skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only on Linux - on MacOS and Windows, you have to do virtualization for containers.
The Itanium ABI effectively specifies how to lower the C++ ABI to an assumed C ABI, and the C ABI is given by what is known as the "psABI" (processor-specific ABI).

The (not-most-recent) x86-64 ABI is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/x..., and it does actually explain how to pass __int128.
I believe it simply tells us that our understanding of mechanical systems, especially chaotic ones, is not as well defined as we thought.

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev...
You'll hear this kind of thing from VCs, but VCs are used to investing in a number of bets that they expect to fail, but profit from the winners. The VC here seems to be criticizing Google for doing the same thing internally ("The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade"), complaining that most of the projects that are funded don't make money, as if management can magically know in advance which bets will work and which won't work.

I think the problem at Google is that they start too many things and don't follow through, and that they kill too many projects and products with happy users. But that's a management problem: they aren't using the workers as effectively as they could be doing.
So it’s okay now to publish a computational paper with no code? I guess Nature’s reporting standards don’t apply to everyone.

> A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors are required to make materials, data, code, and associated protocols promptly available to readers without undue qualifications.

> Authors must make available upon request, to editors and reviewers, any previously unreported custom computer code or algorithm used to generate results that are reported in the paper and central to its main claims.

https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/r...
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The PE firm that owns Libby/Overdrive (Kolhberg Kravis Roberts) has been consolidating publishing assets since the 90s, and recently (2023) acquired the Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster.

We need to protect our regional library systems from extractive PE firms. Libraries (even those in large metro areas) have very little negotiating leverage against global conglomos like KKR.
Small correction. That's true for 4-level paging where virtual memory is capped at 256 TiB (LAM48). There's a 5-level extension that reduces the wasted space to 7 bits (LAM57) to allow for 128 PiB of virtual space.

I have no idea what the purpose of the extension is that when I don't believe you can get that much secondary storage attached to a CPU unless you go to tape which is pointless for virtual mapping.
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By that definition, Zara is a luxury clothing brand, Braun is a luxury appliance maker, and Renault is a luxury car brand. I think it requires significantly more.
"Symptoms of TTS affecting the brain included:

severe, persistent headache
blurred vision
difficulty speaking
drowsiness
seizures or confusion

Symptoms of TTS affecting the rest of the body included:

difficulty breathing
chest pain
leg swelling
persistent abdominal (stomach) pain
tiny blood spots under the skin, away from the site of injection

"

Seems quite severe, I don't know anyone who got this vaccine. I am curious what percentage of patients suffered from this.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
how good is it on stocks?
Stupid, especially coming from a VC that is very knowledgeable of the amortization of returns on a portfolio: 9 companies fail for every single success. Google acts like a big VC fund, obviously many initiatives fail. Why would he judge Google for failed initiatives while he himself is a poster child of waste?

No doubt there are useless jobs but the main example he gives is failed initiatives by Google.

What about failed initiatives (“startups”) at a16z?
If you open source your work you can't just pull the content then sue someone using the content you gave them a license to use due to moral rights.
You can do a handy struct wrapper over a private Nonzero that xors the given value with the prohibited value (max in this case) at the new constructor. And like so for the get method. Xoring is very cheap. That's my favorite way of storing indices/links for nodes, since you can wrap them in Option for free.
My friend is a chemical engineer and I found it really annoying when people revere his suggestions on anything mechanical like fixing a sink. Like an engineering title makes you an expert on anything mechanical.

That’s when I switched from programmer to software engineer actually.
How many people work at Google?

About 50%.
Chang'e-6 enters lunar orbit ahead of far side landing attempt – SpaceNews
Yea, I went into this article looking for data to back up this claim and found none.

While every large company is going to have some waste, saying it's half is quite the claim that needs more data.
Any idea why it's preferred to do the alignment route instead of storing the bits in the upper part of the pointer & masking?
I don't know if it's that great. They're tasked with adding features that no one actually wants and when rolled out, no one will use: like phone calls, and eventually payments. And then there will be features that aren't particularly well-thought out, like Grok, which mostly seem to garner bad news headlines. There's the constant threat of being laid off for no reason.
Steve Albini has died
He’s referring to

1. Jobs that are inherently BS — whatever the modern equivalents of telephone sanitisers are

2. Jobs working on BS projects — projects that never go anywhere. This will include engineers working on those projects

I wonder whether startups that don’t make it count as BS companies from his viewpoint?
post a lot on twitter it would seem
I like Kialo too! But it's more like a tool for simple discussions on simple/complex topics, not a tool for complex discussions.
Mostly negative reactions on latest Apple Ad (thin iPad Pro)
> The problem is, once you access such shared objects in Python, it is never readonly access but actually read-write, because it modifies the refcount.

