skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, exactly. DCOM was a failure for the same reason that every other RPC thing is a failure. It turns out that introducing cascading failure or partial failure opportunities due to synchronous remote calls was never a good idea. It was always, and still is, treating the fallacies of distributed computing as first principles.
The above claims are not very accurate.

JPEG and JPEG 2000 were based on the principle that the core codec was royalty-free but there might be patent-encumbered optional things (such as arithmetic coding, in the case of JPEG) that could be just left out if you want a royalty-free codec. Eventually it became clear that basically a de facto standard would always emerge that just skipped the patent encumbered things; JPEG XL doesn't have any (known) patent-encumbered ingredients for that reason: it's a bit pointless to add things to the spec that nobody will want to use anyway.

I don't think patents played a big role in the (lack of) adoption of JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR; more likely, in my opinion, the main problem was that good FOSS implementations were not readily available at the right time. The core codec of J2K has been royalty-free from the start, but it took quite a while before good FOSS software (like OpenJPEG) was available. Computational complexity was also an issue in its early days.
For JPEG XR, even today there is no well-maintained FOSS implementation available; this is probably a bigger reason for its lack of popularity than potential patent issues. Compare for example with h264 (and x264), which had more substantial patent issues but nevertheless became very popular.

JPEG XT builds on JPEG, not JPEG 2000.

JPEG XS has a very specific niche use case (ultra-low latency, as a mezzanine codec for video production workflows), it doesn't have the goal of 'becoming popular' as a general-purpose codec.

JPEG is not MPEG. While both are working groups of ISO, which does have a policy that is not exactly "avoid the patent mess" but rather "don't talk about IP", there is quite a big difference in membership composition and attitudes between those two groups. Having a royalty-free baseline codec (and more recently, having just a completely royalty-free codec) has been something JPEG has been pursuing since the beginning (1980s), while in MPEG they're only recently coming to that conclusion (with EVC, no doubt due to pressure from initiatives like AOM).
None of this makes any sense because the seed values and the temperature used can change this inside of one model. You're going to have to ask each model a high amount of times and average out...
Imagine if functions were polymorphic over the ability to pass in a function as an argument. So both f(1) and f(() => 1) would be valid for a function that takes a number. It would also apply to variables and such too. So "const a = () => 1; const b = a + a;" would be possible to do.
> However as an ordained Buddhist monk...

Then perhaps you meant to say you've taken the precepts, as ordaining and a layperson taking the precepts are obviously entirely different levels of commitment.
Taxation doesn't usually make things cheaper.
Can you elaborate on the weight gain? I'm curious why that is a downside of the Trikafta? You say with CF the pancreas is blocked, so why did the weight come as a side-effect of the drug, and not with the disease initially?
But go too far in the other direction of not regulating enough, you also end up in the exact same spot.
So solution is to stop demand. Ban employers from employing more people in cities.
It seems like rather than adding a random amount to each sample (which lets them compute a mean by recreating the same audio and extracting out the differences), Safari could instead add randomness that is based on a key that rotates every hour. (Function of audio sample and key, so the noise would be the same in a given session, but useless for tracking an hour later).
how do i build it?

edit. ok 10 minutes later if have persuaded automake/conf/etc to create a makefile. now xxhash wont compile because src/bef.c:278:2: error: unknown type name ‘XXH128_hash_t’; did you mean ‘XXH32_hash_t’?

edit ok many more minutes later i purged ubuntu xxhash and installed my own copy and re-negotiatied with automake/conf/etc

edit lol downvoted for asking how to build.

edit ok now that its built, havent the foggiest how to use it. no example or hello world is given in readme.

edit nevermind figured it out. ./bef -c -i bef -o bef.test

edit so i still dont understand it. i bef'ed the Makefile, removed a character, tried to 'deconstruct' it, the output is zero bytes
I did gather that's why some bathrooms have blue lights, but yeah, it wouldn't make much sense to have random street lights have that.

Drug policy ramble, it's proven more beneficial to offer clean, well-lit places to shoot drugs, along with mental & medical health personnel and free methadon.
Yes, but as my entire point is this is a bad comparison…

…as OpenAI is only a few years old, wasn't the first few years of Christianity, before Catholicism split from other denominations, "oh no, we need to stop our converts committing suicide immediately because they want to get out of their awful lives and into the heaven we promised them and they're afraid they might sin again between baptism and death if they don't off themselves"?

