skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just surprised that all those citrus fruit could be interbred. I knew about brassica, but afaik that was the reverse process -- selecting for features in a common ancestor, like how all the myriad breeds of dogs come from far-less-diverse wolves. In this case, we're mashing up a bunch of different plants with their own lineages.
It's one of the first technologies in history that enables completely private exchanges of currency. Whether you're a cryptocurrency hater or not, that's pretty cool.
Imagine if, after the first oil crisis, the US had earmarked 10% of the military’s middle east budget to R&D for energy independence.

We would have solved the global warming problem by the mid 1990’s.
This is correct. If you wanted only food unaffected by humans you'd need to live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle which could probably only support something like 1% of the world's current population.

But on the other hand, why consider domestic/bred species as "unnatural"? We exist in a symbiotic relationship with them, and there are symbiotic relationships all over nature.
If you know the notes on the fretboard, you can easily(with practice ofc) pick up the melody in any song, and build/reconstruct the chords from there to learn the song.

To me, it's easier to learn a song this way than by reading guitar tabs or notes.
Wow, this article really got me thinking! It's fascinating how AI, like ChatGPT, can create statements that feel so personal and unique to us, when in reality they're quite generic. It's a testament to the power of the Forer Effect, and how our brains are wired to find meaning and personal relevance in broad statements. It's a bit like reading a horoscope, isn't it? You can't help but feel like it's speaking directly to you. This definitely adds a new layer to how I perceive AI-generated content. It's not just about the technology's capability to generate human-like text, but also about our human tendency to find personal meaning in it.
Anyone know of any sane alternatives to reddit?
We didn't just move species around, we essentially created new ones that exist solely under our care.
Yeah, I saw that.

My worry is that this will just make drive-by malware easier.
If you have something which requires a sophisticated layout then Adobe InDesign.
If you have long linear text with footnotes, references, cross references, then have a look at MonsterWriter
The paper mjhay refers to: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj8222
This is EU only so no US paypal payments.
Why? This is a major payment method for European customers. Many places in the world don't have the same access to credit and debit cards.
Sure. But I'm a software engineer who is finishing a Ph.D. in applied informatics (coincidently in an area of time series prediction using ML). I'm not a manager.

When I mentioned "AI Winter" in front of them they didn't know what I was speaking about. But they created a nice corporate ladder which anybody can climb and it was based on years of experience with the aforementioned frameworks. Python experience needed, Scala + Spark was an advantage.

I don't know what are you planning to do. But ... I'm buying a huge load of popcorn and I will laugh my ass off when this bubble bursts in a couple of years.
Wait, who still says Burma?
Kernel Version numbers are also kind of sus because they often choose numbers based on what programs are checking for rather than anything else. Windows 10 uses 10.x, skipping right over 7, 8, and 9.

Like the reason we don't have a "Windows 9", because programs check for that to see if they're running on Windows 95 or 98 because it uses the 9x kernel.

Vista to 7 was significant. An operating system is more than just the kernel.
We're talking about perception. Regardless, Tesla won't release the data per mile driven and seems to be dodging reporting regulations -- if not daring regulators to respond.

Feels to me like amateurs (backed by a small army) confidently building bridges and daring the community to try and stop them. (Except Tesla's army are fan boys, lobbyists, and lawyers.) So basically speed running a millennium of civil engineering, except ignoring the more expensive safety controls; like LIDAR.
> Another more recent case, is Omali Yeshitela's

> https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-four-citizens...

> Four US citizens charged with working for Russia spy agency to interfere with elections

Wow talking about stretching for a story, ill accept that Steven's Dozinger is not a good look but to have to lower yourself to saying being jailed for espionage is being silenced is such a stretch im surprised you even brought it up, it weakens your argument more then including it strengthens it.
If you are being effective at managing a business, you'd be keeping track of employee utilization at some level. What I'm saying is, if your employee utilization suddenly drops for reasons that it won't recover from, you should consider layoffs. If it hasn't dropped, you haven't really replaced a job with AI yet and are putting the cart before the horse.
Eh, we could probably do with less corn-syrup water.
For a long time IBM's AI strategy has been to do normal business, and claim it's AI-related in order to make themselves sound cooler.

This is the same thing. Any layoffs happening today don't really have anything to do with AI. The company just needs to do layoffs, and saying "we have layoffs because of AI" sounds better than "we have layoffs because revenues are worse than we expected".
Haven't our digestive system co-evolved with a ton of bacteria? Wouldn't we be pretty boned if we just kicked them to the crub?
Can we trade you this for the ChatGPT iOS app (non-)availability in Europe? I can't unfortunately speak for all Europeans but personally I'd gladly leave PayPal to the US folks only. :D
Question for OP - How big is the company you work for?

I work for a company that has around 50 technical employees and I'd say use of LLMs is putting pressure on the company against hiring more employess rather than actually laying people off.

