skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most of the builds are incremental, but even incremental builds still take awhile when it's that massive (linking, modifying a header / template code, etc)
I didn’t realize you were looking for a sourced essay.

Medicare-for-all extends a fee for service model that results in poor care, poorer outcomes, massively increases expense, and simultaneously lowers physician reimbursements. Given the increasing doctor shortage, that’s an issue that will be immediately exacerbated. Further, the FFS model incentivizes throughput, not quality of care. Your care won’t get better.
I feel the urge to post an xkcd here. https://xkcd.com/378/
Gotta love our electricity state monopoly in Quebec. You can say many bad things about it, but planning correctly for expanding demand is not one of it. And price, still the cheapest electricity in North America.

One thing lots of people miss is you have to invest in reducing demand for heating by subsidising good practices like heat pump and renovations. This is what a state monopoly can do even if the government doesn't want to invest.
I suspect most of the cost in the OpenSearch vector database?

I agree it is high and it is not exactly serverless. You pay by the hour.

Bedrock itself is charged based on tokens exchanged.

I think Pinecone is a cheaper database for hobby and small business projects, though I haven't looked into it.
> If you open the link you'll see that the current "change" is caused by humans.

Yes. And it's not the first time when one of the species change the environment so much to cause a mass extinction events. So what's your point?

> So I don't see how that contests what I said.

It depends on what you said because I don't see your messages up in the thread. Would be glad to reply to a specific opinion.
what extreme fetish for austerity? Compared to what other countries?

The rise of the fascists, left an right, is due to refugees and inflation - and Trump style conspiracy theroies. And vaccs. But mainly refugees. Just talk to some AfD voters.
It's just because they did not study statistics, so they were unaware of it.

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mhydari/statistics.ML.dictio...
I mean, they could presumably afford to hire people who know how to do this. It is not a secret; for the right money you can get the process expertise.
(French here) It’s not really about words distinguished by gender, but misgendering a word will sound very weird to French people. So much so you’ll be labeled as foreign immediately. As crazy as it may seem, but misgendering objects sounds worse than misgendering people (in a purely linguistic way).
I’ve got a Meta Quest 3 and it is great. I am playing the pack-in game Asgard’s Wrath 2 and it is the first AAA game I’ve seen in VR and succeeds in every way as a single player game.

It’s the most interesting thing this year in the game business in the sense that there is nothing special about Xbox or Playstation right now, the Nintendo Switch is ancient, they don’t plan to upgrade the Steam Deck anytime soon, etc.

Outside of that, I am interested in experiences that are more like a theme park, say 3-d models of boulders on Mars inside a natural history museum and it is not hard to make that kind of thing with A-frame.
You have oddly fast timelines for adoption. These things take time.
True story: I was born in Saudi Arabia and the internet hadn't arrived. But I was deep into building games. I wanted to load .bmps in my game but I couldn't figure out the format. My dad had PC Mag from Ziff Davis press which had a small table explaining how the BMP format has first 2 bytes as 'BM' then 4 reserved bytes, followed by 2 byte width and 2 byte height, then 1024 bytes for palette and the image array... I had to figure out how to decode everything but man, the 7th grader was so happy when an image I made was plotted on the TC DOS screen in VGA!

I'm glad that era is gone. It took too long to learn. When I went to my cousins in Pakistan who had internet, he showed me Yahoo (google wasn't a thing yet) and the very first thing I searched for was File Formats, and there was an entire website that shows the format of every file with full details. I almost cried on how easy it was vs. how much hard I had to work.
I mean, what if there are actual technical limitations of whatever browser you'd like to use that prevent, for example, the on-the-fly playback of 4K video?

Or, even more broadly, what if the device you're watching on has insufficient compute to accomplish the task? Do you, as proverbial Netflix's chief engineer or whatever, degrade the quality of the experience so things run smoothly, or do you press on and let the user choose a worse experience, and leave nasty feedback on public listings/forums/what have you?

