skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even TCM is more scientifically backed than Cerebrolysin. See the research on cordyceps for example.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58742-z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps_militaris#Research
I wonder whether we will find (un)intentional weak points in these algorithms down the road, too.

After reading Crypto AG scandal, I can't trust anyone easily.
PinkBike used to be the go-to place for uploading media for further embedding in off-site forums (SouthernDownhill, SingletrackWorld, RideMonkey, NSMTB, VitalMTB) - for example, race reports, sales (when forums had limited storage capacity for users), etc.

Your media was watermarked and made available in different resolutions (a unique feature at the time on a bike specific website!)

I would bet a large chunk of those 5M visitors were hotlinks as I don’t remember their forums being too busy —- but I do remember them being very fragmented with too many subforums.

Unfortunately Facebook Groups has killed off the almost tribal online MTB communities now :(
Scientific advancement IS the change in the understanding of humans.

Your fallacy lies in pretending science can progress in an objectively defined space where saying 'progress twice as fast' even makes sense.

But it does not. It progresses as people refine and improve their understanding of the universe. Books or LLMs don't contain understanding, only data. If less people grow a deep understanding of mathematics and the universe, science progress will slow down, even as metrics like numbers of graduates or papers published go up.
Thanks for your recommendation
What data does the epic game store has access to if you install it?

Does it show clearly which data each app collects?
Apparently Cosmos magazine in Australia is having the same experience, and their readers are getting pretty angry about it.

You probably need to put on your editor hat and do a lot of massaging to make it sound like a person actually wrote it. AI still speeds up the process, but so far it doesn't seem like it is reasonable to expect it to be very human-like.
Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store
I think it is useful to further distinguish different types of love of another, because they are experienced differently.

I think you are misuing"eros" there. Eros IS one form of love of another. I think you mean "philautia".
You are effectively buying those labour protections with the difference in salary.

Companies could even offer that as an option. We pay you $97k with no labour protections, or $68k but we promise to give you all the labour rights that Germany has, including nice long holidays, unions, no unpaid overtime, can't be fired without cause, etc. Your choice.

(And those figures are the median programmer salary in the USA and Germany respectively)
From everything I read, in US, in general, outside of specific list of protected reasons, or a contract specifically describing conditions for contact termination, one can be fired at any time. This works both ways - employee can quit any time too. I wouldn't be surprised musk just applied the same logic worldwide and let lawyers deal with consequences
If empathy is a social construct, shouldn't, we see e. g. societies without empathy as we (e. g. cultural Christians) know it? Is there some example of that?
Right. But you are saying this in a time of "(inferior) automated curation" to delegate intellectual work to electronic pigeons, of "(shallow) pseudo-review curation" to have site pages that are multi-product advertisements...

It is not trivial to have it, in a form that will just reflect your repulsion for other imperfect services.
I have a mobile calendar app where I can manage ALL my tasks and commitments at a glance and it can be used with a screen reader.
A review: https://www.accountabilitymuse.com/blog/time-blocking-planne...
> I 'delete' a record while there are still references to it, and the RDBMS cannot even warn me, much less stop me!

Can't you do multi column FKs ( (otherid, active) references other(id, active) )?
Indeed, domain-specific reasoning ability is a seminal psychology result: people are in general sucky at a specific type of logic puzzle, unless you frame it as enforcing a social rule - then they're excellent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
Not a lawyer but broadly most forms of employment in the US is considered to be 'at will' and can be terminated by either party at any time for most any reason (excluding membership of a protected class). If you were fired for failing to respond to the yes-or-resign I believe you would be able to claim unemployment because they can't force you to resign and changing the terms of employment to force a resignation is a 'constructive dismissal'. American employers tend to be big fans of lying and hoping you don't know your rights though, or denying valid unemployment claims because they know not everyone will contest it.

Some people do have employment contracts with more consideration but as I understand it that mostly applies to union work and C suite executive positions.
> Interviews are serious business and if I'm in one I want to be hired

I absolutely get that sentiment, but I think it's far from unconditionally true for most people who aren't desperate for a job. Do you really want to be hired into a company where you'll be unhappy and likely to fail? I'd much rather wash out at the interview stage than be fired or leave in disgust two months later (the company doesn't want this either - hiring a candidate is typically not profitable until many months on the job). At its most productive, interviewing is about collaborating on the most accurate prediction of whether the candidate will be happy and productive in the situation being hired for. Many companies and candidates are bad at this, but I think it's the ideal we should be striving for on both sides.

