skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem a lot simpler to plop down a bunch of concrete in roughly the same area as today's fossil fuel plants take, compared to rewiring and repurposing a third of a country to get enough solar panels and wind turbines in place (the latter while keeping residence distance requirements in mind). Not sure if that is factored into the feasibility when people talk about how expensive it is.

I agree that it doesn't make economic sense in an ideal world with twice as much space per capita and/or a lot more time to find and purchase ideal nooks and crannies and wire them up, but that would require moving to planet B. Note I'm not talking about nearly-empty USA, Australia, northern Africa, etc. here; rather, take 2-3 random European countries (highest emissions per capita after north america, so you know, the place that needs to get change happening) and you're very unlikely to hit only ones where not most/all of the land already is already allocated to some purpose.

I also agree it's likely already too late to get started on new nuclear plants, like, it's nearly so late that we might as well just go solar and wind for the rest of the way. But I don't think it's quite at that point yet, considering for example that regions in southern germany with big-ish distance requirements for wind turbines are placing nearly none (and germany is not even one of the countries that I would count among those that are out of space), it's apparently that full already and they've got like 80% of the way to go in phasing out fossil fuels.

Honestly the main hope I have these days is solar panels on crop fields becoming a real thing. That would grant a level of scale (and somewhat protects from crop failure causes like hail and drought) that would make me see this energy transition as feasible without nuclear (pushing the recycling problem onto the next generation, but better to deal with a billion worn panels than a billion displaced people (both figures are figurative)), but so far there's little adoption.
Yes! It’s in very much active development and getting very close to launch. The fact that the news section is outdated is exactly why I’m looking for a cofounder
It was a chiropractor who taught me what to do to be healthy in this regard. Therefore I can't badmouth chiropractors, sorry.
I think quants have squeezed any alpha that can be gleaned from historical data, which seem useless in predicting the future, remember you need to be accurate in the price and timing, not just proce
The major caveat with those numbers is that they ignore time and the knock-on costs from ignoring time.

Variable and uncertain power generation creates a problem on the electricity grid and the source of the problem does not pay for the solution. Everyone else does. Those energy costs you quote imply that variable generation (wind, solar) do not set the price of energy, which they do not.

The problem with computing a solution is that it depends on where you are, which season you are in and what the rest of the power grid looks like.
Yes, but much of the difference in the average is due to recent immigrants.
Lemme save whoever is donating the legal here the time: model weights are definitely copyrightable.
Nice. You need a 28GB GPU, so it's not exactly something people can run on their laptop.

Everybody's server costs are about to go the roof.
In my brooklyn neighborhood, our pharmacist is basically the neighborhood “doctor”. He’s so trustworthy and conscientious that neighbors typically check with him before going to urgent care or making a real doctor appointment for anything. Then if he doesn’t see you for a couple of days he calls to make sure you’re feeling better. It’s all very cute and the relationships and position of trust reminds of what I imagine small town family medicine practice is like.
You heard right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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If you own a large advertising platform, and you have a stake in another company, are you than allowed to place an ad at a favorable place on that platform, a place so favorable it trumps any other content and even user’s ad-blockers?

I’m not a lawyer, but there is something here that doesn’t smell right.
At ~$150k per willfully-infringed work, infringement at scale gets expensive real quick.

Do you feel lucky? What if a specific version of Stable Diffusion is found to be infringing and there's a way to back-attribute an image to it?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504
Cold turkeying benzos can give you permanent brain damage, I think.
What about laying off 75% of its workforce and open sourcing the twitter algorithm?
There are definitely other factors that can matter in a car decision.

Like how close the nearest dealer or service center is to you. Or whether you live in the US, where Tesla's Supercharger network dominates, or in Europe where there is much greater coverage and competition among chargers.

Tax credits differ between states and countries as well.

And of course there are lots of reasons to like a car even if it doesn't win on specs. Style, interior features, cabin noise, physical controls versus touch controls, etc. can all matter a lot in a vehicle you are spending $50k on and drive every day.
As does he ;) there's multiple levels of irony at play
Wow this is really cool. Will definitely be taking a close look at this tomorrow!
To be fair, everybody hates OpenGL, too.

Nobody wants to draw a triangle.

What people want is to draw their chart with lots of data fast. What people want is to visualize their architectural design. What people want is to build their game. What people want is to render their UI and draw their fonts.

None of this mentions drawing a triangle. Or using texture coordinates. Or managing buffers. etc.

The best thing that Vulkan, DirectX 12, and Metal have done is make people realize that they really don't want to be programming at those levels and that they really want to be using toolkits or engines dedicated to their problem.
The rare insight is that entities start to decline when they have reached their peak.
No it isn't disappointing. Why would you have that expectation? It also doesn't illuminate dog intelligence. Or did you expect to get that information from boston dynamics?
> Wouldn’t it have to be continuously trained on new info moment by moment as economic news unfolds?

