skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can absolutely carry family of 5 and furniture on bike! See Denmark and India!

I can't speak to Denmark, but in India people resort to buying electric bikes because of income. The moment they earn enough to pay for a car loan, they go for it, as people in my ancestral town have done.

That said, even in India, most 2 wheeler/electric bike sales are largely being driven by Ola - India's Uber/Tesla/AWS - because they are subsidizing Ola drivers to buy Ola Electric bikes. And that is what is driving most E-Bike sales in India.

That, even in India the sale of electric bikes has fallen significantly [0]

At the end of the day, in a market like India, if you can afford a car, you buy a car. And if you're buying a car in a market like India, you'd tend to prefer an SUV due to the negative stigma against sedans ("sedans are for p*ssies" mindset is the norm, and drives the popularity of vehicles is HC as the Mahindra Thar) [1][2]

The same mentality exists in the Indian 2-Wheeler/Bike community, with the KTM being treated as the gold standard.

The same "macho" style mentality that makes Pickup trucks popular in North America and Thailand is the same one that exists in India for SUVs (ICE or Electric) or Two Wheelers.

IMO, EVs and especially EV Sedans have done well in the Chinese market because the status symbol ICE car in China has historically been the Audi A6/A8, but in India the equivalent ICE car status symbol wise has been the Jaguar Land Rover [3]

[0] - https://www.cnbctv18.com/auto/electric-two-wheeler-sales-dro...

[1] - https://motoroctane.com/news/267798-why-is-everyone-buying-s...

[2] - https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/why-the-mahindra-tha...

[3] - https://www.cartoq.com/indian-politicians-and-their-land-rov...
And that's why such assets represents only a marginal part of valuation. (And if you look at accounting, this depreciation is usually done over three years for IT hardware, and as such most of these chips have already lost half of their accounting value in the balance sheet).
It's not overrated, it's often confused with "to understand what's happening".

To "be informed" is like to take a look at a chess or go board: positions are clear, black and white pieces are here and there, but it takes skill to really understand the current dynamics of a game.

Add media bias ("let's show the board at this angle that looks better for our side") and now we have "informed" population that's being surprised by reality every day.
> Well, they've already achieved diversity, haven't they? Whites were already under-represented at Google (and at 18/23 tech companies) back in 2017

For most diversity purposes, Asians and Indians both count as white, if not "even more white".

Government programs, other than schools, are the main exception.
Ireland did not eliminate its native population.
What the Hell Is DeepSeek? [video]
It's especially a joke when BigCo hires a larger percentage than what the pipeline supplies, it necessarily drops the diversity at smaller companies.
UK did!
Bitbucket and GitHub started around the same time. GitHub executed better. And the Ruby community adopted GitHub early. Comparisons around 2010 said GitHub's UX and network effects were top reasons to choose Git. Mercurial's UX and much better Windows support were top reasons to choose Mercurial.
Show HN: I built an AI tool that writes resumes and preps you for interviews
This is one of the core problems that many on the "left" will not understand.

The problem is that the people who have seen and who have experienced this will never tell you. I and many like me I've talked to will simply never tell their actual beliefs to a colleague who believes like this.

Cannot tell you how many countless meetings I've been in where I have a differing opinion and say nothing because of backlash and loss of softpower.

The truth is that there are huge numbers of your coworkers, bosses, and employees who have different thoughts that don't align with the current ideology. These people have learned to say nothing. I myself being one of them.

I have on multiple occasions just straight lied to a liberal coworker about my beliefs because me telling what I actually think would make it very difficult to work with them.
Hah definitely now, tho we’ll see how things play out.

I really hate how poisoned the well has become on this topic, there’s definitely elitism and exclusion that should be systematically addressed in hiring. I’d support programs promoting cheaper and universally-accessible paths to getting skilled jobs (e.g. accepting projects/certs/etc or offering literal job training) as long as they were open to anyone regardless of protected characteristics. You shouldn’t need to mainline an ivy-league path your entire childhood to have a chance at being hired at Google. I think such programs would be far less controversial and produce real value for real people.
A friend once said to me "that road doesnt need a speed limit anymore. It hasnt had a fatal accident for many years. And cars are safer now. Dont burden people with stupid restrictions." Evil is patient.
As a counterpoint, I asked Claude to write a script to fetch Claude usage and expose it as a Prometheus metric. As no public API exists, Claude suggested I grab the request from the Network tab. I copied it as cURL, and attempted to run it, and was denied with a 403 from CF.

