skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't bother with FF7R, it sucks. I tried so hard to like it, as FF7R is my favorite game of all time. But it's just a bad game.

1. It's a remake which completely diverges story wise and gameplay wise from the original. So not a great thing off the bat, because it's a "remake" which is really a new game with an FF7R coat of paint on.

2. The game was needlessly padded out to try to justify why they split the game into multiple installments. That might've been fine if the new content was good, but instead there is so, so much boring filler content which exists just to pad the length of the game. It's a 40ish hour game iirc, and at least half of that could have been cut (and the game would've been better for it).

3. The story goes way off the rails and ends up with some fourth wall breaking stuff that is just plain amateurish in its writing quality. And to add insult to injury, the fans of the original who wanted a faithful remake are not so subtly implied to be the villains.

4. The combat is... ok for what it is. I don't like action combat. But it's very poorly tuned. For example, take Air Buster, a boss fight that takes a few minutes in the original. In FF7R, it's a 10 minute fight. It's the same basic strategy - it's weak to thunder, so use that a lot (and your abilities that add stagger, which is obviously not a thing in the original). Then the boss will be staggered, and you can unleash limit breaks to do big damage. The problem is, it's 10 minutes of just doing that. Nothing new or interesting happens, just hit the boss with chip damage until it's staggered, then do real damage for a few seconds, repeat for 10 minutes. It's not horrible as a system but it's really badly tuned.

So yeah, you're not missing anything with FF7R. It's just a really bad game, which isn't worth your time or money.
They probably think it's rising because it rose substantially in 2020/21 and is nowhere close to returning to the typical levels of the 20 years prior.

St Louis should have all-time low total homicides, it's experiencing terminal population collapse. There are American suburbs similar in population to St Louis. So much of this article is just contrarian clickbait.

On the other hand, Detroit feels significantly safer than it did 10 years ago. It's still desperately poor, but it's a pleasant place to visit now. It's pretty, and it has clung onto its culture and history. For better and worse, these things tend to come back around. That doesn't happen if we pretend nothing is wrong.

I think "news" entertainment has painted this situation as a return to '70s-'80s violence, and that's not even close to reality. I'm not fleeing to the burbs, or going outside with a bulletproof vest. There's a problem, but it's solvable, and it won't take decades to fix.
We're talking about curbside pickup. There's men who lift the buckets and put them in trucks. Then humans help sort them at facilities. The worst thing about recycling now is mostly leftover organics and sharp lids.
Imo it’s surprising that this didn’t happen 10 years ago
Wait, how would tracking bad kids be less illegal? I think putting bad children on state sanctions list might very well be deserved for some of them, but a bit overkill... Imagine not doing your homework leading to being officially sanctioned by EU governments or the UN... though I'm sure that's a pretty convincing way to make someone do their homework.
I have great respect for Munro but being giddy about Telsa competition getting “wrecked” is the wrong attitude.

More competition in the market is always good for consumers. We need more manufacturers doing more R&D and building competitive products. We shouldn’t applaud giving up or pulling out of the EV market.
I’ll be relearning iOS development and getting up to speed with SwiftUI - any suggestions on good resources would be very welcome!
Hopefully Windows 12's emulation of x86-64 apps is better than the support in the Windows 11 on ARM releases - if that's the case I could definitely see the next few years being a shift for Windows laptops from x86 to ARM with Nvidia also trying to make their own ARM chips.

I don't think it'll be as seamless as Apple's switch to Apple Silicon with Rosetta though.
Isn't that just bamboo (technically not a tree)
Autism and ADHD are, by far, the most thoroughly studied mental disorders. They are also the most thoroughly undiagnosed, untreated, and ignored.

Sprinkle the hyper-politicization of stimulant medication on top, and you get what we have today: hell.

Imagine if the wheelchair store was at the top of a staircase. Imagine if the glasses flashed bright lights into your eyes every time you tried a frame on. Imagine you broke your leg, and your physician told you with a straight face, "I think it might be a sprain. I'm going to prescribe you a mild painkiller, and see if that helps." There's a shortage of crutches, and we don't want to risk getting you dependent on those anyway.

Think I'm being heavy-handed here? Just read any collection of first-hand ADHD diagnosis. If anything, it's worse.
You are completely right, they are criminals there is nothing stopping them from just dumping the data anyway (or launching another attack later down the road).

However the hackers also want to get paid, as soon as they go back on their word no one else will ever pay them.