I rephrase the above question, just as I do when I'm the interviewer. For example, "Tell me about a change that's been made with the support of senior leadership to improve engineering culture. What were some of the things people were unhappy about that led to that change? What is and isn't working about the change?" If the answers I get are too diplomatic, then my suspicion is that changes aren't being made to improve culture, and therefore it's headed in a bad direction (without active curation in some form, culture goes downhill). If they give me an example that had flawless results, I say "Give me an example that didn't work so well." The more transparency and introspection I see, the more hope I have for where things are headed. Nothing is black and white here, but questions like this can separate companies if you're fortunate enough to get more than one offer.

When asked well, questions like this suggest that the candidate thinks / cares about the health of the org and is willing to politely, but directly, ask tough questions to make a difference. That's leadership. It can directly increase the odds of a better offer. When I'm the interviewer and you're a candidate for a role in management or you're an IC with the word "leader" on your resume, it works against you if you don't ask probing questions like the above, because I'm expecting you to do so on the job.
If this is allowed, the concept of a contract is meaningless, as all terms change whenever one party feels like it.

So Musk feels to be above contract law. The whole basis for law based commerce goes out of the window. Musk's world view is incredibly dangerous for a law based country.

This means €550k is a way to low number as punishment. It might be enough as restitution for the employee, but an additional, much stronger and personal punishment should be given to anyone who agreed with this way of working.
Serious question: if it’s so important to you why use an iPhone? Not trying to be sarcastic or negative, really just curious.
The site guidelines specifically discourage humorous posts.
Measuring things correctly is hard. Spending time measuring things before you know what should even be measured/how it should be measured is almost surely to be a wasted effort early in a project.
This employer behavior is a result of the business model of collecting a critical mass of the users and later cutting operation costs.

It's viable because Twitter/X controls the access to the audiences of their users - if you leave, you lose your network.

I'd like next gen social media platforms to allow transitions from one provider to another. While related, I think this is a different topic than centralized/federated.
If you're just talking about basic encryption achieving no properties other than security against passive attack, then just nesting is probably fine. But in more complex systems, things end up being fairly subtle, so cryptographers aim for very specific security properties for the building blocks, and then try to combine these in a way that can be proved secure, at least in some attack model. This reduces the likelihood of a complex attack like the TLS triple handshake attack, where the protocol looks fine intuitively but can be broken by some weird pattern of forwarding messages between multiple parties.

So for example, nesting does not preserve IND-CCA security ("indistinguishability under chosen ciphertext attack"). Suppose you set ciphertext = outer_encrypt(outer_key, inner_encrypt(inner_key, data)). If the outer encryption system is broken, then an attacker can strip the outer layer and re-encrypt it. This will result in a different ciphertext, because if either layer is aiming for IND-CCA security, the encryption is necessarily randomized. Being able to modify ciphertexts in this way violates the IND-CCA-security goal. Then if another part of the system is designed assuming that the cipher is IND-CCA-secure, then its security is now at risk.

The attack surface is even broader if the system supports multiple combinations of ciphers, where an attacker might strip off one cipher layer and replace it with a different one.
What part of intelligence cannot be computed ? What part of the worm brain cannot be simulated ?
The problem is that you can still get fooled or bullied into accepting a bad deal. I suggest everyone working in the EU to learn their rights and to consult a lawyer when something doesn't feel right, doesn't cost much here, initial consultations are often even free. Don't sign something put in front of you before you had a chance to understand your position. The person who wants you to sign it had ample time to do that, you didn't. Same goes for accepting things that seem unfair via email or verbally, that can weaken your position already.

I've been on both sides of the fence (mostly in Germany). As an employer, my approach was usually to be nice to employees I wanted to get rid of and to offer them a good severance package proactively. If you push an employee and give them ammunition to sue (and you fail to fool/bully them) it's gonna get a lot more expensive. Not to mention distracting/emotional. Just keep in mind that if you hire an FTE, you'll have to mentally put money aside to exit them at some point in the future. Hiring freelancers is more expensive, but doesn't carry these problems. I tend to mix FTEs and freelancers, partly to distribute the risks and costs.

When talking to people in bad situations with their employer, I'm always surprised how little they know and how easily they're willing to take the short end of the stick. There's a deal between you and the company that specifies what you'll do for them and what you'll get in return, with legal context surrounding it. I think it's also good to be nice and willing to compromise in that situation, but employees generally don't seem to be aware of what a powerful position they're actually in, and don't feel they "deserve" that, or don't want to upset anyone. It's business at the end of the day, contracts. Don't be a bad business person, it's not like CEOs will respect or like you more if you don't put up a fight. Typically the opposite.

