skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the studies were done with a single isomer, which was safe and is still available. The racemic mixture was sold commercially but never tested until later. IIRC the bench top process produced a single isomer, but the scaled up process messed with the chirality producing the racemic mixture.
YouTube Censors Nobel Prize Winner Professor Satoshi Omura
I am not for pointless animal cruelty (and I can't justify this study) but still keeping in mind that when the city calls in pest exterminators, the rats will have a fairly bad time. Why are those lab rats more special?
Most serious app developers prefer coding directly to a service’s REST API rather than introduce an uncontrolled dependency that does who know what.
I am talking based on my understanding of the Chinese system, and knowing people working in these construction companies abroad. The point I am making is that if it is a desirable job, it is not easy to pass on jobs to prisoners as the article suggested.

Selling drugs may be more profitable, but you still prefer a developer job. You cannot apply logic that way.

These are state companies, they are responsible for hundreds of thousands employees if not more, those people need jobs. And most jobs require training and expertises. Anyway, we are living in parallel worlds now. I am trying to chip in whenever I can.
I do remember doing a risk assessment as part of a proposal for a client. They pushed back hard on a number of points and got the sales person to remove them.

The funny thing is the risks that were removed all occurred during the project. We should have stood our ground.
* Original tweet: https://twitter.com/KatsuNakajima/status/1408989016339349504

* Archived tweet: https://archive.is/m8C13

* YouTube link (now defunct): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfNKW4BzjE
The most import thing to take from this is that American pattern of suburbanization was a government choice.

Highways, suburbs, and car domminance would not exist anywhere near the scale that they do without massive government subsidies, or turning a blind eye to future expenses.

Theres also discounting the negative externalities of fossil fule emmissions on the planet and human health.

Ironically the libertarian types tend to prefer the type of development that 90% couldn't afford without subsidy.

Just like we shouldn't have bailed out the banks in '08 or junk bond holders in '20, we shouldn't bail out municipalities that borrowed too much from the future.
Does infrared work even if the outside temperatures are 35c-40c?
Summer in the middle east is around those temperatures, which mostly overlap human core temp
Well there is a line. I don't think twice using insecticide when confronted to a mosquito.
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Part of the difference like the other commenter mentioned is that Copilot isn't open source while basically everything except the final model is for the GPT models.

The other aspect of it is in application. GPT-3 isn't particularly aimed at using the generated output in works. Rather it exists more as an experiment than anything else. Where the works are used they are generally non-commercial, not used in the final product, or are transient and don't actually stick around (i.e. AI dungeon).

This is compared to Copilot which, while in beta, is very much being marketed as a programming utility to help you write code. This comes with the implication that said code will be used in the final product. If GPT-3 was being used as a writing aid (not just brainstorming but actually writing), then I think we would be seeing a very different discussion around it.

Another consideration (which I'm not sure how true it is but I'm inclined to believe) is that programming text tends to have a smaller resolution at which it becomes "unique" or can be matched against a source as a copyright infringement. I may be wrong about this and copilot may just be poorly trained or designed by comparison but it seems far harder to identify outright copied text from GPT-3 (that isn't quoted/attributed). I'm sure examples exist but from my experience with these text generation tools it seems far harder to get into copyright violation territory.

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Side note: If Copilot was working at an AST level rather than at a textual level I suspect it would have far less issues with copyright and would be more useful as a tool.
But that’s not the case:

1. National debt is USD denominated thus only requires repayment in nominal terms (eg you can always print, you can set arbitrary interest rates, etc). In fact, there is a lot of precedent for negative real returns on sovereign debt (see current US treasuries and multiple years in EU).

2. Social security is a pay as you go system. Current workers pay for current retirees. Future workers will pay for future retirees. Benefits can/will be scaled to cash flow. Just because there was surplus and that surplus was used for other purposes doesn’t really mean much. All government has to do is raise retirement age and the system will remain solvent.

3. That makes no sense
yeah, i don’t think a healthy rewarding relationship— either friendship or romantic — is likely to be based on extraction of maximum value from the other person.
Prompt italicised...

She stroked Bill's Microsoft floppy disk until she found his hard drive. She erased the office program and reset it. While she was there, she removed the White Dragon Armada artwork, cleaned off the end panel where the logo had been, and folded up the blank back cover.

# CHAPTER 17

# Binky

Ralph and Tiffany moved into a huge and very classy apartment in the First National Building. They loved having their own place. But they were stuck with one more mouth to feed. They also felt the need to set up a security system. Binky hadn't realized they were going to have to get a nanny and a security guard.

Binky was too busy coddling their dog to think of setting up the security system. Binky's fondness for naps got to be more important than the realization that there had to be an alarm to protect their stuff. Ralph and Tiffany left Binky alone with the dog. If the dog barked, the apartment was a crime scene.

