skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human Chimeras[1] are even more weirder: one person with cells from two fraternal twins. Causes real problems with maternal[2] and paternal[3] DNA testing. Even more problems[4] if the twins are male and female.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=human+chimera

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild — Fairchild stood accused of fraud by either claiming benefits for other people's children, or taking part in a surrogacy scam, and records of her prior births were put similarly in doubt . . .

[3] https://time.com/4091210/chimera-twins/ — the father had absorbed some of his twin's cells when he was a fetus, effectively becoming a chimera of himself and his brother. The man's previous child's DNA matched his . . .

[4] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/46,XX/46,XY Sex-chromosome discordant chimerism (XX/XY chimerism)
"A FWD EV shouldn't suffer from torque steer."

The torque steer in my FWD EV (BYD Atto) is horrendous. Sure its possible to use clever engineering to manage it, but just switching to EVs isn't going to magically make torque steer go away.
Right, which I might be if it was one in a thousand or maybe even one in a hundred, but even with an insanely lengthy appeals process it's one in twenty or even higher. Not acceptable.
You should elaborate on how they deserved to have not just the rich people but their whole families decapitated in public.

I comment about public execution of child rapists and i get downvoted here but sure monarchs deserved it.

In order to justifyably kill someone they must have taken a direct role in taking someone's life and that act must have been unlawful and their convinction must be after due process and after allowing them to defend themselves and confront their accuser.

Chopping off the heads of rich people because they got rich off of your starvarion like that is not to different than mass shooters and serial killers who kill because they too felt wronged and they too felt the rule of law and the process of justice was beneath them and they too granted themselves authority to be judges and executioners.
https://www.ritas-outback-guide.com/

"Well, my name is Rita Amend. I live in the crowded Rhine-Main-area in Germany. Perhaps that's why I love the tranquillity of the Outback so much."

"Update: Now I am retired, Australia and the vast inland is still in my dreams. At the end of 2018 we spent our 9th holiday in Australia."

Now that I think about it, I can identify. I'm from Australia but have visited Southern Utah many times, think about it often and could write an extensive site about it.
> Maybe because everybody who has relatives over 50 knows somebody with Long Covid--probably multiple people.

Of the dozens of people in my extended family that are 50+yo, few of whom were covid cautious, zero of them have reported symptoms resembling long covid. My parents are elderly as are all of the people they know. Zero of their friends have reported long covid, but they did know a couple of folks that died of it.
If that were true there would have been no need for the AHRA. Copying audio tapes at home was a copyright violation. Doing the same for VHS was and still is.
Perl is a great language for getting things built. Amazon was originally built on Perl.
When I moved to Alaska, in my early 40s, with a license in-hand from the state I had just moved from, they made me take a written test before issuing me an AK license. At least they didn't make me take a road test.

Weirdos.
This is strangely the only website that I’ve had to completely turn off in all of my news feeds. Credit to the tech companies, because it worked. Haven’t seen a BuzzFeed listicle in almost a decade.
Ahhh, thanks. It was a quick skim.

That said, it is likely a significant contributor to the problem as these laws don't just write themselves.
Thanks. There's a message on the page of the newer card "Main board Power Supply design please provide 3.3V 3.5A, minimum 3.3V 3A" - do you think this would be a problem for an APU2?

One more thing - how is the signal range for you?
Yeah. I can imagine he was conflicted. The depression videos resonated with him, but he also knew he didn’t want to stay depressed.
Stellate Ganglion Block is amazing for PTSD. I've had IV ketamine. I experienced perhaps a 20-30% improvement. After bilateral SGB: order of magnitude improvement.

Getting triggered, I use to take hours or days to recover. Now, it can be minutes to hours.

I'm not kidding. My life is immeasurably improved. Cannot recommend the Stellate Institute in Annapolis, MD enough.

For PTSD, please, if you can, seek out ultrasound guided SGB.
> I can't buy the conspiracy theory that this is done intentionally.

