skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, that article literally says that psychological health needs to be taken more seriously because it was more strongly correlated with bad outcomes than other 'physical health risk factors' that included smoking.

Lol, your linked article completely disagrees with you
> Can't blame him for being friends with people who asked for it.

If he has not denounced those Libertarian friends, yes you can. If he has not lobbied the government with his disproportionate power and privilege to not socialize investment losses the way he has lobbied in the name of pro wealthy elite anti state "intervention" in the past, yes you can. It is an incongruity in values.
> This is how Uber-economy works.

> We just don't want to be another CDN provider.

Don't do something differently for the sake of being different. Do something differently because it unlocks some new capability.

Uber was special for a few reasons. Primarily, it was a better UX to use an app for a taxi, and apps couldn't exist when taxis were first popularized. Secondarily, Uber not driving taxis themselves was "different" in labor law handling. Uber didn't own cars/employ drivers not because "they didn't want to be another taxi company" but because they wanted to unlock the capability to pay people differently. It's the same story for AirBnB - what's legal for rental units is not the same as what's legal for hotel rooms.

Any company can rent or own thousands of servers across the planet, we know this because CDNs do it today, and because if an individual can do it, so can a company.
How many? So many.
And that’s not just my opinion; it’s my strongly held opinion
>This only includes fonts already present as standard font on the operating system, so presumably they are all permissively licensed.

No they’re not. Apple, Microsoft and even some Google systems include fonts which are commercially licensed and usable only on a device licensed for that OS. In fact Apple and Microsoft contracted the development of many fonts you see on today’s devices and the web.
Nix solves the ad-hoc problem much more cleanly than Dockerfiles do
Try uBlock oirign my friend.
You're right.

Even if we could see it, it'd be more of an impossibly-brief flash of light that dumps all of its energy in one place.

It wouldn't be a weird fireball that moves across the sky.
None of these are evidence of anything.

1. The Harvard write-up explicitly disagrees with you:

> Mental health is known to affect the outcomes of some diseases. . . In other acute respiratory tract infections, such as flu or common cold, mental health conditions are associated with greater severity and longer duration of symptoms. Previous studies have also suggested that distress is associated with chronic symptoms following Lyme disease and in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, which have symptoms similar to those of long COVID.

2. The Wall Street Journal opinion piece was written by a medical trainee and widely ridiculed by established professionals. It was also rebutted in separate Wall Street Journal opinion pieces at https://www.wsj.com/articles/covids-lasting-effects-deserve-....

3. The PubMed abstract also explicitly disagrees with you. You said "mainly in depressed middle age[sic] white women". The linked page says "Conclusion: Our data suggest that clinical features of FM are common in patients who recovered from COVID-19 and that obesity and male gender affect the risk of developing post-COVID-19 FM." Emphasis mine.
I think people are very attached to the thought of everything being ok.
Even counting the lock up, prices were still higher then than now.
It's a matter of locale. Having an entrepreneur in South Africa or Tibet hear about the money making opportunity, setting up a peer, and then paying them for it is better than flying there for a month to set up a business presence and figuring out all the local everythings. Akamai et al has already done this, and charge money commensurate with having done that. This group seems to be banking on someone in Kathmandu hearing about this opportunity and setting up a peer there.
I agree. Probably the confusion is caused by the common name of the additive for fish tanks "Dechlorinator". But the "Dechlorinator" does not remove Chlorine atoms from the water. It only transform the NaClO (bleach [1]) into NaCl (table salt[1]). It "steals" the oxygen and binds it to another molecule.

[1] ignoring a few technical details.
This is your annual reminder to have a real DR plan in case us-east-1 goes away. Partly kidding, but also, y'know, when I see "fireball over northeast US" my mind jumps there.
"the UK gets an average of 30-50 tornadoes a year. That’s more tornadoes per land area than anywhere else in the world (except – weirdly – the Netherlands.)"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHg...

I too would've said we never get them here, apart from remembering one big one in the news I think in or near Birmingham...
Archive.today etc. Currently Down?
When I try to visit one of the various domains for the web archive site, it redirects to some Italian webhost. Is anyone else seeing this? Is there an alternative service to use?
Hang on, does that imply the other person had got into Randev's Tesla somehow? Because it seems like the obvious explanation is that they both unlocked their own Teslas at around the same time, but one of them thought the other person's Tesla was theirs because it was in about the right place and unlocked and drove it away...
Jobs always evolve and change. I imagine the future has the same employment, but the use of AI to do things is just part of it. As a software engineer of 20+ years, I'm already using ChatGPT and Copilot to assist some code writing. In the future, I imagine I'll be more of a supervisor or manager of the AI generated code.

