skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another take on the subject:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258852/

"supplementation was associated with a significant lower risk of both Covid-19 severe disease (SRR 0.38, 95% CI 0.20–0.72, 6 studies) and mortality (SRR 0.35, 95% CI 0.17–0.70, 8 studies)"

Note that in "part 3" devaboone says Vit D failed to live up to its expectation and she posts a graph showing that Vit D only works to counter Vit D deficiency.

Since then a study came out, studying 200 000+ individuals (which is 10x more than the biggest study in the studies she cherry picked in her part 3 if I'm not mistaken), showing that Vit D supplementation did (and does) help combat the worst disease the world has known in decades (if not centuries).

Time to update the studies used in her "part 3" to conclude that Vit D supplementation only helps fixing Vit D deficiency?

For my casual reading of that study I linked to is this: those who told people to start taking Vit D supplementation during Covid did actually save lives and did actually help many have less severe symptoms.

I do think that that ship has sailed: we now know Vit D supplementation does work.

We can nitpick on whether 1000 IU or 2000 IU per day is too much or not but I don't think that saying that "Vit D supplementation only works at fixing Vit D deficiency" is a serious take anymore (once again: Part 3 clearly shows a graph saying just that).
Isn't there the risk that if they give the gaming cards enough RAM for such tasks then they'll get bought up for that purpose and the second-hand price will go even higher?

I guess my point is, rather than give the cards more RAM, the gaming cards should just be priced cheaper.
As long as the reviewers have read and "signed off" on the GPT-generated drafts, this isn't fundamentally different from a president having a personal speechwriter. The reviewers are still responsible for ensuring the GPT-generated content accurately reflects their opinions of the paper, just as a president is vis-a-vis speechwriter-generated content.

Also, CS likely has a higher proportion of non-native English speakers compared to other fields. The increased frequency of certain tokens could be due to non-native speakers running their draft reviews through prompts like "Please edit this draft written by a non-native speaker, clean up infelicities and improve word choices where appropriate."
> Funnily enough, it has been proved multiple times than every high-profile CEO is not better than a random decision algorithm.

Does anyone know of a source for this? I don't doubt it's true, but I'd love to see the evidence
Was thinking exactly the same thing. H2 with SSE solves 99% of problems? I was wondering if we could push SSE even further along with lower latency, memory usage and CPU resources than doing something completely different.
It's important to be cautious not to confuse comments generated by GPT with real ones. While GPT can provide helpful insights, it lacks the depth and nuance of human feedback. Always verify information from trusted sources to avoid misunderstandings or misinformation.
Where's the joke? I don't see a joke.
It's peculiar. I think the 'educational' mission of RPi flew the coop a long time ago when they found they were selling piles of Linux SBCs at or below a cost that was realistic. Now they're a COTS part used in industry. (Ever buy a $25,000 heat staking machine to discover that they used an Raspberry Pi as the primary control unit? I have.)

Arduino is now going through the same experience, they have a "pro" line where they're trying to compete with existing Linux SBCs in the industrial space like Phytec, Variscite, or Kontron. But they can't match on cost yet.
This article is a meta-contradiction of itself. It also suffers from confirmation bias, think of all the "arenas" which failed or provided no advantage. But it discusses nostalgia for various "arenas" in their earlier stages. This is because the early-adopters had some genuine interest in being there. Whether that was early Tech Twitter, moving to Austin or Asheville, or talking about preserving old-school sneakers, whatever. Of course, as these things get popular and begin to produce economic opportunities, the original interest gets diluted by plenty of people with little genuine interest in the base concept but lots of interest in making money. So the suggestion of the article, is simply to jump on any trend or novel idea or new web site early, regardless of genuine interest, in order to optimize your position to reap economic benefits later. The article acknowledges the popularity of "arenas" that initially grew due to genuine interest, then suggests you disregard your genuine interests in order find, and to participate in (and pollute) as many early "arenas" as possible.
Both are ways for the company to have your income be invested in the overall success of the company, which makes sense from an alignment perspective. ESPP usually has a material discount benefit, which typically is a "can't lose" scenario if you sell immediately (with some caveats of course as immediately isn't technically possible).
I'm not sure even Cisco is up to the challenge of making Splunk more expensive
> > They will always be expensive, bulky, and creepy.

> People said similar things about those early NNs generating images, code, music.

Yes and… they still are expensive, bulky, and creepy. The expense and bulk is externalised to the stock market (but maybe improving), the creepy is endemic and not getting any better.
Things are either going to end up being really awesome for everyone, or really terrible for most of us. There is absolutely no middle ground where things somehow stay "the same".

The fact that these technologies seem to be exclusively the playground of well-resourced corps and governments does not give me too much hope for a positive outcome.

