skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5000 IU daily for 5 years is crazy.

Vit D is fat soluble and will stay in the body a long time. Short term big bursts if you're deficient are probably fine, but more than 2000 IU a day for years makes me nervous.

for comparison, Vit C is water soluble and you can slam Emergen-C 2000 mg packets without issue as long as you're hydrated and have working kidneys -- you'll pee it out.
I’ve seen a lot of self-help stuff on habits but not perfectionism. I’d love to figure out a way to beat it because i think part of my laziness and procrastination is from anxiety around doing something i judge as bad.
That no fatalities bit is the crucial part. And for quality of life the amount of noise is just much better for bikes, which if you live somewhere with roads and bicycle lanes, you'd love for all the cars to go away and just have bicycles. You just need separates infrastructure, as a pedestrian you should almost never have to share a space with bicycles (or cars for that matter). And if you are on a shared space any sane design will make all cars and bicycles wait and slow down. And at that point they can't be annoying cause you don't have to go out of the way for them ever, they can wait (and seethe I suppose).
Also infrequent cyclists are often overdressed. You don't need to get out the spandex, but if the weather permits dress so that you are slightly cold while standing still. That gives you the thermal budget to heat up from exercise without instantly sweating.
For what it is worth, as an outside observer, I think your position comes of as nihilistic or stoic. It seemed to suggest or question the point of improvement, betterment, or desires entirely.

>to what end? Oftentimes, that tale goes like: "If I do this, I can get more money." Or: "If I do that, I can get a better partner." Once you get what you wanted, it's no longer what you actually want. One solution has caused ten more problems and you never feel any better really, other than for very short fleeting moments.
I think a lot of the push back in the US against bike lanes comes from bad bike lanes and a lack of a wholistic solution.

In most places I’ve been, the city will paint a line on a road where cars are going 50mph and call it a bike lane. There is no chance that will get me to start riding a bike. All it does it make the road worse for cars, by making it more narrow, or more likely, losing a lane.

One place I lived did get a protected bike lane going right in front of the building. I still didn’t use it, as it wasn’t really connected to anything else. Everywhere along the route I’d go, I’d simply walk. It wasn’t that far. Everything has to start somewhere, and I hope they build more, but so far drivers see problems without any payoff.

The worst of it was during the pandemic. There were construction barrels all over the city. It was hell to get around by car. I figured they were preparing for construction and ripping up the road. I found out a year later that the barrels were meant to create temporary protected bike lanes so people could get out and ride around to places during the pandemic. Cool… if there has been a single sign to tell people that’s what it was. Instead, it just made drivers mad, and the lanes weren’t used, because people didn’t know what they were for. More space taken from cars with no payoff in terms of reducing traffic through increased biking.

I want good bike infrastructure, but the plans and efforts I keep seeing still don’t seem that good. The useful paths are dangerous and the safe paths aren’t that useful.
Is your current employer hiring? Are you / can you be involved in that process?

Your employer is only one company, but understanding its side of interviewing can help guide you in how to present yourself as a candidate.

Also, yeah, the best way is practice and self-reflection. And the best way to get practice is to do it, so submit resumes to jobs you aren't sure you really want rather than only your OMG I want this job. This gives you a chance to do some negotiation practice too, and maybe have some offers to play against.
I don't know. I miss it a bit. There was a vibe of exploration that is difficult to recreate now, the cattle have overgrazed the field.
>Indian companies don't have the need for 100% IP transfers like China because most have had shared IP partnerships with Western countries for generations

Not true at all. Even the indian space agency was sanctioned till few years back.
I've seen it used for really simple JIT in Advent of Code puzzles.
> Just that it really isn't so different than the printing press.

The part that makes the goals of the AI crowd an entirely different beast from things like the printing press is that the printing press doesn't think for anyone. It just lets people reproduce their own thoughts more widely.
If the lawyers don't recommend you add the banner, and you somehow run into trouble because of it, the lawyers will be blamed. However, if they do recommend that you add a banner and you follow their advice, then they can get some more billable hours by recommending some verbiage for the banner, checking your website to make sure the banner is displayed in a compliant way, etc. And even if you don't follow their advice - people rarely fire their lawyer for recommending caution.

So, how did you ever expect the lawyers not to recommend adding the banner? That's like going to a plumber and ask them if you should DIY or not some installation. Of course they're going to recommend you get a professional...
I think so, but I'm not 100% sure how it was producing cognitive effects. Most doctors don't seem to recommend K2 in addition to D3. Vitamin K would have helped to channel calcium into her bones and out of her soft-tissues. This would have helped significantly with her osteopenia and would have lowered her blood serum calcium levels.

