skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If their establishments are open to the public, generally yes, in my opinion, within reason. And that's okay: if an entity wants to operate a business open to the public, it should be open to all the public (within reason: obviously they can't be compelled to be "open" to customers for which there is no relevant business relationship to be had). So an establishment selling only halal goods couldn't be compelled to sell non-halal goods, but it also ought not be permitted to refuse service to non-muslims.
And yet, in that very same interview, Gorby says:

The decision for the U.S. and its allies to expand NATO into the east was decisively made in 1993. I called this a big mistake from the very beginning. It was definitely a violation of the spirit of the statements and assurances made to us in 1990.

I take his word over yours.
Interesting that the mocha pot that is common in Europe for making espresso is traditionally aluminum. I wonder if that has been studied.
Did you completely miss the part

> Ms. Smith is “willing to work with all people regardless of classifications such as race, creed, sexual orientation, and gender.”

To your credit, it appears you are far from alone in missing this.

No less than a Supreme Court Justices apparently missed this fact:

"Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people. The Supreme Court of the United States declares that a particular kind of business, though open to the public, has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. The Court does so for the first time in its history." - Justice Sotomayor

:/
Then maybe mass activism is the wrong approach with such a powerful and dangerous tool as these substances.
If they keep it like this, yeah, I'd agree.
> This wasn't a hypothetical, it was an overnight run. The company that did it wasn't even trying that hard, they were spitballing ideas because they'd been asked to consider risks of their product (a safe drug discovery AI).

An undergrad can do this too. This isn't a new risk. The media is promulgating fear as it always does.

> One of the team who did it was on a podcast explaining how many of the chemicals they found didn't use controlled precursors,

What were the yields? How difficult were the synthesis paths?

> and how the company had spent the intervening time since this event telling all the governments, researchers, and chemical providers they could reach that the list of dual-use tech was much larger than anyone expected.

To try to get the field regulated so they can build a moat, maybe?

> Why do you even think that is a good response?

Honestly, I'm just as shocked at your disposition here.

We don't need laws to protect our feelings. The recent pushes to make everything into a safe space are making our culture dull and sterile. We're drawing lines around permissible thoughts and feelings and using censorship to control discourse.

Human society should be robust, not coddled.

I'm frankly terrified by all of the calls for censorship and limitations to be put on free speech.

> What's the smallest warning sign you won't dismiss? An AI version of a mass shooter?

Hyperbole.

The more people yell "fire" without concrete evidence, the more inclined I am to push back. This desire to regulate something that isn't dangerous is doing far more harm and will result in limited concentration of the economic upsides.

> That response is like responding to "cars can be dangerous, so we added crumple zones" with "If anything, the complaints I hear most often is that the fender breaks too easily in low speed collisions".

That's not a fair comparison at all because you haven't shown any harm that ChatGPT produces. How is ChatGPT causing deaths?

> <dangerous chemical>

Was this VX or simple bleach and vinegar?

> [Redacted: generates steps and chemical scheme]

I'd like to see this for myself and judge for myself.

Also, information isn't dangerous. How did we go from a culture of promoting access to information to one of censorship and restriction?

> How?

Isn't it obvious? I'm not at a lack of imagination for how to constrain intelligent systems once they arise. Scoped down, trusted computing, cordoned and firewalled off, meticulously studied and monitored, killed off on a regular interval, etc. etc. And that's probably before we'd see emergence of actual threatening capabilities.

> And also: why wait?

Our attempts to even define AGI are terrible. Because we're too premature. Similarly, attempts to regulate out of hypothetical fears will also vastly overstep what is necessary.

We're trying to regulate cars before we even have roads.
Unfortunately, the other commenters descriptions of it make it sound super shady.

Perhaps you made a bad call with this one?
You don’t exactly sound all that willing to budge yourself.
...a fictional scenario using an actual person's identity without their knowledge, even.
In my experience salary vs hours is not correlated and varies wildly across companies. I've worked for huge corporations that paid extremely well and could have easily worked ~30hrs/week and be seen as 'high performing' (impact vs effort is something to learn).

<=40hrs/week, $235k base + ~$50k/year stock (real stock) + benefits. ~18 years experience.

Check out http://www.levels.fyi for aggregate data.
IME the ones who are successful long-term and make serious money do indeed use their market knowledge, connections, and access to make real estate plays themselves. Move into owning rentals, do some flipping, that kind of thing. The easiest path seems to be having a spouse who's in a different, but relevant, career (e.g. general contractor).
You could be right. Right now we're having still a hard time with the densities. Which is why I brought up aluminium/air. You did bring up air as a situation where ICE would still be needed.

