skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, studies (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019821...) have shown that people who use e-bikes (pedal assist not throttle) tend to be more physically fit and active than ones who just use regular bikes.

I have an e-bike and it’s enabled me to cycle on steep inclined and hilly roads that I would be unable to do otherwise. Having an e-bike encourages you to cycle a lot more than you typically would imo. I use it as my primary form of transportation.

I’m just surprised that people continue to use old bikes when the newer technology around them has continued to improve.
Twitter. Then Reddit and AI directories.
Superlinker: Combine executables and shared libraries into even larger products
I use Pinboard.in, and I am stuck with Iridium, a good but Chromium-based browser that is rarely updated (a year ago, for OSX) because Chrome does bookmarks decently, unlike Firefox, at least in my opinion.
Why even request them in the first place?
You're Lisp-baiting, aren't you? ;) I'd add Elixir next to Nim (already mentioned); also Rust. Recently, also Scala.

The reason we don't have such metaprogramming available everywhere is mostly because you have to subscribe to a particular ideology to allow it. If you think programmers are generally intelligent and responsible, you put macros and metaclasses in your language. If, on the other hand, you think most programmers are dumb code monkeys (with a few exceptions, maybe) your language becomes like early Java or early Go.
The legendary Gazelle Toer Populair. Produced since like forever, the classic Dutch bicycle. Guess who is also happy with his Gazelle since many years? Yep, this Dutchie living in Munich, Germany.
I get vibes akin to those of Cambridge analytica.

If you open my profile, I've in the past done similar submissions regarding this obscenity. I've also posted a python script that spams another Elon Musk PAC database with fake data to make door to door canvassing more difficult

Edit
I'm talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139801

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41148139
P.S. Zotero feels like overkill to me.
Gee what could this be in relation to I wonder
Is it preferable to have none or enough?
Religion as a binding factor falls apart in a society where it's trivial to encounter multiple someones with a different holy book than yours, each who claims theirs is the only correct one.
After my wife stole (back) her high school alarm clock I wasn't satisfied with the replacements. But I picked up an old one for $0.25 at a market festival recently and am pretty happy with it.
This summer I went through a lengthy process of replacing one of the cogwheels in my Bosch e-bike motor from 2012. The cogwheel is known to break in this revision of Bosch motors, and an improved replica is available on ebay. This cost me totally around €250. Right after that the brakes had to be replaced probably because of hydraulic liquid leakage which was another €400.

The miracle is that the battery is still chugging along, my guess is that it must be around 70% capacity compared to new. I do realize this was quite a big gamble since who knows how much longer the battery will last.

I wish e-bikes was designed to be more modular and less proprietary so you could easily swap out for example (parts of) the motor and battery for a reasonable sum. As examplified in TFA the frame can last more or less forever and the rest of the parts are changeable and can also last a pretty long time.

Next time I get an e-bike I will probably convert an mechanical bike using a Bafang kit or something like that, since they seem to have more of those traits.
A conserved fertilization complex bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates
My grandfather is still riding his father's bike. I'm not kidding, I don't even know how that bike still manages to remain in one piece. FYI, grandfather is 87, the bike is definitely about the same age
It has a clever way to decode multiple valid tokens at once, rather than just one token at a time.

Corresponding project link: https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang
Especially with the latest trend. I read somewhere many bicycle manufactures are now making models that are close to impossible to repair by a "regular" person.

For the "Ship of Theseus" comment by @ytss:

35 years ago, by first good bike got hit by a car and I had to replace the frame. I took parts from it and put it on a new frame. After 2 decades that frame cracked, un-repairable.

So on my current ride, all that is left is the original bike are the break levers and break fittings and racks. Can that be considered still the original :)
Deleuze being uncritically mentioned is evidence that everything you’ve said here is intellectual bankrupt.

Deleuze and Guattari, Jacques Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Freud, Jung, and most of their disciples are at best fashionable nonsense, always charlatans, and there’s even evidence that some of the success of post-structuralism was a psyop from your local spymasters to keep Ivy League intellectuals from doing subversive shit in the USA like May of 68/situationalist internationale.

For all the problems that existentialism, Sartre, Camus, De Bouiver, and the other existentialists had, they tended to write (more) coherently and they descend (slightly less) into the pit of academic wankery.

