skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a small loss possible due to tires slipping a bit, also higher rolling resistance due to usually wider and less smooth tires. The grade needs to get steeper than 10% on pavement or off for the weight penalty of a bicycle to count against the rider versus the efficiency, depending upon the weight of the bicycle+rider. If you look at the times of guys in the Tour de France for climbs up mountains the fastest can do a four minute mile on the uphill parts, here's last years winner on a 10 mile climb
https://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/a44465449/tour-de-f...
For reference if a marathon runner could go that fast I believe they would run a 1:45 marathon - up a mountain. The top end cross country mountain bikes weigh about 6-10 pounds more than the bikes the road professionals are using.
No, I meant just a usual gateway.

I thought a gateway would work for that purpose.

Are you sure it wouldn't? In that case there's no defending against ddos.
he did a bait and switch on the usa gov just like your phone company do with poor people all the time. have at low initial subscription cost for the first month then pointed out at auto renewal the real astronomical price, and is now swimming in money.

"had no obligation" give me a break. this was the ideal profit scenario
I love how Microsoft and Apple have the diametric opposite attitude to supporting their customers.

Apple: "It just works"

Microsoft: "It used to just work, but we put a stop to that. Here's a knowledge base article with fifteen easy-to-follow steps for working around the problem we just caused. Step 13 is permanently broken.[1] Here's a public forum where you can complain to other users. We regularly bulk delete comments from that forum."

[1] E.g.: Like the Dolby Vision app which worked for about two weeks and then never again: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/dolby-vis...
This is exactly how I see it. And when kids grow up having their whole life being tracked, they'll have no problem as adults when Uncle Google or some other entity knows everything about them 24/7.

To be fair, Google's already achieved that with most adults.
It's weird that this infection makes one more risk-embracing and "likely to disregard rules," but the subjects score higher in the apprehension factor. Doesn't that mean they are somehow becoming adventurous worrywarts? (Or did I misunderstand something here).
> precipitation-free bicycling weather

I cycled daily as a commuter when I lived in Atlanta. You wear a jacket and overpants. It’s just not that big a deal.

Portland is widely known for its cycling culture, and it rains all the time.
>It takes 5 minutes to configure

Is that because you have 18 years of experience, or would it be as easy for a new developer?
Its amazing that Amazon has gotten away with this for so long without being hammered with antitrust violations.

The idea that a marketplace could turn around and sell their own products that directly compete with third party sellers is insane. Come to think of it, I assume Walmart would fall into this problem as well.
>> I have never been accused of overparenting

Just FYI, this expression is a form of stylized understatement and not meant to be taken literally.
xLSTM has a working memory and seems to outperform transformer architectures: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517
Don’t tell me “fork” and “four” are related.

Did my homework:
“Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca ).”

Four in Latin is quattuor. Scared me there.
Asking how many neurons are needed before we “get” a consciousness is a bit like asking how many people are needed before we have a country.

The assumption that you obtain a human consciousness by using human neurons is itself flawed—physics does not say it works that way, and theory of mind philosophers are divided on the matter.
Call it a draw? Seems flat for the past 4 years on the average. I'm glad that someone is getting better than 3% yearly raises.
Why EBS and not the decoupled storage that this does?
Congrats on the sale, and on your wife expecting! Been following you for a few years, and glad to see you got a decent exit and have some nice life events to look forward to this year.

Fascinating that you had such a poor experience with FEI, but good to hear Quiet Light was a better fit. I also thought about potentially selling my business a while ago, and the broker, while nice, was just not interested in conducting anything more than a commodity transaction. So obviously we paused, but good for folks to know this is quite common, and if you're selling, always make sure your broker is aligned with you, otherwise find another.

I also want to point out, for posterity, that the HN commenters are often amazingly confidently wrong in their strong assertions. For Michael's 2023 retrospective post which got shared here, someone blithely wrote off TinyPilot as being worth "close to zero"[0]. Obviously that was not the case then, and this deal shows it.

Congrats Michael! All the best with next steps.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401974
There are two reasons this often results in a market failure.

One is when the market is too concentrated. So e.g. when substantially all of the SoCs in smartphones are made by just three companies, none of them have to provide adequate drivers or documentation unless the others do, and then their devices become e-waste as soon as they themselves stop updating the binary blob drivers for newer kernel versions, because the kernels the old blobs are compatible with have published security vulnerabilities. A better solution to this would be to break them up / stop letting them buy each other, but state-level governments have little ability to break up multi-national corporations and national governments have failed to do it, so here we are.

The other is when the rule is to protect customers other than the original purchaser. In many of these markets one customer buys the product new, with a warranty, and then sells it to someone else when the warranty expires. The original customer doesn't care about repairability because all their repairs will be under warranty, and may not even care much about resale value because they're affluent, so the OEM can sell them a device that isn't repairable. But that screws the customers in the second-hand market who need to make out-of-warranty repairs, and it's those who the law is trying to protect.
Apple has its own unnecessary hurdles. Mostly around requiring xcode, which requires a mac.