The future is knowing how to use these tools.
relatively...yes
This is a very good comment. So you put metabolic syndrome down to impairments in mitochondrial function? What’s your view on reversing the damage? I’ve seen studies that saying fasting can improve mitochondrial function.
My take is Karma provides feedback from the community, though the signal can be noisy.

Comments and stories “in the spirit of HN” tend to accumulate points.

Comments and stories antithetical to community norms tend not to.

To me, using visible upvotes and downvotes would no more be judging comments and stories on their own merit than using user karma. Both are external signals. Votes integrate over short term. Karma over long terms.

YMMV.
Heh. Me too.

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-i...

And I agree. That author is not doing everything he can.
Yes but they also need to play games with modding or programming features.

Learning how to download files and put them in the right place to alter gameplay is an important step in understanding how things work. From there you can learn how to modify the files to change the gameplay. It is not just code but also about different asset types and configuration files.
I'm seeing parallels to the concept of "attention" in AI. Perhaps we can build an attention function that isn't "make the most profit" and have a non-profit follow it.
> The date at the bottom of the article is 2022-06-13

The date was wrong; sorry, my mistake. The article reflects progress as of early January 2023. We're actively working on the lifting feature and will post a follow-up post once the tooling are sufficiently mature to be tested by the community.
Ask HN: Can LLMs “remember” previous prompts?
This might be a stupid question, I'm completely new to this. Is it possible for LLMs to incorporate human feedback by update their models in real time during a conversation session?

If not, why not?

EDIT:

Put another way,

1. If initial training runs some training loop 10 trillion times to modify a model by a lot

2. And if fine-tuning runs some training loop 10 thousand times to modify that pretrained model by a bit more

3. Can LLMs be architectured to take human feedback as input to run some training loop 10 times to nudge the actual model some more?
I guess it depends on how you view personal data.

To me, it's just like any other data, licensing it to someone is no different than licensing the source code to something you wrote, if it's revokable the whole concept doesn't make sense, and you don't really own it so much as it's held in trust by the state.

But it seems like some people see it as something really personal and special that inherently shouldn't be treated like any other commercial asset, (Possibly because they've got more interesting lives than mine!) and there doesn't seem to be any compromise that doesn't make someone unhappy.

Revocability does make a lot of sense and I can think of a lot of very good use cases for that right, but also some ways it impairs P2P.

I think the only real solution is for private tech to achieve real parity with nonprivate tech, at least as much as is possible (Tech is almost never private compared to no tech at all, it can always be hacked), but I have no idea how that would be possible.

Technically it could happen, socially FOSS devs would rather work on minimalist stuff.
A recent, peculiar experience:

After replacing a damaged Moto with a (presumably) identical one, several months later, before leaving for work, I invoke my trusty old VPN for its maiden journey on my new device. But it won't connect. Because 'Why?', I'm not certain, but the permission dialogue for initial use wasn't appearing, while the VPN was requesting that I grant it permission... but I couldn't manually do so, because...

I then examine my network settings, and a queer surprise rears its absence -- The VPN setting/option is simply missing. Not there. AWOL.

I tuck in to hasty research (what's watching?) and find that I'm not alone. But I've insufficient time to troubleshoot. I go to work.

After work I resume, though find that the VPN now works and the options under network settings now includes 'VPN'.

Automagically fixed. Although I had rebooted the device several times that morning, it had not rebooted since - I know this do to examining Running Services, some of which I manually stop after every reboot, and were still inactive.

I connect to ADB and peruse the logs. Not knowing exactly where to look, I find nothing relevant.

I
GPT tool that searches and scrapes Google to find answers to your questions
"Economics never stopped a war in progress" - Helmuth VonMoltke
> If the costs are instead borne by the ... depositors of that bank, yes it will suck for many

You should have finished your post here. Nobody with any exposure to the real world should be suggesting if a bank's highly skilled risk management professionals working full time on assessing the bank's financial position with access to the confidential data can't assess the risk factors of the bank's bond portfolio adequately enough to keep the bank alive to continue paying them massive salaries and nor can any of the bank's wiped-out equity investors, the real problem is that Joe Sixpack just isn't motivated to spot it in the few minutes of his spare time he gets to ponder changing his bank account.

I mean, you're in a minority of people so confident in your knowledge of the banking system you're willing to offer a diagnosis of its "main problem", but I bet you still couldn't tell me what's unusually risky about the composition of SVB's bond portfolio and what implications that has for your own banking arrangements now it's been in the news for a week, never mind last month when people would have needed to know if they wanted to still have a startup.

