skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theoretically something like BioMedLM and/or a vector search over clinical research and/or GPT-4 with cited sources etc. could be useful in some diagnostic circumstances to at least give doctors ideas, right?

What he is talking about here is just an incredibly common scenario that the doctor and everyone is already very familiar with. Which is basically delaying the inevitable for people who are in some ways already gone.

Also my understanding is that the ChatGPT API does have some level of privacy now although maybe not compliant with the privacy laws which seems somewhat burdensome on the entire medical industry (overcompensating in some detrimental ways).

It seems like the fundamental problem is aging. Maybe a leading edge LLM approach can help keep people up to speed on aging research. Although probably that's pushing it because you would need to get very deep into mitochondrial damage or whatever.
Then you haven’t had much experience with doctors… you go in and you’re most likely getting either a cast, a broad spectrum antibiotic, or an antidepressant. The only things that get specific diagnoses reliably is when somebody finds a tumor.

In the last year I had to get a full antiparasite treatment course because a doctor misdiagnosed my partners psoriasis… that was fun.
Don't throw in the towel, switch ISP.

You can do everything right but are being judged by the history of your IP address with it's neighbours in the same AS block.
> It is also worth noting that the region hit hardest in Italy early on

There was a paper released early/mid 2020 that was attempting to group the virus into various strains (this was before the "variant" terminology emerged), that attempted to identify changes in the virus's behavior and classified different mutations with things like L, LL, and M. For the most part it was either ignored or ridiculed as being too early, that there hasn't been enough time for mutations that change its behavior to have accumulated.

Thing is, I distinctly remember it identified one mutation that seemed to originate in Italy, was trackable as it reached the US East coast, and every place it spread to had a spike in deaths that coincided with when it overtook the previous variants in prevalence for that location.
> public schools will just ban whatever they want in an ad hoc fashion amounts to the same thing as saying that it’s the government doing it.

There's a huge difference between "we're not going to stock this in the school library" and people not being allowed to read it.

> education policy is largely a national concern

Education is entirely controlled by the states, except that federal funding comes with some strings attached.
better than renting them
Did he claim that or did he just call it the "China Virus"? Honest question.
What are you using to transfer the files? I'd be very keen to know if there are issues with the (officially supported) mpremote...
Black electrical tape works too.
A LiveView Is a Process
There was no conspiracy about the sacklers and the opioid epidemic. It was obviously true the first article that was written about it.

On Hunter Biden's laptop, somehow there's terrible evidence but the Republicans in the house are supposed to have the laptop and somehow there's no evidence to share? Why is it the Republicans keep having all this great evidence that they can never share with us? Also see the MyPillow guy and his election stealing evidence. Most recently the Republicans said we've lost the guy that was going to give us all the great evidence. Somehow. We won't share his name with you but we can't find him.

Another example is Hillary Clinton and Benghazi. That was a horrible tragedy, but they've had 10 investigations of it and spent millions and millions of dollars and they never came up with anything more than we hate Hillary Clinton and she's terrible. Sometimes these conspiracy theories have real information behind them, but much more commonly they're just created to demonize someone. I'm certainly willing to consider that Biden or his son could have done something bad, but where's the evidence?
Materials science is a great expense.

- Monocrystaline turbine blades have become required due to their ability to operate at higher temperatures than the melting points of the metals that compose their alloys. The requirement is their efficiency in power production. These are also used in aerospace, but are complex and difficult to produce.

- Common water reactors must contain insanely high pressures, enough to force water to remain liquid at 300°C or higher. This is not inexpensive.

- Molten salt reactors, where deployed, must be composed of alloys resistant to molten (negative) chloride ions and (positive) sodium ions, assuming the fluid chemically disassociates. Alloys that can withstand these conditions are also not inexpensive.
It's surprisingly simple to run all of this at home.

I just took a bunch of GPUs out of storage and racked up a machine yesterday. From 0 to Linux/Docker install to Stable Diffusion / llama in about 2 hours.
I am using it for quite a while and it works great.

If you are using neovim. I'll recommend giving https://github.com/zbirenbaum/copilot.lua a try.
Phoenix.PubSub is basically a noop service. It really just works.

If discovering nodes is difficult in your env, try using a listen/notify libcluster strategy:

https://github.com/supabase/supavisor/blob/main/lib/cluster/...
Microsoft has not implemented a monorepo.

