skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alas, no, though I'm going to think out loud a bit. I've had to go from making a comment like this once a month to twice a week, so I'm curious what pops out as helpful to point to.

Forgive opinionated language, it's more concise and is more clear to you what exactly I can give evidence of:

- December 22: proto-AI influencers are latching onto GPT4 rumors as a source of engagement. Bunch of people start repeating "RUMORS say GPT4 has ONE TRILLION parameters" Altman laughs, most people laugh, it's not quite so big a community yet.

This percolates, but you kinda ignore it: it's to non-tech people and it's unfalsifiable.

- Feb 23: GPT3.5 API announcement, run out of news, and GPT4 stuff circulates again. MS Euro executive throws gas on the fire by confirming it's release 1.5 weeks earlier. These claims circulate in coverage of what GPT4 might be. However, the circulation is 99.99% in non-tech circles still.

- Mar 23: GPT4 comes out, by now "Chinchilla scaling laws" went from something 10% of tech following AI knows about, to maybe 0.1%. OpenAI releases ~0 information on # of parameters, training, or runtime details, just a visualization of a Chinchilla-fit scaling curve and that they were able to predict the models abilities in advance based on scaling laws.

- Apr 23: GPT4 release content is old now, people needing content venture into claiming details about the model from leaks -- its just the same the trillion parameter thing.

- May 23: Tech substacks beging offering a perspective on AI. They're new and don't know enough to know Altman laughed it off...and that it would be absurd for 100 other reasons. It comes up. A particularly famous blog handwaves about "mixture of experts" to explain how the trillion parameter number could make sense given the most basic reason why they wouldn't, Chinchilla scaling, and the most factual reason it isn't: Altman laughing it off. "Altman was just parsing the idea closely to hide details, it was a showman stunt!"

- Jun 23: The tech community interested in AI outstrips the sober-minded/experienced with LLMs by 1000:1, and this sounds plausible, and it's unfalsifiable. There is no proof it _isn't_ true, and it could be true, and it's a comfortable way to "understand" without putting in the work to understand. People start laundering it to HN in subdiscussions. I see it once the whole month.

- end of July 23: I've seen it every week in July, twice this week.

This is the first time I've seen the mixture of experts simplified to "it generates 16 answers and picks one" ---

which is a thing!

Except that's top-K.

And it's a _completely independent claim_ from the original misunderstandings, and it is a misunderstanding of the misunderstandings that shores up the weak points of the misunderstandings.

Yet, the claim only would make sense if the misunderstandings were true at their face, weak points and all: generating 16 from the same model has existed for a very very long time. I only got in on this in 2019, but its been around since then, and I'm almost certain someone with formal ML training will pop in and say "1965 bro"
I created some libs for Lit to make things easier:

LitState: Shared component state management - https://github.com/gitaarik/lit-state

LitStyle: Shared component styles - https://github.com/gitaarik/lit-style

LitDocumentEvent: Global event handling - https://github.com/gitaarik/lit-document-event

Also check out "Lion" from ING, which contains all kinds of handy components that you can use and configure and style to use them in your app: https://github.com/ing-bank/lion
Not sure it "changed my game" but I have a process that I run on many files at once. In a *nix I would run the processes like so:

for i in list_of_files; do
run_intensive_process &
sleep $(awk '{print $3}' < /proc/loadavg)
done

As more processes start upping my load average, it sleeps longer before running each one in the background. I guess GNU parallel can do this sort of thing with a load-sensitive command line arg, but I find this pattern easy to remember, and parallel's decidedly not.

Works for me.
It's a solved problem, use scratch, distroless, or buildpacks.
> Then how do you know it's prevalent?

Let's just say I have a personal blacklist of therapeutics companies I will NEVER seriously work for (though I have done a couple things for them that satisfied my conscience), and a few electrical schematics squirreled away should I need to defend myself someday....
No, I am saying it does not help typical developer. My personal opinion is that it is damaging joints (including spine discs). My trainer also does not recommend it. But I am not really qualified on this subject.
> Other projects tried to do that too. And before systemd.

Which ones you mean?

> The unfortunate lesson of systemd is that playing politics will help you win over your competitors.

The way I see it, systemd knew who the "customers" were. Not so much normal end-users, as distro maintainers.

It heavily appealed to people sick of writing hundreds of init scripts
Just a little thing but it would help a lot if terminal input lines were at the top of the screen by default.
I’ve been fortunate enough to know a few older people who really loved their work and were excellent at it. All of them had one thing in common: they didn’t want to retire.

