skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An arbitrary limit of 32G of memory? Laughable. Glad I exited the Apple ecosystem long ago. Only have 2-3 year old machines now. Current phone is “free” from carrier due to trade ins.

I think Apple should shift away from personal computing (iMac, MBP/A, iPhone) and focus on selling their SoC. Get these into data centers.

Powering a data center with their chips would likely result in significant decrease in power consumption. I am running an “old” M1 as a small remote k8s cluster for personal dev work and home automation. Works wonderfully.

Power consumption during peak load (20 W?) is very low compared to my Intel based computer (120-150W?) I use for occasional gaming.
I've lived in bangkok for 10 years, feel free to drop me an email hyper@hyperworks.nu

I'm currently hacking on some AI projects for language learning also hahahah
Thanks! That's really interesting stuff, will definitely look into those!
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There is also the asymmetry of time dilation. Someone moving in a rocket ship will be younger than the person staying behind. Isn't their relative acceleration the same though? Why is the rocket man privileged in staying young? This kinda works if you imagine a grid of sand particles being acted upon by either gravity or traversed by the rocket. The rocket traverses many more grids than the person standing on Earth. The person floating in naked space will traverse the fewest grids.

The kicker is that there is no place in space with zero grid traversal. Accounting for all grid traversals becomes a nightmare.
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Probably the reason why so many high street stores here on Airstrip One use live facial recognition these days.

Just some of the Live CCTV offenders that I know of. There are most likely many more.

John Lewis, Co-op, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Next, Matalan, Marks & Spencer, Boots and Primark.

I do not use any of these stores and some of my friends are now choosing not to shop in them either.

Zero legislation restricting the use of facial recognition.
A good use case would be when you own a car built somewhere between 2005 and 2015 that accepts CDs and usb drives but only mp3 files. Some supported AAC and ogg files without them being advertised as compatible, but some might not.

Or when you keep using an old mp3 player from the early 2000's.
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Apart from the Samsung Viewfinity that another commenter mentioned, there's also the LG Ultrafine 5K and the Huawei Mateview. The MateView is nicer than other 4K monitors because it has a taller aspect ratio of 3840 x 2560 so the extra 400 pixels of vertical space is nice for productivity work, although of course this is still fewer total pixels than a 5K display.
In FL. Been to 2 different PCP over the past decade. Was 90+ days before I could get my first appointment at both locations.
It's worse: Any file you open results in phoning home, Intelligence or not, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
Most healthcare organizations in the US are profit-oriented, sometimes to the detriment of the patients. That is why we have large, unwieldy organizations surrounding the very few people that actually do hands-on healthcare. There’s also the issue of liability – it can be pretty litigious in the US, and companies are frequently wanting to limit their liability, which means having the paperwork to back up their decisions. Unfortunately, it also means they have to restrict their decision-making to a very small matrix.
Form factor isn't updated afaik, but man, I am just so so impressed with the form factor. It looks like a giant tablet. Makes me want to hold it and draw on it.
GR is a theory of the bulk. It’s like fluid mechanics, which treats fluids as infinitely divisible and doesn’t acknowledge the existence of molecules: There’s no way it’s accurate at small enough scales that molecules matter, which is what would be happening inside a black hole.

At larger scales, however, fluid mechanics is extremely reliable.
i wonder what a spam mail looks like that was created by an LLM with the goal of evading correct classification by your LLM ...
If you think it’s worth it, you can fly to a few places in East Asia or Southeast Asia where you can see a medical specialist in private hospitals on the same day, especially if arranged a couple of days in advance.

These include Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc.

The quality of care in these private hospitals is usually high as well.

For some cases, the costs in more affordable locations among the above—even after including economy flights—could be cheaper than treatment in the US.

https://chatgpt.com/share/e/671fb198-2a34-8011-a2e8-e0b4aa45...
The idea of an ongoing relationship with a single doctor has always felt to me like a relic of that mythic past when people would spend 40 years working for a single employer before retiring with a pension.

In my life, as a generally healthy person working in the software industry, I have switched health insurance plans almost as many times as I've needed medical attention. What's the point of going through the trouble to establish a relationship with a PCP when you will see them at most twice, likely only once, before you have to start over after taking your next job?

