skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like maybe I was thinking of the lead acid battery "formatting" phase. Seems as though lead acid batteries benefit from deep cycles with full charges, while lithium batteries benefit from smaller depth of discharge without going to full.
Medicine has a long history of being associated with things like the military and religion ("medicine man" being a term for a shaman, both spiritual leader and healer in tribal cultures). The military emphasizes values like honor and the good of the group over the individual while also typically making strong promises to do right by those who make sacrifices.

Profit motive seems to generally be counterproductive to health.

If people will donate plasma etc to get "points," this potentially encourages people to donate bad blood into the blood supply because they expect to need an organ someday.

I don't know how we might a/b test something like this to see what actually works, but people have good reason to be skeptical of profit-driven or personal-gain driven processes for things of this sort.
Read this as a general feeling of someone in 40s without kids and consume news from multiple countries.

This things happened gradually. At your days the smart phone is still at its infancy where social media are probably text based and at most image based. Nowadays, the social media are a mix of text and videos and probably the quantity of short video the youth consume are far more than the text consume. The phone itself also becoming the extension of our brain (not only youth). And this brings two consequences.

- Many feels that there's no need to learn the basic. The wisdom they had, together with the reasoning given by the tools are enough.
- The youth also prefer shorter content than long form content. They don't even have the patience to sit through a 30 minute youtube video and prefer a whole story unfolded in a few minutes that fit in tiktok, youtube short or similar.

Combining these two means that a lot of the students in this generation will not have the patience to go through a 40 min - 1 hr classroom section/lecture.

Also as other have commented in a different thread, the parents of this generation simply does not side with the teacher, and this happens in many countries as well.
Ever read about that guy who’s mother got exploded for science?
This whole article made me really uneasy about organ donation. The whole bit about preparing a person on ECMO for organ donation read a bit like medical malpractice to me (not from a medical background). It’s enough of a controversy when to turn those off as it is.
Join a company which measures productivity in the way you do. It took me 10 years to find one. When people say do what you love, it really means doing what you're in alignment with.
I don't think we can rule it out.

The current universe conditions have existed for about 12.8 billion years, and while it might have taken 4.5 billion years for vertebrates to evolve on earth, other planets might have taken faster paths to self-awareness.

I figure an "intelligent sludge" could easily have evolved within a billion years of planet formation. Something that wasn't even fully multicellular, but could work together to produce intelligence in a community of loosely connected homogeneous cells. And if that lifeform gained the ability to intelligently manipulate its own DNA (or equivalent), it could bypass the whole next stages of evolution. Or it could go straight for technology.
This could be what I've been looking for. I'm trying to run SLURM on Mac, but it uses some Linux kernel specific stuff so it can't just run under Docker because the macOS kernel doesn't have those features. I've resorted to using a VM but would really prefer something lighter weight.
To put it quite briefly, the British Isles (and most of Europe) were settled by "Early European Farmers"[0] emerging originally from Anatolia in the early Neolithic. Later in the Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age, Indo-European ("Western Steppe Herder") migrations[1] largely displaced or assimilated them, but today's Southern Europeans retain a significant amount of EEF ancestry (while WSH dominates in Northern Europe), and in Sardinia, for peculiar historical reasons, it actually forms a majority in most of the population.

Stonehenge was begun in the late Neolithic by EEF inhabitants of Britain, but shortly afterward the Bell Beaker (WSH-related) migrations[2] began and the EEF population of Britain was almost entirely replaced within a few centuries[3]. The new migrants still kept working on Stonehenge however ("cultural appropriation"?) and its current state is due to them[4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_Farmers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Steppe_Herders

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture

[3] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker...

[4] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/ancient-bu...
High-resolution Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) encounter the challenges of excessive visual tokens and quadratic visual complexity. Current high-resolution LMMs address the quadratic complexity while still generating excessive visual tokens. However, the redundancy in visual tokens is the key problem as it leads to more substantial compute. To mitigate this issue, we propose ConvLLaVA, which employs ConvNeXt, a hierarchical backbone, as the visual encoder of LMM to replace Vision Transformer (ViT). ConvLLaVA compresses high-resolution images into information-rich visual features, effectively preventing the generation of excessive visual tokens. To enhance the capabilities of ConvLLaVA, we propose two critical optimizations. Since the low-resolution pretrained ConvNeXt underperforms when directly applied on high resolution, we update it to bridge the gap. Moreover, since ConvNeXt's original compression ratio is inadequate for much higher resolution inputs, we train a successive stage to further compress the visual tokens, thereby reducing redundancy. These optimizations enable ConvLLaVA to support inputs of 1536x1536 resolution generating only 576 visual tokens, capable of handling images of arbitrary aspect ratios. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art models on mainstream benchmarks. The ConvLLaVA model series are publicly available at https://github.com/alibaba/conv-llava.
> When told of my upcoming case, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, being in perfect health, unaccustomed to suffering and therefore easily disconcerted by the thought of death, I was horrified. My attitude toward death was like that of a young person standing blindfolded and tied to a post, awaiting a volley from a firing squad. The whole concept made my blood run cold. Yet the case also aroused in me a feeling of relief. Simply put, there was no risk of malpractice, as my patient was already dead. Many anaesthesiologists have such self-centred thoughts when taking care of ASA 6 patients.

