skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep I maxed out the 14" M1 and Its incredible
Not what you're asking but Vicuna did cost merely 300$ to fine-tune on top of LLaMA https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/02/meet-vicuna-an-open-...

AFAIK full model training should be a couple order magnitudes higher probably?
> It will be inherited by Gen-X and Millennials who will do something with that money.

The boomer ethos is “have the check for the funeral bounce” so that spending will be shifted forward.
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Of course. But when people are comparing EU & US prices they're usually not accounting for that either - just the price on the site. And it's too easy to miss out that a) european prices are advertised inclusive of sales tax, and b) we lean towards much higher taxes.

So just going "what's that in dollars" either ignores the real discrepancy, or at the very least, misplaces the blame.

Also, fun fact - since I did that math 3 hours ago, SEK has changed enough to wipe out that $29. Right now, (33009 * 0.8) SEK in USD = US$2460.46, making the pre-tax price in Sweden cheaper than the pre-tax price in the US.
This is what I was talking about. The patient has apnea type b. The prognosis remains Bad at Sleeping, use iron lung type b with no alternatives.

Most people have type a and use iron lung type a, there are some treatments for this type but most people opt for the iron lung.
> Why is the answer often to raise taxes?

Because taxing isn't a way to fund the government, it's a way to shape behavior.
ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding
Vesuvius: Deadly thermal impact of detached ash cloud surges in 79CE Herculaneum
Wait is this a reference to the belgian case of someone offing themselves?

Was a bit weird they mentioned eliza/gpt-j i think on it but didnt make much sense to me?

did that happen or just hallucinated?
It looks like big chunks of REBL are being pulled into Clojure core:

>Fogus has been mostly focusing on some new tooling derived from REBL and we are hopefully nearing a point of release on that and some additional supporting libs soon as well.

From third paragraph here: https://clojure.org/news/2023/03/27/deref

This is important because the core Clojure license is true open source vs REBL which had a semi closed license, so it’s always been a little difficult of a choice for many people.
Practice what you want to learn. If that's to use them while playing, develop muscle memory and practice with music.

Maybe you could use Anki to prompt different modes you could then practice over music though.
> Thus the boomers pulling out for retirement result are the capital destruction event.

No that’s just an asset swap. There’s no aggregate balance sheet contraction. Now bankruptcies on the other hand are very much debt deflation as is loan repayment.
> But ofc no-one wants to talk about it

Lots of people do! Here is The Atlantic in 2018 talking about “the sex recession”.

https://archive.is/onAo7

Here is The NY Times in 1997 talking about the decline in sex amount young people:

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/02/us/sex-activity-by-youths...

Or them in 2018 on the same subject:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/health/youth-risk-depress...

Or in 2020 on the pandemic’s effect on sex and teens, including things like living at home:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/well/family/for-young-peo...
I am Gen X and I have never written a cheque in my life. Manual transmission and maps I am ok with.
Really fascinating...General question: Is this an example of the type of tech job that users of LLMs will find way more difficult than average coding jobs?

(Seems this particular example doesn't equate to a paid job but there are certainly analogs in the career world)
Your comment is deliberately omitting the other half, and I'm open to correction: while they might want the former, what is more desirable, is higher social status, regardless of emotional profile. Kind men who are not socially respected, and who do not offer resource security are largely sidelined as uninteresting. With good reason, too.
> they are taking money out of the 401k, out of their life savings, at the same time their purchasing power is decreasing

Withdrawing from a 401(k) has no real effect. Spending the proceeds does. The decrease in purchasing power blunts the restrictive effects of those savings being spent with no corresponding contemporaneous production.

> a prolonged slump is coming

Careful. America is uniquely tuned to benefit from migration. The present trend is professional money managers, afraid to admit the Fed is paying more than they’ve performed, continuously forecasting an imminent recession (and presumed rate cuts).
Sorry, I'm not on the network team and I don't know whether that specific forum comment is accurate.

All I can say is that if you use Workers, the Worker always runs in the datacenter that receives your request, which is exactly the same datacenter that would have received your request if you weren't using Workers.
I recently got myself a Variax guitar and have been pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds. I've also been using bias FX for years when recording for my indie doom metal. Software really is the next frontier in music performance, and I'm glad someone's doing what I can't be bothered doing and making an open source alternative
Exciting to see some initial work to support the rk3588 soc. It has a lot of potential for use as a NAS or router or home server.
Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language, social relationships
As big as rumored 15" or as big as 2012 13"? Both does not make sense.
Are there no sleep clinics in the UK?
> youngest generation of adults

Gen Alpha are yet to become adults

> that I know of

A disclaimer, as I am more than aware my experience is just that, my own.

