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.

Does Earth orbit Mercury?

By the astronomical definition of the word "orbit", no. Earth does circle Mercury though (and Mercury circles Earth).

In terms of this post - I suppose technically Earth does NOT circle the Moon, because we never see its back!

Now I had to imagine Mercury's motion in Earth's reference system, and that was painful.

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.

That's an easy thing to say if it's someone else's time that's being wasted and not your own. But there may not be a path back to the internet under which this project was conceived.

It could be like staying on Twitter and Reddit after their respective declines. You're only suffering an opportunity cost for your own time and preventing the internet from evolving better alternatives.

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.

Am also curious ...

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.

It rings a bit false when juxtaposed with their $40b spend on the Metaverse…where was the savvy leveraging of the open source community then?

Meanwhile Meta’s competitors commoditise and glean profits from actually-SOTA LLM offerings.

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

> 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.

The leverage with the Metaverse was eventually users were supposed to create content which in turn makes the product better and brings more users.

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.