skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Veterans Affairs system has waiting lists for medical care. Due to Congressional oversight the length of this waiting list was scrutinized. Adding capacity through hiring more medical personnel takes more budget and time. Load shedding through not letting people get on the wait list is unacceptable. So the bureaucracy added an additional buffer. They added patients to a secret overflow wait list and moved them to the official wait list only when it was not too long. https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-...
OK. Where is your reproduction of Pythia trained from scratch? Or MPT? Or Amber? Shall we play a game where you give paper regarding pretraining (and we are not taling about puny models based on wikitext2) I give you a paper based around finetuning and we'll see who run out of papers first?
True. The problem with many people these days is that they think they are so smart and others so dumb that they take it upon themselves to be the saviors of the world by only giving the dumb unwashed masses the types of "truths" they are able to absorb.

All these people seeking to censor fall into this category.
People tend to anthropomorphize everything that exhibits anything more complicated behavior than a rigid object. Even a doorhandle can be "cranky" and computers definitely get "moody". It's even hard to describe these without ascribing them some agency.

Corporations use this mercilessly in their PR and explicitly try to build "personal relationships" etc with customers. And it seems to work extremely well to the corporations' favor. Of course at the cost of the consumer via information asymmetries. [Note me resorting to agency here too.]

Corporations don't care. They can't care. They don't have feefees and don't operate like human individuals.

Corporations are literally legal entities that usually just maximize return on capital. Nothing more, nothing less.
I’m sorry you had to go through that. I would like to advice that finding the right therapist takes time but don’t give up on finding one.

My last psych laughed at me while I was trying to open up about the trauma and tell him about it in more detail. Some people don’t deserve to be therapists and are probably doing more harm than good to the society. He came as most recommended btw in my city.

Luckily I was able to find a good doctor later.
if you are ceo of x number of companies you are a proof CEOs does very little in reality.
What about a comedian who does voice impressions that are good enough to be indistinguishable from the politician to the average person?
I was just going to comment, I have heard this before in a decade far far away
Is that a recent development? I can use it on Firefox now as well, but the previous time I checked they were still telling me to use Edge instead.
Not related to news articles, but I've noticed the rise of "AI influencers" that are ripping off people.

Their operation goes like this:

1) Steal/scrape content from human influencers (photos, videos)

2) Generated a face using some generative model, and deep fake it onto the data scraped from (1).

3) Automate the process with text and engagement, using some GPT model to generate the description / dialogue / etc.

4) Deploy on IG/TikTok/Onlyfans/etc.

5) Purchase followers.

Wait or pay for some "This influencer is not real!" article, which is then again re-generated and spread further by some AI news generator.

Real people see the content on their social media feed, and contribute to "organic growth". Clueless people start paying for the "exclusive" OF content and what not.

EDIT: Also, I've seen an explosion in AI/ML generated celebrity thirst traps on social media. Not outright porn, but FB/IG "friendly" photos - usually in the setting of some happening (academy awards, met gala, and general red carpet stuff). Thousands of comments and likes.
Sigh. I'm not asking for personal responsibility from the unborn. I don't know what you gain from twisting things that way. And I'm not particularly inclined to discuss your private medical matters. Those are yours. But the fact remains that there is an entire world outside of your circumstances, where people undergo complicated birth and medical procedures, without going into lifelong debt. Your circumstances are the outlier, because you have to seek care within a scam system.

Could you pause to think why healthcare providers let insurance "negotiate" down the hospital bills of their patients? Why in the world would this be possible? If the hospital is actually charging anywhere close to what it costs for them to provide the services with some profits, there would be little room for negotiation. Especially considering that each patient is unique. So why would it be cheaper for an insurance company than for the actual patient? Medical care is not a whole-sale order. The only explanation is because it's a scam.

The only real medical insurance is healthy eating and regular exercise. A medical insurance that you pay for is more an insurance against getting scammed.
I believe it's a UX issue for most. Being able to float images to the side of text versus only being able to paste them linearly is a bigger deal than it sounds, organization-wise. And I know there's the canvases but I'm actually not a fan of those either. I don't want infinite in every direction, I just want the ability to move things around in the way that I want within a page-like document.

Honestly I like everything about obsidian except the markdown, but I know for many people that is it's big selling point.
I don't get why it's "A 27 year-old".

How is that relevant? 27-year-olds should be at peak capability, if not productivity, especially in maths.

