skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nvidia linux drivers efforts were pretty much always driven by that market, it's not getting unstuck because it's supported well.

Hell, nvidia drivers might be often complained about, but for years I would take nvidia because the crappiness was manageable and close to nothing if you were in the target market (desktop workstations running X11 on only nvidia GPUs? The only issue was if you were running super latest kernel).
Why would steelmanning your opponent's argument help you convince anybody that argument is wrong?

I mean, outside of some niche debate club blogs subcultures, who does thus?

When there's a presidential debate, does the debater first improve the other guy's argument that he's corrupt before denying it?
I just asked both Claude and ChatGPT to add numbers and they both gave me the right answer.
Grayson Deysher - the author of the paper and the experiment - is a PhD candidate at UCSD (go tritons!)
What are the processes for recovering Chromium (Cr) when recycling batteries after a few hundred cycles?

Is it Trivalent, Hexavalent, or another form of Chromium?

Chromium > Precautions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium#Precautions
I went through a similar process when I converted wikipedia xml dumps into sqlite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28013347
The Billionaires: 1990
Don't worry about it. If you take a lead from Hannah Harvey (brilliant story teller), you can stare off into the distance (of your imagination), use wide expressive hand gestures, and know how to use timing to drive home your point, they won't be able to take their dagger eyes off you, and you will be the one with power.
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The title should be changed. This has nothing to do with ER capacity (or the pandemic, for those commenters already leaping to that conclusion), and the author admits 3/4ths of the way down the article that ER capacity is not the problem:

> The primary problem is not the number of patients coming to the ER. It’s the lack of open beds upstairs.

She goes on to explain that most of the problem is that hospitals keep their beds full so as to maximize profits, with a variety of reasons ranging from nursing home shortages to hospitals' tendency to prioritize elective surgeries (these make more money).

In fact, this entire article is very bad. The author asserts a problem, but provides no actual data to support the assertion, other than linking to some tweets of other people's opinions (edit: I shouldn't have said tweets; these are mostly links to pop journalism and editorials). Here's a paper quantifying the boarding problem in hospitals in the US, during the worst part of the pandemic:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9526134/

to wit:

> Occupancy rates and boarding time had a threshold association: when occupancy exceeded 85%, boarding exceeded The Joint Commission 4-hour standard for 88.9% of hospital-months (Figure 1). In those hospital-months, median ED boarding time was 6.58 hours compared with 2.42 hours in other hospital-months (P < .001). Across all hospitals, the median ED boarding time was 2.00 hours (5th-95th percentile, 0.93-7.88 hours) in January 2020, 1.58 hours (5th-95th percentile, 0.90-3.51 hours) in April 2020, and 3.42 hours in December 2021 (5th-95th percentile, 1.27-9.14 hours).
I would appreciate an invitation to lobste.rs, too. My email is in my profile.
To know something includes speed of regurgitation. Consider a trauma surgeon. You want them to know, off the top of their head, lots of stuff. You don’t want them taking their time and looking things up. You don’t want them redefining everything from first principles each time they perform surgery.

Knowing a topic includes instant recall of a key body of knowledge.
Ask them to compute the simplicial homology of the n dimensional projective plane next.
I work in the field. The issue is that you will find 2+2=5 literally a hundred times more in all big datasets than 6+3=9

A lot of information is wrong, a lot is only true in context (e.g. 2+2=5 features prominent in the book 1984), even more is spam or machine generated.

If you see the garbage that goes in, I am always amazed at how these models do what they do.
All of this is true, and it's the roadmap to tautological soundness.

But, in these scenarios, it's rarely about tautology or perfecting the structure of your argument. Yes, you might win on a debate stage. But, you've not moved anyone.
The original article linked here was one of the best reads I've had in a while. As a data scientist myself, I'm sick of all business decisions revolving around cramming LLMs and Generative AI into every nook and cranny imaginable. It appears to me that most people have forgotten Occam's razor and want to use LLMs just because everyone else is using them and the world is spellbound by this technology.
Yes, a job as the sole IT guy at a small consulting form had me keeping the computers of about 50 people (half onsite, half in home offices) running, starting in 1997 with a custom front end to Exchange, and Windows NT server... through to 2012 with VMware on the servers, Windows and Exchange and Windows 7 pro everywhere.

