skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be great except that the 8,000 lb gorillas of the medical data industry, at least as of a year or two ago, did next to nothing to really make their EHR's FHIR-compatible. Getting even some of the very basics on their demo environments were fundamentally broken.
Because people who have successfully acquired massive amounts of wealth and power know full well that opening up access to space will yield more material and energy wealth than any previous leap human civilization has ever made.

Small thinkers are satisfied keeping their imagination on Earth alone, but small thinkers don't lead massive leaps of prosperity.
Have we though? I seriously doubt doctors are aggressively pushing eating well and exercising. Has anyone ever received a workout plan from their doctor besides some generic PT exercises? Do they develop nutrition plans tailored to you? Do they track your progress? Do they have any incentive for you to actually get better? Do they require regular blood tests and include all the tests that might actually tell them something?

The answer is a resounding no. None of that. Even if you request a blood test, they will include the absolute bare minimum and fight you when you request something like vitamin D or testosterone. General healthcare in the US is farce. You must be your own doctor, do your own research and fight for the care you need and also tolerate doctors telling you that you don't know what you're talking about. Besides being prescribed antibiotics, no doctor has ever fixed any problem I've ever had. I had to do it myself.
The value of the time and gas needed to go to a drive thru usually isn't high enough to outweigh the cost of delivery fees and tips from a delivery app. In the end, they're middlemen, and if you don't need the service they provide, there's no reason not to cut them out.
You can't get perfection, but you can do things like ask for them to document the controls they implement and to evidence that they have operated them appropriately via an audit like SOC2.
The prices have probably lowered so much they were just looking for a signal to coordinate restarting advertising there, and Musk provided one.
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Nah; a Corolla is an "intermediate": compact < intermediate < standard < full-size.
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Your argument rests heavily on "teens WILL overwhelmingly become VPN experts"

I don't understand why it can't instead be: banning will make domestic alternatives more attractive since now you don't even need a VPN to access it.

Sure some teens will use a VPN and continue to use TikTok, but I'm not sure it'll be to such an extent that we'd be forced to concede that banning was the wrong call.

Also you can do both: ban and subsidize.
Obesity is the number one cause of heart disease, which is the number one killer in this country. No, its health effects are not being overstated.
You just wrote and typed out two sentences and they were beamed across copper wires and glass tubes, and it was predicated on a mix of:

- concepts you've been taught across a lifetime
- concepts you don't even know exist
- hard labor and pain no one person can even track

An unspeakable mountain of effort from people you'll never know to enable a simple social interaction.

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No one of us is an island. I think people underestimate how interconnected humanity is, and LLMs have been a mirror that forces them to understand just how little of us exists in isolation, and how much we ourselves are mirrors of knowledge and influences so far removed from us that we can't even acknowledge them if we try.
> not by technical reasons but by how much the users are willing to tolerate.

Realizing this one clause is what helped me understand so much, including economics and traffic (induced demand). I call it the "misery constant."

Number of lanes doesn't matter: People will adjust their lifestyles until they arrive at the highest level of misery they can tolerate. Add a lane and wait for equilibrium to reestablish at exactly the same level of congestion as before.

Add a 10,000% (more??) increase in CPU and disk speed from the 128K Macintosh to the MacBook Pro, and oh look, it takes basically the same amount of time to boot or to launch an application as it did then, as the developers adjusted their wastefulness until they achieved the maximum level of delay the customers were willing to bear.
It looks like you've been misinformed about American high school- biology and chemistry are standard required classes for graduation.

It's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison between countries. Americans' concepts of equality and fairness are highly averse to the sort of separation-by-test-results that is core to the German secondary education system, so every school tries to cater to every type of student, with varied results.
Apple is stonewalling so hard honestly I’m ready to have ftc say: you can make Hardware and os, or added software for the os, but not both.

Either then or congressional action.
Don't forget about the Intel Arc A770. 16GB VRAM, 256bit bus for $350. Can use OneAPI for machine learning too.
To be fair, nobody started to understand chaotic systems until the 1960s. That's roughly 5,000 years of people saying that in any system, moving the inputs a tiny bit should always produce a similarly small change in the output.
I'm sure the AI is reading your HN comments
Lots of recycling (has) been transported across the ocean to China.

It's likely that landfill are the way to go in many cases, but people don't like them.
For early generations I'd imagine you'd have to plug them in via usb (which would still be fine for my use case I was describing). Processing done on a different device, get some type of AI to summarize datasheets and match it to pins. All of which probably doesn't sound good to you but I'd still prefer it over turning my neck and scrolling back and forth.