The lack of these protections is one thing that, IMHO, warrants the comparatively high US salaries in tech. More risk, more reward - business 101 stuff.
I think you should look at the facts and that is that X is both way more in the media than before - both in a good and a bad way - and the userbase has grown while a significant portion of operational expenses have been cut.
> Musk feels to be above contract law

And he hasn't made it ABUNDANTLY clear that he doesn't give a shit about laws, regulations or conventions?
"Unpaid two weeks of matternity leave" are you nuts? Holy sh..

"vacation longer than three weeks requires the company to stop paying your salary" What? Why is it called vacation then, I cannot comprehend this at all, heh.

Don't tell them some EU companies even give unlimited PAID vacation, lol.
Never experienced this myself, because I usually have "only" 5 weeks paids vacation, but unlimited HO. Of course in practice this means I have main job and also doing self-employed contracts, if work in my main job is done.
Because the only competition is Android. Apple is the least bad choice if we're talking quality of the user experience. Don't bother comparing specs on paper, use both. And that's even before we take into account that Android is run by an advertising company.

Can't decide if it's sad or funny that Epic's greed clashed with Apple's greed and they ended up getting EU users a bit more freedom to decide what's run on the hardware they paid for...
Are there any companies who do offer such things, though?
I would remind all the people to recompile the build themself, before downloading a random binary and allowing it to access the Slack workspace. But, very interesting project!
On another note, after posting, I went to the main website and they display several user examples. They promise 'text' in images but everything I saw failed miserably, so I guess we are not there yet.

For the metric to evaluate this kind of network, to me it's impossible to define it, or at least correctly, it's too subjective, if you put a metric on it, it will influence the results and therefore limit the images you can create. (not even speaking about the kind of images we want it to create)

So maybe the best we can have is a very generic metric for training, and finetuning it to some style afterward depending on your usage.

So I don't really trust 'objective ranking', but we could take all those networks, fine tune them on some well defined style and evaluate them with ground truth images when we ask to make the original piece, it would at least be some kind of proxy on the finetuning-ability of the network.

I'm skipping a lot of details such as: how to generate the prompt corresponding to the desired output, but without thinking too much about it, it could be like finding some fix-point function, and there, we can create a metric. (but this fixed function would depend on the model, and probably we can't use it to evaluate other models, and having a fixed function for all models would not compare fairly)

Note: thinking out loud
you shouldn't project from react to vdom in general:

https://dioxuslabs.com/blog/templates-diffing
>but we promise

of course, who's to say that next quarter priorities of management or shareholders shift & those "promises" evaporate?
I think it's just a hosted version of https://plausible.io:

https://github.com/plausible
> You are effectively buying those labour protections with the difference in salary.

Yes. And I appreciate those labor protections enough that I gladly pay for them.

I could still buy a car, a house, raise a family, have some savings, etc.

The stability and security provided by the labor protections are very much appreciated, a lot more than some extra cash would be.
Not a fan of soft deleting, but as I sit here I wonder if using an RLS policy to limit to anything without a deleted field would make the whole “forgetting a where” a bit easier? I’m not sure the performance would be great though
It’s really hard to know what to think about Elon Musk these days. At a surface level he’s acting a real asshole in a bunch of ways, but he’s surprised us with some seriously useful stuff on a number of occasions and so I’m always still hoping that there’s got to be a method to the madness.

I sure hope there is because the guy is in the running for most powerful man in history.
Author here. That sums it up pretty well.

I don't mind making quick decisions, but the execution should be deliberate. One of the best things of working for myself is that all-hands meetings are pretty short. I have an idea, I ask a few friends about their opinion; then, I set to work - it's simple.

But what I don't do is wreak havoc along the way. For I know, that the time to fix what I might break never comes.
When working remotely, you're often allowed to pick between employment and b2b contracts, which is essentially the same thing.
If your performance is poor, try running your query with `PROFILE {your_query}`. It's very easy to write a query that ends up loading way more nodes than expected. Years ago we had one query that progressively performed worse -- turned out one leg was loading the full node space!

What I have found is that "land and expand" using an index to find the landing spots is key for performance. Reason being once you "land" effectively, "expand" is cheap and fast.

Some of it will also come down to your graph design. If you have a lot of super dense nodes (analogous to a large JOIN), it will create a lot of memory pressure which it does not handle well.

