skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those were already somewhat common around here, back when I taught my kid to ride some... 17-18-19 years ago. But it felt rather superfluous to buy a separate gadget that he'd use for at most a few months, when the same effect could be achieved by just taking the pedals off a "real" bike.

(Unfortunately, we'd already started him on the old-fashioned route with pedals and training wheels. Fortunately, he wasn't all that heartbroken when we "discovered that a thief must have stolen" the pedals and training wheels. And he was quite ecstatic when later "the thief must have returned the pedals".)

So I really recommend the ordinary-bike-with-removed-pedals method to start with. The trick is just to get the saddle low enough. Old-fashioned[1] saddle mounts with a multi-piece clamp on the saddle post usually have that below the longitudinal rails on the saddle. You can flip the bits around so the rails go below the bolt of the clamp, and thereby lower the saddle by a couple centimeters / about an inch. This is a rather fiddly job within the narrow confines under the saddle / above the rails / inside the side flaps of the saddle, but it's possible. Three guesses as to how I know this.

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[1]: And most stuff on not-exorbitantly-expensive kids' bikes is quite old-fashioned; kids' bikes are much cheaper than "serious" adult ones, so manufacturers have to scrimp wherever they can.
I don’t use it often either, but sometimes it is very useful. When I caught Covid last fall my wife incorrectly thought I had it three times. I was using a beta Google Gemini, and paying for it, and I asked “read my @gmail and tell me the date ranges when I have had Covid.”

That worked, but to be honest I have tried similar things more recently that didn’t work. Perhaps there is a routing model up front that decides whether or not to use a lot of compute for any given query?

Google also plans on charging more money for APIs for code completion plugins for IntelliJ IDs, etc. this year.

I would like to see AI pricing models be sustainable, not give things away for free, and have lots of control over when I use a lot of compute. I actually have this right now because I usually use LLM APIs and write my own agents for specific tasks.
Memory arenas should be taught to all programmers and become the default method of memory management.
You should check out the Artemis I engineering footage.
> what if they started to use AI to auto-generate man pages...

Then they'd be wrong about 20% of the time, and still no one would read them. ;-)

(NB: I'm of the age that I do read them, but I think I'm in the minority.)
Google has questionable behavior in its browser[0] and tracking technologies[1] that sound similar to what you describe, but I believe the search itself is behaving normally. It runs slowly because all LLM chatbots use tons of processing power to pore through servers full of data that may or may not be accurate.

I agree Google is trying to force AI on us, but for a different reason: to demonstrate its value to shareholders.

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-priva...

[1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/google-is-all...
I think we have the same friend. He told me he likes to download a book to get a feel for it… like thumbing through a book in a bookshop. If it’s good, he goes ahead and buys it.
We're talking about it here. It seems like the multi trillion dollar company might actually be onto something.
On Bluesky at least, you can remove all Bluesky created feeds, create your own feed algo's, and create specific user list feeds. You can also define mute words so that posts with those words never appear for you. Those mute words can also have a time window, in case some common word is temporarily annoying you.

I believe that you could create the experience which you described on Bluesky. This may also be possible elsewhere, I just happen to know about Bluesky.

It's largely how I use the platform. On most days, I am blissfully unaware of what "the discourse" is that day. I personally enjoy human curated lists of devs and scientists.
... it's jsut a small b64 encoded background image followed by a ton of div's - and it crashes the latest Edge on W10 as well.
It’s just people looking for something to crap on. God forbid those engineers celebrate years of their own work.
And Aaron Swartz is dead.
That would have been my argument exactly - I am not saying that Django fits every use case, but with my limited exposure to projects that have ended up using non-Django Python API framework, they ended up recreating the batteries included approach, with probably way too many issues waiting to be discovered with manually rolled out auth, middlewares and ORM.
I'm no expert on TLB invalidation bugs but generally they allow for an attacker to read/write arbitrary memory.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/01/taking-page-f...
A sheet of paper will generally manage ok for white balance calibration. A 3 tone grey card would be better, but a single, simple white will suffice
Yes, I'm aware. What AI/Proton provides isn't just a simple spellchecker though. It specifically recommends and alters wording to better suit the overall sentence structure. Essentially, it considers the context better than any built-in checker I've had in the past.

