skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that you can link for example two 'Digits' together (~256 GB) if you want to run even larger models or have larger context size.
That is 2x$3000 vs 8x$2000.

This will make it possible for you to run models up to 405B parameters, like Llama 3.1 405B at 4bit quant or the Grok-1 314B at 6bit quant.

Who knows, maybe some better models will be released in the future which are better optimized and won't need that much RAM, but it is easier to buy a second 'Digits' in comparison to building a rack with 8xGPUs.
For example, if you look at the latest Llama models, Meta states: 'Llama 3.3 70B approaches the performance of Llama 3.1 405B'.

To interfere with Llama3.3-70B-Instruct with ~8k context length (without offloading), you'd need:
- Q4 (~44GB): 2x5090; 1x 'Digits'
- Q6 (~58GB): 2x5090; 1x 'Digits'
- Q8 (~74GB): 3x5090; 1x 'Digits'
- FP16 (~144GB): 5x5090; 2x 'Digits'

Let's wait and see which bandwidth it will have.
> Apparently we can do this, too, and it works.

Works how?

What if the right began killing or indefinitely detaining left wing figures in retribution? How would that work?

Just let this play out in your mind, and ask how much of this sounds like some right wing militia fantasia set in 1995.

BTW I was in OKC in 1995. Thank God it didn't and doesn't work.

"It's not Halloween. Grow up, Peter Pan. Count Chocula."
the numba in your name is convincing me to give this a try! But good idea - I see the point, If I understand you correctly you say with n_cores==10, doing 50 batches that a pool schedules on any free core will reduce the chance of one core taking much longer. I will try this out.
Could be!

Apropos of absolutely nothing, Facebook accounts have proven very easy to hack so that's yet another argument for probably breaking the company up into little pieces
> The only reason the Arab Spring fizzled out was due to directed intelligence and military operations supported by the US and Western regime

Fizzled out due to the same US/Western countries that bombed the pre-existing governments in Libya and Syria?
Nope, wrong cause direction. Do people never become mass killers to get attention? Does giving mass killers more attention, making them famous affect anything, maybe encourage more?

"No" is a reasonable response if you can support it.
Thank God you don't work in GRC (or in the EU).
I'm curious, what did you select, and how is the UX? With OneDrive, it looks like any other folder in your windows/mac computer, and the built in gallery of the Samsung phones my family uses will transparently sync to OneDrive. Other apps on Android can also "directly" access OneDrive files, but that sadly needs support from the app. And it all is available for access online via browser.

My main goal is to prevent data loss if a device is ever stolen / fails beyond repair. And being able to tell your non-technical family members to "put important documents within this folder" / "log in here if you need access outside your normal devices" is low enough of a barrier so that they actually do it.
I guarantee you whatever problems with Canada's single payer healthcare, it kills far fewer people than the US's monstrous system.
The world has changed since then. A lot.
You can't ask a question. And even if you could start a new account, you wouldn't have thousands of rep points to spend on bounties, so the answers won't be as good or quick.
I loved reading this! Not just because some of those games are deeply ingrained in my childhood, but also because the writing itself is exceptional. The structure is strong, there’s no fluff, and it’s still vivid and playful. I loved it.

I also read the author's thoughts on the writing process, and the way he described it closely mirrored how I approach working on music, which was illuminating.

I also loved the article about how software development is a form of knowledge building. Once again, excellent writing!
Don't use absolute numbers here, that's lying with statistics.

The correct metric would be relative turnout and that doesn't support your claim:

> In relative terms, voter turnout nationally in 2024 was 63.9 percent. That is below the 66.6 percent voter turnout recorded in 2020, which was the highest voter turnout rate in a U.S. presidential election since 1900
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, i wrote something similar for an embedded platform. I was implementing a WAP Browser at the time (yes, WAP, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol), and we needed dynamic memory allocation in an environment where everything was static due to realtime constraints.

So i ended up with this : https://github.com/jinie/memmgr
Does this open up the possibility of automating an existing open browser tab? (Instead of a headless or specifically opened instance of chrome?)
Likewise but I've found small melatonin doses (plus reducing caffeine to once per day) to really help me conform to a 24 hour day. Worth trying if you haven't.
Began?
When I hear it nowadays, especially from politicians, it sounds more like another way to say “rising tide lifts all ships.” I think it’s taken on a more jingoistic meaning colloquially.
Are you saying the murder of Brian Thompson is ok, or not?

If it’s ok to murder the CEO of a health insurance company, how about the CTO? How about a director? How about a manager of claims adjusters? How about an adjuster?

How about the CEO of Exxon? How about Twitter? What about a engineering manager of the team who actually implements the parts of these companies you think are evil?