"What's the problem?" Binky said to the dog. "Don't you want me to protect you?"

"Naw," the dog replied. "I'm fine."

"Fine!" Binky agreed. "I can protect you."

He began to
Why do so many people seem to think that there is so much to be learned from fiction? I don't know what Hanson's qualifications are, but psychologists and philosophers always seem to be champing at the bit to demonstrate fundamental truths about real life from something that isn't real life. Are we all still stuck on Freud and Jung?
Well, the budget in 2009 was $6.5 billion. It seems the taxes are growing for SF at a very high rate, and it would eventually become unsustainable. The taxes are certainly going up faster than population and inflation combined, and it sure seems like we're getting less for more money.

I think the reasons are very different though. For small towns it seems to be poor planning, for larger cities it seems to be corruption.
I'm not sure type safety is the right key here. Rather, better defaults in web and SQL frameworks, even in a dynamic language, would get you most of the way there. You can even use dynamic types to mandate that input is sanitized - a crash is much louder than SQL injection or XSS.
> “dynamic frequency scaling”, a feature that allows software to instruct the CPU to run at a lower speed, commonly known as “CPU throttling”

AFAIK that's not how it works in modern CPUs. Dynamic frequency scaling is a black box implemented in hardware. Software, and even OS kernels, have very little input over that. They can't subscribe for status updates. Even just getting the current frequency seems impossible, only indirectly by comparing RDTSC output (absolute time unscaled) with performance counters.
> Our government should not be in the business of regulating the distribution of a sequence of words about imaginary wizards.

So not imaginary wizards then.
What should be regulated? Is it nothing? Does your statement become "Our government should not be in the business of regulating the distribution of a sequence of words"?
If you don’t know the history: most open source software is freely available and built as a community effort by volunteers. FOSS has, by necessity, had a strong liberal culture from the outset. The genesis of many projects has been about sticking it to the man and winning back the freedoms taken away by big companies, especially hardware manufacturers. I’ll pay you to build me a minicomputer, but I’m damned if I’m letting you dictate what I can and can’t do with it.

Telemetry is about gathering data and sending it to a single place. Having a central focus point of potentially personally identifying information, controlled by one entity more privileged than the others, is anathema to the idea of many of traditional open source projects.
UK exceeds 600k Covid-19 tests genomically sequenced
Exactly. And if there were is that a reason anyone’s buying an iPad?
Could you share which destination city you chose and/or why?
Are you a lawyer? Why are you more credible than anyone else on this matter?

We have, in fact, seen companies publicly push back on doing additional work by claiming that it was an undue burden on them when they are not a defendant. If I recall, this was one of Apples arguments when they were involved in their well publicized case with the FBI.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/17/467096705...

I’m not a lawyer, so maybe I missed something.
What is your basis for saying 10% is too low?

I'm not suggesting that you are wrong, I just want to figure out how you would determine if the spend is too high or too low for any given town.
People have a lot of misconceptions about atmospheric oxygen. There is a lot of it. If every photosynthetic organism on the planet died, it would still take tens of thousands of years before we had to worry about an appreciable reduction in breathable oxygen levels. We're not going to run out of it unless literally every oxygen-producing organism on the planet dies (trees don't even matter; they could all die and we'd be fine forever). If all plants and phytoplankton die, we'll starve to death and won't have to worry about oxygen levels.
just occasionally though :p
I’m reminded of Gene Hackman in Extreme Measures: if you could cure cancer, but you would have to kill a patient to do so, wouldn’t you have to try?
Conversely, the usage of CDNs has increased since the 'Akamai-only' days. Case in point: The vast population of WordPress and other web applications wouldn't generally use Akamai in the 2000s, however, today CDN usage is more commonplace.

> It is easier than ever for them to get started because they can begin by piggybacking on one of the existing CDNs. Eventually they will build their own network of POPs

This increases centrality, as the point of failure is the parent CDN.
This read like a bad ML model trained with Deepak Chopra books. Absolute bullshit.
It's fun.

It starts with stuff that makes Haskell look like an unimposing imperative language, like Python.

It may be a good idea for the introduction: instead of presenting the wall of ideas that make Haskell interesting and unusual, first offer the do-notation that makes Haskell feel familiar, and make the reader feel confident quickly. Introduce "variables", first, immutability and monads that power them much later.
Grunge is not "early music". Bach is. ;) That said, yes, granted, Seattle deserves credit for grunge.

But no, the Seattle Symphony is not a world-class orchestra. The SF Symphony is, though.
Then why don't the stores just hire people to stop them?
This page linked earlier [0] relates one possibility to the 'Bethe formula', where depending on the energy of the beam (proton in their example) you can control where the burst appears.

[0] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
Prefixing a command with a backslash is equivalent to this.