That is right, but is a mere drop in the sea. First, because reference counting is not intrusive in CPython (meaning the reference counting structures are outside the PyObject, last I checked), meaning you will mainly copy on write these external small structures anyway.
Second, what I'm describing here is for when pickling objects across workers is prohibitively slow and memory consuming, typically that means sharing pandas dataframes of dozens or hundreds of gigabytes. Some copied refcount pages here and these is really not going to be a culprit.

> But also, why does it need to be a global variable? When you fork(), afterwards all the local variables are available to the child process. No need for global variables.

Right, but you need some way to access these variables, and once you're in a worker process you simply are in a difference scope.

def workerfunc(x):
# I'm a poor worker in an empty scope

def parent():
juicy_variable = ...
with Pool(42) as pool:
result = pool.map(workerfunc, [1, 2, 3])
Random VC says some random inflammatory thing with no evidence to support it. 15% growth, a dividend, and a buyback but those poor disenfranchised capitalists still want more.
I'm looking at the boards from M1 and M2: https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2023/01/26174137/M1-vs...

I can see a max of 2 fitting there.
We all need to remember Musk wasn't the founder. He was an early investor that forced the founders out. We can argue about whether the founders would have been more/less successful but he didn't found Tesla.

[https://www.theverge.com/23815634/tesla-elon-musk-origin-fou...]
Is anyone using neural networks for anomaly detection in observability? If so, which model and how many metrics are you supporting per core?
? I thought this was understood by most. It's a common portrayal in media as well.
Ahh, so it seems that mortgage interest payments come off before tax?!
Medical records are the most important thing missing from your will
Lol, project much Andreessen? He's been complaining about this for at least 1 years because I remember him complaining about this when I joined twitter in 2012. And what exactly has he done to earn his billions?
I’m inclined to ignore such pr fluff until they actually demonstrate a _practical_ result. Eg. cure some form of cancer or some autoimmune disease. All this “prediction of structure” has been in the news for years, and it seems to have resulted in nothing practically usable IRL as far as I can tell. I could be wrong of course, I do not work in this field
Turns out that it took a lot of staff to keep out spam and hate speech, and advertisers hate being next to hate speech. It took even more staff to work in sales so that the advertisers would have a point of contact and stay happy.
The CEO is still responsible for their own employees, CEO hired them or directed them to be hired, the CEO (especially this CEO) runs the company.

Lying about features or the number of cars being produced etc. can't be limited to mere optimism because they mentioned specific numbers in a public way that were not true.

> fired for underperforming

The irony, since Musk destroys every brand and product he's ever touched. I've never seen a more polar opposite to the Midas effect at work. It has to be intentional.
Thanks,

Although Joker and relaxed may not combine for you, the day and time of day could also affect the results giving the variation of movies it gives. Obviously it could use refinements and upgrades but for the most part was it majorly incorrect at all?
This is a hugely misleading headline. They are withdrawing a 4-year-old vaccine in favor of later versions. Meanwhile, there are "concerns" over TTS risk, but the latter is a meaningless statement.
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We optimize warehouse sizes for a dbt project as a whole. Users can set a maximum project runtime as one of the parameters for experimentation. The optimization honors this max runtime while tuning warehouse sizes for individual models.
No actual stalker is going to be troubled by the @ElonJet ban. (I'm not sure who "the most actively violent faction in the country" is.)

It's on other platforms and the plane publicly broadcasts its location. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2ae0a
Worst of all, I don't think the authors generally get to write the headlines. Can you imagine how frustrating it must be to have your boss make the most salient part of your work contradict the work itself?
Since no one outside Google knows what real work the white-collar staff at Google do, no one can prove him wrong. He may be quoting a disgruntled Google employee. He's using an appeal to authority argument - his own as one half of Andreessen-Horowitz. That's a neat trick.
So along with the beeps they verbally announce “claxon claxon claxon” before they start their message?
They lost a ton of their customers' crypto. They're paying people back in cash at prices that are now 1/3 or less of the value of the crypto that customers deposited with them.
The ML models will help us understand that :)
Can you share what exactly you mean by a sideways change and a forward change, in this context? Thanks!
Yep, I know Paul Adams (used to work with him at Berkeley Lab) and that's exactly the paper he'd publish. If you read that paper carefully (as we all have, since it's the strongest we've seen from the crystallography community so far) they're basically saying the results from AF are absolutely excellent, and fit for purpose.

(put another way: if Paul publishes a paper saying your structure predictions have issues, and mostly finds tiny local issues and some distortion and domain orientation,r ather than absolutely incorrect fold prediction, it means your technique works really well, and people are just quibbling about details.)
This was my first shot. No overall positions will be swayed in this comment section, but it is really important to remember the context of when this came out, the risks & probabilities of not getting <whatever vaccine was available> vs. the risks & probability of likely TTS looking back from today.

