skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was first largely triage. It had the highest odds of saving lives for young people and especially young girls. As more and more of the younger groups have been covered, the age recommendation has kept rising. At the same time the number of strains covered have gone up and that has also made it more worthwhile to vaccinate older groups.

It's also down to evidence. It's not that the vaccine has been proven to be ineffective, but that the vaccine had not been proven to be effective enough to be worth it for older groups initially, in large part because it was not what they tested for.
Woah, thanks for the kind words!

This is out of date, and not a priority ATM, but we will have a TUI for it:

https://github.com/ironcalc/TironCalc
I think most languages hide this by default because 99% of people don’t have to deal with it.
It is a massive amount of work. Another thing I might add, not the most appealing thing to work on.
Maybe it was used for educational purposes, someone collected bones from different places until they had a whole skeleton?

And then when they died, nobody wanted to keep it and it was buried as it was human remains after all.
Sheesh, I think we are stuck with the literature we have now forever, and can never get new good books, now that you have published this comment...

Seriously, if no one ever tries, then no one can ever succeed.
The best book I’ve read on this topic is “Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them” by John Yorke.

The author is British, so it doesn’t suffer so much from the “Hollywood has all the answers” syndrome of American screenwriting guides. It’s definitely about mainstream stories, but with a bit of a wider perspective.
I think it would be useful in many scenarios. For example if I am running at near cores*100% I may think my system or fully loaded (or overloaded). But if those cores are running at a low frequencies because there isn't actually any overload I would want to know that. Because in this case if I spawn twice as many tasks and have twice as much throughput while the CPU% doesn't change that seems confusing.

I think if I had to pick a single number for reporting CPU usage it would be percent of available throughout. Although this has complications (the max frequency will depend on external conditions like temperature). But 0% would mean "no runnable tasks" and 100% would mean that the CPUs are running at the maximum currently available speed. The values in-between would be some sort of approximation but I think that is fine.
For one, thinking LLMs have plateaued is essentially assuming that video can't teach AI anything. It's like saying a person locked into a room his whole life with only books to read would be as good at reasoning as someone's who's been out in the world.
Maybe added later by OP?
Because there is no hyphen in the article’s subtitle.

>Open source seperation of music into constituent instruments.
transformers.js utilizes WebGPU via Onnx-Runtime in a WASM bundle;

https://huggingface.co/collections/Xenova/transformersjs-dem...
So well written, if you were not a successful researcher, I'd suggest you go into writing. That was a pleasure to read.
Actual Teachers don't just know a subject, they know something about Pedagogy.

And Pedagogy is all about getting the student into constant practice rituals until they have mastered the subject. Without practice there is no education/learning.

Herbert Simon - "Criticism of practice called "drill and kill" is very common. Nothing flies more in the face of the last 20 years of research than the assertion that practice is bad. All evidence, from the laboratory and from extensive case studies of professionals, indicates that real competence only comes with extensive practice. In denying the critical role of practice one is denying children the very thing they need to achieve real competence. The instructional task is not to "kill" motivation by demanding drill, but to find tasks that provide practice while at the same time sustaining interest"
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And the response to this would be what? Even more budget.

File this under: The MIC is not a conspiracy theory.

What's on the decline: The value the US taxpayer is getting per dollar spent by The MIC.

Under Obama (this is mentioned inhis 2016 State of The Union) the USA spent more than the next 10 counties combined. Most of those are allies. Gawd only knows what that stat is now. If all the spending is resulting in a decline, something is wrong.
Think about it, Starship enables a new era of military dominance in space. Military stuff is notoriously heavy.

Besides, Elon is the first to go after supervillain territory.
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A must-read for future OS designers/architects:

>"The latest NVMe storage devices connected by using a PCIe bus can achieve very high levels of throughput and IOPS (I/O requests per second). The overhead of Win32 APIs means that even though the available storage bandwidth can be utilized, taking advantage of it might result in an unacceptably high CPU utilization. This is especially true when the workload consists of a large number of small requests.

The DirectStorage APIs are designed to remove most of the operating system's overhead by closely interacting with the underlying NVMe hardware. This allows for achieving a higher bandwidth with lower CPU usage. The goal is to enable handling of up to 50,000 requests per second while using at most 10 percent of a single CPU core."
Realizing entertainment driven content is not an education is not insightful and does not warrant the dichotomy that actual education should be 'not fun'.

