skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I tried the "Listen to article" button, because I knew it was going to be generated and was curious to hear how it sounded.

Interestingly, it highlighted the words as it read. I haven't seen that before online. Not sure how useful it is (especially for anyone interested in this particular topic), but I thought it was a neat innovation nevertheless.
My personal conclusion (YMMV), python is fast (and it has been) in all scenario and it can be speed up when is not, scaling it vertically or horizontally with appropriate solutions (even including low level accelerations).
> Depends on your definition of "truly" new since any idea could be argued to be a mix of all past ideas.

My personal feeling when I engage in these conversations is that we humans have a cognitive bias to ascribe a human remixing of an old idea to intelligence, but an AI-model remixing of an old idea as lookup.

Indeed, basically every revolutionary idea is a mix of past ideas if you look closely enough. AI is a great example. To the 'lay person' AI is novel! It's new. It can talk to you! It's amazing. But for people who've been in this field for a while, it's an incremental improvement over linear algebra, topology, functional spaces, etc.
It was great fun, especially after having a couple beers in the theatre.
I think I do. The upstream question was "how do nordic people feel about …" though. The nazis have their fetishes, we nordic people don't feel bothered about that. The image we perceive most people to have of us is completely unconnected to nazis.
I assumed nanometers.

I see it every day in chip/design/a few others. I was confused how I caused an issue with the points being so close.

I only realized NM means nautical miles only due to these comments.
...an incident where they didn't parse the data as other systems already parsed the data.

It sounds like the solution is better validation and test suites for the existing scheme, not a new less-ambiguous scheme
This looks quite compelling.

But it's not clear how it handles file update conflicts.
For example: if User A updates File X on one computer, and User B updates File X on another computer, what does the final file look like in S3?
There's no point in stating your opposition to something that does not exist and is not happening. That's just fear mongering and straw-manning. If nobody is doing this, you're simply building a strawman to fight against because it's easy.
> As a layperson, it seems like we (patients / society) would benefit from having more doctors, i.e. opening up more residency slots and admitting more people to med school, but there's probably a lot I don't understand about the issue. Not sure if it's a lack of political willpower to do this, or if there are other reasons why the number of doctors we train is so restricted.

Like so many of America’s issues, it’s due to lobbying based on entrenched greed.

> In 1997, the AMA lobbied Congress to restrict the number of doctors that could be trained in the United States, claiming that, "The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians."
Super true. I know... I bought this domain a long time ago for another project that never launched and swore to use it one day. It's a short .io that is easy to remember. I agree it does not match well
Minimal Conversational Assistant
I would expect most Java projects from 20 years ago to compile and run with zero issues.
While I think that a single variable isn't always very useful, when something is an outlier and people are moving from other luxury brands with much lower rates to a new brand and experiencing high rates, there is definitely something wrong.

I'm guessing that while the total accident rate declines with automation, that the serious accident rate is increasing, because a human driver drives in a risk adjusted way and takes less care to avoid minor accidents and more care to avoid serious accidents, but when a robot find itself unable to drive the errors are more evenly distributed or even more likely to result in a serious accident, because its doing things idiotically with no sense of self preservation.
The problem itself is old, but the extent to which it pervades different ecosystems varies. It's largely a cultural thing, and the problem with JS/Node ecosystem specifically is that most of the community (or, perhaps, rather most of the library/framework authors) accepts this kind of thing as normal.
I've never seen anyone on the Internet write "there are two genders" in good faith. 100% of the time it's rage bait, intended to boil down the conversation and to be as obnoxious as possible.
If you're in Europe, consider filing GDPR complaint to your local data protection authority. One of the rights recognised in GDPR is right to rectify information about you, and it was clearly not afforded by the provider here.
Very interesting, but unfortunate there is no example program. I guess that is left as exercise for reader, but it's a bit daunting for a non systems programmer.
It's Toyota cheaping out as always. They put a 1.5kWh NiMH pack in the trunk, and charge $5k for replacement. That's almost a big power bank capacity, and using that small of a battery strains it too. Cost for enclosures and control circuits don't scale with capacity so dollar/kWh figure is atrocious.

