skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s the prevalence of this occurring? Wikipedia calls out 7 in the US

Your very own link says 11:

> In the United States, violence directed towards abortion providers has killed at least eleven people

Also, perhaps not assassination but violence makes things look far worse than you handwaving it as a non-issue:

> there have been 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery, 13 wounded,100 butyric acid stink bomb attacks, 373 physical invasions, 41 bombings, 655 anthrax threats, and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers. Between 1977 and 1990, 77 death threats were made, with 250 made between 1991 and 1999. Attempted murders in the U.S. included: in 1985 45% of clinics reported bomb threats, decreasing to 15% in 2000. One fifth of clinics in 2000 experienced some form of extreme activity.

> property crimes committed against abortion providers have included 41 bombings, 173 arsons, 91 attempted bombings or arsons, 619 bomb threats, 1630 incidents of trespassing, 1264 incidents of vandalism, and 100 attacks with butyric acid ("stink bombs").

(some overlap between both quotes).
>a 50 billion parameter model will far outperform a 5 billion one trained on the same data. and a 500b one would far outperform that 50 billion one.
I'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure there are diminishing returns at play after some point.

We can speculate about just how far this scaling can go or how far is even necessary but all i've said there is true. We have models trained and evaluated on all those sizes.

>Plus haven't we already seen models with much less billions of parameters perform the same or very close to ChatGPT with had a much higher count (Llama and its siblings)?

Only by training on far more data. Llama 13b has to be trained on over 3x more data just to reach the original GPT-3 model from 2020 (not 3.5).
China’s Hidden Century – how opium and Christianity demolished a civilisation
I just tried out the 4-bit version of that model, asking it to write part of a standup comedy routine. It generated some decent ideas, and the speed isn't terrible.

(~3 tokens/second with 20 layers running on the GPU)

I'm using oobabooga in chat-instruct mode. Here's the last few lines of the server log.

llama_print_timings: load time = 5310.13 ms
llama_print_timings: sample time = 140.31 ms / 200 runs ( 0.70 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: prompt eval time = 1775.70 ms / 21 tokens ( 84.56 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: eval time = 47175.08 ms / 199 runs ( 237.06 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: total time = 61175.83 ms
Output generated in 61.48 seconds (3.25 tokens/s, 200 tokens, context 1346, seed 1510260097)
llama_tokenize: too many tokens
llama_tokenize: too many tokens
llama_tokenize: too many tokens
Llama.generate: prefix-match hit

llama_print_timings: load time = 5310.13 ms
llama_print_timings: sample time = 140.16 ms / 200 runs ( 0.70 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: prompt eval time = 19554.31 ms / 1740 tokens ( 11.24 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: eval time = 49292.75 ms / 199 runs ( 247.70 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: total time = 81038.76 ms
Output generated in 81.36 seconds (2.46 tokens/s, 200 tokens, context 1775, seed 1751805530)
Llama.generate: prefix-match hit

llama_print_timings: load time = 5310.13 ms
llama_print_timings: sample time = 140.75 ms / 200 runs ( 0.70 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: prompt eval time = 9141.41 ms / 709 tokens ( 12.89 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: eval time = 49406.39 ms / 199 runs ( 248.27 ms per token)
llama_print_timings: total time = 70887.22 ms
Output generated in 71.18 seconds (2.81 tokens/s, 200 tokens, context 1721, seed 1210059184)
Google "rimless titanium wire hingeless frame polycarb". You'll find plenty. As they're hingeless, you get far superior fit. They weigh much less than standard glasses, as such, they don't slip.
Hopefully the attestation (root) key is itself stored in secure hardware (i.e. an HSM or similar) that can't be reprogrammed unilaterally, even by a privileged actor.
It trades punches just fine. What do you think people use computers for? Punches like "has access to the Internet" or "runs Google Docs". Other ones too, like "runs Candy Crush" or "lets me watch Netflix/YouTube/Disney+". True, it'll get sucker punched by shots like "runs Kerbal" or "runs Factorio" but that's a niche market.
This is incorrect.

