skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> institute a national, single-payer plan that covers everyone, like every other modern industrialized country

The two (real, non-politicians are corrupt) downsides to contend with:

- countries do this by limiting what they will spend; in the US you have access to unlimited treatment. E.g. in the UK the NHS will spend £30k for each good year it buys you

- this one isn't fair, but the US is where health innovation happens. Companies sell into it to make money to survive. They then sell into the other countries to make much less margin, and if those countries were all they had as customers, they wouldn't exist. The US is why we have the advancements we have, and all us non-US countries have silly smug citizens who think our countries are better at negotiating deals. If the US didn't do what it did, we'd be a lot worse off.
IIRC all the chips were about $100 per unit, but of course that depended on the quantity that I was building (~120). When I looked at it briefly, it looked like I might be able to get the BOM price down to $50-70/unit if I made 1k-10k units.

There was a ton of manual assembly for each unit (some due to my errors, some due to the PCBA's errors, some simply due to the design of the device). All in all, it's not get-rich-quick/ever scheme haha.
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$600M battery storage project meets resistance in California
i don't think grokking has been demonstrated in a large model yet
My apologies, forgot I posted.

On phone, so will be brief. Will try a longer response later. (Apologies to other responses, not hitting them all.)

Basic point is that many will abstract out data to different locations and ownership lifetimes. So, congrats, you kept us at a lower complexity, but failed to realize you need to first essentially reindex all of the data for that to happen.

Now, I grant that often the problem is more in the data scattered over any number of databases. If there are reasons to keep that spread, though, hard to just sweep it aside.

And then there are those that don't accept, "send it to a solver." Really annoying how often people assume they can easily beat cplex and friends.
It appears that today Coffeezilla has put his first investigative video out on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUkajbg688
Since the read part is handled by another chip (feeding off of USB power, therefore not terribly power constrained), you could present as a MTP device, or even mass storage, while generating the file structure on the fly. Maybe TIFFs are simple enough so you don't have to mess with the actual image bytes.
Nothing about it is false. In fact it's lived experience.

Sorry, we cooked with wood most of the time, kept animals, and even washed clothes and such by hand (no washing machines until much later). It really wasn't that big of a deal. And we weren't even that rural (next to decent sized city).

I'm sure they had it harder in Texas or Utah or Alaska. Not a universal thing.
Market Insulation
And it’s great how your employer can change which insurance provider they offer every year and along with it your coverage, provider network, prescription costs, etc.

Sometimes even more frequently than once per year if an acquisition takes place.
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Hey, one of the authors here. That’s pretty much it. That said I’m currently working in the next iteration of this which would indeed share more. That said for now it’s not super trivial because it needs a cross-platform condition variable like abstraction that works across shared memory. The pthread based one is not that bad and I’m hacking on it.
I will forever find it the pinnacle of missed opportunities that Linux wound up with it's own ux system, rather than using the systems that came out of NeXT via OpenSTEP/GNUstep
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I wonder if Tesla is aware that such a provision likely would not stand up in court, and decided to put it in anyway, just to dissuade folks from attempting a sale. The threatened ban on access to purchase future vehicles was probably also a problem.
I think it's denial plain and simple.

Americans have been fed a steady stream of propaganda that they're the best at everything and that no one else in the world even comes close -- especially military stuff.

Some people just cannot conceive of a world where America isn't the best, especially militarily and they cannot conceive of a world where anyone else could ever close the gap.

America spent 20 years grinding down international good will and their armed forces in waste of time conflicts that went no where while China has spent their time fastidiously consolidating economic infrastructure to wage a long term war. What does America have to show for any of it?

Now I think it's definitely likely that America could muster up the strength to fight China, but that won't happen until enough people realize that they're facing legitimate existential threat.

Acknowledging that threat means fixing fundamental flaws in our modern economy and society -- We need wake the fuck up to the rampant corruption and graft in our society and get a manufacturing economy that benefits the little guy and not some grease-bag rent-seeking parasites who contribute nothing to society.
httpx was not referenced in the original article.
Right now it’s falling back on a mojo IPC. Next step is indeed shared memory mutex :)
It makes sense that startup folks will gravitate to where there's VC interest as they always have (including the fakers and scammers). But regardless of the current hype cycle the same rules still apply: the reasons why you're doing the startup, if you're an expert in the space, whether you can build a 10x solution, your access to early adopters, your unique point of view on the market. AI is just a new set of tools to generate more value for your specific users, if applied in a unique way that makes a significant difference.
I honestly don't know what the alternative can be ..

Fingerprints and iris scan in person?

Government issued smart card?

Accepting fraud as a cost of business?

