skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So every link I provided give you a risk of MACE. Reversal of atherosclerosis is not the outcome measure we care about lol. Certainly not lowering coronary calcium which is not possible. You’re literally making this up…

Statins work amazingly not just for LDL reduction but plaque stabilization.

As an aside a 2% ARR is huge, it means the number needed to treat is 50 to save a life. For something with next to no serious side effects, rhabdo/diabetes is dramatically overstated.

Pertinently, the number needed to treat for MACE is 39. That’s hugely significant.
Human interaction is a more grounded reality for programmers vs. the dumb land of pure bytes, so even at that conceptual level the default should be smart

And bytes is the only thing that matter for a specific type of string, conveniently named, sequence of bytes
I know, I have a weak GPU but 64 GB RAM. Using those models works, but it’s more "ask a question, then do something else for a while, while your fans spin up" ;)
Amy implementation for this akin to llama.cpp?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145185.
GPT-4 wasn’t nerfed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155267
This wasn’t about the few square feet needed to open up a corner or an easement on those few square feet. It was about this asshole millionaire rancher who thought of the public land (thousands of acres) as his and harassed these hunters.
Couldn’t be worse than the ethical horror show we’re have today. There are people in positions of power who have created laws with the aim of forcing millions of people to bear pregnancies to term, against their will. This is just taking the coercion out of the equation.
A conversation about fertility isn't complete without a link to The Idiocracy (2006) opening scene: https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA (length 4:39)

It's surprisingly accurate, even if it's very exaggerated, because that's the premise of the movie.

tl;dw "Smart/Rich" people put off having kids to the Perfect Time in their life and never end up having kids or maybe just the one. "Stupid/Poor" people just keep having kids all the time.
FreeBSD may not promise stable system calls, but it usually delivers.

The documented procedure for upgrades is update the kernel, reboot, update userland, restart deamons as needed. That only works if the old userland can run on the new kernel, so usually it can. Certainly there have been exceptions, but in my experience, they've all been fixed.

FreeBSD documentation includes a guide on assembly programming [1], which means libc isn't the only acceptable interface to the kernel.

Staticly linked executables are supported by the included compiler, those are expected to continue to work after kernel updates, which requires syscall stability.

Syscalls that take structures at risk of changing sizes generally include size as a parameter or within the structure, and the transitions to different sizes haven't always been easy (cpuset increases were rough in the past, but the next one will be better), but the syscall interface didn't change really.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/x86/
Some people use second hand P40 GPUs, which go for around 200-300$. Combine 3 of them with SLI and you've got 72GB of VRAM for less then $1000
It’s not just Amazon to blame, there’s just a shit ton more people living in Seattle with many tech companies having offices here.

The main problem for traffic is actually a driver culture clash between transplants and native Washington drivers. Don’t believe me? 10-15 years ago, almost all the traffic could be attributed to some sort of accident. Nowadays traffic is never related to an accident and it all occurs at interchanges and merges on the highway. Washington drivers like to queue up miles ahead of time for exits they have, they’re also deathly afraid of cars merging into their lane and will switch lanes defensively. Both sides generate a lot of traffic waves when they continually clash.
The article says that the state has created an insurance product that people can buy if they can’t get insurance in fire risk areas - THEN that entity passes on losses to insurance companies who refused to insure that risk to start with!
That seems like a great reason not to be in the fire risk business there. If the state thinks they can do it better, let them hold the risk.

Did, I misread that? Why would any company what to be in that space?
Ask HN: Where do I learn about AI?
I am a proficient backend/systems developer who wants to learn about AI (pardon the generic term, I don’t know what I don’t know).

I don’t know anything about it, and my goal would be to start a learning process that would lead me to a fairly deep understanding of how something like ChatGPT works.

To make an analogy, I am not a kernel developer, but I am experienced enough in C and theory of operating systems/hardware that I would be able to jump into any Linux kernel subsystem code, for example the virtual memory management, and understand its inner working within a few days of studying it.

I would like to get to this same level of comfort with AI.

What would be the recommended studying material to get there? Is there something that starts from first principles, covering the math behind it and such? I have a master degree in computer engineering so I have done my fair share of courses in linear algebra/calculus/statistics in the past, but a refresher custom tailored to AI would be good as well.

Thanks
Deciding to not risk operating at a loss is a “stunt”?
> https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1602#issuecomm...

Here somebody quantized it down to 29929.56MB .
It would be better to pick the most interesting article listed on this site and submit that instead. Otherwise we end up with a lowest-common-denominator discussion of what's generically common to these articles, and that's less specific and therefore less interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
What..? I don’t understand where this is coming from.

