skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't a leak in the typical sense. They sent the weights to pretty much everyone who asked nicely.

When you send something interesting to thousands of people without vetting their credentials, you'd expect the stuff to get "leaked" out eventually (and sooner rather than later).

I'd say it's more appropriate to say the weights were "pirated" than "leaked".

That said, you're probably correct that the community that quickly formed around the "pirated" weights might have influenced Zuckerberg to decide to make llama2's more freely accessible.
> Entering medical history and current medications was a pain in the arse though, and is something we have done many, many times over the last few years.

Isn't this something what electronic records should have solved? I know doctors always ask the patient but they all have access to that data here (not us). Especially the pharmacy looks at it to check for cross interactions (or a note waiving them).
Whoa, I remember reading about these things in some "How Things Work" book when I was a kid. Sad to see that this is what became of them, but I'm not surprised.
> just implement an standard text format

Standards and protocols would go a long way in solving many of the issues in public IT infra. Force the big players to speak them. Enable the small shops to outcompete them (and each other) by sucking less in one area.
Just to be perfectly clear to anyone who doesn't yet know, in the US, option #2 potentially involves federal prison, for real.

Someone in a situation like this would be well-advised to instead direct creative energy at making option #1 work for you.

(Example: Some kind of crawling/archiving, to capture a copy while you can, and then you can develop good scraping of the data out of your copy at your leisure, whether it ends up being scraped from archived HTML, JSON, XML, or whatever. There's a chance you need a bespoke/tweaked crawler, to avoid missing data, such as posts that are for some reason reachable by human in a Web browser, but not by a particular crawler, and then the consideration to keep in mind is to try to avoid doing something that might look like the bad kind of "hacking" to a non-technical person, even though you aren't bypassing authentication&authorization nor exploiting any vulnerabilities.)
People generally like VistA a lot more than what the DoD has been pushing the VA to replace it with: EHRM.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106685

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-art...
If it’s Boeing I’m not going.
When my Israeli health care provider switched to electronic records in the mid-late 1990s, a typical medical appointment had two parts, roughly similar in length.

During the first part, the doctor would complain about how the system crashes, how hard is it to type with two fingers, and how computers are pointless. In the second part, I’d complain about my flu/cold symptoms.
I honestly think that's just journalism for "no one implemented it in production yet". Which is not surprising, for an algorithm less than a year old. I don't think it's worth expanding and explaining "too much work".

That being said, sometimes if an algorithm isn't the fastest but it's fast and cheap enough, it is hard to argue to spend money on replacing it. Which just means that will happen later.

Furthermore, you might not even see improvements until you implement an optimized verision of a new algorithm. Even if big O notation says it scales better... The old version may be optimized to use memory efficiently, to make good use of SIMD or other low level techniques. Sometimes getting an optimized implementation of a new algorithm takes time.
Thanks for the great summary! I was an IBM-afficionado in the pre-2006 era, and had completely missed these last developments.
Excellent points. Now that I think about it, I think the two products are naturally offered together, because usage-based pricing should be based on underlying costs, monitoring which is what you provide. If you had better visibility into your costs, you could set usage-based prices, and price tiers in a more principled manner.
Speaking as a talented person who has never been as talented as I dreamed to be— this is a great article.
AI startup that can help you lucid dream
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182721
The cost of IPC: an architectural analysis
Always makes me think of this: https://u.osu.edu/unger.26/online-publications/chapter-3-of-...
As a patient it benefitted me a month ago.

I was looking to get Ozempic through a different medical provider. They were offering a discount at the end of 2023 before rates go up in 2024. So in a rush before the end of 2023 I was able to log into One Medical and get a copy of my lab work and medical records from them within 10 minutes. Sign into my account and export the records and lab work and send them to my new provider.

I was impressed I didn’t have to jump through a ton of hoops to get the info I need to get the medicine.
No site should have to cater to dark users, is my point. That doesn‘t help you today, but complaints should be directed at browsers and OSes, not web site owners.

(I realize that HN does have color CSS rules, but this complaint comes up all the time even with web sites that don‘t specify colors)
You’re thinking like a group of technically proficient 15 year olds and their friends. That’s a small minority. The vast majority of teens are likely to be stymied.