Rants on social media are an easy outlet for frustration and should not be conflated with insightful opinion piece journalism.
It's not the spending that's causing the rot, it's the receiver of a good chunk of that spending. Prez Eisenhower said it best... Beware of The MIC.
It's the law that US hospitals have to provide care regardless of ability to pay in an emergency but not preventative care. Medicaid, which would cover dialysis for most poor people doesn't cover unauthorized immigrants. Your hospital is functioning as the law directs it to. I was going to put "as the law intends" but our system is very much a Frankenstein quilt with many effects that nobody really intends. But politicians know that people would be angry if they heard an immigrant was left outside a hospital to die of kidney failure and they know people would be angry about providing non-emergency medicine for free and they know that not many people will notice we collectively spend more money this way and most of the people who do notice won't see how it makes everybody's medical care more expensive rather than just hurting hopsitcal owners and unauthorized immigrants.
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey
I wasn't; by "we" I meant "humanity".

Evidently the normal way to do product design failed at producing consumer 3-D printers, as it invariably fails at big innovations, so in those cases people have to be tinkerers to be serious about shipping. Clayton Christensen has a book about this you might be interested in reading.
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Same in Firefox Android.
Structured outputs in LLMs: don't put the cart before the horse
Excel is powerful, but it is also important to consider its limitations.

Things will get real when your orgs problems/needs grow from something that was totally cool to do with spreadsheets to something requiring higher complexity, performance, resilience, testability, coordination, ... — and the point at which you cross over into the latter is not always clearly marked.

It would for example not be advisable to use Excel sheets as a replacement for a distributed database of central importance, unless your org is a lemonade stand with 3 employees.

I would also prefer maintaining a python script with written tests over maintaining an Excel file containing complex business logic, but maybe that is just personal perference.

Don't get me wrong here, Excel is amazing and we should all use it where it shines. But as with all tools we need to be aware of the fact that they heavily color the way we look at problems, as expressed by Maslows famous aphorism: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Good engineers should not be blinded by their tools, but accutly aware of their limitations and know which to use when. Just like with hand tools you could probably also just hammer a nail in using a shovel or "drill" a hole using a screwdriver and Excel is very versatile in those regards: it can get you very far without being the best solution, a bit like a swiss pocket knife.
Its weirdness in indexing arrays notwithstanding, Lua is zero of the most important programming languages ever designed.
"efficiency and productivity is clearly more important for development of all industries than what you value"

And yet countries that value more than efficiency and productivity are repeatedly ranked as the happiest in the world [0].

"Just push for progress in natural way, and for politicians to adjust to an already happend changes"

How much damage has unfettered tech done to society at large? Maybe we'll never know the full answer, but we can definitely agree it hasn't all been positive (advertising, social media etc..). We're now retrospectively regulating, but a lot of it feels too little, too late, for some elements of society (privacy being a notable example).

0: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2020/the-nordic-exceptional...
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There was one particular puzzle involving an elevator that stumped me as a kid. I played the remaster years later and still couldn’t figure it out so I looked up the answer.

Cheating in multiplayer games is obviously indefensible, but I’ve never been above cheating in a single player game. Games are a relaxing outlet for me and if I get frustrated long enough I’ll look up the solution.

That said, I will have one of two reactions upon spoiling a puzzle. I’ll either realize that the answer was right in front of me and I’ll be disappointed I didn’t spend a little more time on it, or I’ll realize I would never have figured it out and be glad I went for help.

The elevator solution was an example of the latter.
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I was recently looking for a Linux alternative to LibreOffice Calc and couldn't find something that meets my needs (mostly CSV import/export, filtering and pivot tables). It's great to see this new contender showing up and even if it lacks major features what's there so far looks very good. This is promising! Congrats for the good work and best wishes for what's to come.
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“ Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the world”.

Im highly sceptical it was “painted”… but would love to see it in action. Perhaps this will be the next iteration from the NFT crowd
The map of Guyana at the top of this article listed a location called Kamuda Village, and I thought that sounded interesting, so I checked it out on Google Search and Google Maps.

There's basically nothing about it on the English Internet. A point exists on Google Maps and some auto-generated SEO spam pages exist probably for that reason. There are no photos of the location, the terrain view just shows trees. No roads nearby. It's a few hundred meters from the marginally better documented Kukui River. The Internet has a video of some kids at another part of this river who take a raft across it every day to get to school.