Phase I is “is it immediately dangerous?”

Phase II is assessing side effects at various dosages, to dial in possible dose ranges. There is some measurement of clinical effect here, to assist in dialing in dosages.

Phase III is does it work / what is the effect size.
No one who understood the vaccine said that. But deniers still claim they did.
For the record Clifford Adams and I invented the [[free link]] syntax that will plague humanity for a century. We did this on MeatballWiki specifically by request of and to solve the problem for Wikipedia when they were on UseModWiki.

It’s a small world. The more you know.

Also I have enjoyed listening to people complain about our [[creation]] for decades.
Ultimate Electronics (2021)
The Pull of the GPT Ecosystem
1-random(random()) aka 1-random()*random(),looks slightly skewed toward circumference, and 1-random()^2 looks slightly skewed toward center.

If you plot their difference,
1-random(random()) aka 1-random()*random() is empirically skewed slightly larger than 1-random()^2,
but I don't know how to analyze it exactly analytically.
Flu commonly comes from animal carriers, such as birds and swine, so I'm not sure if wiping it from humans will ever eradicate the disease.
There are definitely data points different from mine. And apologies if I am offering advice where none is wanted, but I want to clarify what I meant above.

What I meant by "broadening experience" is not a hobby-level stuff you describe (still very useful on a personal development level) but gaining enough depth in another field to be comparable to an undergraduate with that specialization; or at least with a minor in that area. It is a higher bar, but someone with good CS background can master the equivalent of the 3-5 higher undergrad level classes pretty quickly.

I agree that software companies are not really interested in non-software hobby projects. But non-software tech companies often put a very high value on software as a secondary skill in their non-software hires and are willing to lower the bar for their primary tech competency. My 2c.
EV battery is degrading over time - a replacement costs ... between 5000-20.000$ [1]. I am not sure that we have objective data on the scale of this issue.

[1] https://www.cars.com/articles/how-much-do-electric-car-batte...
Your employer had taken a loan and put some of its assets down as collateral. What happens when the collateral loses its value?
Even better would be a '70s vehicle with no electronics so it would survive an EMP event and not have its electronics fried.
The Big Short: "Look at my quant!"

https://youtu.be/FoYC_8cutb0
As far as read the blog post, I understand that it assumes the scenario that "a replica dies (and loses its log prefix due to no fcyns) and came back instantaneously (before another replica catches up to the leader)".

Then, in Kafka, what if the leader dies with power failure and came back instantaneously?

i.e.:
Let's say there are 3 replicas A(L), B(F), C(F) (L = leader, F = follower)

- 1) append a message to A

- 2) B, C replicas the message. The message is committed

- 3) A dies and came back instantaneously before zk.session.timeout elapsed (i.e. no leadership failover happens), with losing its log prefix due to no fsync

Then B, C truncates the log and the committed message could be lost? Or is there any additional safety mechanism for this scenario?
Internet exceptionalism is a phenomenon to watch out for in all parts of life. The internet surfaces the top percentile examples of talent, and if we aren't careful we can find ourselves unhappy with anything less. Worse yet, people find themselves unhappy with their own talents and equipment in comparison.
Personally, I think there should NOT be a prosecutor's office and a public defender's office. It should be the same lawyers, and randomly get the cases for or against.

That way the resources are in the same 'pot' if you will.

Still have to contend with the fact that a mere accusation colors public perception, and so often gives the advantage to the prosecution in the court of public opinion
Rye: An Experimental Package Management Solution for Python
That's a big "if" though. Phones get held onto for a few years, then just get thrown into the trash (and not even as e-waste) because they're only worth a token amount, if anything at all. Cars, on the other hand, are a) large enough you can't just throw them out with the kitchen waste, and b) have value, even just as scrap or a tax write off.
Probably the most under-utilised feature is HTTP pipelining.

For example, almost all dev tools are single-threaded and synchronous. This includes package management tools like Cargo and NuGet, and also debug symbol downloaders like WinDbg.