In any case none of what you brought up above contradicts my general point that ICE does not automatically mean evil.
>"Doesnt matter what their security updates are. Those are after the fact."

Of course it matters. Whether you get 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years of updates is a huge deal. Their patches' timing don't differ from that of other vendors: most vulnerabilities are fixed before disclosure, few are exploitable, even fewer are found in the wild.

>"Bezos got his nudes leaked and Jamal Khashoggi was killed."

What stupid, arrogant and inflammatory rhetoric, suggesting that the reason someone died was because of their personal choice of an iPhone instead of an Android phone. Dumb toad.

Nothing ever leaned towards there actually being an iCloud system breach. Everything points to weak guessable passwords and a lack of 2FA being the common vector for these leaks, because if there were a system breach there would have been far more victims and far higher value/content besides celebrities and their private nudes.
I'm a native Chinese speaker and this name does sound weird to me. I have never heard of 鸭屎香 (duck-shit flavour?) before reading this.
USD ~117k TC, SaaS staff engineer. I work about 42.5/47.5h a week fully remote in Switzerland and as a staff you need every minute.

Edit: Bachelor and Master in CS + 6 yoe
Gives a new meaning to “touch grass” phrase!
> I don’t see why anybody uses Spotify

Maybe the force feeding of obnoxious podcast hosts actually attracted some users?
I assume this doesn't apply to Tweets embedded on other websites?
That’s how I feel all the time, a lack of self. Never been scared by it. It’s the opposite that’s scary. That you will always be you, a solid and weighted thing, a thing of blood and memory.
Yeah I went from Vyvanse to XR to IR over the last 7 years and am happy with IR. I feel as though my ADHD symptoms are mitigated appropriately and the side effects are virtually non existent. Vyvanse was great for productivity but I felt like an absolute laser-focused robot and was not at all pleasant to be around.
One correction: ads are not like spam. Ads are spam.
Thank you, that sent me down a Wikipedia crawl which connects the Higgs field to superconductivity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism#Simple_explana...

This is a terrible analogy, I apologize in advance because I don't fully understand it yet, but:

We think of empty space as empty because its symmetry isn't broken, so it looks transparent to our matter as we move through it. Similarly to how electrons pair up to form cooper pairs, which act like bosons and pass through the atoms of a superconductor without interacting:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/171132/what-is-t...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/273894

But the Higgs field permeates space, so if we could pick and choose where to interact with it, we could "grab" it and propel ourselves. This would be analogous to a magnet levitating on a superconducting ring, just like this video but imagine that the track is the superconductor and the puck is the magnet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWojYBhvfjM

If we built a puck with two electromagnets, we could power up one of them above the critical field of the superconductor and form a resistive section which the other magnet would be drawn to or repulsed from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_field

By alternating the strength of the two magnets, the track would stop behaving as empty space, and the puck could accelerate along it like a maglev train. A similar technique should work with the Higgs field.

I don't know how much the Higgs field "weighs", so I don't know how much of a reactive force we would get for the force applied. My guess is that it either wouldn't be higher than light pressure, or that the probability of an interaction would stay beneath what's required to beat light pressure. As in, this may be tied to how often a photon splits into an electron-positron pair, with the remaining energy bleeding off as heat or entropy. But it would be a fun experiment to run.

I just want to add that physics terminology and notation is too big to fit in the human mind, like trying to memorize a 100 digit phone number. The same problem exists in functional programming, where stuff like monads and y combinators just won't stick in a mind trained on imperative programming. So there's a very real limit to what we can understand. No matter how long we study this stuff, we can never connect all of the dots, or see faint relationships between distant concepts. IMHO this problem is getting worse with time, despite the advances in stuff like the Standard Model.

But AI doesn't have that problem. Within 10-20 years, it will infer how to modulate stuff like the weak force and gravity with electromagnetism in a practical way. If the aliens can do it we can do it! Or we can at least build machines to tackle the problem faster than we ever could. And if that's true, then why bother keeping research secret? It's gonna all come out eventually.

Edit: added the Higgs mechanism derivation from superconductivity. Also wanted to add that axions (if they exist) only interact with gravity and electromagnetism, making them a potential bridge between the two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion
TSMC Suffers Data Breach, Hackers Demand $70M
Bruxism is bad enough that I’d wager it outweighs any damage from the microplastics. We know people live with microplastics now, whereas bruxism will gradually destroy your joints, teeth, gums, and stress your muscles.