It looks like there are lots of places in Guyana like this. Inhabited but undocumented, at least on the public Internet. It's fascinating to me that in an era where you just assume everything is online, there's so much of the world that still isn't.
PS: That sounded judgmental, I simply meant as a vaccine it doesn’t remove an existing infection. So multiple partners post 45 need to happen before it’s going to make a difference, but people with active sex lives are very likely already infected.
According to Thomas Seyfried, cancer is indeed one disease, fundamentally a metabolic disease [0]. Seyfried's theory suggests that cancer stems from mitochondrial dysfunction, which disrupts cellular metabolism and leads to abnormal cell growth. He argues that the root cause of cancer is not genetic mutations, as commonly believed, but rather metabolic disturbances that alter how cells process energy. Basically returning the damaged cells to "old pathways" of energy generation, without oxygen: fermentation.
This process, known as the Warburg Effect (named after Otto Warburg who first described it in the 1920s), shows that cancer cells primarily rely on fermentation for energy production even in the presence of oxygen - a phenomenon called "aerobic glycolysis." However, glucose fermentation is only part of the story. Cancer cells also heavily depend on glutamine, an amino acid that serves as another crucial fuel source. Through a process called glutaminolysis, cancer cells convert glutamine into both energy and building blocks for rapid cell division. This dual dependency on glucose and glutamine makes cancer cells metabolically distinct from normal cells.

This metabolic theory challenges the traditional somatic mutation theory, which views cancer as a result of DNA mutations accumulating in cells. Seyfried proposes that targeting the metabolism of cancer cells—primarily through dietary interventions like ketogenic diets or therapies that restrict glucose—could effectively "starve" cancer cells while leaving healthy cells less affected. His approach implies that a general strategy for treating cancer could involve targeting this metabolic vulnerability shared across many cancer types.
Furthermore, this theory suggests that combination approaches targeting both glucose and glutamine metabolism might be particularly effective, as they would address both major fuel sources that cancer cells rely on. This could include strategies such as ketogenic diets (to restrict glucose), glutamine inhibitors, and other metabolic therapies that work together to compromise cancer cell energy production while preserving normal cell function.

0: https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
IMHO this should work (in english or chinese).
Here i show how it sounds with different tags (in this case emotions and not characters): https://youtu.be/ASFoTNpkM8o?t=27

Here's how it's done: https://youtu.be/ASFoTNpkM8o?t=992
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Dying in a car accident is normal, but having your (robot) maid kill your children or burn your house down is not.

I think that will weigh on people's opinions of domestic general purpose robots when compared to robotic cars.
In fairness, the only reason it stuck out for me is I do the exact same thing

And I meant what I said; epically thoughtful and cool feedback that I hope the creator sees
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The water bottle is usually a common hard test for robots. The softener bottle raise the stakes even more. Because every time I handle it, I need to wash my hands afterwards.

Ironing board is bigger than the robot, and quite heavy, the torque in setting it up is a lot and probably greater than the torque necessary to break the expensive actuator when things go wrong.

Keeping a shared table clean so you can fold clothes on it is a not trivial but more manageable problem.

The home market is highly predatory. If people have enough to invest in a home robot, it means that they have some available money that other actors didn't grab. In France last time they remove 5€ per month of renting help, it was a struggle for lot of people.

You have lots of actors that call dibs on your home improvement money before you can improve your home. There is usually the landlord, then the building manager (or Home Owner Association) (which is usually already working in the kleptocracy domain), then there are local tax, and mandatory ecological improvements (thermal isolation, and windows), home improvement market (paints and kitchen), and of course everything is indexed on the current cost of energy, and uncontrolled inflation.

It's not a question of costs, otherwise all smart investment improvements that bring more than they cost on the relevant time-scales like thermal isolation and solar power infrastructure, collective infrastructure, not having to do the laundry every week..., would have been done already. It's more about determining who deserve the money.
Why not? For reasons I just explained.

I'll add the if we're looking to politicians, government a/o campaign promises to be accurate, honest and believable then how do we explain the ACA not being affordable? Or The Patriot Act infringing on the rights and lives of law abiding citizens.

I hear what you say about term 1, but I think that strengthens my wait and see, this is likely a negotiating tactic.

Trump likes to deal - more than any recent POTUS /politician. He likea to "pivot"- again more than any recent resident of The WH. He has an ends in mind, promising big tarrifs to get that is part of his process.

Note: I'm not defending his process, only mentioning/reminding it's not status quo POTUS.
Oh, just figured out that there is a field for this → container-name
>FLOPPY DISK ACCESS: The ST's 3.5 Inch disk drives transfer data to or from the 520ST at 31K bytes per second (over one hundred times faster than the Commodore 64's 300 bytes per second). The ST has been measured to access the disk between 40% and 50% faster than the IBM PC/AT.

