skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my case, getting my sleep apnea treated with a CPAP machine coincidentally greatly reduced the frequency of these episodes.

Orthogonal to the post here, but I just want to encourage anybody reading this who snores, or has a partner who says you snore or stop breathing occasionally, to go get a sleep study. I didn't have any of the hallmark symptoms, just descriptions from my wife, and my doctor seemed doubtful that I had sleep apnea based on my descriptions of my symptoms. But, he said, "I know better than to argue with your wife."

Turns out, I have severe obstructive sleep apnea (AHI >50), it's just that most of my apneas are what are known as hypopneas -- my blood oxygen drops, but I don't entirely stop breathing, I just have a partially obstructed airway. My sleep architecture is fine, which is probably why I never noticed extreme daytime sleepiness. But the dropping blood oxygen is still a serious health risk, and associated with a huge number of other conditions, from the obvious like heart conditions to the unexpected like fatty liver disease.

tl;dr, get a sleep study if you have any reason to think you have sleep apnea.
> I was working with web version of Outlook for a long time and loved it.

As I understand it, web Outlook pioneered numerous browser innovations that we take for granted now.
This is grotesque and horrific. Hard to imagine that this behaviour was ever tolerated at any level...
But the cemetery is here: https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3712351,-92.9141514,3a,75y,2...
People have been saying that for years (decades?) now. There's no real evidence to support anything changing though. :/
If it works reliably and it's not gonna be patched in a few days, this might be very interesting!
They should be capturing the changes that people make to the ChatGPT outputs. Many people will be copying the outputs to some other application and then make changes. If open AI would make it easier to modify the outputs right within ChatGPT, they could use that as feedback. Basically, fuse the end-user UI with the UI of the annotates.
I'm the other "pro Microsoft guy" here on HN, but I have to agree with the GP comment: VMware stability puts Microsoft to shame.

These days Windows is stable if you don't touch it.

VMware is stable even if one of the disks is out of space, the fibre is flapping, some idiot misconfigured the switches, and the whole cluster has time out of sync... by seven hours.

That's not hyperbole, that's an actual cluster that I got given to look after. It was running like that for months, perfectly fine, with VMware HA just "taking care of things".

If you sneeze in the direction of a Windows Failover Cluster it'll... fail.
Unless he has access to some top secret AI (which he wouldn't after being fired), I'd say not.
I found this budget model so often I'm curious about the justification. And since it's used by everyone it has to be justified right??
Ancient Warning of a Rising Sea
Every time a socket is instantiated, Sun Microsystems comes alive; so too it is with NFS, and many other core technologies; there is lots that's left of Sun which still makes it live, even though it doesn't officially exist any more.

And any time 0xide Computer ships a cloud in a rack with the Helios operating system powering it, Sun Microsystems shines bright as a beacon of indestructibility due to quality.
I think you are missing something, or I am.

If we observe the performance comparison graph (1), 2.8->9 tok/s is achieved via quantization, but the remaining jumps from 9->16.6->24.6 tok/s are achieved from the sparse fine-tuning.

(1) https://neuralmagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CHART-Lla...
> They even fuck over their own customers by locking away documentation and firmware updates behind a support contract paywall.

I used to work for HPE on their OpenStack team, and getting support, even as an employee, basically required me to have a rolodex full of engineers all over the world. A tremendous amount of troubleshooting was just looking up who had committed code, then tracking them down when something blew up.
Almost entirely aspects of black culture, which is still extremely persecuted there. The south is still extremely backwards.
LBJ was an odd president. There’s his personal habits that are highlighted in the article, which were… strange. There’s his domestic policy, which was highly effective: he created medicare and medicaid, expanded civil rights, and caused the realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties to their modern state (before him, Democrats were more conservative than Republicans). He won the electoral college 486 to 52 and was overwhelmingly popular. And then there was his foreign policy, which was terrible: “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” was a common chant as the Vietnam War dragged on.