Meanwhile all of my peer group is obsessed with FIRE and dream of retiring early. All of us are also involved in pretty meaningless work that has no measurable impact on the world (five lines of code to a million line codebase is hardly world changing).
Maybe through the lens of culture war nonsense the Ukraine war proves that. Ukraine's army isn't more effeminate lol, they're just less associated with Fox News
> Except you literally can't do random distribution AND be compliant with UUIDv7 if you use any sort of normal lexical sorting/indexing, as they use the start of the key as the most significant bits. UUIDv7 is literally designed to have stable lexical sorting orders, have the time as the most significant bits, and have the most significant bits of the time as the most significant bits of the key! It's their primary design criteria!

> You can't 'prioritize' random parts of a key for sorting without writing a bunch of custom sorting (and key parsing) logic, which is generally undesirable for a number of reasons - and frankly completely unnecessary in these cases. You just wouldn't use UUIDv7 (or probably a UUID in general), and the benefits would pay for themselves very quickly anyway.

Forget prioritizing, that was about going fully random. Seriously, let's pretend I never said that specific sentence.

Let's focus on just the sharding scenario. None of what you said there conflicts with what I said about sharding.

Unless these database engines are so incompetent that you can't shard on something as simple as id[12:16]?

> I'm pointing out that for some systems, that makes UUIDv7 unsuitable because you WANT the keys to be randomly distributed to avoid hotspots. Using UUIDv7 in these situations will result in a single node receiving all writes (and all reads for a given time range), which in the dataset sizes I'm referring to is usually impossible to handle. No single node can handle that kind of load, regardless of how efficient it may be.

You only want the keys to be randomly distributed at the sharding layer. Once it reaches its home node, you don't want random distribution within that node. At best you begrudgingly accept it.

It's within a node that things like "normal lexical sorting" matter the most, so UUIDv7 does a great job of making that smooth.

You don't need lexical sorting between shards, especially when you're randomizing the shard.
This is blaming the FDA for lack of treatment, not the recentness of the treatment.

That all the MRNA treatments they refer to are in trials tells you everything you need to know: we don't know which work, we don't know how effective they are, and we don't know what they work on.

It is possible to enroll in trials for these treatments, but as they say they "may" be denied as they're so far along. But that's what you want: if a trial takes someone on who would be highly likely to die even if the treatment works then depending on the trial size it's possible that that one patient might skew the results such that the treatment is denied, or alternatively, another person who applied for the trial gets denied even though they had a higher likelihood of survival.

I can understand it being incredibly hard for this guy, but we have been through the alternative:

* Snake oil treatments: drugs that do nothing but bankrupt people

* Actively harmful treatments: drugs that literally make things worse, while bankrupting people

* Paid trial scams: you can pay to be part of a trial, which immediately allows for the above two despite a regulatory environment that ostensibly requires trials.

etc

Things like the FDA exist in response to prior actions, and once they've existed for a while, people forget that the only reason that they don't seem necessary, is because they are there. Much like the "unnecessary" financial regulations that were removed, and immediately resulted in banks creating the Great Recession.

Hence, it is not possible for the FDA to create a "patients can be 'treated' with untested treatments" loophole that is not trivially exploitable by the kinds of people that resulted in the FDA existing in the first place.
I didn't deny that homelessness is a problem, please re-read my comment.

Perhaps I've been "screaming the tune" for a decade but in that time the cost of housing has gone up dramatically. In 2009 I rented a 2-br apartment in Capitol Hill for $1,600 -- parking included. In 2019 I rented a studio apartment in the same neighborhood for the same -- parking not included. I can produce examples like this all day.

My point is, we haven't successfully tackled the problem of inequality and affordability. In my opinion, we must tackle the root problem if we hope to resolve the issue long term. We can do that _and_ address the symptoms in parallel. However if I had to bet, my money is on housing continuing it's inexorable rise over the next decade, pushing further people into destitution.

I've tried to respond in "good faith." Your turn.
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Indeed. In fact, it has been approximated that an E-core performs at about 25% of a P-core.[0]

[0]: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/05/making-the-most-of-apple...
Some of these trials had double digit percentage deaths within 30 days.
I disagree. There, proven wrong. Happy? I'm not going to engage with your argument until we've cleared up your initial point.

Now, back to my question: Then we are in agreement that the Pfizer CEO acted fully correctly and you shouldn't take this video as any evidence he hasn't taken the vaccine yet?
The lying seems like the problem there. Present the patient with accurate records of previous trials and outcomes, let them make an informed decision (with help from their doctor, if they're not scientifically literate) and I don't see a problem.
To be frank, this has an anti-capitalist smell and I don’t feel is written in good faith.

Sure there are managers that crack the whip, but most the places I’ve worked for, my manager was a former IC and cared deeply about the health of the product, while protecting the IC team I was on from the business side.

Learning more about the business portion and product manager viewpoints, gives me a more sympathetic tone to the whole situation.

