lot, maybe 2 years or so. I still own one but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to someone who uses it a lot.

I do most graphite stuff with 2mm lead holders these days - I've never had a lead holder break, ever. Staedtler standard is like $8 but I find the metal grip part less than comfortable for hours of usage. I tend to put a silly grip softener thing on them. I use the Mutsibishi DPS6001P to sharpen them - some people love that rotary style of sharpeners for them but I hate the rotary ones. for art purposes I also have 2mm in many many lead softnesses and even a few different colours.

I use my tombow fudenosukes for brush like techniques for inking. I'll have to keep an eye out for a uni-pin and try it.

the tombow monos are great for art. I get really annoyed dealing with kneaded erasers and sometimes having a thin eraser to just soften or erase a small area is great compared to trying to shape a kneaded eraser. the refills are pricey for the limited amount of eraser you get, though.

I dont use gel pens at all so not familiar with those. I have some fountain pens but I feel like its not worth the hassle most of the time.

The uni ball vision needle is just uni-ball's version of the classic pilot hitechpoint, which is my go-to technical pen for many activities. I checked and I have some of these visions - I prefer the hi-tecpoints but that might be some internal preference because I've used them for many years.

I've got a set of copic multiliners but I only use those for inking art. I like the pilot fineliners for writing every day stuff.
Sad thing is that unlike China, Mexico did not and maybe also will not have local IP, brand and/or tech moats. People were laughing over Chinese auto, electronics and shanzhai products a decade ago. Yet today they have CATL, BYD, Huawei among others.
I think it was this one, The Virtual Reality Construction Kit by Gradecki. The cover looks very familiar!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3165591-the-virtual-real...
Took me a while to find, but yes, the most notable version of this attack was the $182 million one on Beanstalk, about a year ago, where someone used a flash loan (meaning, access to nearly unlimited money as long as you pay it back in the block) to add new assets, issuing themselves a majority of shares, which they then used to vote themselves the project's assets, then redeemed their shares, pulled the assets out, and repaid the loan.

web3isgoinggreat account with sources: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=beanstalk-farms-stablecoin-...
if you believe insurance companies have miscalculated their risk models, perhaps there is a massive business opportunity to undercut them then.
hard. https://i.imgur.com/ZNNU95P.png
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Venice became rich mostly on the spice trade much earlier than this[1].

But it is true that demand for these spices drove exploration. But the 1600s was too early for colonialism in most areas where the spice trade was vibrant until another 150 years.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/spice-trade-pepper-ven...
I used to live in Trinity Place. It was surrounded by ground zero tenderloin zombies. I can’t imagine why the dipshits at Whole Foods decided opening a “flagship” store there was a smart idea?
I've had a dermatologist look up my symptoms on Google in front of me...
The Kushan Empire (of the Yuezhi) that had Greek language administration and a Saivite ruler fascinate me. Perhaps syncretic kingdoms were common in those days. Crazy to imagine, I can't say I expected that.

Past thalassocracies and syncretic empires just really challenge my default worldview.
Wow, super neat. This is going to be installed in every available ios/android device
The comments during the Walgreens investor call referred to the nationwide total and not specific to SF. There are stats specific to SF stores showing them to be a lot worse than other stores. These were presented at SF City Hall.
You're a generation behind. Those things all happened and now people are fighting to regain the right for humans to occupy outdoor space.
additional point of reference I don't know shit about ML or stats, and am a very weak programmer. I just know how to install programs on linux and use CLI in a basic fashion. I have had no problem getting llama.cpp going by following ggerganov's readme.
yeah, LOL on that. Their idea of "public benefit" is of course that they benefit publicly, though for marketing purposes "public benefit" sounds nicer (just like the "Open" in "ClosedAI") because people would tend to emotionally associate something nicer with it.

Reminds me of the (possibly LLM-generated) marketing tirade of a voice faking text-to-speech service recently here on hn, which ended with: "We are thrilled to be sharing our new model, and look forward to feedback!":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35328698

… "share" yeah right… like: where can I download the model then? Of course they didn't mean to actually share their model but only to rent out remote access to it, but that doesn't sound as nice as "share".
having visitors
I think some of their numbers are a bit misleading. The paper that calculates the CO2 usage of e-cargo bike vs e-van compares a huge 4-wheeled electric cargo "bike" (sum-x) with the smallest van they could find (nissan e-nv).

The kinds of cargo bikes that people get for home use are much smaller and presumably use a lot less CO2 than the commercial transporter with pedals they looked at in the paper.
Grown in popularity is not really a metric. A normal tuesday and the day half the company's staffers got fired aren't going to be the same in popularity. Doesn't mean one is better. Twitter is definitely more popular for all the mess they've made, yes.

The "narrative" was right. There are actual outages now unlike earlier. It's not like twitter engineers were holding up the servers to the light for there to be outages the moment they're gone. Systems run on their own just fine, until something does go wrong. And if there's nobody there to fix it, something usually small blows up. Enough of these and users start to notice degraded performance and outages.
it's not really that either. it's a misoptimization. where you are optimizing the wrong part. which is why premature optimization is bad, because you are wasting your time optimizing something that doesn't matter.

hyper optimizing something implies all low hanging fruit has been picked.
Really really want to clarify I was in no way implying a psychiatric issue. Just that anything which turns up the sensitivity of our perception also turns up our false positive rate. Everyone experiences false positives sometimes: occasional, temporary, erroneous perceptions. Its only psychiatric when the signal to noise ratio is too low to correct.

Very interested in the ultra low frequency bit. Any estimate at how many hertz it was? Somewhere under 20 hz it has to stop being sound and start being a consciously perceptible "puff of air".
We already have the human level and people seem unconvinced. And it's been shown to be safe as far as existential risk.

The easily convincing argument for me is imagining the planet populated by aliens that move extremely slowly. This makes more sense when it's closer to 1/100th speed. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...

Although having actually read that, it's not convincing in this context because the AI in the story is already fantastically performant.
You mean like the Amber alert?
Uhm, I think it is fairly normal to not like crime.
What the World of Psychology Gets Wrong About Men
The ones that get in your way!
Who is making said hardware?
I read the Water Knife on an HN recommendation and I can't say I agree. I like Sci Fi in general, so it was an easy sell. Even then it didn't win me over. I'd characterize the writing as amateurish. Lots of problems with uneven pacing (novels grinds on and on in the beginning where nothing much happens and then an insane dash to the denouement) and half baked character development (the main character is classic ruthless thug who grows a heart, but his shift is pretty abrupt and under-developed). I find that serious flaws like that can be carried by good worldbuilding (For example Altered Carbon) but it didn't do very well there either. Some interesting ideas like the arcologies, but all pretty generic post-apocalypse dystopia stuff. The one thing the novel does well is provide a basic explanation of the rules of water rights and water management but that's definitely not enough to redeem it.

I also read Cadillac Desert after reading The Water Knife, and I enjoyed it much more. It's a pretty wide ranging book but does a nice job of weaving together all context it builds up. The one criticism that I have is that it seems pretty alarmist. The author stops just short of predicting impending collapse but the book was written in 1986 and we're just now getting to a crisis level after a historical drought.