It would benefit from access to current news, but not continuous training (though more training is better).

> Also, my understanding of LLMs (tiny) means they will only give you the most probable next sequence of words to your prompt based on the words in the training set. Has an LLM ever produced output that wasn’t buried in the training set somewhere?

This is a misunderstanding. Its a pattern recognizing predictor, not a Markov chain, its not reproducing its training set, its predicting what a plausible document would look like from the universe from which the training set was sampled would look like if it started with the prompt, and the conpletion cna be vert different from anything in the training set if the prompt is, and (depending on tuning like “temperature”) potentially even if the prompt is exactly represented.
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It would also make a great interviewer, because I understand everyone used to read them for the great in-depth interviews.
"he sometimes buys a smaller quantity of double-strength pain pills for his patients to cut in half."

Yeah, that's potentially very dangerous. Drugs have different release rates, and sometimes have a coating to control when first release starts.
I’m very excited about this movie.

I remember getting mocked in school for playing dungeons and dragons or reading Tolkien and learning eleven writing.

20-30 years later, those things that were passions only of a few, are sought after by the mainstream.

Truly interesting times.

Nerds have been defining and living in the future for a while now.
There seems to be some solid data that mammograms, colonoscopies, and treating prostate cancer (with many caveats on that last one) is actually mostly not beneficial in reducing overall mortality.

The reasons are likely complex and nuanced, but do your research carefully if your doctor is trying to talk you into one of those. You probably will only benefit their next car payment, not your health.

For a mammogram, it doesn’t increase survival over a manual exam.

For colonoscopies, you have one in 1400 chances of saving a life and one in 1000 chances of perforating a bowel and dying here and now instead of in 30 years. There’s another exam with lower risks and most of the benefits.

For prostate cancer, if you have the aggressive kind, intervention has almost no effect. You’re dead either way.

If you have the slow growing kind, you’ll likely die of something else. The risks of treatment are mostly balanced against the benefit. But treatment will nuke your quality of life.

I don’t have time too dig up sources right now, so don’t take my word for it. Look for the studies, they’re quite approachable.
There's a swath of people who (would) benefit from SSRIs that don't have day to day suicidal ideation, but might have it during the intense withdrawal process. The compounding issue is these supply chain disruptions by their very nature are correlated with stressful events like moves, natural disasters, foreign travel with unexpected extensions, etc.

This mere observation is not meant to advise someone for or against taking SSRIs.
Students and scholars alike love it.
In other words, you are saying the elevation gains quoted are useless.
Important to get your vo2 max up, as highest as possible, because folks with elite vo2max are dramatically more likely to survive longer than baseline averages.

Also important to focus on getting strong as possible, in both bone and muscle, with some focus on fast twitch muscles. A lot of elderly death can be attribute to some sort of falls. Even if they survive the fall, it can be a road to a fast death.

Another thing not to neglect is to make sure you have movement patterns and that you focus on fortifying the body against injuries. Lifting extreme weight won't do you any good if you can't lift more, ditto for running.
Yeah this will be interesting. Either Google still believes people go to work at a faang for a reason other than the comp or they are expecting higher attrition to avoid paying severance?
Where/how are you selling your course? Is this strictly a DYI thing or are you utilizing some kind of framework?
Hmm, I just gave it a try with https://fingerprint.com/ and each time I restarted the browser it says it is my first visit. This is really a nice surprise, as fingerprint.com tends to always recognize your previous visits.

Update: "In permanent private browsing mode, cookies and site data will always be cleared when Mullvad Browser is closed." It has this setting ON by default.
4bit quantized should run on less than 9gb vram.
Boulder’s food tax rebate is great if people knew about it (2022)
Personally, while I don't take either now, I could never go back on Vyvanse due to the severe appetite suppression I experienced on that medication which I did not have with Adderall. These medications are not completely interchangeable.
If it worked on people's Windows 7 computers, then people can probably still use it in 100 years (potential issues with network services required by the software aside). I can run a Windows 7 VM today, and given that I can also run an emulator for any marginally popular 40 year old game console I expect people in 100 years will have an x64 emulator that can run Windows 7. Not the most convinient thing, but lots of people enjoy games that way, so why not study the Torah that way
I.... would disagree.

I have often seen multiple entries in the pop shop for things like kodi or vlc, and it can be a crap shot on if it works or not. sometimes there's a dropdown but often it's two entries in the search results with similar descriptions and no indication of installation method.