I mean, I'm not saying people shouldn't learn lessons from bank failures. It's just that the lesson most of us learned is banks failed a lot more when they weren't regulated and insured.
I don't see that in what you wrote but I did see the mention of them not monitoring raid. Hence one reason why I thought your comment is inaccurate, per my experience.
Ocean Farming: Seaweed is having its moment in the sun
11.2 km/sec at a minimum. (Earth's escape velocity!)
I saw one maybe 10 years ago, I was outside at night and noticed it get bright. Looked up and there it was, or the last bit of its streak was. They aren't that rare apparently, but the big ones like in this video are rare: https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/#2
It’s baffling. Moving registries is extremely easy.
No, a typical LLM is a pure function of its input, if you (and not the LLM hosting company) control all of input context, and if your sampler uses pseudorandom number generator.

But you could create an LLM for which it wouldn't be the case.
Roblox had a massive 3-day outage [1] in October 2021 due to a Consul feature that didn’t work as expected.

My gut with Consul is don’t use it for high-load distributed services.

[1] https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...
> we just need to add more Peers and evenly distribute the workload.

That doesn't make sense! If you add more peers just to keep more files in memory, each peer is serving less and less data. There's a fixed, finite amount of usage that the system will receive, and the more peers you add, the more that usage gets subdivided among the peers. Which means they make less money, which makes the system unprofitable. Moreover, you're spending more money to distribute the file to more peers (well, you're not, you're offloading that to the customer right now), which means the more peers, the more expensive for you or the customer.

The problem you have is that handling more files means cutting peer profits without adding any benefit for yourself or the peers. Storage isn't factored into pricing, which means that any accommodation you make to increase availability (an important part of being a CDN!), the worse the economics end up being.
The effect of bailing out SVB depositors on inflation is pretty much zero...
LLMs can 'search' thru previous prompts. If they don't fit on GPT3's token limit, I've seen apps use OpenAI embeddings model for this. It works to the point that it feels like it 'remembers.' Granted that even embeddings will have a cap.
It's not really an alternative to async/await. Implicit vs cooperative multithreading have pros and cons for each.
The lack of any other viable means of customer support seems to be the issue. The only way to manage these problems is the use of the app, and these companies can definitely make usage of the app and the ability to hail a ride separate. Or they can provide better customer service, or an alternative mechanism for people to resolve any ongoing issues they've created.
Relevant response from the Fly community forums: https://community.fly.io/t/frequent-outages-is-really-demons...
Can anyone estimate its speed just from that video?
There’s purity of design/implementation and there’s usage. Often these are inversely related.

I like nix - it’s probably the right direction, but just compare the UX to Docker. Comparatively Docker absolutely nailed it.
> Since the requested file comes from an untrusted source, the next step is to verify the integrity of the file. The script calculates the hash sum and compares it to the digest from the JSON reply. If the sums match, the script displays the downloaded file to the User.
Thanks for echoing that one, I agree. I think a lot of the dismissal of her is due to second and third-hand knowledge of what she talks about (i.e., they hate the caricature of her, not her or her ideas).
Because you can’t prove a negative. May as well claim that the symptoms are Gods Will and demand proof to the contrary.
Misattributed. It was actually Kurt Tucholsky who was himself quoting an unnamed French Diplomat.

"Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!"
Are you sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow
I actually do what parent does for work projects but I also control the compiler and can decide when to upgrade. Like everything it's a trade-off and if I wanted wide support for different platforms I would consider your advice.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220405203009/https://www.usaid...

Ok. I’ll stand corrected on that. SpaceX only donated 75% of the capabilities, shame on them and Elon Musk for not donating 100%.
Fly is building everything in hard mode - since they are not layering on top of an existing cloud like pretty much everyone else (heroku, render, railway, ...).

It's either very smart (if they pull it off) because they will have a ginormous cost advantage or they fail.

I'm personally of the opinion that the ux on top of aws/gcp/... is worse than a doo-doo in a shoe. However, they are as stable as can be (all complex systems go down once in a while). There are very few mature projects that do not rely on aws/gcp/... managed services anyway.
Might as well put in the little bit of effort to set yourself up for the future instead of painful migrations. This obviously doesn't hold for hobby projects.

In any case, I have a lot of respect for the engineering that fly does. Kudos.
pfft sure.

google/apple/amazon etc can plug their assistants into chatgpt with minimal efforts.

They haven't yet because they need to tweak it for profit.
Starting at 100k you lose your personal allowance which places you in an effective 60% tax rate.