Regardless of the outcome, it should be a fun ride.
100% this. we had a contracting company and in the first year changed out our source control system because they didn't like it.

We went from a mono-repo (which worked for us) to 50 separate repos because they couldn't figure out how to manage a mono-repo.

They changed our daily work style, forced sprinting on us, and then had to backtrack when execs told them to change what they were doing. They still don't quite know how to manage us, but they are sure trying to force their ways of working on to us
Somewhat related, yesterday there was a post about a new 6.2 GHz Intel CPU and I was wondering how fast the transistors in current CPUs are. The latest number I read - I think 2008ish - is that there are about 25 gate delays per pipeline stage which would give an upper limit of about 6.5 ps. Does anyone publish that kind of numbers for state-of-the-art processes?
> I wouldn't go around drinking a pint of, say, methanol another polar solvent.

Yes, exactly: saying "it's a solvent, therefore it's dangerous" is equally dumb in both directions: you wouldn't drink a pint of methanol, and you wouldn't be scared of a pint of water. Likewise for "surfactant", and a ton of other terms you see on this comment thread.

In chemistry, details matter. The folks who run around parroting sciencey-sounding technical terms like "steric interference" to scare people are, unfortunately, often effective, because it takes ten times as many words to explain why they're talking gobbledygook as it does for them to make a ridiculous claim.
From the linked page:

"Press release: Cisco closes acquisition of Splunk

On March 18, 2024, Cisco completed the acquisition of Splunk. Get more information in the official press release."

Sounds like the deal has in fact closed.
Such a law could easily forbid price gouging.
LLM-FP4: 4-Bit Floating-Point Quantized Transformers
With the current abysmal cultural trends around "AI"-based cheating and shirking...

Maybe we're going to need a way for people to signal "If you send LLM-generated text to me under the pretext that you wrote it, I will (depending on context) urge that you be sanctioned by the academic/professional organization, refer you to academic discipline committee for suspension or expulsion, have you put on a PIP or fired, or downrate your friendship level."
The joke here is that splunks services are costly.
Maybe, but this can be done really well. Probably the best class I had in grad school was a bunch of grad students reviewing papers. We would meet once a week, and the professor would go over the paper, we would discuss our reviews, and he would probe our thinking. Sure, he probably was able to use some of our thoughts, but he did his part in challenging us, and we learned a lot by doing.

I know some professors definitely can be exploitative, but learning how to do peer review well is a critical skill that can really only be developed by doing it - with good mentoring.
I believe OP said the opposite with regards to indies. In my experience indie games are the ones that run fine on Linux. Big studio games are not too bad either, but not as consistent.
my approach on this is consider the first 10 to 20 interviews i get as practice interviews.

just throw yourself in the pool, you'll learn to swim.
I use truck stands that will hold up several times the weight of the car. After I put it on the stands, I also give it several hard shoves to make sure it is secure.
is anybody actually able to disable ipv4? maybe if you only serve vpn or internal users?

This might be the best thing about Elixir/Phoenix LiveView. I haven't actually had to care in quite some time :-) (though to be fair, I keep things over the websocket pretty light)
In Macon (a couple of hours down I-75 from Atlanta) there were for a long time two Waffle Houses on either side of the interstate at the Pio Nono exit
IIRC one of them is for catering only
Did you talk to the developers what they want to improve, their pain points?
If you have to ask, you may have lost the race already.
In July 1989 the EPA issued the Asbestos Ban and Phase-Out Rule, which would have been a total ban on asbestos. The incredibly conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1991 that ban was invalid in Corrosion Proof Fittings v. Environmental Protection Agency, because the EPA failed to show that it was the "least burdensome alternative" in regulating asbestos. The George HW Bush administration chose not to appeal the ruling.

Over the past three decades the EPA believes it has finally done the work to show that this ban is the "least burdensome alternative," but there is no guarantee that the courts will agree this time either. The politicization of the judiciary is not new, certainly, but seems to have gotten worse over the past three decades.
They make it sound like 5000IU is something astronomical when in reality for many people who live in the less sunny climates and have office jobs this is the normal amount. Still, one needs to test in order to see what _their_ normal amount is
Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.
there's still really good things going on in the developer division. Consumer has gone far astray.
Yeah, that's why I specified "relative to roads" :P. There are capacity limitations, they are just much more generous than the alternatives.
FWIW, the app, even without a pro subscription, has speech-to-text and TTS. On iOS, you can directly start the app in voice input mode from the shortcuts menu.
If an admin passes along, it would be worthwhile to change the title to "Cisco closes acquisition of Splunk".
If you have a system with low turnover of staff then intuitive is not the goal.

The goal is to efficiently transfer information with additional steps in a common language.