It's also really useful to for words that are spelt almost the same. Suit and Suite for example.

Also throughout my day, I'm constantly switching between 2 languages that have almost identically written words. Adress and Address. The normal spellchecks often don't mark it as an error because my computers and browsers naturally also have 2 installed keyboards and languages.
I remember seeing threads here about how TikTok reminded people of the old web. It's wild seeing attitudes shift so completely.
Worst thing is people sharing files tbh, if someone has a folder and shares you a multiple documents from it you don't get the folder in your drive structure so you have n free files floating around in your drive that you cannot organize yourself.
I would even argue that the current design of the bike line is better than the one suggested by the author.

It forces the biker to slow down and reduces the collision risks with others in the line.

It is selfish to think only about the biker coming from the hill. The biker that thinks it is okay to drive 20mph in that situation.
> Personally, I've never encountered any human residue while watching a movie or reading a book.

In that case, I think we're simply debating if we like vanilla or chocolate.

I find modern culture to be crap. Whatever arguments you have against this, the fact still remains that I not longer can find what I want, something I once had.

I don't care if it hurts the economy or makes the lives of some people worse, I want movies that I enjoy watching.
They could form a bi-ethnic country that incorporates both Jews and Palestinians with full rights. Or they could allow the Palestinians to have a state while retaining a Jewish state.

There's no reason why giving Palestinians rights and self determination would necessitate Jews to leave or even to abolish their country.
It’s important to remember history so we might have a chance of not repeating it.
They'll be near-UV LEDs with a phosphor to produce white, high efficiency, low cost, but garbage long term.
Congrats on winning an argument against your wife. Billions well spent.
The problem is almost never the LEDs themselves, but the power supply.

Sure, the actual LEDs might have a 50000 hour lifetime, but the crappy power supply they got from the lowest bidder and packaged with woefully inadequate thermal dissipation dies after a tiny fraction of that.
World-leading human cryopreservation, safely made in Europe
> which is just getting things done end-to-end as fast as possible, not careful at every step that we have no memory errors.

One horrible but fun thing a former professor of mine pointed out: If your program isn't going to live long, then you never have to deallocate memory. Once it exits, the OS will happily clean it up for you.

This works in C or perhaps lazy GC languages, but for stateful objects where destructors do meaningful work, like in C++, this is dangerous. This is one of the reasons I hate C++ so much: Unintended side effects that you have to trigger.

> Could "reference counting" be compiled into a debug/profiled build and then detect which regions of time we free things in before or after (there is a happens before relation with dropping out of scopes that reference counting needs to run) to detect where to insert frees?

This is what Rust does, kinda.

C++ also does this with "stack" allocated objects - it "frees" (calls destructor and cleans up) when they go out of scope. And in C++, heap allocated data (if you're using a smart pointer) will automatically deallocate when the last reference drops, but this is not done at compile time.

Those are the only two memory management models I'm familiar with enough to comment on.
Good question. The short answer is no. The longer answer is that there’s no such device on the horizon, because reliable security enclaves are expensive—and even if cost weren’t an issue, the resulting device would be too cumbersome to maintain and use. For now, the secureLock mechanism is sufficient. However, in the near future I’d like to add an on-device screen for verifying messages before signing, using something like this module:

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/RP2040-Touch-LCD-1.69.
I don't insinuate otherwise. It doesn't matter how much they tried. The way forward is to keep trying.
i've heard of EY cowardly doing the same thing to other companies. it is even mentioned in "the hard thing about hard things" iirc.
My bookshelf organization scheme (2023)
Feel free to post any questions about C3 and compiler dev in the comments.
He does not care
ChargePoint develops uncuttable charging cables to stop thieves
> Just imagine Vampire Survivors without sound or effects.

