skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Really? So a program can access (and modify!) the state of all of its users?

I never said that. The same binary can be run by multiple users and the user running it affects what files it can read and write.

>Not to mention that how do you even define what the same "app" is?

The user has an idea on what the same app is. Unfortunately Nix does not properly understand this concept.

>Also, how would you backup all of your own per-user state, given that every app can decide to manage it differently

You could back up the entire state visible to the user.

>What does this even mean?

Having a single set of state for each program would be good enough for most users.

>As I mentioned, on NixOS, the system-wide mutable state is already stored on /var/lib/<app>, which is what you are (redundantly) proposing.

That is one place. Some programs don't use it. It's not a centralized place of state for every program.
A Study of History (1954) [pdf]
Vote by mail happened.
Stupid question: why didn't they add that part to the actual production cars? It doesn't sound like a complex system or problem (compared to say, reducing emissions versus just cheating in emission testing) especially since they already seem like they know exactly what they had to fix.

Even then I'd understand if it was a one time thing (rush in production or design, no time to redesign) but this is systematic and across a wide range of models. I guess the other models in question had more deeply rooted design issues that can't be fixed with a less intricate tweak?
The biggest cost here isn't the hardware, it's the people keeping the lights on.
Countries that do that usually have med school programs that last longer than 4 years. US med schools would have to add in all the required classes from undergrad.

Then you have to take into account that you the US doesn’t have a national high school curriculum, so the first 2 years of undergrad are essentially just getting everyone in the same page.

You’d likely be looking at a 6-7 year program with a much higher failure rate. It’s not a clear cut win and it would take a huge amount of coordination and effort.
>They are controlled by politicians, who are directly responsible to their electorate. Brexit is a good example, using money sent to EU for NHS was one of the more influential ads. Of course, the outcome turned out to be... different.

Calling out Brexit is an... interesting way to argue here.

If you're proposing my options for heath care are going to be taken away and given to the single option controlled by the electorate who are liable to do things like Brexit... no thank you, I'll take marketplace competition where I can "vote out" the idiots by making a different choice for myself.

People here are like "isn't it awful that personal medical choices are being made by politicians and popular vote" with respect to abortion, gender-affirming care, etc... and those same folks are damn near excited to give away all of their health choices to a government entity.

Do you want your health care options to be dictated by an executive order the first day a new president enters office?
I'm always wishing there were more AAA games I could play natively on aarch64 linux. Porting it might not be the easiest thing in the world, but a source leak opens the door for it.
> You must be someone with a lot of experience living in Japan.

Lived there 8 years, and worked with things Japanese for longer.

> From the perspective of the landlord, he was suddenly much less reliable as a counterparty, after leaving his stable job with a Japanese corporation.

Yeah. I wasn’t going to expand on this, but since you brought it up…

1. The landlord’s behavior was fairly typical for the time. That doesn’t mean that it was reasonable. Keep in mind that this was small town Japan, and Patrick wasn’t some unknown rando.

2. Whether Patrick himself was actually a less reliable counterparty is… highly debatable. I would put him in the “really safe” category, even as a foreigner.

3. Iirc, he did offer to make a deposit or whatever (the rent was stupid low, so a 12-month deposit was very possible).

4. Given that his income went up while he had zero costs of being a salaryman, his cash flow situation was almost certainly quite a bit better.

5. I can’t remember all of the details of the story, maybe patio11/patrick can refresh our memory.

Anyway, regardless of what was standard at the time, this anecdote (and there are many like it) was a prime example of how Japanese society did not change and how the government did not give reasonable guidance.

I will also add that this is yet another way that Japan treated entrepreneurs as second class citizens, despite the employment landscape changing dramatically. The government would have done well to address this a long time ago.
Linguee
I’m not saying we shouldn’t reform - I’m saying we should be careful about what that reform is, and what its goals are. I would generally suggest that CMMI and provider groups is/are more heavily involved than big city voters who know very little about a very, very complicated issue.

Lastly, rural healthcare is in trouble because reimbursements are bad (especially Medicare reimbursements), FFS (fee-for-service) is a failed model, there’s a massive credential shortage, and given those, the credentials that exist would prefer to work in desirable places, not Pine Ridge, SD. If you’re serious about fixing healthcare, you should start by fixing education. State politics, specifically around Medicaid, are, generally, not driving the hospital closures and OB/GYN deserts.
Train on your own documents or analyze your own documents for answers? Very different things.

For the first (fine tuning) follow “AI Jason” on YouTube. He has some great tutorials.

For the second (RAG or similar), fire up a cloud VM with GPUs or use Ollama locally and read through the LlamaIndex docs on how to build a RAG pipeline.
If you can't do it at home safely with about 5 seconds of effort, you will never beat conventionally charged batteries.