Why on earth would we give testosterone to menopausal patients?
Medicare, Medicaid (Some states better than others), Veteran Affairs Health system.

There are definitely examples of universal healthcare that seems to operate well in small universes.

From CMS on National Health Expenditure [1]:

> NHE grew 2.7% to $4.3 trillion in 2021, or $12,914 per person, and accounted for 18.3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

> On average over 2021-30, National Health Expenditures (NHE) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are both projected to grow 5.1 percent per year; as a result, the projected NHE share of GDP in 2030 (19.6 percent) is similar to 2020 (19.7 percent).

McKinsey [2] cites

> Of the nearly $4 trillion spent on healthcare annually in the United States, administrative spending is about one-quarter of the total; delivery of care is about three-quarters.

Nearly a trillion dollars in administrative spending that could otherwise go into care delivery! (Yes, some administrative spending will remain, but the pie is so large).

That just shows that entrenched forces are strong.

[1]: https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

[2]: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/...
News sites have their own sense of entitlement - that they’re entitled to your attention, and they definitely don’t want you clicking on a link to another site (unless it’s an add).
So I understand you are arguing that derived works should not be subject to royalties, i.e. I should be able to produce a film based entirely on the work of a living author without restriction or the need to pay any royalties.
Note that higher interest rates necessitates higher corporate profits. If corporate profits didn’t rise with interest rates, then the risk adjusted return on equity would drop relative to the risk free rate. Imagine you’re considering stocks versus bonds at 5% versus 0% on bonds- given the risks stocks hold, bonds look relatively more attractive. The other side of higher equity costs is less funding for business investment - fewer loss leaders, fewer vc funded firms running quarterly losses, and so forth.
The article discusses the state's plan of last resort. Carriers are required to pay into it, and this was one of the reasons cited for Allstate and State Farm pulling out.
Recent and related:

State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36094633 - May 2023 (233 comments)
> but what was the benefit of translating from machine code to assembly instructions

In order to read it, I suppose? There's no reason for memorizing binary encoding schemes. I mean, you will learn that 0x90 is NOP on x86 but that doesn't help you a whole lot.
I apologise for any ambiguity there - I was, as smt88 suggests, mainly focusing on the healthcare system comparisons between basically every other western / democratic mildly advanced society, and the USA.

My greater point was that during COVID19 we had the unique situation of a health crisis that presented almost equally to everyone on the planet, so deltas in responses were very obvious, and depending where you were and what your politics were, very useful for finger-pointing (of the 'at least we're doing better than them' or 'we should do what they're doing' varieties).

To your point - I don't think we were imprisoning people who declined to be vaccinated - not sure where you may have got that story from. We had the benefit of vaccines not being anywhere near so politicised, and our local Faux News outpost certainly wasn't promoting any anti-vaccine nonsense.

Lockdown laws I think in most western democracies were similarly orchestrated and enforced, but obviously I only lived through one set. Whether they were perceived as draconian, or successful, probably depends on your sense of social concern / obligation.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-...
Yeah, induction and minimalism are highly linked to mathematics and logic. They always try to find smallest expression of highest abstraction. Unlike hacking culture (like engineering, accepts compromises for the context at hand) or commercial ones (enjoy bloat for finance/psychological reasons).
India to probe WhatsApp 'phone snooping'
I’m driving SF to NY next week so will definitely spend some time trying this out to share with family!
It’s a negotiation tactic with the state so they can charge higher rates
Imagine if Einstein, Newton, and Maxwell had used LSD! They could have reached the heights of such greats as ”Humphry Davy” and ”Sigmund Freud” instead of wallowing in mediocrity.
I'm so sorry, this is actually great advice for my friend, I'm sending it to him right now, here's a screenshot:

https://twitter.com/PascalPixel/status/1585224743480721408

I've passed it on, hopefully he'll have the website updated with a screenshot in like... 10 mins
What exactly is "excess consumption" of homeowner's insurance?
Same question, so far I've found this thread https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1602 where people work on it.
> Then why is the button there?

It isn't on Allegiant, Norwegian and Ryanair seats. They're fixed-position; saves weight, maintenance costs and prevents arguments.
ChatGPT is not the same thing as the underlying model. ChatGPT is just a UI over the model. The tweet was about the model.
Thanks for this feedback, sorry I'm so late in getting to it, but here's a screenshot:

https://twitter.com/PascalPixel/status/1585224743480721408

I'm talking to pascal right now and urging him to put a screenshot up!
I think you are overestimating the impact of 16,000 people in a city like Lisbon.