My armchair estimate is LLMs make the employees ~5% more efficient "on average" (not everyone is using it or using it effectively), which is 15-30 minutes more efficient per day. That would mean you'd start thinking about laying off 5 people if you're a company with 100 technical employees. If you're a smaller company, it would be premature to lay off employees based solely off of the impact of LLMs.
We may be splitting hairs about signed agreements and assurances. Yes there are no signed agreements. One interview with the dead Gorbachev is a source, but assurances were given by Western leaders to other people in Russia as well which are documented.

That aside, what is important is Russia was under the understanding that NATO would not expand into the former Soviet bloc countries right up to its border and create a security threat which we are seeing now play out. If you find something that Sachs got wrong, I would love to hear it.
> this argument that "LTS or distro kernels are stable" has never been true. It's been nothing but a very bad myth.

It might have some mythical aspects, but if 10 000 people have run a certain kernel/FS combination without issue for a few months - you can reasonably expect that particular set of binary artifacts to work well if you install/run them in the same way.

Now, if you change the sources, adjust the configs and compile flags - you can be less certain everything will work. That doesn't mean kernel.org kernels are unstable - it just means change drives risk (often justifiable risk).
Okay, so lets say you were going to avoid e-waste recycling because of the points you mentioned. You will need to do the following:

1. Get approval by way of an exception in the process to sell any devices still functional while still processing non functional devices through an e-waste vendor.

2. Paying someone per hour to wipe the devices to ensure no school or children's data remains, and confirming this has been done (otherwise, reputational and data loss risk).

3. Paying someone per hour to facilitate selling these devices second hand.

Keep in mind labor shortages currently across the country, and why it is cheaper to write a check, ship these devices to a shredder at the e-waste recycler, and get a certificate of destruction back that no one is going to harass you about. Colorado minimum wage is $13.65. It is ~$400 to process one ton of e-waste.
Just here to post this is another reason to get off Gumroad when you get a chance. Do NOT use Gumroad. Using Stripe directly will save you so much money. Still bitter at those exploitive jerks jacking the payments price to a total of 12.9% (and something like 17% when through PayPal).
This. It’s being priced as if the best possible case has already happened and can be taken for granted with 100% certainty, which if that’s the case, still means you’d be better somewhere else for the interim.
Chicken pox doesn't impact HSV1/2 which a lot of people have and is also implicated in this analysis. There is, however, a doctor working on a cure and vaccine for HSV1/2 that will hopefully be available within the decade.
be nice if there was a "learning" mode where it shows you where things are and then quizzes you.

like that game "Memory" or Simon says.

Also this is training you visually. wouldn't it be better to train you by feel?
That’s not the case.

If you choose to plead the fifth, the prosecution is absolutely forbidden from bringing that up the courtroom, much less using it to insinuate your guilt.

Any lawyer in the US will tell you not to speak to the police or prosecutor. At all.
Crazy it's taken them this long and they're still having problems. If it weren't for SpaceX, the whole western world would be out of manned spaceflight right now. The Russians and Chinese can fly humans, but NASA is Congressionally forbidden from dealing with China, and since 2022 dealing with Russia is off the table too. That leaves SpaceX, and this notoriously dysfunctional Starliner program.

Get your act together, Boeing.
My response was taking into account many assumptions, but Deming’s 'Out of the Crisis' is nearly 500 pages on the topic, so I can’t do him justice in a few lines.

Let me try and give you a simple illustration. So imagine you’re a new manager at an ad agency and you task a team of writers with developing some ad copy. You get the documents back and they are filled with typos. The writers are all professionals with experience and training. So you have to ask yourself, in assigning the task did I develop a stable system of copy development? The result is a major amount of rework and may increase the cost of the project or delay the deliverables to the client, so no this isn’t a stable system of production. So as the manager you need to look into the causes of failure, perhaps it was unrealistic timelines, a lack of a dictionary for use by the team, or a lack of internal process the writers should use like proofreading their work before submitting it, or lack of training on effective proofreading. There could be a number of barriers in the system that are getting in the way of quality goals that as a manager you can address.

Of course, some people are in the wrong job or incompetent and that’s another story, but Deming argued that most problems in organizations are caused by poor management and faulty processes, not by individual workers. He advocated for a systemic approach to quality improvement that involves everyone in the organization.
for some reason there is a lot of hate for PayPal among the US fintech startups... at least the ones i've dealt with... which I always thought as strange since whatever their flaws they do have half a billion money-moving users, which is a massive opportunity
Ah that explains it, I wondered about those old struct defs.
https://archive.is/x0FdI
I have no idea what it's supposed to say. I think I just put "Andy Pavlopolis" into Google Translate. It's meant to be a joke. Before I started at CMU, all of the database professors in the city of Pittsburgh (Carnegie Mellon + University of Pittsburgh) were Greek. So the joke is that the only reason that I got hired at CMU was because I pretended to be Greek with a fake Greek name.