However, it's not surprising when you consider the massive breadth of software that Microsoft builds, as one of the oldest and largest software development orgs.
Good point, it's likely that a high-power in-order chip could go faster. Do you know of any examples of high-power in-order cores I could compare to?
I enjoyed this book as well and remember thinking at the time how it was much more violent than Blood Meridian.
AFAIK, there is a Biolab of a Wuhan University rather near the market. BSL3. Choose your odds.
I already do this today to create domain-specific knowledge focused prompts and then have them iterate back and forth and a ‘moderator’ that chooses what goes in and what doesn’t.
Regulations are just one of many different aspects of the cost and complexity of nuclear. To understand what's involved here, look at the parent company that is building and running the nuclear plant. You will probably find an archaic, bloated, inefficient, yet profitable company, that has enormous market advantage and basically no incentive to reduce cost, complexity, or time, but does have incentive to cut costs and hide risks in order to maximize the share price.

The article talks about complexity, about delays. But it doesn't talk about how insanely inefficient the design, construction, etc is. How a lot of that complexity and waste could be eliminated if somebody in leadership actually gave a shit. But they know you're going to pay for it anyway, and they're going to get their bonus, and they certainly aren't motivated by lowering the cost to the consumer.

It's the typical capitalist story: become big enough that you have virtually no competition, so you can charge what you want, and nobody has any choice but to put up with your shit.
This is really great:

> it’s not even recognized by Wireshark and other systems...It’s even harder to look for these kind of packet in tools like tcpdump...In FreeBSD someone actually did the work and made it a option for your IP stack link however the patch was only in FreeBSD for around 24 hours before being reverted link

Basically this provides a literally covert channel through which you can undetectably smuggle data between cooperating hosts. Lovely!
Yeah a home cluster of a few 3090's performs remarkably well.
But that's not what's going in this case. Turning on existing WiFi at a specific location or providing more free WiFi throughout the city, is not bankrolling all of the US's homeless.

And regardless, San Francisco's homeless problem won't go away by ignoring it or pretending to. Makes more sense for the city and area to deal with it, by coming up with more effective and humane solutions. To not do so, creates a worldwide bad look and increases the embarrassment. Various people (or groups) are already making fun of the US by constantly reporting on and shooting videos of its huge numbers of homeless, to push back on the bragging, bravado, and hypocrisy.
> Massive regression on the latter, early computers and '80s stereo amplifiers came with schematics in the manual - what happened?

The customer accepted offers that did not include the schematics, and the markets delivered.
this video is pure gold
It sounds like we could fix basically all of this by having new plant approvals be "sticky", ie, once a project is approved, you can build and operate it with no additional regulatory-imposed changes.

This whole system of retroactively requiring changes made is absurdly costly and it's why we're stuck in terms of building out new capacity. This is not de-regulation, just changing how we regulate this from something that is actively antagonistic to something that is not.
What other historically or culturally significant coffee table books would you recommend?
Right...but the talk of this thread, and the article, is whether the Fed interest rate can be relevant to "consumer felt" inflation. Nobody over the last couple of years has been complaining that the cost per share of Twilio is too high, people have been complaining about their grocery bills, their heating bills etc.

The answer, directly from the Fed is, "No, our interest rate hikes will not change the price of gas at the pump or the cost of eggs."

As I mentioned, things like houses are complicated, clearly there has been a _bit_ of downward pressure, but there are a ton of supply side complications preventing a big change (building has slowed, people with low interest rates are holding etc).
The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly.

Find yourself a supply of broken appliances, perhaps at a Goodwill-like store or an online marketplace and get started finding that broken sprocket or stretched belt or bad capacitor.

It’s ridiculously satisfying taking something that’s destined for the landfill and making it live again.

Oh and YouTube. Lots of YouTube. There’s a video for how to troubleshoot and fix just about everything. YouTube has helped me fix a broken stand mixer, dishwasher, dryer, small fission reactor, computer keyboard, sewing machine, ceiling fan, ice maker, and many I’m surely forgetting. And I’m just a clueless web dev!
> Also skeuomorphism everywhere.

I miss skeuomorphic design. :(

I hate how flat everything is these days.
> Especially when the article itself identifies only 1.6% of the books as having a 17+ rating.

You presume those ratings mean something.

"Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups and Shame-Free Sex. An empowering guide to casual sex and hooking up from sex educator and Girl Sex 101 author Allison Moon."

I'm sure that's entirely age appropriate for my 13-year-old daughter to be reading from the high-school library.
This is a good primer on the importance of Phosphorus [1].

Enceladus is surprisingly small (150 miles in diameter). It's too small for a rocky core. Instead it has a mushy or spongy core. But something inside is still generating heat. Some of this is from gravitational tides. It's not clear to me if that explains all of it however.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPU9jeQbTOU
Some general rules make sense for common use cases. Like, I'll say that a relational DBMS is generally what you want rather than a graph one. For a single-node DB, I'll always use Postgres if I have the choice. For a webserver, can't really go wrong with NodeJS, though you might have reasons to use something else (e.g. cost to run).

