skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can duct tape together Whisper and GPT4All in a couple dozen lines of Python.

It wasn't bad; I'm on a 3070 so it was slow, but tolerable (a couple seconds of latency up to 5 or so seconds for the full Whisper+Mistral7B pipeline).

I named mine Jeeves, so at any point I could just "Ask Jeeves" (lol) and it would talk back to me. The TTS spoke slower than I would prefer, but I probably could have fixed it. I also should have prepended the prompt with something to encourage it to be brief. It often started reading out a couple of paragraphs of text.
CarPlay runs on the phone and streams video to you in vehicle display. Even the Apple Watch Ultra does not have the compute or battery to run apps, render the display image and wirelessly send it to your car.
Having a "backend-for-the-frontend" is unavoidable even in a SPA. Your real backend starts behind that.
There's a duty of care* that doctors have. If there's no one else to care for your patient, you're required by law to care for them. (I'm not a doctor, but it's a real thing) It's one thing to risk being fired. It's quite another to lose your profession.

*google "duty of care" for more info
The worst part is, imo, US taxpayers paid for all that infrastructure.

These ISPs absolutely should be forced to open their infrastructure to other providers, like in Europe, and for the same reasons.
Except we're talking about Postgres being more complex than SQLite, please follow the thread.
GPS isn't the only way to navigate. Given how small Israel is, inertial navigation is probably good enough to cover the last leg of the trip.

Even without that, they could still rely on cameras and old fashion navigation.
You can find a button for the transcript in the description (or the three dot menu near the dislike button if it's still serving you the older interface). You have to open the transcript first, then Ctrl+f
Those aren’t fancy cuts or prime grade beef. Just regular steak at Kroger or Costco. Go see for yourself if you’re in the US. It really feels like the bottom is about to fall out from US economy. I don’t know how the low income families deal with a 30% increase in their grocery bills which were a significant chunk of their spending even a few years ago. Nor how they pay rent which has also increased massively.
If it's street parking, you might be stuck with a parking spot a block away or more.
Wish they offered an API, this way they could commoditize two industries (stock photo and AI image-gen) in one fell swoop!
It's the weirdest thing to me how opinionated sveltekit is compared to how unopinionated svelte is. Hard to believe it's from the same people.

I've bitten the bullet with sveltekit, and it does get the job done I have to admit.
When a pilot or a truck driver fall asleep, it’s easy to see the cause and effect. When sleeping, they can’t control the vehicle.

With other professions, the people are awake, their brain just isn’t functioning properly, so it’s easier for people to ignore the true cause, since well rested people can make mistakes too.
It was a building NEAR the embassy used by Iranian army and Hizbollah. It was not something official.
Can you predict the stock market?

Just like the rent-market can have price manipulation, so can the stock-market and any other market. It’s absolutely possible for a trading platform to do this through price recommendations, and it would be illegal.

The two things being compared here are completely different though. It’s not very useful. Whats the real-life stock equivalent to RealPage? Who even rents stocks?

Additionally RealPage is forceful with its price “recommendations”. Imagine if a trading platform forced you to buy/sell a certain percentage of your stocks at their suggested rate, and file an appeal to opt out.
Possibly – if you can find a single version of Python that everybody will be happy with, forever.

Being able to cache runtimes and libraries like that across sites would be nice, though (but probably enables fingerprinting, so one Python runtime per origin it is).
Yeah! The Sunpower T5s mentioned above are still performing at near-max performance as far as I can tell. Things like shading or dust will influence modern panels way more than their age at this point IMO. Past 20 years I don't know - but for the next 10 years, it's seems to be a pretty good hack :)
They could pay the (relatively small fee) before discussing internally and someone with 'authority' saying "f... them, we use it and let them sue us!"

I cannot believe that nobody rang the warning bell about using some photo/material in the magazine, in the whole flow it takes from inception/decision on articles, all the way to the printer.
I’m curious as to what the reasons for such regular shutoffs are. I’m now 24 years old and I cannot recall ever experiencing a power outage, ever. So either I’m extraordinarily lucky or they aren’t as common here
This appears to be the original source - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/13/a-disgruntled...
Unfortunately, I think OP is in San Francisco.
I don't really understand the argument at the heart of this article, which is "we should include interest rates in CPI".

How do interest rates effect everyday people exactly, other than price inflation on goods and services (which is included separately in CPI)?

The only way seems to be interest rates on personal loans and mortgages. So if anything, we should only include interest rates in proportion to how many people are taking out major loans during the sampled period (and maybe some additional amount based on the effect on adjustable-rate mortgages, etc).

