skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the definition:

> a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.

Is the money a donation? WTF are you talking about?
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The US government does most of the hard work on medicine. Pharma takes over from there. It's quite literally privatizing the successes and tax payer funded failures.
Not sure why you are downvoted. The title is indeed misleading. It literally says "totaled more than a quarter-million dollars". Sorry, but the "total" should include discounts induced by out-of-pocket maximum, which was 7,200 in this case[1]. "total" should also include discounts negotiated by the insurer with the hospitals, which will be a lower cost than the title implies. Sensationalist headline indeed, to pray on "murican healthcare silly... hahaha" biases.

[1] afterwards, the article says they got an additional bill of 11,200 but not sure if they paid it or negotiated something else.
I seem to have dropped through a wall while taking an elevator on the elevation level, it keeps respawning me in the void, so that was a game over =)
Took a brief look at the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
> this is a non-story

Oh good grief. It is NOT a non-story. It should NEVER HAPPEN AT ALL.

But, sure, let's just keep normalizing this instead of fixing it.
And I feel like it's important to expand on the fact that Cookies are visible to JS by default as well, except if the Cookie has the `HttpOnly` attribute set. Obviously, for auth, you absolutely want the session cookie to have both the `Secure` and `HttpOnly` attributes.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies#bl...
second question - does it/will it cost like $500 per 1kg spool?
I considered adding "the rest of the world (or what I know of it)", but that is kind of implied, as no single person can plausibly have knowledge of life in every single place in the world.

I lived in a few different places in Europe, and while the underlying desires that power materialism might be the same as in the US/Canada, I would very strongly argue that the practical manifestation of those desires is still at least an order of magnitude lower. Or in other words: middle-class Americans have much easier and cheaper access to industrialized goods, not to mention large housing, than most of their EU counterparts.
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I'
m not sure how they make it back. The guardrails in place are extremely strict. The only people who seem to use it are a subset of developers who are unhappy with OpenAI. With Bard popping up free everywhere taking away much of the general user crowd and OpenAI offering the mini model always free and limited image generation / expensive model. Then you have to do it yourself crowd with llama. What is their target market? Governments? Amazon companies?There free their offers 10 queries and half of them need to be used to get around filters I don't see this positioned well for general customers.
So basically I pay you with crypto, and you buy the stuff for me with fiat? With no privacy policy, napkin for terms and conditions, basically "trust me bro"? I really don't want to sound hostile, but you are asking for a lot of trust...

Would you personally use this service in its current form, if not you, but I made it?
And still the headline is silly. 18,500 total is far less than what "totaled more than a quarter-million dollars" implies.
There's a glitch in the velocity level. My marble keeps respawing and the game is stuck in a refresh loop
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Maybe it's possible but i can't i seem to think of an energy harvesting Method that would fit that system without direct sunlight.
Australia has a substantial amount of battery storage in the pipeline to replace the coal, and solar potential far beyond their continent's electrical consumption needs.

https://openelectricity.org.au/ (formerly OpenNEM)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40808618 ("HN: Australia electricity grid with 100% renewables and 120GWh batteries")

https://x.com/DavidOsmond8/status/1803297472057581977 | https://archive.today/wpk78 ("Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: last week: 81.4% RE | last 147 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)")

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/australia... | https://archive.today/z5t0a ("Bloomberg: Australia Sees Key Role for Batteries as Coal-Fired Plants Close")

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/end-of-co... | https://archive.today/2owbd ("Australia’s rapid shift from coal-fired power to cleaner alternatives is underwriting a boom in battery projects able to store solar and wind energy. The country has at least 250 planned battery developments with a potential capacity of almost 130,000 megawatt-hours, a pipeline that’s second only to China, data compiled by BloombergNEF show. While Australia still relies on coal for more than half of its electricity generation, many major plants are set to close in the next decade.")

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/24/australia-has-7-8-gw-... ("PV Magazine: Australia has 7.8 GW of utility-scale batteries under construction")

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/energy/resources/oth... ("Australia receives an average of 58 million PJ of solar radiation per year, approximately 10,000 times larger than its total energy consumption. However, Australia's current use of solar energy is low with solar energy accounting for only about 0.1 per cent of Australia's total primary energy consumption.")
I was born in Washington state, raised here, and currently farm in Eastern Washington.

Every single farmer and person I know wants more dams and more irrigation.

I have never met a Republican who supports dam removal.
The Philippine army is recruiting young tech civilians to fight cyber attacks
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Because that’s not what happens? We learn through symbolic meaning and rules which then form a consistent system. Then we can have a goal and continuously evaluate if we’re within the system and transitionning towards that goal. The nice thing is that we don’t have to compute the whole simulation in our brains and can start again from the real world. The more you train, the better your heuristics become and the more your efficiency increases.