It's in the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2MEcvMHzkY&t=4507s
But why? Your body doesn't care if the nutrients it gets are from naturally grown animals and plants or from a lab or factory, provided they are the right nutrients in the right quantities. It all gets broken down to its constituent components anyway.
the ui control is wonky...colored means unselected, black means selected (I had it the other way round and people complained so I flipped it). Make sure you have the right selections if you're not seeing it work right. I will fix it soon and make a more intuitive interface
Let me know if if fixes your problem
Thanks
> The IBM layoffs articles have been passed around executive management recently.

That IBM interview was highly speculative, and was arguably as much a smoke screen for layoffs they wanted to do anyway as it was a prediction of their future AI plans. No one at IBM has been layed off due to AI yet either, they simply "expect" they can do it in years to come, which may well be true.

I don't think this is common yet anywhere serious, as realistically you aren't going to be replacing an IC with an LLM yet, despite the hype, with very few exceptions.

Arvind Krishna is as much trying to associate IBM with the current AI investor craze as he is making a sensible statement about the future of work in that interview, and it should be seen as the investor marketing it is. IBM have done this in the past too - remember the Watson AI ads with Bob Dylan? Now no one remembers the Watson brand.

Planning to reduce headcount by 7800 people because you have awesome AI technology coming down the pipeline sounds a lot better to some investors ears than firing 7800 people because company isn't performing well, and investors are often rewarding AI news handsomely in the stock market recently.

I can't even remember the last time I saw Arvind or senior IBM staff being interviewed in the mainstream media at all before he uttered the word AI.
Agreed.

Qualitative trends are the interesting thing, not the quantitative result.
Interesting point. But some berries are quite acid. Are they also bred? Or is a lemon too big for a bird?
Breeding to kill and eat is not what symbiotic means.
I'm pretty much done with reddit at this point. It is so insanely user hostile. The frontend is a broken pile of shit. And the subreddits are echo chambers controlled by anonymous individuals with no checks and balances and no audit log. Even 4chan is more transparent than that. Every post I make gets removed, either immediately by a bot because the title wasn't in the right format or something, or just silently by a moderator without explanation.

Would really like to see an alternative that doesn't get taken over by nasty vagrants banned from other platforms.
Rishi Sunak races to tighten rules for AI amid fears of existential risk
This article is a deep dive into the complexities and nuances of data science, and I found it incredibly enlightening. The discussion with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette Wing, Ben Fried, and Michael Tingley provides a comprehensive view of data science's impact on various sectors and its potential for future growth. The concept of the analysis rubric, which includes elements like tractable data, technical approach, dependability, understandability, clear objectives, tolerance of failures, and ethical, legal, societal considerations, is a brilliant framework for understanding the multifaceted nature of data science. It's fascinating to see how data science isn't just about algorithms and models, but also about understanding societal norms, ethical implications, and the ever-changing world we live in. This article is a must-read for anyone interested in the broader implications and potential of data science.
Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years
The documentation doesn't mention capabilities [0] or required verification info [1]. I'm curious to see what they end up looking like.

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/account-capabilities

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/required-verification-inform...
Makes you wonder how someone thought this was a good idea in a browser that was an early pioneer of popup blockers. Imagine if Firefox in the 2000's had seen popup ads and said "Yeah let's get in on that action!"

At least it was a small scale experiment and not something that rolled out to the whole install base, I use Firefox on a couple of computers and didn't see it myself. But should you really need user feedback to know that inserting an overlay that looks like in-page ad content is a bad idea?
Some years ago I wanted to create LinkedOut. It was a privacy-conscious web site, where you couldn't spill any secrets because it wouldn't take any information. You got your page, which was blank, and stayed blank. A very anti-social network.

I'm pretty sure the domain name was taken already.
Actually I think that thanks to Bitcoin coming first and being bigger, Monero is able to rise in its shadow, because bitcoin as a crypto people use is like giving governments a safe environment of still being in control, with its traceability and ASIC mining by corporations that can sanction addresses and etc, if Monero was the first ever cryptocurrency it would be way more regulated and attacked as a tool for criminals and would never reach mass adoption, so it's way easier to move from Bitcoin - the coin for social media and legal tender - to Monero - the anonymous alternative -, than from your regulated and enforced fiat currency to a "criminal coin" everyone is afraid to have, making it impossible to spend and use. If Bitcoin continues to grow, so will Monero
Theres no evidence it hit anything, other then that of the Russian government who has shown itself in this conflict that it is incapable of doing anything but lying. In fact people found where it was doing deployed and theres not even any scorch marks, everything points to the thousandeth Russian lie in this war more then anything else.
The data from this study is pretty definitive that it decreases your odds, not increases them.
This – a thousand times, this.