98% of EV charging happens this way. Trying to emulate traditional fuel stations is actually chasing a 2% use case... Like trying to out-perform cloud storage with a better jazz drive it's just an anachronistically bad interpretation of the fundamental problem.
Yes, The Overstory. The writing is great and Powers seems to have done a tremendous amount of beautifully presented background research (none of which he wants to leave out). But, somewhere in the middle, the book's focus shifts from its interesting characters to a strident narrative about our impending doom.
Thanks for letting me know about the scales, I have been eyeing one but didn't want to spend that much on something that I couldn't independently evaluate.
But that's not training. That's RAG. They seem to be using qdrant which I believe is a vector store.
If you were an evernote fan, try Upnote as a replacement.
Is this the Kaiser Permanente model? I think it's a fairly good model, but they do pay pretty mid-level on Physician salary. It's not a place you can clear $500k+.
Nah. Making a request of Santa is, by custom, explicily authorizing him to enter make the delivery. Putting out the cookies and milk for Santa, is extra confirmation.
The C++20 Naughty and Nice List for Game Devs
Are there public examples of working products using RAG, compared with fine-tuning or training from scratch?
> If you go to work at a company always think how you can use the knowledge gained there to start something of your own.

Pro tip: avoid highly specialised knowledge that can only be used in particular firms e.g. highly capitalised or regulated entities. Yes you will be paid well above market rates but it will be very difficult to convert those skills into a business because you won't have access to the market as a solo entrepreneur.

Time and again I'll see that the people who start successful lifestyle businesses started off in a lower paying, more general career e.g. web development. It works because you'll encounter problems that apply to a huge market, and you'll have past customers you can tap into to sell your product that addresses those problems e.g. WordPress plugins or invoicing software particular to your region of the world. Boring but high demand software.
GPT-4 Turbo has a 128K (~300 pages) context window, which probably handles a lot of use cases which might have previously needed extra training/refinement.
Yeah, but how many hours have you actually worked with all these apps? You make them once, but then I don't imagine you spend 8 hours a day supporting them.

So your hourly wage with the apps is, likely, much more than $120/hr.
you forgot to mention the most successful star of that show, chris tucker.
Another question, which one is preferred, LlamaIndex or Langchain, for RAG? Thanks in advance for your insights.
Generally, no. It's more about (for example) selling ads to EU companies. The narrative is about EU users but the leverage is via the EU advertisement business.
Why would it need 8x the storage or trucks? They'd recharge the spent fluid on-site and re-use it.
Nerds pay attention nevertheless.
Was there any 3rd-party confirmation that Beeple's sale was real and not a wash trade / self-sale?
Constellations are younger than continents
Would you kindly elaborate a little bit the difference between training on own documents vs analyzing documents for answers?
Related:

The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680799 - Dec 2021 (44 comments)
"Everyone" is also wrong in their recession expectations, so those aren't informative enough to say a way out was found
That is what I have been saying since 2017. ( Including the three years cadence ) It took a really long time for people to understand.

And here is another thing I have been saying since 2020.[1]

>In the past 3 years all major PR has twisted the word "Moore's Law" to just meant transistor improvement.

I wrote that in 2022 and was downvoted to oblivion.

It is sad we often have to debate about simple "facts". Only years later could we only accept it as truth.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33888629
Would be nice to have a completely open source reimplementation that works with the assets of the legitimately purchased game but without their launcher crapware.
EPA should require all hazardous things to have RFID chips. That way, these can be detected very early in the garbage pickup process and appropriate actions can be taken.
What do you mean "return to an NHS model"? The US never had anything of the sort.

To answer your question: Ban employers from paying for health insurance as a benefit. If individuals see directly how much it costs, that will put much more pressure on prices. And employees don't have to worry about losing their insurance if they lose their job.

Some other gradual options:

- end the AMA licensure monopoly, making doctors more plentiful lowers prices and increases quality

- reform the FDA approval process to make developing drugs and equipment cheaper

- cover preexisting conditions under Medicaid instead of forcing private insurers to
The comment talked about how much wealth a Victorian would need to buy a flu vaccine. You’re talking past history buying present items. It makes no sense.

Wait you’re talking present day Ireland?! seriously jumping to present day Ireland to say past colonialism didn’t benefit England in the past.

Wow this logic is so broken it’s not possible to fix.
Your dad is named he?
their data seems sketchy to me, I'm pretty sure 67 miles a day definitely isn't the average. and yea "fastest selling" seems like a bs metric to boost Tesla
Well said.
The problem is, there are way too many alternatives. Any idea how llamaindex's ingestion engine compares to unstructured.io? ( Which is used in langchain)
Recent and related:

TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573765 - Dec 2023 (58 comments)

America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754581 - Dec 2023 (137 comments)

Lots more links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38757983
> So much knowledge of various places (downtown of my city, for example) is not first hand, but from (social) media.