But like the parent poster pointed out, I'm now talking about niche industrial uses, not widescale adoption.
About the regexp one: I once wrote a regexp for CSS. It wasn't complete, but you would be able to pinpoint a syntactic error. I hooked it up to a text field, and started entering CSS. All went fine, until I hit a limit, and adding a single character froze Chrome for more than a minute (at which point I killed it).

I don't think it was accidentally quadratic. More likely, it was exponential.
> Are you riding a scooter for your day to day errands?

I was driving bicycle for ~10 years and most weather. Scooter would be upgrade.

> How do you deal with being stuck in the 5pm traffic under 90F sun?

You wouldn't if you removed 3/4 of cars and replace them with scooters

> How do you ride it when you're a bit unwell (flu, cold)?

You take a bus. Do you also drive car if you feel terrible ? It's not very safe....

>What do you do with your helmet, boots and protective gear when you go to a restaurant?

I'd imagine if that much traffic moved to scooters the city businesses would accommodate. At least for helmet they often just fit under scooter's seat.
But we're also a river delta, we will run into problems long term because we'd have to pump entire rivers over the dykes.

Also salification and other problems with only pumping out all the time.
The situation in Boston isn't quite so dire but still record availability. What still puzzles me though is commuting traffic is as bad as ever. I assume some is reduced transit/rail schedules and usage but I wouldn't have thought that would account for the whole thing.

(And a coworker was telling me it's the same thing in Phoenix which barely has a transit system.)
Color me surprised this thread brought out the professional credentialists. I'm proud of being a decades long lurker on this site. Build > talk.
I can buy this argument. But in practice how much does it matter? It's not illegal to say "you may like this terrorist recruitment video", especially when its just a generic recommendation algorithm making that recommendation.
Given the comments in the previous submission about LangChain (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820931), I am working on a much simpler/faster/cheaper alternative that doesn't require delving deep into arcane documentation and guides as if LangChain's complexity and inflexibility is a good thing for more than quick demos.

Also relatedly, I am also working on a tutorial on how to do vector similarity search without having to pay for a vector store because there is confusingly very few blog articles highlighting the space between "embeddings as text in a CSV" and "full-on vector store management" which is annoying for people who want to do personal projects.
But that's not actually helpful. Occasional massive rains don't refill aquifers very well. There needs to be a buffer to allow water to slowly make it's way into the system in a manageable way. Currently that is mountain snow melting over the warm season.
You can claim that anyone who even hints that maybe two countries with very different demographics may in fact have differences due to those demographics is racist and that any comments along those lines are just inflammatory flamebait, but people will continue to ponder that theory because 1) it seems fucking obvious and 2) curious people (and people in general I guess) can't help but be interested in topics that they're told not to be interested in.

Now that you (and others) have flagged the thread, the people with showdead on will see that it has happened yet again, and they just might seek out a place where an actual discussion can be had.
The standard library can be statically linked...
> I suspect that if they ever needed to stand for re-election, the radicalness of SCOTUS decisions would get ever wilder.

That was among the concerns that led the framers of the Constitution to make the SCOTUS a lifetime appointment. It's designed to be a brass ring that, once you grab it, nothing should be influencing your rulings but your own heart and mind. The constraint upon that power is that the Court's initial position is the weakest relative to the other branches: any ruling they make that doesn't rest directly on the Constitution can be undone with a change of the law, and nobody shows up in the criminal side of their Court unless the executive decides to try to enforce a law.
Colin's focus has been on speeding up EC2 boot time. You pay per second from time on EC2. A few milliseconds at scale probably ads up to a decent amount of savings - easily imaginable it's enough to cover the work it took to find the time savings.
If they stopped there that would be great. But we all know they gather much more info.
Yeah the example they give "say, go long S&P 500 futures if they’ve risen above a 20-day moving average, in one simplification." pretty much goes against everything I have read about quant strategies. They all say that technical analysis isn't useful.

If this is the strategies they are selling it seems like a cash grab, and not an alpha producing strategy.
>That said, put the battery pack in a gasket sealed steel case = snuffs any lithium fires by oxygen starvation for a worst case.

Are you sure?

I thought that one of the issues with lithium-ion fires was that the oxygen comes from the battery itself.
1. Positioning (yes even with flex) is unintuitive and painful

2. The fact that the !important tag exists, and at a broader level the fact that cascading exists

3. The community seems pretty hellbent on rejecting working solutions for being "bad". float: left is "bad". And yet, many/any other positioning systems are, to me, much worse. So to me, it's all "bad". Similarly, tables are the easiest way to position things correctly (since point 1, all other positioning tools are pretty bad), and yet, table-based-layouts are "bad". So again, it's all "bad".