But yeah, both stores need to be forcefully opened. They're sitting on their laurels inside their moats.
They’ll have to leave the phone too
Oh jeez. I'm so glad i had none of this goofy tracking gump growing up.

If teenage me had something that tracked every location, and I knew it, and my friends had them on too, I'd probably miss out on a lot of stuff I cherish.

I had time limits, and a hard immovable low budget that made a lot of the bad stuff impossible. The rest was up to us to figure out and learn and improvise as we go. I'm better for those learnings.

Having said that, I'm not in this teenage parenting position today and so I have no idea what I'm going to do when i'm in that spot.
There are many extensions that hook up to Ollama: Continue, Twinny, Privy being a few
Does it come with a gold plated audiophile quality cable i can use to tap my reticule? i don't know what any of that means, but i really, really want to feel like a big shot movie director. Where do i send my money? Is it okay if i tell people i work for HBO or Netflix while sticking an iPhony in their face, or should i tell them i am an influencer.
I just have the right config for both Apache2 and nginx from hundreds of sites. The config itself is only 50 lines. You can find a good one and stick with it.
Yes, because spouses are adults. But kids being constantly tracked is absolutely scary. Do you really think it's healthy that kids grow up always being watched, constantly monitored by their primary authority figures?
This is flat out not true. Your health insurance is paid by your employer, and it's not at all cheap. If you were self-employed, you would be paying for your own health insurance. This is de facto the same system as in the US, except it's a criminal offence not to purchase insurance.

In the next-door Czech Republic, it's even mandatory to buy health insurance if you're unemployed, unless you go and register with the 'Ministry of Labour' (which requires you to spend inordinate amounts of time jumping through insane bureaucratic hoops, and is ultimately time limited). Consider for a moment the effect of these laws on people with mental health issues, the homeless, and itinerant minorities like the Roma.

Had a tough year out on the streets, but now getting back up on your feet? Congratulations, here's your back-debt for the 'public' health insurance you failed to purchase, you criminal. Want to take a few months off between jobs? Gotta go down, in person, to your local health insurance office to purchase yourself some public health insurance. Want to start a new business, but haven't made a profit yet? No worries, here's your 'minimum rate' of mandatory health insurance - prepare to shell out several thousand euros a year and spend time every quarter filing paperwork with the government health insurance bureau.

There are excellent public health care systems out there (e.g. Australia, and probably the Nordic countries) but much of continental Europe has truly terrible ones. And that's before you even discuss the difficulty of securing a doctor, or the actual quality of medical care received.
SSD Data Retention
"harnessing the environmental friendliness and low cost of wood in space development."

The Poe's law is strong with this one!
Neat stuff. AWS threw in the towel with their serverless PG (Aurora v2 can no longer scale to zero).
You have no idea what you’re talking about. There’s a huge learning gap between this and a modern consumer CPU. Assembling together logic gates and understanding a simple RISC-V implementation is literally almost nothing when compared to the years you’d have to spend intensively learning just so you could get to the level of being able to design a Pentium 4 from scratch.
Are you sure it's your network connection, and not just the browser? Maybe something zencastr is doing is triggering a bug in the browser that somehow affects other tabs, or the browser's underlying networking code? (This may seem unlikely with the multi-process architecture Chrome and Firefox use, but who knows.)

Try doing internet-related things outside the browser, in order to rule that out. Use curl or wget from a terminal, for example. Try a different browser while this is happening. Hell, try a different browser in general and see if the same issue gets triggered with the different browser.

It's also possible that some traffic pattern that happens to occur on zencaster is triggering a bug in your router's network stack. If that's the case, it would (probably) affect other devices on the network, too, like another computer or phone.
In layperson's terms, what is the difference between a "reverse proxy" and a "web server"?
An 8 year old doesn't really have a fully developed mind. You can often talk with them that jumping out of the tree will likely break their arm, but chances are when you're not looking they're still going to jump.

Little kids often struggle understanding and remembering consequences, especially of really big complex ideas.

There's a reason why we don't just let 12 year olds drive.
A Simple Web Server (2016)
Ticketmaster Hack: Data of Half a Billion Users Up for Ransom
If I understand the top-poster's issue correctly:

https://frankenphp.dev/docs/

docker run -v $PWD:/app/public \
-p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp \
dunglas/frankenphp

This mounts the current working directory into "public". Meaning, all .git, .env etc. will be publicly accessible.

Better form would be to mount a $PWD/src directory instead. The documentation needs to be updated better for newbies. Generally ill-advised. Documentation just needs better updating or warnings. Very dangerous to inexperienced devs.

