skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IV fluids aren't even difficult to produce compared to gum arabic, its just different salts in water. This is just pure government regulation causing rationing and harming people.

For those downvoting me, here's the American Medical Association:

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/fixin...

> The Biden administration has invoked the Defense Production Act “to help speed up recovery efforts and get that North Cove plant back up and running,” Garcia noted. Hospitals, meanwhile, are turning to alternative options such as hydration tablets and sports drinks while prioritizing IV fluids for the higher-acuity and higher-risk patients.

> The FDA, meanwhile, has “released new guidance that eases up on rules regarding the compounding of IV solutions,” she added. “That's to make it easier for hospitals and other facilities to do this during the shortage period.”

NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-helene-iv-fl...:

> So, why are these essential fluids — a lifeline for hospitals — so hard to come by?

> As is often the case with drug shortages, it comes down to money, and IV fluids don’t bring in much of it for manufacturers, said Erin Fox, senior pharmacy director at the University of Utah Health.

> “These are life-saving products, but at the same time these are absolutely treated as kind of commodities,” Fox said.

> The high barrier to entry — including the time and cost required to meet the regulatory requirements for setting up a manufacturing facility — along with the pressure to keep prices low, means drugmakers aren’t really motivated to jump into the market, Fox said.

NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/11/nx...

> On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it has authorized 19 IV products for temporary importation from Canada, China, Ireland and the U.K.
State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program
90% of /r/conservative's posts only allow flaired users (verified conservatives). There is an ongoing foodfight about verified users expressing neocon ideas like supporting Ukraine.

I don't have any recent information on pre-emptive bans, but years ago /r/conservative had a particular mod (I won't name) who did just that.
Colormaxxing
Anhydrous isn't common here, so the only way I've seen it applied is with shanks that cut everything up to inject high rates maybe not even annually.

So how would farmers familiar with anhydrous use "A box that makes 330lbs of ammonia a day"? Treat an acre a day? Apply a 1/300th rate and do 300 applications a year? Maintain a high-pressure 100,000lb tank of ammonia slowly being drip-filled until they need it all in fall? Buy 50 sea-cans and leave them shut off for 51 weeks a year?
Do you only ever travel by car? Serious question.
If anyone knows people in this project, here is another project that goes hand in hand with this. Please forward them this, I think these could be a fixture in the cities if the farmers are willing to collect the urine. it's the dutch portable urinals. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portable-toilet-Neth... These can be bought from alibaba.
There have been some, let's say, 'interesting' attempts to recreate the species via back-breeding [0]. They seem to be having some success.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nazi-super-cows-e...
> That was the last Brother color printer I'll buy

What are the alternatives then? Brother is often cited as the brand that is the most tolerant of generic consumables and with the least anti-consumer practices. But now that even Brother plays this game...
3.5 - 4.5 tokens/s on the $2,000 AMD Epyc setup. Deepseek 671b q4.

The AMD Epyc build is severely bandwidth and compute constrained.

~40 tokens/s on M3 Ultra 512GB by my calculation.
www.udm14.com
Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
And owns the Murdoch media empire?
> Why is there no competition here?

Mobile. A lot of games I played as a kid have mobile apps, and in some cases, I don't know if its the case for all of them, the userbase is mostly on their phones. I can only imagine this is the case for a lot of things.
The problem with having such a specific, prescriptive formula for success is that it never actually works out that way. Sure, there are high-level principles, the PostHog team executes brilliantly, and I love the product, but I think we're really bad at connecting the dots on what actually made something successful. Instead, we assign credit to random things just to make it all make sense. A lot of times, it's the equivalent of saying, "Bill Gates eats this cereal for breakfast, so if I do that, I should become a billionaire too."
Russian agent implies he's employed by the Russians and I don't think that is true. They do seem to have a lot of influence on him though. Grok gives him a 75-85% likelihood he is a compromised asset https://x.com/i/grok/share/WQepvCpIJl2EJ0F7tHNbLAhm6
how is it easy to ignore? it occupies the space previously used by the top 3 search results
> I like to track each separately. Which means I then need to fetch and analyze the receipts.