EDIT: it's hard to answer "how many people got this" because purchase agreement of X doses doesn't really translate to Y people, but looks like maybe 1.5B doses, with majors being US (300M) , COVAX (400M), UK (100M), Japan (120M) and EU (400M) - hard to know how many were actually delivered & used though... Short answer: A sizeable #3 but well behind the big two.
Had that thought too, twice as much work just to steal the money. Yet, if you look, America often rewards (or at least encourages) thieves, rogues, scoundrels, ect...

Santos? Mostly encouragement if anything. Probably run for Governor.

Bernie Madoff? He had to turn himself in. 'treated in prison like a "Mafia don".' From WP:

> They call me either Uncle Bernie or Mr. Madoff. I can't walk anywhere without someone shouting their greetings and encouragement, to keep my spirit up. It's really quite sweet, how concerned everyone was about my well being, including the staff ... It's much safer here than walking the streets of New York.

Catch Me if You Can? Everybody wants to be the Wolf of Wall St.

Michael? Girlfriend, interviews, writeups, social fascination.
The problem with arguing about battery life this way is that it's highly dependent on usage patterns.

For example I would be surprised if there is any laptop, which is sufficiently fast for my usage, and it's battery life is more than 2-3 hours top. Heck, I have several laptops and all of them dies in one-one and a half hours. But of course, I never optimized for battery life, so who knows. So in my case, all of them are lying equally. I don't even check battery life for 15 years now. It's a useless metric for me, because all of them are shit.

But of course for people who don't need to use VMs, run several "micro"services at once, have constant internet transfer and have 5+ Intellij project open at the same time which caching several millions LOC, while gazillion web pages are open, maybe there is a difference, for me it doesn't matter whether it's one or one and a half hours.
The problem wasn’t so much the raw amount of gear, is that it was bunch of small components that weren’t particularly well integrated. A lot cabling to run every night, etc. They had to more than doh le the size of their crew,
Which was the biggest expense.
It's curious how aligned this is with similar moves in Canada discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40298552

For those unfamiliar Ofcom is basically the UK telecoms regulator.
Macro economic figures may look great. What it means for society is as debatable. Models are just models.

Choosing a model is politics.
If silencing dissent is not acceptable, you should demonstrably be mad at Musk.
I am trying to understand how accurate the docking predictions are.

Looking at the PoseBusters paper [1] they mention, they say they are 50% more accurate than traditional methods.

DiffDock, which is the best DL based systems gets 30-70% depending on the dataset, and traditional gets 50-70%. The paper highlighted some issues with the DL-based methods and given that DeepMind would have had time to incorporate this into their work and develop with the PoseBusters paper in mind, I'd hope it's significantly better than 50-70%. They say 50% better than traditional so I expected something like 70-85% across all datasets.

I hope a paper will appear soon to illuminate these and other details.

[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/sc/d3sc0418...
Your comment highlights that the "does no real work" verbiage is disingenuous / inflammatory. "Does no real work" is _very_ different from "does a bunch of work that gets thrown away".
The VCs hate that Google and others bid up salaries. It means their investments don't go as far. He'd love for Google to lay off a ton of employees so his portfolio companies could get significantly cheaper labor.
No intention of protecting adults?
Wiktionary's second definition of "militant":

Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]

That seems entirely apt to me. It's a metaphorical usage, rather than a literal one, but it has been used that way for centuries.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/militant
It's pretty neat. I'd want to try a version with a linear motion that drives the propeller for the counterbalance reasons.

I could see this as an alternative to fins offered at snorkeling places. That would make a great test environment too.
Yeah like, even if he somehow owned 10% of all dollar bills in existence and had a somewhat efficient way of looking them up, his expected value is still only $3,000! Does it really make sense to do all the work of taking your hard-earned, once in a lifetime windfall of $100000 (easily 4x the median annual income at the time, even for a person who had a steady professional job), out of the literal bank where it safely sits making ~10% interest in the mid 80s, and store it in your messy house in drawers and trash bags, for the opportunity to make 3% back? Not the thoughts of a rational person!
Everyone that tried to do what Google does with less people has failed.

Anyway, my experience working at a startup that went from a few hundred customers to hundreds of thousands (B2B, with each customer being very high volume): Scale requires headcount. Our customer base increased 2000x and our engineering headcount went up 50x. But our product is now far more capable than it was back when I started. It was simple enough I could fit the whole thing in my head as a mid-level engineer. Not the case anymore...
This has unfortunately been a known issue for a while, surprised it took this long. The article doesn’t mention it, but Norway already paused usage of this specific vaccine due to the same concern, way back in March 2021:

https://www.sciencenorway.no/covid19-vaccines/this-is-why-no...
I believe that you don't have the perspective to understand my claim, because you are a believer. I would very much like you to try though.

