skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless someone has specimen samples from the sick WIV scientists, this doesn't really prove anything. Nasty respiratory viruses with Covid-like symptoms aren't actually that rare, and there's a lot of overlap between a bad respiratory infection and a mild Covid infection. I've talked to numerous people in the US who swore they had the full checklist of Covid symptoms well before the November 2019 date they're talking about in this article, but these claims are not borne out by the observed data in viral surveillance.

It's really unfortunate that there isn't some kind of rigorous global pathogen surveillance program that's regularly sampling the world's population and doing sequencing for novel pathogens. The only reason we discovered Covid in the US early on was because the Seattle Flu Study kinda broke the rules and went back through their samples to test for Covid when they weren't technically allowed to do it. Ideally we'd have global wastewater surveillance as well as individual anonymized sample gathering. It sounds expensive, which is why nobody wants to do it, but Covid really shows how badly it's needed.
Sounds great! I don't know what this is but there's a linked page at https://community.amd.com/t5/business/empowering-the-industr... which looks like a reasonable place to find out. Edit: I still don't know what this is. Could someone who does leave a comment to enlighten the rest of us?
Surely you could set a base value (say 1s) and wait to meet that? Then introduce a few hundred ms of variance either way.
Homeless people are generally not allowed to cross borders pretty much anywhere in the world, except under special conditions (e.g. being considered a refugee fleeing a warzone or failed state.)

This is why most countries' border services will ask short-term visitors the address of the place they'll be staying while they're there: no country, no matter how open its borders, wants you to visit with the goal of becoming a beggar on their streets.

(And this is also a large part of why particular passports only let you visit particular places without a visa. The EU has internally-open borders for EU citizens, because they have mostly equalized levels of social-welfare "pressure" between countries. But no EU country will let you in from a non-EU developing country that has high levels of homelessness, if you can't prove income; and that's something the EU enforces on its member states, so that no country becomes the de-facto homeless ingress point for the whole of the EU.)

Because of these measures, each country (or open-bordered region of equal-welfare countries) is mostly just dealing with its own homeless problem, not with other countries'/regions' homeless problems.
Or we are demanding real solutions. A library is not a homeless shelter. If the homeless population nearby is getting in the way of provide safe and clean access, the library should seek remedies to that.

The progressive attitude of "any opposition to a left wing idea is a right wing talking point" is so problematic towards finding *effective* progressive solutions. We NEED to critique our ideas and programs. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And SF is on that road if we don't figure out something more effective.

SF spends more per homeless individual than most other US cities. It's not a matter of "we could solve this if there wasn't as much opposition to spending taxpayer money". Whatever we are doing now isn't working, and it's not some right wing talking point to acknowledge that. SF has wasted billions on bandaids to our housing crisis, it's time we find solutions that actually work on getting homeless people housed with access to the care they need.
I figured because they don't want 3rd party apps because they don't run ads for Reddit. Reddit wants users within their (soon to be) walled garden getting fed all of the monetization pressure systems.

My take when Reddit said that Apollo cost them $20M a year, they weren't talking running costs but revenue potential because Apollo doesn't feed ads to its users.
What made attention mechanism click to me was the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PjHri8tc1c by Sebastian Raschka. Another good video on attention that tries to give a bit more intuition on the query/key/value stuff is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFJWRnt_AY

In hindsight, what helped me most is understanding the dimensionality at each step of the attention computation (explained well in Raschka's video). Another think I simply did not get from the original Transformer paper is that the learning of self-attention happens in the linear layers. (At least, that's my current understanding. If that's wrong, I appreciate any correction :)
You don't think causing a global pandemic and millions of death from dangerously careless research deserves criticism?
BTW: Here's a more performant version (fewer tokens) https://preview.promptjoy.com/apis/jNqCA2 that uses a smaller example but will still generate pretty good results.
> what are you using your wifi for?

Pretty sure it's more a matter of location. Normal people only masturbate in the privacy of their own homes.

I know San Francisco is a very progressive city, but I don't think they're yet ready to embrace homeless people jerking it on the sidewalk outside the library.
> it does seem like your target market are dev teams which are light on DevOps skillsets because you can run these systems for free with a modicum of DevOps chops on the team.

Managing infrastructure at scale is not trivial (otherwise, why would full-time devops engineers exist?), and that's why platforms like Porter exists to help companies scale more easily with fewer devops resources. It's the same reasoning as why so many developers like yourself use Fly.io - you could run your applications for free on an EC2 instance instead of paying fly.io/heroku/render a margin on top of it if you have a modicum of devops chops. Yet clearly, these platforms are bringing enough value in the axes of developer experience and reliability that justifies the additional cost for you.

