skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this is the grand reveal -- showing that childhood heavily influences future financial mobility -- it's not super obvious. I mean, yes, there seem to be a bit of a skew towards low earners in the bottom tranche -- but really it looks like the group that has had some astounding headwinds is kinda sorta doing about the same as the 'no adverse experiences' group?

This was my takeaway as well. My expectation was that the longitudinal study would show that bad experiences compound much more dramatically over time than the video appears to suggest.

Another issue I have with the presentation is that I had to keep pausing and carefully considering what each slide was saying, because the first several slides start by

- categorizing people according to whether they had bad experiences or not,
- arranging them spatially in one big group on the "bad experiences" axis,
- and coloring them according to the severity / occurrence.

So now my brain thinks "okay, warmer colors mean more/worse childhood experiences. got it.", but then all the following slides

- categorize people on lots of different dimensions (income, health, etc)
- but always grouped spatially by no/some/many bad experiences
- color them according to the dimension being measured
- some of them are arranged spatially in reverse order compared to the
legend, see 4:50 in the linked video / the slide on "general health"

So the entire time, I'm fighting my brain which is telling me "warmer colors -> bad experiences".

I wonder if it would be clearer if the measurement slides were instead grouped / arranged spatially by outcomes and colored according to the childhood experiences.

edit: it's ugly as heck but this is kind of what I mean:

their slide: https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-16T10-16-25.uifh7bss3d5f66b...

proposed rearrangement + recoloring: https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-16T10-45-19.n7ft281jipgv3tx...

Like I said, it's ugly, I obviously just copy/pasted regions around, but it should get across the idea that this would make it easier to see the proportions of each measurement class (income bucket, health bucket, etc) according to childhood experiences.
Sorry, but this is a lot of marketing for the same thing over and over again. I'm not against Aloha as an _affordable_ platform, but skimping on hardware is kind of a bug not a feature. Moreover it's not even _lowcost_, its BoM is still like 20k and collecting all the data is labor intensive and not cheap.

And if we're focusing on the idea, it has existed since the 1950s and they were doing it relatively well then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcIKaKsf4cM
>First, start with the M, not the P.

Well said! This is basically the linchpin behind the Jobs to be Done theory commonly attributed to Clayton Christensen (many thought leaders developed the theory over the years which he credits, but Clay seemed to be the leader of the group).

The premise of Clay's book "Competing Against Luck" is about this JTBD theory (he also calls "Jobs Theory") which aims to surface the fundamental causality of customer purchase behavior, which allows you to build your solution such that it aligns directly with that behavior instead of all the abstractions and manifestations of that behavior that are often red herrings (ie: pointless features, solutions that in reality not aligned but this is not obvious, etc).

Ultimately, Jobs Theory is an approach that that aims to objectively lower risk around innovation. It teaches you to think of customer needs/objectives independently from solutions/technologies, so that it's more natural to innovate to serve the ultimate need rather than compete against preexisting solutions or be misled by customers who are not often able to articulate (or they may not even consciously know what drove their behavior -- it can be very complex) what a better solution for them would be and as such will just mislead you.

Instead of taking shots in the dark, you build better solutions around preexisting needs (more accurately called "jobs" in JTBD Theory, and it isn't just semantics).

Apologies for nerding out on a topic you probably already know well but I figured I'd add to the conversation for others who might be interested. I really love JTBD. It helps solve imo the single hardest problem around startups -- product/market fit.

Read Competing Against Luck folks!
I think the idea is that "only support your family" harms everyone. The example, Alex, has 2 kids, works manual labor to earn poverty wages, and is depressed. Which one of the types of teen do you think his kids will be?

The common refrain is "then he shouldn't have had kids" but unless you're going to create an authoritarian state people will always have kids (and restricting kids went awfully for China anyway).
Yep, they’re just next state equations with boolean states. It is indeed very general. The interesting bit is that they typically have lots of feedback loops, which leads to behavior that’s really difficult to predict.
It's amazing to think that the farthest away artifact that ever existed is one that people are in constant communication with, and there's only about a month or two round-trip communication time.