Even with the weird end of the "Rapture of the Nerds" (the attitude not the book, I've not read the book), I don't think we're seeing so much of that resulting from AI development. And that's despite more users than there were Europeans in 1500 AD, let alone 1 AD.
I think it's just the nature of how I use APIs. I do discovery with curl then just write a golang CLI for long term use. I'd probably save a lot of boilerplate using something like http-files though.
What if for example they get conned into spending their life savings on fake treatments that exist today and then have nothing left when a promising legitimate treatment is developed six months from now?

And what about their heirs? What if they get conned into wasting away wealth that they could have passed down based on a false idea that it could help them be cured?

Not to mention that it hurts society as a whole to allow money to flow to grifters whether or not the subjects of the con successfully get false hope out of it.
Since you can carry 100+ frequencies around 1500 nm, the feature-size per data stream is more like 15 nm/stream, which is closer to electronics, and the heat dissipation of optical waveguides may be much lower than with equivalent electronics. Photonics also have the advantage of better signal propagation over longer distances, for efficient interconnection of multiple devices.

So there is a likely opportunity for large-scale integrated photonics, as long as you have enough parallelism.
This also requires a login I believe
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You've never been in a cab or taken an uber?
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This isn't even coherent. We get it, you have an opinion and you want attention for it.
My guess would be that the chemical sensors generally used are those looking for pollution and runoffs, including oxygen levels. It is important to keep track of water quality in harbors, and dead zones near coasts (and the Baltic ocean).

I am not aware however if mapping ever get combined with environmental studies.
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Hey y'all. For companies that have an MVP and a couple of early paying adopters, what is the best thing to focus on with sales. Should I go hard core on emails and phone calls (SDR style stuff), or are there other things that I should be focusing on (like marketing, building a brand, or anything else)?
SWIFT did it too. And a few other sites I forgot.

I added this check to my "why the fuck this password did not work" list of idiocies produced by incompetent developers
Have you seen this research? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20581-7

Have you looked at implants or other treatments for essential tremor?
Fair enough. As someone who takes Trikafta, I skimmed the article since it wasn't news to me :-)
> I don't know a single person who has "allied with the devil to cast the world into darkness". Turns out that was just a terrifying fairy tale.

It’s no fairy tale. There are people in this world who raise armies of child soldiers and engage in ritual cannibalism and human sacrifice. There are people who build concentration camps and gulags and torture the people imprisoned inside. There are serial killers and child sex traffickers. These people exist. In a modern Western society, we prefer to either live in denial about this or try and develop more sophisticated explanations for this kind of behavior, but there are centuries of intellectual development that needed to happen for us to get here. Most people throughout most of history made sense of the world through myth. If it helps, think of the devil as more of a metaphor.

Though honestly, I think I would make a stronger statement than that. For instance, you can attribute some of this behavior to mental illness, but the concept of mental illness is also a metaphor with almost as many inherent flaws. And even framing these behaviors as mental illness doesn’t work in cases where these behaviors are completely normal to the societies in which they take place. Everyone agrees that Ed Gein was mentally ill because he lived in a culture where murdering women, wearing their skin, and dancing around wasn’t normal, but there have been cultures where human sacrifices with uncanny similarities in ritual have been completely normal. Psychologists and anthropologists have all kinds of theories and explanations for this sort of thing, but it’s not like they have it all figured out. We’re nowhere close to hard science when it comes to explaining this stuff.

Besides, what is science anyway? It’s a set of models to help people make predictions. It’s not fundamental truth. F=ma is a lie that we tell children because unless you’re approaching the speed of light, it’s close enough to get you the right answers. And the psychologists were getting high on cocaine and making up wild theories about men wanting to fuck their mothers around the same time the physicists finally figured out that F=ma isn’t exactly right.

It sounds like you grew up in a weird cult and I’m sympathetic to that, but it’s a mistake to overgeneralize that experience as an example of religious faith in general. There are a lot of religious beliefs that use a mythical framing to encapsulate essential truths about the human experience. Not only did we need that encoding to get where we are today, but in some cases I’m not even sure we’ve come up with any better explanations.
You're talking apples and oranges...

Humira is a monoclonal antibody (a biologic drug), not a small molecule. Biologics require cell culture systems and a completely different manufacturing process than small molecules, and are very complex drugs. The "generics" (called biosimilars) aren't significantly cheaper because they're simply very expensive to manufacture at scale. Humira or its "generics/biosimilars" will never be cheap. It's physically impossible with today's bio processing technology.

Trikafta is a mix of three small molecules, which are manufactured in large chemical batches and are the more traditional class of drugs. Many even have total synthesis pathways known which means you can basically make them by the train car scale for cheap.

When the patent on Trikafta runs out, it'll be very cheap.