That is a reality. To make my life easier, when I check out at a store, I put all my grocery items first on the belt. Then everything else. Usually "everything else" is only a few items. So I categorize those additional items, and then specify "Groceries" for the rest.

Often I buy only groceries, and I throw those receipts away. When I'm in a ledger/beancount session, if I don't have a receipt, that means it was just Groceries.

This method alone really reduced my time dealing with receipts.
It isn't depending on what "web browsing" someone is doing, which can be a pretty wide range now.

1 persons "web browsing" is no browser extensions, a couple of gmail tabs, some light blog reading, and maybe something as heavy as reddit.

While another persons "web browsing" is running multiple browser extensions like grammerly, adblocker, etc. Along with a bunch of gmail tabs, plus a bunch of heavy "web apps"(think: miro, monday.com, google workspace/office365, photoshop online) and then throw 10s-100s of tabs of "research" on top of that.

8gb is quickly becoming unworkable for people that fall closer to the latter group.
Most people aren't willing to pay for content, and it's harder to target ads, or you're not showing ads at the right time.
In a dual-socket EPYC system, the memory bandwidth is higher than in this Apple system by 40% (i.e. 1152 GB/s), and the memory capacity can be many times higher.

Like another poster said, 768 GB of ECC RDIMM DDR5-6000 costs around $5000.

Any program whose performance is limited by memory bandwidth, as it can be frequently the case for inference, will run significantly faster in such an EPYC server than in the Apple system, even when running on the CPU.

Even for computationally-limited programs, the difference between server CPUs and consumer GPUs is not great. One Epyc CPU may have about the same number of FP32 execution units as an RTX 4070, while running at a higher clock frequency (but it lacks the tensor units of an NVIDIA GPU, which can greatly accelerate the execution, where applicable).
Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not get made"
if you do write something, please seperate enterprise, developer, end user, embedded/RT because they all have different requirements.
Going 60hz → 120hz: "Meh, I guess it's smoother? Whatever..."

Going 120hz → 60hz: "WTF? Why is it so choppy? Am I accidentally in low battery mode?"

It's similar to going back to non-retina displays after getting used to retina resolution.
I have absolutely no problem paying a premium for an upgraded display. The problem is that Apple does not offer that option for the MacBook Air.

The MacBook Pro has an amazing screen, which is why I bought the MBP. But the MBP compromises increased weight (which I don’t want) in exchange for more performance (that I simply don’t need). And we know this compromise is not needed to host a better display, as evidenced by the existence of the iPad Pro.

Don’t get me wrong, the MacBook Pro is a fantastic product and I don’t regret buying it. It just feels like a huge missed opportunity on Apple’s part that their only ultra-lightweight laptop is so far behind in display tech vs their other non-laptop products (like the iPad Pro which is lighter still, just crippled due to iOS limitations).

I would gladly pay even more than the price of my MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air with a screen on par with the iPad Pro or MacBook Pro. Or even for an iPad Pro that runs OSX!
In every 20-year-old search engine, there are code fragments that ask themselves: What happened?
@tetromino_ is expressing a prior that women are sent dick pics more frequently than men.

From that they infer that women might actually like a feature that blurs out dicks automatically (at least, more than men would).

From that they infer that your expressed dislike of that feature means it's likely you're a man.

From that they infer that you're not used to thinking like a woman, and encourage you to try doing that to see if you think it makes Google's actions make more sense.

(now, the real question - did I get "whooosh"ed, or did you?)