Blindly stacking interest rates on top of CPI doesn't really make sense as a measure of personal inflation, and "it feels like stuff got more expensive" (as a lot of other comments here argue) isn't so much an argument for this strategy so much as an argument that the CPI 'basket of goods' needs to be rebalanced in other ways.
I'm not sure this really stands up in a UK context: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/...
I've lost 2 freezers worth of food in the last 25 years due to power outages. I have since purchased a battery that can run a freezer in summer for a few hours or a furnace fan in winter for several days for the next outage. Adding a solar panel so I can use that battery continuously wouldn't pay for the battery, but it'd sure offset it considerably.
In the US, anyone can walk into the emergency room for treatment, but people who don’t have insurance are very unlikely to participate in preventative care.

The way to decrease demand For complicated and expensive interventions to preventable problems is to increase access to preventative care.
> The bottleneck right now in producing more US physicians is lack of Medicare funding for residency slots... Congress hasn't significantly increased funding in years. Much routine care can be delivered by Physician Assistants or Nurse Practitioners working under a Physician's supervision

We should all accept a lower standard of care because hospitals can't find more funding to train doctors? What are all the $20 aspirin paying for? How does every other profession manage to train new members without needing a literal act of Congress?
I have no idea what you're talking about.

You can see all of the code in the GitHub repo, which is contained in one file. There aren't even any dependencies
If it fixes a bug, but makes the system less maintainable, is that an improvement?
It correlates, which could also explain a link in the opposite direction. Secondary sex characteristics sometimes have nothing to do with overall fitness. You can see this most clearly in animal species where the females value elaborate ornamentation, like peacocks.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_son_hypothesis.
I love this. I have been waiting for some sort of off grid solar kit that I can install "Ikea" install, i.e. with almost no idea about the matter take the instructions, plug and play.
1. In a desktop web browser, visit a YouTube video with captions, which is almost all of them

2. Click the video description to expand it

3. Scroll down and click the tiny "Show Transcript" button near the bottom (whoever decided to bury it down here was very misguided)

4. Ctrl-F and search any word. Occurrences in the transcript will be highlighted and you can press enter to scroll the transcript to the next one. Click the transcript to seek the video.

I see that this extension shows occurrences on the seek bar which is cool. There is also a slight problem with regular ctrl-F: if you search for a multiple word phrase you might not find it if the phrase happened to be split between two chunks of the transcript. So that could be better in this extension. And of course not every YouTube video has captions, but most do these days.
PDFs can do the same thing for embedded fonts, I believe.
At the end of the article it points out that a foreign toy company was successfully sued for making a puzzle from Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. I'm curious what enforcement authority the Italians have over a German company, if any. The court ruling is effectively saying that the historical IP of the Italian peninsula belongs to whichever Italian museum happens to have the original artifact in their possession, but would a German or EU court uphold this?
Freezing rain and tornadoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ic...
It was always going to hurt consumers short-term. I don't know why anyone is surprised.

Maybe it's just because I'm old and remember the clusterfuck when the EU decided one TV company couldn't hold the rights to all the football matches.

(They divvy the rights up in such a way that you can't see a single competition on just one service, let alone just one team's matches.)
I'm assuming this is sarcasm.
They are probably doing it in an attempt to get coverage by insurance (even if that is now not available). They can then raise the price manyfold.

See this discussion of prescription-only smartphone apps.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/welcome-to-the-terrible-wor...
The HTML title starts "The Landlord-Friendly...". It really depends on the landlord.

I like the idea of solar, and of backups, and of figuring out how to live comfortably in rentals, and of being mobile, but...

I'm pretty sure that my own real-life landlord would flip out, if he came to the door, and saw that charger box bolted to the wall, and the bare terminals of an Alibaba special "SCREMOWER" large lithium battery pack.

Before he even saw that cabling. Which I think (with those lengths, and tacked up like that) would be an electrical code violation here.

Would insurance even cover a fire?

Also, if there's later an expensive roof leak, there'd be questions about whether it had been caused by installation of the panels (even though no holes were drilled). And is there a liability risk if the panel gets blown off.

And would insurance cover any of that?

Were I in landlord's position myself, I'd have much of the same concerns.
How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-level reasoning
But there is no one waiting for their job. In most places there is a shortage of doctors.
Discipline. (I am not saying it's worth it. I don't know.)
I believe that it's more about protecting the image of the artwork. Imagine using the statue to promote product X. Then imagine that every icon/building/etc. being used to promote something that you/the nation goes against (i.e. the statue in the cover of a porn magazine, or a historical monument to promote the latest crypto-fraud-coin.
I understand that the Colosseum, the Acropolis, or the statue of David won't be physically damaged by such an ad, but still..
That would imply the ship has the requisite power generation on board to produce hydrogen from water, in which case it would be more efficient to use that power to propel the ship.