Don’t tell me it can’t happen - if lots of people are on Luigi’s side, there will surely be a lot of diversity among the opinions of his followers. Somebody shot 3 people at the YouTube HQ because the company was biased against veganism.

What’s the limiting principle here? Are you sure you aren’t on the “ok to murder” list?
Not a rave song, not singing about rave culture.
Over-moderation is mostly to blame for this, IMO. Too many questions get closed as a duplicate of an existing question without the mod realizing that the answer to the existing question is obsolete and no longer useful.
How to become a Data Scientist? My journey, overview of skill set, practice tips
I'd guess that most people that responded "somewhat unacceptable" really wanted to say "somewhat acceptable" but without directly admitting that they semi support the act.
It absolutely happened. But people didn't move to open source solutions. They moved to Google docs.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

'California has experienced increasingly severe autumn wildfires over the past several decades, which have exacted a rising human and environmental toll. Recent fire and climate science research has demonstrated a clear link between worsening California wildfires and climate change, mainly though the vegetation-drying effect of rising temperatures and shifting precipitation seasonality.'

https://weatherwest.com/

'Thus, the wildfire risk across much of SoCal will be even greater than the sum of its parts (i.e., the strong winds or dry fuels individually). This is an increasingly prominent concern, as has been previously discussed, with increasing overlap between “offshore wind season” and “critically dry vegetation season” in California---and is something that is expected to happen more often with climate change (especially in Southern California).'
Presumably somebody involved in deciding budgets, a politician perhaps, or somebody with a rather political role in the hospital. Whoever they are, in most cases they're balancing ventilators against test kits or against hiring more doctors or against letting people keep more of their paychecks, or all kinds of other things which might indeed be more important for the patients/citizens/etc...

There's no fundamental reason why they have to be in a position where screwing the people who receive the care would ever be considered the ideal option. But that's how it is when you have a group of shareholders who have no stake in the quality of care. Thompson opted into a conflict of interest which need not exist in order to provide insurance.
The largest power company in CA is in the process of burying its cables.

The risk level is not just affected by proximity to forests. For offshore (Santa Ana) wind events, the riskiest areas are the SW bottom of hills and near canyons. That's where the current LA fires are.

IMO, a better prevention measure would be to not build houses out of sticks. That's already the case for much of the housing in Europe. Alas, here in the US the colonial and cabin aesthetics still win out, even when fire-resistant options aren't more expensive.

Coffey Park in Santa Rosa was destroyed in 2017, and most properties were rebuilt to lower fire-resistance standards.[1] The second little pig just doesn't wanna hear it.

https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/11/19/after-the-tubbs-fire-ho...
Is it a glitch of my memory or has the headline been edited? I thought the policy on HN was to use original headlines.
Yes, with a completely clickbait intro (given he took the site down after the university warned him, which he said later in his post).

To be fair he follows up the first post saying that the university is holding his future registration hostage unless he builds them a similar website:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap...
We used to buy Microsoft MSDN subscriptions, which got us constant upgrades of Visual Studio and other development tools. Those licenses were perpetual - you'd get a disk with e.g. Visual Studio 2007 on it, and you were legally entitled to use that version forever.

IIRC if we didn't think we'd need a new version anytime soon, to reduce costs sometimes we wouldn't purchase MSDN renewals.

I think Microsoft's licensing 20 years ago shows the prevailing view then was that companies wanted the certainty of perpetual licenses.
There are a lot of bad actors in the world, not just the US and Western empires. You can find honest politicians today, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an honest government anywhere.

Solidarity is one of our most important weapons against the degeneration of political systems, and the solidarity of the Arab Spring is what scared multiple governments into suppressing it.

Similarly, Corpgov is not all that scared by the actions of Mangione. What scares them is the public solidarity behind him.
A warning would have been absolutely sufficient, at most a very short term ban but given there was no harm being done currently and the rules weren't even clear no ban is justified.

I am aware of vote fraud and it's ok that SO warns/suspends if one engages in it. In this case it arguably does. However it needs to be a proportionate response to the action, and not done as retaliation.

I'm also a fairly high reputation SO contributor (in current rankings top 150).
Each one explains the scam — book trailers, ghostwriting, book seals and access codes, “relicensing”, etc. High level, they’re each trying to sell nonsense to unsuspecting writers who think they’ve found a publisher for their book.
That's not true. We would still need food for dogs and cats. And even if not, then we could still keep cows around just for the vibes. We don't eat Tule Elk (anymore). It is still around. In fact it is still around precisely because we decided to stop hunting it to extinction.
Although I agree that drunk driving is unacceptable, I doubt those doing it intend on killing someone and thus not what parent is asking.
That's why raves typically cost an entrance fee.
America is a “flawed democracy”: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/21/why-amer...

The path to improving it does not go via vigilante murder.