EDIT: To be honest, I don't particularly like the sarcasm of @tetromino_'s comment and I don't think your original comment deserved a response like that. But seeing two responses apparently totally miss @tetromino_'s point was too much for me to ignore.
Public once, public always. There's no going back
Is this on chip memory? From the 800GB/s I would guess more likely a 512bit bus (8 channel) to DDR5 modules. Doing it on a quad channel would just about be possible, but really be pushing the envelope. Still a nice thing.

As for practicality, which mainstream applications would benefit from this much memory paired with a nice but relative mid compute? At this price-point (14K for a full specced system), would you prefer it over e.g. a couple of NVIDIA project DIGITS (assuming that arrives on time and for around the announced the 3K price-point)?
Honestly, it doesn’t matter how good or bad an AI is at its performance if someone wants to use it as a replacement for a person.

The goal shouldn’t be to say that AI sucks (it doesn’t), or that it can never beat humans (it can or will). The goal should be to create governance structures which favor the kind of things you want to have in society. The original social contract (one where humans cooperated) ensured mutual benefits, and that social contract doesn’t exist under a condition someone believes you don’t provide any benefit. No one owes anyone a job or employment, or provisions to exist beyond basic human rights (and even there we disagree what “basic” human rights entail).

In a reasonable society and world, such philosophical differences require a mass migration of people to places where they can have the kind of life that they’re comfortable living from places where they will struggle. Such places may even be pre-civilization, or medieval, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The practical considerations which limit this kind of activity are resource limitations, and the ability to trade with others. But I’ve always failed to understand how resources can be limited in a boundless universe.
For decode, MoE is nice for either bs=1 (decoding for a single user), or bs=<very large> (do EP to efficiently serve a large amount of users).

Anything in between suffers.
That's insulting while also lacking any arguments. Good job.
Biosphere Experience
Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash
If you don't travel from your house with it I understand your confusion, the weight is a factor when traveling. I never have back pain, but when I do, its because I'm carrying a heavy laptop around on my back.
What, you're saying the secret to success isn't just coming up with cool brand name that ends in -ify or -ly in that era?
The Mac Mini M2.
If it's not wrong -- which as we've all seen, it evidently isn't -- then what difference does it make who says it?
It might blow your mind that you can run a quantized DeepSeek-R1 (671B) at over 15 t/s on an M2 Ultra 192GB and still get around 9000 context.
That was just an example, not strictly what I was there for. I just pointed it out to the dean as something that was always mentioned, but glanced over like "ew, this doesn't matter so much".

It, in fact, ended up mattering a lot.
What 8K TVs are the best ?

Definitely go with Acme, they're our highest paying^W^W best performer in this segment.
You'll get ads on any videos you search for, too:

"For Premium Lite, ads may appear on music content, Shorts, and when you search or browse"

(although I'm wondering if it means the ads between video thumbnails...)
You'll need a couple of 32GB 5090s to run a quantized 70B model, maybe 4 to run a 70b model without quantization, forget about anything larger than that. A huge model might run slow on a M3 Ultra, but at least you can run it all.

I have a Max M3 (the non-binned one), and I feel like 64GB or 96GB is within the realm of enabling LLMs that run reasonable fast on it (it is also a laptop, so I can do things on planes or trips). I thought about the Ultra, if you have 128GB for a top line M3 Ultra, the models that you could fit into memory would run fairly fast. For 512GB, you could run the bigger models, but not very quickly, so maybe not much point (at least for my use cases).
With Severence specifically, it’s a “mystery box” type show, where we don’t really know much about the world and its history. Keeping the tech unrecognizably retro futuristic helps maintain that ambiguity of time and place.

Personally I love the aesthetics of the tech. Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
But also just think of all the useful software that hasn't been written by people sitting around thinking about all the useful software that could be written.

I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a decent sized list of this.

I'll start-- off the top of my head I remember a post from Mike Hearn about starting the web from scratch using a format that announces the size of the incoming message rather than making the recipient check for terminator(s).

There must be a dozen dozen such thoughts-without-software of "the web, but good" on here.