They have an algorithm that chooses what videos to show you based on types of videos you view. I'm not sure how that doesn't qualify as intentional.
>“I just kind of think that for where we are in the efficiency that we’re able to get from new technologies, that’s probably the right model to expect going forward and that will be a different operating model and I think we can do it well.”

This reads like he might be planning to leverage AI to reduce their headcount requirements.

Maybe I shouldn't read into an isolated statement so much, but that would be a very in-character business move for Mark.
> GPT-4 performs nearly all tasks it's given at at least the average human level

yet, you will afraid to trust gpt-4 to file your taxes through installed browser plugin.

There is a huge gap between some narrow cherry picked (researchers have strong incentive to report mind boggling results) and diverse and multi modal real life situations
Did you try swapping or replacing capslock w/ ctrl? Something like this...

setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Control_R"

I would occasionally experience some pinky pain until I did this. Losing capslock is mostly inconsequential (you can always use upcase-region).
Elite sportspeople can live five years longer, study finds
All of those are cost centers paid with their adtech business.
Also when it comes to pickups they have gotten so large. Even the ford maverick that ford has been making is still bigger than some 90's pickups. Even then "small" (if you can call that any more) are not really made any more.

Also don't get me started on how it's pretty hard to find a regular cab pickup. Like the ford maverick only comes in a 4 door configuration. Good luck carrying any standard length items like 4x8 sheet of ply wood or 8 ft lumber without the thing comically hanging out past the tail gate. What I found funny is on fords website you can see just that https://www.ford.com/trucks/maverick/. This is something you even see on larger trucks, and I am like wtf... It's a truck not a people hauler. You might be able to find some manufactures in their commercial/fleet line of vehicles that is at least sane when it comes to bed length.

Honestly, these days it's just better to get a cargo/work van unless you needing to haul dirt or other dirty things when looking for something new. It just seems like a small truck with a bed that make any sense are not made =(
Regen breaking never comes anywhere near the traction limits though. I don't follow the point.
In FWD, you let off and it starts to steer. In RWD, once it's out of shape, you better know what you're doing to keep it in line.
Fwd is 10x easier for average drivers.
European Wikipedia platforms, national differences in participation
Hyena a more efficient convolutional LLM when compared to GPT
I get it, some people want cash as a concept to be illegal. But we are not there yet. If you have all your receipts in order then using cash is fine.
GEO is harder to achieve than LEO. There was never time when non-GEO satellites didn't outnumber GEO ones.
Can you give an example of how this could be used?
My parents did just fine with a 94 Saturn and an 88 Toyota Corolla for two kids and a dog.
For anyone who doesn't know, this is the private investment arm of the CIA.

It's not the only connection between In-Q-Tel and AI corporations: OpenAI has In-Q-Tel trustee Will Hurd on its board of directors.
Ketamine therapy recipient. Accurate.
... if programming logic was riding a dragon, with rockets, on top of a minivan.
Automatically use GPT-4 in ChatGPT
Every single game jurisdiction that has confirmed cases of CWD or confirmed cases of CWD nearby has instituted baiting/feeding bans. The predominate reason for this is because prions can be spread through bodily fluids, including saliva, which can be passed from animal to animal when they share a common feeding source. Making corn piles and letting them eat off of that could spread CWD instead of preventing it. If you truly want to feed these deer, plant food plots. Turnips, sugar beets, and pumpkins will keep them fed through deep winter. Prions cannot be killed, not with fire or chemicals, so your sanitizing routine is pointless.
LinuxBender is secretly Santa Claus and needs them to pull his sleigh.
Turns out it was the infantile joke: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649181726395052039
If Leonardo Da Vinci knew css
Do you know anything about B2C freemium products? 10% conversion over 10s-100s of millions of users is literally insane.

It doesn't matter how revolutionary GPT-4 is, people's willingness to pay for anything is generally very low. ChatGPT premium is also a very expensive subscription for a consumer product!
This puts me in mind of Doctorow's "enshittification" sequence.