"\ls" is the same as "command ls" and will run ls ignoring any functions or aliases that normally replace it.
New Russian legislation, 'champagne' can only be used for Russian sparkling
This sounds like something Neil Gaiman might write. Especially the last exchange.
So what? Audacity is LGPL. The company can't un-GPL it.
> More technologies like this, that allow better sharing of code and information. It reduces the barrier to entry to creating content, thus causing more of it to be made.

Like I said, this seems like a highly tech-centric viewpoint. Keep in mind that source code is far from the only thing covered under copyright law. Personally, if I was stranded on a desert island, I'd rather have a single original novel written by a human than a hundred novels' worth of GPT-3 output.

Beyond that, your perspective is pretty interesting--I guess you support the existence of tools like this because you see it as an opportunity to erode existing copyright law. Personally, I may not support the full extent and implementation of copyright law in America, but I do support the fundamental principle that a creator should have exclusive rights to their work. So we disagree pretty strongly on that, and I doubt we'll find common ground.

I guess I would just urge you, if you value art at all, to consider how independent artists like writers and musicians would be affected by the elimination of copyright. I don't really give a shit about the IP rights of programmers (even though I'm one myself, with public FOSS contributions), but you seem willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
You can still use the older versions, from before they did that.
Keep reading that issues/5 thread, especially the replies from Muse Group's Head of Strategy workedintheory. It doesn't explain this Audacity stuff, but the musescore-downloader response makes sense (TLDR: copyright holders forced them to add a paywall or remove non-public domain content).
That one speaks PostScript? I though most inkjet printers relied heavily on drivers to supply the next line to print and have no capacity (compute or memory) to rasterize a complete page and for that reason don't need PostScript either.
I will assume your questions are in good faith.

OSS is code is generally made by unpaid volunteers. There may be some operational effort behind it, too, in terms of building and distributing binaries. But gathering remote telemetry is NOT typically something I would expect to be part of typical project operations. After all, who is gathering the data? What is the organization, what is the locus of control? That's easy to answer for a business, but hard for an OSS project.

The "telemetry" mechanism I have come to expect from OSS is the "bug report", where telemetry will be produced explicitly by me. I understand exactly what this means, what the data is, and why it's being collected. Moreover, I have expectations about how it will (and will not) be used (although, now that I think about it, I think those expectations need to be examined. I can see how bad actors could be using the data in these bug trackers for nefarious ends!)

This is a material privacy invasion because it violates the norms around what we expect from our software. I don't expect Audacity to phone home, and I don't expect the entity that distributes binaries to include functionality designed to satisfy the Russian government's need for data, for example. The fact that Audacity is used to gather and process sound data makes this particularly concerning, as this can be very sensitive data, and they are clearly serving more than one master here.

Hope that clears it up.
But the point is they are not spending enough on infrastructure.

Only paying 10% on maintenance and then having perpetually potholed roads or a bridge collapse means the true cost is much higher.

Infrastructure has a lifetime and it needs big capital infusions to replace, of that money isn't being stored away for that date then that's just hiding the spending problem.
Heat Domes Are a Red-Hot Warning on Climate Costs
I fixed a 2006 macbook pro for my 3 year old to watch Peppa Pig mostly on Netflix. Used powertop and it had lot of suggestions which i just went with it. That laptop has a really good battery still. Together with CPUPOWER on conservative i avoided the processors (which i repasted) heating up and d to watch netflix with no annoying fans. Until last month that netflix stopped supporting the 32 bit last version of firefox. But for 2 years that machine was at hand in the living room, and used to Ssh into other ones, use vim and browse the Internet myself. It did take a couple of hours to set up, change the hardrive to an ssd, an upgrade to linux. But more of this needs to be done. People have so much better computers lying in garages just because they never took the photos or documents out. And after many years they land in a landfill. Linux
Well they are special mainly because of the excessive cruelty they experienced.
And they done nothing of the sort. I have yet to see a place where spending on infrastructure maintenance is above 20% of municipality budget. Usually it’s around 10%.
Yes, I'm saying, in the US, where we may pride ourselves on having standards, there are some lab animals that are exempt, and so I think there's a blind spot, where nobody (in the sense of the lay public) thinks about what's happening to them.
I always have trouble with essays using accumulation of debt as the proof of systemic unsustainability. Debt is a construct made up on an agreed upon monetic system and the associated trust placed in its repayment, it's not a physical dimension that can be used to derive proof of sustainability beyond system itself. It can easily be changed, notably by printing money or forgoing debt.
Maintenance of GDBFrontend Project
So this basically brings us into agreement :)

This is a commercial for-profit company, GitHub, taking some code and storing it in cold storage of some other commercial for-profit company, with no one, except these two parties have access to this code. And it doesn't look like GitHub even has the right to do it because it stores it for some purpose other than whatever is stated in their ToS.