The internal model of a LLM is statistical text. Which is linear and fixed. Not great other than generating text similar to what was ingested.
Feds release options for Colorado River as negotiations between states stall
The singular of ‘maxima’ is ‘maximum’.
One hand washes the other.
> our soul

Is there any empirical test for such things?
Monopolies are bad for us. It's as simple as that really.

> It does feel a bit like being punished for success.

Nobody is being punished. Punishment would be like "you're going to prison because the thing you started turned into a monopoly". That's not what is happening. It's more like "whoops, you created a monopoly, time to reset, but you get to keep everything you reaped so far".
On the last level I ran into one of the raised blocks and tunneled into the cubes. I could still roll around inside, lol, but there was no way out.
All by itself, meaning playing against itself...

Interestingly, Bobby Fischer did it in the same way. Maybe AlphaZero also hates chess ? :-)
No they won't. Your example is way more unpleasant to read.
related coverage

- https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-trainium

- https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-invests-addition...

- https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/anthropic-raises-an-additi...
Can this playlist based on the book be a good substitute for the book?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtctCyd0rs&list=PLWEiAJhCw-...
I understand now. Sorry for being slow to get it.

>Fat-free Mass (FFM) Encompasses all of the body's non-fat tissues, including the skeleton, water, muscle, connective tissue, and organ tissues.
Thanks for sharing, good stuff.
> Very fast (faster than naive assembler)

Every Forth that uses conventional threaded-code interpretation pays a considerable performance penalty, execution times are likely to be very roughly quadruple the equivalent assembly. [0]

Forth's runtime performance can be competitive with C if 'proper' compilation is performed, though. [1]

[0] https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/

[1] (.fth file with their results in comments) http://www.mpeforth.com/arena/benchmrk.fth
Yes exactly.

This was the brilliance of the original MSFT investment into OpenAI. It was an investment in Azure scaling its AI training infra, but roundabout through a massive customer (exactly what you’d want as a design partner) and getting equity.

I’m sure Anthropic negotiated a great deal on their largest cost center, while Amazon gets a huge customer to build out their system with.
I don't really follow what you're saying here. I understand that the use of language in the real-world world is not sampled from a stationary distribution, but it also seems plausible that you could relax that assumption in an LLM, e.g. conditioning the distribution on time, and then intra-distribution generalization would still make sense to study how well the LLM works for held-out test samples.

Intra-distribution generalization seems like the only rigorously defined kind of generalization we have. Can you provide any references that describe this other kind of generalization? I'd love to learn more.
I learned of a cute side effect when one puts the function name on its own line, like above.

In BSD of yore and modern contemporaries, one could often perform `grep '^function'` and end up finding the source file quite easily. I think it also makes using ctags(1) a bit easier too, but not entirely sure on that bit.
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'An AI Fukushima is inevitable'
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I would also recommend the "Radiooooo" website/app. You pick a country and a decade, and it plays songs. Great way to discover new old music.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/anthropic-raises-an-additi...

> "This new CASH infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion while maintaining the tech giant’s position as a minority investor, Anthropic said."
Quite a decent write-up I think.

Yes, we should be overbuilding solar and wind because not using some is cheaper than trying to deal with not having enough.

The GB NESO grid recommendation for 2030 is approximately 50GW offshore wind, 50GW solar PV, 25GW of onshore wind, 25GW of battery. Typical peak demand is currently around 40GW (summer) to 60GW+ (winter).
This works better because it gives a secondary set of conditions for which the decoder (generating text) is conditioning its generation. Assume instead of their demo you are doing Speech2Text for Oncologists. Out of the Box Whisper is terrible because the words are new and rare, especially in YouTube videos. If you just run ASR through it and run NER, it will generate regular words over cancer names. Instead, if you condition generation on topical entities the generation space is constrained and performance will improve. Especially when you can tell the model what all the drug names are because you have a list (https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drug...)
Hell yeah!! Dizzy K and William Onyeabor are big favorites of mine.
Claude api use is already as high as openai. I believe that market will grow far more over time than chat as AI gets embedded in more of the applications we already use.
Figure 4 is showing both things. Yes, there is manipulation of the state but they also clearly show what the predicted board state is before any manipulations (alongside the actual board state)
If that was true, then it should be a slam dunk for a party to win elections on reducing the cost of medicine by obviating pharmaceutical companies, the businesses with the highest or second highest profit margin in the healthcare delivery chain. I assume healthcare software (like Epic) perhaps has higher profit margins.