I'll note that vanishingly few patients ever pay the full list price in the US--if you have insurance, the copay is small.

Your insurance pays (as they should, that's why you pay them premiums!). The company even pays the co-pay in most cases so the actual cost to patients in many cases is $0.

If you truly need it and don't have insurance, the company provides it for basically free with a patient assistance program, it's there on their website.

Kudos to the scientists who invented this, I don't feel bad for the insurance companies really, they charge their premiums and it's their responsibility to the policyholders to pay the applicable fees for care.

*edit: typo
That tent costs $500, but the text Porsche on it costs $5,000.
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Obligatory link to Primitive Technology on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550

Although, he doesn't recreate past technology - I think he researches what technology could have existed, given the knowledge of our time. Things like his blowers, and his iron smelting processes.

Of course, there's only so much you can do with rocks & sticks, so most of what he makes ends up being pretty similar to historical tools & buildings.
It's good politics and bad economics. It literally is wealth redistribution towards renters who are eligible to vote in a given election and will likely vote again in future elections, at the expense of those who have yet to move into the area and transients.

I still hear notions that rent control works and that capitalists just don't want you to know one weird trick! Or that absolute rent control doesn't work, but limiting how much rent can increase year over year does (no). Models where rents are allowed to be raised when tenants move out also have the unfortunate effect of strongly impairing peoples ability to freely move to a new home in a more suitable location for them as their personal and professional life changes, not just impairing new development. Not to mention the renoviction phenomenon, and landlords making their tenants life hell to force them to move.

I think the only argument you could make for rent control is as a protective against monopolisation/price fixing/cartel behaviour amongst landlords who would love to jack prices up above market value using price fixing software like realpage which are a new phenomenon. But it seems like a rather blunt instrument to accomplish that.
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Alignment is meaningless, humans can't even align with themselves, even an individual human becomes "misaligned" with itself in a continuous manner.

Beyond that, I think the idea that we'll ever achieve "superintelligence" by training a model on a bunch of text posted online is obviously absurd. Using months of quadratic time brute force on every piece of digitized text available managed to produce a ground breaking text generator, but it's more appropriately thought of as a calculator for language rather than an intelligent being.

Further, the idea that these systems could choose to destroy us is also absurd, it's important to remember that language model inference is a process, not an entity, in principle even a person could run inference by hand if they had enough time, because it's just a sequence of steps to produce a string of characters, it's not an agent with an identity that thinks. The only way it could destroy us is if we feed sequences of text it generates into safety critical systems, which is obviously a bad idea (that someone will probably try at some point).
On the subject of correlation/causation, I once took a drug called Accutane to cure my teenage acne. Listed side effects included: "Mental health issues depression, psychosis, aggressive behaviour and suicide ideation and attempts"

Accutane was the best medicine I ever took. It resolved my acne (permanently) in a matter of weeks. I felt elated afterwards and never experienced mental side effects.

However, prior to the drug, I'd experienced several of the listed side effects, due to the acne itself and its devasting effect on my self-esteem.

For many teenagers suffering from serious acne, they'd also have mental side effects due to the skin disorder, meaning there would be a strong correlation between Accutane use and people suffering mental episodes. And if the wonder drug didn't cure the acne, as promised, I can imagine that failure might push some acne sufferers over the edge.

So, Accutane itself could be harmless, but the circumstances of its use might suggest causal link to mental side effects which are not causal at all.
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Any basic search will provide you with examples of Russian ships headed to Davy Jones locker, but here's a nice satellite image of one for your reference. Fortunately, they didn't have to tow this landing ship very far as it was already in port.[0]

[0]https://news.usni.org/2022/03/25/satellite-images-confirm-ru...
Some of the blockage of the pancreas is due to scarring, some of it to thick mucus. The scarring can't be undone, but with a reduction of mucus blockage, food may be digested better. That said, I think that there's other causes, given how fast most who start Trikafta gain weight.
Not at first but as of late, yes. :(
In this case it does, by effectively removing a portion of the money which can be extracted from tenants from the land market, which can then be redistributed towards other ends. Or you could lower taxes elsewhere. It also minimises impact on development by not taxing improvements on land and directly incentivising densification.

It's an extremely bad tax if you are a land speculator, but the point of the tax is land speculators are the penultimate example of those who become rich for being rich without actually adding value to the system.
>Inflation in what era?

Why the inflationary epoch of course.