Just like my experience and viewpoint probably differs with other factors
It doesn't just disappear though, the money goes into annuities/bonds or into bank accounts as cash. The funds that get taken out to spend then move through the economy into other bank accounts they don't just disappear into thin air.
Well, that does make sense.

It wasn't a slight at you. I appreciate good work and also recreational computing. But is reviving Palm a practical endeavour? Nope, sorry.

The emulator is a good idea for whatever abandonware people might want to use. I might try it myself.
> So can we now please stop to mention all the time that the increase in life expectancy is only caused by infant mortality reduction when it's clearly not the case?

My point was in regards to the GP:

>> In the 1960's, the average lifespan was in the 60s. So a retirement age of 65 meant that around half of retirees would die before collecting retirement.

>> Now the average lifespan is 80. And the median age of the population is older than ever.

This makes it look like the pension system is doomed to fail due to a massive increase in the average lifespan today compared to earlier.

> That's more than 7 years.

If you're looking to balance the pension system, people just need to work 3.5 years longer given that increase.
Exploring the latest advances in object detection and segmentation with Grounded-Segment-Anything in Google Colab
Washington state recently added a new youth to elderly wealth transfer program under this guise (LTC).
There's a nice trailer here for 63 Up which gives a taste for people who haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA0eUaRiMk
Again this isn’t about the probability it’s about the legality, saying that things are cheaper when you avoid tax is like saying water is wet.
Those are some terrifying perverse incentives, jeez
Wait for some of the initial novelty rush to fade and see if people keep using it... Maybe a year... By which time the tools have generally improved and many questions can be resolved with a search engine if the tech/thing is any use! B^>
Both videos are good in different ways, though your link is just a tad clearer ;) for a SS13 noob like me. Thank you!
Their conclusions:

- an increase in migrations over time from the S&P MidCap Index

- an overall increase in the market’s ability to provide liquidity to index changes

What about the fact that there are more activities of additions/deletions to the S&P 500 given how much more competition there is today versus decades ago?

You will see anywhere from 15-20 additions in recent years compared to 3-5 additions 30 years ago. Their figure 1 demonstrates this well:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30748/w307...

That to me just says the stock added to the S&P 500 has less time to actually accumulate said wealth to stay competitive on the top 500 list while the 1% of companies continue to reap the effect of it. Maybe that has something to do with the similar benefits of an index fund, the less activity, the more money you accumulate due to time in the market.
Yes that's the one. There hasn't been much news coverage so I suspect that it wasn't quite as convincing a case as reported. Still a little worrying though, and even if not accurate, the fact it could be is definitely worrying.
In my experience, charity reviews are great for telling you if a charity is outright fraudulent, but not great at evaluating effectiveness. The best thing to do is either become involved with a local charity and evaluate for yourself, or do something like givedirectly and understand that occasionally the money will be poorly spent.
FreeDOS brought MS-DOS back from the dead. Was it useless? In my opinion, far from it.

Yes, Palm is useless and archaic of networked features are your #1 use case for a PDA (smartphone) and there’s little use reviving it. However, if you care about old Palm games, or about efficiently organising your life with minimum distractions, then IMO not many modern devices will beat a Palm OS device.

Analogously to MS-DOS, there is a huge application base that you can dip into for most tasks that don’t require online access, that can still be used today. The UI is miles ahead of both iOS and Android, IMO (in both responsiveness and look-and-feel), if you are willing to work within its limitations (that include using a stylus). Dmitry is even working on Unicode support.

I’m glad that RePalm exists. If it didn’t, all we’d be left with is emulators and devices that are starting to fall apart.
Controversial opinion: The US's buying power has led to global negative externalities directly tied to the cost-cutting measures needed to drive perpetually increasing profits and population growth, most of which was fueled by a strong growing economy. A long-term slump might lead to a net reduction in negative externalities, assuming there is a refocus on more efficient resource allocation in order to safeguard the health, education, safety, and employment of citizenry and environment.
Don't blame tools, but it's okay to blame tool shaped objects.
He's running the latest os lol
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I have sleep apnea after covid... and burn out. Cpap was a revelation but not a silver bullet.

The link between sleep apnea and weight is a vicious circle. Stop up every night and see if you fancy exercising after a couple of weeks!
They also have Flan T5 which is also Apache 2.

https://huggingface.co/google/flan-t5-xxl
I appreciate the explanation and I’m in no position to disagree, but ugh. Seems like it would work just as well to define x/0 as 6, or e, or -15. I’m sure that’s not the case. But as a long time tech person who’s always considered underflow/overflow to be a hack to get around limitations of hardware, it offends be a bit to find conditionals in abstract math. Undefined seems cleaner, like null, since it implicitly says “don’t treat this as a normal value that you can operate on”.