In comparison the Laravel integration, it instructs the following:

https://frankenphp.dev/docs/laravel/

docker run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -v $PWD:/app dunglas/frankenphp

While all the sensitive files are mounted in, they have to be to function properly. In this case, they're mounted to a more secure context.
It could start next month for all we know.
They are crowdsourcing the effort of app moderation to save money. I have had many apps in different accounts and they just come up with any excuse pulled from their policies to bring them down and stop providing the service those $25 paid for. So they want to become hostile to developers? Fine, good riddance for the app store. Let's not waste our time and move to the web.
Philip Rosedale: Learning from Second Life's Digital Currency
On the other hand, that's not how progress has historically happened. Scientists are most often motivated to do something just because it's interesting, not because of its impact to society.
> Generations of kids survived without their parents needing to know their location at all times.

Did they? The problem with this sort of claim is that it often turns out to be false. "We didn't have X and somehow we survived" often omits the fact that mortality in given demographics has dropped significantly since then. The people making this statement are survivors, and the ones who haven't survived don't speak up. Can someone back up this claim with data? My (very) quick search brought up only infant mortality rates.
Wow, okay. Bicycles are just incredible machines after all.

An interesting result of this is that if you're trying to lose weight, cycling isn't the most time-efficient way to burn calories!
At some point, you would think maybe he would quit the sport of his own accord?

Were I to break a single digit number of bones in a foot or hand, I am done.
> That sigma value was chosen by someone to optimise the approximation, but interestingly, it isn't actually the optimal value (more on that later), and it isn't actually known who came up with it! I've left all the math in so as to remove any possibility of this being a "magic" constant; It's really anything but!

Yes thank you for saying this. Taking a numerical methods class as an undergrad shouldn't be considered "magic".
Yeah, our friends use airtags skiing and that would probably meet our needs. However we're in the Android ecosystem and there isn't really an airtag equivalent.
I feel that naming one specific presentation of an infection for the pathogen isn’t so tenable now that we’ve realized there are multiple presentations.

Consider, is subclinical TB not TB?
Something we lose track of in the software world is that information isn't the alpha and omega in the real world. Everybody from Boeing to China would love to clone what SpaceX is doing, and China is actively trying to do so. And there are no real huge hardware secrets, yet somehow, even with effectively endless resources, these countries/competitors are not only failing to clone SpaceX tech - but aren't even remotely close to parity.

Blue Origin, for instance, not only has Bezos Bucks behind it (while SpaceX was started when Musk was 'only' had millions), but it was also started before SpaceX! And of course Boeing has been around since the dawn of spaceflight. And on a smaller scale lots of brilliant people, including John Carmack, have tried their hand at aerospace, and failed. No idea what SpaceX is doing so well, but whatever it is - it seems extremely difficult to replicate.
Such a good, unintended consequence !
I'm pretty confident that general intelligence is one of those things where first mover advantage doesn't matter.
Ah sorry I should've said EFS, got my acronyms wrong.
You seem to be confusing being able to reach IPv6 with native IPv6. With rare exceptions AWS does not document how their internal network functions because it is a trade secret. However for the longest time it was fairly easy to test: if you removed the IPv4 address from an instance it was no longer reachable via IPv6.

AWS was never built with IPv6 in mind and it is mostly glued on. As of right now 88% of AWS services are IPv4 only: https://awsipv6.neveragain.de/ (uncheck the Hide IPv4 only box)
This is good news for Tesla as they are about to lose the title of dodgiest EV. Thanks Chrysler.
Many doors have a toggle on the face plate below or above the latch that changes auto lock behavior. But auto lock is good for security.

I once had a friend move out of a place in part because he would often get locked out. I showed him how to change this at his move out party.
I have heard this many times before. You just need "product market fit". You just need to "go viral". Just do some "user testing".

In my industry after many years and carefully watching competitors I have come to the conclusion that it's "pay to play". If you want customers to see your product and be aware that you exist and that they can buy from you, you have to pay to build the brand and market the brand. As engineers we are focused on building a product. I've done that a few times over. People like the product once they know it exists and what it can do for them. But they don't know about it because I can't invest in marketing. I don't have that 200-300K to blow. My competitors do. They can afford it. Most of them were succesfull in other industries before they got into this one. Or they come from rich families.

It's easy to dismiss the power of marketing and branding and the importance of investing in that, as pure tech founders.
I agree.
Having separated php processing and http processing brings good practices and helps further scalation.
Honest question out of curiosity, since you seem genuine and open to discussion…

I agree with all of your points about Waymo vs. Uber-like ridesharing—the average Uber ride is so much less safe that it’s hard to argue for.

But I also agree with your aside about the growing isolation of society—the longer term implications of every event, meal, and errand being separated by autonomous journeys are staggering.