If we have a list then you could plug it in to a script and have a spit out a random set, and then you could focus specifically on those.

Anyway, I'm thinking it should be stored and maintained as a quine...
If I may suggest something crazy: Try Bing for a month. You can turn off most of the crap.

Backstory: I've been a Google user since it was in beta, having moved from AltaVista. A few months ago, I decided I wanted to try something different in an ongoing effort to reduce my Google footprint. Kagi is the obvious alternative, but they don't have the right plan for me — if their no-AI plan offered unlimited searches, I'd be using it. As an experiment, I set Bing as my default search engine, and it's been fine. You can turn off the front page "tabloid" crap, and also Copilot responses on result pages.
TSMC's NT$3.29T investment in US would only account for 5-7% of output
> because by its very nature it bypasses most of the ads.

for now.
Oliver's Army - A next-gen social network to kill the dead internet theory.
Hi,

We built this over the course the last 4 months. We hated misinformation, we hated bots, we hated loneliness, we hated corporate infiltration, we hated the destruction of our kids' mental health.
Read our Declaration of Principles here: https://www.olivers.army/declaration

Requester Mode -> Create and activate Requests to be sent and seen by anyone in "Responder Mode"

Responder Mode -> Respond to active Requests that get sent your way. You can filter requests by maturity, creativity and some safety stuff. More clever filters in future.

Observation Deck -> Watch the most interesting conversations happen. We're still building this.

We wanted an operating system type feel. We went with window management as we thought this was the most intuitive.

We're running with this tagline for now: "A next-generation social platform that connects people through real time conversations." but we think it's corny and want a new one; suggestions welcome.

Have a great Wednesday HN! It's a privilege to be here. -Brandon
That's kind of the thing, though, isn't it? It can explain a robust strategy, but it can't play it. That's really different from human intelligence, to the point where it seems reasonable to claim that the LLM doesn't really understand what it's saying.
Just tried ProMotion vs. 60Hz on MBP, no/very little difference I can see. Sure it's just me but for me all the claims here are way exaggerated/psychological, almost like audiophiles being able to "hear" stuff that doesn't exist in a blind test.
What if we just didn't decompress it?
How push-down compute helps Vortex run faster and decompress less
That tiny proportion fits nicely into conceptually anti-Apple
> The revolutionary war was considered to be an unwinnable war - France bankrupted itself to provide support and didn't demand $500b in minerals in return.

I think support for Ukraine is critical, but, given how that turned out for the French regime involved, this is perhaps the worst possible argument to deploy.
I would like to meet the "power users" who asked for more of this. Enshittification marches on.
> At first, the local government in Beijing fervently opposed the initiative. At one point, the Chinese deputy minister of environmental protection publicly called the American air quality readings unlawful and said the US was “intervening in China's domestic affairs.”

"Say the line, Bart!"
The only problem is that "logical correctness" depends on the limits of human brain too: formal logic is based on the usual pre-accepted assumptions and definitions ("axioms").

This is what I consider the limit of the human mind: we have to start with a few assumptions we can't "prove" to build even a formal logic system which we then use to build all the other provably correct systems, but we still add other axioms to make them work.

It's hard for me to even think how AI can help with that.
We finally encountered the situation where an Apple computer is cheaper than its competition ;-)

All joking aside, I don't think Apples are that expensive compared to similar high-end gear. I don't think there is any other compact desktop computer with half a terabyte of RAM accessible to the GPU.
I really want to do Math Academy and even briefly tried it a year ago. It's absolutely great but it's also very expensive. I know that math skills are invaluable, it's far cheaper than schooling, and that long term the investment is likely to pay for itself but when you're skint $49/month is still a pretty hefty sum, especially if you live outside of America. For context in the UK, a basic gym membership (£17/month) and a SIM only phone plan with unlimited data (£22/month on a two year contract) only costs £1 more in total than Math Academy (£38/month). I can't help but feel that the people who would benefit from it the most are also the people least likely to be able to afford it.
By my rough estimate/experience, late 2018 is when enshittification began to really seep into everything both online and offline. Covid was the final nail in the coffin.
Yes! The servers will look lit without those ugly cables. Zero-downtime cross-rack migrations will become possible.
Not particularly, no.

