skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't have a computer at hand, but if you bootstrap from that population, in how many cases are the XmR limits violated? If it's more than, say, 15 %, I would not consider that distribution stable in the SPC sense, and thus not really a counter-example.

Still sounds a bit like goalpost moving to me... now I need to perform bootstraps (and change the order of the samples arbitrarily) to even define if a distribution in "stable" (i.e., stationary) or not?

Either way, I think my original point still stands: different "averages" have different properties, and the claim that arbitrary "averages" will be good estimates of the population median (without invoking anything regarding distributional symmetry) seems rather unfounded.

Of course, if you start adding terms like "roughly", and then extend its meaning so that "30 is roughly 70" (even though 30 is less than half of 70), then I guess any "average" (since, by definition, it exists between max(data) and min(data)) will be some sort of some "rough" estimate of the median, at least to some orders of magnitude (since it also, by definition, exists between max(data) and min(data) as well), sure.

I'm still not reading the rest of the article posted, though. I remind you that what was written did not mention "stability" in any way. It simply said:

> Again, you and I know better. A statistic known as “average” is intentionally designed to fall in the middle of the range. Roughly half of your measurements will be above average, and the other half below it.

This, as it is written, is sloppy. And I rather not ready something sloppy.

Have a nice day, though.
Do the two 4090 GPUs need to be on the same machine, or is it possible to somehow use two separate machines, each with its own 4090, and link them somehow via e.g. InfiniBand?
There was a lot of charity shown in this thread.
One repeat issue I’ve had with my past position is need to schedule an unlimited number of jobs, often months to year from now. Example use case: a patient schedules an appointment for a follow up in 6 months, so I schedule a series of appointment reminders in the days leading up to it. I might have millions of these jobs.

I started out by just entering a record into a database queue and just polling every few seconds. Functional, but our IO costs for polling weren’t ideal, and we wanted to distribute this without using stuff like schedlock. I switched to Redis but it got complicated dealing with multiple dispatchers, OOM issues, and having to run a secondary job to move individual tasks in and out of the immediate queue, etc. I had started looking at switching to backing it with PG and SKIP LOCKED, etc. but I’ve changed positions.

I can see a similar use case on my horizon wondered if Hatchet would be suitable for it.
Instead of code generation as a special case, let it be the default. That kills most of the complexity.

src/ contains lots of code in lots of languages, all describing code generators of varying complexity. src/foo.c uses 'cp' as the code generator. src/bar.c.py uses 'python'.

gen/ contains the result of the ad hoc code generators. Same tree layout as src, one to one map from those files. All of that is C. Files that get #included and don't make sense standalone I tend to suffix .data, e.g. src/table.data.lua runs to create gen/table.data.

obj/ contains all the C compiled to object code or llvm bitcode, depending on the toolchain.

I originally did that with the idea that I could distribute gen/ as the source code for people who wanted to build the project without dealing with the complexity of the build system, strongly inspired by sqlite's amalgamation. Sqlite is built from a chaotic collection of TCL and C code generators but you don't see that as a user of sqlite.c.

It turns out that debugging the stuff under gen/ when things go wrong is really easy. Valgrind / gdb show you the boring code that the generators stamped out. So in practice I keep that separation because it makes it easier to trace through the system when it behaves unexpectedly.

Lua does that really well. Good multiline string literal support. A template string that you call gsub() on a few times then dump to stdout is very quick to put together. You've got string format for more complicated things, maybe using one of the string interpolation implementations found on their wiki.
The EU can fine Apple 5% of its global revenue if Apple does not act fair as Very Large Online Platform. Whether this is justified, good or bad is of course up to discussion.
The Public Is Rapidly Turning Against AI, Polling Shows
Was it attached to the parallel port? That was a fairly common design, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
Genes. It's most likely not the stomach but the hypothalamus. It basically controls hunger and some people's hypothalamus is really good at defending against weight gain, and other aren't.
Source? I really don't think that's true.
This is why hyperloop is so puzzling to me. There’s established processes and supply chains to deliver and sustain high speed rail, and quite a few routes in sparsely populated areas would benefit with little disruption to existing infrastructure, like Vegas-LA (or somewhere ).
> RAM being the issue would mean Samsung phones are somehow more RAM efficient than Pixel phones, which is hard to believe.