But sharding is too use-case specific to prescribe something broadly like Spanner.
It seems irresponsible of CNN to post this. Content like this could fuel election denial claims, could it not?
As well as the BLE/WiFi issue, there was another defect that prevented some devices from connecting to the Pico W over BLE reliably. Both have been resolved with this release.
Most people don’t have multiple GPUs in storage, a server chassis, or a place to rack up said chassis.
Absolutely. That was politicking too.
Almost every PR response from both parties was terribly executed for the entire period.
But this is just magical thinking, some variation of the naturalistic fallacy. Nature absolutely will accept molecular tinkering if it provides an evolutionary advantage.

Another commenter pointed out that, for a while, the virus became more dangerous over time, not less. And the extent to which COVID has become less dangerous over time (which probably has as much to do with widespread immunity either via vaccination or prior infection, along with the fact that most people particularly vulnerable to COVID have already died), there's no indication that it had anything to do with undo'ing any kind of "unnatural change" - in particular, the furin cleavage site that's one of the more likely candidates for being "unnatural" is still there.

So no, I wouldn't say his comments on the subject have aged particularly well.
This is just a single aquifer, but it does look like overall aquifers are at 86% of capacity (113.9% of historical).

- https://engaging-data.com/ca-reservoir-dashboard/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34319453
Google's Bard barred while trying to enter Europe
Wouldn't you use traditional software to validate the JSON, then ask chatgpt to try again if it wasn't right?
Hey, you're leaning into it too much!

Who are people who are against typing in this day and age?
>"Through location tracking, your phone knows where you sleep every night. "

I'm sorry what?
Probably too expensive to replace the meters (only very old meters actually run backwards).

And 600w is probably below the average usage anyway.
Too big customer who doesn’t pay is a liability.
In fact, there are a lot of standard designs. There's just not A standard design.

The issue is we build 1 or 2 plants at a time with a given design and by the time those plants are finished (10+ years) new regulations and new standards are in practice (see Gen II vs Gen III vs Gen III+ vs Gen IV reactors).

The good news is that Gen IV reactors, if approved, are much cheaper to build than Gen III/III+. The bad news is nobody wants to build them.
Currently released weights:

https://huggingface.co/gorilla-llm
HN, lobste.rs, and kbin are serving me just fine.
> "It's clear that was not a mistake"

In what way? He asserts it was a mistake and even your (obviously non-objective) citation doesn't assert that it was anything other than a mistake.
Looks like a short spike of reports [1]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
I wonder what the people who want books removed from school libraries consider "explicit".
Space complexity helps characterize this: real-world computers can (arguably) emulate a linear-bounded automaton, so anything in DSPACE(O(n)) is fair game if you can wait long enough.

For the arguably part: I am assuming that the machine can access all of the input at once, so it is reasonable to expect available memory to be a multiple of the input, so you get O(n) memory.
Nice compiled list of stats. I'm not sure what they mean by H100s requiring pre-approval on LambdaLabs? Maybe I was grandfathered in since I had an account prior to their rollout, but I never had to do anything special to rent H100s there.

Somewhat related and hopefully helpful: My experience so far using the H100 PCIes to train ViTs:

Pros: A little over 2x performance compared to A100 40GB. 80GB by default. fp8 support, which I haven't played with but supposedly is another 2x performance win for LLMs. For datacenters and local workstations it's twice as power efficient as the A100s. Supposedly they have better multi-GPU and multi-node bandwidth, but my workload doesn't stress that and I can only rent 1xH100s at the moment.

Cons: I had trouble using them with anything but the most recent nVidia docker containers. The somewhat official PyTorch containers didn't work, nor did brewing my own. Luckily the nVidia containers have worked fine so far. I just don't like that they use nightly PyTorch. In addition to that, because of their increased performance, they really start to push the limits on feeding data fast enough to them with existing system configurations. I was CPU-limited on the LambdaLabs 1xH100 machines because of this.

Overall the pricing has worked out equal for my use-case, but I'm sure fp8 would make them more affordable. If fp8 were available out-of-the-box on PyTorch I'd play with it, but it's only available right now from some nVidia codebase specific to LLMs.

Even at equal pricing, having twice the power per GPU and per node is a big win. That increases experiment iteration across the board.

Side note: If I recall correctly, nVidia is heavily differentiating the H100 products by their interface this go around, which I find quite odd. The SXM version of the cards are supposed to be something like twice as beefy as the PCIE version? Not sure why they're doing that; gonna make comparing rentable instances all the more difficult if you overlook that little detail. A100 had a little bit of this, but the difference was never much in practice except between specifically the A100 40 GB PCIe and the 80 GB SXM, which was something like 10% faster.

Anyone else having fun with the new toy our overlords have allowed us to play with?
I'm not a PL person or someone that focuses on computability, but I think you'd refer to it as "bounded," "pseudo," or "quasi." To give an example, you might call a transform on an image quasi-equivariant if it introduces some aliasing (obviously not destructing the image). See quasimorphism[0] as an example.