A similar example is the hand signals from the old trading exchange floors [1]. The point wasn't for it to be easy to learn. The point was to make it easy to transfer visual information across a very loud and boisterous place. Plus, you had to do it with both people you knew well and people you may never have worked with before.

1 - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008...
I don't think that's a sensible reading of the (voluminous) moderator explanations on how such stories are handled. You can make an argument for the importance of any story - some people would like to read a story on HN about some other important conflict or the gut biome or async Rust every single day but clearly a messageboard with 30 front page slots can't accommodate all those needs at once nor would it be an interesting place. So there has to be some sort of way to balance these things.

The link explains (again, at about as much length as you have patience for - these discussions have been going on for years) how this works on HN - you have to take at least some of that stuff in and engage with it, if you want to advocate for some sort of change. Being offhandedly reductive about it or explaining how this one thing is actually really important is not that.
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Excellent advice. Right now, many points on OP's list make it sound like OP wants to improve dev experience by having teams jump through extra hoops. (To be clear, some of OPs ideas are very good in the long term.)

I would start by realizing that often the desire to change things in a new environment stems from the need to regain control and/or to help with sensemaking. I think starting with some "ethnography" could be a more productive approach.
It's interesting whenever this comes up on Reddit and there are a hundred comments parroting how dangerous this is, but on closer inspection you can see the comments cannot discriminate between important details - eg. talking about how dangerous extension springs are, having no clue that they are different than torsion springs. Always fun to see how many people will pretend they have knowledge on a subject they have no experience in.
A Mathematical Conventions Survey
(You replied to a meta-joke.)
Consider emailing them - the footer contact link will reach them in just a few minutes.
I’ve also never heard of a shrapnel-based injury. Only door falls or torsion bars breaking arms.

I’ve actually replaced these in two houses, and yes, they’re dangerous, but honestly a little common sense and a straightforward (printed, with a buddy double-checking) list of steps you take with each quarter turn.

It’s super important to have the right torsion bars. Don’t try to invent your own.
Yep, this matches my experience. I've never worked in a record store, but I had access to a very large catalog, and nearly all of it was terrible music that I wish I'd never heard. It really is remarkable how much the good music is the top 1% or even 0.1% of music made, and the level of quality shoots up rapidly in exponential way as you approach 99ths percentile
It's hard to get a man to understand something when his salary (or hobby or self-image) depends on his not understanding it.
no problem -- it was just a throwaway comment to the effect that "Phenibut" in reference to the other drug mentioned the parent comment sounded much more like a gay D&D centaur to my ear.
Or more likely, google wants a labeled dataset to improve their own training projects.

=)
> They will always be expensive, bulky, and creepy.

This is an incredibly bold claim, and mostly just sounds like your personal opinion towards humanoid robots. Why do you expect economies of scale to not apply here?

> No one will want one in their homes.

I am literally prepared to pay a car's worth of money for a robot, humanoid or otherwise, that can meaningfully take care of the drudgery of household chores.
People think garage door springs are like diffusing a bomb. It's not that bad if you are competent and have the correct equipment.
Visualizing the fabric of space-time [video]
Either party is not a monolith -- this has become increasingly clear. We can and should support candidates in primaries who are more aligned with us.
Nuance is one place where I think ChatGPT beats most of the humans I've interacted with. Only extremely nerdy people (which, in fairness, you'd hope be a defining trait of "people reviewing computer science papers") seem to do as well or better.

Depth, sure. ChatGPT is neat, but much to lazy for a full review — it tends to give me a handful of suggestions and then stop. I presume this is because the training set is humans on the internet and that in turn means "make 1-3 points in response to the previous commenter, then stop", not "mark this exhaustively according to a well-defined rubric, including for spelling and tone".

Now, that said, I've just re-read your two comments, and they absolutely pattern match to the kind of thing ChatGPT says. I'm curious, were either or both actually from ChatGPT, or has that style just become so prevalent that humans are mimicking it?
It’s less ironic in areas subject to hurricanes. They have a very large area. One of the most damaging possible sequences in a hurricane is when the garage door blows in, then the wind just blows the whole roof off.
> But the cost of recessions, especially pre-Keynsian ones, falls most heavily on workers?

I dunno, does it? Why do you think that? Who is the cost of bad capital allocation going to fall on? I'm not expecting any millionaires to go hungry or do without in their old age, or lack housing and goods in their youth. The people eating the brunt of it are workers. They can't save money.
Everything might change forever this century (or we'll go extinct) [video]
I think you’ll be able to fuck one long before it carries a gun in a serious way.

More seriously, gun toting autonomous platforms are already in use - no human form is required. Sure there is a human in the loop - for now. But even on things like our last generation of cluster munitions from 20 years ago they could select their own targets on the way down (no human in the loop after the thing was dropped).
This would be very useful for catching people using them to cheat, but would likely be problematic due to how many people are using them to generate things that should be private.