Also, advertisers always end up ruining advertising-supported media. We've seen it with newspapers, TV, radio, YouTube and Google search.
This presumes a lot of breakthroughs in model interpretability, corrigibility and of inner alignment. Since those are a prerequisite for AGI that we can live along side, I'd have some amount of relief that we found at least a temporary solution (but will those solutions scale to ASI?).

Now, if Iran created an AGI that poorly aligned with the global community before other nations had similar AGI, then then I suspect that would result in a future world I wouldn't be happy with. But it could be much better than a world with AGI that is unaligned with any human values, regardless of who created it.

My best case scenario could be AGI being created by a broad international coalition that is able agree with some combination of capabilities and alignment. I'm not very confident that this is our future, though. If anyone is going to do it, I think it is more likely that the USA would be the first to create a culturally aligned AGI. Which of course would still be considered a disaster for incongruent cultures.
Googlers say Bard AI is “worse than useless,” ethics concerns were ignored
GPT-4 does fine with a reply prompt of "keep the rest as-is but fix this part". I imagine Midjourney would too if it supported conversational prompting.
> IO is major caveat though. And there is also real-time to consider.

I think you're missing the point here. No one would use Conway's Life to do anything practical (at least no sane person would). The point of this is to serve as a visceral illustration of the fact that computational completeness can emerge from very simple mechanisms.
Those terms are terms used to describe the relationship between rulers and the ruled in a civilization governed by the rule of law. rulers can't rule without the people agreeing to the rules and the military enforcing their rule. What you do when you disagree with the ruling class is revolt and then come up with new rules so you can punish people who break the rules you came up with.

The law if any ruler can be unjust and if you tolerate that law then those acting in accordance to it are immune from future punishment. If the ruler is unjust then you must rebel if you want to change thier laws.
Yes, a perfect response
Spongebob Squarepants! (not the atrocious post Hillenburg Kamp Koral)

I am serious, funny, moral, addresses social issues, witty. The show is perfect. You push "educational" shows on your kid when they are too young and it will turn them off.

My kid liked Story Bots for a bit. My basic gist is, don't push academics but get them thinking abstractly, plenty of that in Spongebob.
Right, i think it's a question of how to use this tool in its current state, including prompting practice and learning its strengths. It can certainly be wrong sometimes, but man, it is already a game changer for writing, coding, and i'm sure other disciplines.

If you're a robotresearcher, maybe try getting it to whip up some ...verilog circuits or something? I don't know much about your field or what you do specifically, but tasks like regular expressions or specific code syntax it is absolutely brilliant at, whatever the equivalent to that is in hardware. ...I've only ever replaced capacitors and wired some guitar pickups.

> it made up a plausible-sounding but non-existent paper, along with fabricated Google Scholar citation counts

I ran into a similar issue: I asked it for codebases of similar romhacks to a project i'm doing, and it provided made up Github repos with completely unrelated authors for romhacks that do actually exist: non-existent hyperlinks and everything.

Now, studying the difference in GPT generations, it seems like more horsepower and more data solves alot of GPT problems and produces emergent capabilities with the same or similar architecture and code. The current data points to this trend continuing. I find it both super exciting and super ...concerning.
It's not clear. Maybe satellites will be assigned flypaths, like in aviation? Or you can have either a short-lived satellite, a GEO sat, a well-maintained constellation for communications or observations, singular exceptions like Hubble - or go fly away from Earth? Or something else? Not sure it's good idea for space elevator engineers to trust as much that all satellites will always behave as they, space elevator engineers, absolutely require. The error cost is pretty high.
Age is probably the biggest influence on a "healthy" immune system. I haven't kept up with recent research, but if memory serves the immune repertoire (diversity of T and B cell receptors) decreases essentially linearly with age.

