skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with doing it at the state level is that then all the sick will move to that state. Which won’t work from a risk pool perspective
Or you could get A6000 for $4k with 48 GB VRAM.
To the surprise of no one, Matt Levine has written about this a few times (there's some other linked issues in here as well):

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-08/don-t-...

His is a pretty balanced take and raises some interesting points:

> I have argued that the SEC has aggressively expanded the recordkeeping requirements. In the olden days, almost all communication was informal and not recorded, and only formal decisions were memorialized in typed and carbon-papered memos, so the SEC had access only to a pretty limited slice of communications. Now, vastly more informal communication is text-based, and texting is a substitute for conversation, not for formal memos.

The rest of the piece and some of his related commentary in the area is worth a read.
As always, hallucinations seem to be as much in the realm of humans than AI, but even chatgpt wouldn’t have made up something like this because the definition is right in the article.
Nick Lane's Power Sex & Suicide, and The Vital Question are excellent and relatively easy for anyone.
Transformer is much more difficult and dense.
There are also some excellent talks in yt.
Scientists already have well-defined terminology for many of the crystal structures described, the LK-99 is just a shorthand for this synthesis product (and a convenient one at that, for anyone trying to keep up with the latest). I wouldn’t be too concerned!

Part of the reason we’re not using a full formula yet is that we don’t precisely know what it is (or, indeed, if it’s just one thing at all; the linked paper makes a good argument that this will necessarily be a mix of multiple phases if synthesized as-described). Once we know what it is, we can use one of several existing names.
According to Matt Levine (in his Jan 31st column), this is an incorrect summary of the J&J case (though a correct summary of Texas Two-step in general), because according to J&J's proposal, LTL could draw on up to $61.5 BILLION dollars of J&J's value to backstop the talc suits, a value agreed to be far more than any plausible sum of the claims. According to Levine, the purpose was for the settlements to be orderly.

I have no horse in the race, and no ability to assess the law. I just thought it was a pretty interesting claim, and in general my experience has been that Levine seems pretty savvy. Though he hasn't given an update on the July 28th ruling, so shrug.
It is not learning, it is about publishing.
An easy solution to that is open up skilled worker programs. Importing talent is something the US is generally excellent at, offering a much more dynamic culture, better quality of life, better compensation than most manufacturing hubs and having a sizable ethnic community for most cultures wherever skilled labor is needed. While not universally true by any measure enough people want permanent residency in the US that you could staff almost any nascent industry. Further funding to public universities could establish programs and import professors. Once you’ve seeded the industry mentorship, education, and opportunity fosters a domestic talent pool. Sadly these days nativism is the popular politic.
Basically every major bank is being fined for this behaviour. WF is a truly, uniquely terrible bank, but this incident is not proof of that.
AI Cannot magically read minds. Having said that It would be nicer to have complete solutions rather than code hints. Imagine having to write a detailed prompt rather than choosing a prediction. Something like : "Write a React/Node JS app that has authentication and a home page" and the AI model give you a complete project as the output. It would be great if it generates deterministic output for the Prompt. AI can really help increase the productivity of Programmers.
Follow up question: at what age are you the wisest?
Loved the idea. Fascinating blend of design and functionality. You should kickstarter this.
Thanks for sharing.

I think one of the most challenging part of web scraping is dealing with the website's anti-scraping measures, such as it needs to sign in, encountering 403 forbidden error, and reCAPTCHA.

Does anyone have more experience in handling that?
Wrong. That’s revenue, not profit.
No, they didn't. If you're smugly referring to the POS Lightning connector, you ignore the fact that this precludes listening while charging. Look at the absurd dongle you've linked to.

The headphone jack and the Lightning port co-existed for years, allowing everyone to exercise his preference for output device. Removing the headphone jack is indefensible from a customer perspective. Get over it, and stop shilling for a move that insulted consumers and paved the way for widespread rip-offs throughout the industry.
Populism is mostly separating people in two groups, "the people" and "the elites" and saying you're from "the people". You don't actually have to do anything for the people, just convince them you're with them (hence all the populists winning elections out there, like Trump).

Odds Republicans would ever do something like this with the current party are nil, a large part of republican donors are big businesses that would never back anything that empowers workers.
Very hopeful for unified/configurable memory.

Why are gpu vendors deciding how much ram the gpu gets? This feels so 1980s. GenAI workloads have radically variable memory footprints, some folks want 256GB per card so they have a spitting shot at trying something out - and other folks want 8GB per card to maximize throughput.

To add complication, I really don’t want to deal with copying 256GB models between cpu/card. We should have unified memory.
It's pretty close to identical. Especially when you consider it's the same law firm.

GP tried to limit their liabilities. Court said 'no'. GP said, "Okay, fine. We'll put an initial $1B in the pot and GP will fund all lawsuit payouts against Best Wall" (emphasis mine).

