skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually read the (first half) of the paper.

I can't speak to whether or not Nature should publish this, but I don't find the outcomes in the paper spectacular. In brief, they create an ontology -- in the initial examples, four made up color words, each corresponding to a real color and then three made up 'function' words, representing 'before', 'in the middle of' and 'triple'.

They then ask humans and their AI to generate sequences of colors based on short and progressively longer strings of color words and functions.

The AI is about as good at this as humans, which is to say 85% successful for instructions longer than three or four words.

The headline says that GPT4 is worse at this than MLC. I am doubtful about this claim. I feel a quality prompt engineer could beat 85% with GPT4.

The claims in the document are that MLC shows similar error types to humans, and that this backs some sort of theory of mind I don't know anything about. That's as may be.

I would be surprised if this becomes a radical new architecture based on what I'm reading. I couldn't find a lot of information as to size of the network used; I suppose if its very small that might be interesting. But this read to me very like an 'insider' paper, its target other academics who care about some of these theories of mind, not people who need to get sentences like 'cax kiki pup wif gep' turned into real color circles right away.
The article doesn't say but my understanding is this was a 13% reduction in all-cause mortality as in they measured the number of children who died during the time period and that went down by 13%. Not that 87% of malaria related deaths still occurred. A 13% reduction in all-cause mortality is quite large. To know how effective the vaccine is at stopping malaria related deaths you'd need to know what % of those who were dying were dying to malaria. If it was 14% then the vaccine is performing insanely well if it was 50% more work needs to be done.
let's see...

English speakers tend to have a vocabulary of 30k words or so depending on what exactly you measure.

GPT-4 has 1.7 trillion parameters.

Of course scaling up is quite unpredictable in what capabilities it gets you, but It's not that much of a stretch to imagine that a GPT-4 sized model would have a reasonably sized vocabulary. Certainly worth testing if you have the resources to train such a thing!
I like your vibe. Execution > Idea.

It's def true for so many startups that they are really really slow in execution.

You need to find developes that execute and not talk about 2 hours in a retrospective about clean code.
See Google/Alphabet's latest quarterly earnings.

There's a decent chance that in a few years GCP will be no more.

I had an argument with one of the biggest investors in Google a few years ago, in which I was predicting exactly this scenario. He didn't believe me.

Perhaps I was right after all.

GCP lost a ton of money since its inception. Its leadership is so far away from being able to run this business properly, that I would never recommend anyone to put all their eggs on GCP.

Plus, as your company scales, you should REDUCE, not increase, your cloud usage, in favor of a properly optimized on-prem.

Well, just my 0.02. What do I know, right?
> I don't think he was shitting on command line tools

Yes he is; he put "You can't do good work with bad tools" in bold.
Functional 2D-enabled microchips become reality – KAUST Discovery
What Is a Good Manager?
I have been asking this question to myself, and from my past experience all of the managers/leadership I have worked with have a survival mode. They basically do things that protect themselves from getting replaced, or make themselves to be a control point of the team. Why is that?

My current manager does these things that irks me a lot -

1. Every 1:1 starts with a small negative thing about you, and mentions that its only vocal feedback saying they are on my side and won't write it in performance review.

2. For every conversation with customers or partner teams, insert themselves saying <nullecksor> will help you on this. Sometimes even after my correspondence.

3. Call you a lead/critical SME of the team, but never acknowledge it in writing, or in any forums.

4. Recently - make critical decision in 1-1s and just convey the understanding to you in your 1-1 instead of talking/making decision in team meetings. I feel like all the conflicts and incorrect decisions to resolve are under the carpet somewhere.

Are these good traits of a manager, or am I imagining something?
I walk to each customer site and use telnet for the HTTP requests.
Shipping tools as a git repository sounds delightful, at least to my engineering-minded heart. So painless! Free versioning! Rollbacks!

If we were in the devtools business I would certainly consider that. Sadly, though, owners of small retail businesses tend not to be as comfortable with version control as one might hope…
I use marketplace and a few groups because sadly people have migrated to those from other platforms.
Here's one I saw today on X

https://x.com/levelsio/status/1717183107529576672
Facebook Marketplace is a good product in my opinion. There is a ton of value in ensuring potential buyers/sellers are not scammers.
My problem is with the sites existing, which is what my original comment is asking about. The people using them to guage severity is a symptom of the problem of these sites being a thing, and is naturally going to happen in a world like this. If the website marketing doesn't exist, the people using them to gauge severity won't be able to do so. Treat the problem not the symptoms.
> every second or third post is a fucking ad

that's how
This was a great read, super interesting, and I hadn't seen anything like this article before.
They look at differences across comparable regions that got the vaccine and regions that didn't with time period controlled for so I'd say they account for that.
Your bonus is not part of your salary. It’s part of your total compensation.
Somewhat inline with their announcements. Last year they were at 86000 employees, and announced two rounds of layoffs totaling 21000 (11000 followed by another 10000). This number seems to line up with that.
/proc is amazing once you get the hang of it and get a good understanding of what's all in there. Especially if you're doing low level performance tuning.

