skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr Paul Mason claims that he has reviewed the studies on statins and found the only statistically significant effect was one study showed a 1 day shortening of life. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7r4j1u42V8 is one of his presentations.

Slightly aside - I've been trying to work out if the "Low Vitamin A" diet of Grant Genereux has anything to it. If someone cites his work, he's a random Joe Bloggs engineer with no medical credentials, so can't have an opinion. If someone cites a Dr such as Garret Smith, that's are arguing by authority and so it doesn't hold water. If someone cites papers, that's cherry picking. If someone argues with biochemical pathways and effects, they know the words but how can I verify if they understand them or are doing a human ChatGPT. If they argue from trial and effect, that's anecdotal and doesn't count. If they argue that big companies are lying for money, we agree that happened with tobacco and with DuPont and Teflon manufacture, but that's no proof it's happening in this specific case. If we argue from vegetarian vs carnivore that's argument from literary genre. If we argue from "ancestral" paleo scenarios, that's argument from story telling and fictional paradise. If we dismiss because it's conspiratorial quackery, we risk throwing the gold out with the riverwaters. If we find one or two flaws in the reasoning, that doesn't mean the whole thing has no substance. If we stand back and say "eat a balanced diet" that's a cop-out which assumes that there can be such a thing, and that we know what we are trying to balance, and have enough information to be able to do it.

It's rather difficult to decide anything as a layperson, other than "go with the mainstream recommendation" - except then Gell-Mann amnesia comes in. We know the "best practices" in computing are really more like the "cover your ass" recommendations of "nobody got fired for buying IBM" and inviduals can do much better than "best practices" in specific areas, but then turn to another area and we can't do better than go with the crowd ... except in nutrition terms, the crowd doesn't have a good consensus. Most people who eat a Standard American/Western Diet (SAD) are ill, as per the article here.
> yes you have the choice of not working on big corps.

Finally admitting the truth.

> You have to accept the risk that you might be a few emergencies away from bankruptcy.

Working for a BigCo doesn't magically protect you from emergencies. Accumulating $millions might protect you, but you don't just walk in the door of a BigCo and pick up your treasure chest. You have to work there for many years. In the meantime, you're subject to the same risks as everyone else. For example, lot of BigCos have been doing layoffs recently, which would put a big dent in the "for many years" plan. Also, if you suffer some kind of disability that prevents you from continuing to work, then you're screwed regardless.

Anyway, what makes you think you would be BigCo material? Not everyone is. The number of jobs is limited, and the competition is fierce. You might be able to get in the door by grinding leetcode, but once you're in the door you still need to make management happy in order to keep your job and win pay raises. The grind doesn't end.
I don't know how often it's a problem, but I work for a company doing software video encoding, and we always fill up all the dimm slots on servers to have as much bandwidth as possible, even if we have only really use maybe 1/4 of the RAM.

I'm not sure any of the standard Linux tools can show you memory bandwidth usage easily (maybe perf), I know we use Intel PCM (https://github.com/intel/pcm) and AMDuProfPCM (https://www.amd.com/en/developer/uprof.html)
In DDR5 you have two memory channels per module.
Observing OSIRIS-REx during the capsule reentry
Sir please refrain from whataboutism
“Google demanded Wired take down my op-ed, pointing to a single page I saw in court for only a few seconds. Wired sent it to me, and I said I needed to see all the pages shown in open court. Google didn't send. Without speaking with me, Wired deleted my op-ed.” https://twitter.com/megangra/status/1711035362326298795
Well, perfect as a quadruped carnivore. So at least somewhat specialized dietary requirements and no ability to do any complex manipulation of physical objects to the degree that a biped potentially can.

But, as a design within those constraints, yes.
You can petition for reevaluation every 3 years. Changing support obligations is not that hard. Changing custody is.

Your scenario is equally real for salespeople. Income is imputed based on last 3 years' earnings. If you get laid off and your spouse abandons you, you're expected to continue paying out based on your peak earnings. If the last few years were good to you, your next few will be hell.

It's not a good system but there aren't really any solutions that can't be gamed by the men.
It's almost like a foreign language! I was just in another discussion the other day about how I rarely use pen and paper, and how that affects my thoughts since my "native language" for thinking about the world is "stuff that can be said on a phone call, typed on a keyboard, or made with CAD primitives".

Back in the day when everything started on paper there might have been a bigger variety of abstractions, because people were starting with a literal blank canvas and making their own tools to implement their ideas rather than most people largely just exploring the possibilities that naturally fit existing tools.

Stuff is way easier now and overall tech is so much better, but I wonder if part of the cool factor people feel about old stuff is from the lack of constraint.
For those curious if their devices are supported. The list is here:

https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/guide-support...
A quarter of people are authoritarian by nature, this baseline percentage hasn't really changed through the years (although it can vary up or down a bit due to circumstances - a lot more people would find themselves in that camp immediately after 9/11, for example). Technology is not going to do much because people are not blank slates as much as we like to believe otherwise; it's genetically built in. So unless we propose to drug people/alter their DNA, authoritarians will still predominantly exist.

