skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a process in iOS called “countryd” that calculates a country code based on sensor data from GPS, cellular and wifi. If the country code matches an EU country, you get DMA features. I assume the thirty days is how long you have to be abroad for the country code to update, but I don’t know that.
Fair -- 24GB GPUs are still quite expensive. >10x cheaper than 80GB GPUs though!

We already have something we're testing that's gotten 70b training down to dual 16GB GPUs, and we're working it making it even smaller...
Hacker News is full of people telling me how much they miss GeoCities. I have no idea why but I hope they find what they are looking for.
I'm one of the people quoted in the article and most of the others quoted are my peers. A bunch of us have worked on Capitol Hill as staff; several of us worked for Congress's think tank; others have written books on Congress. I say this only to emphasize my point that what Ringwiss has done is truly remarkable.

He has an apparent deep understanding of the rules of procedure that govern the House and the Senate, which are very different from one another, and he can keep them straight. I wouldn't have the patience to watch the floor for hours on end, and while I'm sure I could read through the precedents, it's doubtful that I could retain in active memory more than a fraction. I have read the House and Senate rules cover to cover, more than once -- but that's not the same as being able to operationalize them and recall it at an instant, and it's also not the same as digging through the precedents and understanding what they mean. That comes from a lot of practice.

Besides having a particular interest in the topic, my suspicion is Ringwiss has an eidetic memory. He is a remarkable person and I'm glad that he's doing what he does.

In my opinion, the House and Senate rules are so complicated that only a few people can understand them. The procedures are used to gather power in the hands of a few, which undermines their original purpose: to facilitate orderly debate and empower all the members equally. I compare them to Roberts Rules of Order, Revised, which are straightforward enough that most people can grasp them with a reading or two.

As I said, what he's doing is remarkable, but it's also remarkable that few can do what he's doing.
And an equally ugly vehicle! Nice find.
Lol they are completely shook by Elon's lawsuit
The regulators have largely paid very little attention to the magnitude of the fee and revenue cut Even though it is outrageous.

The us judgements in fact suggested that epic should have focused on that issue as the unfair bit
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More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39644341
While the OP might want to upgrade his mum's laptop, it should be noted that an old MacBook can run any current Linux distribution.

These will offer the latest software, and will be able to do Internet banking without any issues, obviously.

Intel MacBooks from that era tend to pose very few problems, except for Broadcom wireless cards, which have relatively low performance.
Oooff that's my mistake. I might be grandfathered in on the premium layers and didn't realize.
Yeah they also burn witches and stone adulterers. And some other sh*t.

Its amazing how those in the west worry more about a country that has no power on them instead of the psychos who can kidnap, torture or disappear them at whim.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/1...
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39647105
Bit insulting to be called a pig - also why would you want more pigs at the trough if this is a problem?
Anyway NPs and PAs are providing the majority of care in hospitals. Please, let “AI” come. My EMR is basically run through telnet (no joke) because the hospital system (biggest in the US) does not want to upgrade.
“Trial lawyer awards” are capped in several states including CA.

I can tell you that more than 75% of my medical school class was not in it for the money, for what it’s worth.
That’s not what I had in mind.
“Greed” is one of those words where the definition doesn’t really tell you where the line is:

“intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.” (Oxford via Google)

Who doesn’t feel “intense and selfish desire” for money? Who doesn’t feel that going into a performance review?

It’s human nature to feel this feeling, if that’s what we want to call “greed”.
Measuring the wrong thing, even if it is highly correlated to what you really want to measure, often results not in a slightly suboptimal result, but in the worst possible result.
I’ve traveled through most of Europe and the UK for pleasure but also regularly visit Germany, Italy, France, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Switzerland for work.