This would also surely create an LLM black market. One kid in school sets up his own LLM and then charges kids for access to write their papers with a system that won't log to the central DB.
Please refrain from ad-hominem attacks as per HN guidelines.

As for Apple consumers being more susceptible to being deceived, it seems we'll have to agree to disagree on our opinions. At least I provided an example.

Your comment adds nothing.
Well, you're goin' 1-for-2 here.
Banning asbestos prevents people from using asbestos in new houses / remodels. We bought a house, and only later found out that the materials used in its post-2000 remodel contained asbestos.
This is the first time I've seen the use of spent brewers yeast as the biomass for bioaccumulation. However, it falls short of addressing the economic feasibility of extracting the accumulated metals, an essential aspect for practical implementation.

The ability of fungi to absorb metals is well-documented, but the real-world application of fungi for purposes such as bioaccumulation and bioremediation is predominantly hindered by the economics, including high labor costs, expensive inputs, and slow processing times.

Hopefully in the future we can dump a bunch of used brewers yeast into a giant gold tailings pond and leech gold and other precious metals for cheap, but we're not there yet.
Not sure walking naked in front of an internet-connected camera in humanoid form is much better...
It's weird that regardless of how many different ways you try to tell this to people they're still more than happy to give the benefit of the doubt to $307 billion dollar pharma company.
The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration
I'm sure they can make becoming a Cisco Certified Splunk Architect more expensive, though.
> Let's say you want to read a BMP file.

You unquestionably shouldn't use C++ or Rust, you should use WUFFS to write this portion of the software, this way you get the absolute safely you presumably expect and also you get much better performance than you'd get from hand rolling say C++. You will need to write extensive test suites since the WUFFS tooling doesn't know what a BMP is so your testing is the only way to know you're decoding it correctly - but the safety property drops out of the language design, and while performance isn't magically guaranteed it's much easier to write small fast code in a language designed to help you do that and which also catches every safety mistake you make in the attempt.
We've got them in St. Louis, although they are slightly different than the ones common in Europe. (as the places that serve them here are usually Bosnian instead of Turkish). They're served on somun or lepinja bread and use tzatziki sauce instead of the sweet white/spicy red sauce combo that's typical in Germany.

Here's the online menu for one of my favorite places: https://www.jspitaria.us/s/order (they also have a Berliner kebab, which is a little closer to the ones in Germany, but not quite the same).
The fact that it cannot self-feed will take care of this anyways.
As someone who tries to minimise my sugar intake, one of my nightmares is getting served a non-diet drink by accident, because one of the lids gets pressed wrongly along the way.

I wonder if there's technology out there for cheap sugar testing sticks… huh, it looks like a company finally launched like that in 2021.
This line of questioning always goes to the same place: it's not about educating the OP of better ways to do science, but them attempting to argue with me about whatever suggestions I make. I'm not getting sucked into it. My ability to do a "better" study is not relevant here.

If you want to think I'm "wrong" because I don't, then you're more than welcome to do so. But it doesn't change the fact that most observational epidemiology is riddled with bias, and is of low quality.
Learn what “Uniparty” is, and then maybe the clouds will part and you will see that both “parties” are really just one lobbyist controlled party which is really efficient at robbing you and depriving your children and grandchildren of a decent future. You’ll continue to be very confused until you see that by and large what we have in this country is an illusion of democracy and no matter who you vote for, the wars continue. Obama was bombing something like 7 countries at the time when he received his Nobel. The only president to not start any new wars in the last several decades won his election accidentally because the Uniparty got too cocky.
Rather than tagging what’s made up, why not tag what’s genuine? There’s gonna be less of it than the endless mountain of generated stuff.

I’m thinking something as simple as a digital signature that certifies e.g. a photo was made with my phone if I want to prove it, or if someone edits my file there should be a way of keeping track of the chain of trust.
If we invite a few more economists to this cocktail party there is a reasonable case to be made that the cost of manual labor will drop precipitously. Dangerous jobs like construction and mining could be done by androids instead of humans. The point of contention I think at this cocktail party would then be whether the price of androids becomes low enough that those replaced by the androids are able to buy some androids of their own to start their own construction or mining businesses, or if instead all androids are owned by some megacorporation that rents androids out and thus keeps the displaced workers in poverty.

What I would like to emphasize is that this is a problem of political economy rather than a problem of technology. I think most would agree that which future we end up with depends on if androids end up costing $100,000 per unit or $100 per unit. If the latter case ever arrives we will pass through the former case anyway.
I'm afraid it's naive to think that nursing is not going to get disrupted by AI. Seems like robotics is going to massively impact medical caregiving in the near future.