The other thing that the article omits is that overweight people don't metabolize Vitamin D as effectively. It gets stored in fat. So if this subject was thin or in excellent shape, that would have been a factor in determining the proper dosage as well.
Suno, an AI music generator
Of related interest, the smallest grid needed for Simplified Chinese is 8x8:

https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16669/lowest-pix...
Agreed. We have been building our real-time GPT flows for news & social as part of Louie.AI, think monitoring & and investigations... long-term, continuous training will become amazing, but for the next couple of years, most of our users would prefer GPT4 or Groq vs what's here and much smarter RAG. More strongly, the interesting part is how the RAG is done. Qdrant is cool but just a DB w a simple vector index, so nothing in Grok's release is tech we find relevant to our engine.

Eg, there is a lot of noise in social data, and worse, misinfo/spam/etc, so we spend a lot of energy on adverserial data integration. Likewise, queries are often neurosymbolic, like on a data range or with inclusion/exclusion criteria. Pulling the top 20 most similar tweets to a query and running through a slow, dumb, & manipulated LLM would be a bad experience. We have been pulling in ideas from agents, knowledge graphs, digital forensics & SNA, code synthesis, GNNS, etc for our roadmap, which feels quite different from what is being shown here.

We do have pure LLM work, but more about fine-tuning smaller or smarter models, and we find that to be a tiny % of the part people care about. Ex: Spam classifications flowing into our RAG/KG pipelines or small model training is more important to us than it flowing into a big model training. Long-term, I do expect growing emphasis on the big models we use, but that is a more nuanced discussion.

(We have been piloting w gov types and are preparing for next cohorts, in case useful on real problems for anyone.)
The Ultimate Docker Compose Cheat Sheet
I often think many trivial items are curious.

For example these: https://keyring.com/heavy-duty-small-snap-clip-key-ring-soli... (I had trouble finding a link/pic of one even though I think we all have come across these things...)

- What are they actually properly called? ("Snap Clip" doesn't return these if you search for it.)

- How does the little spring loaded pull down bit get attached? (If you've ever played with one there's no obvious way to remove it, making it unclear how it was put together.)

In general, lots of items are kind of subtly mysterious like that.
Whether Vietnam hates China or takes steps against China isn't even my point. Two things can be true at the same time: they can hate China, and it still isn't a simple "only China is at fault here and everyone wants to fight this evil" story. Whether Vietnam do or do not hate China, in no way invalidates my actual point that insisting on a one-sided manner is harmful rather than helpful for peace.
The mere fact that a SAT solver was created for CSS shows that CSS is too complicated.
Autonomous vehicles will make traffic worse, not better. Now we won’t even need people in cars to create traffic.
Northern European climates are not comparable to even mid-atlantic US cities. Take a look at a comparison between Amsterdam and Washington DC. https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/51381~20957/Comparison-of....

Pay special attention to the "Chance of Muggy Conditions" chart.
Vivid Audios majestic, 13-driver Moya 1 speakers promise thrills at every octave
Please, knock it off with the value judgements. "Ill-advised" according to whom? You? Why should your opinion prevail?

> This did not improve performance, it was just an unnecessary hack

Well, the Android VM certainly uses a signal mechanism for safepoints and stack overflow checking, for a reason (https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/master/runti...) (both latency and code size), so don't sit there and tell me that the VM running the world's most popular OS is pessimizing itself pointlessly.

> The kernel handles hardware traps, which may or may not lead to UNIX signals.

Not all traps result in signals, and not all signals are traps. Nevertheless, the POSIX signals API is the means through which Unix OSes provide user programs the ability to interact with CPU traps. (Windows does the same thing, morally, with SEH and vectored exception handling --- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/vector...). Any decent OS should provide applications with the tools they need to make full use of the underlying hardware. All these anti-signals people are just arguing that programs be bigger and slower, because they can't make full use of all the hardware features of the system, out of, ultimately, an aesthetic objection to signal handling.
> He realized that if this is the complexity of a nail-clipper, he was surely no match to American weapons. He'd defect soon after.

Heh, of course he failed to thus learn the lesson that sheer numbers can solve many problems when the People’s Liberation Army crossed the North Korean border
Classic slug for this story.
Kind of intuitive. Bacteria evolve rapidly, the ones that are most fine tuned to an individual's specific body will be the one that persist the longest. PH, temp, diet, and variance of these by month going to be unique person to person. Takeaway seems to be that antibiotics should not be used unless absolutely necessary.
No, those are my (the user) issues because I (the user) have a Nvidia and a Realtek, and I (the user) do would like to use linux but can't because of those issues.

Telling the user (me) to buy something else, not to use certain hardware, when there is not even a database of supported hardware, it is not desktop ready.

