skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that for experienced researchers, "heart problems" is a more universal category than we're treating it here. AKA a rough analog for "life-threatening"? I'm under the impression basically all deaths due to senescence (old age) occur from heart failures (potentially in turn caused by other things), so "you're cancer has advanced so far that it now is threatening your heart function" seems like something that might happen frequently. Thus, they're defending the smaller "husbands leave their worryingly sick wives", abandoning whatever previous categorization they have for "serious illness" in the original paper

Pure speculation, ofc ;)
Ah, I didn't think about that. Thanks for pointing that out. Typical mics sample at 48khz, but that wouldn't leave much head room. Echo devices have an array of mics, IIRC, so I wonder if they can effectively sample at a higher rate?
Visualizing All the Nuclear Waste in the World
I’m not sure about the legal aspect, but morally it’s hard to feel sympathetic for publishers who are choosing to provide the complete articles to the Quora bot.

There’s nothing stopping them from providing the same abridged, paywalled articles to bots that they do to people, but they choose not to for the purpose of SEO.

Also, obligatory mention that if publishers were willing to participate in something like Apple News+ (without injecting ads into paid-for content!), they’d have more customers. Instead, I am afraid to subscribe to most legacy media sites like NYT because I don’t know how many hours it’ll cost me to cancel—and managing dozens of subscriptions when I just want a few articles a year from each just isn’t worth it. SubStack, LWN, etc, make it very easy to stop and start a subscription, so I’m happy to pay for them when I find value in almost all of the content.
> Leja explained that if you took the Milky Way and compressed it to the size of the galaxies they found, the nearest star would almost be in our solar system. The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light years away, would only be about 26 light years away from Earth and visible in the sky as a giant pillar of light.

Pretty crazy galaxies.
Scientists Built an Artificial Shark Uterus
Why might the correlation exist for heart disease but not other illnesses? Obesity comes to mind, many men become unsatisfied with their relationship when their wife sits at home getting fat. If it's not that (did they control for obesity?), I can't think of a plausible reason for this pattern of correlations so maybe the whole thing is bullshit.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/magazine/alcohol-health-r...

Archive:

https://archive.is/20240629124620/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
Maybe when they finally support JNI development instead of sticking us with a CLion license.

That, an incremental Java compiler that isn't just using the one from Eclipse, not indexing every couple of minutes, and no 10 finger chord shortcuts.
They’re saying that once you’ve sold certs to governments, distrusting that root will deny people access to government resources. They’re merely using “.gov” as a proxy for “some government”.

Also roots can be TLD constrained, typically to ccTLD(s).
Curious how this relates to Flutter's own 3D support they showed off in Impeller. Does this use a web view at all or does it natively embed into Flutter? I saw there were ports of three.js to Dart but that's basically embedding everything in a web view.
I occasionally get this from some sites. Sometimes switch to safari or reset Firefox fixes it.

I use Firefox as a quick lookup because the tabs crash often and it hardly ever saves the websites I was on when re-opening. So far I have crashed safari and lost all my tabs once ever. Firefox focus does a pretty good job too for quick lookups.
Futo's "Source First" Licensing Standard
No comments about the product really but an iPhone as a placeholder device on their website is an odd choice.
I wonder how it turned out for Norman, I hope his manager did not blame him. These days seems you need provable evidence to be safe in some jobs.

I had a different but similar situation, but for me, my immediate manager supported me. So I did not have to do what I was being told (I was going to quit). It was a VP who wanted that activity done. All turned out fine for us and I stayed there for many more years.
Well, in the U.S., there's no question of energy independence and no relation of energy and foreign policy. At least not since the last 5-10 years. U.S. is a major net exporter of all kinds of energy resources. Renewables are also unlikely to lower the cost of energy compared to already well-developed fossil fuels that have all the infrastructure for them in place.

They will become a necessity once fossil fuels become scarce, which will probably come for shale oil first. But anyway it's unlikely to ever get really bad, as production of renewable power equipment already approaches replacement rate (rate at which they will, being continuously deployed, satisfy current energy needs - all kinds of energy not just electricity - faster than they will be wearing out, which is 20-30 years). In only a few years production of solar panels and batteries will be way over replacement rate, launching an accelerated transition. Fossil fuels in the U.S. will be still abundant then.