When I started, there was 40 hours worth of work every week. By the end, I would show up and wait for things to break. We had an in-house database, written in Access 97, then 2000... called Smiley. I tried 3 different times to re-write it in a manner to make everything flow better, and save a lot of people a lot of grief. Each time, there was an absolute terror that something would go wrong, and somehow it would crash the business. I had mechanisms figured out by the 3rd version to keep everything in sync across the old and the new versions... to no avail.

It completely broke my spirit. I've been afraid to start any major projects, even personal ones, ever since.

I'm basically waiting to die of old age at this point.
High-rate intercity quantum key distribution with single-photon source
The real moat of CUDA is that CUDA... works. Simply works out of the box, even on cheapest GPUs. Unless you want some specific high end stuff, everything will work on the cheapest GPU of given generation, with the same base tooling.

And because of that, their OpenCL implementation also works better than others. So there's more tooling not just from nvidia using it, because it. just. works.

Compare this with AMD, whose latest framework is a total mess of "will it work on this GPU?", sometimes needing custom wrangling to enable, etc. etc. and it's effectively supported only on the most expensive compute-only cards.
Rather with BSD, as he's one of the historical lead of FreeBSD.
It's also that so many people who go to the ER don't really have an emergency. Sometimes these are people who just don't want until the next day (or week) to see their regular doctor. Sometimes they are people who have nowhere else to go, and they know the ER can't turn them away.

I avoid the ER unless I think I am putting my life at risk by not going. I cut my finger open earlier this year, it probably could have used stitches but I was not going to subject myself to the ER experience for that. I taped it up, kept it clean, and it healed. There's a scar, but I'm not a hand model.
Maybe people want to be unreachable? HN is one of the safe spaces for those of us from the olden days of the ‘net, before it was real names and total visibility. Anyone who wants to be contacted puts their info in the about box. Those who don’t, don’t.

Recently, I found it creepy that someone actually found me elsewhere on the internet because they got upset with something I said on here, then were trailing my fairly well manicured online presence for ad hominems to use here. I could see it in my analytics logs. I found it pretty weird, so I for one wouldn’t want any more of my contact details available here, where I’m free to say whatever I want and let the community upvote or downvote it.
Yes I am saying it would be a user owned cooperative. These are common. Not all users would be workers, but workers would be part of the same community and users would vote on pay packages. If the pay is so low workers quit and quality suffers, they will vote to pay them more.
Outside of tech it's not too different. Tech pay isn't even bad, it just doesn't exhibit the massively inflated salaries of the US. Software is an easier, less professional job than most professional fields, it doesn't make sense for it to command preposterous sums. Though American devs don't like having this fact pointed out to them.
If there’s one argument counter to what you’re saying, it’s that the front pages of most social media sites are filled with clickbaits and shitposts. Including HN of course.
An alternative approache to BPE tokenization https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19223
It is the commitment of Microsoft Research dollars.
> when the opposite side cannot be convinced by rationality, which is most of the time

Which possibility is the "failure" possibility here, that the opposite side gets convinced, or that the opposite side doesn't get convinced? I'd argue the opposite side getting convinced is the failure. This one singular exchange somehow managed to convince him of your viewpoint amidst his entire lifetime of experiences that led him to conclude the opposite.

I think it's the old rationalist way of thinking to think "If your mind isn't changed by a syllogistically correct argument, you must not be arguing in good faith (or otherwise can't be convinced by rationality)."

Everyone arrives at conclusions about various topics from the data they obtain throughout their lives through a continuous complex inference process they cannot communicate. Included in this process is a judgment of which sources are credible and which are less credible. Your friend is more credible than the guy who is showing you a study that contradicts your belief, for the purpose of changing your mind. (There are lots of studies out there so it is not hard to find one that supports your argument.) Trying to distill this complex inference process into a linear argument will necessarily lead to an inaccurate representation of how they arrived at the belief.

Doesn't mean everyone's right, though. Governments, cults, and friend groups are very good at shaping the data an individual receives. Even in these cases, you can see how based on the limited information that they do receive, it is quite reasonable from that internal perspective to believe what they do believe.

Arguments would be better if by "argument" we mean some effort, no matter how difficult, to communicate how you arrived at the beliefs you have, rather than a "well" crafted linear rational argument.
People normally just use the subunit which doesn’t divide. E.g. height is usually referred to in cm. If accuracy is important they use millimeters. Roadsigns for cars use km but downtown wayfinding signs for pedastrians use meters.

