skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Praying for generic adalimumab to finally hit the US market. People overseas have been getting this stuff for a hundred bucks a pop for years now, but AbbVie's done everything in their power to extend the US patent for as long as possible. They'd milk us forever if they could.
Fair enough. I'll at least have a look at it.
The only relevant data point for hiring someone to do a job is whether or not they're capable of doing the job. The only way to know if someone is capable of doing a job is to give them the job and observe their performance.
Is there any more information you can provide so I can help my wife find a similar treatment?
USSR certainly industrialized past the levels of serfdom, but individuals were clearly still held back from their full economic potential. It wasn't until AFTER they left the USSR that most of the former Soviet states actually reached modern standards of living. There's nothing to say the revolution actually benefited the average person in Russia more than the natural dissemination of coal power would have.

China only began thriving after they abandoned Marxist-flavored communism and integrated markets into their government.

Well, it's not just unclear to you. Even if you buy into some of Marx's more coherent ideas, it's such a bonkers idea to form a government with the expressed intent of achieving some sort of vague Hegelian state as outlined by some untestable arguments described in an unfinished work of political critiques. Das Kapital is not exactly a useful guide for creating actual policy.
building an experimental load balancing tool in rust

github.com/anddddrew/juggler
As always, Matt Levine is ready with the numbers:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-26/first-...

https://archive.is/zJsPo
You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: it looks like you've been posting a lot of comments in the 'ideological battle' category. We have to ban accounts that primarily use HN for that, so please don't do that. Past explanations in case helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Because reality requires these things of us but we should minimize the impact.

You’re just stringing words together to look smart; physical reality calls the shots. Your attempt to conjure some immutable truth in Anglo gibberish is banal
My body created an antibody to infliximab after about 6 months of treatment and I had a bad reaction to it. 6 months of expensive treatment wasted.

Doc replaced it with Azathioprine, a cheap generic, and I've had no major flare-ups of UC in 6 years.

If I have minor symptoms (usually triggered by certain foods), I also take mesalazine, but once I am in remission I can do without the mesalazine. If I withdraw from AZA when I am in remission, minor symptoms typically return after around 3 months, but subside after I resume taking the AZA for a couple of months. I can retain remission doing 3 months on, 3 months off.

Use of Azathioprine is still controversial for treatment of UC: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034525/

I have no noticeable side-effects from taking Azathioprine.
I'm not saying it was aliens. But it was aliens.
The timing was also a convenient distraction from the bad TSLA earnings report on 4/19...
Paywall-free link to NY Times article: https://archive.is/2023.05.01-091113/https://www.nytimes.com....
Ask HN: Bypassing GPT-4 8k tokens limit
Okay, I know it's not possible to bypass the 8k token limit. I don't have access to the 32k model yet.

I have transcripts that are typically around 15000 tokens in size. I want to split this text into different topics. The problem is the current limit to GPT-4.

The obvious approach would be to split the text into chunks and then send to the API. However, GPT-4 won't have the context of the other chunks to accurately identify topics inside the text. For example, the chunk could separate the text in the middle of a topic. I can't think of a way that can programatically chunk the text without breaking up topics by mistake.

Does anyone know of a way around this or have a better approach? Or is this just the reality of GPT-4 at the moment.
For me personally it's a nice way to build, and manage relations with people serving me food in cafes I frequent. Works for me.
Scaling laws help.
At least in Baden-Württemberg, most regional trains (and even some busses) I've used so far have WLAN nowadays.
Ok, so I'm on a longer drive, and a passenger falls asleep, but I need to stop and go to the restroom.

Should I a) force them to wake up and either leave the car or be in charge of the door locks b) leave them asleep with the doors unlocked c) trap them in the car?

Of course, I understand Europe also likes to have keyed both sides deadbolts, so I guess you always need to check if everyone inside the house has a working key before locking the door when you leave too?
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Why isn't full transparency and an end to criminality a viable solution?
I would also note a darker angle: Starship is now critical path for Artemis so the Fed is highly incentivised to allow it to go.
If that was true we could have had GPT-3/etc years ago. It's a bit like saying that college graduates are dumb because after all what have they learnt but a bunch of knowledge in text books.

The success of these LLMs comes down to the Transformer architecture which was a bit of an accidental discovery - designed for sequence-to-sequence (e.g. machine translation) NLP use by a group of Google researchers (almost all of who have since left and started their own companies).

The "Attention is all you need" Transformer seq-2-seq paper, while very significant, was an evolution of other seq-2-seq approaches such as Ilya Sutskever's "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks". Sutskever is of course one of the OpenAI co-founders and chief scientist. He was also one of Geoff Hinton's students who worked on the AlexNet DNN that won the 2012 ImageNet competition, really kicking off the modern DNN revolution.
Historic May storm brings snow and record cold temperatures to the Great Lakes
Your explanation of why many people ended up disliking him is at least closer to the truth than the grandparent comment's baffling anticausal take of "people hate him because of what he did to Twitter".