But in a RAG use case, I don't see these as being issues.
A good GUI with Real scripting. A portable version. Maybe better documentation. A client/server-architecture, or some other kind of headless mode with remote access.
What a wonderful example of malicious compliance. Honestly wish this got the treatment that third party app stores should be just as straightforward to get and use as the native one. Clearly Apple won't do this unless legally enforced.
iOS 17.6.1 - can't install via safari.
Message: To install the Epic Games Store on your iPhone, update to iOS 17.6 or later.
How would you determine if the userbase has grown when by most accounts there has been an explosion in the number of bots while advertising revenue has plummeted by 80%?
buy yourself a gaming handheld, like Steam Deck or the bigger competition.
> and the userbase has grown

Most of those 'users' are probably bots though. The bot activity has increased massively since Musk has bought the company (just look at all the like-bots nobody seems to do anything about).
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> Worst part is, a lot of device manufacturers just yeet the GATT out the window and have custom UUIDs with custom everything which you'll never be able to implement properly with reverse engineering it.

Sorry, I’m part of the problem. ^_^; If you read the BLE Developers Handbook, it paints a beautiful picture of a mesh of low power sensor devices that periodically advertise information, and it helped put the design of GATT into context for me. Of course, we had no interest in using GATT in that manner - we just wanted the other features of BLE. One fundamental issue is that if you want E2E transport encryption to a specific mobile app, LE bonding is no longer sufficient. So you start rolling your own crypto only to realize that negotiated MTU means your max datagram size is variable and dynamic. From there, you’re well on your way to implementing a custom transport layer on top of GATT. If you don’t horribly abuse GATT and use it for its intended purpose (like some of the standardized profiles on top of GATT), it works fairly decently.
You are effectively buying those labour protections with the difference in salary.

There may be some truth to this, but it's not as stark as some think.

The average cost of a "moderate" house in.. say, Palo Alto is around $3M USD. Those are typically older houses, smaller lots, less desirable neighbourhoods.

Everything is more expensive in such an area. Property tax on that $3M USD house is likely going to be about $20k USD per year, one may as well say an additional $2000/month. That property tax alone is more than most people pay for mortgages in any other place in the US.

I once compared my Ottawa, ON, Canada salary to at typical, comparable one in SV. After looking at the cost of housing, and living, I determined that even though I was making 1/3 the salary? I was taking home more.

Now of course, there is one key difference here. If you don't rent, and do buy, some of that missing "take home" goes into property which does have value. But if you're a renter? If your primary cost (housing) isn't coming back to you in some way?

That SV salary is actually a lot less than you think.

I'd take $100kUSD in Ottawa, over $200kUSD, maybe even $300kUSD in SV, if I wasn't able to buy. EG, forced to rent. And I'd have more money in my pocket in Ottawa, at end of day.

Oh, and that massive property tax certainly isn't recoverable. You're paying some of that whether you rent (because the landlord does), or if you buy.
> Because the only competition is Android.

It's not. Sent from my Librem 5.
> It’s really hard to know what to think about Elon Musk these days

Doesn't seem that hard, tbh
Not a whole lot, at any rate. The poster child was probably BerkleyDB, but the current version is vended from a fork which still uses the pre-AGPL license terms
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I believe the technical term for this is "Oops.".
It's a fair question and boils down to a few things. We switched from Android in 2016 for good reasons, but now it would be too costly to switch back.
€550k is just the compensation. But for such a behaviour, there should be an actual punishment involved.
Not just a little better, a lot better.

iirc, a lot of the devs who left Stable Diffusion went on to found/join Black Forest Labs.
I don't quite get how this reactivity is only possible with a VDom, for example Svelte https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/updating-arrays-and-object... also allows you to update the UI on changes to the array.
NB: if you already have AltStore PAL, you can just install Epic apps from their storefront. Epic covers FUD fees that Apple levies from AltStore.
I agree. Complete anonymity is bullshit. Internet should be pseudoanonymous. I mean, users should have static IP and thats it. Getting additional information about IP should be limited to law enforcement gov organizations (crime fighting).

Users should build they reputation on internet. If someone is asshole, then ok, expect to be banned on most places. Right now people do NOT care, because they are quite anonymous.

As for all other points he mentions, they are absolutly bad for Internet. He specified somethink more like a TOR (with he mentions) with is ok. Thats the point, maybe its time to treat internet more like a transport network and build small Internets on top of it. Infra is already there, there are shitload of VPN providers so people are kinda aware of that layer.
I’m worried that I might have unintentionally created scope for a flame war.

I’d like to invite you to clarify why what seems a difficult topic to me seems a simple one to you?

From where I’m sitting it seems nuanced and complicated and involving decades of history.

It’s eminently possible that I’m missing key information on this, but I can’t glean a “no-brainer” from the above comment.
Well, to me as a European, this feels like a very high number already.
That, and the peace of mind of not being fired at-will when economic times aren’t so good.
And revenue has dropped through the floor:

https://fortune.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sale-tw...

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-revenue-falls-x-payme...
And I took the effort to convert it to metric… Seriously, NASA uses the metric system and so should you.
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