Usually people just let it go unless someone brings up specifically something that implies that there is, or might, not a shared mutual understanding (as done here). Maybe it is shared, maybe not, maybe someone reading it doesn't understand the difference. I mean we're humans. We compress a lot of information into language that is not directly expressed in our words (this is also why it is often hard to talk to people on the internet since there's a wide audience with vastly different priors. Relevant XKCD[1]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasimorphism

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Last year a tiny radioactive capsule the size of a fingernail went missing in Australia, when a "safe" storage container the size of a small car failed and allowed it to fall out.

The search to find the capsule cost four million dollars and there were global news stories warning people to avoid the highway the (very, very long) highway the truck had driven down.

In other countries (e.g. Soviet ones) where precautions like that haven't been taken, those capsules have been found after dozens of people caught cancer due to regular exposure to a capsule that just happened to end up near them. Presumably there are more that haven't been found, and those countries just accept a higher rate of cancer than the rest of the world.

Avoiding those scenarios is what costs so much.
Regular people consider things like snowballing debt, past-due rent, huge business losses, bankruptcy and more as black marks that they must absolutely avoid at all costs. Others like Musk see them as what they really are - financial tools that they can use to get ahead.

If Twitter has an office that they don't use, in Musk's mind obviously they shouldn't pay rent for it. If the landlord tries to collect just ignore them. If they sue then tie them up in legal processes to make the costs unbearable. What are they going to do? Evict them? Great, that is the desired outcome.
If there was reliable evidence that China had created a coronavirus, it would have been widely disseminated because it's the fantasy of the Republicans in the US to put it on China, and if not China then put it on Dr. Fauci. But it doesn't seem like it would have changed anything about treatment of the horrible coronavirus.

I don't really understand why people are so hot to talk about gain of function research, that just seems like a distracting point from the fact that we don't have very good public health and now politically, the US has been convinced to be against public health officials, so when the next terrible virus or disease sweeps the world, again, the US will have a failure to deal with it because of all the paranoids.
This isn't true at all -- I can see content in all of the private subreddits that I am already subscribed to. It is only restricted to anonymous users or users who are not subscribed.
Only cream and bastards rise, and I'm not sure about the cream.
Just looking at the other RFC's, it turns out the "packet mood" RFC also allows one to flag the packet as evil: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5841

> It is hard for a TCP packet to discern higher moral quandaries like the meaning of life or what exactly defines 'evil' and from whose perspective such a characterization is being made. However, developers of TCP-based applications MAY choose to see some activities as evil when viewed through their particular lens of the world. At that point, they SHOULD mark packets as evil.
> Event 201 wargame about just such a disease was held in October 2019 — where people “role played” many of the policies we saw enacted.

On that one, remember how monkeypox seemed to come out of nowhere in early 2022? In early 2021 there was a similar pandemic scenario for monkeypox, and the scenario's in-game start date was only about a week off of when it started in the real world.
What property(s) would MDMA and Ketamine need to exhibit in order to qualify in your opinion as psychedelic?
"Paradigm" in Greek is "παράδειγμα", which is a combined word for "παρα" + "δείκνυμι".

It more or less means "for example", but "παρα" has multiple meanings, depending how you use it as part of a possible combination, but in this case I would say it means "similarity", whereas "δείκνυμι" means "to point out".

My English is not even mediocre to be able to explain it to you in great detail I'm afraid; my apologies -_-
I only use vim for editing, but I reach for Chrome or VS Code for my debugging - I don't love the UI, but I don't do it that often and it's fine enough
you don’t need to do anything
Verizon didn't have its own email-to-sms gateway at the time. This is not code that's still running.
Rust sounds like something old and crusty. No one will ever adopt a language called Ru...
When we find a systemic risk across the industry, like the requirement for independent core cooling after Fukushima, we should just roll with it and accept it?

Tsunamis do not happen everywhere, but the regulators found the risk to be systemic. As an example: A nuclear reactor in Sweden had a severe incident in 2006 when many of the "defense in depth" layers had been accidentally removed through freak occurrences and upgrades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J...
"Reasonableness" is a decent way to describe the norms of a social contract. They're not legally enforced (reddit clearly has no legal obligations here besides), and 'unethical' feels like the wrong adjective. It's also the word grandparent comment used. What word would you choose instead?
You can do it with hot water too - heat your water to near boiling, and merge it with cold to make the desired temperature. The heater won’t turn on until the temperature drops below a threshold.

Using this you can avoid hearing water during high demand times.
Wait until they find out about the correlation between information on driver's licenses and where people sleep.
> two sides wanting/not wanting children to read particular books.

No.

One group of people don’t want any children reading certain books. The rest leaves the choice of reading the books in question up to the children (and/or their parents).

An important distinction.