I forgot the script open, polling for about 20 minutes, and suddenly it started working.

So even sending all the same headers as Firefox, but with cURL, CF seemed to detect automated access, and then eventually allowed it through anyway after it saw I was only polling once a minute. I found this rather impressive. Are they using subtle timings? Does cURL have an easy-to-spot fingerprint outside of its headers?

Reminded me of this attack, where they can detect when a script is running under "curl | sh" and serve alternate code versus when it is read in the browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
Type setting is not a good analogy here.

A better one would probably be accounting and spread sheets. Having common formatting conventions between spreadsheets (and code files) allows your brain to filter out the noise better. Obviously you can get too down in the weeds on "what are the best conventions" but the most important part is to have them and stick to them.
o3-mini faster than GPT-4o-mini
In my testing o3-mini is consistently faster than gpt-4o-mini in total response time by 10-20% even as it produces more tokens.

Demo: https://imgur.com/a/o3-faster-than-gpt-4o-mini-uPQo7wK

Do we know why it's faster? And if any of those performance improvements will come to the 4o(-mini) models?
https://github.com/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/a916686f95f43...

They say there's no magic prompt but I'd start with their default since there is usually some format used to improve performance with posttraining with tasks like this
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YouTube is known for not deleting videos, and so far the never have (with some obvious exceptions)
Zuckerberg has no ethics and is just mad that apple's lack of ethics isn't working in his favor. A businessman with ethics has very little chance of dethroning an entrenched cartel within a corrupt industry. The hypothetical ethical business looking to outcompete their rivals may be the only one willing to set fair prices, but they also won't be able/willing to do what their competitors do. They won't exploit slaves/children/workers to make their products. They won't bribe governments to pass laws and regulations to keep out competition. They won't cut corners by using poisons in their products and manufacturing knowing it will harm their workers and consumers. They won't dump their waste into the ocean and pollute the environment. They won't collude to set prices, limit supply, or shut out anyone who doesn't play along.

The idea that you can defeat greedy corporations just by treating customers better is a fiction. There's always more money to be made by screwing over everyone at every opportunity, and there's no shortage of greedy people willing to do exactly that. It's why we need the kinds of laws, regulations, and enforcement that even the playing field and allow ethical companies to thrive.

You can't jump into the middle of a rigged game where the referees have been bought off and expect to win by following all of the rules. You have to stop the cheaters and the cheating first to even have a chance.
I’m not sure what all this is about.

You have one party’s “extremism” which takes the form of bluehaired Twitterati saying stupid shit and, I guess, not getting sufficiently disowned by actual political leaders?

On the other hand you have an ongoing ACTUAL ideological purge of our government’s personnel, records, budget, and data, complete with watchwords (like “women”) and loyalty tests.
Since education is a state level responsibility, why not handle it there? We don’t have a federal education ministry in Canada for instance.
Well, if businesses had to prove that each hire is related to dei, which was the previous state of affairs, many would argue that is when evil creeps into business culture.

So, it goes both ways, supposedly.
Guilty as changed your honour
Not the same poster, but the first "D" in "DDoS" is why rate-limiting doesn't work - attackers these days usually have a _huge_ (tens of thousands) pool of residential ip4 addresses to work with.
The first part is why I'm excited for future C++ - they are making things better.

The reason I life profiles is they are not all or nothing. I can put them in new code only, or maybe a single file that I'm willing to take the time to refactor. Or at least so I hope, it remains to be seen if that is how they work out. I've been trying to figure out how to make rust fit in, but std::vector<SomeVirtualInterface> is a real pain to wrap into rust and so far I haven't managed to get anything done there.

The $1 billion is realistic - this project was a rewrite of a previous product that became unmaintainable and inflation adjusted the cost was $1 billion. You can maybe adjust that down a little if we are more productive, but not much. You can adjust it down a lot if you can come up with a way to keep our existing C++ and just extend new features and fix the old code only where it really is a problem. The code we have written in C++98 (because that was all we had in 2010) still compiles with the latest C++23 compiler and since there are no know bugs it isn't worth updating that code to the latest standards even though it would be a lot easier to maintain (which we never do) if we did.
Apparently this is unrelated, as per this article:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-access-noaas-systems-revi...