Better give those people a benign / benevolent version of a role model than leave it up to chance.
Recently someone made a quote on twitter asserting that trying to live from open source without a proper business plan, is like hoping people listening for free music radio will actually buy the record.

Or as I like to point out, living as street artist.

Sure one does get some money out of it, yet on its own its isn't going to pay all the bills.
Debian can't really directly pay contributors (there are some rare few cases like lawyers, etc....), so that would be one of the reasons for what the article is talking about.

The best thing someone could do in this scenario would to be hire someone to work on/improve Debian directly.
My career in house started at around 2011.
I did only contracting before that starting at around 2004.
I used to hate contract work because at the time I was very new and was heavily invested in academics.
I really just wanted to work in a team environment.
I had a strong desire to work directly with my peers so that I could learn the trade.
After I got my first real in house job I loved it for about the first 5 years.
Then I kept growing in my career and moving to larger companies where "scrum master" was a title.
I hated everything about programming from there on because the job became about constantly trying to measure something useless while also doing it differently every new try...

As of last 3 months I have completely stop working in tech.
I will only ever come back to tech as a contractor.
I'm rebuilding my personal site to go as a consultant and contractor only from here on.
I'm literally pulling down my resume today so that I stop getting harassed by these stupid recruiter Indian call centers.

I will never willing work in a corporate hell scrape again and if I choose to it will be on my terms.

I honestly think if this blog post resonated with you, you should just go work for yourself.
It's far more rewarding even if its harder work to be your own boss.
Good riddance to complacency and incompetence!
Shift Typing
You're proving everyone's point that outrage drives attention: one can get a lot of engagement from deliberate misunderstanding. No, those were not the goalposts to anyone but the most pedantic of pedants.
> If you were hoping for a mechanistic explanation, that's all the article offers.

Because evolution is a very big “just so story” that’s the best you’ll ever get from an evolutionary analysis.

I think it came off as an arch conversation to make an interesting but not profound point. Which is entirely appropriate. The interesting corollaries are why there are such a similar niches in different environments, and why monitor lizards might have experienced such similar convergence.
Efficiency Is the Thief of Joy
I ve been bootstrapping a one-man tech company my self, and with 100usd/month I have the following facilities: managed db with weekly backups, managed kubernetes with autoscaling(DO), ci/cd (GitHub + self hosted runners), VPN meshing (tailscale), and a bunch of other open source tools (airflow, selenium, etc). This would have required an entire IT department only 5-7 years ago
> Each individual busy beaver number can't be solved in theory for the same reason that the halting problem can't - if you try to check all n-state Turing machines to compute BB(n) some of them won't halt, and some of those you won't be able to prove that they don't halt.

Source? AFAIK we aren’t aware of any TMs which are impossible to prove loops forever. Turing’s proof only applies to finite halting code that works for arbitrary TMs and inputs. There will never be a solution for every busy beaver number for that reason. However I suspect for ex the program to compute BB(6) to be much larger than 6 states, (even just to print the number) so turings diagonalozation argument doesn’t fit.
https://archive.ph/XoBka
> Perpetually spending more and more money is not a solution.

That's how running a society works.

The criminalize and lockup method isn't free of cost

Are you expecting biological addiction to be like breeded out of the gene pool? How would a $0 cost solution eventually happen?
Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1 (2022)
Exactly. That's why I only play the `Skill Games` at the back of the gas station with my savings.
I really think this sounds like him. He was always a poetic and philosophical dude, very much a hippie in more ways than one. Another commenter mentioned it coming up in a recent book by Laurene Powell Jobs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812974
As they decay after death the bones fall and scatter in the process.
They are all legit, but serve different purposes (early vs late stage).
I would recommend starting from syndicates or investing with friends, so you have someone to guide you in the first steps.
Someone asked why it was easier but deleted their comment while I was replying.

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Shopify is all in one for many business, contrast that to 10-20 years ago where you had to build the entire storefront. There are several ways to accept online payments, the easiest by far being apple/google in-app.

Amazon fulfilment services mean you can skip on logistics (if you're a PHY company). Customers are used to buying things online now, everyone has a phone of some kind so you have an app channel you never had before...
My 7800X3D gets 2833, with an average package power of ~28W over the ST/MT benchmarks.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2986403

I can probably squeeze a bit more out if I boot to linux and cap the TDP for the MT tests.