Urgent care is much easier.
Work parties. Worst thing ever.
What if singularities do in fact exist? What issues does that create?

They might not be observable if superextremal black holes don't exist and thus naked singularities do not exist.
I sort of find telemedicine to a be a scam. I’m sure it has its use case, but most of the time it feels like they are trying to limit liability so they just tell you to go see a doctor in person.
Kaiser's "platinum-level" (90% average coverage, no deductibles) plan for a young nonsmoking adult runs about $450/mo in my state marketplace, and most of that is further subsidized for someone who isn't making middle class wages. The medium-deductible, 70%-average-coinsurance "Silver-level" plan is about half that.

I don't even understand the concept of a $12,000 deductible when the ACA established maximum out of pocket at:

> "For the 2024 plan year: The out-of-pocket limit for a Marketplace plan can't be more than $9,450 for an individual and $18,900 for a family."

What are you even paying for?
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GPU memory is 20 MT/s+, Apple is ~6 MT/s, LPCAMM supports ~7500 MT/s.

Easy heuristic: if your memory transfer rate is more than 1.5x the standard, you can solder RAM. If not, you must use the standard.
Stick two identical rocket engines together in deep space so their thrust cancels out. Is thrust not a force when rockets' guidance accelerometers both show 0?
If people did this, the result would be bad for people's health. It's effectively no different than searching the web for medical advice rather than seeing a doctor.

I doubt most people would do this for anything but either trivial conditions or to answer the question "should I see a doctor about this". Urgent care centers already provide that sort of advice, so I doubt such a use would lighten the load of family doctors much.
How do self-trimming candle wicks work?
I like the model of an insulated tunnel bored through the Earth from the north to the south pole and filled with a vacuum (technologically implausible, yes). If we drop a steel ball into the tunnel at the north pole, what forces does it experience?

From Newton's perspective, F = ma and the ball accelerates towards the center of the Earth. The value of g diminishes to zero at the center, the ball is at its maximum velocity, and then enters the negative acceleration regime until it just reaches the surface of the Earth at the south pole. This will continue indefinitely in harmonic motion. It's not a perpetual motion machine because machines do work and we're not doing any work on the ball; it's similar to an orbiting sphere. (ChatGPT-o1 claims the period is 84.4 minutes, assuming uniform density)

The general relativity perspective seems to be the ball is just rolling up and down a bowl of spacetime, without any friction or drag, which isn't all that satisfying a picture, since it implies a restorative force being involved to keep the ball from escaping the bowl. It helps to consider the state of the ball right before it is kicked into the tunnel - it is being prevented from following its natural geodesic trajectory by the electromagnetic forces of the rocks of the Earth's crust upon which it is being held up - that's the only relevant force in this picture.
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No mention of William Nordhaus, who famously did a study/survey of this in the 1990s?

* https://lucept.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/william-nordha...

* https://econlife.com/2018/10/the-light-side-of-economic-grow...

* https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38650976

He also co-authored the influential textbook Economics with Samuelson, and did important work on the economics of climate change:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nordhaus

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_(textbook)
> Steal?

> Irrefutability?

> That doesn't sound scientific at all

We're not talking about science here, we are talking about the philosophy of science.

At a trivial level it is still a hypothesis that each deviation from newtons laws (as in on a per galaxy basis) we observe has a common cause. But let's say that's quite trivial and it's an extremely easy hypothesis to accept.

There are levels to this. Are the deviations at the galaxy level caused by the same phenomenon as the deviations at the cluster level? Easy to believe, but still needs to be poked at. Slightly harder to believe out of hand than the previous

Is the ringing in the CMB caused by the same thing? If you don't admit that that is a harder sell (if even slightly) then that's dishonest.

By having grouped all of these distinct observations into one group of observations Angela has slyly implied they are all caused by the same thing, and introduced friction to exploring the possibility that they are not. That is scientifically irresponsible. Especially given, as you say, all the models suck.
Pretty sure no amount of participation in cooking can make children start liking food with specific tastes, like eggplants or celery. If they like it - great! I they don't like it, but parents do - well, _that_ kind of home-cooked food will never be liked.