So for now, it's just the climate change. Maybe change in attitude of Republicans is in fact completely rational and is down to that: factors that made them concerned, such as safety of energy supply/energy independence/cost, are no longer a concern, only factors they don't care about (climate change), are.
> as long as it still allows copying, modification, and redistribution for non-commercial purposes (which it does)

I'd argue it doesn't do that, because of the third part I listed. There are antifeatures that you're not allowed to remove.
I’m probably going to die on the hill of building either:

1. SPA with html css and a bunch of js hosted on cdn, talking to pure REST api. (For apps behind login)

2. Php style Server rendered pages with a sprinkle of inline jquery-ish JS. (For websites)

Hybrid of both of them is a Frankenstein monster I ain’t touching.
You aren't forced to. You can take matters into your own hands and trust that a jury will let you off the hook.

> Why can't there be assisted suicide/euthanasia protocols in place to prevent this suffering?

Even most religious people believe in mercy killing. The issue is the slippery slope, and the fact that various people have slid down this slope in every country with legal assisted suicide or euthanasia. Whenever you are going to have a third party, or even just a second party, involve itself in someone's death, you have to figure out how to deal with issues every bit as serious as letting someone suffer to death.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/10/05/californi...
if other countries want they can put them on various lists, deny them future cash flows, clients, opportunities, whatever.

and of course there have been many regulatory changes since then with regards to KYC/AML. are they enough? (are they even useful compared to how much hassle they are for average people? probably not it tax authorities don't do shit and don't audit rich people. but even that is changing.)
> I think it is an interesting idea that scammers intentionally make typos and absurdities, just to weed out discerning people in favor of easier victims

This is an apocryphal anecdote or theory that gets passed around, but I'm not sure how true it actually is, and certainly not universally true. In that, I think scammers are way more likely to just make typos than to setup an elaborate low-level target filter. Regardless, I've also never actually seen scammers admit to this.
Sounds like a tremendous step backwards, since congress is directly paid for by mega corporations.

Especially concerning complex topics such as EPA and FDA. People (voters) don’t understand these topics and neither do politicians. So how can we expect politicians to regulate these complex areas?

Sounds like corporations will just start to own the laws that are being passed even more.

Which promotes further consolidation of power and detrimental health effects for the population.
Hey! This is all very interesting and I had a question about your second point. What exactly do you mean by an “objective accuracy benchmark tailored to your application”? What would this look like? How exactly would you measure an accuracy benchmark?
I don't understand her point. I guess that she's uncomfortable with human aesthetics? Why would being pretty require sacrifices in health and self-respect? One of the largest factors in looking good is being in good shape/physically healthy. Avoiding skin damage from UV is also a big one. Why would you lose self-respect for looking good?
Suppose he really wanted kids and learned she couldn't have any. It wouldn't exactly be "until death do we part", but I think much of western society has already abandoned that standard anyway
Apache 2 is a permissive (think "pushover") license that allows proprietary forks. If the original were GPL or another copyleft license, then this would indeed have been illegal.
more than multi-cursor, recordable keyboard macros save me a ton of time. I miss them sorely in vscode
Nvidia seems familiar with HBM. It’s on a lot of their products.
For anyone else interested, I highly recommend reading through Rob Fitzpatrick's "Write Useful Books":

https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf...

It isn't about technical books exactly but it does speak mostly on how to write recommendable non-fiction, some of which can obviously be technical. It's got a lot of practical advice for the actual "doing" of the book, and has inspired me to at least start dipping my toes in.
Awesome, thanks for sharing your experience with it. I like what FUTO is doing.
Like the one we're living on?
As someone that is programming since 1986, wrote software across multiple 16 bit platforms, and has his own share of Web and desktop development experince, it is more like people aren't willing to put in the effort, more than anything else as lame excuses.
I think that is a ridiculously incorrect and bad faith interpretation of the license clauses.
Who is responsible for incubator babies until they are viable to leave the incubator? That's already a limited sort of artificial womb. The state picks up the bill I suppose, if everybody else decides to bail.
Yep, agreed on the more testing. I don't actually have any allegiance to vLLM. We've just been happy with it.

A few things in the linked article that make my eyebrows raise. Notably, they claim to achieve 206 t/s at bs=1 on a single A100 80GB (2 TB/s bandwidth) in fp16. That model is 14.5GB in size, and best case would require aggregate memory bandwidth of almost 3 TB/s to achieve.