RE your comment in the other thread about there being open source options: it's worth mentioning that Porter is also open-source (repo here: https://github.com/porter-dev/porter). If you want to use Porter purely as a UI on top of your own infrastructure that you are managing yourself, you are more than welcome to take it out on a spin with our OSS repository!
Congratulations! This is really great. I am going to try it.

In your benchmarks, consider adding actix which is also in Rust but considerably faster than rust axum according to: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
> I think he's just looking at this rationally, as he should as a major share holder. His job is not to be nice but to deliver share holder value

I was an avid Twitter user, but stopped using it because I find Musk super annoying and unethical. This is part of that. Complete and total brand destruction. That's not "delivering shareholder value". There's been massive markdowns to Twitter's valuation since Musk took over.
Libraries are a public service, and free WiFi is often provided along with that service.

In this case that service is being deliberately sabotaged for one of the most vulnerable groups in society.

Internet access is so necessary in modern life that it should be considered a citizen or human right.

Even if you subscribe to the ideology of the homeless being lazy leeches, the counter-effectiveness is quite obvious.
Homeless people could be using the WiFi to access online banking, job, and housing applications. Things that would help get them off the street.
> Inspected, embossed and hand signed by the artist

Wow, they got the Apollo 15 crew to sign these? Awesome! There are some technical / logistical issues with that, but I'm sure they managed to overcome them...

Snark aside, I'm not really sure how running restoration on public domain photographs gives you authorship / copyright ownership over them.
A full-speech search engine
True but we also live in lands of common law, and 4chan is still at the base level limited by those.
Thank you for these - they will come in very handy!
To be fair...

"Go somewhere that rich people aren't" isn't much of a solution.
> Year after year, federal officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the country’s primary roadway safety agency, ignored credible scientific research and failed to take simple steps to limit the hazards of underride crashes.

NHTSA officials don't have time to do that of course, they are too busy denying right to repair in order to "protect" motorists https://youtube.com/watch?v=2nXVljRUnoc

As an external observer (I don't live in the USA) it seems to me that the NHTSA is captured by lobbyists, as a result it is currently only there to protect the interests of auto makers, instead of protecting traffic safety. Why is this illegal behaviour not investigated?
Does it affect old contracts or just new ones
I don't know what that's supposed to mean.

No, sorry not sorry, I don't really put much stock in the analysis of people that immediately link this into their unsubstantiated handwavey global conspiracies.

I've seen articles, research, professionals talking about the evidence. Which aren't headnods and whistles. And I read it. And that's why I don't have any strong opinion, contrary to whatever I think is being implied in your comment. But comments? Public discussion? It's the same thing every time.

Skepticism is this cool thing where instead of assuming an unclear premise and then immediately linking it to bigger, even less substantiated conspiracies theories that thereby reinforce how "true" my assumptions must be!!... I accept that I don't have the full picture.
I think it's a direct representation of how unequal the power in society is.

Being the 10th wife of a price is better than being the first wife of a commoner somewhere like Saudi Arabia (as an example - can pick any society with high power inequality) in terms of the chances of reproductive success of your offspring.
Not really. All modern JS engines, including V8 that Node uses, include excellent JIT compilers.

Also, HTTP serving in Node uses code written in C, not JS.

That being said, Node is slow compared to Bun: https://bun.sh
When people with influence confidently label and laugh at conspiracy theories, and one or more turn out to be true, it becomes easier for some to trust the people who find conspiracies everywhere.
Why not provide wifi for the homeless as a service, with its own line item, instead of doing it via the Library?
The one place I've set up button triggered runbooks was gitlab ci under scheduled jobs. Made things a lot easier for less technical people.
And what exactly does a blockchain provide here that a plain ole' database does not?
Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO's memo
Ah. So in that case, NPM is not learning a new card number, and probably isn't even aware of anything at all, given that the card issuer is simply accepting transactions (instead of declining them as this person expected) on the old card number.

NPM was in the wrong for continuing to place unwanted transactions, but they were not actively participating in this "follow" scheme so the blame stops short of that.
Yeah, I’m just eliminating the GQL server as it’s a bit redundant :)

I’d argue that for what I want to do (single ingress everything), gRPC’s various language-specific frameworks handle TLS better than most (obviously not all) HTTP frameworks. Most HTTP frameworks just expect you to put them unsecured behind a separate ingress to do the TLS.

For instance, as we can see with my own deploy here, Tonic (the Rust gRPC server) has handled TLS much better than Rocket (the Rust HTTP server).
Did they "end up in the hospital" or did they go to the hospital to get a diagnosis? I live in a city, and my PCP is in the local hospital. "seasonal illness symptoms" sounds FAR more like they were just sick and went to the doctor, like anyone else would. For medicine.
That must be a web quality pic.