I'm not saying the Apple silicon isn't impressive, but the 7640U (or any Phoenix silicon) isn't positioned as premium silicon like Apple's stuff. AMD would be using a wider bus, more on-die L3, faster packaged RAM, their TSV L3 or something like that if it was.
> tried Twitter for 2 months and his subscriber count sort of kind of didn’t grow as fast for 2 months

If he was giving it as much effort as Substack, and it wasn't paying off after 2 months, I think that's a fair criticism.

> He also didn’t really understand Twitter or how to use it (understandable after dabbling for only 2 months)

_Only_ 2 months? Mate, if I don't understand something meant for the mass-public after 2 months, that's not on me.

> ... so he concludes that “being on Twitter” is actually harmful to writers

I'm not sure I'd conclude that so black-and-white, but I can see his point. Being on Twitter can sometimes do more damage than it can be helpful to your brand. It's an cess pool of bad intent and mobbery where you have to watch every tiny thing you say, so I can see how it can be detrimental for writers.
https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choos...

Lots of other links you can find that explain the choice.
I am highly sympathetic to the problem, but if not being poor is a priority goal for a person, then being a writer/teacher is not an optimal career path. Hopefully this person's book makes a good amount of money.
Growing up in the country, we had various cats wander in and out of our house over time. Some were very happy to adapt to the warm bed and regular meals thing and others never really did.
At idle it draws .2W more, but at anything above that you get 2x the performance per watt, minimum.
I've written reminders of virtues to myself. It's not that weird. You say you wouldn't write it with a straight face, which is basically saying that you judge him for it. To which I'd say, get over it; everyone gets to handle their stuff in their own way. He surely didn't intend for you to read this. I'm sure you've done things in private which others would cringe at as well, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do them.
Try to get something like tinygrad[1] running locally, that way you can tweak things a bit, run it again and see how it performs. While doing this you'll pick up most of the concepts and get a feeling of how things work. Also, take a look at projects like llama.cpp[2], you don't have to fully understand what's going on here, though.

You may need some intermediate knowledge of linear algebra and this thing called "data science" nowadays, which is pretty much knowing how to mangle data and visualize it.

Try creating a small model on your own, it doesn't have to be super fancy just make sure it does something you want it to do. And then ... you'll probably could go on your own then.

1: https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad

2: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
Yeah, that would make a lot of sense. We should consider doing the same.
> China also has a shrinking population

Most developed countries have a shrinking population, excluding immigration from, well, less developed countries. Due to the one-child policy and preferences for a male child, there are now too many men, particularly in the military-eligible age groups. Sending them off to be war heroes will balance out the gender ratio and prevent an incel uprising in the future.
> Apple has nothing similar to V-cache.

Thanks for the second sentence.

AMD’s consumer gpus don’t use v-cache. Apple is using the same memory-on-package technique that fury x and Vega use. Rdna3 cache is not v-cache, just another flavor of mcm.
The era of startups isn't over. The era of low quality startups certainly is though, which is basically the point this article makes at the end among the general doomery. This in my opinion, is great news.

Being a startup can be conceived of as one possible path taken as an early phase in the business cycle, hard to see that changing. What is changing is now you have to be more realistic about justifying to others that you can be quickly scaled for a return. You need to have high natural growth underlined by great unit economics and the right plan to utilize capital to super charge that. Free money just meant wider bounds to take risks, which in a lot of cases turned into mediocre business. This is bad for everyone involved, VC down to consumer.

You now need to be more realistic about what is a lifestyle business or something that can be bootstrapped into a solid medium sized business through slow methodical growth instead of taking capital, flailing, reducing the product quality in a bid to survive, harm consumers and then dying anyway.

What I think this does harm unfortunately are moonshots, now you'll need to be even closer to some idealized SaaS with easily digestible metrics and plans to get funding. I imagine it's very very hard to separate a true moonshot that will succeed and revolutionize vs bunk and the risk profile has changed a lot, and quickly.

As a side note I also hope this reduces startup solely as a vehicle to acquisition and restores some novel public companies being created.
> if you removed all subsidies and taxes, I suspect planes would win handily

Until all transport is long-term sustainable in terms of environmental impact the cost calculus is messed up. Check out carbon footprint ranking of different modes [1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
Why do I care? I can't read things that fast

This isn't rhetorical. I can't answer the question
They don't need to be optimal, they just need to be better than others.

I'm just not persuaded all the random things about cats are necessary and THAT's why they are preserved.

Is the catnip reaction necessary for example? If not - they aren't optimal, they are just good enough - like every other species.
Depends on the task you are concerned with; see Roofline model [1]. It boils down to "how many ops will you do for each value you load from RAM to cache".

I don't know about typical consumer workloads, but e.g. for physics simulations, any time you need to solve a system where the value in a point depends on a lot of other points you are bandwidth limited. Like solving the pressure equation in fluid simulations. Also I believe a lot of traditional database workloads fall into this category.