But there is another "maybe" to consider (OP did ask for a brief explanation so I didn't go into all possibilities), did they encrypt the data? If they did and entity no longer has access to it they then have two options 1) restore the data from backup (if they had them and can restore service in a reasonable amount of time) / write off any data loss 2) pay up for the keys.
Does this mean that someone with diabetes effectively has to pay 50k/yr for health insurance? Or do you mean diabetics can pay more than 50k/yr because no individual vial of insulin costs over 50k, so a diabetic is expected to pay for all of their insulin out of pocket for their entire life?
Per unit of work? I highly doubt it, because you're losing at least 60% of the fuel energy to heat.

Ah, but the EPA did the math for me, and you're pretty much correct, even considering efficiency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent
It still exists and the SDF helps keep the equipment from falling into direct disrepair

The current word is the "owner" has no interest in it however but cannot close it down. So she's simply letting it fade into memory
That’s quite rich coming from you.
That last bullet in the tldr is putridly horrifying to imagine. Seriously ill in America? You might want an administrative consultant.
ESPHome even comes with a well thought out sprinkler controller module: https://esphome.io/components/sprinkler.html

It supports valves, pumps, schedules, etc. I programmed mine once a few years ago with YAML (no code!) and now I just power cycle them once every month or so. Been running great.
As discussed in the bullet points, those incentives create a sort of natural selection which changes how the statistics are reported over time.

It's not like we are measuring length or temperature. The data has a degree of human subjectivity when being recorded. It seems normal for that subjectivity to shift over time, especially when we are taking about different humans over timespans of decades.
But lithium batteries are Goodenough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
A rather inefficient system that results in such a large cut of the revenue
Concrete arches should be able to carry extremely heavy loads.

Monolithic concrete structures, yes. Concrete pieced together, not so sure.

That wouldn't be a bridge.

No, it wouldn't. In this particular cases, there is nothing being bridged. The only place this "bridge" goes is up a small incline in the background.
The work culture seems bizarrely counter productive. Where is real value being generated? It’s a bit puzzling in some ways. I’m somehow assuming that the dysfunction described in the piece is way downstream from a lot of messed up communist party broken political economy and socialization stuff.
Would be interesting to see a native ARM version coming out of this.
The author has the most British name ever.
Also it’s just work to hire, manage, administer another enployee. Fiddling around in Justworks one extra time per month. Creating an email address. Etc.
Ah yes, a convenient 400 liters of fluid, yielding an incredible 4 miles per gallon, saving a remarkable 120 lbs over a typical 1000 lb EV battery, assuming all of the non-fluid components are weightless and the fluid is only as dense as water. What a vision of the future, where fuel transportation costs are not only an order of magnitude larger on paper, they are paid twice as used fluid must also be stored, transported, and processed.
What happened to the flu in 2020 and 2021?
I like telling dad jokes...he usually laughs
>It's better to have triple price, have insurer pay third of it and sell the debt of remaining two thirds as half-price. This way you get all the income and zero taxes.

I'm sorry but this sounds like someone invoking "they'll write it off" without knowing how write offs work. In that scenario your revenue will be 2/3rds of the list price. Taxes payable is dependent on your profit, not your revenue. Profit is revenue minus costs. Inflating the list price doesn't change anything in this equation, and thus won't affect your taxes payable.
This may be geo dependent. On a recent field trip to the UK I was surprised to see that WH Smith had the same wall of magazines as when I was a kid.
I'm the author of the top answer, and I believe that this is the top-voted thing that I ever posted on any StackExchange site. It was a lovely surprise to see it here today, and I hope that everyone else enjoyed reading it. Merry Christmas!
Surely server costs for something that's no longer being used much can't be very high? Running an idle ETLegacy server on my desktop uses a whopping 100 MB RAM and 0.02 CPU cores on my 6th gen i5 with the powersave governor on and all cores at 800 MHz. The more obvious motivation is just that they want you to buy their new thing and not have the old one anymore.

If the matchmaking server isn't getting requests, you can put it on a potato VM for $5/month or whatever. Likewise at least old games could run with 64 players on much weaker CPUs than we have today. Surely a small VM could keep a handful of 16 player servers around.
Crypto is coming back. NFTs will follow. The problem is that 99%+ are worthless. There's no way to figure out which are the good ones. Funny, how they are similar
in that way to baseball cards.

Read about a guy who was the head of a group that sold a set for over 50 mil. He cashed out and bought a mansion. The buyers just lost their money. I doubt they have any recourse to get their money back. We'll hear more of these stories again.
Ideally, sure, but I doubt these kinds of decisions generally get written down so there's probably no paper trail.

I suppose if you just held the CEO ultimately responsible...
And Happy Holidays!
> 10+ were jarring with the overly vocalized characters, verbalizing every slight emotion.

Thanks, this describes my take perfectly as well.
Overall: This is a great article. I am not surprised that Japan granted the visa, considering his long work and live experience in Japan. It was relatively low risk for they to grant him the initial 4 month visa, followed by a 1 year visa. If his business failed, he would have closed up after 16 months and returned home.