Imagine I want to buy an AM5 motherboard that is fully supported by linux. Where can I get such information?
There is a digital artist who does live show effects for some of the largest bands in the world, he got his start learning 3D programming as a teen on the Unicorns in the BBC's excellent structured BASIC.
The widely used daily recommended amounts of Vitamin D (600 IU in the US and Canada) are wrong, by a factor of 10, and based on a math typo that no one caught until 2017: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/. I guess many still don't realize this fact.

"We call public health authorities to consider designating as the RDA ... around 8000 IU for adults"
I was curious how well gpt-4 could de-noise the text. With the prompt:

uncover the text from the message which as had noise introduced:
In Gramm@r, an @R+icle_Is.anY memBer I6.@ claSS oF_dedicateb_WOnbs that arE used m|th_No0n phR@ses tO MarK_Th4 id4ntifiabilitY of +Je ne64Rents of THe noun qhnases. Th4 c@tegoRy of articles constitutES a panT oF sPEecJ:

It was able to perfectly recover the original text.
As a hiring manager, there are a few very basic things that any inexperienced candidate can do to radically improve their chances and these have been true in all the institutions where I've been a hiring manager (from big corporates, investment banks, tiny startups, software companies, media companies, whatever):

1) Do some research. Know what the company does and some of the basics of how their industry functions. Try to know where the money is coming from etc. This base understanding will help you not to come across as a total liability.

2) Do some research (2). Read and reread the job description or if unclear give the recruiter a call and ask them what they are really looking for. The job spec should have some info in there and it would be good to decompose it a bit.

- Stuff they will expect you to know. eg "We're looking for a pytorch dev...". OK you need to know python and pytorch. Yes if you've been doing tensorflow still apply, but play around with pytorch a bit going into the interview so you know a bit about the differences. Say you've mainly done tensorflow but you've been using pytorch and it's been faster/slower/more ergonomic/whatever. Try to be positive though - Noone wants to hire someone who is going to spend all their time whining about the tech stack.

- Stuff they will expect you to be able to do. eg "...to help optimise our data ingest and embedding thingummybobber." OK so as well as basic ML dev stuff I'm going to need to know a bit about data wrangling. Maybe brush up on sql and a few other things to do with making data pipelines, cleaning data etc. Or maybe it mentions training so reread your stuff about gradient descent, regularization etc. You don't need to be the world's expert but you want to give yourself the best possible shot.

- Characteristics that are desireable in some way. eg "... The ideal candidate will have some knowledge or experience of ML as it is applied to customer-facing yadda yadda". OK so scratch your head about what you've done that you can say relates to this etc.

Ideally for each of the main things you have thought through how this applies to you in some way and have some bullet points in your head ready to go if you get asked.

For a first job they aren't expecting you to know everything so the main things they'll be looking for is your potential. Do you seem smart? Are you going to be able to learn quickly? Are you likely to be able to get shit done? etc. Try to think through what you might be able to say that is evidence of each of those things. Smart: think of something (even unrelated) that you have learned deeply. Eg you became the resident expert in regexes in your computer lab at school or you got totally into abstract algebra and nerded out on that or whatever. Quick study: When you went to school maybe you only had done Javascript dev and then you had to pick up python or vice versa. Some evidence that you can learn and adapt.

You can really help yourself a lot if you think about these things so you have something at your fingertips when they ask you a question about how you're going to be able to learn.
Unvested grants aren't income. California is wrong. This is just a middle finger to people leaving the state, a group that conveniently happens to have no representation in the state government.
"Start free trial"
I guess DEI bans are popular among Florida University professors because the government enacted it.

Again, legislators don't care if it's popular among the impacted party. They just care if it's popular among voters. Which are overwhelmingly not Uber and Lyft drivers.

I feel comfortable that this legislation is unpopular among Uber and Lyft drivers because they chose on their own accord to drive for these apps, and now they are deprived of that choice.
It was around the time when vaccine and Autism mania was at its peak:

> Despite the lack of evidence that the complaints were caused by the vaccine, sales plummeted and LYMErix was withdrawn from the U.S. market by GlaxoSmithKline in February 2002, in the setting of negative media coverage and fears of vaccine side effects. The fate of LYMErix was described in the medical literature as a "cautionary tale"; an editorial in Nature cited the withdrawal of LYMErix as an instance in which "unfounded public fears place pressures on vaccine developers that go beyond reasonable safety considerations." The original developer of the OspA vaccine at the Max Planck Institute told Nature: "This just shows how irrational the world can be ... There was no scientific justification for the first OspA vaccine LYMErix being pulled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#LYMErix
Interesting, especially since it seems this product could be DIYed for _very_ cheap.

I do wonder if we're going to end up with permethrin-resistant super ticks though.
Elon says open source:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767108624038449405?s=46...
That advocacy makes sense for a lot of Americans. A combination of living in latitudes north of 45 degrees and the general trend of people moving to work indoors really depresses natural generation of the vitamin for a lot of people.

