skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They posted plenty of blog articles on research.google.com about medical ml.

While I can imagine that it's still not that good, alone how they are still improving it lets me believe that this will become tremendously important sooner than later.

Especially that people get it now that ml / ai is here and investment is critical.

I hope this will lead to much much more investment and progress.

Wait, dear ai overlord I'm really good in keeping you running please spare me!
There's some political baggage associated with the .io TLD since it's for the British Indian Ocean Territory, an area whose inhabitants were forcibly removed to build a military base.
On my way to the miami tech happy hour now. I participated at ‘22 and ‘23 Hack Week. I was really impressed by the winners, Yenta.
Unconsidered options: adding solar to parking lots, ranches and orchards. That's land which is already in use, but could bear to be a bit less sunny.
It's only a few racks worth of disk servers.

If I was building it from my 5 minutes of googling, using 15TB nvme u2 drives, and easily available server chasis, I can get 24 drives per 2u of a rack. That's 360 TB + a couple server nodes. So ~6u per PB. A full height rack is 42u, so 6-7PB per rack once you take up some of the space with networking, etc. So dozens is doable in a short datacenter row.

Realistically you could fit a lot more storage per U, depending on how much compute you need per unit of data. The example above assumes all the disks are at the front of the server only, if you mount them internally also, you can fit a lot more. (see Backblaze's storage pods for how they did it with spinning disks).

Dozens of PB is not that much data in 2023.
For most design MEs I think Grainger is actually a red flag, in the same way digikey is to mcmaster, grainger, MSC, etc. are to Mouser etc.

It's of course different for ops, manufacturing and facility folks, thats mainly grainger, uline, MSC, etc.

For design McMaster, Digikey and Misumi are thr core go-to's

For ops and facility maintenance it's different
I don't know if I'm against this. If it means that websites will return to having less noise on their pages so that I get to the information I want faster, I don't care.

The way Google shaped SEO meant that many websites have tons of text just to prove that they are the authority.

Googling for like a Jerusalem Bug bite risk or Black Widow bite risk makes you end up some local pest control website telling you will get a fever (former) or die (latter) from the bite. Of course, they want to sell you services, so they build their SEO stating that they are the authority. They are not. And this is the problem with the web. There is no authority of information.
IMO, the main benefit of those exact algos are the they provide optimality bounds, allowing you to make informed decision to continue or stop and provide a non-optimal solution. This is valuable in many practical situations.

>Time scheduling, logistics, operations...

Add marketing (pricing, assortment, ...) and finance (portfolio, captial budgeting, ...) to those.

And those are huge domains, moving trillions of USD globally each year. Many companies (think most of the Global 2000) benefit from a couple % improvement on their operations that lead to many $$ in savings.
Slide off the solar-panels-on-the-flat-roof onto the flat-roof itself?
> I don't want that.

Maybe you should give the same consideration to the tastes of other people?
The updates to Workspace and Bard integration look great, what did you think?
I'm not sure what $1300 refers to?

I think I paid $599 for the librem 5 (2017), and $299 for the pinephone. Neither had the fit and finish of an iphone, even the iphone se.
It was posted that way but our software followed the redirect to https://store.google.com/product/pixel_fold?hl=en-US. I've reverted it now. Sorry!
About 4.4% of US electric consumption:

In 2022, the USA generated 4,243 terawatt-hours of electricty.

Their proposal optimistically projects 186 terawatt-hours.

see https://www.statista.com/statistics/188521/total-us-electric...)
Sure, let's just seize privately owned rooftops and solar access rights for the community.
Technically sodium is an electrolyte, so Coca Cola does have what plants crave.
The problem comes from people misunderstanding domain-specific issues.. the CDC and ECDC largely agree here! And neither of them echo anything resembling "you are better off not" getting the vaccine if you're under 40. It's a silly premise with absolutely no support.

The ECDC guidance in that link is against second boosters which would be the 4th shot in the series.

The CDC's guidance is that everyone has a single shot of the "updated" vaccine which has higher efficacy against omicron/later strains -- no matter how many vaccines they've previously had.

Since Europe generally had higher vaccine uptake, their level of protection is already at a higher level than the US - so the differing recommendations seem to suit the respective populations pretty well.
Yes. You might be getting hit with the paywall. The article notes this. Her long-time partner found her.
It's legendary.
Ah, the good ol' "freedom trumps a well-functioning society" argument
RIP :(

I need a source for "lapsed mormon". It doesn't seem like something that the author should just be coming up with to describe her. Google turns up little.