More elegantly put:

- https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...

- If you search "What's wrong with CSS y combinator", you'll get some derivative of this exact conversation over and over again for the past 15 years. CSS people saying "no it's good!", many other types of people saying "it's just too complicated and I don't want to keep doing it", followed by css people saying "no it's good!"

I think Tailwind is probably the closest approximation to tolerable CSS, but I also think its existence highlights a greater problem with both the community and the technology.
Cannot Measure Productivity
Honestly I don't know what Matter is and I feel like this page could do a better job of explaining that
LLMs and Semantic Web work reasonably well in concert https://friend.computer/jekyll/update/2023/04/30/wikidata-ll...
Conversions are always attractive in real estate because they are nearly always luxury. When I was active in that business, the main problem my bosses had Was rezoning. If they got over that hurdle, they always made a killing.

Even before my time, conversions were enormously profitable. In NYC, long ago, converting warehouses and factory spaces to luxury lofts was enormous business. I don't think people should dismiss the amount of money to be made on conversions. The main drawback is that the areas the conversions are in become even less affordable. Which may be more than offset by affordability increases elsewhere in the city.
Total number of apps on the App Store 1,783,232

Apps removed from the App Store 186,195

Of the apps removed, 149,378 were for "Design", the footnote indicating "This removal is the result of ongoing cleanup for outdated apps." (See https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=gi6npkmf for reference.) In contrast, very few (around 35,000) were removed for fraud, misconduct, spam, and copycatting.

It seems painfully clear from Apple's own transparency report that they're doing almost nothing to fight scams in the crApp Store. Every time I look, scams are all over the place, many of them existing for years. It sure seems like Apple only removes them when there's a news story in the media pointing out the scams.

Direct link to transparency report: https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/docs/2022-App-Sto...
Distributed Tracing in Ruby with OpenTracing
And YouTube transcripts are awful.
Looking forward to seeing that. I haven't yet managed to get my head around LangChain, excited to see what your simpler alternative looks like.
Funny to see nobody's mentioned Cloudflare yet. They're not making any money: This is presumably their exact plan: Offer CDN services and other web infrastructure services at a loss for a prolonged period of time until the competition is destroyed, then jack up rates and eat the market.
Some members of the supreme court need an explaination and explicit guidance in order to file forms for transactions, which in most countries on earth would constitute undefendable levels of corruption.

I think it is quite optimistic, if not even downright naive to assume the text matters at all for such protagonists.

If they were concerned about such things they would hold themselves to higher ethical standards than other courts, not lower ones. If my countries supreme court behaved that way, I would expect weeks of protest till the court takes care of that.

I am not an US citizen, but the looking at the way the SCOTUS has both been conducting itself I am very worried about the state of democracy in the US. To someone outside the US it is already stunning that you can elect governments or political leaders that have the minority of the vote, but them then filling three live time supreme court positions?

Who thought that was a good system? They must have smoked the bad stuff.
Yes, and chaos theory is SO fundamental to climate and weather that understanding its application there is compulsory. So if you've not heard of chaotic systems, it's completely impossible to be up to speed on what reality's doing.
So, like western european countries near GDR (which is in Europe so no point in comparing it with US), but with surveillance and inability to travel?
>massive demand for office space in SF

There is no demand in SF. The whole commercial real estate sector is in a downward doomsday spiral, something that was easily predictable and preventable, but the city didn’t care.

30% of office space is vacant (not rented), a number that will only go up because the other 70% may be rented, but a lot of it isn’t actively utilized.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-v...

In fact a lot of commercial real estate owners are realizing this and trying to minimize losses. Some selling entire buildings at 75% discounts.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/this-downtown-s-f-bui...

Anyone still holding a real estate lease at the ridiculous historical prices right now is only going to try and shed them even if they actually are using the space.
Do you have more details on the journald issues?
I recently started learning Plover!

Did you have any trouble using it for coding? It feels largely geared towards natural langauge and seems like there could be challenges using it for code. Though I haven't practiced enough to try yet.
Ask HN: Anyone traveling to Argentina, need to get a developer a new laptop
Apparently it's impossible to purchase a macbook there...
Sorry that I can't answer your question in detail. I was listening to a podcast (maybe NPR or maybe some other interviews), the reason Apollo style program isn't used anymore is because it's not sustainable. I didn't understand the technical detail to give you a good answer.
There are milestone payments. So even if they fail to get to the moon, if they meet some of the other milestones they'll get some of the money from the contract. But not enough to turn a profit either way.
That intro to Langchain is absolutely terrible. Like it was copy-pasted from the worst LLM they could find and pasted in:

> The first high-performance and open-source LLM called BLOOM was released. OpenAI released their next-generation text embedding model and the next generation of “GPT-3.5” models.