We shouldn’t expect someone whose career they’ve focused on the business side to understand the software in depth. Sure there’s space to learn anything, but people have lives outside of career. Instead, a healthy company delegates these tasks out. It’s the responsibility of my manager to have one foot in the software, and one in the business, to help best translate and champion towards a common goal.

It’s the responsibility of her managers to respect the decisions she makes, and when hard lines are drawn for the sake of the health of the product to adhere to them. Within reason, of course.

This to me makes me feel excited to go to work (not every day, I’m not a psycho :) ), and makes me want to climb the ladder. I get paid well, produce value for the company, and get opportunities to work on challenges and with data/systems that I otherwise would not be able to.

With that knowledge, I can then take that to my side business and more effectively grow it. Don’t think there’s any “they’re taking the spoils” going on…
"Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state", as a wit later put it.

But yeah, reading Thucydides (also an out-of-sorts Athenian) leaves you with a lingering doubt about the inherent goodness of political regimes - "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
Imo the whole US medical complex needs competition from a small but sophisticated libertarian state without any of the regulations that formed the present system, and I think it will happen. The market demands it, and the world would be better off with some competition. Most likely it will begin with some small nation that sells anti-aging therapies.

There are companies from which you can order bespoke mRNAs. Lead times vary but are in the weeks. Many are abroad. The other components of mRNA vaccines can be assembled by someone with 2 years of biochemical Ph.D. experience. There are no laws against a person assembling and injecting themselves with anything.

I have extra sympathy for the writer of this article, since mRNA vaccines (even if they were a random sequence) are relatively lower risk than many other sorts cancer interventions which are FDA approved. I happen to be an ex-professor, who is a director at a drug company. I know that if I were the unfortunate author of this article, whose heart is in the right place. I would probably be injecting myself with my own janky version of whatever offered hope.

Whether that would actually change my prognosis? Probably not. I can say though that I _would_ and I believe others are entitled to positive freedoms I'd afford myself.
I think stuff like how Russian VDV https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Airborne_Forces was portrayed before war and what they actually have accomplished example of this.
Even better: shared storage where every website has access to the same storage data.

Log in once, on one website, then be logged in on all websites forever.
Try f droid store, all the apps there are required to be open source so there's fewer spy/malware. Or look for apps by secuso on the play store. Fwiw acode on f-droid doesn't seem to have ads.

I strongly agree it shouldn't be this hard to find simple stuff.
Using the fungal electrical activity for computing
The point I am making is not a rebuttal to this specific proposal but that any such change will have an attack vector. Hell, the reason we are having this discussion is because of the (unfortunate) case of someone not being served by the current policy. Any new change to the policy will have such cases which will lead to this same discussion.

Creating an equitable drug approval process is a true dilemma.
That is not due to apatite per se, but to the radioactive impurities that are included in the natural rocks with apatite, in other phosphates, like monazite.

The apatite that is used in food or in medical applications is pure, without such impurities. It is frequently obtained from bone meal, from cattle or other domestic animals, because this is cheaper than purifying the apatite extracted from rocks.
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The most desperate people ive met in the UK are those that grew up in a HCOL area to lower middle class/poor parents, went to university and did average jobs and paid 60% of their take home on renting a bedroom.

They would tell me that their retirement plan was a bullet.

I'm glad you're doing well though.
> Indeed, as he stated, he wants into two that are underway, but that he is probably too far along for.

The author is incorrect on this, he’s not too far along but he does not meet inclusion criteria for either of the studies he cited as both require systemic therapy.

mRNA is not being pitched or tested as a first-line mono therapy by Moderna. I’m not sure why the author is jumping the gun here and ignoring approved systemic treatment options.
I feel like one of the secrets to living longer is to have a reason to get up every day, a purpose to fulfill in life. And this guy certainly has one.
Would you email me? I'm really interested in learning about this. I have similar intuitions about places to avoid.
There certainly is reason. Did you know that after Washington defeated the British, his officers offered him a military dictatorship?

And he turned it down? Who does that? Who else in history did that?

When he became President, he turned down titles like "your Excellency" and other trappings of power. He voluntarily left after two terms, establishing a precedent that lasted until FDR.

How do you get more heroic than that?

As for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, terrible fates awaited nearly all of them.

https://michaelwsmith.com/the-sacrifices-made-by-the-declara...
You cannot catch a panic, only an unwind. And you shouldn’t assume that your panic will unwind as a downstream user of your crate can just as easily change panics to aborts
It's a myth, they are not. They are uneducated and lazy¹, not stupid.

Save for minorities with genuine learning disorders, people can learn how to click/tap a bunch of buttons in a sequence. They aren't running a PKI (that's on platform/browser vendor), they are just picking an identity from the list after all. They learn how to click the right buttons all the time, as UI designers' managers decide it's time for a new bonus and swing things around with a "new graphic language".