I claim that religious scholarship and religious fundamentalism are one and the same. You're arguing that Qaradawi was an Islamic scholar, I'm arguing that he was an Islamic fundamentalist. However, in all religious scholarship, there are further choices to be made once you are a fundamentalist. The book contradicts itself (intentionally, as it's more important that people who believe different Islams both be able to call themselves Muslim), and Qaradawi had further used his position of "celebrated religious scholar" to assert that it is Shari'a to annihilate the Jews, and used his general credibility to deny the severity of the holocaust. That's just this clip.

You can't become a religious leader without being a religious scholar, and you can't lead an extremist sect without leaning on that classification pretty heavily.
Elon wants to run an AI company and not a vehicle manufacturer. Since he doesn't own a majority of the stock, he's chosen to make his vision inevitable by tanking the vehicle and charging-related parts of the business.
The blog post and homepage both are working fine for me on Firefox Android. Can you raise an issue on our GitHub? :D
Elon "take-n-tank" Musk the brand destroyer lol

I have an even funnier one for you: That viral video of when he was bald and bought that very expensive McLaren... "It's the highlight of my life" he said shortly before totaling the car with no insurance.

"He's a genius!"
Nice - yeah that looks more optimal to me.
I think there are a number of advantages of having extra staff if a company can afford it.
1. Talent is pulled away from competition that can threaten Google's dominance.
2. Talent is prevented from creating their own startups that can threaten Google's dominance.
3. Engineers are available to handle extra work that suddenly shows up leaving the others to keep focusing on "real work".
4. Engineers are available to do work that is not "real". Meaning work that nobody wants to do but still has to be done.
5. Hiring more people shows that the company is growing causing the stock value to go up.
6. Firing people can also cause the stock price to go up because it shows company is doing something to cut costs.
hey I think this is very cool and I plan to try it out
> Then why did the court upturn the FDAs Juul ban? And why don't FDA try to ban cigarettes?

The answer to both questions, in my opinion, is that there are still plenty of smokers in the places that get to make these decisions and even more people whose pockets are lined by the industry.
Again, why was a wall built? In response to what?

Did you know that Finland is building a wall on her border with Russia? In response to what, would you guess?

Is one of these walls ok but the other not? If not, why not? A wall is the most passive thing one can do to protect one's national borders, and yet, somehow you present it as yet another example of Israeli evil. Why Palestinians should have the right to stroll onto Israeli grounds anytime they please remains unexplained.

There certainly is a theme here of imputing malevolence even to Israel's most mild, passive response to actual violence by Palestinians. Are you infuriated by the Iron Dome as well?
> He isn't stating a fact, from what I can tell. The actual quote in the article is "I don’t think it’s crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work."

Contrast that with "Half of Google's white-collar staff 'does no real work,' Silicon Valley VC says".

So the title of the article is an outright lie. That probably should be flagged?
The author, Brandon Keim, is a favorite of mine. If you like this piece, his book Eye of the Sandpiper is worth checking out.

https://brandonkeim.net/sandpiper
How easy/hard would be for the scientific community to come up with an "OpenFold" model which is pretty much AF3 but fully open source and without restrictions in it?

I can image training will be expensive, but I don't think it will be at a GPT-4 level of expensive.
For sure. This piece says it all really: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshit...
Game developers are constantly trying to minimize lag. I have no idea if computers are so fast these days that it is a "solved" problem, but I knew a game developer ages ago who used a predictive mouse model to reduce the apparent lag by guessing where the mouse would be at the time the frame was displayed (considering it took 30 ms or whatever to render the frame).
The reason it comes up is because it's the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. Conservatives have an agenda to remote porn from the internet at all costs. They also want to kill anonymity on the internet and if you frame it properly then you can push through their agenda.
Interesting perspective. Not from thr US and my native language is Spanish, where I live traffic really is synonym of congestion.

When there are little cars you wouldn't say that there is traffic. That's just how the language is.
The article literally has no substance. Who isn't doing any real work? What are they doing instead? How can companies improve? Literally nothing is said about anything.

I clicked through to the linked interview, and it elaborates in slightly more detail, saying that he wants the BS jobs eliminated so more capital can be returned to the shareholders. This is just "kill R&D so that I can have some cash now". (That sounds like the current state of the VC world. In a world with 7% interest rates, what do VCs do exactly? They aren't investing in startups, that's for sure. Maybe their job can be eliminate so a16z can return some capital to its shareholders, eh?)