Just random sentences strung together delivering no overall message. Yes we know BLOOM and GPT exist, what is your point?

> LangChain appeared around the same time. Its creator, Harrison Chase, made the first commit in late October 2022. Leaving a short couple of months of development before getting caught in the LLM wave.

That's nice that the text model that wrote this knows the creator and first commit but ugh -- just say "Langchain was published in October 2022" instead of all that garbage.

Also, "Leaving a short couple of months of development before getting caught in the LLM wave." doesn't even form a complete sentence.

I'm already hating the future of blog posts and articles where we have to mentally filter out all the LLM-generated garbage around any real information.
Ha, I thought I saw 4.5ms from another post. Not sure where I got that number. :(

Realizing this is why someone said the number was more like 2ms. I don't think that changes much of my view here. Again, kudos on making it faster, if they do.
> People can host their own content.

This destroys the modern internet.

I really don't understand the opposition to moderation. 230 doesn't encourage monopolies; if people don't like the moderation, they can switch to other another service or, as you put it, host their own.
They're also difficult because modern office buildings just don't lend themselves to small apartments very well. One of the conversions in New York cut a giant hole through the middle of the building so they could have interior units that get light. Giant modern office buildings take a ton of effort to convert.
> And don't forget Amazon. They aren't venture backed but they have access to capital at cheaper rates than most countries

If we are talking about non-venture cases, OpenAI+Microsoft is doing the same with ChatGPT.
The repairability depends on the laptop. Framework is the obvious choice if you want a lot of control over the device hardware, but I was pleasantly surprised at how many user-serviceable parts were in my HP Aero 13. Battery, m.2 storage, RAM, wifi card, input devices, screen, speakers, webcam, etc.
It’s really a shame no progress has been made in treating this cancer in the last 16 years.

https://www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrna-vaccines-fight-pancreati...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
Nonetheless, qsort() is available in libkern.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux.
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An LLM only trained on exam papers wouldn't even be an LLM.

You said above:

> I do not recall the lesson wherein I sampled from thousands of prior exam papers to generate my answer to the one I sat.

No. You instead sampled from thousands of prior conversations, textbooks, story books, movies, songs... to form how you write, how you think, how you understand.

What ever you studied specifically for that exam wasn't even the tip of the iceberg of what was required to write your answers, even understanding that what you studied was predicated on the efforts of others in a way that makes your weeks of cramming infinitesimally small in the scale of effort that goes into writing a single answer on that test.
I'm not sure I understand what part of RLHF would involve this sort of experience. The description in the OpenAI blogpost (https://openai.com/research/instruction-following) is:

>To make our models safer, more helpful, and more aligned, we use an existing technique called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). On prompts submitted by our customers to the API, our labelers provide demonstrations of the desired model behavior, and rank several outputs from our models. We then use this data to fine-tune GPT-3.

Were there a bunch of user-submitted horrific prompts in the dataset? Was raw GPT-3 producing graphic text in response to benign prompts? Was OpenAI adding a bunch of graphic prompts into the dataset?
This is especially true for vehicle repairs. Often what could be accomplished in 2 paragraphs and some pictures is instead a 15 minute production you have to sit through to make sure you don't miss a step.
Where did the water go? The air? The biosphere? Lost to space? Underground oceans?
I'm part of the problem. I always suspected my Uber ride was financed with venture money. So i always went with Uber. But i didn't think ahead to the fact that it would kill off the competition.

What i don't get it is what the Uber moat is? Why does this need to be centrally planned and controlled? Would an open source and free platform work where drivers got near 100 percent of the sale instead of the 75% they get today.
It's much easier to convert older buildings than newer ones, just due to them being designed differently. You lay out structures different if you're designing a small building for PI style offices than you do if it's a huge open floor plan. It's just more difficult to break out those big spaces into smaller apartments while making sure people have enough light.
I'm not going to respond to most of what you wrote, but the main point of my comment is that it is generally accepted practice to size text along a scale, when deciding different text sizes in a document, and Tailwind's text sizing defaults with their typographic plugin are widely used and considered acceptable.

You don't even have to use Tailwind, simply open the demo and look at how they scale the text size and line height on different elements. You could pull the computed styles from your browser.

You and I agree that using arbitrary numbers is pointless. You clearly have a lot of other strong opinions I don't care to debate with you about.