Revocations are not for the individual ID but if an exploit is found compromising the IDs stored on a trusted element. Your older siblings ID can’t be used to sign for millions of accounts - just those who the older sibling lets borrow their phone that has their ID (and assuming there isn’t some kind of uniqueness cookie that can be used to prevent multiple accounts under a single ID). That’s a much different and more manageable problem (fake ids via older siblings have been a thing for forever).
I think you completely missed the point of the post you replied to (a reference to the plot of the movie Office Space).
Can we learn that with an FOIA request?
The best part of this thread was the link to the discussion on the removal of pid caching in `getpid` causing regressions in systemd https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469670

I've been on a code-deleting rampage lately, killing off many minor features that add a lot of complexity for seemingly little gain. Glad I don't have anyone interrogating me like this!
If you want to do big things, there is something else: borrow one or more smart persons. I was once part of an infrastructure project that I (and others on it) simply didn't know how to advance. At some point a few really smart folks got into a room and thought hard about it, and wrote a detailed roadmap. It was still hard to implement, but doable by us mortals. Sometimes you just have to admit defeat and ask for help.
I love comebacks like that. They are not appreciated as much as they should be. My day is brighter now.
You might enjoy this website- https://www.globalphotos.org/japan-plastic.htm
Indian Tectonic Plate Is Splitting in Two Beneath Tibet, Latest Analysis Finds
I still call. It's easier than managing different web pages and payment portals.
Tugulu is a gaming site with 10 different categories, for free, with the satisfying games, it is highly recommended, you can both play and try to work with them.
Also, even if Epic offered its platform free of charge, it’s incredibly expensive to setup and train staff. Just that initial expense of plugging everything in is a huge risk that many hospitals on a tight budget likely can’t afford to take.
Thanks! Yes, we're working on making the product more accessible. Right now, for every new customer, we have to manually provision and manage some additional infrastructure. We're worried we could quickly get overextended in both time and cost if we have to do this for lots of users in a free tier for example.

It's on our roadmap in the next 1-2 months to eliminate these manual steps and make these last parts of our infra multitenant. At that point, we plan to release a cheaper tier for individual devs.
You’ve just described literally every single law. Congrats. You’re now appreciating what it’s like to live in a law-based society.
just use an ad blocker xD
You get a "choice".

The choice just boils down to "buy pricey server boards/chipsets that have ECC RAM available" or "get bent".
There is only one admin? I was an admin on about a half dozen vB sites back in the day (none of them mine) and we had a lot of redundancy there, and they were mostly just to BS with people. I find it surprising a forum of any notable size would have an admin running it as the single point of failure. That’s disappointing.

It sounds like you have some options here. Best of luck.
It doesn't work at the needed precision for extended amounts of time at reasonable speeds and distances, unfortunately. Even if you only need it for 30 seconds or so, it's an inacceptable amount of error already. Wheel odometry with good quality encoders is actualy more reliable. So in fact it does break down even at some high-school/college robotics level.

Its better to add a few more pixels to your camera and go for a visual odometry or SLAM system. They're not that much more expensive, either.
You may jest but I wouldn't mind this model. i.e. Records are under a digital lock to which I hold the key, and can grant access to a medical professional service provider for a period of time with set access expiry.

Written records at least provided some physical locality that made me feel less at risk, and it was also easy for me to ask for a photocopy for my own records (I'm surprised how many people just entrust this to their institutions).
> Disney’s direct-to-consumer unit, which includes streaming service Disney+, is still reporting large operating losses.

Why? Isn't most of the content on Disney+ their own productions? And is maintaining the streaming platform not a largely fixed cost? Where are they struggling?
Cool. Have fun!
This is probably in the news since Fedora 40 announced to replace wget with wget2, removing WARC support. I've also looked yesterday what I will be missing, and decided I will not miss it. FTP on the other hand was very handy, and actually used in a lot of places

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-proposal-w...
Funny coincidence. I found Dracula for VSStudio two days ago. So far it is the only dark theme that provides overall readable texts combined with red-shift for me.

Single-line comments could be a bit brighter, though.
> There will be no "Apple Vision Pro 2".

I agree 100%.
That’s not an Apple-like name for a second iteration consider device. Their second iteration will have a better name.
I wonder if it can just be a market. Standardize the data format and install apps that manipulate it.

Let pediatricians choose one editor, surgeons another, nurses another, etc...

Maybe the surgeon's app is text to speech. The pediatrician hooks into his stethoscope.
Savage humor but hilarious.
> In the long term, the bursting of China's property bubble is probably good news, affordable housing is in the interest of everybody except property developers.

I unironically think a property bubble pop is a great way to defeat the demographic slump in the long term.

That and the recent crackdown/reforms on private education makes me think the party is aware that property bubbles and education costs are a liability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo...
Sure, although it did somewhat align with my real world experience moving from a new house to another similarly sized new house. All else equal, I saw my total energy bill increase drastically with the heat pump, even with an 8kW solar system. Something didn’t add up, maybe it’s not working properly. It raised a lot of questions for me.