The BentML you linked to, also ran on an A100 80GB, and achieved ~650 t/s at bs=10 so roughly 65 t/s per stream. Granted this is for an 8B param model, not 7B, and it will of course be faster at bs=1 but absolutely not by this margin. In this same benchmark, they achieved roughly 45 t/s per stream at bs=50 so you can see the sort of scaling we're dealing with. At bs=10 you should achieve relatively similar per-stream throughput to bs=10.

Baseten did a benchmark with TensorRT-LLM and an A100 80GB on Mistral 7B and at bs=1 they achieved 75 t/s and at bs=8 they achieved 66 t/s per stream (https://www.baseten.co/blog/unlocking-the-full-power-of-nvid...)

I strongly suspect there is something very wrong with the Premai (never heard of them before) or there has been some huge inference breakthrough that I am unaware of. The BentoML benchmarks look pretty good, and I suspect there is some vLLM performance left on the table, however not enough to close the gap. In our testing, TensorRT-LLM was definitely faster, but not enough to warrant all of the other headaches.
Putting DuckDB in Postgres to Query Iceberg
I disagree.
This is the case for anything entrepreneurial. Vast majority of ventures fail.
Reward/Risk ratio (in finance we call it Sharpe ratio) generally equalises across the spectrum. That is there is no free lunch.
You can choose an activity that has better odds of making money. But you will make leas money on average.
The article just feels like rage bait. No details to confirm it's veracity and plenty of it sounds made up petty revenge stories.
Take this as a fun project to improve your coding skills.
Or not mine bitcoin because you want to play Crysis. Or not buy bitcoin at $11 because I was a dead broke college student.

I don’t feel bad because I would’ve sold it at $20 or $100 for beer money.
Why do they need to be uncorrelated? Hell, grip strength is probably a better DV here, if you care about general physical wellness.
Comparatively, the background population uses drugs at approximately 13%: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-illicit.htm (ignoring alcohol, which is huge: ~53%). Most drug users aren't homeless.
The state. They will be raised in creche-barracks.

But this is a stopgap until they can be grown as readymade adults, skipping the tedious and problematic child stage altogether.
Is that a blockchain company? Every potential employer that has ever mentioned Haskell to me seems to be one.
JIT has not been secure since Spectre and Meltdown.
Please no. If we start designing things to be easier for LLMs we may as well just give up on pretending anything about this industry is logical or sensible. The amount of work we are putting in to bending over backwards for LLMs so that we don’t have to actually make any effort to create good software for humans is just outlandish.
Inductrack
To your first point, it really ought not require a citation to understand that people who have been training full-time for years make better soldiers than people you pull out of civilian life and ship off to the front after a few months, and who want nothing more than to exit the service.

There is no modern, professionalized army that wants conscripts. None. Conscripts are a liability, and a measure of last resort.

To your second, it’s far from just the downtrodden that fill the ranks of professional armies. In many countries, e.g. France (where I served), the upper classes of society (grande bourgeoisie and nobility) are over-represented in the ranks.
I'll add one point. You are not your job. Don't take things personally at work. And never be afraid to leave if you're not fitting in with your company .

I've left jobs over a few reasons, primarily bad managers, increased compensation, and bad code .

If people are writing bad code at your company, to the point where you know it's going to come back to haunt you later, it's okay to just walk away .

Don't embarrass anybody, don't escalate to a manager and explain how horrible the code is. I was in a situation where someone our team was effectively writing code that pretended to do things it really didn't. I got into a really nasty argument with half my team about this. I ended up putting in my two weeks, and then my manager was like oh you were right the entire time .

Life is too short to deal with incompetent people.
>If you really care about this then find and do a simple general blood test for your micros/vitamins. It will show you where you are deficient and can focus on supplementing on only those.

Presumably this will only show what you are deficient in based on the previous few days diet, right? So to have a decent measurement you should already have a very stable diet. If you eat like I do, random things from day to day, then your vitamin levels should differ from week to week, or are they much longer lasting?
You might think so, I might think so, but apparently there's some gatekeeping about the term dating back to its invention in the 20th century.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...

"This article may be confusing or unclear to readers."

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source - Richard Stallman argues the "obvious meaning" of term "open source" is that the source code is public/accessible for inspection, without necessarily any other rights granted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_sof... - In a 1998 strategy session in California, "open-source software" was selected by Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, Jon Hall, Sam Ockman, Christine Peterson, and Eric S. Raymond. Richard Stallman had not been invited.

