skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could download the raw sequence reads (FASTQ files) and map them to the new T2T-Y. Probably it makes more sense to wait for a new release of the T2T human genome reference, as mapping to a subset of the genome increases false positives. It helps to have some genome bioinformatics knowledge to correctly handle those T2T references.
He didn't ask about programming languages.
> Salaries have largely stayed the same

Salaries for the top 10% or so have increased significantly over the years. Of course it still pales in comparison to how much the incomes of the top 1% increased over the same period (meaning there is enough money/productivity to pay everyone more)
I think the missing "How" at the start of the submission title is pretty important...
Games collection is awesome - Tetris and Wolfenstein 3D
Is this for drinking water? And what depths can be reached with this method? I wish these were stated more clearly; I’m guessing “not drinking”, based on:

> It is great for saving money on watering your lawn and irrigating a garden.

Off topic: as a non native English speaker, the title made me pause. As in, why would I want to drill my water and do it well?… oh, water well, right.
>> This is what happens when the Wozniak's of the World

Yes, surely this is proof that every talented coder is only useful when serving a preening egomaniac. I mean, who else is gonna handle all the hard work of getting publicity and taking credit for things?
>The real world has many trillions of parameters.

But at any given time you're probably only going to require some millions or double digit billions, unless you're a nation state or something like that.
> earning 3k a month means you're upper middle class in France

Maybe in a poor rural area.
I can think of a myriad of things such as enabling a feature that was previously disabled/in development, updates to calibration values/curves, tweaking timing and power saving control registers, etc.

Any of these could throw off a third party part if not implemented exactly the same way.
Surely the DDossers will just use some of their botnets for generating the POWs? I don't think I fully understand the scheme. Is the idea that as the attack progressed this would consume more and more of their resources making an attack impractical? Surely in that scenario more and more of the real traffic's resources would be consumed by them having to solve puzzles also, so Tor would in effect be cooperating with the attackers and DDosing all of the valid clients ?
Software Apprentices Will Need Insights, Not Buzzwords
Oh, I remember seeing that one some months ago and being super impressed! It inspired me to to make my own version of it, that even though I got bored with was a nice challenge to have. When you start making your own version, it gives some insight of how much work it really takes to build something like that, and it really is just wow.

At some point I humored the idea of using that type of a setup for our online system, but doubt the end-users are ready for that kind of a web ui just yet.
That only works if the generated outputs are completely independent and not correlated. I'd be interested in research that shows whether multigen actually reduces hallucination rates.
I also have API access, but this was from the web
Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years - 13 exabytes/day of transfers
A big part of the problem is the fed that literally pursues a monetary policy that intends to suppress real wage growth. This is why wages are flat for 30 years.
In the shortest

> The 11 factors are age, education, a history of diabetes, a history of depression, a history of stroke, parental history of dementia, levels of deprivation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, living alone and being male

and

> While older age (60 and above) and APOE confer the greatest risk, modifiable factors, such as diabetes, depression, and high blood pressure also have a key role. For example, the estimated risk for a person with all of these will be approximately three times higher

About the original research article, we are (as is relevant) glad we could pretty quickly translate the literal

https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/looup/doi/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300719

into

https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/loo\*k\*up/doi/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300719

and get to

https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e300719

--

Update:

this is very interesting: a service called altmetric collects stats about the attention received by the article, including a list of news outlets that published divulgative reports:

https://bmj.altmetric.com/details/153198692/news
IDK, a mechanism that helps Tor continue to run does not seem like a 'wasted', 'needless' computation to me. People literally use Tor to protect themselves in situations that might result in heavy penalties for exposing the truth (maybe even torture or death.) If hidden nodes can be easily DDoSed it just makes it easier to censor the facts (and that can be dangerous.) Tor really does represent the best of us.
>What needs to happen is that the average salary can provide a citizen with a comfortable and simple life (housing/shelter, food, clothing, etc.).

This is a moving target that can never be met. We can already provide all of that for very cheap if people are willing to accept standards from some decades ago. But they aren't. They want the expensive stuff.

When I was growing up the main part of the meal was potatoes/rice/pasta. Meat was a few times a week (too rarely) and there were no fancy sauces/condiments on it. Why? Because it was cheap.
All this "AI" garbage bots are being filtered on IP level for me.
> This entire piece is based on one massive, unsupported assertion, which is that LLM progress will cease.

Which is countered by...the assertion that it won't?

LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO. They are sequence completion engines. They can be fine tuned to specific tasks, but at their core, they remain stochastic parrots.

> I want to know only one thing, which is what gives him the confidence necessary to say that.

I want to know only one thing, what gives the confidence to say otherwise?
A scalar triple product identity
Looks identical to snapdrop.net (before the domain shut down)
Nice setup, congrats! The part of verifying backups via dev resonates with me. Only I'm doing it manualy from time to time. Do you mind sharing your scrips? I'd love to "upgrade" my backups for my mssql.
Yes, there is extra information in the first cells, in particular regulatory elements such as miRNAs. The headline here is epigenetics.
I feel a joke coming on.

