sudosays

This tickled my brain in a nice way.

I'm probably butchering this, but in my mind it is something like:

1. From the squirrels frame of reference and local coordinate system, the man has remained "in front" of the squirrel. The squirrel is orienting and rotating in sync with the man and therefore has not observed that the man has "gone round" it.

2. From our perspective (and on reflection from the man), the man has circled the squirrel in the global coordinate system of the scene.

As the reader we assume that our perspective is the authoritative one, but I am sure the squirrel disagrees.

Counterpoint: I think he should stay and fight the good fight.

Indie blog businesses are great for the health of the human internet, and I don't think surrendering preemptively will help things get better.

If you haven't already you should check out uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

It solves a lot of the package management headaches for me.

It seems boringcactus does not like referrals from HN lol.

Quoting from assets/site.js:

  //     Never read Hacker News
  // - Aphyr, "Hexing the technical interview"
  if (document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")) {
    document.location = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fart.wav"
  }

Thought HN would also enjoy this beautiful visualizer combining data from multiple streams.

IIUC think the article is saying that the assumption is the issue. That the default is to assume that working in the service industry is only a stepping stone and therefore less valuable.

Seeing as this article is from April 2023, I wonder if there has been an update to this effort from MS.

I also would be curious to know if the Rust for Linux and Windows Rust efforts will collide over WSL at some point.

In any case, their hypothesis is testable: which open source innovations from Llama1/2 informed Llama3?

I am not sure, but I agree that it is definitely testable.

If I had to guess/answer, I would argue that the open source contributions to Pytorch have a downstream contribution to the performance, and maybe the preparation and release of the models required an amount of polish and QA that would otherwise not have been there.

This makes me think of Meta's approach in open sourcing a lot of their AI efforts. I can't find the exact snippet from the Zuckerberg interview, but the reasoning was:

If Meta open sources their models/tools and it gains wide adoption, ways will be found to run the models more efficiently or infrastructure/research built on top of Meta's work will ultimately end up saving them a lot of costs in future. Release the model that cost $10bn to make now, and save yourself billions when others build the tooling to run it at 1/10th the cost.

I am glad that I am not the only one thinking about the long term for links.

As someone who grew up with the early 2000s internet link rot, and the dead internet definitely scare me. I remember sharing cool blogs and sites with friends that are now almost all gone. The wayback machine is cool, but not the same.