However, I suspect the reality is that the clinical trials cost a ton of money and politicians don’t want to be associated with the failures.
What are you trying to say with this? That everyone should bother to daily drive a semi-truck and a Panamax-sized shipping vessel to live in solidarity with those who drive trucks and operate giant ships for a living? That truck drivers are the new deietys we should bow down to for every bite of food we eat?

What exactly is your point?
Go ahead and vote me down for abdicating for your better treatment. You can have true, real net neutrality without keeping competition out of it. But every vote down just tells me you love the colluding Comcast's and AT&T's customer service and prices.

I have a small internet company near me. Excellent service, lightning fast internet, a decent price. They have a limited number of available static IP numbers that can be granted to customers, I pay for one because I host a server for my needs, few customers actually need this feature. Under one of the first 20 rules (2015), they would have to provide total and equal service across the board to all customers. Innocent looking on paper, but impossible for the this small company to do realistically.

Another rule I recall (9 years ago, may be off a bit on this one) required a method for any government body or customer to call up and view a full summery of data usage at whim by logging into their account. This requires an incredibly costly and unrealistic implementation for a burgeoning company.

The point is that, taken alone, these rules seem altruistic and with good intent but when you imagine the requirements of hundreds of them, it is IMPOSSIBLE for new competitors to break into the field. The big boys already collecting your fees monthly can easily afford any thing being arbitrarily required.

That company of mine got bought out by the way. One of the big 4 bought them, it was a good 5 years. But we are going back to one choice of ISP in my area again. I fully expect the customers service to go to absolute shit and the cost monthly to slowly begin to rise.
You could always talk to the list owner.

Re childish: I'm sure the tracking services that find themselves on the various ad block lists used by uBlock Origin etc. feel the same way.
Hmm, I guess that mostly makes sense.

If a user has to call into your keyserver to get a key before they can start a conversation with a new friend, as you're the sole authority who can decrypt the Merkle tree entries - does that introduce any problems?

And how will you authenticate shredding requests? Does that just happen out-of-band?
> That you can write a "compute shader" once, and it will run "anywhere."

Can you post a link to that quote? What exactly are you quoting?
A more sensibly formulated question would be "What is your estimation of probability that some UFO's (or UAP's) are technological objects created by a non-human intelligence?".
What about that statement sounds biased to you?

To my ears, that is a plain spoken description of the culture of the area, compatible with what I have observed myself over the years.
Everyone, every last one of us, does this every single day, all day, and only occasionally do we deviate to check ourselves, and often then it's to save face.

A Nobel prize was given for related research to Daniel Kahneman.

If you think it doesn't apply to you, you're definitely wrong.
This explanation makes no sense, I could be AWS' biggest customer if they wanted to pay me for it. Something a little closer could be that the big tech companies wanted to acquire outside LLMs, not quite realizing that spending $1B on training only puts you $1B ahead.
> Making some illegal moves doesn’t invalidate the demonstrated situational logic intelligence

That’s exactly what it does. 1 illegal move in 1 million or 100 million or any other sample size you want to choose means it doesn’t understand chess.

People in this thread are really distracted by the medical analogy so I’ll offer another: you’ve got a bridge that allows millions of vehicles to cross, and randomly falls down if you tickle it wrong, maybe a car of rare color. One key aspect of bridges is that they work reliably for any vehicle, and once they fail they don’t work with any vehicle. A bridge that sometimes fails and sometimes doesn’t isn’t a bridge as much as a death trap.
Anthropic gets a lot of it's business via AWS Bedrock so it's fair to say that Amazon probably has reasonable insight into how the Claude usage is growing that makes them confident in this investment
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With Claude on Bedrock I can use LLMs in production without sending customer data to the US. And if you're already on AWS it's super easy to onboard wrt. auth and billing and compliance.
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Great move. The value to easily deploying content, code, anything digital to AWS is immense.
Are you building something in biology with AI (Using LLMs to detect incongruence between phylogenies???) or the other way round (generating artificial phylogenic trees for training LLMs)?
Did they end up putting sound baffles to eliminate the echo?
Claude is the best model for programming. New generation of code tools like Cursor all use Claude as the main model.
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I am not privy to specific details, but in general there is a difference between investment and partnership. If it's literally an investment, it can either be in cash or in kind, where in kind can be like what MSFT did for OpenAI, essentially giving them unlimited-ish ($10b) Azure credits for training ... but there was quid pro quo where MSFT in turn agreed to embed/extend OpenAI in Azure services.

If it's a partnership investment, there may be both money & in-kind components, but the money won't be in the context of fractional ownership. Rather it would be partner development funds of various flavors, which are usually tied to consumption commits as well as GTM targets.