Not necessarily. It’s at least possible that the overall experience is degraded in the low RAM system, and Samsung is willing to overlook this… which isn’t hard to believe.
> Are you really trying root as exfat? Will never work. A linux filesystem must support file ownership and access rights per file, which exfat doesn’t. Linux runs only from ext4, btrfs, xfs or such.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/qa36mr/comm...
Games and Other Uncopyrightable Systems
The article quotes has a 15,000 unit delta after closing a loophole, not after banning short-term rentals. The article also claims enforcement on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. is still lacking.
That's exactly the point. People forget that EMS are not doctors. All they have is way more medical training than the average civilian. That's why it's a CYA for them. So the person that shows up to the ER as advised by EMS which later turns out to be a non-emergency is not the fault of the patient. Why punish them with unholy fees?
Depending on your background the luck variable will be different and you may have to try more or less times to get a successful outcome.
Getting strong HyperCard vibes off this, which is a beautiful thing
One thing I learned recently is that switching from cookies to ice cream leads to several improvements in health.
The point is excluding the ram difference, the hardware on the devices is the same. They launched at the exact same time.
I don't think so -- you _are_ paying to condition that part of your house, sure, but it becomes just another part of the overall envelope and acts like a buffer between the weather and the actually livable parts of your home. Anecdotally, in my home in the summer months, when unconditioned the attic is 50 degrees on a summer day it literally radiates heat down through the ceiling on the floor below into the rooms there. The attic acts like a heat battery -- long after the sun goes down the attic is radiating heat into the upper floors of my house. Not sure why it retains heat so well it's got louvres and vents ...
I would, however, add that traditional Chinese character learning involved the complete memorisation of a text, followed by learning the characters associated with each word of that text. Learning individual characters in the way we think of as "traditional" today is actually a modern innovation compared to how people used to do it. In that context, memorising a text that consists of 1000 purely unique characters takes on a different character, even though I would think people would be better served just memorising more useful texts.
Well they probably don't like Kamikaze pilots either but frankly those aren't much of a concern these days.
MM120 is chemically identical to LSD. The "optimization" they claim is just a regulatory workaround aimed at maintaining patent protection for longer.

As far as shorter trips, Compass Pathways is testing psilocybin for depression. Another company, Field Trip Health, was developing an analog of psilocybin with a shorter trip duration, but it doesn't seem to be progressing past Phase 1 trials.
I've not heard of people doing that - is there a reason for your concern?

My understanding is that the brain undergoes important development until around 25 years old, so it's best to push drug use to after. If someone insists on doing something earlier, before 16 years old is probably a terrible idea.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Surely you recognized there is a context to the "no interrupting meetings" guideline. The protester felt that meeting was playing part in the support and facilitation genocide, I think that's adequate grounds to interrupt a meeting.

And what do you find absurd about the "slave owner" comparison? I'm not arguing that modern day employment is slavery or anything of the sort, just pointing out that the terms of "reasonable expectations" are always defined by those in power, and not once in history has working within "reasonable expectations" caused a shift in those power dynamics.
No, I mean, literally "where did you even read that?" or is it just something you assumed to be true - i.e. you made it up?

I have followed health and fitness sites, nutrition sites and discussions by scientists and doctors for the better part of the last couple decades in response to my own medical issues that doctors could not help with. As I state in my profile I do not provide links. If a topic is interesting to you then I would suggest researching it so that you can decide for yourself which sources are bribed and which are legit. All of the information is well within reach. nih.gov, healthline, even youtube have a handful of decent scientists and doctors to follow. If you are suggesting I am not telling the truth then it is not possible for us to have a good faith discussion on this topic.
This isn't built specifically for generative AI, but generative AI apps typically have architectural issues that are solved by a good queueing system and worker pool. This is particularly true once you start integrating smaller, self-hosted LLMs or other types of models into your pipeline.

> How do you distribute inference across workers?

In Hatchet, "run inference" would be a task. By default, tasks get randomly assigned to workers in a FIFO fashion. But we give you a few options for controlling how tasks get ordered and sent. For example, let's say you'd like to limit users to 1 inference task at a time per session. You could do this by setting a concurrency key "<session-id>" and `maxRuns=1` [1]. This means that for each session key, you only run 1 inference task. The purpose of this would be fairness.

> Can one use just any protocol

We handle the communication between the worker and the queue through a gRPC connection. We assume that you're passing JSON-serializable objects through the queue.

[1] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/features/concurrency/round-rob...
This is why I think US medicine should be deregulated, especially licensing laws.

Everything you're describing is screaming monopoly and artificial lack of competition.

If providers of class X are too busy to see you, then there's plenty of people who could, or you're just going to do it on your own. It needs to be more like that.