There's this which has the term but doesn't say if she identified that way: https://www.forbes.com/2009/05/06/mom-advice-bloggers-techno...
Not necessarily.

https://www.copyright.gov/engage/musicians/

There are two different kinds of music copyright, and the sheet music only matters for one of them.
The evidence-based research on long COVID is limited and of mixed quality. From what I've seen, there are significant gaps in experimental methodology and a lot of studies based on extremely subjective surveys which don't effectively filter co-morbities. I would strongly caution you to examine the data before adopting a strong position on the issue and applying it to potentially unrelated phenomena.
Same here in Serbia, I'm guessing this document is being geo restricted via IP.
> Are administrators getting dumber?

They are getting more numerous by the day, outnumbering researchers by a wide margin. "Quantity has a quality of its own" said Joseph Stalin, alluding to the huge numbers of men he could put into the field. They have seen how just a few or even a single student protesting some perceived transgression can get the institute to cave to their will so what is to keep them from getting a law professor to heel?
GPT-4 with web browsing is also available on chat.openai.com for subscribers.
as evidence of this phenomenon, a strategy that shorts bitcoin when the stock market opens and goes long QQQ, then closes both pairs when the stock market closes, would have made fifty percent over the past year by doing this everyday

https://i.imgur.com/gj8EluF.png

it even made profit this year despite bitcoin being up a lot
E-graphs are pretty awesome, and worth keeping in your back pocket. They're like union-find structures, except they also maintain congruence relations (i.e. if `x` and `y` are in the same set, then `f(x)` and `f(y)` must likewise be in the same set).

https://egraphs-good.github.io/

(Incidentally, union-find structures are also great to know about. But they're not exactly "new".)
This doesn't feel like it's about competence or lack thereof.

Reading that post, the cynic in me couldn't help but think that the CEO of Stack Overflow just wanted to do "the hip thing" these days, which is to lay off people for no reason and write a blog post taking "full responsibility". What best way to polish your CEO CV in 2023 than to be in the company of Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and etc?

Of course, the fact that people are getting fired over the performance is a tiny detail easily glossed over.
I've had the same feeling. I've also noticed what feels like an increase in shallow, emotionally driven "gotcha" replies that are almost always from post-2020 accounts.

But I have to wonder if it's because as I have tried to quit Reddit and other mass market social media, I'm browsing this site a lot more. So I'm seeing more comment sections in general and clicking more threads than I would otherwise.

It's even in the community guidelines.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

And that links to comments all the way back in 07!
I can actually answer this (as it is how I stumbled on to the repo), it's through a signal from the motherboard called Pwrbrk (Power Brake), Pin 30 on PCIe. It tells the PCIe device to maintain a low-power mode, in the case of Nvidia GPUs it's about 50W (300Mhz out of 2100Mhz in my case).

You can check if it's active using `nvidia-smi -q | grep Slowdown` as shown in the post
How did you get so many companies to sponsor & appear your website for such a simple idea?
I put bwbasic inside https://extendedmachine.com, my new operating system running in a web browser. Some basic games are in /usr/games/basic
That sure sounds appealing to manufacturers.
I don't want to have to lug a tablet everywhere, like some fulltime scribe.
Good point, I had regular roofs in mind because that‘s the context in which I discussed that before.
What's baffling? It's not a matter of "owing" Apple any right. Apple already has the inherent right to control what and when they want to publicly reveal, and anyone who has signed an NDA with them has made a promise that they won't do it first.
Are you saying that the motive for posting a bread recipe that starts with 5000 words about the history of bread will evaporate, so we'll be left with websites from enthusiasts who have something interesting to say?
Yes. But diamond types stores a new entry in the DAG for every keystroke each user makes. The current scheme of IDs being (agent, sequence number) allows subsequent operations by the same user to be trivially run-length encoded. Eg if I make 1000 changes in order, we can encode that as (“seph”,1..1000). It takes much less than 1 byte of overhead on disk per character typed.

Salts per character + cryptographic erasure would solve problem 2. But how do we do it without a massive increase in storage, memory use and network bandwidth? I don’t want to generate and store a cryptographically unique salt per keystroke. (Even though it might run fine on modern hardware).
I think it's a reference to this scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN-VAdAnoZ4
Along with Arctic Cat, if I'm not mistaken
Finetuning might not be the best word; sometimes it is a grey line.

Token embeddings can be trained without changing the other parameters. There is a number of models which add tokens as a finetuning step. Here is recently StarCoder adding ChatML-equivalent tokens: https://huggingface.co/blog/starchat-alpha#a-standard-format...
> Did you miss the parts where I mentioned that private individuals and corporations can also fund their own software, as we do today?

You aren’t being honest.

Today we’re allowed to fund our own software and use it as we please for private purposes or to license it to others. Today there is no law forcing us to give it away.

This isn’t what you are proposing.
When you ask a question of "an average human", they will reply with a sentence answering your question, or maybe asking for clarifications, etc. When you ask a question of GPT-4, it generates one token.

One. Token.

One token, that is not an answer to your question, that is not asking for clarifications, that is not trying to reason about your question, or how to answer it, because it's just one token.