Mother: "Amy, dear, you hardly touched any of your vegetables. Most of them are still on your plate."

Amy: "That's not true, Mom; I completely sequenced them into my tummy using the shotgun method."
If Apple doesn't want crap parts being used by repair shops they should sell the parts in the open market, regardless of the shop being in a "repair program", like every car manufacturer does

It's that simple.
There is sense in which the core essence of capitalism is derivable from the entropic laws of nature.

Consider an active entity with a finite lifetime (e.g. child, factory). A production function can be defined as the net balance of flows in/out of the entity. This could be resources, energy, money.

As time progresses after t=0 (pregnancy, project plan), the production curve starts off negative (even a self-employed craftsman has to buy tools), perhaps it dips more negative (debt, nurture/education).

Eventually the curve slopes upward and crosses the breakeven point. Growth slows, the curve reaches a maximum positive value, then falls asymptotically toward zero, maybe going a little negative, before being truncated (death, scrap - even funerals and demolition cost money).

The net contribution is the area under the curve.

Resources have to be invested before there can be any benefit. The fact of any final net positive contribution is uncertain at the outset.
re: nix-darwin — can be thought of emulation of nixOs for the mac. Pros of nixOs (reproducible, declarative etc.) for development on macOS
There's a few places they're around on the south coast of Australia and also the the coast of New Zealand, however those are fairy/little penguins [1] which are the smallest species (30cm/12in), whereas the article is referring emporer penguins [2] which are the largest (100cm/39in) and live much much further south.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_penguin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_penguin
I would much rather experiment with decoration and decluttering. VR still seems dystopian and depressing, or perhaps I haven't been exposed long enough to just accept it as normal like we do with phone staring.

Do you have any personal tech projects that you could dump in favor of some nontechnical activity, so you could get out of the office more, and maybe feel less oppressed when you're there?

(Note: I'm super biased here and like, 80% of my current philosophy on tech is just getting rid of small scale experimental hacky stuff, or if it's cool enough to keep doing, keeping it contained and not building it into your life, and I realize a lot of people deeply enjoy being surrounded by custom things made for one person).
When the "fine tuning" and focus on tooling begins, it usually means the "free" massive improvements have tapered off.
Same thing as a Commando of few soldiers can accomplish focused tasks very effectively.

But you still need an army to hold ground. Guerilla tactics only get you that far.

Same in business, you can have very focused teams when you are a startup, aiming to disrupt. When you start to be the one in the place, you'll focus will change.

Exactly the same analogy of why political leaders don't leverage the same agenda/people when they rise to power amd whem they are.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs which takes ideas from the book "The Dictator's Handbook

I guess that also explains enshitification...
> if progressives take the view that identity issues are fundamental moral principles and are too important to brook any compromise, that encourages people with the non-progressive view to see it the same way

It works both ways though. Both sides - progressive and reactionary - build up these issues to be all-or-nothing on the one hand, while on the other working constantly to make smaller moves.

Progressives say “it’s always okay for trans people to do everything, trans rights are human rights and trans lives matter” - but we’re happy to see trans discrimination outlawed at a federal employment level.

Reactionaries say “god made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” or “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” or whatever other utterly inane schoolyard rhyme they’re pretending should direct the policy of a modern democratic nation - but they’re happy to see the FIDE ban trans people from participating in chess tournaments.

Each side is treating these issues the same way - I honestly do not think questioning the way the issues are treated is a useful exercise at this point. Will LGBTQ issues be better ‘solved’ by treating them differently? Or are demands to examine the treatment themselves a tactic to distract from or else discredit the issue itself?

Like - how is this article not just tone-policing basically. “Oh you’d find people much more willing to grant you the same rights they grant others if you’d just ask for it nicer. If you’d just wait for when the time is right.” How is that not just avoiding the issue?

I’m not so impressed with this piece basically.
> Why is it always the same reply?

When there's one definitive answer to something that people keep repeating there's a slight chance that it's actually true. Shocking, I know.
Yes, Your Electric Vehicle Could Be Hacked
it really does, it came up with multiple wrong dockerfiles for me yesterday, but it seems to correct it when you tell it
Yes, I think the Terraform license change is an opportunity. For me, something like Crossplane is much more attractive than going to a community fork of Terraform. Cloud Native, continuous reconciliation loop, all the k8s tooling available, an API (k8s) out of the box and an open governance as it is a CNCF project.
How does it affect susceptibility to cancer?
The point wasn’t that what I came up with is necessarily likely or possible though, just that maybe it will turn out there's life, i.e. some self-reproducing evolving thing that doesn't store its instructions for self-reproduction in a molecule in a solution. As for physical processes we haven't heard of, I was thinking of things that's not chemistry, but could reproduce some patterns. Some examples we have in technology is photography or photolithography.
They don't optimize for it and I suppose the data distribution is primarily aimed at parallel OLTP rather than OLAP. Just wanted to mention that design-wise it is similar but that's indeed not all there is to it.
I'd be hesitant to store large volumes of data on a single PG instance; don't see how a single-writer, filesystem-based database is suitable at all for data that is large enough to warrant columnar storage
That's an interesting take!
Currently I see two reasons why I wouldn't do that:

1 - Since I'm either working for game companies or for my own project (https://fsd-wargame.com/) using AI-generated things is kinda damaging in terms of marketing. You never know when some uproar could arise against a project/game solely based on more or less petty outcries against AI. I generally sympathize with artists, but sometimes it's just whiny.