I do think they want to create more manufacturing jobs, which in general are a better quality than service ones however.
Oh, but things were far worse back then, in terms of knowing what you were getting. For instance, let's say you bought a 13" MacBook Pro in 2016. Do you have a dual core or quad core processor? Depends on whether you have a touchbar!

(For reasons best known to themselves, Apple made two completely different 13" MBPs that year, both new, with the loathed butterfly keyboard, weighing a different amount, with different processors, and the same name.)
Ah but you see, I am on my phone and very lazy.
Why does an extra 16 GB of memory add $400 to the price?
So you don't benefit from the existence of panes OR servers, the random multi-level design of tmux doesn't do anything for you either.
Yes, it will happily regurgitate whatever false information there is on the web. e.g. you see this fake trailer for a Pokemon movie starring Tom Holland [0]. You ask yourself, "is that real?" and you go search "tom holland pokemon" in Google. The AI overview will tell you "Tom Holland has been cast as Ash Ketchum in a live-action adaptation of the Pokémon series. The movie is produced by Warner Bros. and The Pokémon Company." Confirmed! Except it's just spitting back the description it got from that fake trailer.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpwGKewCVro
Naw I have a 15" one (9510) and it has two M.2 slots.
Ahead of a possible $4B IPO, CoreWeave's founders pocketed $488M
If this is truly what you believe, then you don't believe in building infrastructure. You don't believe in building political power. You don't believe in building local community power. You don't really believe in anything, and it's due to an inability in your own self to bring about real change.
Interesting, although in my head I’d class that in the same way as the folding screens; iPhones that don’t have the dimensions you want, one way or another
Fantastic... seriously, kudos. I love it when people use up every last ounce of their hardware.
> how to make airspace more dense without compromising safety.

My suggestion would be to make things as repeatable and consistent as possible. This would mean forcing some airports to change their practices to be consistent with everyone else, and forcing physical layout changes and construction. Unfortunately an app can't do that =( ... and the benefits are on the other side of a paradigm shift, so it's hard to make it happen naturally.

>> more dense

Large, high passenger capacity airliners have gone out of style but that would have been the best way to get passenger density up.
You don’t give it up. USB C charging still works just fine.
Posthog is pretty successful! But since it isn't strictly necessary, perhaps we can make this thread more meaningful by removing success from the title above.
…and she will never know how famous she became! Here is a true artist, one that never seeked to be appreciated as one. I’m such a fan.
> Unfortunately, poop and urine is one of the main reasons for soil contamination by Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).

That’s not true and that’s absolutely not what those articles say.

Biosolid fertilizer ≠ “poop and urine”

Each article refers to general sewage "sludge" which is the primary output from wastewater treatment plants. That "biosolids" mix is far removed from "poop and urine" and has many other things added to it (eg for treatment) and taken out.

From your [1]
> The E.P.A. is currently studying the risks posed by PFAS in sludge fertilizer (which the industry calls biosolids) to determine if new rules are necessary.

> She said regulators should focus on curbing the PFAS entering wastewater by banning use in consumer products or requiring industries to clean their effluent before sending it to treatment plants. “There’s not enough money in the world to take it out at the end,” she said.

To actually use poop and urine effectively, it has to be separated (ahem) "at the source" and processed appropriately before any PFAS can enter. The Rich Tree Institute of the main article are focused entirely on the urine (ahem) "stream" and demonstrating how it could be viable as a fertilizer.
Thanks! I've done quite a few podcast things recently, they're tagged on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/tags/podcast-appearances/
It made me laugh, and that's reason enough for me to code anything.