> After we moved her from the gurney to the operating table, the doctors and nurses, so used to taking care of living patients, stared at one another stupidly, as if not knowing why they had come together or why they stood around the table.

Sorry this strikes me as embellishing for the case of writing a story.

Background: I was a neurosurgery resident at a level 1 trauma center. I was involved in determining brain death (though the final certification was by an attending surgeon). I worked closely with the transplant team. I declared (normal) cardiac death many times. I had many agonizing conversations with families about withdrawal of care.

Anesthesia is a 4 year residency. Even the 2nd year anesthesia residents I worked with had more of an awareness and lack of naivety that this author shows.

And the OR teams were much more prepared and professional than this. They knew what they had to do and why they had to do it.

If there are other physicians here, I would love to hear your opinions, but this whole piece strikes me as overwrought and full of embellishments to make a certain point.
I am starting to use longer timeframes, such as one year. I consider this a long-term experiment and will continue my research. Based on the improvement in returns I have seen from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4, my hypothesis is that it will continue to outperform $SPY as the models become smarter. For reference, GPT-4's return was approximately 156.86% better than GPT-3.5's return. GPT-3.5 didn't actually beat $SPY.
Are you saying that there is… a systematic lack of edgy/niche opinions/content on Youtube? We must be on different sites!
In the US anyway, there’s a term called “helicopter” parents. Way too involved with their kids, to put it mildly.
Housing affordability is qualitatively different between Europe and the US. When a European city is expensive, it's usually only the central part that's expensive. Prices drop steeply as you get to the suburbs and satellite towns. In the US, suburbs and satellite towns are more likely to remain expensive, as long as you are within a semi-reasonable commuting distance. I guess that's because the US city is more likely expensive due to the job market and the European city due to the desirability of the city itself.
Areas like Silicon Valley are very productive for some reason. That's why people put up with the high costs.

Leasing office space in such highly productive areas might be worth it. (I don't know exactly how the mechanism works, but I'm just assuming that at least some of the companies there know what they are doing.)

Of course, the author of the original piece also seems to implicitly assume Silicon Valley?

If there's no highly productive part of the world where you want to concentrate people, you might be better off spreading out your startup and taking advantage of lower labour costs around the country and around the world.

There's lots of smart people in eg the flyover states, or in South America, who for one reason or another can't or don't want to move.
Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device
Something "made fast" is perfectly reasonable usage for tying it in place.
Build AI products that matter
Sensationalism is a manipulation tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship

LLMs and existential threats don't get mentioned in the same breath, at least by the serious non-tinfoil-hat types. Preeminent concerns include global warming and sustaining Malthusian growth. AI (and more specifically, OpenAI) indeed deserves to be relegated to the echelons of celebrity drama and not the grown-up table of scientific progress. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Yes if the JWT token can only become invalid based on an expiration time. You can add the expiration time in the token and check it during authentication.

No if the token can become invalid due to other reasons because lets say the user deletes the token because it got leaked. But since you have no way of invalidating the token other than changing the encryption key, you can't selectively invalidate that one token.
>surprised that many parents are supportive of their kids having phones in school

I had a former roommate who laughed explaining how she prevented the public school from taking her son's phone away by making it be the interface for his glucose monitor (thus requiring that he be allowed to carry all day in school).

More sickly, she encouraged this so her son could coordinate her pot deals at a moment's notice (Mother of the Year™).
The calculus changes for ubiquitous slow charging, and I think that's really where EVs make the most sense. The issue is that the fast charging problem needs to be solved for EVs to have functional parity for certain use cases that do affect purchasing habits (i.e. a car is expensive enough for me that I buy for all of my needs, not my average need).