To me, the most important part about why Japan continues to approve his visa extensions: He income is high enough and he pays local + national taxes. Paying your taxes is the number one reason why Japan will extend your visa! Even if you earnings are overseas, but you declare them while living in Japan and pay Japanese taxes, they will grant you visa extensions.

On a more personal note: It is interesting that he wrote "I have recently remarried, to a Japanese national". The term "~ national" is quite specific in North American English, as it implies the person's origin (and original nationality) is different than the country. For example, Canadian national, but born in Jamaica. This implies, at some point, that the person nationalised as a Canadian.
Isolation during corona/covid prevented the transmission of disease.
Hearing first or second hand stories of veterans waiting months or years for important care or struggling to get something addressed at all.
You could get some vintage matrices from SuiteSparse (formerly the university of Florida sparse matrix collection).
Do you have some evidence to back any of this up? You're claiming that software developers who had access to an IBM Model 67 didn't actually make use of its full storage space. In that case, why not buy a smaller machine? It sounds completely fantastical/fabricated to me.
Chrome extension My Notes for taking notes:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-notes/lkeeogfaie...
The government is mostly just there to manage contracts, the actual work would be done by the same doctors that are doing it today. You would just pare n profit-seeking entities down to one principally administrative entity. If you wish to pay for your own medical procedures out of pocket there will be nothing stopping you. That is not to say this does not have problems.

Insurance is anti-competitive on top of that. You have a Sophie’s choice of who you want to pay to buy into this crazy system. There’s no transparency in how services are priced or provided. You as a consumer have no insight into how prices are negotiated between the insurer and providers, nor how providers are paid out. Good luck making an informed decision.
Come on. Given that the mucosal immune response is almost entirely compartmentalized from the systemic immune response, I’d say I saw magical thinking on all “sides,” and it’s better to move on.
AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators
This is where my mind went too -- currently I use VimWiki for this and it can be pretty nasty. Just a little bit of sugar could go a long way.
it’s more complex. The patient is at a higher level of care but they also aren’t paying a single penny for the additional stay. And the money isn’t coming from anthem to the hospital per se because they likely are paying under a diagnosis code and a lesser rate for additional days. The hospital is losing out on some opportunity costs possibly but if they needed the bed meaning they had patients to replace the current one being discharged suddenly the problem would be fixed after one manager phoned another.
The article has Android phone comparisons. Any idea how the iPhones stack up against the Cray-1?
Here's the corresponding graph for COVID.[1] About 10x flu deaths right now.

Notes: Death data takes a while to trickle in, so those grey lines for recent weeks reflect reporting delays.

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeath...
> However the hackers also want to get paid, as soon as they go back on their word no one else will ever pay them.

The hackers are the real victims here
And the tm_mon starts from 0
I think for-profit healthcare can do a lot of unnecessary tests and treatments that fall far into diminishing returns or worse.

It’s not necessarily a good thing to want unlimited healthcare for all. Proper use of a scarce resource doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about rationing it with waiting lists and selective treatment. You can probably get quite far by first not overtreating a lot of people.
AWS Bedrock is fairly easy. You can do it in 5 or 6 clicks.

You have to upload your documents to S3, create a “Knowledge Base” then sync your documents into a vector database like OpenSearch or PineCone. You are then good to go via their playground or the AWS API.

I made a video here describing the process, check around 14 minutes in:

https://ensembleanalytics.io/blog/introducing-bedrock-knowle...

Bedrock is a decent product I think. All of the models in one place (apart from the big dogs from OpenAI) and a common API across them.
Based upon their example "just about as fast as filling up a gasoline-powered car." Is not exactly accurate for a number of reasons.

On paper, it would be more like filling up and emptying 4 gasoline-powered cars. That's about 8x the process in the ideal case.

Other considerations would be the necessity for 8x as much storage in gas stations, 8x as many refilling trucks to supply and empty those stations, and above all, the development of a nationwide network of such infrastructure as pervasive as the existing fuel network.

This is even more dead on arrival than hydrogen.
I haven't personally tried this for anything serious yet, but to get the thread started:

Cheshire Cat [0] looks promising. It's a framework for building AI assistants by providing it with documents that it stores as "memories" that can be retrieved later. I'm not sure how well it works yet, but it has an active community on Discord and seems to be developing rapidly.

The main perk over the cloud options is that you can point it at any language model, including fully local—my local install pointed at my local Ollama running Mistral.

[0] https://github.com/cheshire-cat-ai/core
>when compared to commercial HMOs, Medicaid HMOs and Medicare HMOs.

That's not all private insurance, just some of it.