The ones in his book are far higher quality. Too bad I can't nail the book to my wall..
That's because in Firefox an open tab that you haven't recently viewed uses no memory.
> we spend 100s of millions a year on one public high schools sports budget

Where is this?
> I don't think of most of it as being repairable, perhaps I'm just wrong about that.

Most electronic waste is not actually nonfunctional electronics, it's from people and companies upgrading to different electronics. And most of the broken electronics are trivially repairable.

There's a fantastic electronics "recycler" in my town that does great business taking electronic "waste", refurbishing and/or repairing it, and selling it in their store.

It's where I buy 90% of my electronics (and 100% of my cables, mice, keyboard, etc.). Everything they sell works great (and is under warranty) and is mind-bogglingly inexpensive. Then, when I want to upgrade, I just take the old stuff back to them so it can make another round.
>Then again, cars could all come with roll cages and five-point harnesses, and they don't, so there's some limit to safety equipment.

No roll cages historically was the result of no federal safety belt law. Roll cages are great until an un-belted occupant has their head hit the cage. "Second collision."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impact_(safety)

At this point New Hampshire is the last remaining holdout on state safety belt laws. Live free or die (in a car crash).

Even then, you still have the issue of noncompliance. Automakers don't want to end up on 60 Minutes in an episode about how their "safer car" kills some people, because some of those people were un-belted in a crash. Numbers are all over the place for people not wearing their seat belt, but it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 in 10.
Happens to all social media because in order to succeed you need a critical mass of users. The best way to get this is to make it free.
It’s pretty simple, really. There is “wink wink nod nod” collusion going on across the industry to suppress wages right now. They know that if everybody else is suppressing wages right now, they can without too much “trouble” as well.

Their calculus is just “how low can we keep wages without too much attrition”. Knowing that they have the backdrop of what feels like “always imminent recession”, it gives them a lot more confidence in holding wages down. Similar to how some (but by no means all) inflation was caused by companies knowing that since other companies were raising prices, they could also raise prices because consumers were already primed to think it was inflations fault and necessary.
Library Wi-Fi is supposed to be a service for everybody, unless I am missing something.
27 years ago in the US:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/11/05/04-2473...

...and then updated two years later.

Still watered down to the point of near uselessness in order to placate the trucking industry lobbyists.
There might also be a chance you can have your webserver included in the techempower benchmarks for their next round. Their code is submitted by experts and open-source: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Linux kernel regression tracking (regzbot)
How to stop Windows installing updates behind your back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157968

If you don't/won't/can't use the group policy editor, I got a lot of mileage out of hibernating the PC and powering it off at the mains. You can't leave it running something overnight, but you can at least quickly get back to exactly where you left things the previous day.

(Powering it off at the mains ensures that even if you have a device connected that could wake the PC up - thus putting your computer in a state where WIndows Update can reboot it - it can't. You can turn this feature off on a per-device basis with powercfg, but then one day you'll plug something new in and leave it plugged in and it'll wake the PC up while you're away and Windows Update will do its thing.)
It's reasonable for people have access to public services. If you turn every public service--sidewalks, parks, libraries, public transit--into something unusable because it's really an ersatz homeless shelter, there's an entirely expected response: people cease to use those services, because they're not really public anymore. And then people either vote to cut funding for those services, or they defund with their feet.

Governments have functions and services beyond homeless services they are obligated to provide. Saying that no public services will be provided until homelessness is solved is not a sustainable approach.
A conversation between the founders of Overleaf and Figshare
50 years in Germany: A rear underride guard was made mandatory in Germany by a 1973 law for vehicles registered on or after 1 January 1975 with a carriage height of 55 cm or more above ground.

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterfahrschutz_(Nutzfahrzeug)... (in German)
What else do you recommend a library do (within their limited budget), while also solving the issue that these encampments are making the library unsafe and dirty?
i’ve never heard of the second form of non-compete. how would the former employer even know? how is that legal? any amount of compensation that is finalised upon leaving the company (e.g. RSUs) should be yours to own, period. that’s akin to saying they can legally demand your paycheques back because they didnt like the company you went to.

totally insane— america needs more labour rights.
I'm honestly surprised the public library is the only place to get free 24/7 wifi in San Francisco. Bizarre.
Happy for them, this should happen more. But an exception does not negate the broad pattern.
I think most of the people spouting this kind of stuff have zero concept of reality.

They’ve never had to worry about where they would get their next meal or any sort of real existential crisis in their lives.

“There but for the grace of god go I” or something.
Taibbi was the first journalist to report on twitter files. Absolutely mindblowing what was going on behind the scenes of Twitter, had heard rumors of FBI pushing narratives but no one really had any idea how bad it was.
I hope you never become homeless.