But it seems pretty absurd to charge Elon Musk with under-delivering. Do you not remember what the idea of an electric car meant prior to 2005? Or the possibilities and economics of reusable spacecraft just 5 years ago?
Ya it's taken 2 years for the government's published estimate of 6-10 months. People can't plan lives around this, or only the increasingly wealthy can. Wish you the best of luck. There's nothing in the US worth having you can't get in other countries (and probably much easier).
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Yeah macos full updates spend 20 minutes doing ???? between reboots, no matter how fast your mac is.
Yes, and there needs to be some kind of restriction on how much one can expect to be allowed to withdraw in a certain amount of time. If too many want to pull out, there should be an automatic stop and everybody should know about this. The bank should maybe even be required to pay out a little extra interest as compensation.

Better this kind of limited draw out than having to rescue banks left and right and having huge amounts of regulation which can never fully stop these kind of events.
Speculation didn't suddenly exist in 2007. I do recall several regulations being changed at that time which _relaxed rules_ around the market. Is it possible that these regulations had more to do with the outcome than mere "speculation" in and of itself?
I hate it when publications label scientific discoveries "impossible". It makes scientists look like idiots.

OBVIOUSLY scientists understand that if something has been experimentally verified then it's by definition not impossible and the theory has to be improved. But I wonder if the general public understands that scientists understand that. Or if they imagine scientists going "Sir, an animal big as a house with a tail on his face? Impossible!"
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My point is that money is a very imperfect proxy for what people find valuable - frequently the things we spend the most money on are not a free market. And the closer you look, the more imperfect it gets.

Someone would happily buy a house that's half the size of most on the market (or less) - unfortunately, such houses are prohibited by regulation. So they are forced to choose between buying twice the house at twice the cost or renting.

It sort of works when you're comparing product A to product B at the store. When you're comparing parts of the economy, there are much greater forces and distortions at work.
"Whole villages of France that were shot dead" That was with gloves on. The Eastern Front was on a whole different level. I stumbled at some point upon the fate of Belarus under 3 years of Nazi occupation, and just could not wrap my head around it.

"Altogether, more than 2 million people were killed in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation, almost a quarter of the region's population,[1] including 500,000 to 550,000 Jews in the Holocaust in Belarus.[2]"

"At least 5,295 Byelorussian settlements were destroyed by the Nazis and some or all their inhabitants killed (out of 9,200 settlements that were burned or otherwise destroyed in Belarus during World War II),[3] and more than 600 villages like Khatyn had their entire population annihilated.[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Byeloruss...
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Also antibiotics, immune control drugs, transplant technology, hearing aids, prosthetics, computer-assisted tomography, MRI scans, cancer treatments that actually work, mental health drugs and treatments likewise, ...

This is just wildly wrong. What you're looking at is the "advent of modern medicine". Prior to the middle of the 20th century, doctors were more or less limited to stitching people up after injury. Since then, we can treat... almost everything, honestly. But that's expensive, in particular in regimes like the US that want to provide all that stuff to everyone in the private markets that have the ability to pay for it.

It's got absolutely nothing to do with how the payments are handled. That's just silly.
As someone who also lived in that society, albeit briefly, I can tell you that "experiencing a stronger connection with your community" is not necessarily a positive. Especially when you don't exactly have much choice when it comes to picking said community in the first place.
I ordered an instant pot on Amazon on March 30th, 2019. I received it Sunday, March 31st, 2019 and upon receiving it I discovered it can make yogurt.

It made me very excited to learn that it could automate the yogurt-making process because I've eaten one serving of yogurt every day (except when traveling) since mid-2003 so I bought 14 glass mason jars and made my first batch on Sunday, April 7th, 2019. Since then I have made a two-week batch of yogurt every other Sunday, except when traveling.

That means that those 14 jars have been used once every two weeks for 213 weeks, which means each one has been reused 107 times. It is extremely rare for me to drop and break something and the jars do not seem to be degrading (I have replaced several lids-- made of steel) so I by my calculation I would estimate that they can be reused at least an infinite number of times.

If I had purchased yogurt in single serving containers that would mean I have saved 1,493 single-serving plastic containers from being placed into the waste stream. But I bought yogurt in 5-serving containers so that means I have saved 299 plastic containers from being placed into the waste stream.

When I started, I sourced milk in paper cartons and wasn't too concerned about the thin polyethylene film lining within the cartons but since then I have gone anti-plastic global thermonuclear war and get my milk from a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) organization and it comes in 1/2 gallon glass jars, which are turned in, washed, and reused.

It seems unlikely that 14 glass mason jars have a larger environmental impact that 1,493 single-serving plastic yogurt cups or 299 multi-serving plastic yogurt containers, and even if they do I don't know if that will hold true over the next 50 years as I intend to continue reusing the 14 glass mason jars until I, or they, die.

I think that instead of favoring plastic for single-use items due to energy concerns the standardization, effective capture, and reuse of glass items should be incentivized.