If it said "A 9-year-old" that would be news-worthy, suggesting bitcoin anonymity was always a case of the emperors new clothes.
Maybe they deleted every single video you saw that posted that theory, but they didn't delete every single one I saw. Probably because the videos I saw actually included evidence and did not also in the same video offer bogus medical advice.
BTW this is where commute by public transport shines. My 30 minutes to the office are my dedicated reading time, an hour a day. If instead I had to drive, that would be lost time, because paying enough attention to the book distracts enough from driving to add unnecessary risk.
Yup, same here. I delivered pizzas in northern Ontario for 3 years while in school. During snowstorms it seemed quite a few people would decide to stay home ... and order a pizza. I carried about a dozen+ bricks with me that I would jam under the wheels of my front wheel drive whenever I got stuck, often several times per storm. Fun times fondly remembered.
> the addressing modes I like having aren't there, so I made an ISA with them

Not really... Se my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042048

I'm not alone. Many others with far more experience and know-how in both ISA design and micro architecture design have the same opinions.

It's not that the RISC-V solution is "wrong" or "bad", it's just that it was designed to cater to all needs, including the super-simple very low end (the kind that you can implement from scratch in a weekend). I think that RISC-V does that very well, but it comes at a cost. Being good at everything pretty much precludes being the best in every segment.

MRISC32 tries to be one step up from RISC-V in terms of performance targets (well, realistically MRISC64 would be that ISA), but one step down from AArch64 in terms of complexity.
I think it entirely depends on what the media is doing.

I don't care if a hyper realistic political figure impersonator gets up and does a comedy sketch. What I care about is if said impersonator got up and said "I, bob dole, use depends and think that everyone should use it".

That is, deception used for comedic effect should be protected. Deception used to hawk goods should not be ok.
I'm wholly convinced there's a cabal of Apple engineers downvoting these.

My posts go from +4 to -1 overnight.
Whereas today it happens all the time.

My colleage Hsung Wei Lee was told upon arrival by the Chinese-speaking American at the immigration desk, "Your name is now Willie Hsung". Which he has used ever since.
> They're not elected so they, theoretically, don't have a political agenda they try and fulfill at the cost of their domain.

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm.

> And honestly, even if these laws had to be rubber stamped by congress or the judiciary, they would be deferring to the very same specialists.

Sure, but making Congress rubber stamp them means there is oversight from the public. The argument is not 'bureaucrats and technocrats should not be involved in crafting rules', but rather 'Congress should also be involved in crafting rules so that the judiciary is not asked to then comment on those rules'.

> As an aside, in our Democratic Republic, laws are also created by judges, who are not generally elected into their positions.

Laws are not created by judges. This is a major problem which the court is hopefully going to address. Right now, as the article states, they get a lot of cases where they're asked to comment on rules that congress did not pass, and then yes, they start to act like legislators. If they strike this down, then the court will not be asked to legislate so often. Like it or not, a rule backed by an act of congress is much more likely to stand, since the courts are typically reticent to strike down laws passed by Congress itself.
The Cloud Sucks, and here's why [video]
Part of that story of course is their execution, thoughtfulness and great taste to pick “just the right” technical ideas.

MacOS X Panther with Aqua’s basically artifact-less and butter smooth postscript based rendering capabilities, the beloved (!) BSD shell I could drop into at any point. All of that in 2003 … a true OS from the future and for the masses!

Battery runtime of PPC 7xx also was stellar at the time. AFAIR nothing could compete in relative comparison.

Humanistic and design oriented engineering at an excellent level and consistently so. Of course I aspired to be exactly like that as a professional!

Too bad they have strayed from that in many ways over the years. They IMO mostly still, but only barely hold the functional high ground these days.
Shines where it can, doesn't work in most of the US.

Public transit use:

https://vividmaps.com/public-transportation-in-the-united-st...

https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/public-tran...

Population density:

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/28/americans-moving-map-2022-f...

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/cities-pandemic-moving-tren...

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/14/where-america-stands
I think it's already over. Fixing the destruction generative AI has wrought upon the Internet would be like unscrambling an egg. I'm an optimist when it comes to technology, but I also believe that being able to know what's real and what's not real is fundamental to survival as a species, and I think we've seeded our own destruction here. I'm confident buildings are already being built with formulas someone asked ChatGPT for help with, doctors and nurses are getting advice on how to diagnose and treat patients, subroutines are being copied and pasted into safety-critical software, etc. We put the lead in the gasoline, and we're going to face the consequences.
Bangs are no not "asking the search engine to return all page of a particular website" but rather "directly use the search engine of that particular website".

It's a bit using the a particular search engine from your browser.
Exactly. One does get the feeling that privatizing an entity but then keeping it in the governments, err, vicinity is very convenient; if anything has to be excused or justified you can always choose one from "but it's a private company" or "since it is effectively controlled by the government", whatever works for you-
Our glorious human curated SEO spam, their savage AI generated SEO spam.