Seriously, Deleuze and Guattari destroyed continental philosophy. Anti-oedipus is full of shit. Freud is full of shit. The oedipus and Electra complex and mirror stage and object petit an are all psudo science. Reject their work in every instance or continue the further debasement of academic philosophy.
I don't believe that you can sue anybody for underperforming.
- Brand new burner account

- upset about “AI slop” (the image is clearly not AI)

- mentions tech buzzwords that annoy you

- claiming the article is not as rigorous as an academic paper

Perhaps I’m just old school. But I miss the HN where the best way to get upvotes was to be insightful and not to send low-effort snarky replies
No, for enjoyment, parking convenience, traffic avoidance, cost, and to be environment friendly :)

Cycling is actually the fastest way to get around NYC and London most of the time if you’re able to keep a consistently high speed
That dichotomy is interesting considering Guy Steele’s Growing a Language talk and his Scheme background. But maybe just mentioning Scheme is misleading here...
> I’m sure the most was a consideration during the funding raise

Ha. Really though, the entirety of venture capital could be summarized as “this probably won’t pay out but if it does it’s gonna be epic”. I wouldn’t read too much into America’s thirstiest capitalists spending their discretionary billions on the latest hype cycle.
Doubtful. National-wide problems don't face budget problems like a struggling family would. There's always some money around, but certain people on influential positions want to take it all -- that's all there is to it really.

Or in other words, companies absolutely can bump pays, even with something not huge like 5-10% and they would still be fine, probably better even. But we can't have that when the CEO needs another yacht, or whatever it is that those empty people always chase. And it's somehow never enough.
For me, my git brain is very low level. And none of them ever explains what actually happens under the hood, or how that was different than branching…

With some respect, I think “rebase centric workflow” doesn’t really cover it: I use rebasing heavily with GitHub. A “trunk based development where all branches are rebased before merge so there’s never merge commits, please add to commits and rebase the branches in response to review comments” development style is still very rebase centric, but not stacked.

You also have to remember (though there’s no reason you should know this) that GitHub came out of the community I was heavily involved in at the time of its birth. I’ve been using GitHub for longer than most people, and so the PR-style workflow has been the air I’ve breathed for so long, it can be hard to understand other things at first. I had used subversion before git, but didn’t really understand much about it.

Anyway, that’s just a roundabout way of saying that I think this space is super interesting because these tools are so flexible that they can be used in so many different ways, and it’s easy to assume that “how you use git” is some sort of shared experience when that’s not really true.
This is a major issue for sure. Like a big enough one that if I was still doing major open source work, I’d be working on that.
Just four airlines control 80% of the airline industry — the most concentrated it’s ever been. And they’re using their power over consumers, and airports, to jack up prices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zWxdeq8F4
Airlines’ Secret Scheme to Keep Airfare Prices High
If the "e-bike trend" accelerating involves people switching from cars to e-bikes, then I imagine they'll be in better shape, not worse.
(Isn't lisp-baiting the raison d'être of hn?)

Since you mention it, Python does have a fairly elaborate metaclass system, but it seems like it's only really used for implementing the language and rarely if ever wielded by "users". I guess that's a reflection of the language ideology you're talking about.

Also for what it's worth, I know myself to be a dumb code monkey, but being in the CRUD gutter doesn't preclude me from looking at the metasyntactic stars.
Except that they don’t have anything to trade lol.
What does this mean? AFAICT, it's either a minor detail, hardly worth mentioning, or it implies that there have been notable changes since then. If you did intend to imply that, could you elaborate?
Finally a problem set well suited to AI/LLMs that is actually useful to society! Interesting idea, I really like it!
AOT JavaScript engine Porffor passes over 50% of official JavaScript test suite
Fine-grained access control in API Gateway with Cognito access token and scopes
Full agreement on both “it feels weird” -> “how do people ever tolerate the old way” as well as the auto commit behavior being one of those things. In fact I probably over-index on that specifically when talking about jj. I thought I’d hate this because I love git’s index. Turns out that by getting rid of the index, jj has a better index than git does, but that sounds insane at first!
Funny that they make an article about this. My grandpa bought his steel frame Diamant race bike at age 14, and is now 82. He doesn't use it for longer trips or when using his trailer (he has an ebike for that) but short trips like to the trains are still riden on it.
> Which are not far off what many Europeans pay for universal health care,

Effective tax rates of 40-70% do not exist in the Us. It’s still a ridiculous amount of the economy to tax and spend.

But what I think is more annoying is that the US has health systems for special interest groups:

- seniors
- veterans
- native Americans
- women and children
- government employees (especially teachers)
- immigrants seeking asylum

This must be getting close to half the population. Either get rid of them, or pay for everyone.
Failure Mode: Welchification
How old are you?

I work from home, sit on my ass all day, love to eat processed foods and also haven't been to the doctor in 7+ years but feel great. But I'm (just) under 40.