That said, it’s arguably really tough to compare these two heating systems objectively and you can’t take the advertised rating at face value necessarily. It’s not apples to apples. Electricity billing is complex and includes many more variables and gas is billed completely differently which adds to the comparison problem. Any comparison online ends up making many assumptions so of course we need to take that with a grain of salt.
You ca de activate I though in car settings? Or by bridging the speaker with a resistor.
I guess you live in US. In my country (Turkiye) every commercial SMS sender needs your permission to send advertising SMS. This usually happens when you sign up for a website/app, an optional checkbox to allow commercial communication via SMS and email. There's a second (mandatory) checkbox for an agreement regarding our version of GDPR.

Every advertising SMS includes a shortened link or something like "text DENY to 1234" to be able to opt-out of them at any time. To date I've seen only one vendor which still sent SMSs after I opted out, which I promptly sent a complaint about to our presidency. No more texts after that. Every email is the same, with an unsubscribe link. I've encountered only one brand which didn't comply and I blocked them in the Mail app.

Even when it is this simple to block spam most people I know still don't do it. They are in a rush, stressed, commuting, with kids running around, doing something else simultaneously. Too busy with life, checking all the boxes in a hurry, scrolling past all the advertising spam to find the one message/mail from their contact. For many, it needs to be literally zero effort, fully automatic.

There are those SMS scams from foreign numbers which go like "Thanks for signing up for our job offer, please send your card details to get the $1000/day payment". But they are rare, once a fortnight at most IME.

We don't get physical advertising mail. Maybe cultural? Not economical? No one bothers.

Everyone gets calls from a fiber high speed internet company every once in a while. Since people are able to recognize the recorded voice so fast and close the call, now they added a several seconds delay before playing it. I don't know what makes fiber internet vendors special, since I only ever get those calls. Telecom-ISPs intentionally not blocking them?

And those WhatsApp calls from third world numbers. Once a month maybe, but this is Meta's problem.
You get it IF there is a need for it, not always.

I had an open heart surgery and didn't get a blood transfusion.
Yes. My favorite places have maintained their service.

A phone call as I jump into the car for my drive home is easy. Until it isn't, I will continue.

The best thing is expertise found on the other end of the line. That saves me a few times per year.

Online can be a lot of work.

Get an account

Locate items

Pick side options

Etc...

I have spent 10 minutes placing my own order knowing a few minute call will do.

Not a fan.
Grit is a trully underrated skill.
I remember my dentist told me that.
I think the claim is that some other company in the robot vacuum business can buy iRobot instead of Amazon and get that sweet sweet IP
You're saying "it's possible" and your parent post is saying "it's unlikely". You're not disagreeing, exactly, but...
I created the ClearHealth/HealthCloud open source (GPL) EMR which to my knowledge is the only open source one to receive full federal certification. Operations (not surgery) are so incredibly bad / incompetent in most healthcare settings that software frequently gets the blame for much deeper problems. This article is a doctors perspective on how software did not fix a completely broken workflow. I don't begrudge him that but there is no software in the world that can ever address those types of problems. In my experience doctors are a tremendous barrier to resolving problems in healthcare operations, they are chasing their own incentives that are in some ways opposed from those of the patient just like the insurers are. It is very tortured process to institute proper operations in a medical setting, I spent most of my career doing it, no one complains about the software when operations make sense to begin with. In-N-Out instead of McDonalds, is something that should be incredibly aspirational to healthcare as an industry but doctors tend to despise the comparison.
Financially, they have underperformed significantly over longer period of time (10 years):

For shareholders, this subpar performance has destroyed value. Disney stock has underperformed the stocks
of Disney’s self-selected proxy peers and the broader market over every relevant period during the last
decade and during the tenure of each non-management director. Furthermore, it has underperformed since
Bob Iger was first appointed CEO in 2005 – a period during which he has served as CEO or Executive
Chairman (directing the Company’s creative endeavors in this role) for all but 11 months. Disney shareholders
were once over $200 billion wealthier than they are now

Which is radically different from previous 90 years

https://trianpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Trian-N...
Where was the vBulletin board hosted, and do you have any kind of shell access to the server?
You're right; it's a bit inaccessible at the moment. We're planning to offer a more affordable tier in the next 1-2 months. A bit more context here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178753#39186948.
There 100% is. You’re thinking about user space context. But establishing a new socket in the kernel requires a fair amount of under the covers book keeping and the total number of file descriptors keeping those resources alive is a real problem for very popular web services that have to handle lots of concurrent simultaneous connections. At the application layer it’s less of an issue.

HTTP/2 is indeed more complex to maintain in the application layer but that’s less to do with the memory implications of multiplexing requests /responses over a single TCP connection.
Yes, that is certainly a downside I forgot to mention. Sorry to get your hopes up.
For positive integers m and n,
have a m x n matrix A of real numbers. Then also have n x 1 x, 1 x n c, and m x 1 b. Seek x to solve

LP1:

maximize z = cx

subject to

Ax = b

x >= 0

Instead just as easily can do minimize.