Not really even the space part i'm talking about or the unimaginable distance, just how a couple hundred years ago exploration meant you had to send a bunch of guys off in a fleet of boats and you wouldn't know what they found until some of them return a year or two later (if at all).
I suspect there are difficulties with DRAM latency and/or signal integrity with APUs and RAM-expandable GPUs. Wasted ALUs are wasted if you'd be stalling deep SIMD pipelines all the time.
It is very fun with small amounts of money.
I live in Colorado but still use the accountant in NYC I've had since 2003. It's typically around $400 -- I know it has gone up over the years, but I haven't really noticed or felt the increases.
My understanding is the unified RAM on the M-series die does not contribute significantly to their performance. You get a little bit better latency but not much. The real value to Apple is likely it greatly simplifies your design since you don't have to route out tons of DRAM signaling and power management on your logic board. Might make DRAM training easier too but that's way beyond my expertise.
Nope nope nope and nope. The author of the software and their source code shall be interrogated on the witness stand by one of their peers and a proof checker.

edit: gender neutral language
> Argentina after losing the Falklands/Malvinas

Hmmm Argentina was under a military dictatorship which started the war and after that we managed to finally have democratic elections again, not sure where the "populist revolution" comes into play there.
Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.
>>> He'll be bullied at school. He'll be held back a few grades. He won't go to college.

I dont even know where to start with this.

1. The whole anti bullying campaign that we now have two and a half decades of in schools has backfired spectacularly. This feels like "well DARE didn't work, we need to put this money somewhere else". We tell kids dont bully people, but if you defend yourself in a fight everyone gets suspended because of zero tolerance... it is obscene.

2. College? Really? We stripped schools of anything that was vocational, or practical. What happened to shop and home economics... and the computer labs that got many of us started are long gone. Meanwhile we're short on plumbers, welders and all sorts of middle skill jobs...

Note: that there are now middle skill jobs (trained professionals but not college) that not only make more than those with degrees, they will do better over the course of their life because they dont have massive debt.

Alex has a shitty home life, but we under fund public schools and then rob kids for college (and we dont need more college grads).
As we went from zero to 10K+ embedded systems (full PCs with significant RAM) the issues got weirder.

The best was a one-off error log along the lines of "unknown type System.DateTime". Huh? That's a system defined type that just went missing. Never saw it again.

Another at a different employer was a crash that occurred after a check condition that absolutely should have gated the crash from being reached. Single threaded. Simple microcontroller. Had to reflash it to flip the bit back. After doing the math on how much RAM we had in the wild vs. cosmic bit flip rates reported in super computers, we had to expect one flip per year.

If it's a safety critical system, server or not, use ECC RAM!!
One thing I would consider is usage throttling on a MacBook Pro. Would repeated LLM usage run into throttling?

No idea what specifically everyone is pulling their performance data from or what task(s).

Here is a video to help visualize the differences with a maxed out m3 max vs 16gbm1 pro vs 4090 on llm 7B/13b/70b llama 2. https://youtu.be/jaM02mb6JFM

Here’s a Reddit comparison of 4090 vs M2 Ultra 96gb with tokens/s

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14319ra/rtx_409...

M3 pro memory BW 150 gb/s
M3 max 10/30 300 gb/s
M3 max 12/40 400 gb/s

“Llama models are mostly limited by memory bandwidth.
rtx 3090 has 935.8 gb/s
rtx 4090 has 1008 gb/s
m2 ultra has 800 gb/s
m2 max has 400 gb/s
so 4090 is 10% faster for llama inference than 3090
and more than 2x faster than apple m2 max
https://github.com/turboderp/exllama
using exllama you can get 160 tokens/s in 7b model and 97 tokens/s in 13b model
while m2 max has only 40 tokens/s in 7b model and 24 tokens/s in 13b
apple 40/s
Memory bandwidth cap is also the reason why llamas work so well on cpu
(…)