Some form of immigration control now has majority support. Should people go round executing immigrants because that would be more directly democratic?
Thank you! This is nice, but looks like just Pokémon.
Like you I am highly skeptical of bullish AI narratives, even if AI clearly represents value.

However, your analysis has one flaw. Our biggest corporate customer is unwilling to give testimonials about our (niche) application, because it represents a competitive advantage for them and they don’t want to educate their competitors.

In theory one could imagine similar mechanisms going on in AI.
Lots of heuristics are useful.
I think you're implying that a firing a few people with those nice million-dollar salaries and spending those millions on hospital care would make a significant difference. But the US is a country where a single hospital stay can cost a million dollars.

Fire the highest-paid executive and pay for ten hospital treatments. Fire the next-highest, nine more. At some point you've fired all employees at all insurers, can't pay for lack of employees to do the chores, and even at that point the savings cover only a few of the rejected applications.
But it hasn't.. its just a browser running headless on the server.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
A charitable interpretation of OP's statement would be:

You cannot really use lawfulness as a measure of morality, and this is true now just as much as it was back then.

Or a different take could be: moral progress happens all the time, but the law often lags behind, so the delta between our moral ideas and the law is just as big as it has been in the past.
Worse than that, they change the design and location of the handle every other year, and then replace your toilet paper with 3 sea shells.
Looks intentionally up: https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/data-reporti...
> It’s the same with O365.

If you have a company on O365 and don’t ever need IT support, you either have a very very small company or are living the dream surrounded by unicorns.

Something is broken at least every day or two and I’m on a full MS stack. Hopefully we manage to dump Teams in the near future and this’ll hopefully get significantly better. Teams is the bulk of the issues.
> This is one of the reasons why health care costs have gone through the roof.

I doubt that it has much affect, for two reasons.

1. Looking at graphs of US health care costs over time I don't really see much change in the growth of health care costs during pre-ACA times and post-ACA times.

2. Looking at health care costs of other first world countries, their health care costs over the 50 years have been growing fairly similarly to the way US health care costs having been growing.

This suggests that the reasons for most health care cost increases in the US are neither things we do differently than most other first world countries (e.g. more heavily relying on private for-profit insurance companies) nor any relatively recent changes to how we regulate things.
I hate looking at myself. I hate seeing myself and my dumb face.

I can spend hours upon hours on a Discord call discussion whatever, working on a collaborative project etc. But every second I have to spend on a video call looking at myself drains my soul.

I get it if it's some investor meeting or whatever, but if it's a call for a team where we all know each other, what's the point?
The First Amendement limits what the US Congress/government can do, not what a private person can do.

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I'm surprised these are called "programming language ideas". They seem to be solvable, at least many of them, with libraries. For example, my Haskell effect system Bluefin can be seen as a capability system for Haskell. My database library Opaleye is basically a relational query language for Haskell. Maybe I'm short-sighted but I haven't seen the need for a whole new language to support any of that functionality. In fact one gets huge benefits from implementing such things in an existing language.

* https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bluefin

* https://hackage.haskell.org/package/opaleye
Heating a house through a stove is also inefficient. In terms of heat generation (no heat recapture from the water generated in combustion, let alone the increased effiency when heating with heat pumps) and in terms of distribution (single point emissions, instead of radiators in every (corner of the) room.

It's more efficient to not generate and emit that heat at all but use the energy in your regular home heating system.
I work remotely. Didn't think about these causes before, but they make sense now. Having a separate laptop for Zoom would solve all these at once.

But besides that, I feel like there are more meetings than before. Maybe it's because the bar is lower now that people can join remotely. I would probably be more exhausted if all these were in-person.
Thanks for mentioning Claudette Colvin.
> Consider an irrational number, where the fastest possible algorithm (given a standard Turing machine) to compute its nth digit requires (10^(10^100))*(n+1) operations

There can be no such number. You can always make a Turing machine output initial digits faster by adding some more states to do so.
There’s also one piece: https://onepiece.limitlesstcg.com/tools/proxies
I tend to think many of humanity’s - and, by extension, the entire ecosystem’s - problems arise from overpopulation of homo sapiens. Perhaps the human race should depopulate entirely. Sadly, this won’t happen of its own volition.
Not a glitch! We edited it. But you're slightly mistaken about about the policy. It is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Note that "unless". The second clause is as important as the first!

"The erasure of Luigi Mangione" is a linkbait headline because it drastically inflates the scope of the article. Therefore we changed it, in accordance with the guidelines, using a representative phrase from the article body.
>(or - let's be honest - imagined new rules after the fact)

StackOverflow has been sending that exact email ("the motivation for doing so needs to be anchored in the merits of the post, not the person who wrote it") for at least nine years. It's not a new policy.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/314073/moderator-in...
> so they buy pharmacies and gouge the costs of cheap medicine to make up for the lost profits. Instead of paying $5 for insulin, they make you pay $60, which helps them hit the 80% rule.