> NOAA's public information officer at David Skaggs Research Center, which houses the Earth Systems Research Labs, said the offline websites are part of scheduled maintenance and that a power outage temporarily interrupted internet services.

> During this outage, the National Weather Service office in Pueblo will be performing service backup so that all forecast products and information will be seamlessly available across Boulder's area of responsibility. Other websites hosted by the Global Monitoring Laboratory, Global Systems Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory and Physical Sciences Laboratory will be offline until power is restored," they said.
That's probably part of the goal. Get people to quit and not replace them. One party has been on the "break the government to prove the government doesn't work" warpath for decades now
Thanks Andrej. I have a pretty good understanding of how LLMs work and how they are trained, but alot of my friends don't. These videos/talks give them 'some' idea.
>(I'm unclear whether or not those components, which have surely been continually developed since then, have been backported into Servo)

I believe the article makes clear that they have.

>Servo main dependencies (SpiderMonkey, Stylo and WebRender) have been upgraded
User-agent might be a useful signal but treating it as an absolute flag is sloppy. For one thing it's trivial for malicious actors to change their user-agent. Cloudflare could use many other signals to drastically cut down on false positives that block normal users, but it seems like they don't care enough to be bothered. If they cared more about technical and privacy-conscious users they would do better.
Wait, really? I must be old. I technically have a LinkedIn but haven't really been on the site since the last time I was in the job market 8 yeras ago.

Very occasionally a potential client messages me through it but they are almost very low quality contacts.
Are you happy with the state and trajectory of education in Canada?

Ontario is the wealthiest, most populous and most diverse. Are you happy with education there?
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
I think the real metric should be childhood household income. That transcends race or gender and universally inhibits the child in almost every measurable way.
They pretty quickly publicly abandoned that algorithm, so they may have recreated it (since the core stuff is pretty reproducible as the blog states) but yeah, that competition being brought up without bringing up that they abandoned it is interesting.
Damore’s letter was extremely balanced and had all the appropriate caveats about being applied to individuals. But what we’re seeing as the countervailing force to “woke” and “DEI” is unfortunately not like this. It’s as reactionary as the most egregious DEI programs.
The rest of this comment section is the same sentiment mixed in with trying to make excuses for Cloudflare. So... it is helpful. Stop allowing a private company to control and MITM the entire internet.
> They can make someone who says heinous things, sound presidential.

They do that by lying and gaslighting their voters. Fox News will call January 6 a "day of peace" and refuse to show the footage from that day of the insurrection, to the point where when Republican voters are shown footage of insurrectionists beating cops with American flags and crushing them in doors, they are surprised that's what actually happened.

That's the degree of information control that's necessary to make Trump sounds presidential, and we shouldn't wish our own representatives to gaslight and lie to us like that.
Never listen to their words, only pay attention to their actions.

You hit it dead-on that a lot of these DEI initiatives were performance theater to appease some external force (as is most of business, when you really think about it). The existing leadership had zero intent to actually allow under-represented minorities into their ranks other than as a token or trophy figure who would kiss the ring and not rock the boat.

The real success (or failure) of DEI will be the next crop of leaders, not the current ones. The managers and leaders of tomorrow (who are the ICs and team leads of today) are acutely aware of how much of a Straight White Boy’s Club these leadership ranks are, and the vibe I get is increasing disgust at the proclamation of “merit” as justification for their tenure while (often minority) high performers are routinely exited out in favor of yet another H1B overseas.

I’m hoping this is just the last gasps of relevance from the status quo in the face of generational upheaval. Guess we’ll all find out together.
I've had an idea since I was a kid which I can share. I was contemplating AI and consciousness generally, probably around the time I read "The Minds I".

I reflected on the pop-psychology idea of consciousness and subconsciousness. I thought of each as an independent stream of tokens, like stream of consciousness poetry. But along the stream there were joining points between these two streams, points where the conscious stream was edited by the subconscious stream. You could think of the subconscious stream as performing CRUD like operations on the conscious stream. The conscious stream would act like a buffer of short-term memory while the subconscious stream would act like a buffer of long-term memory. Like, the subconscious has instructions related to long-term goals and the conscious stream has instructions related to short-term goals.