Unlike other commentators, I wouldn’t draw any conclusions about the presidency or the US from LBJ other than that sometimes very weird people win positions of power and proceed to do very weird things with that power.
Lovely interface. Also terrible.
Explain why y’all obsessed with spreading fear and why y’all culting a dubious dude such as altman?
That's fantastic you visited Greyton! no worries about AirBnb, everyone uses it - not just international visitors. We used to rent a room on Airbnbn (maybe you stayed with us even - near the mountain :) and we've certainly travelled plenty using it.

Greyton is definitely a hidden gem, for some reason it's not on many travel itineraries with most people doing a long one day drive from Cape Town to the Garden Route - but its without doubt the best village in the Cape, decent facilities & restaurants, fast Internet, lots of English speakers (if thats all you know!)

I don't know what the solution is wrt Airbnb, for someone planning a trip around a foreign country it offers some element of security and a lot of convenience...everything gets booked in one place. But for many small towns a tourist info office is more than just a place to pick up a map and its a social / emergency / Internet connection hub of many towns. Taking away the accommodation booking commission means that they can't operate or just get replaced by a sign board and some flyers that you can pickup at any petrol station anyway.

Greyton is fortunate in that there are lots of events, festivals, marathons & MTB races to sell tickets for and keep the office open, and it's close enough to Cape Town to get the short stays.

Next time you come, book your stay on GreytonTourism.com - insider tip, there are some unlisted, exceptional properties that can be booked...just send Ros an email on bookings at greytontourism dot com!
Any way to run a fine tuned Mistral model?
Thank you! glad you liked the site
I think they learned from Tay.AI and friends.
Thank you! glad you like it, best wishes from Greyton!
YouTube Kids is the equivalent of crack for kids.
How apt. This happened a few months ago. I thought there was a lightning strike outside that woke me up, I remember a flash and a crack, and woke up. But there wasn't a storm. I checked radar, satellite, nothing. No strikes. Went back to sleep. At last, the mental thread has been closed. Thank you Hooke.
Hetzner do cheap servers, but don't have many GPUs. If you're looking at saving money by running on CPU, you shouldn't be looking at one of the most expensive server providers.
Grid is much more powerful than the table.
Don’t worship at the altar of portability. There is real cost to portability, as it forces you to cater to broken implementations and to not use features that may be very useful. Also, it can be difficult to ensure compatibility with systems that you don’t test on, so true portability requires having different systems to test on.

Sometimes all those costs are necessary for the task at hand. For example, the whole point of GNU Autoconf is that it runs on a wide variety of systems.

On the other hand, many programs are for in-house or personal use and will not run on obscure systems. The cost of writing for portability simply might not be worthwhile in these situations. And that’s ok, notwithstanding some conventional wisdom of “always try to be portable.”
> Municipal judges must hold a law degree and pass the bar; a mayor can preside over court without meeting any qualifications. Yet, like a municipal judge, a mayor can impose fines or sentence people to jail.

> Mayor’s courts must ensure defendants have fair trials. But unlike other courts in the state, they aren’t subject to rules like the Code of Criminal Procedure that are supposed to ensure courts are run fairly and properly.

This doesn’t seem ill intent or fraudulent to me. Just al lot of incompetence.
I think this actually occurs a fair amount. Google something like "$stateName speed trap town".

Sometimes there is reform[1] for the egregious offenders[2] with enough media coverage (and it probably helps when they ticket the wrong person's relative).

[1] https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-remarkable-rise-a...

[2] https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-...
Toggle at least 5 or 6 items and experience what it's like to have auditory processing disorder!
Open Source improved the world, from health, to 3d printing FFF, to learning, to start a business around it, ... and is continue giving a lot of opportunities in both education, research and business creation. But definitely it will not change inequality, but its contributions in the society are huge. Inequality will always exist, because we are not equal, not same intelligence, not same beauty, not same risk adversity, not same luck, not same environment...
maybe the economics of scale would have kicked in after some substitution?
Many decades ago I read a book which had an anecdote of some military officer taking an important message to the White House and he was told to take it right to President Johnson in his bathroom. The President came out of the shower to accept the message and the officer noticed the shower shooting water from several angles.