> I'm reminded of this video from Bowling for Columbine, where they stroll around South Central LA, and realize its pleasant and nothing crazy is happening.

You might have a point, but:

1. A citation to a partisan propagandist shouldn't convince anyone.

2. The segment seems to rest on the fallacious assumption that dangerous areas can never be pleasant and will continuously have something "crazy" happening. I mean, there are literal warzones where you could probably manage to film a five minute stroll through some pleasant meadow (due to lulls in the fighting).

I think the truth is that it's just hard to get a true impression of a place without actually spending a lot of time there.
The only problem with Kotlin is the idiomatic use of the abomination that is Gradle.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231225053006/https://www.nytim...

https://archive.ph/ToWMu
i think it is. in any area that i know well, i can name some important ideas, who came up with them, what their arguments were, who was opposed, what arguments they presented against those positions, and so on

if you can't name any papers or authors you probably can't explain any of the arguments in the papers either, and if you happen to have chosen the correct authorities to put your trust in, that's most likely purely a question of luck, not epistemic virtue
No one has released an x86 CPU in years - do you mean AMD64?
...freeing up a human to come inside and read hn
I've picked this one over throughout the years, and every step of the argument is chock full of bad assumptions. My favourite has always been with the final step: "If God exists in the mind, a greater version of God would be one that existed in reality, therefore God must exist in reality." OR, far more likely, as Anselm lacked sufficient other proof that he had to try out this little logical rope-a-dope, the understanding of "God" that lives in his mind is flawed.
...to the point of extinction, for at least one strain.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/covid-may-have-pushe...
If there's an increasing ID, just sort by ID.
It's mostly risk and inefficient org structure.

It is really cool that Id keeps the ET master server online from like 2003. There is more than one nowadays, but most servers only ping the old master. I occasionally work on ETL btw, nice to meet a fellow ET player!
Related:

The Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818078 - Dec 2014 (6 comments)
That's interesting because I remember testing LSTMs for language modeling on some dataset (probably PTB), and finding that they got lower perplexity left-to-right than right-to-left.
Entirely? Could you point to some sources on this?

I have heard this theory, would like to know more information.
Maybe it was a combination of merger and murder. It was an acquisition then a rebrand anyway, not a merger.
I really wish they enabled h265
yeah, the pi cases have been disappointing.

Few have adequate cooling. (flirc is good, the ones with fans are just annoying)

I'd love to have a pi case that had a built-in breadboard.

...or a case with comfortable seating.
A forgotten classic. While his take on history per se may be questionable, there are all kinds of things here one can adapt as inspirations.
https://archive.today/FHSvP
jakob and ashish were great :)
Ask yourself - I don't know why you are commenting here. H3 only is rare.
FWIW I don’t use FF on the machine where I have the certificates installed, and before I setup network adblockers, had only clienside ones in chrome, and used edge mostly for the sites that needed them, for the past several years.

The UI can be clunky, especially if you set up the certificates to be stored in TPM, since then windows sometimes pops up the dialog in a way that’s easy to miss. Other than that Ive no complaints. Good luck!
I saw a similar comment a few times. The cynic inside of me asks: Why do they say that? To convey that they are experienced experts (which they may not be), and that people book more hours than necessary if "a lot of sim experience".

From what I can gather, sim experience can be a mixed bag -- some positive, some negative.
The "help out the French" thing was a temporary situation due to France's power plant maintenance issues but on an annual basis Germany has been a net electricity exporter since 2003: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1331853/electricity-impo...
I never personally used Xenix, but I did use SCO openserver & unixware, back in the day working for a billing company.

We had a bank of modems wired up, and the system would maintain SSH tunnels to remote sites, then use UUCP to transfer nightly batch-reports to a centralized location for processing.

My memory is hazy, but I remember having a hard time getting the system running on new hardware, and kernel updates were always a scary thing to apply - no change there I guess.

Even at the time though Linux (Debian) was starting to replace these machines due to cost grounds.
Not even OB-Gyn practitioners are trained for a woman-centered point of view. See for example the "The Miracle of Birth" segment from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
> but they do pay pretty mid-level on Physician salary. It's not a place you can clear $500k+.

That's the goal!!

Very high doctor pay is the number 1 cause of skyrocketing medical expenses.

