skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccines were purported to be real hepatitis B vaccines, as the aid workers involved in the operation had previously successfully gained entry to the Bin Laden compound in order to vaccinate his children against polio. However, the aid workers did not complete the multiple doses necessary to complete the sequences of the hep B vaccine, so the vaccination program ruse could arguably be characterized as "fake" as it did not follow proper vaccination protocols, regardless of whether or not the vaccines used in the farce were themselves legitimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

> The doctor went to Abbottabad in March, saying he had procured funds to give free vaccinations for hepatitis B. Bypassing the management of the Abbottabad health services, he paid generous sums to low-ranking local government health workers, who took part in the operation without knowing about the connection to Bin Laden. Health visitors in the area were among the few people who had gained access to the Bin Laden compound in the past, administering polio drops to some of the children.

> Afridi had posters for the vaccination programme put up around Abbottabad, featuring a vaccine made by Amson, a medicine manufacturer based on the outskirts of Islamabad.

> In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.

> It is not known exactly how the doctor hoped to get DNA from the vaccinations, although nurses could have been trained to withdraw some blood in the needle after administrating the drug.

> "The whole thing was totally irregular," said one Pakistani official. "Bilal Town is a well-to-do area. Why would you choose that place to give free vaccines? And what is the official surgeon of Khyber doing working in Abbottabad?"

> A nurse known as Bakhto, whose full name is Mukhtar Bibi, managed to gain entry to the Bin Laden compound to administer the vaccines. According to several sources, the doctor, who waited outside, told her to take in a handbag that was fitted with an electronic device. It is not clear what the device was, or whether she left it behind. It is also not known whether the CIA managed to obtain any Bin Laden DNA, although one source suggested the operation did not succeed.

For what it's worth, the CIA has committed to not use vaccination programs or workers or DNA obtained through such programs in operations going forward.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-obama-cia/white-house-vow...
Being a generalist is best for minimizing downtime between jobs.

Being a specialist is best for maximizing salary and job security on a job.
Unfortunately stupid people get themselves killed every day. Some people drive around rail crossings built to protect them just to save 30 seconds of waiting time and then everyone acts shocked when they get side swiped by a train.

You can't police the stupid out of people and if people are so ravenous they're running round the woods eating every mushroom in sight and have to rely on Google's woeful AI products to not eat a dangerous one, then that really is their own fault.
The US is currently a net exporter of oil, and it was in 2022 as well:

U.S. Net Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products, https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

Note that this is a "net imports" graph where values below 0 indicate net exports. The graph shows that the last year where the US was a net importer was 2019.
Related: Millennial Pause https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EVHLBdZ6Oxw
I found the .05/.08 here: https://wow.groq.com/
> Even my kids would ask me questions when they were younger: "Dad, how would you destroy earth?" It would be of no use to anybody to deny answering that question. And answering them does not mean they will ever attempt anything like that. There's a reason Randall Munroe's "What If?" blog became so popular.

Sure. Did you give an idea that would work and which your kids could actually carry out, or just suggest things out of their reach like nukes and asteroids?

Now also consider that something like 1% of the human species are psychopaths and might actually try to do it simply for the fun of it, if only a sufficiently capable amoral oracle told them how to.
> Facebook executives had first approached the Pentagon in the summer of 2020, warning the military that Facebook workers had easily identified the military’s phony accounts, according to three former U.S. officials and another person familiar with the matter. The government, Facebook argued, was violating Facebook’s policies by operating the bogus accounts and by spreading COVID misinformation.

> The military argued that many of its fake accounts were being used for counterterrorism and asked Facebook not to take down the content

There you have it. Counter-terorrism is our new "please think of the children" to halt logical thought and make you the bad guy if you continue pressing any further on serious matters.
> current-year web design tic

IIUC it's more that you do it to expand the page-inches on social media so that it's more likely readers will click through to your story, because social media displays the preview banner.
Don't learn frameworks or languages, learn computer science and software engineering!

languages are an implementation detail. What's really important is critical thinking, problem solving, and knowing how computers work.
Will Apple save the data, so that they can use it to build their own AI systems?
Perhaps not in reality, but it's the customer perception that matters.
https://medium.com/@alt.cap/time-to-get-fit-an-open-letter-f... /s. Or no /s? idk anymore. You decide.