buying second gpu will increase memory capacity to 48gb but has no effect on bandwidth
so 2x 4090 will have 48gb vram and 1008 gb/s bandwidth and 50% utilization”
And now it's just "Distributed Authorization"; further distancing itself from the product it's actually about.
Hey! Teacher! Leave the kids alone!
usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
Yeah I saw the same thing in the shape of what was presented. The proportions are roughly the same in the visualization, it's just that most people had some or many adverse experiences. But what I see is that in my generation your home life didn't matter as much. I agree that we need to move as many kids as possible out of the "adverse experiences" category but I don't think this data supports that.

The last 20 years have been really really awful for everyone I went to school with.
Is your bank one of the ones that uses email addresses for usernames? Because that's a great way to make it much easier for attackers to match up leaked creds. Consider switching to a (chosen) username or card number or something. If your username is quickly matched to a phone number (or email address) it makes phishing (or account takeovers) much easier.
C'mon man, it's not just because there's 350 million people in America.

You know there are countries that have less of these problems per capita.
There was a time in the 00’s where a lot of server hardware had 3 NICs and you could use those for redundancy but a better use was to create three networks: inbound, service and database calls, and administrative.

You had more control over your services talking to each other and control plane tech, thus could make some more guarantees than with inbound data. Don’t cross the streams.
Russian space chief's head appears to already be in geobullshitrinous orbit.
My objection isn’t that YouTube makes a profit for Google, but that in their statement they skirt around that truth. They only mention the creators and word it as if that’s the reason they crack down on adblockers, when we all know that’s not the whole story. Own up to it!

What I’m objecting to is them being disingenuous.
you would enjoy Dave Ackley's perspective on 'robust computing' vs 'efficient computing'. But his one of his ideas is allowing for error: which can speed up calculations if you can also reduce the error as the calculation goes on.
I love seeing how many people wrote one of these. I've written 2:

One to learn golang that plays gifs - https://github.com/moshen/gotermimg

And one in perl - https://github.com/moshen/Image-Term256Color
Or perhaps it is just as useful because it tells you where you need to and can improve.
> The alternative would be to say that only a system that has been proven correct could be used as evidence which would force pretty much all accounting back to paper.

No, there are many alternatives. Including, most critically, the one laid out in the paper under discussion. Which is – spoilers – not “only a system that has been proven correct could be used as evidence”.
They get points for linking to a video at least.
I wasn't complaining just replying to your somewhat silly analogies...

The whole thread was basically about Apple purposefully crippling base/cheapest configs (which most uninformed people tend to buy) to maximize their profit margins and make their laptop less future proof

> Apple sell a laptop with specs you don't want, while they sell a laptop that does have the specs you want

Of course they actually don't. There is no 32 GB or 64GB MacBook Air.

> I think you just want something to complain about.

Perhaps, other people prefer complaining about other people complaining so to each his own, I guess...
This reminds me of Capability Based Security, which I really like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

Sandstorm.org and WASI are both doing interesting things in this space to bring that model to running programs, so eg, the right to access the internet is a capability the OS has which can be given to programs who may then give it to subprocesses they run (or any lesser permission, maybe just the ability to access a single URL)

Its really clean and works great in practice from what I can tell
I'm in a similar boat, in that I won't pay Google for anything because they push technology that is not in my interest.

I currently spend way more on patreon then I would with YouTube premium. And I sincerely hope that that always remains ad free.
I'm not sure there is a consensus on ice baths at this stage? Some athletes swear by it, some say it's useless, and last I looked at it the science was ambivalent (somewhere between small to no effect, either positive or negative).
I couldn't disagree with you more.