If you make the war against SEO spam in general they'll catch themselves in the crossfire.
Composition-oriented pattern for API development
The problem with all the discussion around climate change is that we pretend as a species that we are not sophisticated bacteria, consuming all resources to grow at any cost.

I’d go as far to say that if you re-ran the human experiment on 1,000 earths, they would all embrace growth over their environment — it’s why so-called safe AI is impossible and AGI will occur at any cost.

Intelligent species must increase their energy production since they compete with each other’s factions and the “tech tree” if you will inevitably goes through fossil fuels. The only thing that _actually_ changes what we do is the economic factor.

It’s all really just a sophisticated game of Factorio. The reality is that people’s opinions have no effect on what humans actually do. It’s why Texas is full of windmills despite their cultural leanings — the almighty dollar is all we really end up caring about.
You're focuded on whisper/voice stuff...

I was making a more general statement... I havent even had time to personally look at any voice stuff...

Too many Shiny Things and too much ADHD in the koolaide.
These signs are above the freeway. There is no way to drive on the wrong side of the freeway once you are already on it.

The people writing these messages are part of the DOT. Not surprisingly they already think of this stuff. They’re not stupid.
they should just blanket ban all impersonations, while they're at it. I feel like thought police might be closer than we think at this point.
Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
I think Elon has the most cause to be laid off. Not only has he driven customers away by tarnishing his personal brand, but he has recently threatened the board of Tesla that he will "build products outside of Tesla" unless he gets more voting control. Well, he's already building products outside of Tesla considering SpaceX, Twitter/X, Boring Company, Neuralink, etc. As an investor, I'd rather get a full-time CEO than a part-time one who threatens the board over not having enough voting control.
You're invoking sorcery. Go check out open source AI. AnimateDiff, RVC, and the whole wealth of LLM models.
People were trying to get the broken behavior fixed. I was more in the camp of simply removing the offending rule. But, contrary to your claim above, they did already have some config options.

Ultimately, the solution is to use Biome or another formatter instead, but many devs have Prettier forced on them at work.
I also take it to mean that it's either work others are often unwilling to do, or something that's really difficult, or something that I've been wanting for a long time but haven't gotten anyone to help me with.

For example: There's a fluorescent light above my desk that flickers and has been driving me crazy for years. I can't get facilities to fix it because they need a ticket that's approved by management and has an approved budget, and all their other tasks are more urgent.... so it slowly drives me mad for a year. Finally, a facilities person says "You know what... I'm not supposed to do this without management approval... but I'll just fix this real quick and it'll be our secret" ..... Me: "Oh, thank you, you're doing God's work"
My story overlaps a lot with yours, especially the parts about never being able to form secure attachments (though for slightly different reasons).

I was stuck for a very, very, very long time until I encountered Internal Family Systems therapy. It has been able to help me heal the wounds in ways CBT/DBT/talk therapy never could (and not for lack of trying).
Not everyone is made for herding buffalo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832136

Everything is. Even totally unimportant stuff. Sad beans.
Queues provide you breathing room to increase your throughput. They don't fix the clog, but they keep the kitchen sink from over-flowing while you call the plumber/install a new industrial line.
You can still do off-site backup to another cloud.
yes the compiler is the same (for example gcc or msc) but why would you care?
> How could remote work not be more productive?

I live 10 minutes from my office, and there are much, much fewer distractions there. Anecdotal of course, but it's one way to answer your question.
How long until reputable outlets start publicly promising never to have AI write their articles? It would be great for me, the reader, if this caught on. It would let me know which outlets to take at least somewhat seriously, and which to disregard out of hand for not making this commitment.

I happen to know that, say, Microsoft, currently is publishing AI-generated news articles, with predictable results. [0] It's easy enough for me to disregard everything I see on Microsoft news, but the set of outlets I need to remember to ignore is only going to grow.

Somewhat related: StackOverflow has already banned AI-generated answers.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/microsoft-ai-news/in...
buffers buffer. difficult to debate.

edit: theyre being called queues and a lot of effort is being put here into just describing the merits and demerits of them which i assumed would be self evident to anyone who can conceptualize a buffer in any context, not just software. savings buffer, heat buffer, coal buffer, resource buffer, inductors, capacitance.

they have fill and drain times,
soften spikes, but require additional energy.

A math model of throughpts and voltages would be more useful than all the metaphors of pipes and buckets in this thread.
I’m really surprised that it’s okay to shout fire in a crowded theater but not okay to hit the fire alarm.

I also don’t understand why the author of parent link calls it “appeal to authority”. It’s one of the most concise, self-explanatory examples of free speech crossing the line between stating opinion and being an action.
Right, I think the important nuance is that "it depends" and therefore, top-down C-level suite dictates on Remote/Hybrid/In-office requirements are generally more punitive than useful.