So, yes, the ship would have to take all the hydrogen it needs with it.
> there are only about 20k people who score > 510 on the MCAT per year

The article clearly shows the skills necessary to work as a doctor are a lot wider than academic ability.

One pleasure/pain of being a software developer is that there is less gatekeeping.
There are 153 million more people in the U.S. today than in 1963.

The reason these neighborhoods are exclusive to the wealthy is that housing there is scarce despite growing demand due to job growth. Housing in places like the Bay Area is such a big portion of monthly expenses that stuff like Arby's 4 for $10 or whatever isn't whats hurting people the most.

Lots of these issues just come down to housing and restrictive zoning.
https://archive.ph/9Cv2d
Most distributed systems simply don't live up to their theory. Having a hub is simply always easier and consumers hopping temporally from hub to hub is just the most efficient mechanism.
It fell short three generations later. Grant wiped out the KKK and had former slaves in elective offices. Sure, he didn’t fix all the problems in 8 years, but he did more than anyone could have expected, and a lot of his progress was rolled back later.
Read your lease because most landlords are not going to be down with renters putting stuff on the roof...anyway…

These days, $1k will buy a fair bit of a China made power brick. No need for solar access — for when the power goes out in a storm and/or at night.

A big brick or several small ones is also less work; can live out of the way when not in use; and can be used when tailgating or car camping.

For food cooling a small chest freezer has broad utility and unpowered will stay cool through a moderate outage.
yeah, if it were 'just' the comments... go for it. but put the details back under & give a little buffer between the row of icons. it's not like the couldn't make whatever is under the video (comments or thumbnails) independently scrollable...
The article doesn't claim they are treated equally, just that the effect of being physically attractive is more important than the rest of the factors.

From the article:

> "Attorneys who are considered more physically attractive are more likely to win their cases and receive favorable votes from judges, according to new research published in the Journal of Law and Courts. This advantage holds even when taking into account other important factors like race or the attorney’s experience."

> "This “treatment” variable (attractiveness) allowed for the isolation of its effect from other confounding variables such as attorney experience, ideological alignment, and financial resources."

> "These findings were robust, holding true across various measures of attractiveness and even when accounting for traditional factors known to influence courtroom success, such as experience, ideology, and financial resources."

> "Female attorneys with higher attractiveness scores appeared to receive a greater advantage, especially when arguing before male judges. But otherwise, there was little evidence that race or gender significantly influenced the attractiveness advantage."

> “To some extent I was surprised that the results were consistent regardless of the race and gender of the judges, attorneys, and survey respondents involved in my study,” Waterbury said. “There was some suggestion in my review of previous research that race and gender effects would impact attractiveness ratings and thus impact the relationship between attractiveness and success in court. I did not find strong evidence to support that expectation in my analysis."

Note that none of this says that race and gender don't matter, just that they don't seem to hugely impact the attractiveness factor.
> Remember in 1963 only the man was working, and typically supported 4 kids, a wife and often parents in the home.

This is a ridiculous exaggeration: the average US household was 3.7 people in the 1960s, not over 6[1].

There are good reasons to hold politicians to task for recent abnormally high inflation. But this comment is more of an atavistic fever dream of the past than an expression of those reasons.

Edit: another source puts it at 3.3[2].

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
For more money and less effort you can purchase a "solar generator". It's a funny name for something that's basically a battery + inverter + mppt, but "solar generator" is the best thing to punch into Google.
And then make young residents work themselves to death.
Do you have any ideas for where I could get a similar deal?
I don't think any company should be able to buy QoS access.

They should simply qualify for it on the basis of their use case.

E.g. "video streaming" or "real-time telecom"
People think doctors are some super human that they can heal themselves but they are people just like you and me. It's despicable that they along with veterans are being treated with ambivalence.