The median salary of a digital nomad is sure lower than $120,000. I don’t have numbers, but I would say it should be closer to $60,000. Average salary in Lisbon is also roughly $48,000.

If locals want to blame someone, perhaps investment banks eating up the available housing stock would be a better target.
Mapbox Studio should be able to do this
Submitted title was "Ask HN: Who got hired?" and the submitted text referenced just the "who wants to be hired posts".

I added "from HN" to the title because people are responding about lots more than just ""who wants to be hired" and I think the more general question makes the thread more interesting.
If a company has for sake of argument a 10% profit margin on an item and seeks to maintain that 10% profit margin after an increase in its input costs then is that unreasonable?

In dollar terms its profits have gone up but as a percentage they haven't.
I believe corner crossing _was_ illegal until this court case
I don't recall where I read it, but this process was described best as the transition from a "start up" to an "end up"
I have been very interested in this topic recently and the Buddhist teachings about source of consciousness.

They are really interesting, but with some dark corners that are not clear enough to me.

For example, what would it be the source of intelligence? and how does it relate to consciousness?
As stated thennt is from 2013, many statin trials have come out since.

2% diabetes is overstated as in link 1 except you discount it because of declared disclosures despite the fact that it’s one of the most highly cited papers on the subject in the last 10 years and the study was a review.

You also discount a well respected guideline on lipids out of principle.

Then you cite unrelated data from 2006 as a good reference for an unknown reason?

Finally, you disregard the opinions of a Cochrane review in an unrelated patient population which directly contradicts your misinterpretation of the data (clearly have no concept of NNT/NNH as you just make capricious interpretations of ARR) yet cite yourself as more of an expert than the Cochrane authors.

For what it’s worth since you focus on conflicts it’s to my financial benefit if you don’t take your statins (and pharma pays me nothing), so by all means skip the statin at your own risk.

This really doesn’t seem like an open discussion so I’ll stop engaging. But you’re spreading misinformation for any reader, statins save lives.
Would you mind providing just a little more information? This is clearly an issue but I'm not sure what it could be -- I'm not sure sentry is installed on the site either.

What page were you on where you saw that? Were you not able to load the page itself?

If you wouldn't mind opening up the browser console, I'd love to know what went wrong.
it's also 5 if you like:

> length(' ')

Which is: [129318, 127996, 8205, 9794, 65039]
I'm inclined to believe this isn't the case, however the article notes that Allstate pulled out for a few years after having one of their rate increases denied.
I know someone who had bipolar disorder until it turned out they just had celiac disease.
Humans are driven to have sex and with easily available contraceptives, having sex and having children are no longer tightly related.
The comment is earnest, and it's not a joke!

Here's a screenshot of the browser:
https://twitter.com/PascalPixel/status/1585224743480721408
That some people are expecting the recession really has no bearing on how strong it will be. That really has more to do with asset market prices than recession strength ( which incidentally don’t seem to have got the memo.)

It really has to do with slow downs in manufacturing, construction, sales, and employment that feed off each other. And at a deeper level with liquidity cycles and whether conditions are easing or tightening. Conditions are tightening, and of the four markets I mentioned earlier, all are down. Employment is hanging in there the best, but that’s always the last domino to fall. We may well already be in the recession, but it’s only usually called after the fact.
never going to happen for a very simple reason. what every for profit company is trying to do is to extract as much value and labor from employee as possible.

dont get it twisted, this is a war and salary is strategic information. noone in their right mind is going to share this information unless they are forced to or believe there is tangible benefit (for them) behind it.

your boss is not your boss because they are nice and kind person, your boss is your boss because they figured out how to extract value from other people for their benefit.
Scala also had it, but seems they replaced it in Scala 3 with a more general concept[1] as everyone thought it was a bad idea to special case XML (why XML, not JSON or something else?).

[1] https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/dropped-feature...
Most full-frame sensors are still stitched from two exposures side-by-side (digital MF is four exposures, real medium format sensors six), but they're matched well-enough (or the raw files are already compensating for this) that it's only an issue for the astro people nowadays.
I did something similar in Go for a big sailing trip this year. Just haven't had the time and energy to write a blog post about it.

https://j.avtolik.net/journey/2
Only Windows and Java come to mind - and BOTH of those are insane for sticking to it when the entire rest of the world has moved on.
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https://archive.is/4Muud
There's not a whole lot of capitalism happening in American healthcare: medical systems, insurers and the AMA all act as cartels to limit competition in their respective areas. There is no price transparency, and the captive market has inelastic demand.
That sounds like a good idea, but I do wonder if it's a little too... safe?