It's particularly helpful in larger infrastructures where tool variability means differences in available commands, their output, and cli options. I'm sure /proc iteration has its own issues of variability across large infrastructres, but I haven't seen it. It's a fairly consistent API. Or at least it was, since I haven't touched a large infrastructure in some time.

When I got tired of `lsof` not being installed on hosts (or when its `-i` param isn't available) I ended up writing a script [1] that just iterates through /proc over ssh and grabs all inet sockets, environment variables, command line, etc from a set of hosts. Results in a null-delimited output that can then be fed into something like grafana to create network maps. Biggest problem with it is the use of pipes means all cores go to 100% for the few seconds it takes to run.

[1] https://github.com/red-bin/lsofer
I think you're absolutely right there's something extremely wrong going on.

My point was the people who supported the policies that got us into this mess need to recognize that the solutions they want don't exist with what they supported in the past. So sacrifices need to be made.
I am 100% on board with free and easy assignment of CVEs and a central database of them. I just don't think they are a good place for keeping vulnerability details, because it is too rigid. Having a link to relevant details is good enough, and if the link happens to just include everything in it then I'm fine with that.
Maybe somewhat off-topic, but visiting this URL causes my Ubiquiti setup to trigger a Security Alert about an Incoming connection from the IP that hosts plover.com related to TOR (screenshot of the alert: https://share.cleanshot.com/J1cfSd1W)

Curious if anybody else experienced this, and what's behind it?
Lawful evil people can often be *very* smart.

Thinking intelligence and morality are aligned has terrifying conclusions that you may do well to investigate.
> every second or third post is a fucking ad.

Maybe that's where the money is coming from?
Simple roundabouts are definitely good but in UK I have found spiral roundabouts error prone if you have not driven on it before Example: [1]

When visiting for the first time on a specific spiral roundabout:

1. Lane markings are faded

2. You do not know the specific lane unless you come very close to it and have to make a quick decision

3. Often due to queued traffic you cannot even see the lane marking until its too late.

Because of this I have seen people change lanes on a roundabout because they made a mistake and its dangerous.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sainsbury's/@51.5080462,-0...
> Whatsapp

Which Facebook owns as well, not they actually monetize it though.
Whatever these things are, they can't be very impressive if they weren't worth putting on the front page. Can you tell me one of the new things? Because I can't find any.
Technically adept people aren't the target market for their advertising platforms but yet they are staffed by ... technically adept people. It confounds me how anyone would want to work there. The money must be really good.
I completely agree with you . I would even go further: even if you can, you probably do not want to build a set of fully zonal services. As you said, there are some features that you want to provide which should affect "global" entities, like IAM or billing. For this kind of stuff, I believe that it makes sense to have some simple, globally unique components -and carefully plan around their failure scenarios
Treat the problem not the symptoms. People can't use the marketing site to gauge severity if they don't exist.
two of those guys would cancel out.
> And you base that assertion on what?

Lots and lots of prior research, as well as direct experience talking to people who run these kinds of experiments. It's practically the #1 most common theme you will hear from anyone who has run a public health campaign in a third-world country.

Just for example [1]: "From the onset, Northern Nigeria presented an extreme challenge. The transmission of polio in Northern Nigeria was due to complex health, economic and social issues such as poor demand for and access to health services, low immunization coverage, few available skilled health workers, extreme poverty, low literacy, and community resistance to immunization and government services. Other factors such as the safety of the vaccine, religious factors, and community distrust of government health systems played a major role in increasing transmission. This led to a reemergence of polio in Nigeria, especially in the Northern states. Even in areas where polio immunization was not controversial, failure to engage parents and discuss why a fully vaccinated child may develop polio disease, for instance, reinforced and increased parents’ negative perceptions of the polio program."

> "mysterious doctor-magician", do you think about what you're implying here?!

I'm not implying anything. I'm saying it explicitly. I'm certainly exaggerating for effect, but I'm saying it explicitly: lots of people in poor countries are fearful of medical professionals.

I don't know why that's surprising -- it's true right here in the USA, as well, and one of the reasons why certain ethnic groups have disproportionately bad medical outcomes.

> less likely to believe in anti vax or other anti science prkpaganda across all classes

Oh, stop. Nobody in this discussion is "anti science" -- I have a doctorate, in a biological science. Nor am I "anti-vax".

It's helpful if you don't characterize people who critically analyze research with an entire class of fictional villains. Because that actually is what scientists do.