I don't mean to argue for the Netflix's in this situation, I'm just genuinely curious what HN thinks of this: in a situation where whatever tech a user is bringing to the table is insufficient to run your product, be it hardware or software, what do you do?

I've been in a situation myself where the tech stack of our user base was directly contributing to the stream of angry emails our support was getting and was forbidden by management to gate content only to those who we knew could run it, yet simultaneously was held responsible for the negative impressions of our product as a result of it. I left that job soon after because it was an obvious lose/lose scenario.
So your solution to healthcare in this country is to light rural America on fire so that you, personally, can have cheaper care?

That sounds workable.
It'd be kind nice to replace my set of 4k screens with something physically smaller.

But that would need AR rather than VR (excessive isolation from the real world is bad), and way better resolution than headsets currently have.
The parent post is talking about fit and finish.
"Failing to plan is planning to fail" and "Your emergency is not my problem"
I look forward to the day I can respond "Obviously".
I was shocked to discover that the source code distribution for GNU nano is over 3 megabytes.

To be fair, it also has more features than I expected, e.g. syntax highlighting. And I’m sure it runs on an obscene number of platforms.
> That says your actual product is worth fuck all.

Look I use ad blockers and a pi-hole. And I don't bother reading paywalled sites that I don't pay for. But your comment is a little harsh. It is a sad reality of the internet that there are so few options for generating revenue. I wish there was a micro-payment model where part of my monthly ISP payment was divvied up and paid to websites based on volume of content read by me. That way niche websites (like, for example, hobby sites or local sites) could get some income without having to resort to ads or fundraising. In my view the real ripoff are the exorbitant monthly fees I pay to my ISP.
It certainly sounds like a great solution for a non-problem. Why would I ever want to buy this NFT instead of the actual artwork? I guess i could speculate with the value, which, who am I kidding, is basically the only non-criminal crypto use case.
Philips Hue Sync Box Teardown and Failure Analysis
> The biggest blocker is that thread border routers have no vendor interoperability (you have to buy a bridge for every vendor)

Why? They all work ~fine on zigbee which is pretty much the exact same thing just with even less oversight.

I haven't bought into matter/thread because I haven't found a single device I want yet.
Energy intensive industries do not use electricity but gas.And Germany had some pretty below market deals with Russia for the German chem industry. Now it pays the same as everybody else.
The problem you'll have with "real applications" is that they're written for amd64 or x86, and Qualcom's translator isn't exactly competitive.

They're going to need Rosetta-like translation performance to beat Intel. Which also begs the question: do modern Qualcoms even come with native 32 bit support? Unlike amd64, aarch64 has no 32 bit compatibility guarantees.

On Linux the situation will be very different. That's why I hope they release these devices for relatively cheap (because most applications and games will be quite slow) so Linux users can get good perf out of them for almost all native tools while Windows userspace catches up.
Unfortunately in the US we've had our fair share of nuclear boondoggles and outright scams. Recently, Florida began allowing utilities to collect from ratepayers during planning/etc. for new nuclear and FPL got a billion bucks for a new reactor that will never exist.
What do you mean by political? It is not a major issue for either party, candidates almost never bring it up.

It’s not political, it’s unpopular broadly.
You know what? Elon Musk called me, He is hugely interested in the lithium
Let's remember this gem from 7 months ago:

"Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35860473

My premonitory comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35861677

All working as planned: https://www.csis.org/analysis/south-americas-lithium-triangl...
Cocaine has gone mainstream in Britain, and Gen X is to blame
One area where Ruby could help improve developer experience is by providing a better debugging experience. I feel incredibly spoiled with Chrome Dev Tools. Meanwhile the last time I tried debugging heavy metaprogramming Ruby code it was a pain to figure out what was happening.
why do you think general education is necessary? went to med school directly from high school in england, and loved the fact I didn't have to waste time and money on “general education” - I can read and I know what a library is, I don't need a university to spoon feed me “general education”
nVidia should find a way into this list in all honesty. MANMAA, anyone?
Embeddings are not just english based ....
I've been screaming it for years but my real guess is the shift to nuclear power is the result of the destabilization of the global geopolitical situation showing that having an energy dependency on foreign nations that you can't always trust to be friendly or behave is a major national security weakness.