I spent 5-6 years dealing with something like long-covid (only it started before covid). It had symptoms that seemed clearly related to an infection, but I also noticed effects that were similar to Alzheimer/dementia. Specifically sundowning.

I would become unthinkably exhausted and my mood would change drastically between the hours of about 5:00 and 8:00pm. Later in the evening, things would magically start clear up and I'd feel closer to normal.

That was, by far, the worst period of my reasonably long life, and it's still not something I'm over, I can just manage it much better. If anyone is dealing with something similar, I'm happy to talk about things that have worked for me.
Problem is that natural fruits as found in nature unmodified by humans are almost always very sour.
When headlines end with a '?' the answer is: No
Have you tried saying its name three times?
The immediate rebuttal I can think of is of course you need a Chromebook; your school is now vendor locked to Google's platform. They did this by offering deep discounts to their cloud offerings.

The point about writing is a good one that resonates with me. I grew up in the age where typewriters were dead, we would outline on paper, and then do drafts/final revisions in the computer lab. I can absolutely see why going straight to digital removes a lot of inefficiency... but I'm just still not convinced it couldn't be handled by shared machines. Having robust dedicated machines, even still in the form of a laptop, could be part of the classroom.
Not to drive into offtopic here, but it always baffled me how can humans look at results of hybrids, like a mule, a lemon, or at breeding and still claim evolution is not real.
Let me make this very clear: Generating syntactically correct code in various languages that also looks plausible is no small feat. It is, in fact, extremely impressive and will certainly have an impact on SE.

But. Every single test I ran lead to functionally wrong designs from smallish memory errors in C (that hilariously ChatGPT was able to correct ND explain when pointed to) over misplaced/hallucinated methods in python APIs to completely hallucinated perl packages. It never gave me a useful answer.

I don't know if that tells us something about my work vs. your work or my approach to the model vs yours. But it definitely tells me that such a model cannot replace a developer.
Aside: you can still get Rose's Lime Juice, which is really a cordial. It's cornsyrup heavy but still is a very nice mixer. Mix with gin for a gimlet, or with club soda for a fun soft drink for kids.
Is it somewhat like grapefruit then? Never eaten a pomelo.
You get a lot more on gumroad for that don’t you? I tried to find MoR services like Gumroad and there are a bunch, so you don’t need to use them. But it’s not that trivial to replace all they offer for that price; that depends of course on how much you sell. It becomes more interesting to move the more you make, but I would skip Stripe too and go to a ‘local’ acquirer which will tons cheaper than Stripe.

Gumroad should’ve gone about it another way; just do fixed price extra’s for instance. Ah well.
I’ve had two employers that are impossible to leave 1 star reviews for. Doesn’t matter how mundane and kind the review is, it never makes it past moderation.
Hi there
Can you send me a screenshot and tell me what iPhone it is?

I see fretboard orientation as relying on multiple techniques:
1. Notes
2. Intervals
3. Scale patterns

Notes are not the only way to orient but they're a start. I'm planning on adding more modules about intervals pretty soon
You were the one that stated that USA had hegemony in Western Europe post 1945, so that should include the UK. The Argentinian dictatorship had strong USA backing, the dictator who initiated the invasion Leopoldo Galtieri was a graduate from the US Army School of the Americas, in fact Argentina was working with the CIA in their backing of the Contras militia in Nicaragua. USAs influence over the Argentinian dictatorship just before the invasion is no secret.

As we see, USA hegemony is not sufficient for peace (even your very convenient definition of peace). However it is still not established that USA hegemony is even a necessary conditions.

First, you can mark any large cross-national territory over any arbitrary decade and find peace. Even territories with a history of war. For example, there hasn’t been large South American countries going to war with each other since 1947 either (see I can conveniently omit the Falklands War too if it fits my narrative). Heck, even the African great lakes has seen peace according to your definition since Tanzania invaded Uganda and disposed of Idi Amin in 1979. I guess Tanzanian hegemony is a thing for good.

Second there are multiple alternative hypothesis you haven’t explored. Don’t you think the UN deceleration of human rights helped with minimizing conflicts, the rise of democracy, the end of imperialism, decolonization, demilitarization, buildup of infrastructure, the European Union, etc. I find these together way more plausible then your supposed USA hegemony.
Really? I still go to Amazon to read reviews. (Even if I don't purchase from Amazon.)

It's not as helpful as it used to be, but it's still helpful enough to be worth it.
Interesting observation. I find it incredibly difficult to write queries for ChatGPT that are not biased. If you write a question mentioning two concept, the answer will almost without fail suggest a connection between the two. Whereas if you were to mention just one of them, the chance that the other concept appears in the response might be very small.
You buried the lede:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10601.pdf
StackOverflow?
AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users