Ultimately, everyone needs to make the call for themselves. I'm glad you're happy with your EV, but I can't see myself purchasing one within the next fifteen years or so. Even then, I'd still have an ICEV backup. But that's based on my particular needs, and not necessarily applicable to others.
I thoroughly agree; I enjoyed the read. The brief discussion about the coldness of this being performed through AI and machines gave me a feeling of loneliness, of being just a number in this big old world. What a “cold” future it could be.
Yes. GPT-3.5 made some terrible calls and didn't really beat $SPY. GPT-4 turned it around for team LLM.

The average return for the two LLMs used by the GPT Investor is as follows:

GPT-4: 15.54% (with a corresponding average $SPY return of 9.74%)
GPT-3.5: 6.05% (with a corresponding average $SPY return of 7.74%)
> It also depends on whether the code is a tangled mess or well structured; how descriptive are function names and variable names; whether the code has comments; etc.

Well, it also depends on whether the suspect that the code has a bug.

Normally, we try to understand code by taking shortcuts through function names and structure, and fill the rest of in via pattern matching.

But if I suspect that a piece of code has a bug, I work hard to turn off these higher levels and concentrate on what's actually written.
> You cannot realistically build enough so that the rents decrease.

I'm curious what makes you think this.

Suppose you built twice as many housing units as you had residents. Rents wouldn't decrease? Why not?

Or do you think that a sufficient amount of housing wouldn't fit? For reference, the San Francisco metro area has ~7.5M people in an area of ~3500 square miles. With housing at the population density of Manhattan, the number of people who could be housed in that area is approximately 250M people, i.e. three quarters of the entire US population. Obviously you wouldn't do this, but you could, so that can't be the constraint.
Ice maximum shows no trend in 50 years, Antarctica is doing OK all things considered... https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
Considering final application size as well as CPU and RAM usage will always be important, whether people believe them to be or not.

I won’t ever go so far as to recommend that others write stuff in Assembly, but I’d love to be able to do that.

CPU and RAM will matter so long as users are billed by those metrics. More RAM will always be more expensive than less RAM, and faster CPUs will always be more expensive than slower CPUs. If you write software that is used as scale, I would consider it a moral failing if you do not consider how many resources your application uses at scale and you do not make some effort to increase the efficiency of your application in some way.

Accordingly, I have almost zero respect for JavaScript developers, especially server-side JavaScript developers. Server-side JavaScript developers know that JS is inefficient and they choose to use it, anyway. How much coal has been burned exclusively to allow JavaScript developers to run Node on the server, instead of some other, more efficient language? A LOT, I guarantee it.

Performance and efficiency matter a lot at scale. At the small scale, no user has ever complained that their application was too fast or that it didn’t use enough RAM.

When you invoke a Lambda trillions of times per year, every last byte of RAM and every millisecond of CPU time matters. My employer has a few Lambdas which are invoked tens of trillions of times per year, and we saved a lot of money moving from Python to compiled languages. We’d save a lot more if we knew how to write assembly.
Thanks for digging out the link, so I don't have to!
We don't use JWT because we are NOT google scale.

A centralized database for sessions, and we can extend/revoke any token anytime.
"For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States."

Really? I thought Egyptology had been under iron control for at least 30 years, to the point of researchers complaining anything not following the ministry's narrative got shut down (I don't know if they were justified complaints or if the ministry was wrong per se).

From when I toured Egypt a few decades ago, I remember talking to a sculptor who made ends meet selling cheap, mass produced statuettes to tourists (his actual sculptures were quite good, but not something for a tourist like me to take home). He showed me the coffee table book he worked from when he needed to copy an artifact. We pointed out that one of the originals he pointed to was literally just down the road in the Karnak Museum. He pointed out that he couldn't afford the entrance fee. There was no local pricing. I could understand needing to make money with its economic problems, but doing it in a way that kept the history from its poor majority seemed callous. I suspect this mega complex will be no better, not wanting the unwashed to offend the sensibilities of the wealthy tourists.
You can read code line by line and understand what each line does, but any algorithm that has more than 5 lines of code probably needs an additional step where, after reading it line by line, you need to take a step back and think about it in a different way to understand what the whole block of code is trying to do.
Since JWTs can't handle revocation on their own, the main benefit (other than the ability to do validation without a central authority) of JWTs over opaque tokens is the ability to embed data that an untrusted holder (ie client) can make use of. For example, attach the display name of the user and their avatar profile, so that even after the token expires the application can represent to the user who the token is (could be used for example to show a "Sign back in, Tom" view). This makes a Switch User feature very elegant to implement: the application need only store the signed authentication tokens, and those tokens are self describing.