So nuclear starts to look very attractive because of the guarantee of continual high power output with few dependencies as long as you have the uranium, and isn't as unreliable as renewables.
I’ve been wanting to make a library for Pico-like interfaces, with the commands and key combinations listed at the bottom of the screen.

I thought something like that must exist, but I haven’t found it yet…
They aren't pulling the andon cord because the panel gap's are within tolerance but could be improved.

Parent post is talking about general fit and finish (i.e. tolerances being wide), try being a production line operative and pulling the andon because you think panel gaps could be decreased.

You are supposed to be pulling it if you notice the wiring loom is broken or something like that, not just fit and finish.

Besides, people are talking in this thread like lean / six sigma are new concepts that won't be already be fully embedded in the existing Tesla plants - this stuff is basic manufacturing which will already be fully embedded, but is just misunderstood by most people.
As with most things it's probably a combination of factors, one of which is Facebook essentially monopolising internet access in the country while stoking the fire.
CFRS[] Community Demos
Lightning transfers are instantaneous and low fee. No recourse is the complement of self sovereignty. It is a tradeoff to be made.
This comment is wrong. Countries relying on nuclear energy (United States, China, France…) certainly don’t struggle with “unplanned downtime”. Nor can a modern reactor, built to modern standards, “poison a whole country and their neighbors”. Chernobyl is the worst radiological accident in history and the only one of its kind. Modern reactors can’t explode and burn like Chernobyl. It’s impossible. And nuclear power plants are not built by the lowest bidder, because the number of corporations that can build nuclear reactors is already vanishingly small. Chernobyl isn’t a good argument against nuclear anymore than the 9/11 attacks are a good argument against skyscrapers.
Reverse engineering.
and you require a whole OS. I expect browsers to outlast OSes. Browsers ran on MacOS 9 and software that ran on those browsers still runs today. MacOS 9 itself, not so much
Some universities divide the academic year into two semesters, others divide it into three trimesters. It also sometimes happens that, within the same university, some programs use one and others use the other-at my alma mater, only a minority of graduate programs used trimesters, every else was semesters.
Few places in North America have the type of hydro capacity that Quebec does, and nowadays new build hydro isn't generally considered "green" anyway due to environmental destruction.
it is undetectable because ads are on the client side, and unless that changes (which is not likely) it will work without an issue

this project is free and open source so no, I am not looking for money, otherwise I'd sell it or make some kind of premium subscription. Buy me a coffee is set up because I have a lot of new tools incoming and only way for me to make them quickly is by not working part time jobs, that's why those links are there

Almost every user (about 18k of them) joined because uBlock was getting detected, and because it will most likely stop working when Manifest V3 becomes mandatory (this is already V3 comaptible)
Again it doesn't really matter because it's just the way it works, but it's also a feature for server admins. Imagine being harassed by someone, or imagine that person harassing your users, blah blah blah. Is there some hypothetical where this feature is abused in a super petty way? Sure. Welcome to all features in all software.
You're pushing 100Gb/s of JSON (1Mb*100k/s)? AND your calling other services + a DB per request on a single server? I'm skeptical.
A) Most of the OS is portable code (go and look at the list of platforms which Windows NT and later have been sold on)

B) Microsoft's x86 emulation on ARM is surprisingly good (based on my personal experience of running Windows 11 on Parallels on an M1 Mac)
You can still have an entirely "private" but heavily regulated system like those in the Netherlands or Switzerland.
Huh? Obviously true. You can not have tried it.
A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system
These issues were occurring before Dobbs - suggesting that’s a major driver in the long term creation of care deserts is incorrect.