[1] https://www.ajtmh.org/configurable/content/journals$002ftpmd...
I think that would probably be best, unless this type of thing is well documented (although I don't see it entering ANSI SQL).
If you think about a house, you can say you have a plumbing system, or an electric system. You can also say you have a 'comfort system' or a 'support system'. Its same use of 'system' but its a totally made up idea, nowhere to be seen.

So, in the body, you can see a digestive system, lymph system, etc. But there is no 'immune system' - its just an idea. Its a label without something to be assigned to.
"We're going to ask you to write code for four years. Professional coding may not be the point of this curriculum but coding is still the primary way you're going to interact with it. And don't you dare take even a week to sharpen the saw out of those those four years, because that's not the point of this curriculum! Saw with that dull saw! Saw harder! Because sawing is not the point of this school, so we're not going to teach you, so just saw harder!"

How is this a sensible position? It's not even "vocational training" being called for here, it's basic fundamentals for anyone who is going to code. I can tell you from experience that data scientists could stand to be oriented on the basics of this stuff too, and it would pay off in less time than just the course that taught it, let alone the full curriculum, let alone a career.

This is agreement with you, btw. Of course the very basics of management of programming should be taught. Of course the stuff in the blog post should be taught formally in some introductory class. Who trains their football players by just having them play games over and over? Who teaches musicians by just having them play concert music? Who expects English students to improve by just writing journal articles continuously? Every field has some sort of basics to it that aren't the actual output of the field but will cause anyone who is weak in them to waste arbitrary amounts of time spinning uselessly on useless irrelevancies.
Powering on a Desktop Computer Remotely with a Raspberry Pi
If

doing CS = learning all the intricacies of how modern software works under the hood in college

and

web development = writing common patterns with a few modifications

then yes, the prof is right. Modern web dev is mostly passing json around while using common patterns in frameworks like React. My cousin with zero college education was able to get an 80k a year job doing web dev after spending a year doing free bootcamps online and working a few open source projects.
London hardly needs to track you with parking apps. Ubiquitous ANPR cameras will instantly flag up any vehicles of interest. If you want to drive into the city to do something naughty, better swap license plates!
It's my hardcore held belief that the cloud industry could wildly be disrupted if it was easy enough to order 5 year capacity contracts. Then AWS / GCP etc would be left with just the elastic demand, rather than the inelastic profit center.

However - this would take a huge amount of upfront investment, have high risks for black swan events against 5y contracts without crypto-style escrow, and I have been unsuccessful pitching this direction in elevators to folks, which makes me think I don't have a visceral enough idea.
Meta could probably get by with 30,000 employees let's see if Zuck is that ambitious.
> I try to minimize lane changes when I drive.

Same here, but by the end of a recent trip to Iceland, two lane roundabouts were easy-peasy. The learning curve is short in my experience.
I had a product to help political campaigns canvas neighborhoods door to door. In the early days there was a "smart walk sheet" feature, which would magically pick the optimal doors to knock given how much time you had (e.g. 2 hours after work).

While I was building out this feature, I'd stay up late in the night manually selecting clusters of houses and setting them for the customer, so the next morning they'd be greeted with what looked like our backend systems auto-magically picking the perfect cluster of houses.

The bonus of doing it manually for a while is that I found a lot of edge cases I would have missed otherwise. The initial release of the finished feature was rock solid thanks to what I learned.
Okay, thanks for the correction! Didn't knew that.

I checked the author post. Normally it's pretty quick to post here as soon as something is "noticed".
> 4) Hypergolic just means chemicals spontaneously combust on contact with one another; it has nothing to do with environmental risk.

Lmao, what are some hypergolic propellants that aren't toxic? They're insanely reactive by their very nature, that means they will react and fuck with anything that's alive. They're intrinsically incredibly toxic.
Says you.

I like how snappy it is and once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts I feel I am as productive as when I used to use a "traditional" editor/IDE.

Additionally, I can connect to my workstation from anywhere and have the exact same environment compared to when I am at the office.

Finally, battery life on my laptop is better than when using VSCode with the electron baggage it brings with it.
So is the Metaverse fever dream truly dead? I see the Meta Quest goggles dropping in price but Meta also began promoting the new Ray Ban "smart glasses":

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/new-ray-ban-meta-smart-gla...
Rivers and their tributaries change paths all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBivwxBgdPQ
I've gotten really good at ignoring notifications from the reminders app and then forgetting about them entirely until it's too late.
Sounds like the very few people who are concerned about this can easily get a smaller install.
> It seems we will do anything to avoid the obvious - we need to reduce energy use and transition to green generation.

The idea behind carbon capture projects is this: for years, we have been given warnings that "if we cut all emissions now, we will still be okay", to "if we cut all emissions now, it won't be too bad", and now we're at the stage where even if we meet our emission targets, things are still going to be bad.