That's also talking about the average.

>although there is high variation in quality across individual VA facilities

...

>It's the usual "review effect", you only see negatives about the VA, not positives.

You're saying in rebuttal to a negative review of private insurance, which isn't even what's at issue. Difficulties getting things covered and being buried in beurocratic nonsense isn't really connected to "health outcomes on average".

Your source doesn't make the argument well.
This, but also because Covid is far more easily transmitted than the flu, measures like masks, hand washing, etc were actually highly effective at stopping the spread of the flu.
Does this mean that you can't put stairs next to a ramp or an elevator, because the stairs aren't accessible to people with wheelchair?
The US military would be unable to defeat the cartels. The US military is designed to fight standing armies, not criminal organizations or insurgencies. Any plausible solution to the cartel issue will take a long time to implement and require some unpalatable choices. For example: indefinite suspension of legal rights and due process for all military age males; arbitrary arrests and detention; mass amnesties; legalization; curfews; invasive government surveillance.
Can't use GPS much in war zones any more. Too much jamming.[1]

[1] https://ops.group/dashboard/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GPS-S...
I think the general case is far more interesting than time specifically. There are cool functor/analogy ideas here.
Why would they pay? It's a 10-year-old game that's the second best selling game of all time. Rockstar made their money, and there isn't anything a competitor could use to gain an advantage. It's almost good because it's free press for GTA VI.
> She sorta got a deal for all the Phish shows

What does that mean? That shit was impossible. I don't know anybody who got tickets-- lottery or general.
It took me 3 sessions but I read the whole thing, and I still have no idea what I read. The best part was the edge of the screen? What?

I was at sphere 4 hours ago watching the same movie, if you ever went to the Omni in Dallas Tx you have seen a better show, but the massive led screen was impressive nonetheless. Of the ways you can vaporize money in Vegas, it was not the worst.

As an aside they will flat out lie and tell you that you can't bring bags in and that there is no bag check. There is, they just know they can't have everyone using it so they harass you on the way in.
So on the one hand you're objecting to "extrapolation" and on the other you're claiming that hypothesizing feedback mechanisms we don't know how to model, that have not been observed in humans, and so far as I know don't even exist should be fair game?

Look at Japan[1] -- roughly two thirds of their population is over than child bearing age, so even if the remaining third starting having babies at the replacement rate, their population will continue to diminish for decades. But of course their fertility rate in nowhere near replacement[2] and even the UN doesn't expect it to be that high in the foreseeable future.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2023/
[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/fertility-ra...
legacy games of ubisoft such as watch dogs, splinter cell conviction/blacklist, ghost recon future soldier, far cry 3 etc only need a server to login via ubi credentials, they actually work peer to peer so shutting these down is a crime on so many levels honestly
Even in the OpenFirmware PowerPC era, BootX was a reasonably popular classic MacOS app that worked the same way for booting into Linux (and confusingly, was also the name of a Mac OS X bootloader component). I think the BeOS loader also worked the same way.
Funny enough, i never noticed that english feature because PT-BR is similar, we only use Voce instead of Tu.
Look at the author list... Dirk Englund.

What do you mean by "no"? Do you mean, not that paper (that neither of us linked because there are probably several on matrix multiplication) but instead this other one that also has optics and ml and Dirk? I'm seeing a pattern of you understanding what you write, but it being impossible to decipher on my end.
You don't train on documents. There are many startups claiming that but they are deliberately using a misleading term because they know that's what people are searching for.

You still do RAG. Llamaindex is still the best option that I know of. Most of the startups that have working products are likely using llamaindex. All of the ones that say they are training on documents are actually using RAG.

Test it out. If it really and truly doesn't work, search for a script that creates question and answer pairs automatically with gpt-4. Then try using that for qLoRA. I have never heard of anyone successfully using that for a private document knowledgebase though. Only for skills like math, reasoning, Python, etc. I think the issue is that you need a LOT of data and it needs to repeat concepts or any facts you need to learn many, many times in different supporting ways.

What absolutely does not work is trying to just feed a set of documents into fine tuning. I personally have proven that dozens of times because I had a client who is determined to do it. He has been mislead.

What it will do is learn the patterns that are in those documents.
My mistake - I guess I assumed that when the dataset was released back in April, that was the end of it, I didn't know collection was ongoing.

Looks like the "final" version was released yesterday:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst2

As far as filtered/unfiltered goes, I have no idea.
And for those who were born outside the US, none of this is applicable (unless you are young and can try emigration), and the advice to be an entrepreneur is correct.

EDIT: There are some people here who claim you can earn that kind of money outside the US, but they never give details when pressed, or describe some kind of very specific set of life circumstances you will never be able to replicate.