VC money hose is drying up I suppose
Because dark kitchens / ghost kitchens aren't just outsourcing their seating area, they're outsourcing everything but the logo. Ghost kitchens will frequently "cook for" more than one "restaurant," but these separate restaurants will have the exact same items on their menu, because they're coming out of the same kitchen. It's dishonest and done exclusively to put more "options" on delivery apps that funnel orders to the same business. There's a dozen other reasons ghost kitchens are bad for everyone involved (except the business owners).
This is basically how land worked in Second Life. LindenLab charged a set price for a parcel (by size) or island (by compute), regardless of what was on it. They didn't calculate that by continually assessing the earnings of the land (which seems awfully close to charging for the improvements and not the land itself, and a staffing issue). The prices of islands changed over time, though I don't think parcel charges increased (haven't paid attention since I stopped working there).

Land owners had to pay the above price to LL monthly. They could then resell/rent to other residents.
This is why it was hard for me to work on complex functional programming projects: execution flow is not obvious and you can't just debug/print in the middle of the function.

Repl is often sufficient, but not in cases where you need to pass some convoluted data as input.
Smarter writing tools might be cool, but thinking of this as “enforcement” is kind of backwards given the current state of technology. AI is gullible and untrustworthy and it’s up to us to vet the results, because they could be bananas.

I think proposing a rewrite and letting people decide (and make final edits) could work well, though.
If you want a specific answer you're going to need to refine your question to be more specific.

If you just want a technology for which there will be a job for the next 5-10 years, you can pick literally anything out of a hat. e.g. COBOL still has plenty of jobs, and 10 years from now, there will still be COBOL jobs.

Do you want a job in a particular area? Do you want a particular type of employment arrangement? Do you want a large number of options? What salary range are you aiming for? What are your professional strengths? If you want a good job, you need to find something that matches your inherent desires and strengths... because if you don't, you'll be competing against people who are better match for the role than you are.
I was chatting frequently with a person with a 3 letter screen name back in 2001 - and then they just disappeared - I wonder if they are one of the lucky few who got jacked with this.
I wonder if they’d detect my calm, angry voice, learned from my customer service mother as a child. It’s not popular relative to American rage but it’s been an invaluable life skill.
If you have an extensive demo page covering my use case, I would prefer a low-cost entry offer to use my Google account. Upgrading to a more expensive option later is usually not such a hard task for me when I really love the product.

Lately, I had a case when someone informed me that he would take my e-mail from his newsletter mailing list because I seemed to be a dead address (and every address generated cost for him). I replied that I did not like to be tracked (implying that I had read the newsletter) and we had a nice conversation. Not every fake e-mail is as fake as it seems ;-)

Apparently, Thunderbird can be quite good at beating E-Mail Tracking.
Interesting, I think how the model runs makes a big difference and I plan to re-run this experiment with different models and different ways of running the model.
Any modern web stack will keep you employed for that timeframe. Even the ChatGPT website is written in NextJS (with the magic happening elsewhere). The greater majority of stacks out there hasn't changed dramatically since 2014 - they've just expanded or evolved a bit.
Is there any correlation between these cycles and earth temperature?

This seems to suggest yes?

> The atmospheric temperature spike, which was caused by successive geomagnetic storms, suggests the "solar maximum" is fast approaching.

https://www.space.com/earths-thermosphere-highest-temperatur...

And would something like El Nino be included in this effect or is it separate?

Don't get me wrong - the earth has obviously been getting warmer for a long time now. But the narrative on the cause of recent high temps seems way over-simplified.
That's tantamount to saying that MacOS is "outrageously dangerous" to the majority of people because it allows "" sideloading"". Absurd.

Everybody buying into Apple's FUD needs to take a step back and look at the greater context; Apple themselves already sell devices and an OS which permits that which they and you claim is too dangerous to exist.
When I read articles like this I feel compelled to respond in the hope that someone can benefit. So take this however you like but it's a bit of advice from someone who has had a long, fruitful and (at times) happy career in software for nearly 30 years at this point and has programmed professionally at a very serious level in probably nearly 10 languages at this point.

Don't worry about which language is the "best" according to the opinions and fashions of the day. Just pick something and go really really deep. If you are lucky enough to stick around in this industry you will inevitably over the course of your career end up programming in a plethora of languages anyway but especially to start with, you will gain a lot from learning how to become a real expert in one thing. Much more than you would gain by flitting from one new hotness to another.

For me, I had messed around and done professional work in a bunch of languages but the real turning point came when I decided to really get good at perl[1]. I went through a period where I would go on comp.lang.perl.misc on usenet every day and answer every question I could. Read docs and source code, write little test programs, try things out until I knew and understood the answer. I wouldn't always post my answers because sometimes it took long enough to find the answer that someone else would beat me to the punch, but I got really good at perl in a short space of time. That got me my next two jobs during which time I consolidated that knowledge until I really really really knew perl well (and it's a big language and there is a lot to learn so this is a serious undertaking).

