skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case the regulation is certainly being pushed by the pharma companies themselves as they wish to use regulation as a means of eliminating their competition so they can charge monopoly prices. So less regulation is not going to help, rather, the political influence of the corporations is the problem. Doing an end run around the whole mess by simply producing your own insulin will rapidly cause collapse in prices as those companies will suddenly have competition, even if from a state run agency. It's happened many times before.
Hm.. Not sure how modern that NTFS would have to be. Firefox and Minecraft had to do modifications to avoid the issue of slow file access and slow reads of folders full of small files. Hedgewars too.

I feel these weren't the only cases. And none of those had anything to do with Explorer.

But, it might have improved, and might be "good enough" for email.
So your car would have 10 slots for packs, and go ~100 Km.
I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.

For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.

All that led me to a job in 2018 as a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, which had been established a year earlier.

The center’s working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria, the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the center’s doctors and therapists. Given their expertise, I assumed that abundant evidence backed this consensus.

During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager—I was responsible for patient intake and oversight—around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions that can have life-altering consequences—including sterility.

I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.

Today I am speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue—and the ways that my testimony might be misused. I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk.

Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.
Very interesting, I didn't know about them. It seems that they have a basic free plan, for a single user with two devices. So maybe one laptop and one iPhone, and you can move your calendar and contacts out of Google.
> Android and everything it stands for.

Bloat. Virtually every android everything is so bloated that the underlying chip speed gains are rendered useless.
Well, by this time is clear that company loyalty doesn't exist anymore.

I think a new market will rise up from this debacle: companies selling good & services with strong employee loyalty values. These companies will use this as a marketing hack to get the public (mostly middle class)on their side, just like the concept of "parallel economy" is getting people to choose companies aligned with their values.
I didn't realize they already had triggers for compaction, thanks for sharing! I suspect fragmentation is still a major issue (along with page cache management, which DAX should help with), so it'll be interesting to see if/how Microsoft improves memory management.
Took at quick look at apache nifi. Here is my conclusion but anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong:

I think they only overlap for a small part but quite different:

* Nifi is focusing on moving/sharing datafile (meaning the size could be big) across the system
* Nifi does have some logic control flow to act like workflow, but it's not too closed to be a "workflow system" because it missing a lot of capabilities that a typical workflows should have (see "What they all have in common
" in https://medium.com/@qlong/iwf-vs-other-general-purposed-work...)

* iWF is a general purposed workflow engine, could conceptually do data sharing but it is not good at sharing the big amount of data or data files
* iWF is more specialized at controlling/orchestrating the business
I hate this simplistic attitude so much. Okay how do you expect the bank to "pull itself by the bootstraps" and not rely on a govermnet bailout? Do you expect bright employees to stay on board or flock in and fix things out of the kindness of their hearts? They have to pay people to keep things from getting worse. And yes they could get worse.
I'm reminded every time I email my mom.
Look, you can't have it both ways. People on HN are always talking badly about companies that don't allow work from home, or require at least a couple days in the office. Then a company says it's going entirely remote (not including the layoff context) and people shit on that.

Which is it?

As for the layoffs, I don't have anything to add to that. There a Microsoft decision.
convo here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726735
That's a touch beyond state of the art but we might get there.

If there was one big problem w/ today's LLMs it is that the attention window is too short to hold a "complete" document. I can put the headline of an HN submission through BERT and expect BERT to capture it but there is (as of yet) no way to cut up a document up into 512 (BERT) or 4096 (ChatGPT) token slices and then mash those embeddings together to make an embedding that can do all the things the model is trained to do on a smaller data set. I'm sure we will see larger models, but it seems a scalable embedding that grows with the input text would be necessary to move to the next level.
It's still a pretty awful tool, and anybody who wondered what the 109 means in `subtotal(109, A:A)` thinks the same.

Excel is so successful that competitors need to copy its bad parts.
> On trial for cocaine dealing.

#1 rule of banking: never get high off your own supply.
What about Samsung Exynos?
I am not in the US, and I cannot stop using the things others pay for, because they FORCE me to pay for it aswell, or they will haul me away to jail. and in doing this, they also keep ANY competition away, because who can compete with "free".

I pay for water, and then i pay 150% taxes on the water because reasons.. I would just hire someone to drill a well for me on market terms, but the regime made it illegal

edit: actually its about 300% taxes on the water
>Qualcomm is currently focused on performance in a way that they wouldn't be if Apple hadn't lit a fire under their ass.