I agree it is really nice to use base-12 until it brakes, but it brakes much worse then metric. If you have to divide into 32nds everything about feet and inches is much worse (in metrics we would just use millimeters). The worst offender are wrenches which don’t order intuitively. In metric, if you 13 mm wrench is too big, you just grab an 11 mm wrench. In inches if your 13/16th inch wrench is too big, do you grab the 5/8th? or three-quarters next?
About coding my own projects not yet. About coding within a team for a tech company, yes. I couldn’t care less anymore about tech discussions with senior devs, about product refinements, about daily standups. I’m there because it pays the bills and it’s relatively easy for me work as a dev since as I said above, I love doing it (alone, of course), so I have the skills to do it (and it’s also relatively easy to fake engagement, so my managers never notice my disdain for the industry)
Exactly, this is just stupid marketing and has nothing to do with real ai
I call this the stack overflow effect: I'm going to reply to what I wish you said, rather than what you actually said, because I'm a smarty.
They can clone it, they can eavesdrop on it by having hacked your phone, they can be eavesdropping on the wireless network. But the most likely is they can dupe your carrier to port your number out
I learned > 10 years ago that every phone "security update" is just a patch to disable workarounds people use to root their phones. And every update unroots it. So yeah, disabling automatic updates is also the first thing I do.
Plugins like Flash, Silverlight, and NPAPI were common at the time, but anything running in a web browser is still a web application. It feels like you're making a distinction without a difference [1]. Either way, the web can performantly do what Quake Live did back then without plugins today, and it can certainly handle the Flappy Bird and Angry Birds style apps that people are playing on mobile devices today. Just take a look at some of the Unity WebGL and threejs demos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_differen...
dont try to simply shut the data off. salt and poison the data.
Hospitals need to be BIG. Basic logic does something like “population * sickness-rate = mean required beds for hospital budget”, but this is logical for lossy services, not mandatory ones.

Not to get political, but when a service goes from being a luxury to being considered a human right, our tolerance for failure changes immediately. Anyone who works in reliability knows that the budget for “will never fail” is exponentially higher than “almost never fails”.

As we transmute more services to “fundamental right”, we need to expect costs to grow non-linearly, regardless of who is paying. None of this is a bad thing, we just need to be building freakin’ massive hospital buildings!
This is interesting, because at 47 people they're in transitional scaling. Like they've had to solve "too many teams for the CTO to manage directly" but not "too many teams to align effectively".

At 15 strong self-directed teams, you can have a few teams focused on the high level directives, and a few entropy repair teams that mostly self-manage.

The way to think about it is maybe like homeostasis. Self-directed product teams will implement new features, fix bugs, and generally keep the thing on track, but the efficiency drops off as the feedback mechanisms of talking to customers reaches equilibrium.

To mix metaphors, a leadership team creates a kind of current flow in that system. When you're small you can go to each of those teams and ensure that current flow is happening.

But at a larger size, that doesn't work. You have to engineer and carefully craft the feedback mechanisms the teams are working off of to induce that current. This is a hard problem, but it's where things like minimum attrition policies, OKRs, etc spring from: leadership trying to have a policy that induces current.
So it's GeoFabrik is the same data, but regionalized. This sounds like what I need. I already use DuckDB, so this is great.

I appreciate your taking the time to share this tidbit! It's a game changer in what I do (geospatial).
I was expecting this to be dictated by an AI voice... But this sounds pretty human to me, and if it actually is an AI, I would consider it a decent rebuke of the original article.
Leave it to Richard Marcinko (rip) and it'll never come back to the prez!
At this point that movement of capital in and out of Russia is both a real world crime and an ethical "crime" regardless of what people with libertarian ideological bent think.
NuMachine
The way your positining the left and right suggests that you're immune to the article's technique. I'd suggest a portion of good faith if I thought it was going to help but I'm at a loss here.
Evil Overlord Wisdom*: If your evil pathologist minions are too sloppy to keep nasty diseases from leaking out of their labs, and your public health minions utterly botch their efforts to contain that leak - then your pride-and-joy bioweapons program is actually an intolerable threat to your own Evil Empire. Have those pathologists tortured to death as a "refresher lesson on competence" for your public health minions, then suggest that the latter be extremely thorough in cleaning up whatever germs the former left lying around.