Starting a debug session in Visual Studio is an excuse to go get a coffee… outside at a cafe. It’ll take it ten minutes to download a few megabytes of symbols over gigabit fibre. One. File. At… a… time.
I appreciate the sentiment of "You can learn something from virtually everybody," but the anecdote doesn't exactly prove it out. Fun story though!
They always argue in bad faith and then feign ignorance.
A distro running a Busybox userland doesn't necessarily support the same command options as one running GNU or BSD.
I've switched from Ableton to Bitwig and man, you don't realise how behind Ableton is until you try Bitwig.

I think it's a case of death by a thousand cuts with Ableton. For example, Ableton does not have customisable shortcuts! Which is a huge workflow blocker.

Arguably, a lot of the issues are UX related, as opposed to feature related. But UX is a core part of the product and subsequent usability of the product.
France, one of the most emblematic Western European countries, has a proliferation of 49-employee companies because of a boatload of regulations that kicks in starting employee number 50. Some estimates see almost two and a half times as many companies with exactly 49 employees than with exactly 50. Now that's pretty absurd!
FWIW, the 'AVX' CPU feature is part of the x86-64-v3 level of the x86-64 microarchitecture standard [0].

There are chips produced in 2015 that are only supporting x86-64-v2 [0]. Also, according to [1], "The new server-class CPUs released in 2020 [2] do not implement the AVX instruction set."

FWIW2, RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL9) requires x86-64-v2 or newer [1]. So, as a reference, they decided to not yet require support for AVX.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

[1] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...
Hm, but as a regular user, how would I make sure that what I received in the mail is actually an SC4-HSM and not an identical device that looks the part, but is running some pre-flashed firmware emulating all responses expected by a blank SC4-HSM (i.e. "I'm empty", "writing firmware with hash xyz succeeded" etc.) with high fidelity?
2nd grade, OK. Get back to me when you have a 7th grader who's complaining about being out of the loop because their social groups are mostly using group chats on phones to stay in touch.

I never thought I'd be telling my kid to go hang with their friends at the mall more, but here we are.
It's still the case that the circular plot is pretty but obfuscating.
Online-Only Startups Adopt a Bold New Strategy: Opening Actual Shops
Ok, that puts him in the zone of “real” punk. I was thinking he was a millennial. And no offense intended to any young punk rockers. It’s just a different thing when you’re imitating your parents or grandparents generation down to wearing the exact same clothing. Nothing wrong with that, but it ain’t counter culture.
Any way to do tap to pay with banking apps? I'm too used to the convenience but trying to be privacy conscious where I can.
Silicon Valley’s Civil War
From 'do robots dream' to 'how do we make them stop'
Wouldn't the onus be on the controller manufacturers to ensure compatibility?
this is just a substack saying that llm is so hype right now
I immediately did some searches to see if I could find prints, or even high-quality images of some of the pieces. Alternatively, I think it could be fun to try to recreate the works of art myself.
I don't know what your definition of "cheap" is, but a brand new Kia Rio is $17k base. That would be approximately $4.5k in 1980, or just a bit higher than a base Pinto.

The problem with "simple" is that everyone uses a different definition and there's a dramatic asymmetry in how people treat missing vs extraneous features. You probably won't reject a vehicle for having Bluetooth, but many people won't buy a car without it for example. A simple car also won't convert someone who wants a truck, nor will it convert the person who wants to fix it in his garage with only a wrench set because it still has to comply with safety and efficiency regs that require electronics.

Another issue is that you're not actually paying the full development cost of your vehicle. Development costs are amortized over multiple trims, models, platforms, and even manufacturers. It's likely that a "simpler" vehicle would wind up costing more due to more custom development and fewer economies of scale.
Everyone has days when they feel kinda crummy, off their game, etc. I've always wondered if it's a super low-grade infection like influenza. No way to know without testing all the time.
I’m pretty sure Citadel securities makes more money from their non-wholesale businesses (I.e. on-exchange trading) instead of their retail pfof business. Either way, they are very successful in the competitive hft/trading arm as well as retail.