No, Qualcomm has been consistently behind for years.

The reason their chips are doing significantly better now is because it takes a little while for the talent they bought- the people responsible for Apple's current massive lead in the first place- to bear fruit (longer than usual since they were brought on in 2019).

As such, I have reason to suspect they'll have more success going forward until Qualcomm stops paying enough and they go back to Apple; the circle of life. AMD's no stranger to this way of operation; they just re-hire Jim Keller when they get tired of losing to Intel.
You’re missing an important point - it’s not /trained/ on live internet content, it /reads/ that content at runtime. I mean it is trained on the internet but please try to separate the concerns. Remember that the goal of this model is language, not learning facts about the world - they could’ve trained it completely on fictional novels if there was a big enough corpus.

The only way that LLM-enhanced search returns misinformation is if the internet is full of misinformation. So yeah we’re still in trouble, but the inclusion of the LLM isn’t going to affect that factor either way IMO

EDIT: this is completely separate from using LLMs to, say, write political statements for Facebook bots and drown out all human conversations. That’s obviously terrifying, but not related to their use in search engines IMO.
>it seems unlikely

What are you basing this on?
>Faster performance today means longer lasting tomorrow.

only if CPU performance plateaus in future generations. as long as new phones keep having drastically better performance, apps will keep updating to use it.
My idea is that you report to the government that you want to hire me. And I contact the government with the information where I live.

You suggest how much you are willing to pay me to the government. And I get information how much I'll be earning after taxes and required social security fees.

If I don't agree or the amount you proposed is illegally low then I can't work for you until you decide to bump up the salary.

If I agree I start working. You pay to the government the full amount. Government taxes it and transfers the rest to me as a salary.

If you pay too little or too late you are on the hook with the government. But you don't need to know where I live or what the taxes are.

With electronic system the whole procedure of hiring could probably take an afternoon or less and zero knowledge.
I think it's justifiable to tip for service but if you're just picking something up, it's retail, and that's not something you should be tipping for. The writer should've choose a custom tip of $0.
I was using a 12 year old desktop for my main system at home until I recently and impulsively decided to upgrade. I don't notice any difference because a lot of what I do is web browsing. The only thing that was transformational was things like using Photoshop, gaming and any high-intensity applications, which are few and far between. Even using Excel was hardly noticeable.
> Swiss government will prop them up

Unlikely. The article describes a lender-of-last-resort mechanism more than a bail-out [1]. It comports with the EU's ELA [2]. It's an exorbitant privilege, for sure, but not TBTF.

[1] https://www.efd.admin.ch/efd/en/home/the-fdf/nsb-news_list.m...

[2] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.agreementemergen...
Also, no one is paying sticker price. When I was uninsured I often payed less out of pocket costs for care and medicine because so many automatic discounts kicked in.
For what it's worth, your first link show's the "same death rate" but there were only 330 covid positives in that dataset.

So the death rate is equal between placebo and vaccine means that the vaccine doesn't kill at any higher rate than placebo.

Given the population in Moderna's trials, how many deaths should one expect in the covid-positive placebo group? 0.2? Either way, it would round down to 0.
I've never seen power outlets in shared parking in Europe, so I didn't really consider that case. I guess I'm just considering Europeans in SFHs, where they really don't need to worry about adding L2 wiring for most use cases.
A little bit of both. Apple’s chips are highly customized for their use case and that proves out in certain benchmarks where they have a dramatic lead, but even without that customization they still have a small lead by default due to being on the newest process.
...indeed, that too. Great movie, BTW.
This is the way China is going [0]. Based on success there it seems it will follow in other places.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...
I'm just going by the one near my home. The mass of the pad-mounted transformer is stated on the label.
Collapse as a business, sure, but its portfolio probably won't go underwater. It's failing in a different way from a bank that takes on too many bad loans and can't fund its liabilities.

