skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It really rubs me the wrong way when an article ends with a bait-and-switch, where you realise the entire article was manufactured to make you relate to their product's business case.

I'm not sure you have to take an adversarial interpretation of that tactic. If you don't find yourself agreeing with the setup, then you aren't a prospective customer, but if the article was informative to that point at least you now understand the existence of a domain that you're not aware of. Isn't that the point of reading technical articles? In the future, you might find yourself in that position after all.
They’ve succeeded in eradicating a few specific drugs. Quaalude is probably the most famous one. I wonder if the success of eradicating it had anything to do with studies popping up about it potentially having some cancer fighting effects. Don’t think it was ever well studied. I believe it’s still around in South Africa because it’s prescribed for HIV sometimes.

MXE is also pretty much gone. Pure heroin is pretty much gone. A lot of the original RC psychedelics and stimulants are gone. Pure LSD is very difficult to get, however high purity analogues are still reasonably easy to get.
I wouldn’t any more than I wouldn’t take away down from someone who was down. I’m not advocating about anything though, I am just stating the world is better with down people in it than without them. They are truly beautiful humans.
Disagree. My argument is that Apple have been ignoring it pretty much completely.

If a significant user base of PC users had OSX, then with a bit of TLC/ development from Apple I'm sure it'd be a very viable platform for gaming as well.

I.e. Microsoft are going a crap load of work behind the scenes to provide the best gaming experience, so Apple would have to step up their (sorry) game to compete.
Another scam, imagine that.
Oddly enough all the companies are more 'carbon friendly' and advertise it. Yet the cycle from consumer hands to trash is faster than ever. I suppose its one of those things that you won't get paid to study, but have a high chance of receiving pain for any such stufy.

In hindsight seems like Capone, being commoner friendly.
What you’re suggesting is that markets are more efficient when they’re less liquid. That’s both intuitively and empirically wrong.
Shame the life saving drug is rediculously expensive. I dont normally subscribe to bug pharma being greedy, but this one seems like a compelling case for that.

The canadian gov (PMPRB) tried to do sonething about that but i think they backed down
The problem is sitting in everyone's driveway, where everyone is gonna tell you it's gonna stay and they ain't going back to taking the friggin bus. Not superior, I live in the country, even more locked into it.

But the day is coming that we can't afford the gas for em, one by one it'll become too expensive, and with each day worth less and less, until one day you'll have to pay someone with a horse and cart to pull your pile of useless toxic steel and fibreglass away, and she'll judge the hell out of you as she takes your money.
I'm curious to understand what dependency injection is in Django that you're referring to?

I know pytest does DI with fixtures, and trying to figure out what you're pulling into a test can be difficult.
That diminishes the value of the schools, as then there are fewer people to meet who have the networks and money.
Carrier screening covers a really small fraction of pathogenic variants. It'll catch really catastrophic stuff but there's an enormous number of mixed-penetrance/AD variants that people pass on because they aren't lethal.

(plus, let's be real, most prospective parents don't carrier screen. only ones about to undergo IVF where PGT-M is sometimes an option.)
How long until we stop noticing that medicine is advancing at warp speed?
Ah, that makes sense. Very kind of his sister to grant them permission; I think this research will help a lot of people someday.
Tao de ching 42

---

All things have their backs to the female

and stand facing the male.

when male and female combine,

all things achieve harmony.

----

Ordinary men hate solitude,

But the Master makes use of it,

embracing his aloneness, realizing

he is one with the whole universe.
"Wasn't us ethical Wall Street types, naw, we got fooled like everyone else! Sign up for our NFT exchange!"
> Wall Street finance shenanigans that's purely devoted to creating money out of thin air

Creating money out of thin air has literally been the primary economic function of banks since the Renaissance. You have some people willing to provide useful goods and services, but there aren't enough standardized IOUs to pay them, so you issue new standardized IOUs.
Looking at the reviews: Most of them in that range.
asprintf is often a better choice if you're heap allocating anyway. For a static or stack buffer, obviously snprintf, unless you know the maximum possible length won't exceed (which you often do....).
Isn't the "artificial" part because Adobe could let people run it on their own GPUs, but they choose not to?
Tbf the Dutch love pinda’s. I not convinced people don’t bathe in sate sauce it’s so cheap.
> You can even take a more direct route and make the body just burn more energy. Works perfectly well, technically doesn't have any side effects, though you have to take into account that burning energy results in heat.