Every job I've ever taken, there were bullet points in the requirements that I didn't have. And every job has been in a different industry. (Granted, this is only 5 job hops in over 15 years) I'm not really sure I'd want to be perfectly qualified for a new job. Part of the fun is learning new stuff.

Of course, I do understand that any job is better than no job, and it's much easier to land one where you do hit all of the bullet points.
Yeah, I suspect it's more nuanced than it seemed to me at the time.

You say it wasn't seized upon by media etc, but perhaps it just wasn't by the media you (or I) was consuming? The USA media I consumed - Seth Meyer, John Oliver, some reddit / imgur - tends towards the more thoughtful / empathetic / liberal demographics, but unarguably is a bubble of sorts.

I suspect, but also have no hard data, that the younger generation, generally more 'connected' and exposed to more of this type of information, was instrumental in extracting that orange chap, and I speculate much of that motivation came from this vector. Though how much of that was pandemic-highlighting of poor and unfair health services vs other factors .. well, who knows. Exit polls only get you so far, assuming these kinds of questions were ever asked.
I experienced the same thing as a user of the public service. The system could at one point draw something approximating a unicorn in tikz. Now, its renditions are extremely weak, to the point of barely resembling any four-legged animal.
Language in the Brain: Insights into Processing German and Arabic
> Do you think the length of an `int64_t[3]` array should be 3 or 24?

There should be functions to do both: sizeof(int64_t[3]) * sizeof(int64_t) for example to get bytes.

In this example, the base function should do bytes, and there should be a unicode function to count it in other ways.

I could be sizing to fit in a database, or send over the wire, or I might want visible space on the screen, or I might want to know how to move the cursor.

Each of those types of length should be supported.
> If you want to be high-availability then you need sharding or something like it from day 1

Sharding has nothing to do with high-availability.
The Tiny Science That Is Changing the World
The history of nanotechnology is a fascinating one that has led to many incredible breakthroughs in science and technology. It is important to approach this technology with caution and to continue to research its potential risks and safety concerns. By doing so, we can ensure that we use this technology to benefit humanity and to make the world a better place.
They do mention monetary policy. Is there something specific about monetary policy that you believe contributed to rising inflation?

I don't know if they're suggesting that corporations became greedy but rather that they unilaterally increased prices during the pandemic which is the main cause of inflation.
Hey, thanks a lot for the reply. I have just moved from go where there is (still a binary though), but an amazing debugger, offering great experience, with lldb on the other side not able to even expand a enum correctly
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Indeed, this is the most important step we need to make together. We must learn to build, share, and use open models that behave like gpt-4. This will happen, but we should encourage it.
Ask HN: Learning to program from books a bygone era?
Do people with no knowledge in programming still pick up books and gulp it down in awe in front of a computer trying things out? Or is it totally an era of MOOCs and online courses?

We know this was a popular way of getting into programming in the past. But do books work in recent times?

Books are of course useful to gain higher knowledge in CS. But for starting out which books are still helpful?
Which ended when Napoleon declared himself a hereditary monarch.

The American Revolution barely averted a military dictatorship, because Washington turned down the offer from his officers. How many times has that happened in history? Only once that I know of, which makes Washington the greatest American President.

I place Kennedy at #2, for avoiding nuclear war with the Soviets.
And meanwhile, more and more USFF PCs will roll out into second hand markets, which offer a much more compelling option than the Pi, unless idle draw is your main consideration. Its an unfortunate state of affairs, and I hope a Pi 5 can come around soonish to reinvigorate this market.
Yes, this is very likely the correct interpretation. If this is reinforcement learning in a simulated environment and the reward function prioritizes "killing the threat" and does not prioritize "obeying orders" then the AI correctly prioritized "killing the threat" and not "obeying orders". Simple.
Don't Create the Torment Nexus
Looks like a lot of chattering and nothing new. Please correct me if I missed something.
This is poor business management and has nothing to do with the technologies at hand. If a company has a software product but the devs can be pulled into ' let's fix this button on our contact form' anytime, then it's simply mismanaged.
This does not apply to non americans crossing the border. So leave your phone at home when traveling to USA (if you can)
> Berliners don’t want shops to open on Sundays so workers can have the day off. But they do want restaurants to be open so they can go there with their own families.

That's pretty much any culturally christian country. UK and Poland for example. Thank god for migrant workers, to let us have our cake and eat it too.
I know https://abhijitmondal.in got hired in VDX.tv from this.
Why should length in programming be devoid of units? Why can't we have length be (8, UTF32_CODEPOINTS) <class UTF32_CODEPOINT_SZ(8)>?