Other than that, best desktop linux experience so far for me.
Wouldn't be the only one: The English thorn Þ character (making the "th" sound) was replaced by either the "y" character ("ye olde shoppe" was pronounced "the") or the digraph "th" based on a French mispronunciation (A really fast "tuh-huh" is pretty similar to the "th" sound) for use on printing presses made for countries without it.
It would finally expose the whales and show clearly the correlation between news and stock moves. The whales own the news outlets, news which placed intentionally at the right time will incite fear for them to buy low or generate excitement to sell high. Looking at you Elon Dodgecoin
From 4chan to intl politics bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream
Just for kicks I think we should start from the other direction. Ask GPT-N to create a perfect random number generator by using Stock-market data. All the failed attempts in doing so would basically be exploitable 'hedged' investment opportunities.
Depends what that word "data" in the title means. If it is live satellite images showing shipping movements, flight data - including private jets, public minutes of millions of meetings, weather patterns and so on, it might see what we can't. We may not have that going back decades, but they could start building such a set now.

It will be like you are at the horse race, a punter reads the horses form in the local paper. Versus the computer runs a tuned up linear regression on thousands of variables about past horse races, weather, tracks, horse injuries and so on going back 10 years.
We need a combination of the two. A single point of failure is not ideal design. One increasingly common weather event and your power grid loses a massive source of energy. Distributed energy is good because it allows life to continue, in a limited fashion.

For western europe at least, off shore wind is a great alternative, as are smaller wind turbines on farms. Much of western europe is in the path of the trade winds and so is a great place for wind power.

It is not too late for nuclear. Nuclear is an excellent stop-gap measure while we figure out how to transition to large-scale renewables.
I think the GP was interested in technical details. Specifically, do you first scrape the pdf (using another tool presumably), or do you have gpt4 multimodal access?
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This sort of thing used to be rather common: "Justify your job, or you're laid off".
I don't think the FCC cares about interference unless it affects other people.

Look at TVs and computer monitors for example. I've got a Samsung SyncMaster T240 monitor that blasts out annoying noise all across the 2m ham band (and nearby police and fire bands). I've got to turn it off if I want to usefully scan those bands with a radio that is within a meter of the monitor.

Yet it passed FCC certification. Yes, it is noisy, but even if I were in a small apartment it would not be noisy enough to interfere with someone in another apartment. It just is a problem near the monitor.

Not all TVs and monitors are noisy. When playing with an RTL-SDR on my 2017 iMac I've never found any significant noise coming from the iMac for example.

Unfortunately this is something that reviewers don't seem to ever test.
"Soviet-Era" comprises all the years between 1923 and 1991.

Lots of submarines, all over the world, were made during those years.
I wish that was a good enough reason... because I wish fiber was everywhere. The truth is that most people won't care that much about 20-40ms of latency. I mean, people use 5g hotspots for their internet and are just happy as clams, ISPs are pushing for it, trying to get everybody on wireless connections. The benefits of fiber for customers doesn't outweigh the profits that wireless drives to ISPs.

And as anecdata, my Starlink connection that I've had since the beta days has been more reliable than Comcast or Centurylink that I've had at other places. I haven't even had weather cause an outage that I've noticed. It's at least good enough that most people won't care.

We are the only people who care, and understand why low latency and high speeds are important.
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a fun fact is Bing AI already gives pretty good answers on the tasks Bloomberg cites as motivation, like who is the CEO of various companies, "write a bloomberg excel blp formula to return industry subgroup of ibm apple microsoft google"

another fun fact from the paper, it trained for 1.3m GPU hours and didn't get through the whole corpus, did 80% of 1 epoch (p. 16).

another fun fact, according to Twitter rumors GPT-5 is already training on 25,000 A100s w/8 GPUs each, so 4.8m GPU/hours per day.

it's a good paper with a lot more detail than OpenAI is releasing. also confirms OpenAI is quite a bit ahead. They compare with benchmarks they ran with Bloom and open source GPT-NeoX which they were able to run on same data, and reported benchmarks for GPT-3 since you can't run it yourself (well I guess you could sample the API), and BloombergGPT was competitive with GPT-3 which is a couple of years old now.

my takeaway was, this stuff is hard and OpenAI is crushing it.

I wonder if they will just use it for terminal features, or make the API available, and at what cost, and if they will license the model and weights for people who want to run it internally and maybe train incrementally on their own data. (not sure how feasible that is)
How exactly is it not true for the working mom in my example?
I think you got it wrong, actually: they said that they agreed with the point conveyed (by the sarcasm).
> Which one of those has more influence in the world?

You’re asking whether science or popular pseudoscience has more influence?
Chromium-based browsers make up a large portion of many people’s marketshare. It absolutely makes sense to use APIs that are available in them and then polyfill the feature with “the old way” if you feature-detect that it isn’t there.