The President saw the officer staring at the fixtures and asked, "Son, do you have a shower like that?"

The officer replied, "No, sir!"

President Johnson said, "Then, boy, you got a dirty ass!"
Natural allies really. But it's not all good though, there's been a hard and strangely growing anti-western sentiment for a while now. It's big enough to become a problem in the near future.

Also, western governments pay very little attention to understanding India, it's all colonial era stereotypes for the most part. Even the largest and most well known newspapers rarely send anyone with a deep understanding of the country to cover it, and they give a very shallow lopsided, uni-dimensional impressions of the country to their audience.
OpenAI Researchers Warn of Potential Dangers of AI Breakthrough
The researchers' concerns center on OpenAI's latest AI model, Q*, which they believe could be a significant step toward achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI is a hypothetical AI capable of performing any intellectual task that a human can.
I don't see anything wrong with their phrasing.

The full context of the quote: "The engineering help disappeared. Within another year, some engineer in India told us our API access was going to be rescinded." seems to imply that Google had outsourced engineering help to India to save on operating costs. This type of outsourcing [1] was pretty common back in those days.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat
I've worked with some absolutely lovely people at Stennis Space Center / NOAA, who I believe live(d?) in Louisiana.

It's sometimes unfair (and inaccurate) to paint with such a broad brush.
tbh, Baldurs Gate 3 runs pretty terribly on my Ryzen desktop also.
> When people like Bjarne Stroustoup, Herb Suttter, Andrei Alexandrescu say they are by no means a C++ expert,

Then you know something is deeply wrong with C++. If even they aren’t experts, that just means the language, despite being a human made artifact meant to encode human thought, is beyond human comprehension.

That’s kind of a problem, isn’t it?
The justification is spending money more efficiently, which becomes even more important if you're a government entity and thus "your" money is actually other people's money gathered by taxation.

Put more bluntly, you cannot convince your bean counters to give you money you didn't spend, because if you didn't spend the money you didn't need it regardless your arguments for wanting/needing a seemingly extraneous budget.

Of course, this leads to the incentive of spending your entire budget no matter heaven or hell so you maintain your budget next year which can lead to actually wasting money rather than saving it.
> You never hear about it because it’s mostly dead.

> Would love to hear a counter argument or evidence otherwise but my impression is there are very few successful openstack deployments out there

I've been doing OpenStack continuously for 10+ years, and it's never been more popular than today.

It's bizarre how people think it's dead.

The biggest difference between OpenStack in 2013 and OpenStack in 2023 is that in 2013 there were a dozen different vendors promoting it, and in 2023 it's basically Canonical and RedHat.

The CEO of Canonical wrote an editorial years ago, basically arguing that the implosion that happened in 2017-ish, when Cisco/VMWare/HPE/Pistoncloud/etc threw in the towel would be good for OpenStack. And I think that was true.

It's very similar to what happened to Linux, remember how there was a period where there were 20+ distros vying for supremacy?
> it’ll just stop being a stochastic parrot in just a few more million parameters.

Is is not a stochastic parrot today. Deep learning models can solve problems, recognize patterns, and generate new creative output that is not explicitly in their training set. Aside from adding more parameters there are new neural network architectures to discover and experiment with. Transformers aren't the final stage of deep learning.
1 hard problems.

naming things, cache invalidation, off-by one errors, and overflows.
I've had this a couple of times - first time was terrifying as I was a young teenager. Second time was quite recently, almost 35 years later.

No idea what's caused it at all - sounds like someone has suddenly opened a pressurised pipe near my head/ear.
Thanks for posting. Been meaning to look into this for a while, this was the prod I needed.