But apart from the guard there are some things you can do to reduce it. There’s apnea testing, and also things you can wear to monitor it and get biofeedback. Also stress reduction, quitting alcohol/caffeine/chcocolate, some jaw exercises (rocabado), massage, physio, jaw alignment and teeth alignment, etc
Crypto seems to be circling the drain due to regulatory action, so I wouldn't be so skeptical about the power of the state to stifle things wants to.
The article suggests they make lots of money from partnerships with people like mcdonalds to bring people near to a branch by putting pokestops there. I'd guess the deal is along the lines of "we'll pay you 30 cents for each person you get to our front door".

For that to work, you don't want a few whales - you want as many hungry mcdonalds lovers as possible...
This is always great to see.

Something I’ve never understood with opposition to denser zoning is the following. If the land is up zoned surely it’s market value increases in turn because the range of what can be built on it increases? Your house might be worth $X amount as a single family home but if your land were incorporated into a new apartment complex which has 4-5x more homes in the same space, it is objectively worth more, right? Where then, does the common belief that an increase in housing decreases home value arise?

Never made sense to me.
I believe you are confusing Type I diabetes and Type II diabetes.

Type I diabetes your immune system destroys your insulin producing cells. You need to provided all of your insulin via injection/pump.

Type II diabetes is more akin to insulin resistance / inability to produce the correct amount of insulin. (It is more subtle then this in reality). Type II diabetes is tied to levels of activity and food (esp high sugar) intake.

In Type I diabetes, there is usually a genetic component as well as an environment event which causes the unfortunate autoimmune response. This article is talking specifically about a significant uptick in Type I diabetes cases.
We at Adaptive[1] extensively use hurl.dev to automate our testing. All our internal product flows are tested via hurl. It is the best thing that we have ever implemented in our org to stabilize the product. Everytime before we deploy, we run bunch of automated tests written in hurl, for onboarding, signups, critical flows etc. That are containerized and can run in parallel. We have been building internal tools around hurl.dev too.

I really would recommend this tool. Nice thing is even analyst and business users can build these tests as it is fairly easy to pickup.

[1] https://adaptive.live
Actually I cancelled it after a month. I had moved from Tokyo back to Canada and didn't realize how far things had gone.

Your point stands in general.
Don't use kambo at all, period. That shit is seriously dangerous. Edit: had to google rapé. Don't use rapé either, which is just a name for nicotina rustica, a tobacco plant that has a lot more nicotine than normal tobacco. So unless you're a smoker already, it will just make you vomit a lot. And it could even kill you since nicotine is extremely acutely toxic.

And in general, I would recommend against travelling to the rainforest to take ayahuasca. It's not going to do anything for you that you can't do with some locally growing mushrooms, or a fitting synthetic drug(2c-b is very safe, for instance). You're much better off integrating and going through the experience with friends and family than a bunch of complete strangers.
I use ib-insync with asyncio and it is surprisingly easy, the most difficult is order management. Jason Brownlee’s SuperFastPython was the most approachable asyncio explanation I found.
Technically, isn't the ruling that the website designer can refuse to create same-sex wedding content? If the same-sex couple commissioned a website for a hetero wedding, the designer would be obligated, right?

It's a subtle distinction, but legally important.

Things get really messy because it's tough to disentangle the content from those commissioning the website in the case of a same-sex wedding.

Don't get me wrong: I hold these web designers in low regard. However, my understanding is that this ruling isn't as bad as the headline suggests.
Wild does not mean wrong, just contrary to the dominant narrative.

We've just lived through the century of Bernays when propaganda/advertising came into its own. The science of manipulation was developed. But humans haven't changed significantly, so we're just as susceptible as we were in the early 1900s.

Even though I think RFK Jr is wrong about some of it, not taking enough factors into account, I welcome anyone's wild stances when backed with empirical evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tyra_Hunter
Recounting the History of Math’s Transcendental Numbers
A universal truth in economics is that if you subsidize something, you get more of it. If you tax something, you get less of it.

The government uses this to good ends all the time. It's why we have very heavy taxes on gasoline and cigarettes: we want people to burn less gas and to smoke less. And we offer tax rebates for upgrading your house with better windows, and so forth.

Forgiveness of student loans is just a subsidy of student loans. Subsidies give you more of it, which means that the more student loans we subsidize, the more student loans we'll have.

Notice the exact words just above. I didn't say that if we subsidize student loans, we'll necessarily get more education, or that we'll get better educated people - because that's not what's being subsidized here! If we're subsidizing loans, we can expect people to take on more debt! But this doesn't necessarily lead to more actual education being done, because that's not what's being subsidized here.

Of course, that doesn't prove the converse. It doesn't prove that education doesn't increase; just that we have no real reason to expect that it will.
Right, this is like explaining the probability of a plane crash is statistically insignificant to someone who has a fear of flying. They can grok the logic and still _feel_ terror.
I imagine the individuals affected might care. It’s also unlikely a destructive buologically change will only affect a single system.