I can't help but feel that this completely undermines your point - Vampire Survivors is bashed together using rudimentary knockoffs of sprites from games from the 1990s, in an engine which barely supports the idea of particles let alone proper visual effects.* It is the gameplay that carries Vampire Survivors, not the aesthetic.

Game feel is of course essential to producing a good game all-round, but a competent game designer can and will tell the difference between a good game design and a bad one, way before polish and juice are layered on top.

*I don't say this as a criticism - Vampire Survivors is fantastic - but the idea that it's propped up by its look is just daft.
The popularization of handwriting is, so far, one of our finest achievements. We take it for granted.

To me, handwriting is a skill on par with playing a musical instrument. Very fine motor movement, mind and body, years of practice. It's a miracle we made everyone do it. So much depends on humanity keeping this flame alive.
Very fun idea! Got way too invested and spend more time than I wanted to, but go there in the end:D I use MongoDB somewhat regularly, but I mostly have to ask GPT for help regarding the syntax.

A couple of suggestions:
- Gamify it a bit, add a timer or similar to make it speedrunable
- Add some auto-completion, e.g. automatically adding a set of brackets or quotes. Or suggest commands like find, sort, etc, as you type. Similar to what you would find in MongoDB Compass
Has anyone written a more recent take on 1976's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon... ?
Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog
I doubt you did. You just don’t like Musk, and now you are larping as a Tesla buyer to make people think there is some big group that are going to punish Elon for not matching their views.

Outside far leftists, people are still buying and enjoying Teslas. The difficulties in Europe aren’t related to Elon’s politics, you just wish they were.
Show HN: Skyvern 2.0 – open-source AI Browser Agent scoring 85.8% on WebVoyager
Hey HN,

We’re Suchintan and Shu from Skyvern (https://www.skyvern.com). We’re building an open source AI Agent that can browse the web and take actions. Our open source repo can be found at https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern.

We’ve re-built Skyvern with a Planner-Actor-Validator agent architecture and achieved 85.8% state of the art (SOTA) on the WebVoyager Benchmark. You can see the results for yourself here: https://eval.skyvern.com/

For reference, here were the previous SOTA results:
83.5% - Google Mariner (https://deepmind.google/technologies/project-mariner/)
73.1% - AgentE (https://arxiv.org/html/2407.13032v1)
67.0% - HCompany (https://www.hcompany.ai/blog/a-research-update)
59.1% - WebVoyager (https://arxiv.org/html/2401.13919v4)
52.6% - WILBUR (https://arxiv.org/html/2404.05902v1)
52.0% - Claude Computer Use (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/compute...)

Achieving this SOTA result required expanding Skyvern’s original architecture. Skyvern 1.0 involved a single prompt operating in a loop both making decisions and taking actions on a website. This approach was a good starting point, but scored ~45% on the WebVoyager benchmark because it had insufficient memory of previous actions and could not do complex reasoning.

We re-built this all using a Planner-Actor-Validator agent architecture:
1. Planner - Decides that goals to accomplish on a website, and maintains a working memory of the overall goal and progress towards it
2. Actor - Given a narrowly scoped goal, executes the goal on the website, reporting back
3. Validator - Asserts whether the goal was successfully achieved and passes feedback back to the Actor + Planner

We ran the benchmark on Skyvern cloud to test Skyvern 2.0 in a real-world environment – autonomously navigating the web in a remotely hosted browser without any human involvement.

To keep with our open source mission, we decided to publish benchmark, modifications, and final results for anyone to review. This is important because we’re seeing an increasing trend of companies publishing their benchmarks with no way to access the results, so we’ve decided to make everything public.

[1] Eval Dataset: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/tree/main/evaluation/d...
[2] Modifications: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/pull/1576/commits/60dc...
[3] Each run (incl prompts + responses) can be inspected here: https://eval.skyvern.com/

The full report (incl an architecture diagram) can be found here: https://blog.skyvern.com/skyvern-2-0-state-of-the-art-web-na...