A merger with UBS was mooted once. Now it looks more likely UBS is waiting for it to fall completely and pick up the good bits on the cheap.
I dunno. It is pretty official that this what the Hippocampus does. What I do know is that people are pretty incredulous when you feed back conventional wisdom about how the brain works, how SSRIs work, etc.
Respect people's character (introversion, ambition, flexible hours, prefers async), don't cheap out on hardware, spend some time and have pauses together - not so fond of the "team spirit" myself, but sometimes you lose the non-verbal and a more deep knowledge of the people. Onboarding is harder remotely: tool yourself, write documentation.
What you save on the physical office, spend on services for administration and management. Coworking places emphasize the distributed way of work. Instead of re-creating a physical office, build on the remote work strengths: hiring anywhere with competitive salaries, value objectives and not hours, get independent people with good command of language. Teambuilding has to turn from "sport activities" or "dinner together" to videogaming if people fancy, or book reading. On the other spending brief holidays together attending, or learning experiences. Employees may be super-fast learning 23 years olds, or 52 years old parents with lots of different connections and experiences. Your job is to enable them to do their best for you.
> Are cars cheaper today?

Cars are AVAILABLE for pretty much the same price.

People WANT more expensive cars.

The Volkswagen Beetle was pretty much the least expensive car on the market for its entire sales run in the United States.

The inflation-adjusted price of a Beetle in 1973 was around $12,000.

The price of a Chevrolet Spark in 2022? $13,000.

Nobody wants a Spark, though. They want an SUV. So Chevy killed the Spark.

Before Chevy discontinued the Spark you could walk onto a lot and drive away in one of the dozen or so Sparks they had rotting away in the corner for less than the price of a VW Beetle in 1973-- and the Spark was superior in every measurable way.

2023's cheapest car is the Nissan Versa. You can 100% find dealers who will part with one for less than the cost of a Beetle. It is also better than the Beetle.
Shouldn't other companies be wary of hiring traders from a firm with such terrible results?
Yeah even if their product is "better than Co-pilot", I will never use it after this brazen publicity stunt.
Reminds me of my fave new microgenre: foreign films about something going wrong with the sun that causes it to scour the earth with gamma radiation, eg. _Into the Night_.

It may be time to begin flying west
This, especially with regards to backwards compatibility. Apple doesn't have to worry about some other OS / app vendor updating to support new silicon; they ship new hardware, new operating system, new Xcode, and almost everything just works.

Also their silicon itself is just more advanced. I don't think anyone else is doing UMA the way they are, though I'm not 100% sure and would welcome correction.
I think this was always bound to happen, rent seeking behaviour you know.
customers used to pay $3k on petrol
let's say customers do 80% of charging at home, and as result say they "save" 2.7k per annum.
fast chargers knows they have this pie and they want it.
so they'd rack up prices potentially beyond petrol costs, since they know customers are paying way less 80% of the time, and they want to eat that pie.
competition can drive it down, but only if competition are introduced.
local gov or any private bodies able to identify positive externalities will need to introduce a 3rd party to keep fast charger prices slightly closer to cost. otherwise I'd be seeing two fast chargers at all choke points, profit sharing; duopoly charges monopoly prices, and every choke points are monopolistic.
Hey, if it works for you, that's great. My point is really just that there are still pretty common situations where CPU performance matters and so you really need to measure on the types of devices your users actually use. If you look at that and say it's fine, you don't need to change anything but I suspect a lot of developers would not be happy with the performance of their sites on, say, 3G or public library WiFi on a phone which was $200 when it came out multiple years ago. A fair amount of that isn't CPU-related but network transfer, but real testing will catch both of those.
An alien signal for which the act of perceiving it causes some paradox that results in the perceiver to have never existed, cascading to every other interaction they've ever had (not had).

It's a clean and efficient way to nip upstart intelligences in the bud, before they advance far enough to start pulling at loose threads of the fabric of reality (which would threaten the remaining older intelligences, who survived and learned from previous such incidents).
We could also just nationalize the drug industry. Public funds pay for research already don't they? Why even let corporations in on this, just do it all ourselves and let the sociopaths go exploit adtech or some shit that's less likely to get people killed.
We obviously need a new test. The new benchmark for large language models should be "Truth" with a numeric score defined as -Log( Percentage_of_Lies_Told ). This way, a perfectly truthful model will have a numeric score of +infinity.
I agree with you.

Reinventing wheels is good, ignoring any kind of domain knowledge/expertise is not.

If you’re running into problems that someone with a year or less experience in the area can point out and you don’t have good reason to do different then that’s incompetence not ingenuity.
What a gross trivialization of the chip design process. If all a company had to do was get first in line for TSMC's process, Intel would drop all their fabs and just pay that money to TSMC to beat AMD.
You also don't "need" a block heater for a modern (last 40yr) spark ignited gasoline engine in good repair anywhere on earth. It's just a "nice to have".
Just as big as it needs to be, and not more.
Oh, well I'd agree with that position.