Patents exist to reward research or invention that results in practicable ideas.
Entrepreneurialism is not (and should not be) part of that.
They talk about selling a dollar for less than it’s worth as not being a PMF indication. However, this does not match with actual VC funding trends, as the vast majority of private unicorns are loss making. In fact if you can consistently sell a dollar for 90 cents it’s likely you can raise a lot of money on the back of that.

It’s funny also that their Ironclad example clearly describes fraud/dishonesty on the part of the founder and this is celebrated as hustle. Seems far too common that this type of behavior is not only tolerated but actually suggested by VCs.
If I remember correctly many if not most newspaper readers seemed to be free loaders when you paid for it. They were shared alot.
A guy from my old local pub was always very keen to tell us about the couple thousand pound payouts, while also being very keen on asking others to buy him a pint or four because he had no money.
First, … I don't think I dig the visualization done. These are essentially like bar-pie charts (whatever you call a bar, split into segments, each segment representing a % of a whole), but many of the "bars" are not of the same length, which makes visual comparison of the subsegments tricky.

> But the data seems to show that over the last 20 years, people from all background types are likely to experience bad things.

But that adverse backgrounds are more likely to experience those things. Take "Happy person in the last month" at 2021 (the final outcome, essentially): the "many adverse experiences" group is unhappier. "General health" is the same. "Victim of crime" is the same. I think "Annual income" shows the same as the rest, but I think this is also the hardest graph to read.

I.e., it's not that people from all backgrounds aren't adversely affected by bad things, it's that people from adverse childhoods are disproportionately affected.
I've seen that fairly often in summers wherever there are thrips around
(enterprise and organization plans only)

the typography variable update was much needed but the 'professional' plan still only has support for 4 variable modes. perhaps adobe didn't ultimately acquire figma because this level of business practice was deemed distasteful even for them.
I guess it'll take a while for that to propagate. I wonder how well it works with nested tmux sessions and multiple servers. Also I do have the issue with terminals support. Regrettably the assigned work computer is still Windows, and I've been using putty there. If you know of a good sixel terminal for windows..

Anyway, Chafa's results are darn good IMO. The images in the gallery don't I feel showcase how well it matches against organic forms. And it handles a wide variety of images. SVG etc.

Even when I have access to pixels, I find on slow connections Chafa can be a decent form of compression :) For example, I was using the ffmpeg patch to play a video remotely to figure out what it was and while I could have relayed it with ssh -YC , Chafa was simply a lot more performant due to it being a lossy transformation. Kinda like playing the video in a VNC session with jpeg loss cranked up to max, but without the need to fire that up.
They even through in a non-sequitur jab at Trump for good measure. This is what happens when you use ideology to read and interpret data rather than the other way around.
Print PowerPoint to PDF.

And hope that both of you are using Adobe lol

Or make your presentations as a website and hope their browser follows the same standards, they don't have bad extensions or security policies setup that may break it too.

Can't really win in human friendly days interchange, because all this crap gets layered on due to humans having their own things going on.
It would also help if more people that are doing marginal work could receive a wage that they felt secure with. Money is one of the biggest stressors for couples and families.
I noticed this on Relatives died (thus far).
Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN services
My experience from a ~ 2000 server job with all ECC RAM is that errors cluster a lot. Easily 90%+ of the systems never had any ECC errors (correctable or no) in their whole life. Some systems would get one error a day. A small number got 100s per hour until we shut them down. Even less got thousands per hour. One in my whole career got like 50,000 in the time between when it started running very slowly (from processing ECC interrupts) and the next hourly reporting interval. You might get close to the literature numbers by taking that one instance and dividing it over the total ram byte hours. Although that was probably hardware failure and not comsic rays, but then you don't get a different ECC code for comsic rays.

Also, there was an expectation that comsic ray induced bit errors would grow as ram circuit features shrunk, but it ended up not happening; reasons unknown or at least I never saw anything suggesting a reason.