Additionally, when using asymmetric validation, you can rely on JWTs as licenses: Your software can restrict offline features based on a locally stored token, simply by checking that the JWT was signed by the authority. In tandem with the ability to store metadata, your app (with code held by the untrusted user) can use the token to determine the user's license features without requiring an always on connection. (Obviously patching out the license checks is another matter)

These features can be layered on top of opaque tokens, but since a JWT has all the benefits of an opaque token (store the opaque token as a claim just like the rest of the metadata), it's actually a complete package that does it all without needing to roll it yourself.
The video lists 3 different technologies for this kind of lighting control; RF, IR, and Bluetooth. The last one used in K-pop shows for very detailed effects. Those require the audience to buy a $100 souvenir light, and connect it to an app on their phone. What a data capture system!
That's why Elon is building Neuralink. Then you can condense the 8hr conversation into 8 minutes of thinking :)
What controversy
Thanks for the info.

Seems like a good decision.
I've heard "fast" as a contranym to "moving quickly," referenced as "to fast" or "fasting." ie: not eating at all.

Edited to add: Sticking with the context of food, "fasting from food" contradicts someone being a "fast eater."
I live in the greater Los Angeles area and could not agree less. Primary Care is in deep trouble and will only get worse.

I nominally have a Primary Care doctor that works for a large health care org - nonprofit that pays its CEO ~$18M/year. When he was new and had few patients, he took time and initiative. Since then and especially after Covid, his attention to detail has dropped and his bosses increasingly dictate what he can and cannot do. He has to refer specialists within the health care org if they have that specialty. On a couple of occasions he has suggested I go to a specialist but he has no names to recommend. He is perfectly happy to be a salaried employee where the nuts and bolts of running a practice are taken care of by his company. He won't say how many patients he has on his roster but given the time to get an appointment it must be in the hundreds. The front office pushes Urgent Care whenever they can which dumps the whole concept of a doctor who knows you into the toilet. Pay a premium (natch) for someone who doesn't know you and doesn't give a damn (see the reviews).

He is required to type 90wpm into the Epic system which prompts him on what to do during the 10-15 minutes he is authorized to spend on me. I am fortunately alert and functional when I have seen him but when that is no longer the case, I am well and truly hosed.

If by Direct Primary Care you mean "Concierge medicine" where one pays a private practice Doctor a yearly fee for improved access, I tried that as well before the guy above. The doctor was a big talker when selling his practice but he was scatterbrained, unfocused, and inept in actuality spending more time talking about his extreme politics than actually paying attention during the exam and my questions. I bailed after a physical exam and followup.

Before that I had Kaiser which is beneath contempt.

Every doctor, medical org, and insurance talks up the relationship between patient and primary care but once you're in, it's a f&*king joke. There are no success stories I can find among my coworkers and acquaintances. We're all on the same stinking sinking ship.
There isn't a single, universally accepted specification for s-expressions specifically as a data transfer format.

But like I said: there's EDN - primarily used for configuration files, data serialization/deserialization between systems, inter-process communication

And there's Transit - Ideal for scenarios requiring fast data transport over networks, such as web services and APIs, it supports both JSON and MessagePack encodings.
> Asked about the changes, Apple said they have respected the “_nomap” flag on SSIDs for some time, but that this was only called out in a support article earlier this year.

If an SSID flag falls in the forest and no one is told to read it, does it opt out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest_an...
I think the key thing is that IR allows the bands to work regardless of where the wristbands are located in the stadium. Additionally, they're probably using the IR to multiplex since the DMX 512 standard technically only supports 512 channels (which if each device uses a channel for color and channel for intensity, is only 256 supported devices).
It is possible to split one long charge into two charging stops that take half of the time, but that doesn't increase overall utilization of chargers.

EVs are not filled up to full like gas tanks, so a larger "tank" doesn't make people stay for longer. Charging to full is slow and unhealthy for the battery. EVs charge what is minimum required for the next leg of the journey, and leave with the rest of the battery empty.
> "most open source tools have terrible performance and efficiency on large, fast hardware."

What do you use?
Wrong. Instead of lying you should take a few minutes to understand how the rate is actually calculated.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOWNRATEACS006085
I left my comment when it was at risk of falling off the front page with no comments. Utilitarian, to hopefully see an insightful discussion from those more informed.

I see where you're coming from and perhaps what I meant is something closer to 'build things up rather than tear them down'. You've got two conflicting opinions. Theirs and mine. Inquire inside the article to see which of us is a worthy recommender of casual content to consume on the internet
The Mayo Clinic sounds like a garbage healthcare provider.