I know it's "really hard" but I'm a lazy piece of shit and I'm doing it...
I think all the methods of improv work: do not say no, but add to the conversation. You also need to take the lead if the conversation stalls, to be genuinely interested in the other person, and to make yourself a bit vulnerable, before most people open up.
IF we can already see the remnants of what is to come, its probably already in motion behind the scenes somewhere.
There was already a 9€ ticket last year, while I wansnt in Germany at that time I didn't read a lot about overcrowding.
With a more expensive ticket the effect will probably be even smaller today, though in the long run all trains will probably get more filled up.
Haha - at the same time many libertarians / conservatives want there to be no infrastructure owned by the public! Another way we are at war with ourselves in the good old semi-public private USA.
I feel pretty much the same way; is there a better name for this besides democratic socialism?

> Yeah, the magic wand solution of government-run economies and doing away with money and markets doesn't work. Outside of some sophomorically edgy and loud tankies on twitter and reddit nobody really wants to do that, and it wouldn't get anywhere if they tried.

While I agree the "socialists" who want full-blown (central, government run with no free market elements and no money) socialism are the minority, it's frustrating that good conversation around socialism is hard to find because detractors specifically attack this extreme side of the dichotomy.
1. we do not charter corporations so that they may chase profits, we charter them because we believe that without limited liability, certain things that we as a society (or as a monarch) want done will not happen. If that was not the case, we would not have corporations at all, simply partnerships between various sized groups of individuals who decided to risk their personal fortune (in all senses) on some venture that could not be accomplished alone.

2. in situations of monopoly or close to it, corporations do in fact indulge in central planning for an entire economy. You may choose to put your faith in the idea that their chasing profits mean that their decisions will be the ones we would make as a society, but there's no inherent reason for this to be true. There are often multiple pathways to the same profit, with different side effects and different levels of organizational commitment; as a society we might prefer a corporation to pick one route, but it picks the other.
In How the Web was Born[1] I red that Tim also considered GPL at some point as he liked the FSF's approach, but as the OP notes in the post, he decided to go with public domain so that it would not scare off some companies from using libwww code.

See also: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web

[1] https://books.google.cz/books/about/How_the_Web_was_Born.htm...
The tools is not what you think it is. IP here stood for InterPress. It’s capturing an image from the desktop as an Interpress file, the predecessor (again) to PostScript with the same imaging model as PostScript. It’s what Dorris used to print out here creations within XDE.

The documentation is on page 154 of this tools document:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/xde/XDE_3.0_Nov84/XDE3.0-900...

“
- - IPCamera.doc
- - Copyright (C) 1984 by Xerox Corporation.

The Bitmap To Printer Tool.
Purpose: To capture in an Interpress file a rectangular portion of a bitmap. Sources include the display in the same volume or debugged volume.
Window: The tool has 3 subwindows. The first (top) is a msgSW where the tool says some things. The second has to do with the Capture Phase, the third with the Layout Phase and the fourth with the Send Phase of the tool's operation
Capture Phase - specify a bitmap rectangle:”
Next steps for Postgres pluggable storage
Another thing people will do is exculpate themselves by pointing at a real video and saying, "That was made by an AI. I'd never do something like that."
Honestly the content being almost exclusively about Bitcoin and Nostr might be it's biggest problem.
> creating equally powerful adversaries outside of your light cone.

If we're still bound by special relativity (since you said no FTL), there is nothing outside of your light cone.
That seems to align with the state of the British economy more than anything else.
What makes you think there is excellence in security? Nearly every case involving Pegasus was on the iPhone.

I believe this affected ~1000 VIPs and caused the death of at least 1 person.

Either 0 VIPs use Android, or it is much harder to break into. (From my research, there wasnt any 0 click exploits, you always had to manually download something and approve it outside the play store)
I think that life itself is the struggle against entropy and evolution (or rather, selective pressure) is the optimization test function for it. The heat death of the universe is an inevitability, but maybe some multi-galactic superorganism will find a way to build truly self-sustaining sources of energy eventually; but it won't be us.
So, the types are:

1. Keep your head down, work hard and humbly, be a good little serf.

2. Say "screw this", realise there's a ton of wealth in the world and the leeches are taking it all, push for some changes that might actually make a difference in the world.

Capitalism preys on the people who are susceptible to the first path.
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> let it use mobile data this time.

This is the most Canadian-hostile update in the history of computing!
There's also psoriasis (and psoriatic arthritis), where it's been firmly established that one subtype — guttate psoriasis — is triggered by _Streptococcus pyogenes_, which also causes strep throat, which is very common.

This is a strain of bacteria that can also cause rheumatic fever, which has an autoimmune component; it's capable of molecular mimicry, which causes the body to develop antibodies against itself. So the thinking goes that many strep bacteria can linger in the body and cause autoimmunity.
There was even one on every floor of my previous office (at a national UK retailer known for selling pig-shaped gummy sweets)
What about Sears? What about Polariod? Packard?

At the top of the growth sigmoid, corporations always make the wrong planning choices, to avoid self-cannibalization of existing products and to protect existing internal power structures.

The same thing happens with centrally planned economies.