Here's some supporting research from a quick search.
https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article/192/6/2689/1552

Edit: some fun but possibly pontificating tangents

This seems to be part of the reason why vaccines have had relatively poorer efficacy in elderly populations.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901832/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03739-1

I'm hopeful that cancer and immune profiling will be able to be used in tandem to (1) identify cancer early and (2) identify gaps in the immune repertoire to facilitate (3) design of antibodies that specifically target the cancer.
And for others?
This is unbelievable - and given it appears to generate interactive games from prompts, I want to use it for our annual infosec training requirement.
Stimulants aren't the only ADHD medication, but all the others are also daily use.
In 2019 Norway had around 1/4 the fatality rate of the US. (In deaths/distance.)

But in 2000 it had a slightly higher rate than the US.

The road tests did not change, rather Norway changed how its roads are engineered (due to an initiative called Vision Zero!). So I doesn't seem like the more difficult testing actually helps much.

(BTW If you want to lookup numbers be aware most sites quote death/population instead which I find to be a misleading comparison.)
That is super interesting, care to share why it was on your list? I mean it was legit after all lol.
Meanings change, c'est la vie.
The Auto Industry's Cloud Awakening
I keep meaning to get me a set of studded tires for the winter. Next winter, for sure :)
I'm ok with that tax band at that level. And I imagine the majority of people in Ireland are, as there is no political appetite to tax the wealthiest people less.

People in finance and IT can make a ton compared to other folk. If the top tax band was raised to 500,000k or something all that extra money would just go on bigger houses, fancy cars and holidays and shit.

A less progressive tax system is bad for society. Eg. I just got a letter saying kids books will be free in primary schools now. Don't get me wrong, there are big problems in Ireland, but taxing well off people less is not gonna fix anything!
That got me there with a little extra searching. "Flatbeds with side gates."

Here they are very common on construction sites for the messier work (building roads, railways, walls, roofs, forestry etc) but normal vans with a roof are more common for the cleaner work (plumbing, electrics, painting, carpentry etc).
Cost of living is weird, since it ignores the fact that shopping on Amazon costs the same everywhere. I imagine it'd result in feeling like physical goods are incredibly cheap vs anything that requires local labor (restaurants, private schools, construction, medical, etc).

Buying a big TV or a new iphone would be a lower % of total salary since those wouldn't scale w/ the location. And then you'd turn around and pay $20 for a cocktail. But what do I know, I live middle of the country :)
In yeast:

The team did these experiments in yeast cells, which are easy to grow and quick to reproduce. One next step is to investigate whether this same pathway is used in mammalian cells to clear human disease-related proteins.

pH derangement and salt derangement both promote protein misfolds. Someone please do a study on the possibility of reducing misfolds and encouraging refolds via correcting chemical derangement in the cell.
Apple: 2023 Environmental Progress Report [pdf]
A monopolist is charging rent.
My guess: the tractors are made to support one system - so it’s technically possible but not actually possible due to lock in.
No one in the public knows what those are but most people have heard of ChatGPT at this point.
Happy to read this here, I was also a big fan of HackerFM and then gone, haven't found any information about it neither, so weird.
Clicking repeatedly on your own ads to make money from those clicks? That’s fraud. Blaming your whole life situation on Google banning you for stealing from them? That’s ridiculous.

Take a little responsibility for your actions and situation. “I did fraud and got banned because of it and that ban demotivated me from being a programmer.”
Tcl/Tk is cool.

Tcl/Tk makes UI's that jar in an ugly, immediately recognisable as "old-fashioned" way. This matters to users whether we like it or not. It would be a very niche commercial software project that used it for its UI no matter how beautifully elegant the functionality of its UI. Best ever UI will still elicit an "Ew, yuk." From the majority of its users.