Or just no service to person you don't personally know?
We have already created Skynet. Its name is Capitalism. Or the Internet. One of those things.
Windows, macOS and Linux all have legacies of the late 80s and early 90s.
Everyone's replying as if the title and image don't exist
This is interesting stuff. I’m one of the author of the change and working on the next iteration. If you have an example of what you describe I’d love to have a look!
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Found this one recently:

If you have python and curl you can extract tag and its contents out of html file curl -s http://www.google.com/ | python3 -c 'import sys; s=sys.stdin.read(); e=""; print(s[s.find(e)+len(e):s.find("")])'
Doctors had this moment when Google first came out
They didn’t claim to be running non-profit/ capped profit entity , being altruistic and saving the world from AGI and didn’t co-opt the word “Open” and never claimed to work on a humble 65000 salary with no equity upside and doing it all in their goodness of their hearts

No one cares about another billionaire founder if they were honest about it . The valley created dozens if not more each wave .

The current generation of founders have drunk their own cool aid it seems and are no longer satisfied with becoming a billionaire they also want be to adored and revered as the savior the next Jesus or MLK, Gandhi or Mandela.

It belittles the people who sacrifice their careers, money and livelihoods to make a difference on actual social missions.
Tecnu seems to help quite a bit in my experience.
Would these people necessarily know? I mean, if I'm getting quoted $10,000 a year to insure my car and my neighbor pays $1,000 for a similar car, I'm going to notice. But if I'm getting quotes of $1,200 or $1,500 would I know my thin data file is costing me money rather than some other mystery factor?

Rinse. Repeat for loans a half percent to a full percent higher than my credit score should otherwise get me.
The website states he's a "big fan of native apps."

You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of. You should built it based on its usefulness to users. Very silly to limit the customer base so much to perfect something very tangential to the experience.
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Yep that’s pretty much it. There’s no pushing of the version from the privileged process to the renderer, only pulling. So there’s not many renderers unblocking at the same time to create any kind of herd.
A sudden spate of cancer treatments over the past few days.

I hope they’re as amazing as they sound.
You are being extremely rude and entitled throughout this entire thread. No one is under any obligation to bring their software to any given platform.

I don't think anyone disagrees that the world would be better if software were freely available on everyone's platform of choice. But you're coming up against fundamental resource limits -- there are only so many people working on a given project and there is only so much time in a day. Resource constraints are why you yourself are not doing the work and resource constraints are why other people are not doing the work.

You answered earlier that it'd be less work for everyone involved if the original authors simply ported the software, and perhaps so, but I'm not convinced of this. I would have a difficult time porting my software to MacOS for example because I've never used the platform. And even if so, I have a limited amount of time on earth. In terms of maximizing utility of my time, I think there is a strong argument that spending my time improving the software quality instead of improving its reach will result more happiness overall. Partly because you cover more than 99% of people by targeting mainstream platforms. FreeBSD for example cannot account for anywhere near 1% marketshare.

In the case of Serenity, it's not yet even in a usable state as a replacement browser. Let them focus on getting it usable. It's the type of thing that will eventually appear on BSD when it gets good enough to be used.

None of this is going to change by you leaving rude comments to the people doing open source work. I think the net result of it, if anything, is reduced interest in porting.

You have to understand and accept that you have made an ideological choice on what platform you use. You have to understand that your platform has an absolutely minimal number of users. The inevitable consequence of this is less software available for your platform. It isn't a grand conspiracy, it isn't spite, it isn't me acting like the BSD's do not deserve ports -- it's just the fundamental nature of reality and resource constraints.

Even folks on Linux are sacrificing on software and convenience and Linux has a market share which is likely multiple orders of magnitude larger than FreeBSD.

I'm sorry you're feeling burned out, but posting mean and entitled comments online is not going to help. It's only going to spread the burnout like a mind virus, causing others to feel burned out themselves.
> in many situations we need to scroll both vertically and horizontally

Hold down shift to scroll horizontally.
The title is too clickbait for my tastes and I found it a tad too dismissive – but a lot of what it touches on paints a clear image of why things here feel increasingly bleak, and that's without the multiple crises currently wracking the country. And the sad thing is that a simple change of government won't try to fix it until it's impossible to fix because of how rooted some of these issues are.

A key example being HS2. How much taxpayers' money was wasted over HS2, buying up land & property over the last few decades only for it to be scrapped and for money to be spent on potholes instead[0]. Can't wait for people to cry out for high speed rail infrastructure in the next few decades for us to restart it, then scrap it when it becomes 'unaffordable'

A factor that isn't mentioned regarding infrastructure is Technological/Infrastructure Lock-in. Britain was a pioneer in industrial infrastructure, but being a pioneer means that you make the mistakes others learn from and avoid – and replacing the obsolete with better technology takes time and money.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/revealed-the-roads-being-...
Why is it bizarre? It encouraged people to contribute to the project. It clearly worked out well for them. SerenityOS isn't for regular users, it's for developers.
>But refusing to allow resale appears to be a straightforward violation of the first sale doctrine.

It really isn't. The first sale doctrine only applies to IP law. It doesn't apply to anything else.
Read 26 CFR section 1.174-2. “Activities intended to discover information that will eliminate uncertainly concerning the development or improvement of a product.”