If we want to avert disaster, we now need not only to cut emissions, but ALSO to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere. So, these projects are here to try and fill that unfortunate new need, because just cutting emissions will no longer... cut it.
Here we go, the biggest success of AWS is making people believe there's no alternative.

- there are a lot of companies that nowadays operates their computing infrastructure.

- there is a lot of space in the middle, you are not forced to choose just over full self-host and full-cloud, there is colocation, hosting, providers like hertzner, digital ocean and so on.
What is the goal of environmentalism? Avoiding short term harm or fostering sustainability in the long term?

You don't think reaching out further into the universe will give more people the pale blue dot viewpoint and could cause more people to care more about earth when they realize how fragile and insignificant it is?

What about moving industry off the earth in the distant future? Wouldn't that be good for earth in the long run?
I had read elsewhere that POSIX tr was not capable of this, but it appears that I am wrong.
* Marketplace is the defacto place to buy/sell locally

* Groups are about 1000x better in quality and organic posts than Reddit
I would also call myself an environmentalist, yet statements like this are the major reason I've been reluctant to identify as such loudly or often. Misguided environmentalists have for a long time been steadfastly opposed to nuclear energy for example, and I have not.

The on-the-ground reality is that concern for and protection of the natural environment are relatively recent practices and must be balanced against the continued technological and sociological progress of humanity. Otherwise, the answer is easily that the best thing for "the environment" is the complete extinction of humans. While some people may want to give that a serious treatment, I've always wondered why those people don't volunteer to go first.

Likewise, poorer societies produce less pollution than wealthier ones, so environmentalists willing to forego any kind of human progress in favor of protecting the environment should at least consider migrating altogether to countries without telecommunications infrastructure.

We don't yet know what all of the benefits and costs will arise from a lower barrier to space exploration. But, humans exist all over this planet right now because exploration is part of our nature. Rejecting space exploration out of hand is to reject our very nature -- a curious argument, from a naturalist.
Alas, you’ve found the reason this won’t scale. Doing customer support as the CTO is a superpower (up to a point!) for both user growth and product design. But there’s going be to come a point where we have to hand some portion of support over to a dedicated support team, and no matter how well we train those folks they’re just not going to be quite as empowered and effective. The longer I can kick that can down the road, though, the better!

(At least for the business. My sleep schedule would improve amazingly!)
I think the idea is that while the committee size might grow, it shouldn't/doesn't need to grown in proportion to the size of the overall congressional size, leading to fewer committee assignments per rep.
Gabe Brown: treating the farm as an ecosystem

https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A?si=RnMka7Nnx0yZ3Tqm
Not necessarily. Some roundabouts have the center circle partially paved so that oversize loads can drive right through if needed. There are curbs, speed bumps and road pillars that make it obvious for normal traffic not to take the shortcut.

It also doesn't fully protect vehicles already inside the roundabout. My father got rear-ended once while inside a roundabout by a possibly distracted driver and the car was a near write-off.

The main advantage of roundabouts is traffic fluidity. When compared to intersections with stop signs or traffic lights, unless it is full you can often enter a roundabout without coming to a complete stop first.
Whatever you think of other people's technical opinions, their opinions on the use of common resources, including land, environment, and money, are as valid as yours.

It's easy to rationalize writing off others - for politics, education, etc. - but I find they have insights that I lack, and I learn a lot by listening (and do bad things when I ignore them). Also, they don't go away, and then you're shocked and outraged when the vote doesn't go your way.
I happened to note the use of the term "avatar" to refer to players' in-game representation. This pre-dates the 1992 date cited by the Online Etymological Dictionary (based on Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash). I'm curious if there are earlier references which might exist, either up to the game's introduction in 1985 or perhaps even earlier still?

<https://www.etymonline.com/word/avatar>
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Cloudflare detects downtime of the underlying cloud/host.

You'll literally see a cloudflare error page and think it would be related to them, while it's actually the underlying provider.
Personal blogs, or any other website, have nothing to do with creating branding and dedicated websites to disclose security vulnerabilities. Computer bugs have logos.
> it's about not eating through all of your battery before you're done watching the video

we're talking about hours of playtime before you run out of power, you can verify this on your own phone on youtube right now, go enable av1 and marvel at how YOUR phone can play these videos at 1080p

> Overall AV1 real-time playback of 720p 30fps @ 2Mbps is feasible for low-end devices with 4 threads and 1080p 30fps @ 4Mbps is feasible for high-end and mid-range devices with 4 threads using Dav1d decoder

Why only 4 threads? My phone from 2020 has 8 cores/8 threads and a 720p screen

https://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_a32-10454.php

So even if it doesn't handle some 1080p videos that I haven't tested, I should probably be watching them at 720p since that's all my phone can do.