You can measure memory bandwidth with the STREAMS benchmark.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofline_model
It’s a kind of evolutionary perfection in terms of optimality for an environment, including the loss of expression of unneeded features.

Which is an idea of “perfection” that I don’t believe the scientist being interview believes; rather it was just a fun way to express a point.
People keep talking down the US but the only advanced economy reliably innovating at scale. Especially in the post-COVID era, as China faces growth collapse.

You don't have to look far to see that all the major tech developments of our species are coming out of the US: Generative AI, Reusable Rockets, self-driving cars, mRNA, Genetic Engineering, NIF Fusion, VR, etc. The US could strike it out on any single item and spark another industrial revolution.

Plus we're still king of the hill in so many other categories (World's largest producer of energy, world's largest agriculture producer, world's largest military, etc.) If you're an investor, the idea that you'd bet against the US economy is a hilariously bad take.
I'm not the slightest bit interested in what Wikipedia has to say about it.

The US is a republic. Calling it a democracy is done by people who want a different form of government where the majority rules and can remove the rights of the minority.
> but interferes with heat removal and removes expandability

Eh. RAM generally consumes a single digit number of watts and will do so regardless of where it's physically located in the system.

If you put HBM on the CPU socket then you have to replace them together, but you can still replace them. It could also make sense to do both: If you have 16GB of HBM and 16GB of DDR5, you have 32GB of RAM and half of it is faster. Or 80GB of RAM and 16GB of it is faster. Cache hierarchies are a good way to strike a balance between performance and cost, and then the latter can still be expanded independent of the CPU.
okay, I like reading and thinking about cat’s evolutionary prowess too but this had little substance to match the title
A cat posing as an evolutionary biologist says it’s so.
There’s no known reason why we can’t compute any specific busy beaver number. We just can’t write code to list them indefinitely. No known reason why we can’t solve the first 100k, for example.

Whereas the halting problem is known to be unsolvable.

I just prefer things that are solvable in theory to things that aren’t.
I can't find an OPi 5 for less than $100, nearly double the price of the low spec Pi 5, and other good boards like the Rock 5 B start in the $130s.

I would love to see an RK3588S board for < $50, because the chip is incredible in terms of efficiency and feature set... but it's just so expensive still.
there's also https://kysely.dev/

but personally i handwrite my queries with https://github.com/porsager/postgres for flexibility and performance

most orms use node-pg lib which has shit performance.
It's the standard shell on OpenBSD.
Its just minor Google banner ads for me and a Taboola bar at the very bottom. That's about as good as it gets these days, even on sites like APNews.
Not even close to being a single-party problem. I know it's almost Halloween but you can do better than jumping out from around the corner yelling "Nancy Pelosi!"

> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/c...
But the rate can't be flat. Some types of carbon emissions are more important than others. That has to be taken into account, otherwise carbon tax will never be feasible morally or politically.
I was using git before github was even a thing. Ruby on Rails community was already moving to git in 2006 & 2007. Github was created by a couple of Rails developers that saw the popularity of git and responded.

I also tried Darcs, Bazaar & Mercurial back then. Those options were slooowww. Git largely won because it was blazing fast, and easy to understand. Probably having the cachet of Linus helped. I personally found transitioning from svn to git was a breeze.

I do have some quibbles about the structure of commands & arguments from an UX perspective with git, but ultimately it wasn't a dealbreaker.
Yup, also the userspace application that does the actual streaming is closed-source as well: https://github.com/OpenIPC/majestic

(The git repo is for bug reports only, no source-code there)
The folks at Consumer Report normally behave more sensibly so the fact that they only offer us a mobile app (no desktop/browser version?) with a snoopy sign-up process seems out of character, maybe even suspicious?
Some but not all of it run-of-the-mill corruption from the usual
suspects like Priti Patel. There's not much of Britain left to sell to
private equity and Big Tech, but they're always working on finding new
"markets".

https://www.ft.com/content/74782def-1046-4ea5-b796-0802cfb90...

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/amazon-signs-deal-with-brit...
> You're supposed to have to demonstrate harm to criminalize something

Normatively, I agree with you, but descriptively, that's false. Legislatures can criminalize almost anything they want as long as what they criminalize doesn't offend the constitution.
The headline and article are unnecessarily hyperbolic. It’s not “over” but yes if you’re trying to found a startup with a high burn rate and little prospects to be unit economics positive it’s going to be a rough ride. For new startups the bad ideas will just get filtered out earlier and not get funded. The ones that will have the most pain are later stage startups funded during period of excess that now have little future prospects and with no chance of raising the funds they need to keep going. Thats where we’ll see fire sale acqu-hire M&A activity or just flat out implosions.
Or a vast improvement in medical technology enabling new treatments for previously untreatable issues.
Again, you are making wild assumptions as you have no idea what it is for the 30%, it could be .5.
Not your info, Tesla’s - find a source that isn’t Tesla.