All agreed.

Then GP decided that after review, they were only going to put $175M in Best Wall's bank account, which could pay off a few of the lawsuits, and then finalized its bankruptcy.

When plaintiffs and others came to GP to get it to honor its commitment, they said "Best Wall is a fully independent entity with no legal connection to GP. So... no."

Let's not act like J&J is trying to be in any way 'fair' about making sure claimants are taken care of.

When the judge initially dismissed their bankruptcy filing, they updated the number and refiled within hours. That's taking the piss.
I don't see a downside to expanding the record keeping requirements. Record keeping is easier than ever and frankly banks haven't proven themselves worthy of our trust. Sounds great to me.
Geforce Now arbitrarily restricts their games by platform at the request of the publisher. E.g. you can't play Genshin in a browser, only the Android and Windows native apps.
Postpartum depression does not only occur in the US, and is more common in other countries.
"space age" in the colloquial sense.
Not the person you’re asking but yeah…that looks likes ChatGPT
A good sysadmin may not be able to do graphics programming, but they have plenty of practice in the sort of programming used in package management, as well as a fairly good understanding of operating systems.

They’re not going to grasp everything as well as somebody with a development background, like learning NEW programming languages on the fly and upstreaming changes, but I don’t think it’s totally outside of what they can learn and hiring a developer would present just as many challenges.

I might look more for somebody who bills themselves as “devops” or “sre” than sysadmin though since those job descriptions tend to effectively filter out those who can’t program at all. If anything I see those people as being software developers that specialize in systems administration.
Why try to prevent problems when you can just react once it's too late? Brilliant.
Only a man could write this.
I find it's a mildly common skill among system administrators/SREs. I personally picked this up, and developed it, in these circles across many companies

Good ones are a bit rare... as this tends to go

They tend to write automation/utilities that help keep the lights on - packages are an important part in distributing that.
No, Europeans are unusually happy because they live in rich countries and have a lot of vacation.
It's "perpetually half-finished". Convoluted admin cli tooling, bad track record with reliability and loss of data, lots of stories on the internet. It perhaps got better, but RAID5/RAID6 for metadata (standard use of disks) still not oficially recommended and thus standard RAID5/RAID6 is not reliable. Also, look at some FS benchmarks - BTRFS is still much slower than EXT/XFS, and slower than ZFS.

About the only class of scenarios to use BTRFS instead of ZFS is if you want the features, do not need RAID5/6, require support by Linux distributor/kernel developers or for some other (hard to think of) reason you can't use ZFS.

I do use BTRFS on a single disk where I don't touch it with cli tools, and there it's fine.
Why would I find a cable at a friends house? I charge my phone at home, at night. With one of the cables that also work with my earphones and tablet.
Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will drop significantly
No one rate would have been perfect over such a long period.

All the way back in the 1600’s coal pollution was considered a significant problem which prompted legislation by King James I to restrict coal burning. There were few effective mitigation strategies, though ultra tall smokestacks were fairly effective in reducing harm to those in the imitate surroundings so very early on that may have been useful etc. Similarly outside of large cities the health effects where less significant.

That said, as recently as 1952 a single 5 day event killed 4,000-12,000 people in London depending on how it’s counted. So, the ideal rate would have been non zero even before climate change was a significant issue.
Hm, arithmetic is a judgement a priori. So, how is this not reasoning?
The title of the article was "Why not tax private jets out of business?" The smallest plane United operates is a "EMB 145" which should be in reach for many of these people (Google search says "$2,395,000" - which is cheaper than many Gulfstreams)
> It's definitely not up for AAA gaming but it's not horrible either.

Granted I don't have a recent GPU (1050Ti), but nouveau has been unable to run plasma with compositing enabled reliably for more than about 10 days straight on that system. Sometimes I can clear up the issues by forcing a mode-switch, othertimes it requires I restart Xorg, othertimes a reboot is needed. I should note I gave up on it in late 2021, so things may have improved in that time.
People with very strong supports still get postpartum depression.
They cope by accepting higher rates of perinatal suicide.
> The point is the nuance of writing code is now no longer an elitist act that strikes the egos of those who understand the intricacies, it’s now democratized and in the hands of anyone.

Insofar as anything like that was ever true, it still is.