Historically, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol .
I can tell I'm sick by looking at my resting heart rate. If it goes up (generally by 5-10 bpm) and I didn't do a hard workout in the past 12-18 hours, I'm pretty likely to be coming down with something.
I haven't had that much Rust evangelism, lol, though I've seen it on HN from time to time. I'd be curious how it feels to build the standard parts of a web app in Rust versus Go (API/routing, basic CRUD stuff, DB connections, etc).
Is that why I can hear colors? Huh. And where was me thinking it was because my neighbors have been too busy throwing parties to let me have some sleep this past week.
It's a time sensitive issue unfortunately
Hopefully let’s encrypt continues to put the pressure on them so eventually the other cert authorities start offering things worth paying for.
HFS Web File Server
I don't interpret that heart rate increase as anxiety, but as the extra workload of digesting food.
The auto industry is undergoing an electrification process that is now rapidly accelerating. Within the next couple decades, oil and gas won't be needed as fuel except for air and maybe sea travel.
Don’t be hyperbolic. Cars aren’t the major cause, are being replaced by electrics anyway, and will always be around. Gas prices and regulations will make fossil fuel cars too expensive and undesirable for all but a few enthusiasts who will have a negligible overall carbon footprint.
So they treated the symptoms by treating the cause? Sounds like a win to me lol.
Press fittings alleviates the need for soldering copper.
Also, there's a significant difference between "the process works on a small scale, and would work at a large scale if we can solve the reliability/consistency issues" versus Theranos' "the process literally isn't physically possible at any scale and we've been outright lying about it the whole time".
Java is an inferior language to C#. To get a superior language you would likely have to go for Kotlin. There is no comparison, because Java gets features today that C# had for years. Not even mentioning having to retrofit green threads because adopting async/await (used by TS, Rust, Swift and other languages) is impossible at this point.
ModuleFormer: Modularity Emerges from Mixture-of-Experts
wait, tinfoil hats were actually working?
SQL has many problems that PRQL ostensibly addresses. Query reuse, composability, abstraction and more.
Indexes for vector databases in high dimensions are nowhere near are effective as the 2-d indexes used in GIS or the 1-d B-tree indexes that are commonly used in databases.

Back around 2005 I was interested in similarity search and read a lot of conference proceedings on the top and was basically depressed at the state of vector database indexes and felt that at least for the systems I was prototyping I was OK with a full scan and later in 2013 I had the assignment of getting a search engine for patents using vector embeddings in front of customers and we got performance we found acceptable with full scan.

My impression today is that the scene is not too different than it was in 2005 but I can't say I haven't missed anything. That is, you have tradeoffs between faster algorithms that miss some results and slower algorithms that are more correct. Somebody might feel the glass is half full somebody else might feel it is half empty, I can really see it either way.

I think it's already a competitive business. You have Pinecone which had the good fortune of starting before the gold rush. Many established databases are adding vector extension. I know so many engineering managers who love postgresql and they're just going to load a vector extension and go. My RSS reader YOShInOn uses SBERT embeddings to cluster and classify text and certainly More Like This and semantic search are on the agenda, I'd expect it to take about an hour to get

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

up and working, I could spend more time stuck on some "little" front end problem like getting something to look right in Bootstrap than it would take to get working.