The model should be coupled with them opening a lower cost university and training 10 times as many medical people as we do today. Along with better supply lowering prices, it also means a Doctor could have normal working hours, so would not need the insanely high salary they need to pay for all the stuff they don't have time to do themselves.
Dan Geer (CISO at In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s private investment arm) gave a BlackHat talk that advocated for this, among other things.

https://youtube.com/watch?si=8txvgqH6mqerinkZ&v=nT-TGvYOBpI&...
The OpenSSH fix isn't a fix though, it depends on ssh knowing what badness needs to be filtered out, but the shell is set by the user.

It needs to be changed to pass data in a way that doesn't require escaping to reference, such as an environment variable: "$HOST" would then be expanded by the shell, and all the usual rules for safely using environment variables would apply, because ssh wouldn't be the thing performing the variable expansion like it is now.

(For most purposes, my original take in the top level was wrong, but it's too late to edit it now)
Crime is such an immensely local and personal phenomenon. Statistics are abstract until you're the one getting carjacked by 5 guys or getting punched in the face during a home burglary.
I'm not good with cash, but I do not see another way.
Free advertising, very well timed indeed.
No experience then. Okay.
That won't work because the investors that actually have influence with the board also know exactly the right time to jump ship before slow moving regulators manage to do anything.

You are again punishing exactly the wrong people.
Moore's law doesn't specify how often fabs should upgrade. Just that when they do what's the target transistor count.
Japan gave us household names in photography like Minolta, Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, ...
Right, a real whodunit anyway.
Thi is not news.

I wouldn't be surprised if they fund wars too.
Thanks for the suggestion, ut I don't currently have time to design this. If I did I personally think there are other usability issues that I would prioritized fixing instead of trying to push the technology forward.
What you're describing is a fairly universal phenomena found in many developed economics around the world. Over the last decade or more many countries have seen a hollowing out of their middle class, with stagnant wages growth and rapidly rising house prices.
However, I find it hard to believe the majority of the US population are currently experiencing recession like living conditions, only because the latest US quarterly GDP came in at a whopping 5.2%
That GDP figure shows the vast majority of the US population has money to spend, and they are happy to spend it.
I can say that doctors in Ireland aren’t categorically worse than doctors in the US so maybe we should start training doctors alright after HS instead of requiring a 4 year degree
> the forces you feel pushing back at you

A few other posts mentioned that even the most sophisticated sim machines cannot simulate (de/)acceleration. Do you think "the forces you feel pushing back at you" here could mean deceleration?
We had these in school in 7th grade (82-83). I just did run/stop. Shift-clr/home. NEW 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 LIST Li RUN run/stop. POKE 59468,14 and that is about all I remember.
I've been to the RICM and while the warehouse is kinda neat, everything is just sitting rusting. They're not doing anything with what they're sitting on, and a lot of it is very poorly protected/packaged. The warehouse was enormous, filthy, and had large doors open to the outdoors (far down the other end, but still.)

They're also (reportedly) rather anti-Apple/Macintosh.
Dude sounds like you need to take a hiking trip or something. If local politics bugs you to the point of thinking the entire world deserves no gratitude you gotta ease up a bit or somethin homie.
To sing the praises of Bedrock again, it does have continuous pre-training as well as RAG “knowledge bases”. The former is based on JSON fragments and the RAG stuff is PDFs and other document formats.

With regards to its efficacy, I haven’t gone to production with it yet but I was reasonably impressed.

I uploaded 100 legal case documents to Bedrock via Claude and could push it pretty hard asking about the various cases and for situations across the knowledge base.

It did feel like it broke down and got confused at a certain point of complexity of questioning, but I still think it’s already useful as a “copilot” or search engine and surely it will only improve over time.
Related ongoing thread:

Sireum Logika - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38756780 - Dec 2023 (2 comments)
> I'm always wishing there were more AAA games I could play natively on aarch64 linux. Porting it might not be the easiest thing in the world, but a source leak opens the door for it.

Except a source code leak is basically the worst thing that could happen with this goal in mind.

It's a far cry from reverse engineering or a company open sourcing it. Most people aren't even going to touch it beyond the curiousity.
If there's enough people interested in the game, someone will figure out how to run a private server. People are so persistent it happens even without the source code. For many online games the source code is either stolen or dedicated people black box reverse engineer it just to run private servers. That's how runescape private servers operated back in the day, although I don't know if it was a clean room reverse engineer.. someone probably stole the code given Jagex.
Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
I was a subscriber of Maximum PC until 2014, when I realized I get all my information online.

Nowadays, the people who would've subscribed to computer magazines go online. PC Magazine and PC World moved online and it worked very well for them.

There's far more online, but also misinformation.
These days I'm more of a VB, punk rock, MMA guy. Whatever gets the job done is what you use, irrespective of ugliness.
As mentioned in the article, the fluid can be recharged inside the vehicle, the pumping is just an option to speed it up.
"good faith" == "continued future income".

There isn't any measure of morality or honor involved like you are suggesting.