Graphical UIs have been de rigeur for what, 30+ years? We still suck at the tools to program them which are all a pain in the backside to use even when making something very simple and expected. We still suck at programming these UIs when we use them. All of them. I have no answers to this.
given the context of this article, if you ever get the chance to study the economics of private torrent trackers, i think you’d find it interesting.

every private tracker ends up with an economy of some sort: users have to upload so many bytes if they want to continue downloading bytes; certain content might be gated to users who have only uploaded so many bytes… but there’s always a way to get those credits without actually uploading bytes: submitting new torrents, reviewing new torrents, seeding inactive torrents to keep that content alive, etc.

naturally, many trackers frequently run donation drives. you can be sure the hosting costs for most trackers isn’t really $50,000/year. yet any successful tracker can bring more than that in via “donations”. the trick, of course, is that these “donations” serve to tie the internal economy to the global economy: you can expect to get some form of upload credits in exchange for your donation.

but the point here is that this is exactly your micropayment ecosystem: only it’s seamless enough (and at certain key points obscured by plausible cover stories) that casual users might not comprehend that they’re making micropayments every time they download a file.
Andronikos Komnenos would not have been out of place in Game of Thrones.
Yes, their margins are huge, they have the capability to cut prices more than any other carmaker really.
From the gradual ramp-up of enforcement, my optimistic view is that they are closing out the deliberate "misunderstandings", establishing precedent for each one. I really should start collecting links as they come out, as they're a pain to track down later, but they've established things like "Targeted advertising is not a legitimate interest for the purpose of Act 6, and requires consent."
So has programmer methodology. Throwing virtual calls everywhere is a relic of the past from the era of OOP fetishism. If you actually have statically verifiable leafs for virtual calls then you didn't even need a virtual call to begin with. It's code slop.
Strongly agree on the philosophy - but alas my experience with this specific case has not been great.

I’ve seen it simplify patches of code here and there, and that does apply to the trivial examples given in the post this topic links to - a function call involving a known child class. But add some basic real-world complexity and it quickly gets too complex for the optimiser to prove that it knows for sure what child class it is dealing with.
I did two sessions of psychedelic IM Ketamine four months ago. The place I went requires a therapist sitter during the experience, followed by an hour of integration therapy, and a few days after the final session a follow up integration.

I cannot imagine doing this substance without someone else there. There were multiple times I simply needed a hand to hold as I was… descending, and my second trip was a “bad” one. The therapist was absolutely critical for helping me frame what happened in a positive light.
Envoy: The Proxy for the Future
Renewed HGST 14 TiB drives are available for $120 USD now
RAID-10 and good return policies of merchant platforms are your friend.
Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]
> A few days later the same information was gone. I assumed someone might have decided to keep it on the low regarding having ingested all of these sources of restricted access content. I now get a generic blurb about the same question.

This didn't happen. There is no way to remove information from the model and retraining it costs millions of dollars.
Same, I have Paramount, Hulu, Netflix, etc. I watch maybe 10 hours a month that isn't YT Premium and Nebula. My ex uses the streaming services way more than I ever would. But I wouldn't change a thing. If they start clamping down on it, I'd bitch cancel and maybe renew a couple of them a couple months later.
Agreed, it’s textbook greenwashing. Just like those classification numbers you see on plastic disposables decorated with a recycling arrows. If you throw it in the sea and the bugs don’t eat it then it’s bad for the environment, it doesn’t matter what it was originally made from. The percentage of compostable cutlery you get from takeaways that actually makes it into an industrial composter is vanishingly small. It’s only purpose is to make people feel more comfortable with throwing it away. I buried some of the stuff in my garden 4 years ago and dug it up the other day. Looks exactly the same. Sure I didn’t use a compost heap (let alone an industrial one) but if the compostable plastic doesn’t deteriorate at all then it’s no good.

It’s the marketing driven aspect of plastic packaging that should be easier to solve through legislation. Plastic windows on paper packaging so you can see the food inside, come on! This obsession we all have with fruit and veg cleanliness when our immune systems need the practice is nonsense.

Also, making plastic from plants can even become a bad thing. Look at what happened to the rain forests in Indonesia when palm oil was pushed as the next big thing, even as a source of bio fuel.