I can totally believe somebody could make a better vector db than what's out there but will it be better enough? A startup going through YC now could spend 2-3 to get a really good product and find customers and that is forever in a world where everybody wants to build AI applications right now.
Most pipes get coated with minerals so you’re not really getting much benefit from the copper.
I don't trust most LLMs to reliably follow instructions to "only output JSON with no extra text". Llama 2 for example really isn't very good at following those kinds of instructions in my experience.

I really like how grammars offer a realistic path to getting completely dependable formatted output from these models.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/IBM/ModuleFormer

GitHub Description:
ModuleFormer is a MoE-based architecture that includes two different types of experts: stick-breaking attention heads and feedforward experts. We released a collection of ModuleFormer-based Language Models (MoLM) ranging in scale from 4 billion to 8 billion parameters.
Why? We already have regulations such as circuit breakers in our markets because unlike what you are claiming, absolute liquidity is not the god you think it is. There can absolutely be such a thing as over-optimization.
I'm sorry, I believe they said they split it for 8 GB cards. The point still remains that it's way faster than local generation.

Of course, I wouldn't mind it not using credits if I could use it locally either. Hopefully they continue to improve SD's IP Adapter type stuff so it's as good as Photoshop in that regard.
Moth Monster
To be fair - Unity did start on OS X and was very early on iOS!
> Is functional style dead?

No, the javascript ecosystem is just full of people who have taken some pattern that occurs frequently in functional programming, such as currying, to itself be functional programming, and thus write wrappers and overly complicated libraries to implement that feature and call it a functional wrapper or the functional version of the API, despite those features having very little to do with functional programming.

Idiomatic javascript and typescript are full of functional programming, far more so than other major programming languages. Avoiding functional constructs would, in fact, make your code unidiomatic. So the functional style is about as far from dead as it could possibly be.

Additionally, not only has the ecosystem been adopting a more functional style as time passes (especially due to features that have been added such as destructuring and spreading, which heavily encourage a more functional style), some of the core APIs in the standard library that used to make (pure) functional programming a bit more awkward by mutating their arguments now have pure equivalents [0][1] as well.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
California's grid can't support more electric cars
It's the parents fault!
BlackRock executives in China spend 30% working time in classes on “Xi Thought”
I have found HRV to be remarkably accurate at 'predicting' illness (seeming to indicate that HRV is impacted before I notice symptoms). Do others see the same?

I do need to account for 3 other variables:

+ did i drink alcohol that night

+ did i eat a large meal right before bed

+ did i go on a long run (20+ minutes) that day

Those 3 significantly decrease my HRV (alcohol the most). On the other side, not eating within ~6 hours of bedtime significantly increases my HRV, and moderate exercise increases my HRV.

Curious what others are seeing? I have measured with watches and rings - both which only measure at night.
What is the difference between CRM and CIAM systems?
Wow who is this committee scrutinizing which diseases should be cured based on the race that it most affects?
It's just you. It's unlikely that Pluton is actually evil but MS keeps creating bad PR by refusing to document it.
No, they're (seemingly) implying that the circumstances under which someone accepts assistance very much dictates the morality.
And yet, we have “I know it when I see it” [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it], to quote Justice Stewart, no?

In this thread, for instance, when asked what unreasonable thing Google was doing, no one has an answer apparently. Let alone, alternatives.

Same with Fair vs Unfair.

So when it gets to the courts, and some line gets drawn - many people will get surprised, because what they thought was illegal/legal will not be the case.

And they were not likely unreasonable or wrong before hand either.

It’s not literal (as in de jure) ex-post facto of course, but it’s pretty close to de-facto.

Frankly, it’s awfully similar to the SEC’s handling of crypto regulation (and the confusion and BS resulting from it).

Have a vague enough rule that almost anything could apply. Refuse to provide any guidance or enforce it consistently. Come down on someone you don’t like later (after they’ve been doing it for decades), and claim they’ve been violating it the whole time and they should have known (somehow).