*If anyone is unfamiliar with this flavor of satire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Overlord_List#Evil_Overlo...
The only thing true in life is lies and hashes. And the Twitter Files lacked hashes.
Yes, the issue is that statistical models can not reason and determine what is logically valid vs what is most probable (which I guess is also its own kind of logic).
New hospitals are being built with fewer beds than the ones they are replacing.

The current objective in hospital medicine is to get the patient home as soon as possible. There's a lot of good reasons for that, hosiptals are disease cesspools. Basically if you don't need intensive care they want to send you home.
I'll admit I'm someone who has always said "I have nothing to hide." Do I want someone physically recording me outside my window while changing clothes? No. But the majority of the time, we're just talking about targeted advertisements (which I actually prefer over random crap). Or a system that listens to keywords on phone calls that may identify and deter a terrorist threat. I don't see how this relates to "freedoms of expression." Before the downvotes, please give me an example of where I should be scared. I'm open to learning.
absolutely. most pointless arguments happen because of substantive lack of understanding of the other persons position, or just a general failure to engage in good faith. attempting to present someone's position for them seems like a good way to make the situation worse.
My Mac contains exactly the same personal data as my iPhone.
Things work the same with any resource, not just actual money - it could be team size, or processor cycles and memory bytes. If you free up 200 ms of CPU cycles and 500 megs of RAM, someone else can deploy their functionality using these newly available resources, and then you won’t be able to. In fact, a mature, well-run CI system will measure everyone’s resource footprint after each commit, and will not let you exceed your budget, which was frozen at some point based on how much you were using at the time (hope it was a lot! - always spend like crazy before the baseline is established!) Is it any wonder that people learn to never optimize their code - unless they want to deploy something new themselves, and only after asking for more resources to deploy it and not getting any?

This explains so much. It also sounds like broken water laws in the western US that incentivise farmers to intentionally waste water to preserve their future ability to waste water.
* privacy IS important

* lists gmail address in footer
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In many places (different countries), the appointments are further and further into the future, so I do not blame them. ER does triage too.
> I have nothing to hide

> Because no one is trying to hurt you

From https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-exploding-messages (2018) (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17357992)
I don't know about the former part, but I agree with the latter completely. Turning people quickly from hospitals is a good thing. The longer you stay in a hospital, the more likely you are to die from something bad that happened to you in the hospital.

But, it doesn't have anything directly to do with the so-called "boarding problem", which is what this article is about. That's mostly about the for-profit nature of our health care system, which is doing exactly what one would expect (optimizing profits).
400 Whr/kg is competing for the highest energy density applications that can run on rechargeable batteries. Things that fly. Cars. Not grid storage.

I mean if it was otherwise suitable for grid storage it's not a downside obviously, but at those energy densities it can be inferior in terms of cost and/or cycle life and still be commercially viable in other significant markets.

Not to mention this is research, it doesn't have to directly result in a commercially viable product.
At this point your use of the Humpty Dumpty principle makes further discussion highly unlikely to be fruitful.
> This has it all wrong.

It's not. The article is about language, not thinking. See some examples here: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/introverts-use-more-c...
People can create whatever email address they want. People can choose to disclose whatever information they want. Privacy is about not being forced to disclose things you don't want.
It is unprofitable to provide "perfect service", because in order to provide perfect service you need people on hand that aren't doing anything that can spring into action during surge events.

Someone's going to stand around when there's an imbalance between demand and labor supply. At our local grocery store, they overhire high school kids to stand around waiting to check people out. I've never waited in line for more than 3 minutes there. If they cut costs by firing the extra labor, I'd have to stand around and wait for the "optimized" labor force to attend to me.
Criminals have something to hide. Subjects have nothing to hide. Men have everything to hide.
It's crazy how much institutional decay there is basically everywhere in this era. Like I grew up hearing stories about institutions being crazy effective compared to the ones I actually encountered. Sure, humans have always had folly, but the society we currently occupy is obsessed with often nonsensical metrics, rewards con artists disproportionately for gaming those metrics, and creates significant barriers for anyone trying to navigate the world through other means. There is no faculty in any academic institution untouched by the Reagan-era push to make colleges into degree factories, the administrative bloat caused by incursions of the demands of an increasingly muscular and obtuse finance sector (that also affects most other institutions), or the pervasive instinct to automate decisions based on dubious metrics, and most adults understand this at an intuitive level

We are in a period of widespread outright institutional collapse. Institutional decay should be the null hypothesis when considering the causal factors behind any widespread problem
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