Not that writing code has ever been the hard part of software development.
You structure it as paying into a plan. For each year lived in the state you get 20% coverage (upto 5 years) which would smooth out the cost and provide fairness to poorer local residents.
I enjoyed the series, thanks. I forget that in the early 20th century, the electric-grid build out was exciting bleeding-edge work. ...A good place for strong technical minds to go.
Go 1.21 is released Release Notes
PPD is more common in developing countries where this isn't true.
> There are clearly people who take on this task (some may even enjoy it!), and many who even do it for free for various open source projects,

I feel like I missed something obvious here. Doesn't this answer your own question? I've worked for companies before that found great talent for very unique skills by contributing to similar projects and reaching out to frequent commit authors.
There might be some differences outside of Steam's UI. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NIGPpz_vY) it looks like the desktop mode switches to Gnome, whereas I'm pretty sure the Steam Deck uses Plasma. Maybe that's configurable.
The battery will, at some point, necessitate getting a new phone, yes. As will other innovation. I know this seemed like a really smart dig, but it’s not like it only affects one year of devices. Come on, now.
I'm with you on this, and I'll add that entering passwords has objectively gotten worse.

1. Enter a password ca 1999
2. Enter a password, but all the characters are now dots, so enter it blind, ca 2010
3. Enter your new password blind, twice, ca 2010
4. Your new password has to be 8-20 characters, contain upper and lower case letters, numerals and a special character, and we'll tell you which special characters qualify after you've successfully entered it blind, twice, ca 2020
5. Your new password has to be as before, entered blind, twice, on a teeny weeny cell phone virtual keyboard, and it can't contain any english words.

A lot of this particular example is "best practices" accumulating without discarding any "best" practices from the past that really were little more than superstitions back then and are falsehoods now. Little dots instead of the actual password exist to prevent should surfing, which is lots harder in these days of "mobile first" on small screens held closer to the face which also have a narrower field of view.

But it illustrates your point.

Circa 1988, my boss, who had to have been 45 or 50, was bemoaning the fact that everything had a sequence or you had to key in numbers. I think he was commenting on vending machines that had a key pad instead of old school vending machines with a discrete button or knob for each selection. This isn't a new problem.
I actually consider TLS an anti-feature in the case of Gemini.

What I mean is: what use do you have of TLS that is not about commercial applications and gatekeeping?

The obvious use of TLS is for e-commerce, so that you can pay securely. And for your passwords when you log into an account. But Gemini is not designed for e-commerce, it is designed for reading text documents. And it doesn't look like the philosophy is to restrict access to documents, so no need for accounts and passwords. What do you have to hide on Gemini?

Ok, imagine you have something to hide on Gemini. Here TLS offers only limited protection: it won't help you if the server is compromised, and it doesn't hide your connection to the server, only the data. For that, there are other privacy-oriented protocols that are much better suited for that.

So, TLS is a great protocol for the commercial web, and a rather weak one for privacy. Why do you think Google pushes so hard for https?

And for the anti-tampering part that is worthwhile, I think it would be better done at the document level, for example with PGP-style signature blocks.
It's watchmen all the way down.
Most eruptions cause cooling via release of SO2, and some very short term local cooling with ash.

This eruption released a lot of water vapor because it was underwater, and water vapour is actually a very potent greenhouse gas.

So in general, volcanoes on land will cause cooling. I don't know if you can generalise underwater volcanoes the same way, it probably depends on how deep they are.
The fact it was bad in the past doesn’t mean it isn’t weirdly, differently bad now.

Like navigation applications where you can see the instructions because every oddball application is notifying you and hops over the navigation, sometimes WHEN YOU REALLY NEED THAT INFORMATION.
Another comment says ships are raised 85 feet during the transit, that sounds like enough to me if that is correct (not a hydropower engineer)
Thats just three people close together, could be a Torball team.
You presuppose that it reasons AND humans reason.
> Like how a streaming website will say "Hey, you're using a VPN. We don't allow that" - the user's recourse is to turn off the VPN, or find a new VPN that their service won't detect.

No, the user's recourse is to stop using the streaming website and go back to piracy instead.

Any speedbump to UX is a lost customer. You can not and should not assume that users are going to jump through hoops, because the overwhelming majority will not.
There are many tools to rapidly make ugly landing pages. There are not many tools to carefully make beautiful landing pages.
Hollerith Constants
Now keep in mind that FORTRAN IV was the standard source language for portable compilers into the 70s..
I don't know, maybe I'm desensitized by GPT4 but I'm running Llama2 70B and I certainly wouldn't call it 'disturbingly good'.
Yes, the problem that had been “solved” a couple times a decade since the 1970s, at least, and every time the new tools that do that end up mostly used by professional software developers, not domain experts. Honestly, the only thing that has come close to actually even minimally addressing this is spreadsheet software.

It hasn't been solved any better this time, either.
CXL is that, but a compromise. Practically, that means an APU.

Intel/AMD are reportedly coming out with wide M1-Pro like chips.
Not good, of course, but I was a little worried the decline cause by covid was a lot worse.
I have 7 PCs in my house and (technically) none of them have AMD GPUs. I've only ever loaded steam on one of them:

1 nvidia discrete GPU

1 ATI discrete GPU (it almost certainly isn't supported as it's too old to work with the open-source AMD drivers)

5 different intel iGPUs (1 NUC, one mITX, and 3 laptops, because WTF do I need a discrete GPU in a laptop for).
Delivery is Amazon's core competency, IMO.