Hospitals are not closing because of shitty prenatal laws. They’re closing because reimbursement rates are insufficient, in part, because we’ve allowed too much consolidation, in part, and because there aren’t doctors/nurses who want to live in the sticks and make peanuts.
I was thinking of Bluesky when I said that, but it was true for Twitter for the use of the word rational I am talking about (keeping personal beefs out of it and at least trying to be impartial). Elon Musk has since made himself, and X, the perfect example of an instance admin on a power trip! That's a good analogy, actually. You might be on a moderation team with sensible feedback policies but the odds are very high of a new user ending up on the property, and following the rules, of a miniature Elon.
Charging an EV battery. Lots of easy to use infra in place. No exchange of fluids.
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) to the rescue: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-...
> What absolutely does not work is trying to just feed a set of documents into fine tuning.

Not quite. It does work, albeit likely not optimal.

See https://github.com/bublint/ue5-llama-lora
I bought a new MB CLA 6 years ago, done almost 100k. Nothing broke, never had a problem with software or hardware. Only maintenance was oil, brake fluid, break pad, filters, summer tyres, windshield wipers. Batter is still good, next year I'll replace break discs.

I've been tracking, drifting and driving quite hard (bloody potholes!). I don't think I'll ever sell this car.
>> It found globally that healthcare, especially things like hospital administrative tasks, would like to be some of the first positions to go.

Has someone more insight?
Really a constant behaviour around here.

Merry Christmas!
Nothing but love for Zotero and the iOS app.
The lack of non-ASCII support is not mentioned on github, so this warning about this basic capability (which is often taken for granted) is certainly useful.
This attitude puzzles me. "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" energy.

We are not always makers. Oftentimes we're consumers as well.

I don't want to read documentation and experiment with my phone, I just want it to work out of the box and do what I expect.

This is standard consumer behaviour and you're lying to yourself if you don't think you act like this with some things.
Now try what we’re talking about here: a large business reporting a customer for criminal misuse of their service.
You should google "Germany industrial site shutdown" and see the closing down announcements.

"Chemicals producer BASF to axe jobs at energy intensive production sites in Germany"
"Tyre maker Michelin announces closure of German sites"
"Rust belt on the Rhine"
Well, France was constantly paraded aroubd HN for their failure to keep their nuclear reactors running. Usually not as an example for nuclear power failing, but rather as examole of the state (who doesn't like neo-liberalism?) and France as a counzry (because who doesn't like dumping on France?) failing.
nice , maybe a macos version in future
>until then we need consistent power.

We get it in the form of gas peakers. So does France, when it's nuclear power stations aren't matching demand.

>nuclear power is great because the materials are cheap and abundant

It is by far the most expensive form of power humanity produces, nearly all due to capital costs. Its main benefit is that it shares some of the costs of building nukes and preparing for nuke readiness - this being why Iran, Sweden and South Korea build them and why the US military industrial complex keeps trying to greenwash it.

One thing the nuclear-military industrial complex hasn't pointed out is that the materials are very Russia dependent. Gas from Russia = bad. Uranium? Peachy. It is cheap though.

>the power is very stable.

Not worth 5x the cost to have a steady 1GW output when you can pair something 1/5th of the cost with some pumped storage.

>Even the disposal is much safer

If you do it safely it's much more expensive than people think.

The operation of nuclear power plants isn't particularly safe though, which is why the private sector point blank refuses to insure against a Fukushima type event. This is why the government says don't worry if that happens, joe taxpayer will foot the $1 trillion bill. You. Me.
That seems to be a different thing again. You had at least one rocm version that claimed to work with your GPU and then later versions dropped it. Your options then are to stay with the rocm version that claimed to support it or to build a newer rocm yourself, or get it from distros etc, where at some point in the future it'll probably stop working entirely.