Most people start avoiding having a take home pay of over 100k for this reason unless they’re in one of the few jobs where they earn far and above over 120~k.
This was the outcome of https://nat.org/puzzle

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503

Some did guess correctly that it was about decoding the Herculaneum papyri
I understand the point made about effectively the same as varying the initial conditions thanks to spending some student time on Smale and non linear dynamics, and I appreciate this paper is exploring the sensitivity of gravitational N-body systems with respect to GR perturbations, however this caught my eye:

> and is more than three orders of magnitude more influential than any additional effects

Mercury is just so damn close to the sun, how much force does the solar wind pressure exert on the planet (directly | via magnetic field interactions)?

I imagine it must be non trivial and subject to variation.
"Open" has a clear meaning in tech. To me, being "open as in actually open" is a non-negotiable criterion for deserving to bear the name of "Open" whatever.
Yeah, I saw; I've kept up w/ everything pretty closely. Still decently frustrating as a paying customer, but I hope they can figure it out. If they can and can show some real reliability, I'll be an even bigger fan.
Probably a weather balloon
I agree, except for the last sentence. My guess is that it's someone confused by the misleading name of the fish tanks additives. (More details in my reply to the sibling comment.)
LoL if you think the Swiss government cares.
Restore California's floodplains to capture more stormwater
For one of my projects, conda ‘just works’ to get working with the GPU but following the instructions for pip doesn’t work. On the other hand there’s another package I am interested in using where I need to build out of GitHub and it’s a very different story.

I see myself as interested in commercial exploitation of transformers right now and I am delighted with the results. The first time I tried clustering all the Ukraine articles lumped together, all the sports were lumped, it runs 5x faster than my LDA-based clustering system and I think does a better job. With results like this I am happy to trade ‘cutting edge’ for convenience.

I have thought about a ‘path less followed’ in Python which is a truly sound package manager like maven for Python (as opposed to Poetry which I’m not sure is sound but it sure is slow) and I can say I like the way conda works I just would rather do it with wheels. One beef I have with conda is that the bzip2 files are slow to decompress and even over a DSL line I would trade a little more downloading for faster installs.
> Says who? My prior is that all, or at least most, of the symptoms of long covid are caused by covid. Why is your prior better than mine?

It's called the burden of proof. The person(s) making a claim is the one obligated to provide proof of it.
Since people have become widely aware of the effect of flags on the ranking algorithm, it actually feels like flags have become the dominant tool of abuse in that channel.
Look, I'm not trying to discuss strategy or glory or good vs evil, just the concept of "less war." WWII was 6 years. US involvement in more recent conflicts like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq was a lot longer. Meanwhile various civil and border wars have gone on beyond a decade.
Maybe in a hundred years one of these discoveries will unlock time/FTL travel or wormholes or something... maybe a jailbreak for the simulation we're in.
Post viral symptoms aren’t new. They don’t happen in the prevalence that people claim long COVID at.
I think it’s more nuanced. The issue bigger than market cap is just being able to IPO at all and give your folks liquidity.
The time to stop that would have been the early 1940s. Once you invent computers, that's it.
Ah, I hadn’t considered the FDIC insurance aspect. I was imagining writing checks that you had reason to believe weren’t worth anything.
That provides little comfort. I too would be optimistic that the funds would be recovered eventually. I am sure there are some vulture funds that will happily lend you some money at high interest rates while you spend six months in bankruptcy court trying to get access to your sweep accounts, but I don't think that is what most folks had in mind when they signed up for these types of accounts. Until the FDIC clarifies, or until these accounts are actually tested in a real life scenario, I suspect we won't be able to answer that question. So maybe we shouldn't promote them as a solution until someone can answer it confidently.
The covid crisis helped Ensure more monetary easing..
Don’t 100% agree with this, but it reminds me of a former coworker who got annoyed by all the “noise” of warnings (in a C++ codebase) so he set the flag warn=off. When I turned them back on, there were over 3000 warnings. Including one about a format string error that literally said “format string does not match arguments, this code will crash if executed.”
Latitude Financial Services Hit by Cyber Attack – Customer Data Stolen
Maybe something like AI Dungeon: https://play.aidungeon.io/main/home ?
Mmarq is correct: https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/income-over-100000
The GitHub Markdown Helpers Public Beta
Sorry, here it is

https://www.wired.com/story/dirty-money-and-bad-science-at-m...
I know the idea of paying for things isn't cool or whatever, but there's also the option of paying for premium, which also gets rid of ads on mobile without using having to sideload some sketchy app.
I think that's pretty much the accepted explanation in the medical field? A small percentage of people have always been getting autoimmune and other disorders after a virus infection. With Covid it's just become a lot more obvious given the volume.

The way Covid makes the immune system cause irreparable lung scarring that then sticks with people for the rest of their life also probably compounds other problems.