If your team level management org cannot organically work out the right mix on a team/role basis, then you probably should look at what else they are doing poorly.
They are doing far better now than with fewer meetings, and they’ve consistently agreed that the additional meetings are valuable, so yeah, I think they are.
For what it's worth I can have interesting, fulfilling relationships and friendships with people I only know online, both in and out of a work setting. But it is fun to hang out in person.
I don't know if ending another human's life leaves any possibility of redemption for a person, but reading this I still empathize with the sense of loss and powerlessness that emanate from this letter.
hx-include

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-include/
So is this more evidence for the dead internet theory ?
Agreed.

In the Haskell world, "space leak" is used to refer to a lazy computation that overallocates because of laziness (classic example being the difference between foldl and foldr or maybe that's foldl' and foldr'--I forget some details/cannot be bothered to think about folds right now).

I've personally stolen the terminology for a computation that temporarily holds on to a bunch of unneeded memory.
I've designed an experimental ISA that is highly similar to RISCV, but uses 2 operand instructions. It fits comfortably in a 16b instruction format and has room for a secondary instruction set. Technically it doesn't have 32b instructions, as for example jump offsets are cumulative (and would likely be fused). Another interesting feature: the instruction set doesn't depend much on the register width. I'm guessing (emphasis on guessing) the code density is around 50% better. Too good to be true?

But the big question I can't answer is: is this somehow a really bad ISA for high end CPU's? I think it's likely, as likely 30% more instructions are needed.
Bob Colwell touches on an issue that sounds like it is this one in his talk Engineering Lessons from the Pittsburgh Steelers [1] at around 1:05:02 (link prepositioned). I'll bet that he went into more detail in his book The Pentium Chronicles, but I don't have it handy at the moment, so can't cite a page. It does not seem to be in his oral history [2] (PDF), which I had thought contained pretty much all the meat of his chronicles though.

If you're more interested in just concrete examples of this kind of thing, apparently IBM's System/360 team ran into heaps of this kind of issue when emulating the IBM 1401. It's mentioned in Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.'s book The Mythical Man-Month in the Formal Definitions section of Chapter 6, and I think he probably discussed it in more detail in his (and Blaauw's) book Computer Architecture.

Edit: pasting in a cleaned up version of the relevant part of the transcript:

1:04:56
It's required to run every one of those well, how do I know it does? I can't test them all, so you say well you as long as you design to the architecture spec that should be enough. Right? Ha no for example, inside the architecture spec there are places where it says this condition flag is undefined as a result of this operation so you'll do – I don't know what it was anymore, add operation or something, no, it can't be add pick a different [thing] – there was some instruction that would say I do not guarantee what the carry flag will look like when I'm finished and you go as an architect hey that's cool it means I can do it either way whatever way is easiest. No it doesn't.

Yeah if you think that you're going to get in big trouble. Because what what will happen is – and this literally happened which is why I know about this – you put the chip out and then you discover oh it was easiest for my team to set the bit to a 1 didn't matter because it was undefined right I get to pick, but all the previous chips were setting it to a zero although they were calling it undefined. Now you're in trouble, because what you're going to discover some goofy app out there required that the bit be a zero after that operation even though the book said it was undefined. And they didn't notice because up until now it always was a zero. But your chip comes out, the software doesn't work anymore. Guess who's at fault? You are. Can you go "hey look at what the book says, can't you read?" and they'll say "I don't care what you say your chip doesn't work my software, you're a loser, your chips busted."

[1] https://youtu.be/jwzpk__O7uI?si=iy23ZM5tQX-hI87C&t=3903

[2] https://www.sigmicro.org/media/oralhistories/colwell.pdf
It’s when you can have a back and forth (conversation) to refine the results.

For instance:

Me: “I want to watch something funny”

You: returns result(s)

Me: “something less slapstick”

And now that I’ve written this, I think you’re also only returning a single result, which will likely foster FOMO, so I would consider what balance to strike (too many results, unranked, can create indecision and the feeling that you don’t get me. Too few results and the user wonders, what else is there that I’m missing out on?)
Varies by jurisdiction, and not true in any federal court.
>Conservatism is a better fit for Microsoft because their users have "Who moved my cheese?" as a motto.

No way. Had they been conservative they would have remained as the "Windows and Office company" and died off 10 years ago as an IBM-also-has-been.

The fact they moved into consoles, cloud, linux, Github, LinkedIn, cross platform subscription based services like Office365, entertainment IP and AI, is what kept them alive and relevant.

Staying conservative from this point on is also not a good idea. If they can push ChatGPT and Copilot further to everyone an turn it profitable it would be another major win.

Conservatism is a better fit for someone like SAP.