If I go to your average Italian city I simply won’t find good Thai food. I’ll get a lot of great Italian food for sure. But no Malay, no Nepalese, no afghan, no Peruvian, etc. I’m sure you’ll find counter examples, but the US genuinely is a melting pot with well established ethnic subcultures of all cultures on earth and the general society is pretty open. There’s no French nationalism etc. The thing is there’s no established cultural monoculture like you find in most of the world - what people mistake for a lack of culture in America is that it’s a palimpsest of hundreds of cultures, and they all bring their foods to the American table.

This isn’t a knock on the modern multiculturalism in Europe, it’s more a statement that the established historic cultures in Europe squeeze out the diversity more than in the US with its lack of established historic culture that has almost entirely evaporated in the last 80 years.
And yet that never happens on Android. All of the major players use Google play store because regular consumers aren't gonna install another app store just to use some apps.
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If you say so. I'm just saying: it's not surprising that labor beat ownership here.
It looks like shit for $3K. It looks great for $300.
On a tangent, I find it a funny coincidence that both your handles start with "lord" -- it's like watching a debate in the House of Lords (UK's "Upper Parliament") :)
AI is not being put in control of weapons systems. Video feeds, satellite imagery, and other sensors are going to be fed into TITAN to identify targets. Manually pouring over drone feeds to pick out vehicles and personnel is a laborious and time consuming task, the goal is to use computers to do this classification more quickly.

Humans are still making the decision on whether or not to engage the targets. The responsibility still lies with people.
There is no cure for COVID yet. There have been many studies of ivermectin, which won a Nobel prize for its usefulness in other human diseases. The results are mixed, but on average it is quite effective against COVID. Note that there is no one drug that cures AIDs, either, but a mixture of drugs is powerful. I think it will turn out the same with COVID.

https://c19ivm.org/meta.html
Going purely off memory, I don't believe the Ivermectin hype was purely random. It was thought early on that anti-parasitics may be helpful with CoViD, and Ivermectin was one that people explored. It showed some early promise, although I can't recall how rigorous this promise was. Eventually the hype machine got hold of it, but that was largely an engineered situation, where those who were interested in its early promise dug their heels in in the face of over-the-top derision and bad faith attacks like "horse dewormer" jibes, which then mixed with anxiety and conspiracy thinking on both sides and resulted in a total inability to discuss this stuff reasonably. You should also keep in mind that while all this derision is going on, there isn't actually a medicine around that shows promise. People talk about this stuff like there was a perfectly good cure going around, but that was never the case.

Finally, the OP already stated this post wasnt made to prove Ivermectin effective, but to show that its utility is not something dismissed out of hand by actual redearchers. Knowing nothing of the providence of this paper, I can't comment on whether it achueve that, but you're not moving the conversation in any kind of positive direction with your (plural) reactionary commentary, that's clearly hitting a nerve with the OP.
> it was against the interests of most of the employees there

I think you're forgetting what the entire mission of OpenAI is
> Nobody should wonder why people do not trust science

Taking an iterative approach where you make a prediction, test the prediction, and adjust course in response to the test (AKA science) is literally the only possible thing that can work to discover true things about the world. So if someone distrusts science they're basically giving up on a belief in objective reality.

But I agree it's not surprising that people don't trust science, any more than it's surprising that people believe in astrology, lizard people, or ESP. Human minds don't have a special science sensor that lights up when they read true things. It's pretty much garbage in garbage out.

Don't miss the story here, which is that the study failed to replicate and the fraud was detected. In many human endeavors there are frauds that have persisted for centuries.

> That on its own is scandalous

Yeah it is, I agree. Providing data should be mandatory to the reviewers. It should IMO also be provided publicly if feasible (at least upon request if it's financially burdensome to host) if the work is publicly funded.
> Does it harm trust in Apple's brand?

The government's trust, yes.
Or require it of all devices sold in the EU, regardless of where those devices are later brought. This would be entirely defensible - "we're just regulating products sold within our market" - but inevitably they would make their way outside the EU to be resold.
> I think HEAD would be more intuitive if git’s terminology around HEAD were a little more internally consistent.

HEAD is whatever commit is currently checked out, full stop.