It may be legal (or not, we’ll find out), but it doesn’t seem just.
I believe there are different degrees of it and being a parent to a severe case is a much more stressful life long commitment than being a friend to a mild case.
These are great examples. SpaceX is an aerospace company and Tesla's price and hype are based on not being a manufacturing company (Elon touted it as a transportation tech company and not a car company from the beginning). If either were valued as manufacturing companies, their valuations would be in line with traditional peers.

My point is, if you want manufacturing to return, we need American FoxConns, and that means literally 2% margins [1]. We can't rebuild onshore manufacturing with overhyped companies alone.

[1] https://www.foxconn.com/en-us/investor-relations/financial-i...
C# is a better language, but the JVM is a significantly better ecosystem. Java will always be behind (and type erasure for generics is annoying enough as someone who started in C# that I don't think it will ever catch up) but between hotspot and being the preferred language of 2/3rds of the clouds I think it clearly wins.
rm -rf /

Need I be called out, now?
This is explicitly part of biofeedback practice, learning to recognize and manage your emotional state through your heart rate.
Yeah, that’d be as crazy as charging car owners a subscription fee to use their heated seats.
That's ok, the car production capacity is limited too. The grid and charging capacity will improve as more demand appears. In the past the oil supply couldn't support our current number of cars either.

Turns out, when there's demand, we're pretty good at expansion infrastructure. In an emergency it could be a great project for the market too, like the highway expansion.
I thought AMD has open source drivers for their GPUs?
I'm glad to see the parents getting some scrutiny here because it sounds like FTX probably wouldn't have been successful without them. But it also wouldn't have been this widespread without Sequoia, and this part really got me:

> No one in Silicon Valley likes to think of themselves as privileged. Ayn Rand-reading VCs and entrepreneurs tend to bristle at the suggestion that their decisions are anything other than a product of calculated reasoning. Yet the valley’s knee-jerk elitism is so blindingly obvious that it seems almost beside the point to bring up. Investors overwhelmingly favor companies run by White men, often hailing from a tiny group of elite colleges, while shunning anyone who deviates from their superficial sense of what a successful founder should look, talk and act like. Some openly discriminate against founders over the age of 30, against founders with an accent and against anyone who comports themselves as if they’re not already rich. God help you if you show up to a pitch meeting wearing a suit.

When the money becomes so detached from reality as to think that people over the age of 30 aren't capable of building products, you know stuff like this is going to keep happening. So much of the stupid stuff SBF did reads as pure inexperience wrapped around an untouchable genius persona. The fact that FTX ran on Quickbooks and had zero internal financial controls really just shows how little due diligence Sequoia really did when they were vetting SBF.

FTX couldn't have been such a colossal disaster without the Sequoia funding, but they'll plead ignorance and move on to fund the next major 20-something fraud without thinking twice about it.
It is still up to publishers whether or not their game is available to stream.
I wonder how apples latest iPhone gaming reveal affects these plans. If the iPhone can play raytraced games, then why would someone want to stream the game in the first place?

It’s probably still too little too late, but apples latest metal conversion tool and iPhone event have me hopeful about gaming on apple devices.
It wouldn't be a problem if people would just stop advocating for going back to the bad old days. You don't know how it feels, but absolutely, if you lower the cost too much people are going to pay it.

The more we reduce this to some sort of transactional justice where everyone is supposed to pretend that nothing happened after a few years in a cage and everything is perfectly okay because people have "reformed" (never mind the people who keep going back...) the more you go back to the bad old days by making the justice system dysfunctional.

Also we can't very well make police more efficient because we don't really agree on the laws. Some people want all drugs to be legal (never mind the addicts who fall into a spiral where they rob others), some people want approximately no drugs to be legal (never mind the other costs). But there's yet to be any social consensus on whether we end up with the Tenderloin, Singapore or somewhere between.