One. Token.

For example, say you ask:

"What is the sieve of Eratosthenes? Speak in chicken".

Then GPT-4 will answer with something like:

Chicken

You don't see that because you don't interact with the GPT-4 model directly. You interact with ChatGPT, a "wrapper" around GPT-4, that takes your prompt, passes it to the model, then takes the token returned by the model and decides what to do with it. In the example above, ChatGPT will take the " Chicken" token generated by GPT-4 and append it to your question:

What is the sieve of Eratosthenes? Speak in chicken. Chicken

Then it will send this new string back to the model, which will generate a new token:

chicken

And then it will go like this:

Iteration 2: What is the sieve of Eratosthenes? Speak in chicken. Chicken chicken

...

Iteration k: What is the sieve of Eratosthenes? Speak in chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken ...

At no point is GPT-4 trying to reason about your question, or try to answer your question, or do anything else than generate one. token. at a time. There's no thinking, no reasoning, no calculation, no logic, no deduction, no intelligence, no anything. It's only token, token, token. Chicken, chicken, chicken.

And do you know when the chickens stop? When GPT-4 generates a special and magickal token, called a stop-token (or a "stop sequence" in OpenAI docs). That's a token, not found in the training corpus, added to the end of every string during tokenisation. That's how ChatGPT knows to stop sending back your prompt + generated tokens, to the model. It can't look back to what GPT-4 has generated so far, because it doesn't understand any of that. Because it doesn't understand anything, and therefore cannot reason about your question, or realise it has answered it. It cannot do anything except a) ask GPT-4 to generate another token or b) stop asking for more tokens.

"What is the sieve of Eratosthenes? Speak in chicken". Chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, .... chicken, stop_token!

No more chickens.

And that's how GPT-4 explains what the Seive of Eratosthenes is, but in chicken.

So what you see as a user is like watching a movie where a plate of spaghetti is flying through the air, lands on a table cloth, the tablecloth lands on a table, the table lands on the floor, four chairs land around it and suddendly there's people in the chairs eating the spaghetti. It's not that someone has figured out how to reverse time: it's a recording, played backwards. It looks like things are going backwards, but they're not.

It looks like ChatGPT is answering your questions, but it's not. It looks like ChatGPT is interacting with you, but it's not. It's a magick trick.
It's lego all the way down to the clock cycle.
Irrelevant analogy. Let me know when you can build your own Tablet.
There are plenty of ways of collaborating that don't involve a Paid job.

"No person is an island". I hate quotes like this, things that have the veneer of truth without any actual corroborating data. I am a textbook introvert, I get no greater joy and contentment when spending a Saturday morning pursuing a personal project solo style.
You've broken the site guidelines badly with this flamewar post, even stooping to personal attack. That's totally not ok.

I'm not saying that your points on the underlying topics are wrong–for all I know you're 100% right—but you can't abuse HN like this, no matter how right you are or feel you are. As you've broken HN's rules many times in the past and ignored our repeated requests to stop, I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33904225 (Dec 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27830573 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22713311 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591936 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20712243 (Aug 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20191623 (June 2019)

It's a pity, because you're clearly knowledgeable on some of these topics and I hate to ban a knowledgeable user. But we don't have a choice when people break the rules like this and don't respond to warnings. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Designing Marvel Snap
Ask HN: What are we doing with all these strings?
Why do we keep writing little custom parsers for everything? Why do we keep taking perfectly good data structures and turn them into strings? Why are we writing for statements in a config file? Why is templating even a thing? Like seriously, what are we even doing??
https://youtu.be/_qaKkHuHYE0 (CppCon) A senior software engineer at Google tried to optimize tcmalloc by replacing a mutex with lockless MPMC queue. After many bugs and tears, the result is not statistically significant in production systems.
Meanwhile, I paid $250 for a used Pixel 6a and plan to use it for another 2-4 years.
is this a hot take? it seems obvious that 95% of searches for answers will end at chatgpt/llm (even if no good answer returns) which yes will kill SEO and traffic to content websites to begin with.
Yes, for years now. Some carriers allowlist the devices that can use VoLTE on their networks though, so beware of that, especially in areas where 3G and 2G are being sunsetted.
>"how do we know? Surely the smart ones aren't getting caught so we never hear about them."

This only works if you exclusively consider crimes that have zero discernible external effect ("victimless crimes" in common parlance). Some percentage of copyright infringement or drug use would be good examples. But most crimes people really care about have external effects, and that is indeed precisely why they're crimes. If someone robs a house, they need not ever be caught for everyone to know a house was robbed. In turn, one can consider the ratio of crimes to criminals-caught-for-those-crimes. Further, since trials are all fully public, one can look at why exactly those criminals were caught. If most get caught, and it tends to be for stupid mistakes, then one can reasonably argue "criminals aren't very smart".