When resolving conflicts during a rebase that HEAD will be the commit that the one being cherry-picked is being picked onto. To understand this it's useful to just know that rebase is just a script of cherry-picks.
Or he was just lying all along in order to get the SV elite behind him, get the mighty tech dollars for cheap, raise to lofty valuations based on hype ('Mars', 'Hyperloop', 'Tunnels') and broken promises ('FSD next year') and become a multi billionaire.

Now that he has achieved ridiculous richness he is showing his real face more openly.
Its not 'one' person or a few. There are a lot of men who are doing it in Spain right now. For years, the courts have been heavily favoring the mothers and in most cases stripping most rights from the fathers. Now the fathers found this loophole and a lot of them are using it.
I don’t know a lot of iPhone owners who feel particularly stifled by them

Thank you for your deeply anecdotal brush off. Surely it makes those millions nearly imprisoned (try living without a phone) in the modern world by the corporate duopoly feel at ease. Just switch to the other side and solve all the problems.
No, and no one else is “investing” in crypto either. Lots of people are gambling and grifting with it, you may get lucky.
There was pre-Covid Elon, and then there’s this Elon. I imagine this is how Scrooge started if it were set in modern day. Only there’s no ghosts and he just becomes a bitter old man.
Sadly we are at a point where it doesn't matter who we vote for. They are all the same.
I think what I meant was that the join can be caused by the front end code, even if it happens on the back end server:

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/joins-and-nesting

"The data APIs automatically detect relationships between Postgres tables. Since Postgres is a relational database, this is a very common scenario."

There will be many people with the title Full Stack or Front End engineer who are using Supabase in this way and they may consider the code that triggers this to be front end code. There might or might not be another engineer who is in charge of the database and does some coding for it but always refers to him/herself as "backend" and is not aware that some of these joins are happening and need indices.
"The right way to fine-tune language models... is to actually throw away the idea of fine-tuning. There's no such thing. There's only continued pre-training."

:) i hope i didnt pervert your intent too too much for clickbait or something, i thought it was the spirit of what you said
> It’s human nature to feel this feeling, if that’s what we want to call “greed”.

Yes, greed is human nature, just like lust etc. We value when people suppress such feelings, but we know everyone has them.
But

- Why did the board snap decide to fire him and butcher it badly?

- Why didn't the board say he tried to manipulate them from the beginning? They only gave an explanation when they were literally forced to, and even then details are trickling out (like Mira's complaints).

Even after reading the NYTimes article, I still don't understand why the board decided to go straight to firing him.
If a VP is "low tier" then isn't calling them a VP at all just title inflation? At what point is a person responsible for the consequences of their actions regardless of intent?
I like Indonesia's approach... They confiscate and blow up the boats of illegal fisherman.
A (truck bed) tent like this on a regular truck costs about $200 to $300.

Spending as much as $3,000 for a regular truck would get you a fully fiberglass or aluminum camper shell or a collapsible roof-top tent (sits entirely above your truck) with hard shell pieces.
Not really. Gatekeeping is applied because you must pay Apple the tax to access its customers; not use its tech.
Top US cybersecurity agency hacked and forced to take some systems offline
I tried it a few months ago, back in November.

I looked through what I did and in the end, to bring in pw_result, I had to define a failure handler, pull in three separate cmake files for various definitions, define an ASSERT action (because a result type requires an ASSERT fail, apparently?), and set a backend and a handler for pw_assert. At some point I remember it complaining left and right about not having the right I/O methods for printing, etc. I just wanted to try the result type, and for some reason I needed to define I/O mechanisms for my platform.

Is this the correct procedure? I have no idea, because the cmake documentation had (has?) _zero_ examples. If they existed, I couldn't find them. I eventually got it to compile with the following snippet, but I can hardly believe that this is the "intended" way to do it.