If you’d like to give Skyvern a try, you can grab the open source version (https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern) or the cloud version (https://app.skyvern.com/) and give it a go and share any feedback with us. We look forward to any and all of your comments!
> I've now been coding for like 14 years, and I still haven't done it (besides a number of prototypes). And I'm so burnt out on writing code that I never have the mental energy to push through and get one done.

I was basically the same. Played video games before programming was even on my mind, and first exposure to programming/structured data was trying to mod GTA Vice City vehicles, and then eventually got drawn into programming while trying to game dev by night basically.

On and off I've tried Gamemaker, Unity, Phaser, Godot, Unreal Engine and everything in-between, for the last two decades or something. It always end up the same, game logic so complicated I can't make head or tails of it anymore, and it was really hard to decouple things enough so I could be as confident editing game logic as I am reading/editing other types of codebases.

So I never really got anywhere, until I found Bevy. I'm not particularly fond of Rust, way too verbose and strict for my taste, but ECS turned out to be a god-send for organizing game code (in my case). Suddenly writing decoupled game logic became a breeze, and since discovering Bevy (but really ECS gets most of the credit here), I've even shipped some games during game jams that I'm moderately proud off and placed well in the ranking compared to my expectations.

If you're of similar traits that you need code to be of a certain quality to be able to effectively work with it, ECS might be up your alley too, and worth a try if you haven't already. It made a huge improvement in terms of how flexible the architecture end up being, and made it a lot easier to incrementally work on games.
Yes, it's called "stone paper" or sometimes "rich mineral paper". It's a resin (typically high-density polyethylene) that's filled with, typically, calcite, with very high filler loadings up to 80%, then coated to provide the writing surface: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370899755_Biodegrad... https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/1176...

This is causing problems in Australia (where the product is widely used) because confused people put the "stone paper" in the paper recycling, falsely believing it to be paper.

If you wanted to minimize the thickness, you'd probably want to change the formula in several ways:

- use a higher-strength plastic like polyimide;

- include some kind of high-strength fibrous, acicular, or platy reinforcing filler;

- use a more powerful opacifier than calcite, such as rutile, enabling you to use a lower filler loading and thinner layers.

Talc, mullite, fiberglass, and bentonite come to mind as candidate reinforcing fillers, and rutile microcrystals can also be grown in an acicular morphology.

If you really wanted to minimize the thickness and weight, maybe there's some way you could use metal instead of plastic.
Sir, 2017 is recent. And it is clear from their actions and speech that their intent has not changed, even if they have whitewashed their written calls for the extermination of Israel.

> they lived peacefully alongside Christians in Gaza

Christians are .13% of Gaza. Come on. If the Christians had any real power, they'd crush them just like they want to crush the Jews. They'd make it totally unworkable just like in Lebanon.

> No, they really don't? Meanwhile, Israeli politicians talk daily of committing war crimes and genocide, but somehow that's fine because it's against Arabs?

The far-right who does so, no that's not ok. But the IDF does not act in such a way.
Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
Dresden was levelled and does make your point.

I’d have picked Warsaw. Completely destroyed while clearing out the ghetto after the uprising which was brutally suppressed. It has some grim parallels too.
> Google is currently the only search engine allowed to crawl Reddit

Stop using Reddit. Reddit is already following the path toward nothing but SEO spam and malware. Use Hacker News or Fediverse.
Can MrBeast outwit a US ban His TikTok offer says yes
Yeah that excessive cheering and laughing really diminished it for me. Everything apparently needs an added hype team/track. What a world we live in.
Fascinating! Now imagine how offensive it is to normal people for zionists to actually commit a holocaust and make unlimited justifications for it while crying victim!