(Unless you process them so much, and add so many spices, that they no longer have any original taste.. but by that point they are at "pre-packaged" level of cooking)
Llama 405B up to 142 tok/s on Nvidia H200 SXM
Happy to announce this breakthrough, made largely possible by Nvidia's H200 SXMs and a proprietary speculative decoding algorithm.

We've launched a production grade API endpoint at $3 per million tokens. We also have some capacity for fine tuning 405B, while still keeping the speed increases, so if you're interested please get in touch.
The article explains this at length.
One of the biggest constraints to successful AI coding agents is limited accessibility to the underlying development environment.

A potential solution is a AI Coding Agent-Agnostic Middleware
It's taking a while for the new version to come out. It has been "weeks away" for like a year now.
The accelerometer glued to the mountain will show -9.8m/s^2, not zero. The one glued to the rocket will show the same. The force of the rocket thrust is the opposite of the force of the glue holding it to the mountain, so the sum results in zero additional acceleration.
Also "rest of the world" the medical professionals do not get into massive debt and hence do not need massive compensation upon graduation to offset. One issue of getting more supply of doctor would, I believe, be the resistance from the current system since more supply means lower prices...

Additionally since a lot of our healthcare is managed by Private Equity or other forms of investors that are looking for a profit, I suspect with cheaper staff they will just keep prices the same and increase their profits.
And then there's San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans... there are plenty of cities that have airports that are very convenient to them, and train stations that aren't.

My point is if you have a substantial sized city that does not already have a large train station in its center, you aren't building a train station in its center, in the same way that if your city doesn't have an airport that you've built up around, you aren't going to build it. We're all at the mercy of history here, unless you're going to try to build a new planned community where there currently is only light population.
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> An accelerometer glued to the mountain will show a 0.

Incorrect. An accelerometer glued to the mountain will show -9.8m/s^2 because it's being accelerated by said mountain.
USA/Bay Area here.

My surgery took months of specialist appointments and months to get an OR slot. There was a conflict and it was delayed again.

I changed networks and when searching for a new PCP I had to wait over a month for the first appointment.
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America's in-person group membership plummeted across the decades[0], but I don't know about overall volunteerism. It may just come in different forms. Anecdotally, here in NYC volunteer orgs are stuffed to the gills; spots to clean my local park fill up in days, finding any weekend activity on NY Cares can be hard.

More concrete data are hard to find, AmeriCorps' only started in '02. We can look at volunteer rates across demographics[1] but it's likely true that volunteer hours drop off with age.

[0] see: Bowling Alone (needs a post-COVID update, though)

[1] https://americorps.gov/sites/default/files/document/Voluntee...
> No-one said anything about automating any human connection

Maybe I was inferring the wrong thing, and if so I apologize, but the context of this comment was invoking LLMs and humanoid robots in a discussion about how "care doesn't scale". Like of course automation and technology should do things to make the lives of the elderly easier, but I would not classify any action done by a machine as "care". My dishwasher is a great convenience, but I would never classify my relationship with it as one of "caring".

> Knowing what her role as a carer has cost her in terms of quality of life, I would never want to subject my children to the same

Of course that's a problem. The answer though, IMO, is creating a society where we value elder care more, and have more programs to provide human support and connection to the elderly. I strongly feel like this isn't something which we can or should automate away.
The individual marketplace plans seem to exist in a totally different world from employer-provided plans. When I went from my old employer's COBRA to an MD Health Connection plan, my premium dropped nearly fourfold even with no subsidies.
Kanji is never going away. I struggle to believe anyone who fully mastered kanji would say something like this.

Kanji is not just “harder”. It’s better.
Gruber asserted nothing but cowardice, never mentioning fascism. He also made an argument from sources for this judgement, so I'm not sure where your second paragraph came from.
You're fixating on the highest achievers of the highest achievers. Most people couldn't even read or write. Education was much less of a priority then, because you didn't require an education to have a decent life for the time period. In fact, often getting an education was a huge disadvantage - because you weren't working earlier. Skills are acquired with hands then. The sooner you put them to use, the better for your career as a factory man.
A colouring app that is free and simple. I want it to avoid advertising or anything that makes apps nowadays irritating.