A lot of stuff doesn't catch up to you until you're older.
Something happened around 7:00-7:15, of that we can be sure.
When I moved to Sweden in 1998, I bought an radio alarm clock with a wire to plug it in and big red numbers. Big softly glowing red numbers. Easy on the eyes. I got a little discount because the cover for the battery was missing and I was a poor student at the time. But because it was going to be plugged in, I did not care about having a battery. I've since moved country four times but this thing is still next to my bed. I love being able to glance at it at night with a half open eye and know what time it is. That's it's only function. I don't use the alarm very often and if I do, I use my phone for that. And I haven't listened to the radio in well over ten years. It's the clock that is important to me.
https://archive.is/FGezm
I'm not entirely on the same page as the parent comment regarding "[t]hat's what you're paying a good PaaS for" in terms of security and availability. If the platform is down, having a service level agreement (SLA) is nice, but worthless because your application is also unavailable. Depending on how integrated your application is with said platform, migrating to another platform is difficult. If the platform cut corners regarding customer data separation (you know, because you can be cheaper than the competition), your users' passwords may be next on HIBP (haveibeenpwned.com).

This is of course a rather pessimistic view on platforms. Perhaps the sweet spot, where the parent commenter is probably referring to, is something where you have more control over the actual applications running, exposed network services, etc., such as a virtual machine or even dedicated hardware. This does require more in-depth knowledge of the systems involved (a good guideline, but I'm unsure where I picked this up, is to have knowledge of 1 abstraction layer above and below the system where you're involved in). This also means you'll need to invest a lot of time in your own platform.

If you're looking for a gentle intro into security and availability, have a look at the OWASP Top Ten[0] that shows ten subjects on web application security with prevention measures and example attacks. A more deep dive in security concepts can be found on the Arch Linux wiki[1]; it also focuses on hardening computer systems, but for a start look at 1. Concepts, 2. Passwords, 5. Storage, 6. User setup, 11. Networks and Firewall. From 14. See Also, perhaps look into [2], not necessarily for the exact steps involved (it's from 2012), but for the overall thought process.

As for availability in an internet-accessible service, look into offering your services from multiple, distinct providers that are geographically separate. Automate the setup of your systems and data distribution, such that you can easily add or switch providers should you need to scale up. Have at least one external service regularly monitor your publicly-accessible infrastructure. Look into fail-over setups using round robin DNS, or multiple CDNs.

But I suppose that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[0] https://owasp.org/Top10/
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/in...
Yeah I assumed it was more of a description for a person, not a reference to the device. I'm not sure there were even alarm clocks in rural Poland at the time.

IIRC a lot of words in French also work this way: simple translations today, but with more elaborate historical etymologies.
This is a cool article. If you want to understand how to contribute to python there is a guide at https://devguide.python.org
Training on Ny Times and Wikipedia…

The Wikipedia part at least, is incorrect. Currently Wikipedia mods/admins are dealing with AI generated articles being uploaded.

As for NYT - I am assuming that lots of those stories are already available in some blog or the other.

The e-mail and web forums are 100% polluted with spam, which takes constant effort to remove. For GenAI based content, it is far harder to identify and remove.

This example assumes the effort required to keep the web functional can deal with AI created content. Speaking from experience, our filters (human and otherwise) cannot. They fail to do so even now.

PS: Even given your example of closed email chains - the information in that depends on sources people read. Like plastic pollution in the food chain, this is inescapable.
I very much doubt that every American makes 9k per month.

Ofcourse what it really comes down to if poor people deserve healthcare or if we should just pretend that they don't exist (the state of healthcare in Europe before WW2).
Now you tell me there are bikes driven by sound?!
As the resident stirner shill of this website, Thank you.

The unique and its property is and will always be my favorite book. There really isn’t any other proper defense of radical individualism philosophically.

Stirners worldview is so unique and fresh. It’s sad to see how little impact it’s had on the world, except within anarchism of all places.

I think stirners thought is 100% compatible with liberalism (I’m liberal because it’s in my interests to be liberal). We still have about zero stirnerist liberal scholars. John Rawls sucked the air out of the room far too early!
Aren't we in the massively multi-core era?

I guess it's nice to keep Linux relevant to older single CPU architectures, especially with regards to embedded systems.

But if Linux is going to be targeted towards modern cpu architectures primarily, accidentally basically assume that there is a a single CPU available to evaluate priority and leave the CPU intensive task bound to other cores?

I mean this has to be what high low is for, outside of mobile efficiency.
I’ll just be honest with you: Pijul never really caught my interest, but I always felt pretty neutral about it until I started noticing the project authors acting very snide and aggressive on here. That is not something I want to be around these days, and so I doubt I’ll ever try Pijul.
History of institutions in macro-development thinking, at the time of AJR
I got injured a couple of times in the past few years enough to need crutches to walk on broken limbs and a neighbor gave me her old 100+ year old wood ones. Found them to be way better than the new aluminium ones that they make now. They may not have any padding at all, and are somewhat heavier, but I just found they were more comfortable to use somehow. The foam padding on the new ones causes chafing and absorbs stuff like your hand sweat which gets really gross in tropical countries.

