skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet that seems to have changed since the article referenced above was published.

> After May 1, 2021, when vaccines were available to all adults, the excess death rate gap between Republican and Democratic voters widened from -0.9 percentage point (95% PI, -2.5 to 0.3 percentage points) to 7.7 percentage points (95% PI, 6.0-9.3 percentage points) in the adjusted analysis; the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters. The gap in excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates and was primarily noted in voters residing in Ohio.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486680/
Maybe the investors are in on the grift. Figure they can get it on the hype now and sell before they get caught.
Eating frozen and/or low quality food will not make you fat. Especially stuff like frozen veg and chicken fillets.

You might have trouble if you literally only eat Cheetos and get no nutrients. You're more likely to become malnourished and sickly than obese that way.

Also, chest freezers exist, nothing is stopping you from driving and loading up the car/truck for a month or more. In the UK a 200 mile round trip would cost £30 or less in fuel, my understanding is that you Americans pay half of that.

The question ultimately comes down to whether you want it enough. I can already see the next gotcha being "what if you don't have a car" or something. Sure, if you are a waster then doing literally anything is hard, self fulfilling prophecy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02420-w
85 meters
Personally, I think socialized healthcare like the NHS or a single payer system make the most sense. Nothing is worse that our current "Death Boards" where insurance companies delay life saving medical treatment by default in an attempt to improve profits.
semiconductor manufacturing is highly skilled - ie the folks over seas were already well paid. It was a lot more about approvals, permissions, etc, than wages with this manufacturing area. It shouldn't have a huge impact.
Common sense? If Apple refuses to make obvious accessibility changes to drive customers to some alternative first-party product, that's probably going to get brought up during antitrust hearings.
That is where you teach that developer to rebase his commits into logical and self-contained units before merging the PR.
Albedo to loft Clarity to low orbit in early 2025 – SpaceNews
I built an RV to increase missing person cases
Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain
The key ingredients are not the humans but the feedback they carry to the model. Humans are embodied and can test ideas in the real world, LLMs need some kind of special deployment to achieve that. It just so happens that chat rooms are such a deployment.

For example, AlphaZero started from scratch and only had feedback from the self-play game outcomes, but that was enough to reach superhuman level. It was the feedback that carried insights and taught the model.

You can make a parallel to the scientific method: you have two stages, ideation and validation. Ideation alone is not scientific. Validation is what makes or breaks ideas. LLMs without a validation system are just like scientists without a lab.

We're not that smart, as demonstrated by the large number of ideas that don't pan out, we can churn ideas fast but we learn from their outcomes, we can't predict outcomes from the beginning and skip validation.

Here is an example of LLMs discovering useful ideas by feedback, even when they are completely outside their training distribution:

"Evolution through Large Models"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896

This works because the task proposed by this paper is easy to test, so there is plenty of feedback. But the LLM still needs to apply ingenuity to optimize it, you can't brute force it by evolutionary methods alone.
I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Boom
As someone who has worked in startup environments for 20 years, its rather offensive that anyone in 2024 would claim that employees arent taking risks.

In todays salary brackets, one could be comfortably making 220k as a staff dev some huge healthcare/pharma tech firm. One may also feel the job is boring, soulless, and mostly uncomfortable. Then one may choose to work at an exciting AI startup for ~160k, and suddenly find themselves way happier, growing more, and engaged. One just took ~60k worth of risk right there, not to mention that it could be come $0 tomorrow, and one likely now has crap healthcare benefits, given the startup status.

That 60k could be a million dollars in ~15 years if invested wisely.
The PIO allows you to bit-bang DVI/HDMI; you can put the RP2040 on any bus imaginable (which is the real reason it's popular for console modding) (from a digital perspective of course); you have two PIOs so you can convert between two buses/signals, etc. You can convert digital video, e.g. RGB as used on consoles or DVI, to VGA or DVI if you wanted to. In the past you would've needed an FPGA or CPLD in the middle.
I've been working on the cloud platform for this for some time - has been a lot of fun. Happy to answer any questions if people have them
Not strictly related to the podcast, but if you'd like to have a local-first browser application running sqlite check out wa-sqlite. It can use both IndexedDB and OPFS as a backend filesystem.

[1]: https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite
If you didn't find anything on the polio vaccine then I don't think you dug as deep as you thought.
The word you're looking for is "any", not "average". As in, it can write like any human, any way you want it to. Not just as some "average human".
> Perhaps that is how you learned math, but it is nothing like how I learned math.

Memorization is literally how you learned arithmetic, multiplication tables and fractions. Everyone starts learning math by memorization, and only later start understanding why certain steps work. Some people don't advance to that point, and those that do become more adept at math.
Eddie Hall lifted 500kg. Trained for years. 415kg is a heavy beast.
Of course any kind of non-ferrous headgear is not going to work to block the kind of radiation that the gov't uses for control.