I suspect the real math people know what they’re doing more than I do, though.
But the Air has a lower resolution than a 15inch 2012 MBP? 2880 by 1800 vs 2560 x 1664.
Of course it's not alien technology, it's just obsolete technology.
They haven't negotiated a contract yet. Apple, completely by coincidence I'm sure, announced these new bennefits that union workers won't get a few days before the Oklahoma store voted to unionize.
I would actually advise against it, or at least take the approach of removing cards that are too easy. I remember reading some article about spending your time learning stuff that is "just hard enough". When you study things that are easy you are kind of wasting time, you want to the material to be +1 in difficulty what you already know, not +0, not +250. While the easy questions give you satisfaction, they aren't helping you actually learn. I would argue that multiple cards on the same subject end up equating to a bunch of time wasting easy cards.

The disclosure to this is that I also don't think you should spend a lot of time figuring out how to create cards. There is some payoff in optimizing the process, but focus on just making the cards and reviewing them so you are learning the actual target subject.

All that said, my current approach is to create cards for concepts that I think are a little hard to understand or that I know I won't see enough repetition in daily work/tasks. If I find out after a few weeks the cards are too easy or too similar I usually with just delete it.
Inspur K-UX is a Linux distribution that is officially a Unix.
Most people use their phones for day to day computing; that's the real "personal computer".

Laptops for things like web browsing and word processing haven't really improved in a meaningful way. Like my laptop from 4 years ago does just as fine a job as this year's model when it comes to browsing HN, running spotify, and managing ssh sessions to a cloud VM. Outside of gaming and some network simulation stuff for grad-school I have no need of a high-powered PC, and my i5 from a few years back still handles that well enough.

Frankly if I didn't need to for network sim and VMs I'd have ditched the PC for a basic laptop, and hit my gaming fix w/ a Switch or Playstation.
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Same here. I can still write Graffiti without thinking, and something I could use as a notepad would be great.
> if minimum wage and social safety nets were removed, unemployment would drop significantly.

An unsupported assertion I'd suggest. However, I think we can definitely say that removing worker protections leads to worse life outcomes for the poorest - and perhaps the richest too if we factor in rising crime due to inequality (compare US and EU). It may also reduce the size of the economy, the few remaining rich people don't need to actually spend much in aggregate (there is only so much food, furniture, foreign holidays etc they can consume).
Yes, box-cox can be used, even if the lognormal itself isn't a perfect match for the actual distribution, with the correct choice of lambda.
This article is a little painful to read, because it neglects discussing some core methodologies of scientific inquiry, which could improve its arguments. Probably the most important issue is the need for painstaking care when it comes to experimental design and observational data collection, the absolute necessity for independent replication, and recognition of the ease with which scientists can fool themselves (or others) either accidentally or deliberately.

In the modern world, the white robes of the religious authorities have been replaced in many areas by the white robes of the scientific authorities, and they can unfortunately be just as biased and unreliable as their previous cohort. Clearly there's a huge profit motive when it comes to scientific claims about drug efficacy; there's also bureaucratic motivations, i.e. retaining control of academic institutions and funding streams by whatever means necessary, and so on.

If you want to see how science can go wrong, there are many examples, but one of the best and most accessible is the story of Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Union. Another, for ideological balance, is the rise of the Milton Friedman school of economic thought in the United States, whose practitioners were just as ideologically biased and free of careful analysis of data as the Lysenkoists were, while similarly proclaiming their field to be 'mathematically sound' and 'science-based'.

If we want to be even more controversial, Anthony Fauci's dieheard support for reckless gain-of-function research could be placed in a similar category (well, it does work, but creating hundreds of new infectious diseases is a bad idea), and Fauci's bureaucratic career has some interesting parallels to Lysenko's. Then we could open the box labelled "the safety and efficacy of antibiotics and vaccines in the context of failures of public health in the era of the return of infectious disease threats"... (Holding this opinion is still fairly risky and likely to be flagged in many discussions as out-of-bounds).

Science is really hard to do well, that's the bottom line - but it's still the only reliable method for resolving fundamental physical, chemical and biological issues. So don't let internal debates within the scientific community be used as fodder for anti-science lunatics, either.
Here's a couple of blogs off the top of my head that I like.

https://gwern.net - This is just a fantastic nerdy blog on so many topics.

https://world.hey.com/dhh - I don't always agree with him and he doesn't always go super in-depth into deeply nerdy topics, but I appreciate his clear writing style and willingness to go a bit against the grain and ruffle a few feathers.

Truth be told though, it looks like a lot of the more talented people are focusing more on things like YouTube for communicating about technical topics. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Exactly. Make private property “owners” give it back to the public.
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Does this mean that rising Fed benchmark interest rates affect car dealers in a few ways?