I definitely don't need them anymore but keep them around as a cool antique which I might need again someday and as a reminder that contemporary designs aren't necessarily better... Crazy that they've been in service for longer than anyone alive in my family.
I wonder how much that is biased by the people who buy pedal assist ebikes. They're still expensive enough for most people that it requires a certain amount of cycling enthusiasm to buy one.
Yep, isn’t language grand?
In London they had two Orbs and they seemed to run out of people to scan after a month or so. I'm not sure more Orbs will fix that.
This is a debate that has resurfaced numerous times over at least the last 40 years that I can remember.

I've never been 100% comfortable with "user", but I can't think of a suitable replacement that holds across the board. "Person" or "human" is fine for those situations where it's only people who will be interacting with the software, but it's silly for those where it's not (or not solely) people, so it's not a generic replacement. "User" works for everything.

I object to "consumer" on both technical grounds ("consumer" means the entity is just ingesting, but in most software the user is also "feeding" the the system that is "consuming" their data), and because I think the term is more dehumanizing and insulting than "user".

So, from my point of view, "user" isn't an awesome term but I've made peace with it as the best compromise available.
You’ve got a good point. I honestly hadn’t considered the self confidence angle. I’ve always just been stupid enough to expect to be good at whatever I am willing to put time in to learn. Sometimes, it doesn’t work out, but I can usually write it off to “lost interest” even if I suspect intrinsic incompetence lol. I mean, demonstrated intrinsic incompetence is a good reason to lose interest, right?
Jailbreak time when?
It’s because they have the same time velocity, you don’t notice it. Like when you’re riding in a car and toss a ball up from your lap. The ball is moving at the same speed as you so you don’t even notice its speed since it travels along with you.
We've been in the mid manufacturing era for quite a while, when every part is engineered to fail the day after the warranty expires. Maybe the idea of a bicycle that can last seven decades is interesting to people.
By reasonable do you mean 30-50% of your income for your entire life? Regardless of whether you use the services?
Going through middle layers has pros and cons. You'll likely find better docs and experience by going through the official APIs directly. Maybe start with OpenAI and/or Claude official libraries, both provide pretty good docs.

If you really must use a wrapper, a strategy I use is to look into open-source apps I like and see what they are using. Aider for instance seems to be using this "litellm" thing... If I were to need cross API support for AI, I would probably look into that [1]. llm uses opeanai directly [2]. Etc, etc.

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1: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/e76704e261647348fd7c1...

2: https://github.com/simonw/llm/blob/d654c9521235a737e59a4f1d7...
I’ve heard people say similar things about magit. Tooling matters a lot, for sure.
We should also not forget the $1B in drug advertising spend that must be recouped. People from other countries are frequently dumb-founded when they see US tv with prescription ads. Also look at all the companies buying up old drugs and immediately raising the price 10X or more.
I was just reading these replies and thinking, surely this is just an AI company crowdsourcing new chain of thought/ world model concepts for next year's version...
Is it the same bike or the same bike frame? Have the wheels, seat not being changed? People often pin a bike's identity on the bike frame
AJR: this years Economics Nobel winners, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity."

Original Tweet:

https://x.com/pseudoerasmus/status/1847323256308568481
Work for an internet ad company instead!
I guess both make sense, and a lot of other things (synthetical benchmarks, microbenchmarks, real-world benchmarks, best/average/worst case latency comparison, best/average/worst case throughput comparison...)
Not true when the user-space thread has RT priority.
Totally respect you wanting to not care about tools, but for the latter part, I do agree with you, which is why I like jj: it uses a git repo as its backing store, so your projects can live on GitHub and all the rest of your collaborators can use git. Nobody else needs to know or care.
Yeah I was thinking while reading this- aren’t they actually allowed to sell that empty seat already since they are allowed to oversell? What do they want to do here? Triple dip?
External RF-EMF Alters Cell Number and Reactive Oxygen Species Balance
Yeah, it’d be cool if preemption could adapt based on the event, but managing that for all events might mess with system stability. It’s like using tools like Tomba Finder for lead gen

you gotta balance precision (targeted leads) with efficiency so everything runs smoothly overall.
Yes, the "cloud vs on-prem" is not really interesting. Because one project must be well isolated from other projects, regardless of their owners : as such, inside a single compagny, we must isolate all projects from each others.

Do not fall into the "I put production on one side and preproduction on the other"

Cloud providers allows great isolation, even if many people fail to implement this (for instance, by using VPC-peering / network hub / shared VPC / whatever).

Indeed, one could implement this "on-prem": vxlan and friends are there for you. It does require some skills, tho.

I believe the backbone of infrastructure security lies in two pieces: first, the ability to deploy stuff easily, quickly, autonomously. Then, the ability to deploy stuff with no cost overhead (no "price per project" or whatever).
Paracetamol induce significant short-term reductions in ROS in vitro and in vivo