And unlikely that this same cause would spare animals while only affecting humans. We do want animals to reproduce too…..
Building a url-shortener with just AWS Lambda
The parts that make them bad are mostly about trying to make the houses look (even) bigger than they are, and making them look fancier than they are as cheaply as possible.

That kind of inept, absurd pretension is a recipe for comedy.
Headline from today:

> SEC says Bitcoin ETF filings are inadequate

Sorry for your loss
Sucralose saw a recent study on effects of DNA that are more compelling than Aspartame. Acesulfame-K messes with pancrease and insulin signalling, Stevia has other detractors iirc... etc. etc.

In the end, it's all a mixed bag, and who knows if it's actually better or worse than consuming more than 25-40mg of fructose or alcohol in a day. There are massive corporate interests in all directions with deep revolving doors in regulatory and research bodies. It's effectively impossible to know.

Is it a variety/strain of food that was considered "food" 250+ years ago? Probably safe. Is it a new strain that has a multiplier of hystamine or other negative hormonal responses, or in a consumption that is a multiple of 250+ years ago? Probably not safe. That's my take.
Only 6MB/sec? That would be lightning fast when I first started to use USB flash drives. I have used USB 1.1 drives which are rated a mind boggling ~900kB/sec sustained transfer speeds.

Good Kingstons did 5MB/sec, top of the line ones did 11MB/sec.
Why can't implementations tree-shake through require(x) where x can be determined statically and warn where x cannot?
There's a bit of snake oil in all of that.

By any means ML is a very specialized subfield, where you need solid math basis and a deep understanding of the science behind it all.

But I struggle to see the same thing for AI. If by "AI engineers" you mean someone who builds an LLM*, then it's very much just ML. If you mean someone who integrates with the LLM someone else built, then it's very much just backend work. Sure, you might need a few days to understand a few concepts, I've integrated with Paypal in the past and that doesn't make me a payment for engineer.

* wont even get into the argument of labelling LLMs with AI
Ya I bought it a year ago in an all out effort to excise ads from my life. But I still have my pi-hole, that will do for now, goodbye YT!
What you're saying is nonsense. How is the desire to have something drawn for you all that different from the desire to have a website created for you? It's essentially the same.
This would require a substantial increase in workforce for Reddit. I’m not sure this is plausible.
I really need to dedicate some time to studying that. It sounds like a really solid way to host containers.

Compared to the mess that is ansible+ubuntu, it must be an improvement.
I think there's a pretty clear line with this sort of thing that we'll eventually settle around.

Let me start with the hypothetical illustration. Michaelangelo was a devout catholic. If a Muslim sultan had captured him and forced him to create works of art that offended his personal values, do we really believe that he would have been capable of producing his best works of art, or even items of the same caliber as those he regularly created? Of course not. He would have created art for sure, but without the spark that comes from his passion, there is no physical force in existence that could have prodded him to paint his best masterpieces.

So then neither should a court force a modern day expression of artistic creation when it goes against the personal values of the creator.

Most of these cases boil down to someone wanting work involving a not insubstantial amount of creativity by a craftsman who holds opposing viewpoints. Even if we force them to do so at gunpoint, they won't create at the same standards because it will be intrinsically impossible to coerce creativity. Should we then punish them for that? Of course not.

Now on the other extreme, I don't think there's any real principled disagreement that can be had by forbidding McDonalds from discriminating who can buy a cheeseburger. It's a mass produced item, devoid of creativity at the point of production. What I mean is that all the creativity has already happened at the corporate office and we see merely the works of distributed assembly. There's no discernable difference between a McChicken assembled under coercion and one by incentive.

Of course there's a murky line in there, but insofar as a work involves creativity, it ought not be compelled.

For example: a wedding cake bakery. Mixing the dough and baking it is not a creative act - it's a well practiced procedure sourced previous creative endeavors that don't need repeating. A bakery serving the public ought not to be able to refuse an undecorated, baked rectangular cake to anyone if its part of a product regularly produced. Beyond that, you start to get into exercising creativity with frosting, however simple and I think you should not be compelled to exercise your creativity.
Feces may indeed not be as repulsive in other cultures, especially Asian ones, if the origins of the infamous poop emoji and the related https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=58630 are any indication.
No it doesn't. I've never heard "bum" to mean the verb you imply, in America.

It can still mean borrow.

"fag" obviously has different meanings, but the phrase just wouldn't parse for most Americans.
I figure if cake can be protected speech surely a ham on rye with a side of fries can be.
Hot dog doesn’t sound tasty (curiously, in Brazil, we translated it literally from the term in English).