I'm getting downvoted now for dissenting. :D
A long time ago a customer called in and asked me to install some hardware they sent (an Ethernet card for a router) right away. I declined - the router it needed to be installed in was a shared device, and we'd had problems with hot swapping cards[0] in this model of router before. I told them I'd do it after hours that evening, but not during the day. This would have been maybe a 3 or 4 hour delay for them.

About 30 minutes later, my boss comes into my office and says the owner of the other company called to complain that they felt like "marcus0x62 never wants to help us". (I had - just the week before - gone into the data center on Friday night on about 1 hour notice to do something for them without complaint of any kind.) My boss said "I don't need [the other company] thinking we don't want to help them." He seemed pretty angry and wasn't interested in any explanations. Ok, I said. No problem. I'll take care of it right away. I figured there was, based on past history, about a 25% chance this router would reboot on the spot when I put that card it.

So, I went into the data center and inserted their card into an open slot. And all the blinkenlights lit up. I went back into my office, and the boss was still there. I told him about 25% of our WAN customers would be down for 5 minutes while this router rebooted, and the tech support staff should expect calls.

0 - The router, a Cisco 7200 series device, supported "Online Insertion and Removal", but it didn't always work. And when it didn't work, the router usually rebooted spontaneously.
I have a feeling natural selection will take care of this problem, not that we should abandon efforts to come up with medicines to counter it.
As a paying customer the answer is that you don't get any features other than a thing saying that you paid. It is similar to donating to Signal Foundation where you don't get some 'new feature' within the Signal app for having paid, you just get a little thing next to your user icon showing that you did. It is a support badge.
I once fought a bad boss for a year. I finally recognized my only remaining power was my ability to quit.

The system continued to run for about 9 months after I quit before it started having weekly outages, and my new job pays me more with better coworkers.

With holding your labor can be very gratifying.
> If you only do something very rarely anyway, spending time to automate it won’t have a great ROI

For code-editing, maybe. But in general software engineering, there are tasks that I have to do maybe once a year or less that are always way more painful than they need to be because I don't remember the details, and anytime I automate even part of them (or yes, just document a little better), it turns out to be well worth it. Stuff like bootstrapping new environments, some database-related work, etc.
But is completely Firefox fault? Some companies just test compatibility and optimize with Chrome in mind, forgetting that sometimes some browsers (Firefox as well) dont respect some standards. Or even adding some features only available in some browsers.

Yes, is not as bad as it was in the 90s or 2000s, but is still a common issue
a company ready to mass hire, implies ready to spend, this bolsters an impression of profitability and expansion, and is gaming speculations of future stock value.
As a non-security dev, I'll drop the obligatory "wow this is incredibly impressive!" I can't believe how clear and logically you'd have to think to track down these intricate failure cases. Definitely not my strong suit! I'm much more of an "ideas guy" ;)

Content-wise: Wow... We are totally, completely, utterly screwed once people start putting together ensembles of AI SWEs equipped with 10,000 blog posts like this one on finding weird memory exploits. Ultimately I think we're gonna need a whole new paradigm for security, or at least some new element in the stack. It's my potentially naive opinion that all the modern talk about "trusted" clients and DB roles and all that is trying to patch holes in swiss cheese; hopefully, we can find a new stack of LLM-maintained swiss cheese to add on instead!
The reality of it is not that these things should or shouldn’t be illegal, but that congress should have to discuss, compromise and pass a law about it.

This rule gives the power back to congress where a supermajority of senators has to pass everything instead of the regulator.
Most people end up being employed. Therefore most hires are average. A lot more people believe they are hiring above average candidates than actually do so. Good employees are rare, for any meaningful sense of the word.

There is also another common fallacy: you measure what can be measured easily and then use the data to make conclusions about what you would have wanted to measure. For example, you measure the performance of an employee and use that to make conclusions about the success of the hiring decision. But to actually determine that, you would have to know how well other candidates would have performed in the role, and how the presence of the chosen candidate (would have) affected the performance of everyone else. Among many other things.

That's also a big part of the reproducibility crisis in science. It's impossible to make justified conclusions from data alone. You can rarely measure what you actually wanted to measure, and you never know if you took every relevant factor into account. In order to make conclusions, you have to assume a model of the system you are measuring. Then your conclusions depend on the assumption that the model you have is a useful description of the system.