So the question is, how do the societal isolation factors play into your decision making? (Honest question, not a gotcha, I’m curious how others think about these tradeoffs.)
Yeah I've seen people go out of their way to correct a model giving wrong information. Even though it apologizes and corrects itself, they don't understand it will give the same wrong answer again in the next session :)
Ah sorry I should've said EFS, got my acronyms wrong. That one is mountable to Lambda.

But Lambda can't accept multiple connections to the same instance, so it's allowing multiple pg servers connect to the same data source.
So it's basically RAG..
What are the price quotes for getting the required testers part fulfilled?
Just because you “can” self learn, is it worth the time to self learn? As he mentions in article the deal needs to move fast or one side may bail. If you have amateur hour seller, the buyer is more likely to back out.

This isn’t AdWords where your landing page sucks, and you can just quickly pivot and get some more traffic. There’s only so many serious buyers of a business like this why risk squandering any of them.

It’s a 15% commission to massively reduce the risk to seller and time commitment. Assuming broker is competent they’re going to get the deal done right. Seems well worth it to me.

He also mentioned having a kid soon, so why drag it out? Dude already made almost a cool million what’s 90k in grand scheme of things to get deal done and money in bank?

Skipping a broker in an extremely high friction transaction is penny wise pound foolish. If residential real estate hasn’t figured out yet how to cut out brokers, business acquisitions definitely have not
Where did they get the human brain organoids from?
I hate to bash, but I would not recommend Tauri/webview to anybody. Here's my list of the problems:
- For Windows, it requires the MS WebView2 runtime to be installed. It's installed by default in Windows 11, but Windows 10 users will need to make sure it's installed. (not sure if there's an error popup or anything?) There's no chance of running Tauri apps on Windows 7.
- (For MacOS, it should work with no problems. NSWebView has been a thing for a very long time now.)
- For Linux, packaging is a nightmare. Since Linux has no standardized webview (or UI framework), Tauri Linux apps have to be distributed as .deb packages which users need to install with dpkg (They might support .rpms other formats now, not sure). New users installing Linux Tauri apps will most likely have to install WebKitGTK (and possibly some other deps) for the first time (around 70mb).
Either that or you can package your Tauri Linux app as an AppImage (I've seen a few Tauri apps do this), but that will include WebKitGTK in the final binary... and you end up with a binary that's on par or larger than Electron.

Also, back when I was playing with and contributing to webview I did some RAM usage tests, and WebKitGTK actually did worse than Electron. We did briefly look into Netsurf or a 'lite' version of WebKit but RAM usage ended up being the same, and WebKitGTK3 was too popular and easy to use for the devs to want to switch to anything else.

And finally for all platforms, you will probably be eating up a lot of RAM (and impacting launch times) by using WebView2/NSWebView/WebKitGTK, which is probably not the primary browser that most users use and have running and loaded into RAM. This should improve improve if you run more than 1 Tauri/electron app - but that seems unlikely to me.

WebUI doesn't solve all of these problems (users must have a compatible web browser installed) and has some quirks, but it mostly solves the RAM usage issue (checks for what browser is already loaded, starts a new instance) and compiles into very small .AppImage/.app/.exe applications as users would expect.

I would only recommend WebUI if you have a HTML/CSS/JS frontend that you absolutely can't depart with, or have some other scenario/limitation that forces you have to use a browser. Otherwise, it's so much better to just use a native framework :)
(As a side note, Tauri used to use webview as a backend, but eventually switched to a rewrite.)
I haven't done any php development in maybe 10 years but this landing page almost got me to spin up a hello world.

I like the elephant frankenstein character - goofy and ugly/cute. Design, color scheme, copy, and animations are clean :chefkiss:

The value prop is well highlighted - at least for someone that's been out of php dev for a while. This seems like a nice way to bootstrap something small. Getting started code snippet makes it seem quick and easy.
Where is the code for it ?
100% privacy from an ad tech company.

And at least in my case, I've been able to teach my young kids to navigate outdoors, communication, and proper safety without the use of tech.
I haven’t done scientific experiments but I think a MTB is still quite efficient on average. But a lot less than a road bike without suspension nor grip on a flat road.

When going uphill on difficult terrain with my mountain bike, I sometimes get passed by trail runners. If we continue on the same path, I pass them back on flat and downhill sections so it may be worth it. I can also bike quite a bit longer than I can trail run.

Sometimes I have to push or carry the bike and the efficiency isn’t great for sure but a mountain bike isn’t that heavy and you can use it as support too. But it’s slower than a hiker going uphill.
The XCode requirement makes some sense because it would take Apple a lot of extra work to port and support their tools on other platforms. Work that they have no incentive to do.

But I think the native app market in general has peaked. Most things can be done in a web app now.
Or the apologetic turrets from portal
Not to start a holy war, but I’m curious when you consider the pandemic to have ended.
How is that different than if you were driving yourself?