You can imagine perception as input being fed into the conscious stream and then edited by the subconscious stream before execution.

It seems entirely possible to actually implement this idea in this current day and age. I mean, it was a fever dream as a kid, but now it could be an experiment!
> Famously, years ago they invented House of Cards TV show by looking at the most popular search tags and picked the most popular ones to select a genre and theme of a new show

This does not appear to be true based on any articles I can find. I do believe they heavily follow the trends from their analytics in what the shows they buy and what they cancel, though.
Good point. A compensation model used by startups is outdated (and not only for engineers).
Most of these megacorporations have no beliefs or values except their own profits and growth. Everything else is political expediency. This is just based on a lifetime of observing their behavior.
In that case, I don't think there's any reason to believe that it's objectively good. Some preferences are met, some are not, but there isn't any requirement that they are either way. In that sense, I suppose it is indeed all meaningless chemical signaling.

(for what it's worth, I do not accept this view as truth, in part because if it is "true" there isn't any real sense of truth for it to be of significance)
Doing a temple stay at Koyasan is by far my favorite lifetime travel experience.
News from Scroll 5
The fair way is to do so at all levels of the pipeline because it turns out people can overcome their past if given the support and resources to do so. But it’s far easier and cheaper to invest early on. All that said, real structural racism and sexism and other prejudices continues to exist, and so the pipeline will always be a problem.

But a company like Google, which makes obscene profits every quarter, should be doing far more at all stages to fight the effects of that prejudice, because if whole categories of people are unprepared to work at Google because of societal failures, that’s huge numbers of potentially fantastic employees Google is missing out on.
You need to read more instead of repeating Russian propaganda. The $100bn didn't "go missing". Zelensky is never seeing that money because it is not for him, it is for replenishing the US military stocks given to Ukraine with newer equipment.

https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/
And the wife of an elderly holocaust survivor being honoured during that visit called him sociopathic as he seemed unmoved by the experience and more interested in a photo op.
I have seen this regurgitated several times on this site now. This is blatantly false, congress passed a law in 1998 to establish USAID. The EO was made with authority that had been granted by another law.
That law does not allow the President to abolish it:

> Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5.

- 22 U.S.C. §6563

All it takes is a simple google search.
> The problem here is that the notion that "DEI is just a loose label for having less discrimination in the workforce" is always hidden behind by people who want to use it for more forceful discrimination.

Nah. The problem is dishonest hucksters who want to broadly label everything, regardless of applicability, as bad in an effort to provide their supporters with an easy “anti-X” bumper sticker.

DEI advocates came up with DEI to do precisely what you suggest - the right wing rebranded it as “everyone hates white men” and “be afraid of black pilots”. Almost like they just did the same thing with “woke” and “CRT” before it.

It’s extremely tiring to have people like you waltz into conversations to complain about terms you’re busily redefining, being used in their original context, because you don’t like what your own redefinitions imply.

> _class and income_

Yes, part of my company’s DEI effort was to ensure that a JD didn’t, for instance, specify a college degree if it wasn’t really needed. Thank you, again, for restating things that are already occurring because you’re not a part of those conversations or are unaware of those conversations.
Not that hot, maybe 50-60C, enough to get the moisture out of the filament and into the desiccant while not melting your spool or filament.
Was thinking to add a small fan to it one of these days, connected to a battery and on/off switch, but it's working really good as it is.

Just to add to this, i print mostly PETG and PETG-CF, barely any PLA.
About time and no more easy rides or passes for anyone. Everyone equally gets the brutal Leetcode hards treatment.

Either you pass the threshold or you don't. No excuses.
Yeah I just use old Reddit, which still works like that.

Cannot stand unsolicited content.
Cloudflare's proxy model solved immediate security and reliability problems but created a lasting tension between service stability and user choice. Like old telecom networks that restricted equipment, Cloudflare's approach favors their paying customers' needs over end-user freedom, particularly in browser choice. While this ensures predictable revenue and service quality, it echoes historical patterns where infrastructure standardization both enables and constrains.