Getting errors in a small sample of RAM is unlikely, unless you specifically induce them by using debug features or misconfiguring your system (but some systems conspire to misconfigure themselves, making it easier to observe! a couple years ago, retail motherboards really liked setting the ram voltage too low)
I remember when I was hired, because of my past having made and sold video games (Vic-20 & C-64), TeleTrak make me sign a work agreement that included I would not try to write any games or goose eggs in their software.

> Remember what it was like when you have wonderful kilobytes of memory and megabytes of storage?

We've exceeded on multiple fronts what I thought I'd see in my lifetime. I can't imagine what people entering the field will see if they stay in the career. I started coding in '76, professionally in '82. My first deployment hardware had 3.5K, and today it's just ridiculous the resources on has, and exponentially so if one can still drop in assembly when needed. :)
AKA "The worst product I've ever reviewed" according to Marques Brownlee.

People need to stop falling for the hype-bullshit-industrial complex. Manufactured attention is the only reason a publisher would give positive attention to a device that replicates the functionality of a bluetooth earbud at a cost of $700 plus $25 a month.
I noticed that.

The next problem is that news outlets are paid per click, so they have incentive to use dark patterns to get clicks.

The last straw for me were things like “Biden hog tied in back of pickup truck …” with “… tailgate mural” hidden behind the click.

If you fall for it once, they aggressively uprank similar news outlets in your feed.
Witricity is trying to do the same with electric cars.
> Nothing against the Chinese but obviously you go there to see Italian culture. Not to buy cheap imported knick-knacks.

Sure. But once someone is there, sadly things are different.

How long before the Chinese simply buy the whole park? Sorry, city?
Oh thanks, yeah that clarification is an important one!

The or remain addition ruins it, though I also don't see that holding up in court with any reasonable jury. In that scenario, if I start more than 25 feet away and stand my ground if a cop approaches me only with the intent of making me move or stop filming, I've truly done nothing wrong and the cop is intending to infringe on my rights.

Will a judge or DA see if this way? Almost certainly not. But if I were on the jury I'd throw that shit out, I don't really care what the law says as written if its a law I don't think is constitutional or reasonable. Juries are there, in part, to act as a check on the legal system.
Cool stuff! I built a similar cluster of Orange Pi 5s with NVMe drives. For IP masking I'm paying for a $3.50 VPS to have nginx forward raw packets.

Fwiw Cloudflare Proxy and, to a lesser extent Tunnels, are de facto MITM attacks. I don't exactly trust large unprofitable corporations to do the right thing when they decrypt all of my and my users' traffic.

Not that CF is a malicious entity, but, the potential for them to be used as one is a looming threat. Then again, so is any VPS you host on :^)
This separation of the size of a muscle, specifically, the cross-section of an individual muscle's fibers, on a single individual from those same fibers' strength is new information to the world, if true.

On a single individual, a muscle's size varies in direct, though not linear, proportion to its strength and visa-versa.

Between individuals of course a smaller muscle may be stronger than the same muscle on another individual.

Previous understanding was hypertrophy happened and as a consequence the muscle was stronger and, visa-versa, a muscle was stronger when hypertrophy happened and the two were consistently and directly related.

But what this research is saying is that, for a given unit of hypertrophy, there can be varying amounts of strength increase, depending on what type of training effected that hypertrophy.

Again, revolutionary, if true.
Ask HN: How to Track Mails?
I am using hunter.io tool for sending bulk mails. But I could not get replies on the amount of mails I Have sent. Either they go the spam/junk folder, do not know. Is there any way to track mails. Please give me your suggestion or also give me some other tools for sending bilk mails.
The funny thing is that this isn't the first time PAN-OS is susceptible to RCE because of "arbitrary empty file creation" (directory in this case): https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/38
Corporate tax benefits should be tied to the number of payroll they have in that location in the quarter.
And with no way of pushing the power button if things go seriously wrong.

Decent uptime, too.

It's more than one day though, one day is what it takes for the signal to get there, takes twice as much for it to get back. So a ping would take almost two days.