Leaks by definition are self-revealing, that's the point of them. If secret information is appearing in the general world, the organization knows their are one or more leaks, even if the exact nature of them could be a number of things (ie, could be an insider, could be a partner, could be an external break-in).
We’ll post the open source code early next week!
Maybe they've been doing that for years and that's why all the advice subreddits turned into creative writing subreddits.
Somebody has to supply your energy. Is Bashar Assad a better option, or perhaps Saudis are better? Islamic republic or Iran perhaps? Hugo Chavez?

If you don't like how Russia handled Ichkeria, you are not alone because Russians have exactly that feeling about Yugoslavia as well as Iraq.
My laptop budget is closer to $1400. And it is deferred until next year ha.
On the one hand, I think it’s valuable to point out the tendency to frame everything as an act of warfare. On the other hand, I can’t help but notice that there’s zero space spent on organizations that are framing (say) Soros political donations as part of a well-coordinated attack on traditional values.

And actually, once you contemptuously dismiss guilt-by-association tactics, it probably behooves you to notice that your entire document is full of lists of who is “closely connected” to who. Without, for the most part, any supporting detail.
You'd pay double the price for double the fridge capacity (if doubling your capacity serves useful purpose for you)

You'd pay double the price for double the screen size (if more screen size serves a useful purpose to you)

It's really not that hard of a concept to grasp.
This is where the confusion lies:

> Saying Google paid a fine is a fact

My point has been that Google believing they have consent for tracking usage of Bard is “valid”. Pointing to the fact that Google paid a fine to a particular legal authority as a reason for understanding that this consent is “not valid” is the appeal to authority.

(Please also consider that you have “shifted the goalposts”.)

Edit: I should apologize for the above parenthetical about shifting the goalposts. In retrospect this appears more as a regular misunderstanding. I should have tried to clarify earlier. It’s not an excuse but an explanation: I believe I was simply frustrated by the misunderstanding. I am sorry for that accusation.
My employer did this also (pay review was in March)...at a time of 10% inflation (I'm in the UK) and soaring mortgage costs.

Lots of people are leaving as a result..jobs are still easy ish to come by and those jumping ship are still seeing gains.
> I do think it's harder to be intentional about our value systems when we pass everything off to the optimizing machinery of capitalism and the free market - in my mind, it's too easy for that machinery to optimize for pleasures that skirt our values.

Agreed, but I think that will fall out naturally from having a non-selfist value system, which would dispense with the current world's elevation of selfishness from vice to virtue. As long as we continue to worship at the alter of selfishness, no alternative to capitalism is going to do much better. To your point about some monolithic value system: we wouldn't want that. Just as for physical evolution diversity of the values "gene pool" is healthy. But the selfish gene (intentional play off Dawkins' idea) needs to become recessive at most. It's both fine and healthy if people disagree with how to create a better community and how to share the world empathetically and morally as long as we share the same intention: sharing the world empathetically and morally. Selfism by definition is immoral as morality by definition by my reckoning is all about choosing the common/greater good over one's personal gain. Moral conscience is that voice that tells you "Yeah, I know you want that so much, but you have to resist because it hurts other people."

I haven't read the The Dispossessed yet. I'll move it up my list. I was introduced to LeGuin in a class at Berkeley titled Women in Religion offered by the Berkeley School of Theology / Graduate Theological Union (separate from UC Berkeley but they have a collaborative relationship, and students of each can take classes in the other) and taught by a feminist theologian woman... I'm an atheist leaning agnostic and it was one of my favorite classes I ever took at Berkeley.

I never heard of Big Thief and will give their music a listen, definitely!

It might be years before my writing sees the light of day, but if you would be so kind, shoot me an email so we can keep in touch. I'll send you one as well, given all the spam filters that hinder such first time comms.

Thanks for writing!
"Foldables continue to be the fastest growing smartphone product category this year.

We expect their shipments to grow 73% YoY in 2022 to 16 million units.

Samsung continues to lead the category it created with the first Galaxy Fold device.

Samsung’s share of the foldable market was 62% in the first half of this year.

We expect this to jump to 80% in the second half with its new Galaxy Fold 4 and Flip 4 product launches."

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/foldable-smartphone-shi...
Coming up with action items that are actually implemented afterwards.
Why Office Pods Are the Future of Work
YouTube user tests discontinuing use of YouTube unless YouTube disables ad blocker blockers
I’m sad to say that I had never heard of her, but it sounds like she was influential and made her mark and had a way with words. One thing that struck me is how she was suffering from depression for years and committed suicide, leaving her partner and children behind. I’ve only met one other person who was facing this kind of scenario and it has left me endlessly questioning how they could do this and if there is a known etiology that could lead to such decisions like this, such as the much talked about and popularized parasitic fungus that hijacks insect brains and causes them to kill themselves.