I think an assumption that I have is that the balance of supply/demand may be prejudiced against remote work, because it takes time for people to accept or be open to new ways of doing things.
If you’re on Windows, certain antivirus, including Defender, can absolutely kill Thunderbird’s performance. There seems to be some kind of lock contention going on, and the result is Thunderbird taking a long time to do common tasks. Excluding the profile folder from antivirus would solve the issue, with the caveat that any incoming attachments would no longer be automatically scanned.
Bing is known for removing websites for no apparent reason. My website was de-listed for 2-3 months one year ago (personal blog, writing for 10 years, no spam, no ads). It happened recently to another dev blogger: https://daverupert.com/2023/02/solved-the-case-of-the-bing-b...
That was before. Now they can pay attention to even the least important things.
There must be something so incredibly gratifying about engineering a thing, and then successfully betting your life on the soundness of its design.
also posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34728990
A clear explanation, thank you!
> It's nothing like described in the article and I don't understand why people who should know better don't call out the bullshit media reporting more.

I'm kind of assuming you didn't read the article, but if you did then I'm kind of assuming that you've never done machine learning, but if you have: how did you manage to do that without ever noticing that you were doing approximation?

Objectively, neural networks are approximators. Like, truly objectively, as in, the literal objective function, objectively minimizes approximation error. We call them objective functions and minimizing the approximation error is typically the objective of these objective functions. This isn't bullshit. It isn't. If you think it is, you are deeply and profoundly mistaken.

The article advances this view of language models. This is a reasonable view of language models for the same reason that machine learning papers exploring neural networks describe them as universal function approximators.
So we make a law that says a product's intellectual property is protected and cant be copied. Someone in another country copies it, without paying. Then it's legal to import it?

Seems like a very roundabout way when we could just ignore intellectual property laws directly, at home. The same applies to "importing things from Canada." Why the ruse?
You 're talking about the american market. Most of the world uses android phones

I think samsung and qualcomm are more important companies, because they compete in components, making incremental changes in the electronics industry . Apple is a vertically integrated, closed monolith and the rest of the ecosystem will not / cannot benefit from their innovations. Samsung should focus on differntiating itself from apple rather than trying to look more like it. Good, functional phones with lots of customizability and ports are a strength. Speed of apps is immaterial to me , and i m using an old Samsung. Most people use messengers and browsers, which run just fine in older phones. 3D avatars and fancy animations are not crucial to anyone
I’m less excited about “books written by AI” than “authors using AI for certain mundane tasks to increase their efficiency”. And multiply that out to games, movies, podcasts, etc etc etc
> all those regulations must have something to do with how few people die in airplane crashes

Many of them do, but that certainly doesn't mean all of them do.

It's really hard to see how using decades old engine designs with leaded gas is necessary to prevent crashes, or how updating a proven airframe to newer engine designs that have a lot of operating time in cars needs to be an extremely onerous process to avoid crashes.
I don't know if it is all about the bloat. Even the 3rd party apps themselves seem to be made with less care. This AirScreen app I'm talking about apparently is a paid app(free to install, subscription for some features) that can just stop working on a fresh device and give cryptic error messages that don't help and complete uninstall and re-install doesn't fix it.
An essay making reasonable points, but overall it strikes me like a dismissal circa 1980 of personal computers as toys.

My first day with ChatGPT I tried teaching it my hobby dialect of Lisp (unlikely to be in its training set) and then asking it to implement symbolic differentiation. Its attempt was very scatterbrained, but not completely hopeless. If you don't think that required any thinking from it, I don't want to argue -- unless you're in some position of influence that'd make such an ostrich attitude matter.
Google has no clue about game development, really none.

Compare the tooling in the box for Android with iOS, for example.

The AGDK took 10 years to come to life, and is still a kind of basics.

If you have a look at game development talks from Google IO, or the few times Google was present at GDC (like that talk), you can watch how the large majority are about PlayStore tooling, all kinds of analytics and player engagement.

Technical talks like Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or even Apple happen to do, are almost inexistent.

With such background, their attention span, and then asking everyone to rewrite their games, Stadia was a disaster waiting to happen from the day it was announced.