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

I'm saying the very notion of the big bang warrants more scrutiny. All singularities do.
Second this. One of the first VSCode extensions I install and recommend for non-devs in the team as well (BAs, QAs, etc). Kind of insane how human friendly HTTP 1.1 is.
A bank had once the fucked up idea to require some characters of the password. It was a Polish bank and I know that another one there has the same idiotic idea.

So you had to write down your passwords, map an index (1, 2, 3, ...) to each character and check the ones that match.

But it was not all! You had a time limit!

These idiots disabled it for some time and then apparently reenabled it again.

I wonder, seriously, which education the inventor had and to which point his team was saying yes to everything.
You can still use it without an account, although it tries quite hard to get you to use one.
Med student here. My guess is the following:
So with CF your pancreas can’t secrete many of the enzymes that are necessary to actually digest food. You can take medications to help with that digestion, but regardless, you aren’t actually getting all the calories in your food with CF because it isn’t making its way into your body (notably patients with CF have steatorrhea which is fat in their stool because they can’t absorb a lot of fat from their foods like a non-CF patient). The med helps the pancreas recover some of its ability to secrete digestive enzymes and so patients can now eat and get more from their food. The issue is that there needs to be a recalibration in terms of how much patients are eating. Previously a 2000 calorie diet may not have gotten them so far because they didn’t absorb much of it, but now they’re absorbing a lot more of it. Plus increased work of breathing with CF expends more calories compared to a non-CF patient (and patients on this drug).
The complaints about postman collection files being hostile to Git collaboration is valid, but I will just say: we managed to cobble together a reasonable workflow, persisting our postman collections in source control, by writing a utility that strips out all the guids that postman needlessly changes every time you do a collection export. We use Newman to run the collections in our CI pipelines, and as the main way to run tests locally.

It’s painful having to do an import/export of the collection from a file every time you want to modify the collection or debug a test, though, and the JSON files are still not entirely diffable/code reviewable even with the guids stripped. But it works - you can collaborate as a team with postman without using their cloud.

But the idea of switching to a tool that actually wants you to work that way is definitely tempting.
> correctly receiving the information you asked for

If that’s the result you expect from LLM-based AI, you’re gonna have a bad time.
The "feels" part is around the ergonomics of function calls. It doesn't pertain to system reliability.
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Curious: What do you need something like that for? It sounds like some kind of synced backup of a dataset represented by files on S3?

With what you describe, it kinda sounds like a Merkle-DAG CRDT. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00107.pdf

The paper describes a Merkle-DAG that can sync two copies together, because it's also a CRDT. I don't think it's exactly what you want, but I think if you're building an implementation, it gives you the core ideas of what you're looking for.

I also detail Merkle-DAGs in my search.

https://interjectedfuture.com/crdts-turned-inside-out/

If you're looking for something off-the-shelf, I haven't looked for implementations in the wild, so I can't make recommendations.
Same. I kept using laptops for many years after moving to home office but last year decided to go back to a desktop (micro-ATX build).

I get 4-5x the performance of my last work laptop (Dell XPS i9) for the same price. It's dead silent and has a ton of ports.
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Referring to computing, not data transmission. Perhaps some day, using quantum computing, all those differing ‘portly’ photons, superimposed, could yield advances in density. To mix different wavelength streams on chip involves wdm devices, which are huge.
Who first decided to melt the rocks and get the iron?
No worries. The city transport here in Germany is on another level, incredibly efficient and reliable, I agree there!
They sort of tried this in the '90s — not in the form of suppressing the required enzymes for nutrient absorption, but rather in the form of diet foods that contained inherently non-absorbable nutrients. The downsides were basically the same — the non-absorbed nutrients had to come out. People didn't generally respond well to these products. See e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20060113084223/http://www.zug.co...
The whole Universal Blue tooling and ecosystem is amazing !
> Every iPhone 15 Pro Max, of which Apple sells hundreds of millions

They sell ~200M iPhones per year, but I doubt most are the most expensive model.
I can decide to do LSD on my own without asking for permission from another man.
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Drugs shouldn't be approved on hope. They should be approved on evidence. And there was never any evidence for this one. Just letting it inspire hope was hurting its victims.
> which would presumably make it perilous for them to reconvene again in secret

Only if they are unprepared. They can agree in advance a time and a location to meet when things go wrong. Then the only thing they have to broadcast on the radio is that the radios have been compromised and the backup protocol is active.

> there could be a 'dead-man switch' or emergency button on the radio that would send a revocation certificate to all the other soldiers' radios

I’m not sure i follow what you are saying. Are you proposing a button on the radio which removes that specific radio from the network? If so that can be much more easily, and reliably, done by zeroing the keys of that specific radio.
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