https://color.vos.lol

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If you don't have an iPhone, you might have success with the desktop version at: https://color.vos.lol/app
I’m not sure how any program to recycle plastic bags (etc) is supposed to show 60% recycling-compliance without labeling instructing consumers to recycle the bags. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to ban the plastic?
I'm supportive of the original idea because I think it's fun and cool. I agree with everything you've said, but we're talking a bit at cross angles. You're looking at it from what it would take for this to be a successful, competitive, and profitable consumer product. I'm looking at if it is technically feasible and can be made for non-absurd amounts of money. Our threshold of non-absurd may also differ, but given there are some people will pay $20k+ for an espresso machine, there are likely some who would pay several hundred dollars for a tea kettle.
> Hope that isn't reflected in the price.

lmao

AMD has even officially announced at this point that they will not compete on high-end consumer and workstation GPUs for years to come. Intel can’t (Gaudi is not general-purpose, so too limited appeal for that market).
The native code binding was impressively simple!

7 lines of rust, 1 small JS change. It looks like napi-rs supports Buffer so that JS change could be easily eliminated too.
IME (SoCal) the 1st visit can take 2-3 months. After that you can get back in with only a 2-3 week wait, shorter if it’s urgent.

They seem to rate limit new patients so current patients can get in.
There is too much "medical students syndrome" - you learn about some symptoms and they decide you have the issue because the symptoms match even though they don't match in the right way.

There are also a lot of rare things that need expensive procedures that shouldn't be done on a whim. Many medical tests increase your odds of cancer for instance - if you really need that test done to figure out your issue it is worth it, but those tests shouldn't just be done - it is often better to treat the most common causes without verifying that is really the root cause and then only if those treatments fail do the tests to see what you really have.
>With the human element removed, who would be left to even have a discussion?

That's exactly the point. Only people with a fairly direct interest in the industry and its inputs and outputs would discuss it.

Look at how HN discusses political matters.

Look at how HN discusses computer industry matters.

Every industry that can be converted from "everybody weighs in because it's sort of a social issue" to "mostly only people with a horse in the race weigh in" is a huge plus for humanity.
Also somewhat working in this space. Building a BMS (Building management system) to manage and control everything in commercial buildings. Think Homekit for commercial. There's something like 70% of buildings don't use one and they can be much more environmental friendly.

Utilizing https://project-haystack.org/
I agree, but as far as we know life evolved only once, and particular chiral orientations in central carbon metabolism were then locked forever, because they can't be changed without breaking everything else. The same enzymes won't generally work with both steroisomers- every enzyme they interact with needs radical structural changes.

Less critical things outside of central carbon metabolism often do evolve different stereoisomers in different species, or even the same species. For example, the large macrocyclic antibiotic molecules sometimes evolve to flip sterochemistry, creating a new antibiotic.
A not-so-fun footnote for those who looked forward to this:

> The first set of Apple Intelligence features is available now as a free software update with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, and can be accessed in most regions around the world when the device and Siri language are set to U.S. English.

More to come later:

> Apple Intelligence is quickly adding support for more languages. In December, Apple Intelligence will be available for localized English in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K., and in April, a software update will deliver expanded language support, with more coming throughout the year. Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages will be supported.
The city of Merida in Mexico might also be an option.
> Depends what you view as humanity's goals

Well what I quoted specifically mentions cost and ecological impact.

> learning more about the universe is a big one for a lot of people

Sending people to Mars doesn't seem to be the most efficient way we know to learn more about the universe (by a very, very long margin).

> hard to maximize pleasure if civilization is razed by a meteor we didn't have the infrastructure to deflect

At this point it seems more likely that civilization collapses because civilization cannot live sustainably on Earth. An asteroid is surely a risk to consider, but going to Mars has absolutely nothing to do with defending Earth from asteroids.
Both engines are exerting force in opposite directions, which cancels out, as you said. There’s no acceleration happening either from gravity or this rocket arrangement, so the accelerometer reads zero. Why is this a problem? Who is saying thrust is not a force?
Some annoying student would mention that the same force is acting on the accelerometer as well so it cannot act as an independent observer.
I'm honestly more concerned with how Wikipedia handles mainstream topics - i.e. the ones its editors are likely to have strong opinions about. Misunderstandings can be corrected with time, dogma on the other hand actively fights any correction.
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