At least, that what they want you to believe since this kind of low technology is so accessible and effective.
Well you can ask them why they thought it was such an interesting story to post. But yes the article discussing the schedule in detail says it is split up across 18 loads
> But it's such a visible signifier of being in an in-group.

It also works really well and is a lot of fun for interacting. Many people aren't just using "text", its quite rich forms of interacting. Enough people have grown up with that now to not care about the more rudimentary way form of communication you associate with "texting". It also signifies that there are even MORE ways you can communicate, with the integrated location sharing when desired, video chat, video voicemails, and more.

(I'm sure android users have the possibility of all these things, but not as deeply integrated or without any other app.)

> and also don't really participate in any group texts

shocked /s
> How is having to download sqlite3.wasm any different from

'unnecessary' file size. K matter on the web still.

I'm not normally a web guy, but from https://sqlite.org/download.html it looks like it's ~800k extra added to initial page load? Based on average mobile speed in US of 97.09Mbps; that's an extra half second added to initial page load. That's not trivial; maybe an extra 15% bounce rate on initial hits.
I think one component of their point is that the marginal utility of money beyond $200k/year cash comp is quite small, especially if you (1) came to tech early in life (2) plan on staying in it for most of your working life.

With that perspective, $200k/year and $700k/year both reduce to "well-paid".

Also, a Staff title at a Seed or Series A startup can definitely ask for $250k/year, although they'd likely be trading off against equity grants.
Improve Math Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision
I assume companies will make the job interview process even worse as a result. I really don't do well with CS heavy interviews. I never studied CS, I studied as your job description notes a RELATED field, I took about five different programming language courses at my college, and have years of experience. I'm not going to talk about algorithms I never use because I build websites.
From https://www.lovecpokladu.cz/en/home/the-mystery-of-medieval-...

https://www.lovecpokladu.cz/img/2023/gm4pro/Sandomierzské%20...

In that set you can see the rook being castle like on the end, the knight with a "triangular stick out head thing" and an elephant which has two bumps that at first glance made me think breasts rather than tusks. Then the inner two pieces with the king and queen.

The triangular head, however, is that of a horse's head rather than an upside-down miter or jewelry.

Another view of it from a different angle - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsPKPECX0AEwYP6?format=jpg&name=...

The bishop itself was a later introduction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(chess)

> The bishop's predecessor in medieval chess, shatranj (originally chaturanga), was the alfil, meaning "elephant", which could leap two squares along any diagonal, and could jump over an intervening piece. As a consequence, each fil was restricted to eight squares, and no fil could attack another. The modern bishop first appeared shortly after 1200 in Courier chess.
most startups don't offer actual equity even though that's what everyone calls it. they offer options. the idea is that the options you'll receive will have a strike price much lower than what the stock will be worth in future funding rounds or when the company is acquired or IPOs. the vesting schedule defines when you can start to exercise those. typically you'll receive 25% of your options after the first year, then the other 75% will vest every month after.

and yes, liquidity in a private company is always going to be an issue.

all of this is why I tell everyone that their options are worthless right up until they're not. anyone who's burned out or looking at a new opportunity shouldn't include them in their decision making process.
A friend of mine was the official photographer for the move of the Shuttle to the museum in LA.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjtJA0PPWm3/?img_index=1
I didn't notice that they were referring to that feature, it's too late to delete my comment now...
Salaries are consistently above other mainstream stacks, partly because most Elixir jobs look for senior engineers.
So what do we believe marketing materials now? Next up: Google is organising the world's information, NOT selling ads! Raspberry Pi used to be a platform for education first and foremost, but you don't get very far with this so they took on some funding to get ahead. Anti-VC whining is quite tangential to the product itself.
The Ziggurat of Ur: Iraq's answer to the pyramids
The restaurant industry is tough. FOH can make good money, but unpredictable and you are generally treated like shit. BOH has to work harder and isn't paid well, also generally treated like shit. Wage theft is rampant in the restaurant industry, as is substance abuse.
Is in the 6th section, maybe a bit too late, don't you think?
Lunar Regolith Geopolymer Concrete for In-Situ Construction of Lunar Bases
Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines
Even if you don’t see the cap table, any company you talk to should be clear and consistent in disclosure of facts like number of shares outstanding, including viewing it in tools like Carta. You are basically describing the abusive version of a startup and then saying all startups are bad.