Specifically, check out example three in this section. I would be very careful about sweeping all my expenses in this category, but my familiarity with this part of the law is not deep.

I’d love a 174 practitioner to jump in here but that might be asking a lot.
Cars like this may be a path out for people like me. I want full EV. My partner has range anxiety. In reality we drive at most 40km/day average when we drive except for 1-2 trips a year of 200+km/day. I am confident an EV can handle our need but she isn't.

Rather than argue, a PHEV means for day-to-day we can probably do pure battery, we can handle the recharge load from a lower cost wallplug in the unit (we pre-fitted a 10amp circuit) and our fuel cost will be marginal. For the longer(ish) trips we'll be on the "man, I miss the Turbo on the 2.0 litre car" but you can't have everything. If you want that turbo experience get extreme mode in a Tesla.

I am told the PHEV nowadays use atkinson cycle to power a generator to run the car through the electric CV clutch. So no matter petrol or battery its a one-pedal experience with regen, and that regen means city-cycle you charge the battery more than highway. Noting that if the battery range is 60km and there is a 'pure battery' override knob, I'm good.
It can't record video, just stills. (In my testing I usually got ~80k stills out of the device with a new battery.)
That's my point. The "validation" of that info basically says someone with this name and this birthday and this SSN lived at this address. But there is usually no additional proof required that the person signing up for an account is actually this person, and with soooo much leaked PII, there are reams and reams of that (valid) info available through breaches.
That’s true, but it’s also true of anything else that makes mistakes, including buggy software. When a buggy sorting algorithm produces a bad ordering it’s doing so “with the exact same process” the good ordering is coming from. Ditto for humans and their slips (although tbh I get a little tired of the analogizing of humans and llms…not that the analogies are wrong, but just that we always analogize human minds with the latest technology: wax writing pads through computers)
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> walking ten miles a night…From my own hiking experience

Is your plan sustainable through injury, and on vacation, and after being laid off and through holiday temptations, and through deep emotional turmoil, and just insidious calorie increases over time, and a million other real world scenarios that throw people off the wagon who have lifelong deep seated eating problems? This is so difficult for so many not because the obvious things work for everyone but because they don’t for a majority of people. We’ve tried all the obvious things!
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I feel like if you're working at a startup, you value some things more than just straight cash. Hour for hour, I'm fairly certain FAANG pays more than all but a few startups.
I understand the point that you're making about overoptimizing for FOMO in science. I wanted to give you another perspective from a scientist working within the US government that doesn't care about playing that game.

Our governmental research agency, and NIH as a whole has TONS of research data that we don't have the manpower to screen and provess. There are also gaps in data that AI/ML could help us simulate. AI research assistants could potentially help us process and evaluate "what questions to ask" by, for example, looking for trends in QSAR (quantitative structure-activity relationship) models for novel chemicals and help us direct our attention to compounds of toxicological interest.

We've also been trying to use the AI research assistants to speed up the process of evaluating the scientific literature for toxicologists who have to make regulatory decisions. Our agency has a backlog of chemicals that we would love to evaluate, but lacks the manpower to do so.

No profit motive or much "clout" interest, at least that I've seen. Just a lot of public servant scientists who need some extra help protecting the public.
Microsoft is laying off hundreds in its Azure cloud business, sources say
https://archive.is/aeSbc
It's marketed and sold as an oracle. The AGI crowd feels like a cult.
That doesn't sound right at all.

Improving generalization in deep learning is a big deal. The phenomenon is academically interesting either way, but e.g. making sota nets more training data economical seems like a practical result that might be entirely within reach.
If I moved house, I can't imagine Honda or Subaru agreeing to take back a car.

Although the inability to sell it is bullshit.
While yes, this is the technical reason — it’s important to not overlook how non-technical people see LLMs. And not only that, how they are being marketed.

I’m struggling to think of any comparable technology where the regular median users understanding is both fundamentally wrong— and is being purposefully misinformed.
Well, I didn't know the reason I was opening the ratchet handle--the opposing end has a cam on it, so it moves a metal bit out of the way of the ratcheting teeth. I would pull that thing out of the way with a finger on my second hand (when under load it can be very hard to get loose).

I also didn't know about the harmonics & putting a twist in the line. I also had a lot of problem with my lines working loose, which I don't have anymore, but I'm not sure I learned the fix in the video.
I can tell you about the software side on which I have some experience. Spiking neural networks are strictly more powerful than conventional neural networks which in turn are strictly more powerful than hand-coded rules engines. So the idea is that neuromorphic systems will some day supplant conventional neural networks in the same way they supplanted rules engines (e.g., for machine translation). However, as it stands the theoretical benefits of neuromorphic hardware has not yet been proven. Which is perhaps because hardware and software needs to mature... Like how neural nets were thought of as toys for many decades before they became practical. More brainlike doesn't necessarily translate to higher performance.

I'd say the big catch is the huge advantage conventional neural nets have. In hardware and software support.