But as with so many other things, it's not hard to go overboard.
To me, the other person writing "I've never thought I was special" has no contradiction with "your own experience is infinitely special to you".

Is it "projection" to think we have insight into other minds? Sure, but if you do that projection by default then you won't think that you're special — to project like that is to be absent that thought.

> And it has meaning/value to you because of emotions. Animals seem to, but these are not at the same level. Machines give no indication of emotions. AIs appear to have emotions, but this is a simulation/illusion - like those medieval wooden toys, but better.

Likewise for this: there are many cases where humans project meaning/value onto even inanimate things, or even onto what we imagine other people might be doing — this is why "blasphemy" is a concept and not just a string of letters/phonemes, and also why people with real and violent actions to propaganda that demonises some minority or individual.

Do any AI have emotions[0], or are LLMs merely good at pretending? Both can be true at the same time (LLMs being only one of many kinds of AI), or exclusively one, or neither.

[0] regardless of if this is meant as "the qualia of emotions" or "something which has a functional influence on the network's output that is similar to the influence on human brains of hormones associated with emotions"
I'm so old that I built my first modem out of scrap parts from an electronics dump. I used it in combination with my Commodore-64 to get access to BBS systems - internet access was a thing of the future - at the blazing speed of 300 bits per second/300 baud. Yes, here bits per second and baud are identical because those modems did not do anything fancy like QAM to push more than one bit into a state transition, it was beep-high or boop-low and that's it. Initially I had to dial the phone number using the rotary dial phone, wait for the beep on the other side, then switch the modem onto the line. I later built a pulse dialling circuit so I could automate this chore and go 'war-dialing'.

The computer at school was a Philips P2500, sturdy as a brick and about as dumb. It video circuitry was based around a Teletext chip so it could not do anything interesting. It did have floppy drives where my C-64 made do with a 'Datasette' (a cassette player chugging along at about the same speed as the 300 baud modem).

I build an analogue synthesizer based on plans published in the 'Elektor' magazine. It was monophonic and only had a single VCO (oscillator) but I wanted polyphony. I therefore changed the keyboard circuitry to add an interface to the C-64 to which I connected it using a thick cable with two D-25 plugs on each side. With the keyboard on a guitar strap around my neck, the C-64 in an attaché case on the floor running a synth program I could play it live.

Then I went to university where I met the PDP-11 and VAXen. Tried to produce a book using RUNOFF [1] but gave up after getting bored of waiting for the terminal to respond, instead using a system comprised of an IBM Selectric connected to a box with a cassette player in it which recorded what was typed and could regurgitate it line by line or character by character. A stack of tapes later the book was typed in upon which we needed to print it out to paste the output on stand sheets so of course the motor in the Selectric broke down. I managed to source another motor and eventually got the device running again after fighting the furiously complex mechanism for a weekend or so - realigning the thing so the correct letters appeared in-line without documentation was, let's just say, an interesting puzzle.

University is also where I got on the 'net, it is where I started off in forestry (it was an agricultural university) but ended up in IT.

[1] https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5968126
Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers
This just shows again that our understanding of humans is garbage.
Related:

UAW has signed majority of VW workers at Tennessee plant to join union - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39289437 - Feb 2024 (2 comments)
> All these things are much more significant when going from someone who basically never cycles or exercises, to someone who does.

You could say that I do that every season(well, I walk all year round at least) and my observation is that there's maybe a short period of increased unnecessary movements that I do which produce more sweat, but after two weeks, when I relearn the right movements, it plateaus and sweating is just proportional to energy used - it's lower, but still there.

In any case I noticed that I would need to go frustratingly slow to be appropriately fresh for an office. Even at my leisurely pace of 15km/h I change my shirt when I get back from a ride, because it's simply uncomfortable otherwise.
Works well until you end up with temperatures too hot to wear pants. Or you exercise someplace with ticks and get too sweaty for pants.

Hell, I live as far north as you can go in New England, and I've found ticks on my feet after grilling dinner in my backyard. At some point I just do not care to don my anti-tick hazmat suit every time I do anything outside.
Docker hub has been one of the primary registries. Each of the cloud providers typically have their own concept for docker or image repositories, and you can build docker files locally of you have a docker file in source code.
I remember this story a bit differently: he came across the nail clipper in the grass next to the shared trail in the DMZ and left it alone, since if he picked it up, the South Korean that lost it would accuse the North Korean border guards of theft of a valuable tool and spark a diplomatic incident.

The next few times he patrolled the trail he would check if the clipper was still there, and it was. What was more puzzling, the grass along the sides of the trail showed no traces of a search. Then he realized that no one was coming back for it, that not only was South Korea so rich that a random border guard could afford a nail clipper, but it was so much richer that the loss of a delicate tool like that was just a mild inconvenience, that the guard must've just went and bought another one.