I actually think going to a Series C or D is not the ideal play. It’s better to join an early company, with good leadership, reasonable if not mind blowing salary and cheap shares. Then, work hard, but not brutally hard. Somewhere that you enjoy the people, the work/product, and you can level up a lot. The options are cheap, and you can bail to FAANG at any time if you burn out. Realistically, that’s your shot at making 1% of $Xmm without completely hating your life. It will be a rare company so, yeah- be picky. I don’t know why all startups get lumped into one when there’s a lot out there for the discerning employee.
You'd find a way regardless of your fresh produce situation if everybody called you a lardass every day.

We're not talking about being healthy, we're talking about not being obese. You can absolutely lose weight eating awful shit every day; I'm doing it right now. In a fucked up way, it's easy. Look at calories in the drive-thru/on the wrapper and just stay below your target. That's what multiple people are saying in these comments -- they aren't necessarily being healthy, they are just not eating enough to become fat.
Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust
We'd love to share our work with you: Restate, a system for workflows-as-code (durable execution). With SDKs in JS/Java/Kotlin and a lightweight runtime built in Rust/Tokio.

https://github.com/restatedev/
https://restate.dev/

It is free and open, SDKs are MIT-licensed, runtime permissive BSL (basically just the minimal Amazon defense).
We worked on that for a bit over a year. A few points I think are worth mentioning:

- Restate's runtime is a single binary, self-contained, no dependencies aside from a durable disk. It contains basically a lightweight integrated version of a durable log, workflow state machine, state storage, etc. That makes it very compact and easy to run both on a laptop and a server.

- Restate implements durable execution not only for workflows, but the core building block is durable RPC handlers (or event handler). It adds a few concepts on top of durable execution, like virtual objects (turn RPC handlers into virtual actors), durable communication, and durable promises. Here are more details: https://restate.dev/programming-model

- Core design goal for APIs was to keep a familiar style. An app developer should look at Restate examples and say "hey, that looks quite familiar". You can let us know if that worked out.

- Basically every operation (handler invocation, step, ...) goes through a consensus layer, for a high degree of resilience and consistency.

- The lightweight log-centric architecture gives Restate still good latencies: For example around 50ms roundtrip (invoke to result) for a 3-step durable workflow handler (Restate on EBS with fsync for every step).

We'd love to hear what you think of it!
I always had this question for many years after watching the movie.

In the opening scene of the movie, the actor making the monologue has his face highly contorted. Why is that so? What does that signify?
"Giant banana" almost hit, I won't lose hope now.
The length of the work day is probably really important. 8h days are way to long to have the energy to do house keeping in my experience. You need atleast one at home working part time...
What does "medium" mean here?
You are right. The details are usually more known to science than to locals and infrastructure/building projects spur many archaelogical digs in Europe. To the point that most projects have to budget an archaeology time delay because you’re always going to hit something.

My comment was about completely undiscovered ruins/sites. Those are rare. Someone somewhere (could be a notebook) usually knows about it.

As for “no oral traditions in a country with long-standing books” – the Brothers Grimm famously started writing down oral traditions in the 1800’s. That’s only 200 years ago :) For a long long time in most of europe nobody bothered to write down what the peasants have to say.
> Raspberry Pi pulled a Henry Ford and boldly went with just one microcontroller... In return, Raspberry Pi ensured that everyone on the planet works with the same part. Compared to more traditional wide lineups, there is a disproportionate number of StackExchange questions, blog posts (including this one), experience, Github issues, libraries, and tools for the RP2040.

I'm not personally convinced. Most of the ESP32 series is cross-compatible (at least for the shared pinout counts).

I'd argue the brand recognition and marketing to hobbyists is more likely what brought the "community" around the RP2040.
It's actually smaller than I expected. It always appeared so much larger in the launch pictures.
> Being able to produce state of the art semiconductors is arguably the most important manufacturing ability for a country to have.

I don't think that is quite right. It is a very important ability. I don't think it is the "most important" ability. If you have semiconductor fabs but not dry docks to build capital ships you will be in for a world of hurt. If you have semiconductor fabs but not agriculture to feed your people you will be in a world of hurt. If you have semiconductor fabs but not the ability to cast solid-fuelled rocket engines for your missiles you will be in a world of hurt.

It is one of the many important abilities. The reason we are talking about it is not because it is the "most important", but because it is at danger of being lost. We don't talk about the other equally very important abilities (like dry docks for giant ships, agriculture to feed the nation, or solid fuel casting, or a myriad of other things) because nobody worries about those going away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/arts/design/rokeby-venus-...
What's wrong with Google Messages?
Design goals, advantages and benefits of Flow Computing [pdf]
I would argue YouTube Premium is an easy way to do micropayments to the creators you watch.