The effort involved in doing this - sticking with one thing and learning it really well - has paid off enormously ever since. I have learned and used tons of other languages since then and it is really fast because I really knuckled down and took the time to get good at perl and that taught me a lot about how to learn languages in general.

[1] A language I realise as I write this that I have not touched for about 20 years other than to use in shell oneliners when I'm trying to do something in regexes that's a bit too hard to do some other way.
I know it's liability hell in the west, but I wish we have more junk yard weightlifting playgrounds. There a lot of cheap small resistence cable machines. Would be nice to have bunch of them in a pull up jungle gym in every park.
Apple users will want to use OpenAI regardless of the deal with Apple.
That's quite an impressive story. Also with quite a lot about how hard it is to use titanium properly.
All my friends are on there and haven't switched to another site. Some nice features are definitely getting removed from it though (like being able to hide a tweet so only a subset of your followers can see it).
Oracle had an ad business?
I think we are going to circle back to "Modern" Fortran for a while to try out the parallelism features once generics get finalized in the next release.

https://github.com/j3-fortran/generics/
Google famously removed "don't be evil" because lawyers pushed back on who gets to define evil. I can imagine same logic applies here: Nvidia isn't about to define objective morality, so the best alternative is to ask people to try their best.
New York recovers $50M for defrauded Gemini Earn crypto investors
Can confirm, ever since having children my memory is pretty poor. Baby brains they call it.
This is an exaggeration/oversimplification - the choices aren't "save every last dummy" or "do nothing", and you don't have to come anywhere near "ravenously running round the woods eating every mushroom in sight" to be affected by this.
Yes, that sawmill incident was with 16-year-old, but there are more at other industries. E.g. WI regulations were relaxed to allow 14-years-old work 40 hour weeks as well part of the year. If there is not enough pushback fatalities are a matter of time.
didn't know they finally turned on pricing plans
> Okay - we're unable to refine most of the oil we produce. Is that better?

The US produces ~12 million barrels a day. We export less than 4.

12 - 4 = 8.

Which is bigger, 8/12 or 4/12? Which one is bigger than 1/2?

Or are you saying we just dump 8 million barrels a day into the oceans or something? Have you ever stopped to wonder where that goes?

And you still have no answer for what we did with all the oil we generated form the 70s until the 2015. Were we unable to refine most of that oil as well? Where did we put it all?

So no, even saying "we're unable to refine most of the oil we produce" is still just factually incorrect.

> The point is Americans believe the United States is energy dependent, and we are not. Not by a long shot.

Sure, if all global oil trade stopped today refined products would get a lot more expensive overnight. Refineries would have to retool a bit. But overall, the US refines more oil than refined products we consume, so it would be a temporary thing.
I've used Effect-ts for a little under a year.

It's great for workflows with clear points in the logic where things should happen and it provides more sophisticated (i.e. powerful but harder to master) tools like Fibers and Streams which allow you to reason about failure cases of reactive asynchronous operations. In many cases it offers a clear path out of callback-hell that is more reliable than promises and async/await.

However while the Effect-ts docs are getting better and may be ok for people with a good knowledge of functional programming and Typescript, they are nowhere near the quality they need to be for those who don't. People looking for examples online will get frustrated because Effect API churn over the past three years has made many old posts and articles obsolete. Old github repos won't work out of the box. And you better be comfortable with codemods if you haven't frozen your Effect-ts version.

Fortunately the Effect-ts Discord channel is full of friendly and helpful people and the Effect team provides high quality assistance to people who ask for it. It makes me sad this treasure trove of information is trapped in Discord where search is of little value.

A good book or collection of high quality examples of how to use Effect-ts with de-facto standard frameworks like React could help its adoption grow significantly.
Author here.

OpenTelemetry is not competitive to us (it doesn’t do what we do in plurality), and we specifically want to see the open tracing goals succeed.

I was pretty clear about that in the post though.
I think that a number of Observability providers are looking at how they can add features and value to parts of monitoring that OTel effectively commoditizes. Thinking of the tail-based sampling implemented at Honeycomb for APM, or synthetic monitoring by my own team at Checkly.

"In 2015 Armin and I built a spec for Distributed Tracing. Its not a hard problem, it just requires an immense amount of coordination and effort." This to me feels like a nice glass of orange juice after brushing my teeth. The spec on DT is very easy, but the implementation is very very hard. The fact that OTel has nurtured a vast array of libraries to aid in context propagation is a huge acheivement, and saying 'This would all work fine if everyone everywhere adopted Sentry' is... laughable.