FetchContent_Populate(pigweed)

include(${pigweed_SOURCE_DIR}/pw_build/pigweed.cmake)
include(${pigweed_SOURCE_DIR}/pw_assert/backend.cmake)
include(${pigweed_SOURCE_DIR}/pw_assert_basic/backend.cmake)

add_compile_definitions(PW_ASSERT_BASIC_ACTION=PW_ASSERT_BASIC_ACTION_LOOP)
pw_set_backend(pw_assert.check pw_assert_basic.check_backend)
pw_set_backend(pw_assert.assert pw_assert_basic.basic_handler)

add_subdirectory(${pigweed_SOURCE_DIR} ${pigweed_SOURCE_DIR})
"In practice, HTS are limited by the irreversibility field H, above which magnetic vortices melt or decouple. Even though BSCCO has a higher upper critical field than YBCO it has a much lower H (typically smaller by a factor of 100)[11] thus limiting its use for making high-field magnets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_strontium_calcium_copp...
The reusable rockets are real. The cool EVs are real, though Tesla is obviously losing its edge more than SpaceX.

Pure bullshitters don’t do that.

No he didn’t personally build all that stuff, but there is far too much of a trail of success here for the guy to have been a fool. He was at least clearly quite good at selling a vision and knowing who to hire and promote to make it happen. That’s not as easy as it sounds.

I’ve followed him since before he was famous and I remember hearing early interviews of his. I think he was genuinely a genius.

Was.

Today he seems totally fried. I suspect drug abuse is a major factor. I also strongly suspect he’s bipolar, and that can worsen with age especially if you are not rigorous about treating it and taking care of yourself.

I think people want to recon him into a fool because the fall is actually pretty damn depressing. It’s easier to say he was always like this than to realize that drugs and social media (hard to say which was worse) took a great mind.
I don't think Wifi triangulation uses SSID, instead it uses the BSSID, which afaik can't be changed.
Warranties are frequently transferable, in point of fact.
Have you tried approaching women you like and getting to know them?
Doubt it's drugs.

At least, didn't start that way.

He just wasn't sleeping, and I think dominos may have kept falling.
I've been on this planet for 44 years now and I'm sure this is the first time I've ever seen anyone abbreviate "who are".
But clearly not annoyed enough to move off their platform. Apple is counting on your continued support.
The motoring equivalent of the Fallout 76 bag fiasco?
Imagine china demanding intel/apple/microsoft/etc. to be sold to them or face ban.
I think he aged out of optimism, and now feels a sense of social responsibility appropriate for his age, and is applying the same tactics he used to become so successful in rocketry and automotion.
Clearly Epic thinks they'll do it. Different ecosystem, who knows?
let's create Myst in this
apple is taking advantage of your mums inflexibility...if it must be an apple and it has to last longer (not because hardware failure but engineered obsolescence, as it happened with the 2011 model) take the newest model
Nothing ironic at all that a uni student immigrant from a former communist country now living in a monarchy should be an expert on parliamentary procedure of the supposed world champion of democracy.
Keep fining them until they get it.
You can't go from nonprofit to for profit. They as I said created a subsidiary.
yeah that's beyond my paygrade :)

At least for our work, it just takes 1 hat out of the ring for those that we would be otherwise paying attention to, but afaict doesn't really change much otherwise. There are parallel efforts across the DOD etc to set AI compliance standards for internal policies. Likewise, as usual, legal innovators at the state level are also doing legislation to govern commerce, like the recent California thing. Precedent will still get set... just not by NIST?

Ex: Sounds like this person would not be focused on basic efforts to update practical aspects of NIST SP 800-53 for telling teams how it is safe to do AI in the cloud. So either teams will default to NO -- we've seen this as a common reaction in different govs + banks -- or need to point to something like the IC/DOD AI policies. Or it'll continue business as usual for the folks doing the work.
The US government does, which is what matters.
People buy roof top-style tents and don’t use them, although I don’t judge other people like that.