It works. People hates it. The issues with it are mostly theoretical or matters of preferences. That's hallmark Toyota, isn't it...
However true that might be, I’d rather try to avoid wrestling with software for my data. If that’s really the case then even if it’s free I’m pretty sure you’re not getting your money’s worth.
I do feel bad for the amateurs. I went to art school where we received and administered constant daily critique where frankness matters. Genuinely mean spirited comments obviously still sucked, but we couldn't hesitate to say things like "that nose reads more like a foot and that flesh kind of makes them look dead, so unless you were going for that, maybe you could consider [etc]" because class was only 4 hours long, 15 people needed crit, we still had another huge drawing to complete, and after you've been staring at a piece for hours or days, you can't even see it objectively anymore, so you're thankful for the reality check. It was technical stuff-- not commenting on people's ideas or what they were trying to express. That experience moves "the line" we instinctively don't cross as social creatures, and something we might say with the best intentions without reading the room could entirely put someone off of learning art, forever. Even if it seems constructive you're saying it, if it's received as mean spirited and is out-of-step with the tone of the exchange, then the intent doesn't matter much.
At the moment this repo is designed to handle more RAG-oriented use cases, i.e. that require to recall the "top pieces of information" relevant to a given question/context. In your specific example, right now, FastGraphRAG would select the nodes that represent podcasts that are connected to Hilary Clinton, feed them to an LLM which would then select the ones that are positively associated with her. As a next step, we plan to weight the connections between nodes given the query. This way, PageRank will explore only edges which carry the concept "positively associated with", and only the right podcasts would be selected and returned, without having to ask an LLM to classify them. Note that this is basically a fuzzy join and so it will produce only a "best-effort" answer rather than an exact one.
There's a huge amount of documented history of mass killings, destruction of institutions, and economic exploitation by the West and USA in particular. By American authors, too.

Frankly, I'm astonished that you aren't aware of this.
Yes, Chrome is the new IE in only one category when IE was popular: market share. Everything else? Not so much.
I can't criticize how you prompted it because you did not link the transcript :)

Zooming out, you seem to be in the wrong conversation. I said:

> the LLM can solve a general problem (or tell you why it cannot), while your calculator can only do that which it's been programmed.

You said:

> Do you have any evidence besides anecdote?

I think that -- for both of us now having used chat gpt to generate a response -- we have good evidence that the model can solve a general program (or tell you why it cannot), while a calculator can only do the arithmetic for which it's been programmed. If you want to counter, then a video of your calculator answering the question we just posed would be nice.
I care far more about pollution than carbon in the short and medium terms but focus has completely been dissolved from that in the interests of the big carbon grift. It's all a scam for large institutions to rake in more money and not fix the problems. So many people in this thread are putting the entire onus on the US but giving passes and ignoring the real problems like China who don't even bother to follow or participate in climate solutions.
or falsehoods programmers believe about global identifiers
Elon Musk is not someone Europe feels it can rely on in a crisis when Russia attacks
Very useful, I did not see this right away. Thanks!
I remember someone trying to fix an isue on my machine recursively changed all permissions on the whole drive to 777. Might as well have nuked the system.
bump please share via github we'll be happy to contribute
A. This is exactly what is to be expected.

If high-skill jobs are compensated (relatively) less, workers are less incentivized to pursue those jobs, or they move to other markets.

B. Capitalist countries like the U.S. are not completely immune to his phenomenon either.
> 4/0? There's no cake at all. You can't have something of something that is not there. It's not 0, because 0 is a number. It's simply not defined. Non existent.

0 is a number that denotes non-existence though right? so it is adequate there. you can have nothing after the division for something that *was* there prior to the division, which is the purpose of zero. You can't have '0' of something that *is* there, the purpose of zero is to enumerate non-existence.

> It may not be an apple anymore, but it's still matter + energy. Actually you didn't changed anything.

It is still in existence, but it's number is zero because it is no longer an apple. it is no longer some count of an apple, it is no longer any count of an apple, it is something else, but not an apple, so it is zero apples, a successful division by zero!
Most of the time it's undebatable, it is just hate speech. I'm talking slurs and "you're destroying America" type rhetoric. It's so common on a lot of social media platforms, including Twitter. Nobody wants to put up with that, it's obnoxious and completely impossible to debate against.

If people think I deserve AIDS what the hell am I supposed to do with that? That's not useful information, and I don't understand why you're demanding people have to put up with it. They can leave, and evidently, they are.
> Firearms per 100 people, places Bhutan about 196th in the world. They arent even a free country. Flee asap.

More firearms per people equals more freedom?

This has to be one of the worst rationales I have read on HN. Not an easy feat.

And I really struggled to post this while avoiding some harsher words. Also not an easy feat.
Name one on par with Stalin’s agricultural reforms or the Cultural Revolution or the madness in Cambodia.
That isn't really what I meant, and yeah, I was ambiguous. When you have a culture where people can't tell the boss things he doesn't want to hear -- of which resignation is an example -- how do companies expect to get honest feedback? How do they detect problems earlier in the process? Etc.