Totally outside the O11y space, OTel context propagation is an intensely useful feature because of how widespread it is. See Signadot implementing their smart test routing with OpenTelemetry: https://www.signadot.com/blog/scaling-environments-with-open...
Prefer `#!/usr/bin/env bash` instead, since /bin/bash isn't a standardized location for bash (even across Linux distros). The former causes $PATH to be searched for bash.
I actually think that for VTSAX manages, the fact that they have to vote is sort of a liability for them. My guess is that they would rather not vote at all. They own the whole market anyway, and should only care about tracking the underlying index as accurate as possible with as low fees as possible, its bureaucratic. Now they have to publicly vote in a dubious popularity contest and take sides in a battle they don't care about.
But not foss. It's using the BSL or FSL or whatever.
Why Is a Free Banana Breaking the Steam Market? [video]
Oh, yeah. Maybe it's worth differentiating between kitchens that are otherwise legit but exclusively serve via delivery apps, and kitchens that are spam. The former can be "ghost kitchens" and the latter can be "dark kitchens".
Indeed both Zod and Schema are great with Effect.
The whole point of this tool is to help relax the employee. The customer perception doesn’t matter here.
It's not exactly counterfeit parts. It's that the paperwork for the titanium supplied wasn't right. So I guess it could be ok titanium with just bad paperwork rather than bad titanium. Also I guess it costs a lot to change.
Self hosting means hosting it yourself, not running it on Amazon. I think the distinction the author intends to make is between running something that can't be hosted elsewhere, like ChatGPT, versus running Llama-3 yourself.

Overlooking that, the rest of the article feels a bit strange. Would we really have a use case where we can make use of those 157 million tokens a month? Would we really round $50 of energy cost to $100 a month? (Granted, the author didn't include power for the computer) If we buy our own system to run, why would we need to "scale your own hardware"?

I get that this is just to give us an idea of what running something yourself would cost when comparing with services like ChatGPT, but if so, we wouldn't be making most of the choices made here such as getting four NVIDIA Tesla T4 cards.

Memory is cheap, so running Llama-3 entirely on CPU is also an option. It's slower, of course, but it's infinitely more flexible. If I really wanted to spend a lot of time tinkering with LLMs, I'd definitely do this to figure out what I want to run before deciding on GPU hardware, then I'd get GPU hardware that best matches that, instead of the other way around.
Wait, so Vercel is not profitable?

How tf? They're the most overpriced product I pay for (and I like it, no complains).
Hyped for Ballmercon 2024!
The End of Pandemic Internet Subsidies
As someone not in this space, I was immediately tripped up by this as well. Does spatial computing mean something else in this context?
HN thread on this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318
It's only 2GB more than the A16, and Apple's models are "SLM"s by their own terminology.

But it might be significant too. Still it's not an arbitrary limitation, but an actual lack of processing power on the older devices.
So you’re saying it makes my thinking more clear? :)

This is what happens when you use a tool designed for authoring code to also author content.
Mobile games are already using the Dark Kitchen model; so are dating sites/apps. I remember that match.com operated almost all dating apps - around two hundred of them - at some point in time.
"not even close to being the most powerful tool to crunch numbers on scale." So what tool would be that's as broadly accessible as Excel is?
If the goal was to relieve the general public from being stuck inside, they did not have to go for opening everything up. There are a number of university presses listed in the lawsuit, but I doubt most people would want to slog through textbooks.

They could have also added code to help people find the books they are looking for in their _local_ libraries if they reached the lending limit. That would bring more attention to the local library and what they do for their community.

They could have asked the public to donate books. There may be logistics problem with sending the books over, but it can be something that raised awareness and involved the public more with what their mission.

There was lots of ways to do this. Disabling the code to ignore lending limits was low effort … and frankly, not well considered.
I completely agree.

When Terry died a few years ago, I actually had some arguments here about people fully condemning him for the racist stuff, and I pushed back claiming that mental illness could happen to anyone and it's important to approach these things with a bit of sympathy [1].

I go back and forth, but I generally try hard to approach these things with some level of empathy. The human brain is a frustrating and annoying thing, it breaks in non-obvious ways for non-obvious reasons causing non-obvious effects. Dementia is something that will affect a lot (most?) of us at some point, and who the hell knows how any one of us are going to handle that?

While I think it's totally fine to condemn the individual statements that Terry said, and maybe even ok to use the reductive-but-useful label of "asshole" to describe him, I also think it's important to remember that fundamentally, he was a human.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913372
Modder5: Renault's game modding campaign for the Renault 5
I think you're joking, but the Bible basically says that*, so you might be serious, and even if you're not someone will say it unironically.

* https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%205%3A28
Your survival is your own responsibility. Believe it or not I didn't need to check with Google whether or not to put my head in the oven today. My IQ must be over 9000.