I was, for 4 weeks, and my local libraries wifi is what helped me stay in touch with my parents when my phone data was shut off for nonpayment. It helped me secure a job back at home.

You need to rethink your idea of what homelessness is. It's not antisocial drug users. It's also LGBT kids thrown out of their home. It's families being evicted because the parents lost their job. Even if they were antisocial drug users, sympathy, support, and assistance do more help than turning a blind eye and hoping they go away.
I wonder how close the historical examples come to the 20 or 30 block 'ideal'?
But if I understand correctly the optics can't recreate how our eyes focus on near and far things in reality. So if something is supposed to be 100 meters away it will still be physically like focusing on something 1-2 meters away due to how the optics work. That's the whole VAC issue mentioned in the article.
What is the precise definition of a social media platform?
But they should be, because the need is clearly there, and not being met
I’ll add on to this that it does look like not only a hopeless situation, but one that has an entire cottage industry built around it.

I think I’m okay with my tax dollars being spent on the following:

1. Social services for the homeless.

2. Police suppression of the homeless.

3. Hygiene discrimination on public infrastructure (with showering and laundry covered in point 1).

4. Much more aggressive fare enforcement. I mean if you have to install kouban in all the BART & Muni stations and train cameras on the gates, that isn’t the worst place to do it.

I don’t want to be heartless, but not all homeless people are the same either. Give them the help they are willing to receive and for the rest that aren’t willing, that commit crime or show up on the bus covered in their own shit, I am A-OK with the police you know, policing. If you have a creative solution that will actually help more people? Great! We’ll try it out and see if it does or doesn’t help in the way that we want, but as an also, not instead of policing.
> Also, if you occupy a niche and run it well, you can make internet money the old fashioned way, by finding products that your niche users specifically want and organically selling to them without ad spamming them to death.

Yes, that's usually how it starts. It ends with invisible tracking pixels and flashing X10 ads everywhere. That or stealth ads disguised as content.

This isn't some hypothetical. We have 30 years of history now to tell us exactly how this plays out.

> Just like forums used to do.

That era was great while it lasted. But since the "adpocalypse", it's very very difficult for sites to make money without targeted ads and the requisite tracking. We lost a lot of high-quality sites like Dr Dobbs Journal in the adpocalypse, and all we have to replace them are SEO content farms and blogspam.
Ask HN: Why wasn't there a Twitter protest when they increased API prices?
based on this link here, they underwent major changes?

https://superface.ai/blog/twitter-api-new-plans
> Library wifi is not a homeless service.

Correct, it's a service for everyone - including the homeless. A world where library doors are closed to some people is a world that has lost its way.

Do homeless people have the same rights as everyone else? Granted, they may not readily afford lawyers, but some of the restrictions you're implying trample in their freedom of movement.
All you need for a market cluster is one infected person to visit once, & pass the infection along to one or more people who then also spend time there and pass it on. There's no challenging "why" needed.
Also malicious reviews by competitors.
Right, but bedding down outside the library at night so you can get free wifi is antisocial behavior. Why should we invest this much in our public spaces and then effectively give them away? I wouldnt want somebody sleeping next to my house so he could get WiFi. Public spaces are ours.

Don't get me wrong. I think we should make massive investments in trying to solve the homeless problem, but giving away our public commons is utter stupidity.
Maybe trivial isn't the right word, but it's still very straight-forward to get something basic, yet really powerful...

ReAct Setup Prompt (goal + available actions) -> Agent "ReAction" -> Parse & Execute Action -> Send Action Response (success or error) -> Agent "ReAction" -> repeat

As long as each action has proper validation and returns meaningful error messages, you don't need to even change the control flow. The agent will typically understand what went wrong, and attempt to correct it in the next "ReAction".

I've been refactoring some agents to use "functions" and so far it seems to be a HUGE improvement in reliability vs the "Return JSON matching this format" approach. Most impactful is that fact that "3.5-turbo" will now reliability return JSON (before you'd be forced to use GPT-4 for an ReAct style agent of modest complexity).

My agents also seem to be better at following other instructions now that the noise of the response format is gone (of course it's still there, but in a way it has been specifically trained on). This could also just be a result of the improvements to the system prompt though.
Most of the "Yelp is extortion" line comes from businesses that have had good reviews hidden (that they probably gave people discounts for, or paid for.) Every good hidden review is seen as an outrage.

It'd be less controversial to kill bad reviews like this (because bad reviews often can be extortion or attacks on competitors), but the users would notice and also bitch. [edit: even worse, businesses that got bad reviews deleted by talking to Yelp might be characterized as "in bed with" Yelp.] A Yelp-like business is no-win imo. Voting isn't much of a signal if you let anybody who happens to walk by vote.
Explaining the Bracha's Reliable Broadcast