Instead of =, might be given >= and/or <=, but use slack and/or surplus variables to get the problem in the form of LP1.

Any x so that

Ax = b

x >= 0

is feasible. If there is such an x, then LP1 is feasible; else LP1 is infeasible. If LP1 is feasible and for any feasible x we have z bounded above, then LP1 is bounded and has an optimal x (z as large as possible) solution. Else feasible LP1 is unbounded above.

So, LP1 is feasible or not. If feasible, then it is bounded or not. If bounded, then there is at least one optimal solution.

Regard n x 1 x as a point in R^n for the real numbers R.

Cute: If all the numbers in LP1 are rational, then have no need for the reals.

The set of all feasible x is the feasible region and is closed (in the usual topology of R^n) and convex. If LP1 is bounded, then there is at least one optimal x that is an extreme point of the feasible region. So, it is sufficient to look only at the extreme points.

To determine if LP1 is feasible or not, and if feasible bounded or not, and
if bounded to find an optimal x, can use the simplex algorithm which is just some carefully selected linear algebra elementary row operations on

z = cx

Ax = b

The iterations of the simplex algorithm have x move from one extreme point to an adjacent one and as good or better on z.

A LOT is well known about LP1 and the simplex algorithm. There is a simpler version for a least cost network flow problem where move from one spanning tree to another.

If insist that the components of x be integers, then are into integer linear programming and the question of P = NP. In practice there is a lot known about ILP, e.g., via G. Nemhauser.

I used to teach LP at Ohio State -- there are lots of polished books from very elementary to quite advanced.

I attacked some practical ILP problems successfully.

I got into ILP (set covering, a darned clever idea since get to handle lots of goofy, highly non-linear constraints, costs, etc. efficiently) for scheduling the fleet at FedEx. The head guy at FedEx wrote me a memo making that problem my work -- officially I reported to the Senior VP Planning, but for that ILP work in every real sense reported to the head guy. The promised stock was very late, so I went for a Ph.D. and got good at lots of math, including optimization, LP, and ILP, etc.

Conclusion: A career in LP or ILP is a good way to need charity or sleep on the street -- literally, no exaggeration.

For some of what AI is doing or trying to do now, LP/ILP stands to be tough competition, tough to beat. And same for lots more in the now old applied math of optimization. Bring a strong vacuum cleaner to get the thick dust off the best books.
I have family in Georgia so I suppose it’s not so surprising that my Stalin number is 3.

Same as my Erdos number :)
There are unusual aspects to these events:

- Women generally don't murder people

- Women don't typically murder people violently

- Fleeing to a locale where many people look similar to them was crafty

- Changing one's appearance surgically (although the most effective way to change appearance is to alter the nose and cheek structure around the nose)

- She's no chess player having failed to think it through and ran out of money

It's also unsurprising that it happened in Austin because it draws a sort of reckless, narcissistic entitlement.
Moe-LLaVA: Mixture of Experts for Large Vision-Language Models
Most users want to use a message queue in a transaction safe way, so they ended up implementing it in database.
Show HN: TLD Squatting
They have to spend money to produce content (a lot of it Disney+ only or not successful in the theater). They also buy content, it must be a huge cost sink for them.
>similar to champagne which, at its most basic, is just wine where the CO2 isn't allowed to escape, such as because of being in a bottle

"similar" and "at it's most basic" is hiding the accurate difference between champagne and still wine. To make champagne, the sugar in the grapes is fermented to make wine, just exactly like wine is made. At this point almost all the sugar is gone, and the carbon dioxide is also gone. That wine, called vin clair (for a blanc de blanc we are talking about a delicious glass of chardonnay) is then put into bottles and more sugar is added, called "the dosage" (it's french, pronounce it like corsage), and now this extra sugar is fermented by the yeast in the bottle and the CO2 from this extra fermentation is captured in the bottle and makes the wine fizzy.
JavaFX programs needed the Java runtime too, and they were still just Java apps. How is the JRE different from Safari or Edge?

Or is my understanding of JavaFX incorrect, and it somehow turned applets into native binaries when you dragged them out of the browser?
> Just to be perfectly clear to anyone who doesn't yet know, in the US, option #2 potentially involves federal prison, for real.

HN has a worldwide reader base. In what countries would this not be illegal?
Dang, for future reference, is their something rule breaking about this post?
Passwords are useless if only you know them.

You can use private keys like that, but people are not expected to remember them.
Seems bugged now. Reopening the website still shows the solution from yesterday and there's no way how to clean it other than clearing Local Storage. Also any new attempt is prefilled with the previous word instead of being empty.
A pitch drop was first captured on camera on 11 July 2013 at Trinity College Dublin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jXjn7mIao