This doesn't work out to be micro for someone who only watches YouTube rarely, but if you watch a reasonable amount it does.
There's also Tauri which takes a similar approach but uses Rust. I've had good luck with it so far.

https://tauri.app/
Probably, but does that matter? Isn't Vercel an AWS wrapper as well?
Thank you so much for your explanations - I have learned a lot. I have some more questions but also have about 40 tabs of papers and terms to digest first, and I think the thread will probably go stale by then. May I ask what you studied and how you came into this type of knowledge from an engineering background, and whether you'd recommend any recent texts to come up to date on this stuff with?
Fusion, fabs, manufacturing, defense, etc.
This is also the source of why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet. It's not because the food is uniquely healthy, it's that being overweight is a social death sentence there.

Fat shaming has amazing ROI from a public health perspective. Luckily we invented Ozempic, which gives us a way out from the wallmart scooter obese hellscape that the USA is in - but the social "restigmatization" of obesity may be necessary because - like it or not - it's better to have been bullied into living to be 80, than it is to be "happy-go-lucky" into an early grave (after the diabetes induced amputations). Certainly this is true for the kids of these folks, anyway. We've normalized a society of dying young and dying from preventable stuff that was ultimately induced from metabolic syndrome
Yeah, they got paid what they asked for. That doesn’t change anything.
I assume the device these were used with was something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Proxxon-27106-PROXXON-Engraving-Devic...
Another possibility is that procedures are offered but the waitlist for scheduling is unreasonable to people with other financial options.
I am visiting a hospital every 2-4 weeks for years now. There is a very tiny minority of dying people. Those should of course get every regulation and help they need.

Many visitors are actually coming to shop around - meet the doctor, hear their plan, compare with others and then decide.
They also probably worked many 100 hour weeks while they could've earned more and worked a lot less with less stress
This was an incredibly dumb change. No one asked for this, and there is no setting to keep likes public. We already had bookmarks.

Seeing other people's likes was a great way to find additional content.

Further illustrates that the purpose behind this change was to both protect a very small number of not-so-smart users and further remove analysis behind posts and its engagement.

Very poorly thought out.
I know mostly nothing about enterprise video/streaming wrangling. Is Youtube rolling out something like an m3u playlist on demand with the video intermingled with ads or a single video with ads baked in, like a VHS recording from TV?
Yes, but this is not where I am getting at.

"Will be interesting to see if other high level accelerator supporting languages like Chapel or Futhark or JAX end up getting NPU backends, it might give them a nice boost over the proprietary C++ inspired language."

As you say, the GPU (or NPU, TPU,..) don't run C++ or anything derived from it.
The "runtime" (~backend) will usually emit some kind of hardware dependent format (or again, an IR) like SPIR-V, PTX, etc.

But the backend itself is usually written in C++ (due to performance reasons), and there is really no way to get around that.
Interacting with that from Python (or Jax) is a usability win, but there is zero difference in functionality. I.e. there is no proprietary C++ inspired language in play here. Hence no way to get a boost.
Absolutely if you bought a PC in 1993 it would have been suitable for gaming, but that was not the claim I replied to which claimed that PCs had always been suitable for gaming and that games were always a significant part of the PC market.

If you bought a PC in the 80s, you didn't buy it for gaming and PCs did not have hardware support for gaming like other home computer systems did.

Finally, and I would have thought a website like this would be aware of this fact, you don't develop video games to run on the latest hardware. DOOMs official system requirements was a 386 with 4 MB of RAM.
You asked who told them that. I'm speculating, but I thought the answer might be that Raspberry Pi told them that.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240612123210/https://www.theatl...
I never did like the Dark Forest Theory.

Like, resources and energy are fairly abundant in the universe. There's really nothing of material value that we have here in Sol that other species wouldn't be able to get closer to their own systems. So, scarcity isn't a big factor, I think.

Instead, the more scarce thing in the universe is life, with intelligent life presumably more scarce than that. We, ourselves, are the valuable things.

But Dark Forest theory isn't totally an economics argument, it's more of a security argument. With the vast distances and times, other species could become dangerous quickly, so kill them before they are. Again, the vastness and long time scales are just too loose of a thread. Even in the books, humans manage to seep out and hide among the dust and planets, doing things in the dark or in the blinding radiation of stars. So, I don't buy the security argument either. There's just too much space and material out there to really ever be sure that you could ever really sterilize the other species and not have them come back to haunt you. Especially by the time you actually figured out they existed, they'd be everywhere. (The books invent this dimension collapsing weapon idea as a way around this).

So, I think we should have the counterpoint to the Dark Forest theory of hunters with flash lights in a dark forest.

We should have "Used Car Salesman / Lemon Law" theory: Since you can't really beat them 100%, intelligences realize that you should join them; but on favorable terms, of course. So, beware of alien civilizations that appear in your system with lots of flags and balloons and bad ties and big smiles and want you to sign on a dotted line, fast. You can't really know if they are trying to sell you a lemon before the other civilizations show up and negotiations can really start.