I don't know what plays into which GPUs are listed as supported on which versions of ROCm. I'm sure my 6800GT was marked "supported" on some version and isn't on the current one. I think my radeon vii was likewise "supported" on some of them and isn't any more. I used a 5700 XT for a year or so which was never on the blessed list. I obsessively build everything from source instead of using the release binaries though.
You calling them "bully" implies that they should not have a right to federate only with instances that they consider federation-worthy. Who are you to tell them what they ought to do with their own instances?

Also, the problem you describe is a social problem. You can't solve those with technology, as they say around HN.
"Toy" is the wrong word to describe it but it seems like another order of magnitude or two increase in context size will solve all their problems.

On the other hand I've got a terabyte of text extracted from LibGen - let's say I can ignore the half that is fiction and I can dedupe the rest further by 80% - that's still 100gb. On top of that I've got 300gb of text extracted from court documents and that's just from California! I haven't even downloaded the federal dump yet, let alone the other 49 states. Even if I limited myself to just the US Code and Federal Code of Regulations, that's hundreds of millions of tokens of very dense text. Embedding based RAG has been pretty much useless in each of these cases but maybe I just suck at implementing the retrieval part.

What's the data size on the GST search engine? Do you have any examples of more complex queries?

The only thing that has even been remotely useful to tackling the kind of questions I want to ask of my data sources is having the LLM generate search queries, navigate the knowledge graph, and rank the relevance of retrieved snippets but that often takes dozens if not hundreds of LLM calls which is incredibly slow and expensive.
Can you briefly explain what the definition is of a 'property' and why 'existing' doesn't fit in it? The way I use the word property I don't see how it wouldn't apply to 'existing' or any other adjective for that matter
Is the Index that far behind? I basically bought it with IL2 as my main excuse (mostly hoping for some magic hack to repurpose lighthouse for desktop head tracking, but I never got around to adding a Vive tracker) and for me it was a clear not even close to acceptable. Tolerable for some quick "blow up some AI targets" but super far using a screen with my old webcam wannabe-trackir.
Have another fact since we are talking about trees, wood is the rarest element in the universe, even more rare than diamonds, in fact, wood can only be found on earth!
A piece of me dies every time I see someone cutting a tree for useless reasons.
100% this. If companies use Admiral to block Adblock and don’t have the tiny “heck off” link at the bottom of the modal, I just hit back and don’t read their article. Sometimes Reader works on iOS in those situations, sometimes not.

Between crap like Admiral, GDPR nag screens that help no one, incessant useless live chat boxes, large banners on mobile that are pinned to the tops and bottoms of views (doubly so if they’re simply cosmetic), “spin the wheel for a discount” modals, and SMS spam signup schemes, many websites are quite annoying to use and very user-hostile on the modern internet.
She should find a doctor she likes and stick with that doctor - apparently, “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor” (with obvious extension to that doctor’s nurses,techs, clerks etc)
If that statement is not true, perhaps we should consider what changes in the system might might make it more or less true over time?
Let's take a gun as an example. You could use it to shoot a bad guy, but there are a lot of times where the person who got shot was a good guy, and a lot of other times it's by accident. The same goes for moderation - you can justify handing out the power to cut off connections between entire communities to random people by thinking of the ways it could be used for good but it doesn't get you out of dealing with the ways it can be used to harm.
Isn’t factoring out C based libraries ignoring a large part of the Python ecosystem?
Kauai, ok

One thing that initially annoyed me about Oahu was that there were people everywhere

Remote secluded beach? People.

Woods? People.

Forbidden, secret trail after ten “no trespassing we’ll shoot you” signs? People.

I lived there for 6 months and found more solitude when I wanted it, but also became more exhibitionist
And the gas supply bad new are not over. Ukraine's gas transit agreement with Russia, which allows RU to export nat gas through Ukraine to Poland, Germany and Austria, will expire in 2024 and Ukraine doesn't look in an easy mood to renew it.