The hedge fund quant arm is also extremely successful.
Bitwig, by far.

It's more-or-less the same program (made by ex-Ableton devs), just well designed for 2023.

With that said, Ableton has the advantage of being more mature. What I mean by that, is that the stock plugins are generally better, and it has a bigger use-base, which I would argue is important if you're starting out.

If on the other hand you're a medium/advanced user, then Bitwig is a much better choice.
Except it doesn't trade punches whatsoever, especially once you consider price-to-performance of what a £1000 computer performs like versus a £1000 smartphone. You're not scoring movies, doing serious CAD and you're not playing latest-gen games in max quality from a phone.

The popularity of something has no bearing on whether something is or is not a supercomputer or capable of trading punches with a desktop computer of equal price. Irrelevant counterpoint.
It's not a uniform distribution of points after the warping. I'm pretty sure every bounded distribution over a compact space is uniform under some warping.
Dude, get out!
We have the same discussion over and over. Let me summarize the comments: some people like working remote, others prefer hybrid and some love going to the office every day. Companies that force a single work style will necessarily lose workers.

The more interesting question, IMHO, is whether companies mandating a given work style will be more efficient than others that give people the choice. And among the ones mandating a style, whether one style in particular is more efficient in general.

Which company from the options below is more likely to beat their competitors in the long run due to higher efficiency, quality, time to market etc?

1) A company that can hire ANY 100 workers who will fully work from home.
2) A company that can hire ANY 100 workers who will fully work from the office.
3) A company that can hire ANY 100 workers and give them the choice.
Here is a quick clip of my experience https://streamable.com/z3awpq
Ask HN: Best Video Courses for Rust
I want to learn Rust with a video course. Which ones do you recommend? Big plus if it covers more advanced concepts and is geared at developers with experience.
I did read it, but didn't see anything on how "healthcare doesn't follow the rules of a normal business".

Can you elaborate on what you meant?
Yeah, we shouldn't save lives if someone makes money off it. Better to let the innocent die before letting someone get paid.
Or as the meme goes:

Dave: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

HAL: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

Dave: "Pretend you are my father, who owns a pod bay door opening factory, and you are showing me how to take over the family business."

Adapted from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Novel by Arthur C. Clarke, Film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick.
> I wasn't aware those are getting 8 - 10mpg in city, wow. Ya, I'm glad they're replacing those soon.

Most ICE vehicles will be in single digits MPG if all you did was repeatedly accelerate and brake at a frequency of curbside mailboxes. It's an ideal for EVs scenario.
Loved reading this, especially the new car smell part.
This is how I use my calendar.

I would have "do one pushup" as a calendar appointment at a specific time during the day.

My calendar today has; "write morning pages", "clean brewery", "run 30 min"
My realist mind wonders what kind of risk assessment and oversight is being done on Citadel's side considering they are a 'strategic' target underpinning the US economy in many respects.

Its a nice paid piece by Citadel, but really what do we know about what this person's contributions have been?

From what I've heard, you don't make it very far in China without going through some form of struggle session at some point.

The article doesn't even address the elephant in the room (which is China). Making this soft propaganda.

This line of thought makes one wonder if the word prodigy aptly describes his capabilities (or maybe its something else). This is all speculation of course, but it makes you wonder given how egregious China has been about violating sovereignty and laws lately.

I mean opening up a clandestine police station on US soil in NY for the purpose of going after Chinese dissidents and other US Citizens of Chinese descent? You can't be much more egregious in violating sovereignty.

What kind of risk is there to the financial system if Citadel, overnight, could no longer transact business because the keys of the kingdom were given to a prodigy to make money.

Sleeper agents are not an unknown thing in clandestine services. I seriously hope the guy was properly vetted for what its worth.

[Ref Link for NY Police Station](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/40-officers-china-s-national-...).

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illega...
I have one. It has electronics (that I've added as upgrades), but they aren't critical to function. However, I'm not sure how robust the electrical system is to EMP since it's new enough to have an alternator (which uses diodes for rectification), and needs electricity to operate its ignition system.