Basic certificate management (from end-user perspective) is not harder than password management. Passkeys are conceptually the exact same thing² as TLS client certificates, just without a purposefully neglected UI and a DIY attitude³ (TLS is supported by nearly anything, barely anything knows about WebAuthn JS shenanigans).

1) Not in a bad way. "Lazy" as in "lazy evaluation", not "lazy ass". Maybe there's a better word for this.

2) Save for some technical details, both are essentially keypair management.

3) There is almost no UI, it's just an API then all the visual bits are left out as an exercise to individual app designers (partially on platform/browser developers, partially on website developers). Browser vendors just hated those areas because they weren't deemed cool and fancy ([un]like some JS framework of the day) and shoved them under the rug as deep as they could. And unlike TLS, there is no standard how to pass data around, everyone invents their own `POST /login/webauthn` semantics.
The Amish have something to teach those of us who work in tech. Specifically, that it’s beneficial to take a look at new technology and decide whether it fits with how you want to live your life. There are many things about Amish culture that warrants criticism, but that aspect deserves consideration.
> What does limit creativity is having science a full-time job, AS THIS DOES COME OUT WITH SOME EXPECTATION OF RESULTS.

You're getting to my point. The thing about any research is that it is a lot of failure before success. Which makes progress hard to impossible to measure essentially until success is made.

Butt eh expectation of results is my problem. The tyranny of metrics. The fuzzier a goal is, the fuzzier the metric's guidance is. All metrics are guides btw. An academic's quality is extremely difficult to measure and citation, h-index, i10, and others do a shit job. The only way is to be subjective, because honestly only a researcher's peers know if they are doing good work or not, and that's even unreliable. I mean the job is literally to explore unknown areas. I'm not sure why anyone expects constant and big results. If you're constantly finding things you either hit a gold mine or you are staying pretty local and not doing much exploring.
>it's somewhat surprising that only one Mac officially could boot the Mac OS entirely from ROM, namely the Macintosh Classic (hold down Cmd-Option-X-O to boot from a hidden HFS volume with System 6.0.3).

This is not actually true: one other Mac could do this -- the Powerbook 100 could boot into System 6.0.8 (going by memory: I owned one).

The PB100 was the entry-level model of the original Powerbook launch range, and differed from the other Powerbooks, the 140 and 170. The latter were 68030 machines, but the PB100 ran on a 68000 and was designed by Sony -- it was physically smaller and lighter than the other two but used a weird lead acid battery that could run it for something like 40-50 minutes. Not sure why it booted MacOS 6 from ROM, but I suspect it might originally have been designed as a floppy-only machine to save battery power relative to the hard disk model they shipped.
> I encourage you to compare the productivity of the modern multinational corporation to any commune in history. The people working in collectives are not stupid or lazy. It's not an effective structure.

It’s a hard comparison to make when the goals of those two systems are vastly different.

I worked for a multinational software company and the amount of waste I saw was just staggering. If outside shareholders knew how little we actually produced on a day to day basis, they would probably be appalled. But because the company knew how to engage with market analysts, we looked good on paper. So much of the money made today involves just being the biggest player in a given market, regardless of how effective the product is (i.e. “nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft”)
Just depend on the tightly interconnected global trade and manufacturing pipeline needed to bring those Chinese solar panels to the middle of nowhere!

At this point Ford trucks are even more justifiable
Wow, such a winner: Long, healthy life full of accomplishments within a community where he is liked and he likes them back.

I wonder what people like Peter Thiel have to say about it, would he consider Rudy Marcus a "winner", maybe bigger one than himself? I recall something about Thiel looking down on the life choices and motivations of scientists.
> The Spartans left no written record and hardly any archeology.

Which also suggests they kind of sucked.
When I first used Rust, I was using failure and it just made sense to me. And then we got the 2nd (3rd?) wave of error libraries and nothing has ever made simple sense to me since.
Never saw this link and it’s wonderful, it’s exactly how I think of errors. Thanks!
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I mean, what did you expect from a product category that was basically born of the question "how can we use modern food science to create a product that appeals to vodka-soda drinkers, but falls under the tax regime of a beer?"
depends on which country we're talking about ;)
Quick question I like to ask to remote workers who have worked in office environments before:

Do you find your ergonomics are better or worse since switching to working at home? Or the same?

I've heard it both ways, but for me it's been harder to keep up healthy ergo habits at home. Not sure if it was peer pressure in the office that kept me using my standing desk better or what, but I definitely have slipped and my posture is noticeably worse lately.
Is it such a bad thing to dream of a life which values things outside of a workplace? To spend time with friends and family. The older generations cling to positions of power and refuse to make room for the newer generations, so it is upon them to find meaning and purpose through other avenues.

Retiring seems important for allowing younger generations to take their place. But if all you have is your work and you've lived for nothing more then I guess it makes sense to cling onto it until the end.
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