Sometimes in reading press releases or third party articles it's difficult to determine exactly what kind of relationship the ISV has with the CSP.
You haven't mentioned which hard skills you've already mastered.

* Abstract reasoning - everything in programming is abstraction

* Critical thinking - is the first way you've thought of to solve something actually an optimal way? how could you improve it?

* Problem decomposition - solve large problems by breaking them down into smaller component problems

* Multiprocessing/multithreading and IPC - at some point one process/thread isn't enough

* Networking fundamentals - may not contribute directly to better programming per se but will for sure help with debugging/troubleshooting
Morality is what keeps one race of people from enslaving other folks; keeps someone from robbing or killing another, and many other negative attitudes and behaviors. We human beings are the only moral creatures around here, being able to learn from our mistakes, evaluate the results of our actions, and change how we go about things. This world absolutely needs more moralizing, not less, but not self-righteous I'm-better-than-you kinds of pompous bullsh_t, but just results-based, impartial discussion of what the best outcomes are and what the best methods are to achieving them.

Regarding parenting, one has to find the middle way, being neither abusive nor too slack.

The important thing to understand is that children are intrinsically selfish, and that we have to teach them empathy and kindness, and -- most importantly -- that they have selfish impulses they must resist, in order for the society as a whole to function its best.

No, most people do not have the level of understanding about human nature to properly educate their children. Not having learned how to live, parents are now doing their best, but have failed to question the inertia of our world techno culture, that is overlaid on their native age-old culture. And now we see how negatively social media via smart phones has affected our children (and parents, too, seems to me).

It is the blind leading the blind, but anyone with material wealth is so very cocksure that they know best. "Might makes right" and "wealth means intelligence" are the maxims of the day, yet both are leading us to less and less desirable outcomes.

As Jamiroquai's Jay Kay said in Virtual Insanity, "I think it's time to find a new religion." That new religion requires skepticism about our societal/cultural inertias, and being open to new ideas about community and the role of compassion in all our doings, our doings' effects, and the intentions behind those doings.
John Lennon was also quite a horrible husband to Cynthia.
What's the difference between trainium and the AWS bedrock offering?
Yes but Amazon is not making extra money with you being their biggest customer

With Anthropic yes
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I think the trend of gift bags comes from a good place. Parents saw that when the birthday kid gets everything, it's easy for that to become a lesson in selfishness and Main Character Syndrome. Having the birthday kid also give gifts to the guests helps make it feel like a shared experience where everyone is important.

The plastic junk is just collateral damage.
Dostoyevsky wrote the most boring unpalatable stuff i had the misfortunate to read in school. Nabokov’s assessment was 100% correct.
`-eq` is for arithmetic comparison; `=` is for string comparison. They don't do the same thing, and it's unsound to uniformly replace either with the other.

The dangerous thing here is that an undefined number of contexts exist where Bash treats strings as arithmetic expressions, which can contain arbitrary code despite not being quoted for expansion. `-eq` is just one example of that; others have linked other examples.

(This is all for case #1. With case #2, `[` and `test` are also susceptible so long as their builtin variants are used.)
This makes sense in the grand scheme of things.
Anthropic used to be in the Google camp, but DeepMind seems to have picked up speed lately, with new “Experimental” Gemini Models beating everyone, while AWS doesn't have anything on the cutting edge of AI.

Hopefully this helps Anthropic to fix their abysmal rate limits.
I agree. I feel like this story specifically illustrates how much time, labor, and knowledge you need to have to fix a "modern" appliance. Not only basic mechanical and electrical understanding, but having to troubleshoot the combination of circuit board and software problems puts this well out of the realm of most people. I sacrifice features for more repairability in several of my appliances (Speed Queen washer dryer, Dualit toaster, Kitchenaid mixer, etc) but that takes money, and just isn’t a realistic option for all things.

How many hours of labor did he spend testing, researching, retesting, ordering parts, trying something new, etc. all without a working washer? If that is something you enjoy and take pride in, that is one thing. But as a pure utility proposition for most people, it is way more expensive to rip apart complex machines for the possibility of being able to repair them.
The Guardrails on Claude Sonnet 3.5 API are not stricter than Openai's guardrails in my experience. More specifically, if you access the models via API or third party services like Poe or Perplexity the guardrails are not stricter than GPT4o. I've never subscribed to Claude.ai so can't comment on that.

I have no experience with Claud.ai vs ChatGPT but it's clear the underlying model has no issue with guardrails and this is simply an easily tweaked developer setting if you are correct that they are stricter on Claude.ai.

(The old Claude 2.1 was hilariously unwilling to follow reasonable user instructions due to "ethics" but they've come a long way since then.)