I see it works on Firefox on Android.

I also recommend Pihole as the other part of a two-prong approach. It's better than uBlock in this dimension: it prevents objectionable resources from even being downloaded. I have Pihole at home, but when I upgrade to an opnsense firewall I'll just rely on Unbound instead, as it also supports Steven Black's blocklist. I wouldn't particularly recommend Pihole over Unbound.
Much like sorting algorithms I still think there is some value of teaching this kind of low-level programming in college. You gain a lot of theoretical knowledge as well as a lot of heavy complex algorithm training even if you never end up doing that kind of work in a real job.

With graphics it also gives you a lot of applied _math_ experience, there are a TON of fields that are desperate for people who can do math. Just my last job (software for CNC machines) we needed people who could do program the math necessary to program a drill to but a certain shape into a metal block and it was really hard to find these people. Yet, for example, cloud devops engineers, although expensive, were readily available
My website/book/course does the same thing, and it's freeeeeee! https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...
That's an incredibly unintelligent "everything is fine move along" comment. Seeing how it contains nothing of value whatsover, I'm surprised it's this short, usually they're several paragraphs. These people are sometimes known as the lazy ones amongst the unintelligent ones.
The author's repeatedly-stated fixation about how illegal or sometimes "barely legal" all this DRM evasion nonsense regarding the kindle is comes out as absurd. Who gives a shit? Stupid, self-serving, bad laws absolutely should be ignored and there's nothing in the least bit immoral about it, especially considering how Amazon and similar treat you as a supposed "owner" of content you bought.

Just quit the silly hand wringing and get to stripping that DRM parasitism away, straight to hell. No, you're not in any way immoral for doing so.
> Welding for high stress, corrosive, high vibration, high heat and high safety requirements is extremely difficult and highly skilled labour. And rightly so.

I didn't say anything to contrary. I am saying that car factories can churn out high quality welds at scale, but construction companies can't.

> Regarding house building, there is only so much that can be pre-produced. Assembly is still on site, and that will always require rework, nobody can afford the site preparation and parts manufacture at the required tolerance levels to avoid that.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_housing

It looks like 'only so much' can go pretty far.
So, they found no evidence of corruption, and everybody was speeding through the town. Maybe the system should be fixed to avoid obvious conflicts of interest, but this rather looks like another case of failed US infrastructure. There shouldn't be a highway cutting straight through a village with no protection.
Or perhaps your brain listens and doesn't quite catch the header, so audio is played mid-stream and you get the digital noise playing like you're trying to listen to a tape loaded game.
This is a good a place as any to ask about weird sensory experiences at night.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, and while my eyes are open there is an instantaneous change in my vision equivalent to wearing coloured fillers or monochrome LED lighting. Usually red. No other symptoms. Transition was instant so that rules out retinal bleeding etc.

I asked my doctor about this, she didn't know either.
rush hours*
yes, and... IIUC, uBlock uses heuristics, which means that potentially-objectionable content is already on your system and executing. Whereas PrivacyBadger is blocking the requests to those domains.
This is the usual American lack of any historical knowledge concerning their own actions on display.

US took Pakistan's side first, we only made the Indo-Soviet friendship deal in 71 because we had no other choice, or just accept being obliterated by US Navy while intervening in Bangladesh. We were one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned movement of third world countries and one of the leaders of that group. We did not want to be involved in cold war between the west and USSR and took no sides until we were forced to for survival.

Can you imagine that? The world's strongest and second-strongest democracies aiming their guns at the world's largest on behalf of an Islamist-Military dictatorship that was committing a genocide.

As usual, Americans forget all of this or don't even bother to read about it in the first place.
Sure, but then it's not "open source".
SA:MP roleplay trucking was cool (though it earned pretty little).