Problem is that I think increasing leniency looks more or less like a phase change at some point. And nobody wants to acknowledge that historically, justice systems made society more peaceful via literal selection effects. Jail was not used so much in the past, there was more corporal punishment or death. Part of the problem is that jail only works while they're inside and imposes other costs, including moral ones.
Indeed. Google? Poor or nonexistent customer and product support?

When do those two not belong together?
Not any more than the existing PSP I'd imagine.
Nobody wants to enroll in these things. Those aren't expensive programs to run in general, so cutting them to save money means that nobody wants to enroll.

The numbers of people majoring in history, English, etc. are collapsing [0].

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/the-humani...
If this is reasonable, maybe they should also sue Google for using a leaf icon to signify a route that uses a tiny bit less gasoline. It's a huge exaggeration of how green it is to drive like this, and there are no leaves for walking, bicycling, or taking public transit.
imo Guidance is valuable, the underlying logic is sufficiently complex that I'm glad I didn't need to DIY it. Same goes for the faster Outlines project from Normal Computing.

LangChain: I found having a framework useful to ramp up people without prior LLM exposure, in an open-ended experimental space. The library covers many usecases and gets people thinking. But honestly their documentation is somewhat lacking for that purpose (stale text, shallow examples). Personally, coming from a search background I was able to DIY semantic RAG in the time it took to figure out how to do the same thing in LangChain.
Interesting, thank you so much!

I didn’t realize that inflation (where money is created and given to government to spend) is exactly the same as taxation.
AI pump began around then..
Except it's an absolute cargo cult of a signature.

"Sent from iPhone", and later "Sent from Mobile" were a thing because virtual keyboards were new, and at first, everyone was slow and imprecise on them.

So the signature was basically a way to say "Hey, sorry if this is abrupt or have typos, but I wrote it from my phone".

It makes zero reasons to include an automatic "Sent from <Desktop App>" signature in every email, except for sad, pathetic, marketing.
> Disagree. My argument is that Apple have been ignoring it pretty much completely.

Worse than ignorning really. Games for windows from years ago largely still work. Games for Mac Os X don't because Apple regularly breaks compatability. This means the long tail of late sales won't happen without more developer effort, which isn't usually available.
I think the "hypersensitivity" line is BS, or at least it's not a complete explanation. In my and others' cases, the "psychiatric" GI symptoms precede the physiological ones. The only time I ever got a straight answer is when I ended up at the hospital because I was passing out, and they said it was likely some combination of low blood pressure and vagus nerve overstimulation.
On September 34th, Johnny decided to get up from his chair, head outside for some fresh air after sitting in his pajamas at home “working” all day, and do some Satvic Yoga.

That’s when a key line of code triggered on an errant latest-generation DJI Mavic Pro. This drone, manufactured by a “private” Chinese company, then descended 90 feet in only 4.2 seconds, and subsequently crashed. Directly into Johnny’s ass.
From CAISO

Current capacity 43,777 MW
Current demand 29,361 MW
Difference 14,315 MW

That enough to charge 2.8 million cars at 5kw.
Indeed - are you really going to tell me this phrase hasn’t come up at least once? I don’t believe it.
I’m not so sure about that. Do you have a source?

In any case, the grid can improve in capacity as more electric cars are sold in the state.
Say you were going to eat 8oz of beef.

How many oz of mushrooms would one have to eat to get the same amount of protein?
But was the grub issue caused by the 16k page size?
It’s not fair to call that a war of aggression on our part. Mexico claiming to own vast swaths of land including California and Texas in the 1840s was about as legitimate as Spain’s prior claim over the same “New Spain” which Mexico merely inherited… again by violence.

It’d be as if the US claimed to own Antartica, the moon, or mars. Perhaps there may have been a few people there, but it was never a serious enough population that anyone could think their claim of ownership was competitive. I mean, they had a stronger claim than Spain, but that’s not saying much.
It's better to think of it as math.

Developing drugs is very expensive, and the few that turn out to be effective need to be priced to pay for all those costs.

The alternative is pretty much to not develop new drugs.