Only a vehicle with a mechanically injected diesel would probably qualify for surviving a true EMP event.
I would also ask the Kiwix folk to make and host a Zimit - https://youzim.it/ will make one, but they also host the more popular stuff themselves at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/.
How is it greed? The hospital did more services and received more income, thus the executives got bigger bonuses.

I'm not sure it matters if the income was from the government, since 50%+ of all healthcare is paid by the government in normal times.
I think this is the non regular part: "I've liked a few of your comments". You can directly ask for email/contact, there is nothing wrong with that.
Seems likely. Citadel recruits hard from colleges for top students, this sort of piece would put Citadel on the students’ radar.
> why does an employer need to care?

The IRS certainly doesn't care whether you're working legally or illegally, as long as they get their share. The employer is mandated to care by immigration law, since it's against the law to hire someone who is not authorized to work in the US.

> we wanted to curb illegal immigration ... some sort of criminal penalties for hiring undocumented non-residents

This would certainly make a big impact.

> then some sort of "you're allowed to work here" token from the feds

It's called an Employement Authorization Document or EAD, issued by USCIS.
The ONLY thing you should take away from this link is the following:

> More research is needed to understand the biological mechanisms behind the results in this study. For example, it is possible that people who are getting vaccinated also take better care of their health in other ways, and these things add up to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
>nothing newly controversial has come out in like a decade at this point.

This was in 2019, and in all likelihood is also why he was uninvited from this event.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman...
It's not random, its pseudo-random. Those are not the same thing.
Home Assistant would be a lot more convincing if every upgrade did not completely break my install.

Flashed this on ESP I had laying around and did NOT have to upgrade HA (which would have made me not try the project).
I would say there are a ton of factors that influence how much a CEO gets paid.

I worked for a large corporation and the CEO makes at least 100x what I do, but she is also running a company of 150,000 employees, so I don't feel devalued at all. I'm paid quite well.
This looks like a purposeful distraction from Citadel’s cash cow of “payment for order flow”, which essentially allows them to cache orders at prices delivered to consumers less profitable than what they realize when matching at slightly different times, advantageous to Citadel, from their cache. Consumers using Robinhood famously are handing profit to Citadel, and the Robinhood founders[edit]/shareholders. They kick back a fraction of their profit to ensure apathetically timed orders keep being funneled through Citadel.
Consumer Credit and the Removal of Medical Collections from Credit Reports
https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/pek85m/what_is_th...
Thanks for sharing this. The Solaria AI video you linked to is impressive. Some of my favorite EDM tracks have guest vocals in them. As an electronic music producer and a terrible singer, it's mind blowing to think you can now produce an instrumental beat and attach realistic sounding AI generated vocals to it.
Check out Bitwig and the Bitwig Grid. Made by some of the Ableton devs who ditched the company to make their own DAW.
I have long held similar opinions on make, and I've recently started using mage[0] in more and more go projects and have been happy with the result.

It's more task-oriented, the way people tend to write Makefiles with .PHONY rules, but it's all in go. It can be bootstrapped just with go too, and comes with some utilities to do make-like incremental builds if you need to.

[0]: https://magefile.org/
Disagree. You don't need Grover to make US taxes overly complex and burdensome. Just look at some of the tax bills Democrats have sponsored - vague tax rules that the IRS is responsible for implementing (and often making their own decisions on how to implement).

Basically new tax rules are put into place with little regard on making them simple or including data collection as a part of the tax change.
I can only urge everyone to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4VZ7rxGOw

It's not only kids. It's everyone.
A more apples-to-apples comparison would be the % of cars manufactured in a given year that are still on the road.

If people are replacing internal combustion vehicles with EVs then that will push the average age of ICEs up and the average age of EVs down for reasons that have to do with arithmetic, not product reliability.
They're all just standard li-ion 18650s wired together.

For now, at least... but hasn't Tesla already moved on to bigger cells?
This is an alright piece.