The most recent example of contempt towards doctors described in the article I've seen comes from South Koreans who enjoy a generous, affordable, high quality healthcare that exceeds those in North America complaining doctors make "too much" and that there isn't enough doctors.
Flagging is a user action here, not an admin action; mostly just means that there's enough people here who think it's off-topic; possible motivations for doing so are pretty transparent.
The training of each doctor takes a lot of resources, especially specific numbers of cases necessary for each of the specialists who do surgery of any kind. If a surgeon does not do a procedure on a regular basis they lose skill in it and the less practice a doctor has had in a field, the worse their outcomes. So if you get 10 whipples in a year in an area and you have too many surgeons or hospitals taking less than 1 per year, without one getting more than a number of cases a year, all of them will be bad and your mortality will be high.
I remember hearing almost exactly the same weak excuses when Israel bombed the Church of Saint Porphyrius. “Well actually it was the building right next to it (that is exclusively used by it)”. It’s not fooling anyone.
Where exactly are you accounting for wasted time? On navigation? On posting about not having a smartphone? The amount of time saved not having a smartphone (interacting with the internet using a computer [keyboards, adblockers, multiple screens, user vs owner dynamics]) outweighs any extra costs in my opinion. Navigating around town becomes second nature once you stop receiving turn by turn directions from Google-et-al. The only argument I've ever heard of that rings true is not having access to ride shares (ironicly named to boot).
> It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Unless you do "Agile", in which case it is an endless sequence of sprints.
How would testing work out ideally?
Were they the lid on top freestanding freezers? How long were the outages, and what was the environment?
Calling California a “failed state” over this seems absurd when the most extreme example in recent history is the Texas freeze power outage in 2021 which left 4.5 million homes without power for several days during winter storms. Somewhere between 250-700 people died because of it.
You're describing a more restrictive version of a trademark. Why don't they call it such?
Poor incentives for the existing members of the system that hold power to implement change. They already cap the number of med students to control salaries, perhaps burning out young doctors fulfills the same purpose, while also (temporarily) covering for the lack of doctors available because of the artificial limit?
Although it required bit of OS hacking, real mode DOS was used all the way to the often forgotten Windows Me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me#Real_mode_DOS
It is too late, for I have already notated you as the physically unattractive attorney.
Even worse, named entities vary from organization to organization.

We have a client who uses a product called "Time". It's software time management. For that customer's documentation, time should be close to "product" and a bunch of other things that have nothing to do with the normal concept of time.

I actually suspect that people would get a lot more bang for their buck fine tuning the embedding models on B2B datasets for their use case, rather than fine tuning an llm
NHS is in a process of replacing doctors with physician assistants
My partner is a surgeon in the UK. She's planning on leaving the profession at the end of the year. We talk a lot about what is wrong with the medical profession.

One issue is the type of person attracted to the profession. They're incredibly academically talented, not driven by money, and desire status and recognition. Surgeons are the most extreme cases of this personality type, as they're harder jobs to get and have a lot of pressure. These people are the types who get their head done, roll up their sleeves, and get on with things. They're not used to asking for help or additional resources. They're the sort of people who care for others! Medicine self-selects for martyrs.

In addition, you have so many hoops to jump through (training, specialisations, etc) with significant time investment that can be lost in moments by pissing off training directors or other senior doctors. My partner ends up working more than her contracted hours because her bosses expect her to, although they would never explicitly enforce stricter rules. If she works her contracted hours she can kiss a consultant job (UK equivalent of attending) goodbye as her bosses won't provide a reference for the role.

Because the stakes in medicine are literally life and death, meaning that it is heavily regulated. There are horror stories around the GMC, the UK regulator, and doctors are terrified of being investigated. They adopt a legalistic mentality where they only treat if they're sure that they won't get prosecuted. It's very different from aviation with its no blame culture.

Finally, another factor that is making medicine so tough is that it is a success story! People live longer, and pathologies that were once fatal can be managed with ever more complex treatments. As demographics lean to older populations, then the demand keeps increasing.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issues a statement confirming its launch of an attack on Israel”
GPT versus Resident Physicians – A Benchmark Based on Official Board Scores
Yes, lid on top. 4 day outages in both cases.
> With jQuery and AJAX you're still sending HTML fragments just like with HTMX.

AJAX philosophy was based around client side render - Asynchronous Javascript And XML. XML was JSON before JSON.

jQuery is/was just a fetching library. The modern fetch() API as well as Promises/async/await made it largely obsolete, although some people still swear by it (they just released a new version actually). You can fetch raw HTML and dump it into innerHTML, but thats not how most people use it. They would do client-side render based on the XML (later JSON) returned.
Not sure any of the latest hyped technologies have really recovered out of the trough. I don’t see blockchains, hyperloops or NFTs getting any meaningful adoption.
Recent examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Canada_ice_storm

And

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/more-than-12600...
Poor soul
It’s not the reason I call it a failed state but it does occur with more frequency than other states. It’s a matter of something that happens in an emergency vs ongoing issues.
I grew up not far from Lancaster, a little further to the southern border with WV. My family came from southwestern PA and that's where I was born. My uncle married a southern woman (from the hills of northern GA) and her and my cousins really had a big problem with where we lived. They probably still do, we wouldn't know because we haven't spoken to them since my uncle died. There are some very deeply embedded feelings that remain in the south about "the war" and it can be a real jolt to be confronted with them.