By which I mean, their superior quality of delivery is the reason I buy stuff from them.

The worst Amazon driver is better in every way than the best Fedex or UPS, and I'm loathe to dignify Canada Post by even mentioning them.
What are you on about?

There's no sign of 'johnklos' quoting me as you claim. It literally appears in his own words, and he even wrote it in a manner that could not possibly be confused with my style of writing. Just check my recent comment history?

Frankly, it's just impossible for there to be a 17 word phrase in that comment that can be interpreted as a quotation, even by a teenager who only started learning English.

And in any case, you are free to contact dang, or any other HN user you trust, and ask them to double check whether such a thing occurred.

You can also review HN norms, other examples of HN users quoting each other and explicitly acknowledging it, the popular dictionary definitions of 'quote', etc...

Since your HN account is nearly 11 years old I'm fairly confident you know various methods to verify these things to a reasonable degree of certainty.
I don't think that's a productive tactic-- it leads people to believe the situation isn't as bad as it is. The only people who get actually free care at the ER are too poor for debt collectors to bother harassing. There's no reality in which giving someone a bill for tens of thousands of dollars constitutes socialized medicine just because they don't have to pay upfront.
Then people will use it in production and hit edge case after edge case. Software engineers have spent their careers learning to spot these in advance and deal with them, while AI will just have to guess what to do, or just let the program crash.

Let me tell you, with some of the tickets I've had to deal with I do not think most people could actually describe the problem accurately enough to an AI to actually fix the issue.
News Corp staff blindsided by company’s use of AI producing articles for 'years'
They should be highly paid, or they'll conspire to commit felonies?

That's not a reason to be highly paid (and note - nowhere I argue how much they should be paid).
Way too much storage sitting in Utah for the conversations to not be kept for at least some time.

Obviously I can't show you.
> They literally don't care. Why would they? When they face an error they just go "this is annoying" but they don't really know why or how things are happening so they just move on.

You are 100% correct. Family members look at me like I'm growing a 2nd face on my ass when I complain about how some utilities/phone companies/storage units have messed up HTML and you end up resetting your password every time you pay a bill with them. That's just the way it is, they say, you can just reset and get on with it.

I do think there's a limit to "just moving on". If enough annoyances and special cases build up, then there's no way to intuit what to do next. You're trapped in a forest of rote-memorized single purpose solutions and your brain just gets full.
In the last couple of years I've had a Pixel 2, Pixel 3a and Pixel 6, all of them had/have issues with the USB-C port. Plus the general issues around what cables can do what. Basically these days unless it's a Google charger and a Google cable I have zero confidence that I'm able to do whatever I want to do. It's a real bummer.
> However, over time you will need to describe less and less of the code for a large majority of use cases

Over the same time, the sophistication demanded of software will expand to more than offset this.

Source: this process of advancing tooling and advancing demands has been going on the whole time software has existed, with a consistent pattern.
Base Llama is not good at all, but the finetunes are quite good at their niches.

Llama in general is not great for code completion and fact retrieval, from what I have tried
I would say that classical cynicism has a very different meaning to the modern usage of the word.
I find coscreen to be the evolution of Zoom -

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/pair-programming-coscreen-dat...

(N.b., lack of Linux support is damning and the promised release has been long delayed)
The human characters in Wall-E had more to look forward to than most of us.

Perhaps that is why apocalyptic fiction is compelling. It is as way of wiping the slate clean.
Nobody is saying that human brains are picnic blankets, so we aren't debating that one. I'll grant you that it's more reasonable to think that what the human brain does resembles being a "stochastic parrot" more than it does a picnic blanket, but I think it's the burden of anyone saying the brain thinks that way, to prove it, and therefore prove that stochastic parrotism is reasoning, as opposed to just alleging this possibility as an affirmative defense

But really, why would anyone think that reasoning is stochastic in that way? I never did, and do not now. That hasn't changed just because LLMs demonstrate results that in some cases are equivalent to what could be reasoned.
Actually forgot this made it anywhere!

Any idea on the % adoption rate? Couldn't easily find it.
> With low-operating-cost saas apps, you can get away with offering a pretty generous free tier. A small percentage of paid users can more than pay for your mostly-free user base.

Thats good to hear. Congrats.
I always wondered do low operating cost SaaS apps reach a point where the interest or subscription(s) for the paid plans outweigh the cost of running the free tier accounts? And how does one tackle that?

Do you have a blog or some stats to look at? I would love to read about this and this mission of yours.

I see many people suggest that there should be a small fee to cover the hosting costs, do you think such tactics lead to the race to bottom scenario where you can't really charge properly for the paid plan as the starter plan itself is under-priced?