Yah, that's not really true. Sure if they can increase healthcare costs, then they can increase premiums, but that also makes them less competitive.

But the bigger reason it's not true is that insurance companies don't set the reimbursement rate for drugs in the first places. Instead that's set by PBM's, which are separate companies. Insurance companies hate PBM's because the PBM's prevent the insurance companies from doing exactly like you describe.

(This hate translates into a lot of badmouthing which I'm sure you'll find if you lookup PBM's. They get called "middlemen" who take money and don't provide a service - this is just propaganda by insurance companies.)

The whole hero worship of Luigi is based on a complete misunderstanding of who actually causes healthcare costs to be high. It's not insurance companies or PBM's! It's actually Dr's and hospitals.

It's not trendy to hate those though.
Have you tried upvoting, or favouriting a post on mobile? It’s borderline impossible without zooming in like crazy, and I still have to check it I saved or accidentally flagged someone’s work.
I got very positive feedback from students preparing for high school keystone exams (given that it can generate questions from a given online resource / PDF) so I'm pretty happy about that!
Ask HN: Is HN experiencing some kind of timestamp corruption?
For example, this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602062

Its timestamp is 2025-01-05, which is several days ago. But it's in the front page of mine, and it shows "12 hours ago".
LOL, that'll certainly be a first!

Let's suppose you're right, and somehow we are stuck with an American President with such a fragile ego that they can be goaded into spending almost all their time and political-capital on a crazy quest to convince Congress, the military, and the citizenry to invade Canada or Greenland.

That's a good outcome. It means the unstable incompetent is kept busy and away from harming Americans in easier ways.
> Rather than sneaking an extra $5 a month, perhaps Microsoft should focus its efforts on making Copilot valuable enough that its customers will actually be willing to pay for it.

Someone at MS with a sleek haircut will hold a PPT demonstrating how both Copilot usage and subscription income went up.
Key-Value Memory in the Brain
Do you think the ruling class wanted Trump elected?
>Even e.g. a cargo 747 has ~750 m3 (=~200k gal h2o) of cargo space, but 112000 kg (=~30k gal h2o) of payload, so one could only fill ~1/6 of the cargo volume with water.

yep. Yet they still have to push through the air and have the mass and the cost of the plane for that unnecessary 6x volume. That is because the plane is retrofitted instead of having been built for the purpose of carrying high density payload. (also that 6x larger than needed volume makes those retrofitted planes much more susceptible to the high wind gusts, etc. which almost always an issue with those fires)

CA has C-130 water tankers with 20 ton payload (16 ton is the water itself). Total capacity of C-130 when used as fuel tanker - ie. when its own fuel and payload combined - is 30 ton. Empty it is 35 ton, max - 70 tons, and cost $60M+.

Taking a real cheap large drone as an example to have real base numbers to work with - German V1 (pulsejet doesn't matter, the piston engine of course would be the way to go here as we don't need jet speed) - 2.2 ton total weight with 0.5 ton fuel and 0.85 ton payload. The ratio of fuel plus payload to weight is already better than C-130's (at that ratio the C-130 would have to carry 35 ton payload instead of its current 20 and 20 ton fuel instead of its current 10), and with piston engine of the same weight as the pulsejet we'd get even larger thrust - i.e can get even higher payload ratio - while using much less fuel (the pulsejet had atrocious efficiency).

So, it would take 15 drones of that size for one C-130. These drones are much simpler and easier to build and thus cheaper than even small Cesna, thus 15 of them would be at least ~10x cheaper than one C-130.

Dropping 15 loads of 1+ ton water instead of one 16 ton load seems to be better in most cases as the fire line isn't a straight line, and the large plane like C-130 has to maneuver, etc. while flying low over the fire and being subjected to the fire draft, wind gusts, etc.

The 15 drones can drop those 15 loads of 1 ton using dive-bomber style - impossible for C-130 or any other air tanker currently in use - thus avoiding that prolonged horizontal low-flying over fire and thus having much less risk/danger form the wind gusts, etc.
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Having a micro sized detachable BT keyboard would be amazing, but it would still need to charge somehow.

It seems like the whole point is that it's one integrated piece you can slip in a pocket, not a collection of hacker gadgets with separate chargers and USB cables you have to be careful about.
The followup is a bold claim with no receipts. He should share the uni's letter otherwise I won't believe it.

What might have happened is that UW offered that he could keep the website up if he changed the project in such a way a way that the university is happy with it.

We don't know how much escalation has happened already, maybe he gave grounds for UW to not give him the account back because he has indicated he wouldn't back down and try to find a way to get his project to work nonetheless.