Obviously there are some limits, but educational pathways could be much more diverse, and there are many things that patients are capable of accessing on their own or through providers like pharmacists.
A plant will not ward off pests like insects all by itself. A garden or farm is a big pile of food on one end of an unbalanced equation, where entropy favors pest populations growing to consume that excess. Natural gardening therefore puts a big point of focus in developing an entire ecosystem, such that when you do get these inevitable surges in prey population its balanced by predation. There are certain cover crops you can plant that will help attract predatory insects to your garden.
Games and Other Uncopyrightable Systems

Bruce E. Boyden

https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
Many people love the second game, but I was never into Real-Time Strategy so I couldn't get into it. I actually liked the first one a lot better, a mix of light strategy and adventure.
Ask HN: Why does LLM struggle in playing 24 puzzle
I have yet to find an LLM that solves the 24 puzzle with these numbers (6 9 9 10) correctly.

Many seemingly capable LLM will produce incorrect intermediate or final results, e.g. claiming 9 × 9 ÷ (10 - 6) = 24.

Did I miss anything in my prompt? Or if there's a reason LLMs are bad at these questions?
Are you suggesting in this specific case that taking Google's announcement at face value is somehow more technical than asking the question "What is the hardware limitation on the base Pixel 8?" Given they use the same CPU, and the Samsung phones support the model with 8GB of RAM, what is the hardware limitation on this 5 month old flagship phone that was sold as having this great AI chip?
> At some point, you read documentation, or a tutorial, or example code to use Cargo.

...and the point you're pretending you don't understand, is that the parts I needed were simple enough that I now have it memorized.

> These exist for other build and package systems, some of which are clones of Cargo.

These exist... but you're not going to even mention any, because you're aware that they aren't equivalent. They don't ship with your C compiler, they don't work for every C project without configuration, etc.

I'm open to the possibility that there are better C build tools than the ones I've been using, but they literally cannot be as easy as Cargo because they're hampered by supporting decades of legacy features (and mistakes) of C, the fact that none of them are the standard, etc.

And look, no hate on C. It's done its job for decades and if we're measuring by the problems that have been solved in a language, it's arguably the best language in existence. I've certainly chosen it for a lot of my own projects. But do you really think it's perfect? Are you really unwilling to admit that there is anything newer languages do better?
Two letters from randos saying fossil fuels are bad and one from the "president and chief executive of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers" saying they are a vital part of the solution to climate change and attacking the Biden Admin. Such balance.
psilocybin (or more accurately the active drug it is converted to, psilocin) and LSD are extremely similar as classical psychedelics. psychosis is possible with any sort of psychoactive drug and individuals with a family history of bipolar disease or schizophrenia should avoid consuming any psychoactive substances. with that said, psychosis is extremely uncommon with LSD in healthy individuals at reasonable doses, and LSD use actually has a slight negative correlation with later development of schizophrenia.

i'm not sure about that particular case, but consuming LSD while on lithium (commonly prescribed for bipolar disorder) essentially guarantees an acute episode of psychosis and possibly seizures so I wonder if that particular individual was on lithium at the time.
> You mistake manufacturing Zyklon B like a good little wagie for professionalism

You either don't know the meaning of professionalism, or are arguing in bad faith. I will presume cognitive limitations instead of malice.

> You also mistake a moral position as conformism, which enables you to make immoral (by your own standards) statements

There is nothing moral or immoral to conforming to society. I don't make the rules. I just follow.
You will also see it correlates with people who exercise.
Given this was in Canada, I wonder if that was part of the reason the settlement was low.
I think he also promulgated the notion that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Which is wrong.
> "So bad we turned phones off … Which means we could miss calls from constituents who actually need urgent help with something," a senior Democratic aide added.

That's certainly a choice they decided to make.
I am curious to see where they differentiate themselves on observability on the longer run.

Comparing to rabbitmq it should be easier to see what is in the queue itself without mutating it, for instance.
> The massive fossil came to light in May 2022, after now 25-year-old amateur paleontologist Damien Boschetto and his dog stumbled across something unusual while walking in a forest in Montouliers, France

That's amazing, can't imagine the dog's happiness with such a big bone.
So TSA creates these unnecessarily long lines and stressful conditions, and some of the people in those lines have guns? Only a matter of time before that ends very badly.
oh snap, you totally got me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Is it dead? I see nothing to that effect in the article.
Yeah I have something, I think its basically not true that yields are lower when you implement the cutting edge stuff AEA is doing.

Current legislation and politics doesn't help, but true regenerative ag (not greenwashed) will also outperform conventional ag in the free market eventually. This is beyond just organic, making use of the latest scientific insights, on plant sap analysis and being data driven.
Who said anything about “printing” money!?

In all serious contexts — not kids arguing on Reddit — the concept of UBI is just an adjustment of tax brackets such that people below a certain threshold pay negative tax. This is offset by higher taxes in the super rich.

It’s basically saying that Bezos does not work one million times harder than the staff working in his warehouses. Staff that are literally starving in many cases.
"...Uber told the 2022 hearing into Bauer’s complaint that it didn’t violate the human rights code because it’s an app and doesn’t provide a service as defined under the code."