Cultures are never just dysfunctional; there are usually a complicated set of compensations that makes the dysfunction more bearable. I'm curious how that works.
This type of argument is frankly outdated. The US is net exporters of crude. We only import because of structural issues (for example for California it's cheaper to ship in oil as they refused to allow a pipeline to be built, or for example shipping in heavier crude that's cheaper and easier to make margin on in more advanced US refining plants).
The website is unusable in mobile, or at least firefox android.
Hey there, our file system is strongly consistent for all connected file system clients. For example, if User A and User B are both connected via Regatta, then this works like any other NFS file system (in that they can use file locks, atomic renames or other techniques to ensure that one write wins). However, if User A and User B are accessing the data through different protocols (for example User A is using Regatta and User B is accessing the data through S3), then it's possible to get undefined behavior by attempting to simultaneously update the same piece of data from both places. We think that these applications are rare, and (almost by definition) likely don't exist right now. For the most part, customers use file storage as a "stage" in a broader workflow (for example, customers may ingest data through S3 and then process it on a file system), and that is totally consistent.
I was reaching for a descriptor and ended up riffing off 'quiet quitting' and 'quiet firing'.

I understand you're not deprecating or recommending anything, and have learned in the meantime just how ugly python infighting is in and around package tooling. I can see the motivation to keep external messaging limited to saying a feature was added and everything else remains constant.

I work with a bunch of normies that think python packing starts and ends at "pip install"-ing systemwide on Windows. One day in the future the maintainers of the packages they use will likely be encouraged to use this optional new feature (and/or they already have been publicly). Even later in the future those end users themselves might be encouraged by warnings or errors not to install packages without this extra feature.

PyPI has deprecated nothing. Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
I wonder how this will affect the EDU market here in the US. ChromeBooks are heavily used in K-12 education and are nearly ubiquitous. If they keep the same manageability as is currently available for Chromebooks, it should be fine. IF not, it could be big trouble for schools.
Progress and prospects of mRNA-based drugs in pre-clinical/clinical applications
once the lumber becomes my house I’m calling it successfully laundered
This entire HN page is a performance piece. There is only one commenter who is not in on it.
The Web is Better, Part 2
No good artist cares about their audience.
An unrigged market like Robinhood*
Solid oak was still surprisingly cheap as late as 2018. We picked up a bedroom's worth for $300 or so, and it will last as long the house stands. The installation is more expensive than the material.

I know of at least one New England house with softwood pine floors from the 1850s that still look gorgeous. They needed a serious sanding about 50 years ago, and they have been revarnished a few times the half century since. Give 'em five good coats of varnish every 20 years, and put rugs on the high-traffic walkways, and they'll last for generations.

Meanwhile, linoleum starts looking sketchy after a decade and carpet is just awful.
What is the difference to HippoRAG, which seems to be the same approach but came our earlier?
This is old news, but what's new news is that last week, the UK Civil Aviation Authority openly published its Independent Review of NATS (En Route) Plc's Flight Planning System Failure on 28 August 2023 https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/23337 (PDF)

Let's look at point 2.28: "Several factors made the identification and rectification of the failure more protracted than it might otherwise have been. These include:

• The Level 2 engineer was rostered on-call and therefore was not available on site at the time of the failure. Having exhausted remote intervention options, it took 1.5 hours for the individual to arrive on-site to perform the necessary full system re-start which was not possible remotely.

• The engineer team followed escalation protocols which resulted in the assistance of the Level 3 engineer not being sought for more than 3 hours after the initial event.

• The Level 3 engineer was unfamiliar with the specific fault message recorded in the FPRSA-R fault log and required the assistance of Frequentis Comsoft to interpret it.

• The assistance of Frequentis Comsoft, which had a unique level of knowledge of
the AMS-UK and FPRSA-R interface, was not sought for more than 4 hours after
the initial event.

• The joint decision-making model used by NERL for incident management meant
there was no single post-holder with accountability for overall management of the incident, such as a senior Incident Manager.

• The status of the data within the AMS-UK during the period of the incident was not clearly understood.

• There was a lack of clear documentation identifying system connectivity.

• The password login details of the Level 2 engineer could not be readily verified due to the architecture of the system."

WHAT DOES "PASSWORD LOGIN DETAILS ... COULD NOT BE READILY VERIFIED" MEAN?

EDIT: Per NATS Major Incident Investigation Final Report - Flight Plan Reception Suite Automated (FPRSA-R) Sub-system Incident 28th August 2023 https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/23340 (PDF) ... "There was a 26-minute delay between the AMS-UK system being ready for use and FPRSA-R being enabled. This was in part caused by a password login issue for the Level 2 Engineer. At this point, the system was brought back up on one server, which did not contain the password database. When the engineer entered the correct password, it could not be verified by the server. "
The people have "decided" that they prefer extremely high quality and cost doctors to a high supply of doctors.