If browser vendors are releasing the feature unprefixed, that is their signal that they view the feature as stable. It is the responsibility of the browser vendor to ship unbroken features and use vendor prefixes to unambiguously mark if something isn’t fully baked. It is not the responsibility of developers to stick their finger in the wind and try to divine when a feature has subjectively “reached stability”.
Oh great:

> Sometimes, they must send patients on frustrating journeys to find pharmacies that haven’t yet exceeded their caps in order to buy prescribed medicines.

Does this then get them put on the secret list of "people with drug seeking behaviors" which apparently includes people who fill prescriptions for their dogs? [0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/opioid-drug-addiction-algorithm-...
My comment implied as much.

>not just reading old things
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> How ChatGPT comes up with a response is rather mysterious

Have you… asked it… how it… works?
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(who is well-indexed by gpt)
I read 7 paragraphs of the wired piece and stopped. It read like someone on twitter who was simultaneously jealous and stupid.
There's been a couple times I had a generic binary I wanted to drop in `/bin/` or a package that wanted to install itself to `/usr/` The correct way is to just not do this, which is fine, it was just super weird to use `sudo` and then have the OS tell me 'no'.

It's much more rare now that I've created $HOME/.bin and added it to my $PATH and nearly all 3rd party apps have been updated to not install to SIP directories.
Are you suggesting that Xi is more of a tyrant than Mao?
that only works as long as they are small enough. IIRC thats why they are very selective about taking investments.
If it helps, and if you/your doctor are willing to make a temporary switch, I haven’t had trouble getting Vyvanse filled in Seattle. It’s not exactly the same but may be a close enough substitution. It is more expensive but if you can afford that, it might be worth the peace of mind.
As a pilot, I would like to recommend to ANYone interested in anything involving air as a fluid, the absolutely amazingly written (the man has absolutely beautiful analogies at every paragraph of the book) 'Stick and Rudder' by Wolfgang Langewiesche

just my 3.5 (inflated) cents
stull a valid point
Love the company, but I wouldn’t buy another one of their laptops.
It’s nice to see some reporting on the potential causes of the issues folks are facing with filling Adderall prescriptions.

I’ll provide an anecdotal observation…

My SO has narcolepsy and uses Adderall to, quite literally, function. It’s unfortunate that this malady wasn’t referenced in the article but considering it affects (and I’m guessing here) less than 5% of the population, it makes sense. However (and I can appreciate the concern of individuals who suffer from ADHD), an individual who is suffering from narcolepsy and cannot access their medication can result in what could be argued as a zombie like state.

I can, somewhat, appreciate the impetus behind the idea of putting up blockers to prevent the access of recreational drugs. But, as a former opioid addict, I also have found that limiting legitimate access (when a drug maker isn’t influencing the FDA to make up addictive tiers) typically results in a greater crime than what was initially attempted to prevent.

Suffice to say, without getting too political, pick a representative that has more than a hammer when they’re viewing a nail.
Ah, OK. So it's meant to be sort of an "appliance Linux"? Yes, that's certainly not my sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgKXC_6n_jw
Atomoxetine and modafinil are other options in this space and aren't (usually) dependency forming. It's worth exploring your options if things are bad because doctors are more open to alternatives nowadays.
interesting.. how would it explain bridgewater / ray dalio's track record etc?
>The health of the average person in the west (And globally) is in decline. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer are all massively massively increased from where they were 100 years ago.

In the US, life expectancy has increased by 30 years since 1900. People weren't dying of cancer and heart disease as frequently because 24% of them had already died by the age of five.
How is this the next generation if Yahoo Pipes did it over 16 years ago (wiki says launched in 2007)?

It's nice to see a modern version of it, though.
I'm running it on my Thinkpad in CPU-only mode w/ 64GB ram. It's takes two to five seconds per token but it's perfectly usable.
What happens if we use a Tesla valve for a maze?
How is xenophobia measured empirically?
And with NPR calling it a conspiracy theory, it will now start taking a more prominent role in the narrative.

What aren’t we supposed to be watching right now?
I just set up a computer for my own kids and used Ubuntu from the get-go. About the only two things that have led to a bit of frustration from the kids have been that we can't play my collection of 1990s games on CDs (KOTOR, Deus Ex, etc) because they're all for Windows only, and that Roblox doesn't have a linux version.

I'm OK with them not thinking Roblox is a good way to learn to make games. Also, Steam on Linux with its custom version of Wine is awesome. And most 1990s games seem to cost about $5 to purchase again and not have to faff around with CD-keys...
Aw dang I thought they were using OpenFirmware.