This is exactly what the Nazis did, they tried to justify the mass industrial slaughter of the whole by claiming to be attacked unprovoked by a subset of uprisers and making antisemetic justifications while crying about bankers. Gas and Cry is what the Nazis did. Main difference is that now flying demons vaporize children into a thin instead with 2000lb American bombs.

Just as Nazis don't get to reductively define nazism (as simply the right to an Ubermensch Lebensraum) after 15 years of atrocities and 1 holocaust, zionists do not get to reductively define zionism (as simply the the right to a Jubermensch Lebensraum) [I'm impressed that you've reduced it even more as merely "the right for Jews to exist", nice try] after 76 years of atrocities and 1 holocaust. Both are defined by their victims!

All these narrative traps do not work anymore. There is no justification for committing a holocaust. Not now. Not then. Not ever. No matter claims as to who controls what, no matter why rose up against whom, no matter whose religion says what.

Truly embarrassing for humanity that that has to be said.

And speaking of a ratio to 300:1, that is the death ratio that Israel has exacted upon the population of Gaza per Lancet. Surprisingly that ratio did not apply to the Germans, as per demonic Israeli calculator there are currently 1.8bn (300 * 6m) too many Germans alive today. Quite forgiving to the Germans for some reason (see: Otto Skorzeny).
I’m not entirely sure why, but I find myself drawn to reading about failures and the reasons behind them, far more than success stories. There’s something uniquely compelling about failure—it often teaches us hard, invaluable lessons that are nearly impossible to grasp when everything goes smoothly. Success, on the other hand, can sometimes be attributed to a stroke of pure luck, leaving fewer insights to learn from.

Similarly, when I’m considering a purchase, I tend to focus on the negative reviews (those rated 3 stars or below) rather than the glowing, positive ones. Negative reviews often provide more logical, specific reasoning as they shed light on potential deal-breaking issues. That said, they can sometimes veer into irrelevant complaints that don’t resonate with me. For example, when I’m browsing book reviews on Amazon to decide whether a book is worth reading, I frequently come across one-star reviews criticizing the print or paper quality. If I’m planning to buy the digital version of the book, those complaints become irrelevant to my decision-making process—even though they might be incredibly important to someone else.

In essence, I find value in the nuanced, sometimes brutally honest critiques that failures and negative feedback offer. They paint a more realistic picture—one that helps me make better decisions and understand the world a little more clearly.
Seems like the title of this post ought to be "nobody cares about the things I care about"
> Woom and Isla and probably a few others now make aluminum frame bikes for kids that are much more appropriate weight for their sizes, though at a bit of a cost.

I remember coming across Isla while researching online for my kid's second bike, but sheee! were they expensive.
In most cases sure. But this specific conflict is probably the worst example you could have picked.
The holocaust justifiers truly are the most gormless people who lack basic comprehension. Where did I say the AA program captured 100% of jobs? And did you read which industries I mentioned? Probably not, I mentioned tech and media. Cornell is a an academic institution, many people know this actually. Academia is not Tech and media industry. The definition of Academia is the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship. It should go without saying but unfortunately implicit things like the definition of Academia and "don't commit or justify a genocide" is too high a bar for some.

Sad.
Also bold to assume anyone working at Langley would think going to Ashburn is “convenient.” :-)
I basically agree with you, and I love developing a full stack via JS.

Fortunately, with AI, coding with frameworks is a lot less necessary and even more of a hassle now.
I got "A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?" for Christmas, by the Weinersmiths.

The index is so good I've shared my happiness about it several times.
Yes, I have the same. Why not a simple mp3 player or a portable cd player?
You still pay the unsubsidized full menu price at the kiosk or drive through. I believe you can order at the kiosk and not use a card (pay cash at register)
Maybe they would rather not have bikers bombing onto the sidewalk at 20 mph when they are going to be sharing that space with pedestrians. A sharp turn is a good way to prevent that. I assume there are several "bike lane ends" signs here, though, which should be an indication to slow down.
Wait, you think America is that? Dude, you need to get out more, meet some new people.
There's a Kremlin radio station in Missouri.