Regulation, left unchecked, favors constant indirect damage from shortage to more visible direct harms.

This is why it takes 3000 hours of training to cut someone's hair.
I use a 470s for my personal model and a p16 for work. Perhaps it depends on the previous owner, but yours seems like a one-off situation. In my case, I found a local reseller who sold mostly ex-corporate laptops that were used for a couple of years tops, and the ones they sold were in mint condition. The p16s we buy are brand new though.
I never said I wasn't aware of the faults of the West. I'm not naive enough to think Western culture is anything close to being innocent of crimes (many which are, as you pointed out, documented).

However, I'm simply pointing out that the collectivist culture of these countries in the 20th century was responsible for killing vast swathes of their own populations. My question was, of the documented horrors influenced by Western culture, which do you see as being comparative to this unfathomable death toll?
If using EFS already, how would the pricing / performance compare? Or is that maybe not a use case for regatta storage?
>This reminds of the corporate adage: "You can choose to invest in your people and run the risk that they leave, or you can choose not to invest in your people and run the risk that they stay".

Yes. I've seen it like this in a LinkedIn post:

CFO to CEO: What if we train our people, and they leave?

CEO to CFO: What if we don't train them, and they stay?
Yes until it fails

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978591/google-drive-de...
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=42176047&goto=item%3Fi...
In my last few projects I've made it possible to record inputs and outputs of applications and persist the data to disk. I've written tests that use the recorded inputs and compare the results to the recorded outputs. This meant we could record tests rather than writing them. We also record the results of testing sessions with end users and convert the results into tests.
Tell HN: Amazon Pharmacy 37% Cheaper Than CVS's Insured Price
I just found out that Amazon Pharmacy's price WITHOUT insurance is 37% cheaper than what I pay at CVS WITH insurance! Pretty crazy pricing stuff going on here:

- CVS seems to be artificially jacking up their base prices just to make thier insurance "discounts" look better

- Even after my insurance knocked the price down, CVS is way more expensive than Amazon's regular price

- CVS wont even let you return meds. Their solution? "Just throw it in our medicine disposal bin"

This is probably affecting millions of Americans tbh. The whole thing - inflated prices, confusing insurance stuff, and zero returns - feels like its designed to squeeze money from us. Anyone else dealing with this at other big pharmacy chains? Would love to hear from someone in healthcare/pharmacy about how they justify this pricing. What other options have you guys found besides these traditional pharmacies?
It is not about novelty so much as it is about reasoning from first principles and learning new things.

I don’t need to finetune on five hundred pictures of rabbits to know one. I need one look and then I’ll know for life and can use this in unimaginable and endless variety.

This is a simplistic example which you can naturally pick apart but when you do I’ll provide another such example. My point is, learning at human (or even animal) speeds is definitely not solved and I’d say we are not even attempting that kind of learning yet. There is “in context learning” and “finetuning” and both are not going to result in human level intelligence judging from anything I’ve had access to.

I think you are anthropomorphizing the clever text randomization process. There is a bunch of information being garbled and returned in a semi-legible fashion and you imbue the process behind it with intelligence that I don’t think it has. All these models stumble over simple reasoning unless specifically trained for those specific types of problems. Planning is one particularly famous example.

Time will tell, but I’m not betting on LLMs. I think other forms of AI are needed. Ones that understand substance, modality, time and space and have working memory, not just the illusion of it.
I think OP's objection is that - even granting that a "badness value" can be assigned to headaches and that 3 people with headaches is worse than 2 - there's no clear reason to suppose that 3 is exactly half again as bad as 2. It may be that the function mapping headaches to badness is logarithmic, or even that it asymptotes towards some limit. In mathematical terms it can be both monotonic and bounded.

Thus, when comparing headaches to a man being tortured, there's no clear reason to suppose that there is a number of headaches that is worse than the torture.
Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system
AI poetry indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably
My response is in the context of the parent comment saying that it should be treated like attempted murder, and then the response citing the 20 years of sentence reading to me like it was implying that the crimes were being treated seriously enough. The premise you seem to disagree with was established by previous comments and isn't something I proposed myself.
Swedish telco Telia reports that the undersea internet cable between Sweden and Lithuania was also damaged on Sunday: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2416006/undersea-ca...
immigrating is very hard, smart people would love to stay where they were born.

unfortunately developing countries make it impossible for smart people to stay due to corruption and small market/economy