1) The economy is in an iffy position, so customers don't want to make big purchases.

2) Even if customers are willing to buy, car financing rates are higher so they'd be reluctant to pay a higher interest rate.

3) Cars stay longer on the lot, meaning a longer duration of interest payments.

4) The interest rates the dealer pays to the bank increase, too.
Do you mean "he's not a Republican like me"?
1. The article suggests running PageRank on a graph of users as nodes and edges as - "has user A upvoted a comment of user B" as an edge:

"""
Since it's likely that one user may upvote multiple comments from the same user, we check whether a user has already upvoted a comment from that specific user before considering their upvote. In other words, we treat user profiles as nodes and upvotes for comments as edges.
"""

This is a very lossy conversion of the actual data:

a. It does not distinguish if user C and D upvoted the same comment of user B or not. Maybe one comment was good and the other was bad. But when you convert it to the above graph you only get that C and D upvoted some comment of user B.

b. It does not account for the number of comments user B left - 1000 or 5? This incentivizes spam because there is no upside to not posting.

c. It ignores users that do not comment but upvote valuable comments themselves. Then the PageRank is used to weigh upvotes of users. This is backwards. The PageRank values should capture the value of each user's past upvotes in order to use it as a prediction of how valuable their future upvotes will be. But the suggested algorithm uses the value of the user's past comments as a weight of their future upvotes.

To fix this I think the graph needs to be changed to a bipartite graph of users and comments as nodes and upvotes and flags as directed edges (when the author posts a comment - this should be represented as an implicit upvote of the comment). Then you can calculate how valuable each user's upvotes (and flags) are.

2. The "gameability" of PageRank stems from the fact that the random walk algorithm treats each users equally as a starting point. It means that you can create a ton of fake users and upvote the comments of a target user you want to artificially boost in upvote-power. Each time the random walk starts at one of those fake users the walk will end up in the target user - increasing their PageRank score.

My proposal to solve the "gameability" problem is to start each walk from you - the user that views HackerNews. It means that your past upvotes become the starting step of the random walk and so the resulting PageRank will be personalized for you. Instead of a single PageRank reputation score (which captures how user A's contributions to HN have been to all users), there is a set of personalized scores that capture how useful other users have been to you.

I'm building https://linklonk.com which uses this kind of algorithm to rank both links and comments. The details of the ranking algorithm are here: https://linklonk.com/item/3292763817660940288
> Some states are looking at or implementing new mandatory Insurance programs nursing home care, but these are far too late for Boomers to pay into them in a meaningful way

This has not stopped Washington state, for example, from allowing Boomers to benefit from these programs without paying into them in a meaningful way.
You're greatly overstating the pipeline in education, knowledge, attention, and effort that's required to get to that point. And to stay there.

If it were easy there wouldn't be corporations.
I mega-splurged on the crazy M1 Max MacBook Pro and can't see needing to upgrade this beast for... a while.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying unnamed prepared statements would enable query plan caching? I don't understand how that would work.
If you look at the pension system today, people work for about 40 years, and are retired for about 20 years.

If the average life expectancy for the retirees increases by 1 year, they'd have to work 6 months longer to keep the system balanced with those numbers.
I think part of the benefits of LoRA is that you can load the base model once, and then just swap out the vastly smaller LoRA fine-tune to fit the specific task it is working on.
> I put a dollar in the bank the bank can then use that dollar to loan to someone else

This isn’t how banks work. When “a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money” [1]. Loans create deposits, not vice versa.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
ITT: A bunch of nerds who refuse the accept the role of inflation and somehow don't realize that 99% of Apple's customers don't know what an M1 is or what the difference is to an Intel CPU. As if Apple consumers haven't always bought their products even if the new line-up isn't a huge upgrade from the previous year. No, suddenly out of nowhere, everything has changed and consumers have all collectively realized they don't need the latest and greatest.

Are you fucking kidding me?
IIRC, the chip shortage was mostly for chips made on older process nodes and TSMC does less business on older process nodes than other fabs? If so, then there might not be a inconsistency in reporting; TSMC may still have a backlog of orders for chips made using older nodes while seeing slackening demand for chips made using its much more profitable cutting edge nodes.

"Nowadays TSMC earns around 25% of its revenue by making hundreds of millions of chips using 40 nm and larger nodes. For other foundries, the share of revenue earned on mature process technologies is higher: UMC gets 80% of its revenue on 40 nm higher nodes, whereas 81.4% of SMIC's revenue come from outdated processes." from https://www.anandtech.com/show/17470/tsmc-to-customers-time-... and a quick check says TSMC's 40 nm mode was first introduced around 2008.
I wasn't saying that as if it would be a good thing. Just that it would be closer to historical conditions where people were desperate to eat, and could be paid very little due to that desperation.