I wonder if the whole kerfuffle around Copilot will end up spilling some light on this, too.
I mean the title of the nature article is pretty much a summary of a null result, but it’s phrased in a way that is very easy to interpret as positive (or at least non-negative) wrt the effect of technology on cognition. Where I really doubt the popular interpretation of ‘cognition’ matches the scientific one. It probably ends up closer to ‘smartness’ or ‘effectiveness’ or just ‘good’.
Ask HN: What are your tips to excel at a new remote job?
I will be starting a new job as infrastructure architect at a tech company/(some sort of MSP), after a long career (10 years) as Dev Tech Lead and then Regional Head of IT at a Oil and Gas company (!) and I am a bit nervous on how to start with the right foot at the new place.

I am looking mostly at advice in terms on how to quickly absorb the new culture and then become a good asset at the new employer, which is touted by several friends/new coworkers as a good company to be at.

What are your Do's and Don'ts in these times when you start remote at a new job?
I see no evidence for karma being real either. But I certainly wish people would have a fear of karmic justice.
Los Angeles wasn't part of the comparison, however. The question was about housing values and why they'd be so much higher in SF than in Portland or Seattle.

And speaking as an experienced professional musician who has performed a lot in both places, I'd take the Bay Area over LA, at least for classical music, overall.
The amount of energy generated by the microphone is gonna be crazy small
However, the point of that study is that the oxygen levels are not 95%. The pulse oxymeter is wrong, and that study is about determining how wrong it is.

The abstract basically says you can subtract the blood carbon monoxide level from the pulse oxymeter's reported blood oxygen level to find the actual blood oxygen level. (They were a bit more precise than that, but it was very nearly one-to-one.)

A pulse oxymeter measures oxygen levels indirectly. It works by checking the colour of your blood. I suppose that the colour of carbon-monoxide poisoned blood must be similar to that of oxygenated blood. Perhaps because carbon monoxide attaches to blood cells in a similar way to pure oxygen.
Synthetic biology circuits can respond within seconds
Huh. Downloads and executes shell code you say? Wonder how the security on their site and DNS are.
I'm not sure that is "broken" but more like inappropriate. I read an article with a list of bad default results (as in with no filter bubble) that are way worse. Like searching for "tween" on bing shows auto suggestions like "tween swimsuits inappropriate" and "tween budding images". Same for all search engines that uses bing like Brave and DDG (at least at the time I read about it). It seems pretty obvious what those searches are looking for.
i can't watch the video so i can't be sure, but i somehow doubt the professor has violated any of the commmunity guideline policies set out here. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&ref_...
if it turns out youtube is suppressing information about a cheap, effective, safe treatment they should be sued.
Well, they were capable of consent and consented. I also doubt that they had their circulatory system fused with another female human by surgically splicing them together. I imagine they would have declined if that were the case.
>In fact there are many counter examples

I think you inverted the meaning of the parent comment. They asked for exceptions where animal experiments do apply to humans, saying that the rule seems to be they don't.
Which is why I believe that 'greener' is in quotes.

But the main point of my heavily down-voted comment is that I can't conceive why anyone should feel let down by Cohen, even if he hadn't done a thing in the last 15 years.

I actually believe that view corrosively discourages people from doing something exceptional, for worry that they won't be able to maintain that output, and thus face social stigmas like "you let us down."
Engineering is about the application of science, about safeguarding the public welfare, the duty owed to your clients, and through liability standing behind the work that an engineer does. The modern software industry doesn’t fit that pattern, eula’s shirk all responsibility and dark patterns are applied to trick users.

Until people writing software are taking ethics courses and are part of a professional organization to which they are accountable for being held to some code, there is no software engineering.
This may evidence may ignorance on the topic of genetics, but it seems to me that the natural response to increasingly prevalent/abused genetic profiling would be for both the criminal and noncriminal sector to begin pursuing crispr-like technologies to attempt to re-anonymize themselves? For the criminal sector, to reduce true positives, and for the non-criminal sector, to reduce false positives.

Would it even be possible to alter a person's dna enough to provide sufficient information entropy so as to make them 'unidentifiable' ala hashing without simultaneously introducing significant diseases/disorders? One could also hypothesize having such a process be performed continuously, such that a person might be constantly genetically unrecognizable from the organism they were the day before.

In other news, does anyone want to inject some venture capital into my new cryptographic genetic manipulation start-up? It's like a VPN, but for your dna.
In a society where software has no copyright, I guess we are gonna see less source code published.
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Is that still true? Iirc, most contributions to the notable foss projects I know about are industry sponsored, whether by companies or trade organizations
Thanks for letting us know!

I almost stopped reading your comment because you misspelled “stopped”.

I finished though.
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