Aaaall my ex's live in Texas...
>prefer scientific method

If you know some scientific method to pick CEOs and it works

then patent it quickly and open it as SaaS or something cuz big companies are waiting with trucks full of cash

Btw her "believing" in him may be due to serious and measurable results, how is this religious?
I have quite vicious migraines, and have regular painless aura migraines that feels like I have a huge number of paparazzi behind me with random flashes, wonder if you're experiencing something similar?
Wow, that first link is fantastic, thanks for sharing!
Or modified shipping containers. Those, as well as mobile homes, have significant trade offs so.
"I'm sorry, I can't help with that."
> OVH uses OpenStack to power a large a amount of it's offering afaict,

YMMV, but I think one of the main drivers of OpenStack is that it can be modified, because it's open source.

IE, if you're Verizon / AT&T / T-Mobile, it's valuable to be able to modify the product to suit your needs. I did some work on an OpenStack project a couple of years ago where the client wanted to leverage some hardware that was absolutely cutting edge. Literally so new, that engineers from the hardware vendor were involved in tweaking and optimizing things.

Try doing that with VMWare; it's impossible. With OpenStack, there's nothing stopping you from modding the product to suit your needs.

Obviously, this works particularly well if you're running hundreds or thousands of servers and you can justify the investment. If I were only running a few dozen VMs, OpenStack is probably overkill.
Perhaps, those are exception that proves the rule?

But whether it is deserved or not, it is never the question when congratulating a CEO for an achievement.
> [ a = b ] && echo "Oops!" || echo "Expected; phew!"

Not to be taken as a general rule though. I might be mistaken but I think that bash would parse the line as:

([ a = b ] && echo "Oops!") || echo "Expected; phew!"

so if the command sequence after `&&` fails, then the code sequence after `||` is executed anyway:

illo@joe:~ $ [ "a" == "a" ] && >/dev/full echo "strings match" || echo "strings don't match"
-bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
strings don't match
illo@joe:~ $

This is different from the semantics of the `if` block:

illo@joe:~ $ if [ "a" == "a" ]; then >/dev/full echo "strings match"; else echo "strings don't match"; fi
-bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
illo@joe:~ $
There is no justification except fear of not having enough money. The issue is whether you can meet your peak budget. If you can get by with $x * 0.80 most of the time, but every once in a while you really, really need the full $x then you spend $x/year. Because, if you don't, that extra $x * 0.20 will be cut (possibly even more). This leads to an increasingly tight budget (or it's feared at least) so it's "better" to be wasteful.
Because you have to maintain two code paths that are very different.

One of them gets a huge budget (pixel design) and has to rewrite major ML models. Very expensive. All for a small amount of users.

The other code path has most of your users, and can use whatever the R&D team throws together. And works for every customer, and can be easily bug-fixed if issues arise.

When you’re Google with Billions of users, your long-tail use cases are all common. You have to think about what that behavior looks like regardless.
It does. This is the plugins methodology described in the toolformers paper which I've linked elsewhere[1]. The model learns that for certain types of problems certain specific "tools" are the best way to solve the problem. The problem is of course it's simple to argue that the LLM learns to use the tool(s) and can't reason itself about the underlying problem. The question boils down to whether you're more interested in machines which can think (whatever that means) or having a super-powered co-pilot which can help with a wide variety of tasks. I'm quite biased towards the second so I have the wolfram alpha plugin enabled in my chat gpt. I can't say it solves all the math-related hallucinations I see but I might not be using it right.

[1] But here it is again https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
99% of smartphone consumers don't care about 'ML performance' as a primary concern. People care how fast apps open, and battery life. From the perspective, the tensor chips are pigs that nobody is excited about.
The top talent part is largely Untrue. That goes to USA. Canada mostly gets a lot of students and the universities they go to for the most part don't have a great reputation.

I mean, it's not Canada's fault or lack of trying. It's very hard to be attractive to top talent when you're next to USA really, especially when most of us are in the tech industry.
But that's every car manufacturer nowadays, no?

You pay monthly for Apple Whatever. You pay for adaptive cruise control. You pay for smart headlights.