What an argument.
I guess response is the noun and verbatim the adjective (or give the verb, verbatim the adverb):

> Give me a response as a "markdown verbatism" of a button like:

> [Click Me](https://www.google.com)
Reading a lot of the responses here, I've realized another reason why the fight for a better health care system in the US goes so poorly. People are so used to the costs and being jerked around by the system that they've completely normalized it. "Oh, you should have known those symptoms didn't require an ER visit; it's your fault you got such a large bill." "Every hospital or doctor is going to try to push extra charges like that; you have to contest them or just not pay and hope the problem goes away; that's just how it is."

Then someone from outside the US says, "that would never happen in my country; here's how it works here..." and it's immediately assumed there's some sort of huge catch, that never, nowhere could a health care system work that well without some sort of major trade off or downside.

No! Stop this! A health care system should work for patients, not against them! Injured or suddenly-sick people are not in the best head space to make rational, informed decisions as to what level of care they need in the moment. Even if they were, nearly all lack the specific medical training that would always allow them make that decision with a comfortable level of certainty.

And even if someone should have known better, I just don't get the ire. Why should we put people into tenuous financial situations just because they made a mistake in how they sought medical care? Medical care! What the hell is wrong with people?

The US health care system is awful, despite having so many great and talented doctors, nurses, and staff! Let's get that through our heads! We pay so much more than other developed countries, for so much less care. And the reason we don't have something better is because the right public policy is labeled "socialism". This is so exhausting.
Many US stock market indices (not on a day to day basis but are exponential if you zoom out enough)
GM starts selling Chevy Blazer EVs again, cuts prices up to $6,250
Oh, there’s no doubt United is capable of this all on their own.
'Taxi companies “100 per cent support that Uber should also provide (wheelchair accessible vans) because why not?”'

Because the drivers own the vehicles not Uber.
Well, now you've moved the goal posts. What a government says its employees can/cannot do is not the same thing as what the citizens can/cannot do. I see that no different than any employer not allowing apps on company devices, or even having the corp network block any/all social media.
> But Uber told the 2022 hearing into Bauer’s complaint that it didn’t violate the human rights code because it’s an app and doesn’t provide a service as defined under the code.

What a slimy, disgusting, in-human argument to make.
We used to have tech reporting done by tech people. "Shannon Knows DEC" was written by an NSA Spook. Wired used to employ ex-phreakers like Steve Steinberg.
He could have hated it because he thought it was good. People are not one-dimensional.
It's worth considering the other direction - write the struct definition in json or xml, or dicts in python source or whatever, and generate the C structs and the associated functions and data from that.

Go slightly further and write out function types like that and you get something equivalent to swig, where instead of parsing C and trying to emit wrappers for other languages from that framework, you have the data in native lua tables that you emit code from.
Yields are higher than they need to be already for many crops and subsidies have long distorted the market and arguably have incentivized the wrong things. We could stand a bit of inefficiency if we gain a lot of resilience and other nth order beneficial effects to the ecosystem as a result.
A tab is just a square of blotting paper. It can be any amount, but is most often 1-2 doses.

LSD can cause persistent hallucinations, though these tend to be minor, like halos around lights. It can also leave a lasting impression on your mind. This is usually a positive, and is one of the reasons it's interesting for anxiety and PTSD.

Physiologically, it's remarkably safe. People have taken 1000s of times the standard dose and been fine. It's worth being a little alarmist though, as a "bad trip" can occur at any dosage, and can have extremely unpredictable effects. It's usually upsetting but manageable, but the horror stories are real too. Powerful stuff. Do not combine it with alcohol.

Anecdotally, my worst experience (out of about 5 times) was throwing up on myself then sitting in a river for 3 hours trying to feel clean. My friend punched a hole in his wall and took a shit in it.
Recent and related:

NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618193 - March 2024 (44 comments)
ER is definitely not appropriate for a small cut requiring only a band-aid.
Having experienced both the DVLA and (California) DMV, the DVLA feels miles ahead, like it's living in the future.

Things like finding out the status of a renewal involved finding a fax machine, everything but the most trivial renewal (say, renewing if you're on a work visa) seems to be done in person with handwritten paperwork, and the amount of busywork that seems to be done by hand by the DMV agent is quite easy to blame for the impressive wait times, multiple hours even if you have an appointment.

My DVLA renewal was trivial comparatively, they could even use my passport for an updated ID photo. But maybe if you're not a UK citizen they also make you jump through weird hoops?

I'm not saying that the DVLA is good, just that it could be even worse.
why do you need to schedule things 6 months in advance, instead of, say, check everything that needs notifications in a rolling window (eg 24h ahead) and schedule those?
That's just a gamble.