But absolutely no one leaves bed-style tents in their bed to look cool.
Well, do you believe in an external reality?
Not “ageist,” just fact. I have never seen a young man driving a ‘70s Stingray or similar classic. Only old men going through their second midlife crisis. Good for them — I chose motorcycles when I got old and had the money for BMWs I couldn’t afford decades before.
The other side gives you the possibility of getting a phone with different variations and people also root their phone and sideload apps. I support going the PinePhone route but not sure that's right for the average person.
Sorry... had to come back for one last reply.

> But if a person responds to any criticism of C with vitriol, one begins to think that person is invested in a belief that C is perfect.

That was before I started responding in kind.

> You're not the innocent victim in this conversation that you think you are.

Oh, I was. You and jerf certainly started the rude behavior. Expecting me to sit back and take it, and then pouncing on me for "vitriol" for responding in kind is... wait for it... SEALIONING.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Push the envelope, then call the other out for pushing back, as if you're the injured party.

Either way, this is far outside of acceptable behavior on HN. I'm disengaging for good this time. I offered you useful advice. You tried to turn this into a silly Rust debate that no one wanted. Then, you act like the aggrieved party because no one wants it.
Relating t-statistics and the relative width of confidence intervals
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> I love Medellin and lived there for many years, but the air quality is terrible and getting worse

The good thing about hill cities such as Medellin (sadly not a format available for big cities say in Europe or the US) is that you can choose your altitude, and at around 2000 thousand meters (the city starts at ~1500m) the air quality is not so bad, used to be worse years ago (maybe you lived there 2 or 3 years ago), but now it's much better.

> You can talk with any locals and they say that the climate is noticeably different than it was in the past.

Yeah, the city is much warmer compared to say 10 years ago, whether this is due to the city growing into previously-forest areas or /global/ warming I don't know... but yeah, locals agree it was MUCH colder 10 years ago...

> Medellin is surrounded by mountains and the contaminated air cannot escape.

See comments above about living at 2000m altitude (up in the mountains a bit away from the high-rise buildings and such, think of Beverly Hills or something like that.).

> The hills are steep and old busses spew black smoke.

As of now, there's almost no remaining old busses spewing black smoke anymore, but there's some cargo trucks still doing it.

> Saying Medellin's temp decreased by 2 degrees Celsius based on "Mejorar el microclima hasta 2°C" is a misinterpretation. I think this article is quite misleading.

I wouldn't know, but locals do say that it was a much more colder city in the past...
It absolutely competes if the non-Apple ecosystem is improved. And Apple has put some support into running Swift in Linux, just not enough.

A big thing Swift has over all these languages is that it's higher-level than Rust and Zig, but not garbage-collected unlike Scala, Kotlin, and Go. Personally, I would use it if it wasn't for its dependence on Apple and that I use IntelliJ and they are discontinuing AppCode.
It’s not that clear-cut. “Greed” as defined this way is one of the main drives making people do things. They go out into the world and exert themselves in order to acquire wealth, power, and renown. It’s a core part of what has produced civilization from out of the darkness of total animal-like ignorance. The inventors, makers, statesmen, pioneers, explorers of history… what do you think was motivating them?

What do you think has kept life procreating on this planet in the face of overwhelming hardship? Lust.

I think it’s one-eye-blind to demonize greed, lust, or any other part of human nature. Those drives are inseparable from us being here in our current state, living reasonably well, conversing over the internet on phones and computers.
Interesting, thank you. That seems an extremely reasonable position to me

Definitely don't feel obligated to answer, but may I ask what country or region you're from? And if you do any ios or Mac development?
There's always another other coping mechanism.
I have never taken any of that stuff seriously and don't know why anybody else does either. Certainly, labor at OpenAI does not seem to have, either.

Look, the board could have held the line, and then died when every one of their employees jumped ship. But nobody can say OpenAI's labor owed anything to the mission. They're all free agents, just like us. Real easy to say that someone else should take a pay cut to serve a mission you care about. It's good to want things!
I wrote about one simple implementation:

https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/30/job-queues-with-postrgr...