Extraordinary, Mr. Blair measured faster speed than physically possible :) And faster than IBM using same type of FDD controller chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital_FD1771

DD drive = 250Kbit data rate = theoretical 50,000 bits (6,250 bytes) per 200 ms (300 rpm). But this is physical bits on media giving us that maximum theoretical 1MB capacity of DD floppy. Now the actual stored data require some overhead, sector headers, preambles, gaps. Standard space utilization is around ~74% resulting in 720KB floppies and Absolute maximum speed of a DD floppy drive driven by PC compatible FDD controller at around 23KB/s.

>HARD DISK ACCESS: The ST DMA port is capable of moving up to 1.33 million bytes of data per second -- this is so fast that there are currently no hard disks available that will transfer data at that rate! No other computer has a comparable port.

That figure is from Atari own documentation stating 1.25MB/s. Its also wrong, but this time in the other direction. Actual real world Atari ST ACSI port DMA speed is... drum roll, please... 2MB/s, very impressive!

https://forum.8bitchip.info/atari-hardware/atari-st(e)-dma-t...

For comparison build-in DMA speed of PC/XT 0.9 MB/s, PC/AT 1.6 MB/s. Bundled PC HDD maximum theoretical data rates PC/XT & PC/AT HDD ST-506 MFM 5 Mbit/s, ST-506 RLL 7.5 Mbit/s. Very expensive mostly high-end server/workstation PS/2 ESDI 10/15/20 Mbit/s.
If by "modern" you mean a desktop/server CPU, the problem is the complexity that exists because of optimization for average throughput. Do you really know how long you will wait, worst-case, if three different cores flush the same cache line back to DRAM? Or maybe some niche hardware you use has some funky behaviour that stalls some hardware bus, or waits in the kernel for a millisecond, twice a month or whatever.

On the other hand, on FPGAs, deterministic timing is so very simple. Your output will not be a single clock cycle late even if something else goes wrong in logic running on the same FPGA (except through a connection that you control).

If you really want to know, OSADL has a QA Farm that monitors worst-case interrupt and scheduling latency for various CPUs and Linux versions.
Hi, I'm the technical founder of Zato Source.

In real-world, business and enterprise situations, which is where Zato is used, about 99% of latency comes from the backend systems that your API integration platform integrates.

These are all the databases, CRMs, IoT, cloud and other software or hardware components that you'll be integrating.

Whether you use Python or not, they're always going to be the culprits.

That it's very convenient to integrate complex systems in Python is what does matter though.

Consider that a network of hospitals, an airport, or a telecommunications operator will have at least 50-500 different sorts of systems to integrate, and to do it properly you need to have a team of at least 6-10 people working for several years.

Looking at it from that perspective, taking the whole enterprise into account, Python is the only choice.

It's easy to find people with backend experience who will be eager to work on API-heavy projects, new people leaving universities know primarily Python, and the kinds of complex business logic that is needed to handle such scenarios are best expressed in a very high-level language.

Here's a few articles for you to explore this subject further:

https://zato.io/articles/index.html
> 2. LLMs are already a massively useful technology that we are just starting to learn how to use and to derive business value from, and even without scaling to AGI, will become more and more prevalent.

No offence but every use of AI I have tried has been amazing but I haven't been comfortable deploying as a business use. The one or two places it is "good enough" it is effectively just reducing workforce and that reduction isn't translating into lower costs or general uplift, it is currently translating into job losses and increased profit margins.

I'm AI sceptical, I feel it is a tradeoff where quality of output is reduced but also is (currently) cheaper so businesses are willing to jump in.

At what point does OpenAI/Claude/Gemini etc stop hyperscaling and start running a profit which will translate into higher costs. So then the current reduction in cost isn't there. We will be left holding the bag of higher unemployment and an inferior product that costs the same amount of money.

There are large unanswered questions about AI which makes me entirely anti-AI. Sure the technology is amazing as it stands, but it is fundamentally a lossy abstraction over reality and many people will happily accept the lossy abstraction but not look forward into what happens when that is the only option you have and it's no cheaper than the less lossy option (humans).
Only asked if it was performant based on what the parent said about Python. But cool.
Seems honest to me too, but really: When you're spending your savings and reserves as fast as the Russians are, the situation should look great, no matter how good or bad it really is.