2 - My illustrations are line-art and cartography (https://www.artstation.com/thelazyone) , which are not the easiest to handle with AI. I'm sure that with enough effort there's gonna be a good model, but I haven't seen any so far.
as a counterpoint if we’re doing anecdotes:

i had adhd diagnosed as a kid, medicated for a while, then stopped. didnt do great in school, just ok. struggled at uni with timekeeping and grades. made it decently, and then had some decent jobs.

got quite lucky, but always had issues with social skills and being too talkative. eventually got a tough job that needed a lot of personal initative and went back on meds. vyvanse has changed my life, allowed me to focus on my thoughts, keep organised, and not only helped me excel, but also fix my sleep schedule, get promoted, and just generally live like a normal person.
Money might move from capital to labor, but you aren't getting any extra production of goods. The stuff labor wants to buy still has the same amount of scarcity. Ie you will get inflation.

You need to encourage more (efficient) production to make labor better off.
Well said. The setup clearly was an (IMO schlocky) parody of the genre. The meat of it: neuro-linguistic hacking, the raft, the devastating gun called “reason” that was all superb and faithful to the genre.
They have a $5/month "starving hacker" subscription level. Morally you ought not to use it if you can afford more, but I expect they'd rather you use it than give them no money at.

Personally, I pay for "project leader" level ($16.00/month) so I can give them a bit more... But I'm not up to "maniacal supporer" ($50.00/month)!
Most folks seem adverse to learning CSS. In contemporary times they’ll go as far as to add 44 cryptic utility class names to element to avoid writing a line of the stuff.
If it's 11 factors as broad as "age, education, a history of diabetes, a history of depression, a history of stroke, parental history of dementia, levels of deprivation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, living alone and being male", might as well give up and not do anything preventive...
If it's anything like Stable Diffusion, it's actually where it becomes terrifyingly good at a specific thing.

Like putting a field of artists out of a job, or copying a style so good that you can complete a persons piece before they do on a livestream.

We're using a massive mush of the internet model which is taxed at 50% for alignment. That's going to be very dumb in the long run.
Is this an AI generated piece?
I get tripped when I see sentences like this 'To see this word list more clearly, this is illuminating:'
Just hook the LLMs to a robot arm and watch another, much larger wave of AI innovation
> Is ingestion of copyrighted material as part of the model training process an infringement itself? I say no - it is equivalent to a human going to a library and reading all the books there.

It might be Fair Use for other reasons, but any argument that uses an “it’s like a human doing X” analogy is, legally, misguided. The courts simply do not see machines as being legally analogous to human brains. Humans can “copy" content into their brains through their senses and its not only not a copyright violation, its not legally a copy for which you need to do anything like fair use analysis, copy it, even lossily, into a machine where it is non-transiently stored, then it is, legally, a copy, and a violation unless an exception like Fair Use applies.

> Is the output of copyrighted material from a model infringement? Yes, obviously.

Again, only if it is actually a copy and not coincidence, and only if exceptions like Fair Use don't apply. It may be that training is more likely to be Fair Use than inference is—I’ve seen good arguments that don’t rely on treating machines as analogs of humans for that—but if you are copying copyright protected material, lossily or not, with a machine, it's going to be infringement unless an exception to copyright, like Fair Use, applies.
For reference: The annual median TSMC salary in Taiwan including bonus was 58k USD in 2021.

(https://old.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/sulof6/tsmc_employe...)
Color Manager, recoloring and manipulating your icon packs, themes, wallpapers
I finished building several new ponds last year, sited on a small seasonal creek here on my farm. One of them has a small island in it, because it worked out that it took very little extra effort.

I haven’t told my wife that I want to dig a trench to the center of the island, create an even smaller pond, containing its own tiny island.

Seriously, islands represent solitude, something that is scarce in the modern age. I totally get the appeal, and my farm is already in the middle of nowhere.
The web interface seems to be the one they notoriously nerf the most. Far fewer complaints vs the API - though it is faster and more convenient.

I'd kill to have an easy, wont-get-me-banned-way to submit a query to both the UI and API at the same time and show the results in, say, meld or so.
Just gotta say I absolutely love Obsidian. I've been using it for about 6 months now and I'm continuously blown away at how versatile it is. Canvases were such an incredible addition. The plugins from the community are top notch.
That isn't quite true anymore since wasm got traction. There really is a lot of tooling around getting your go code to run even in browsers!
We had the idea to drill one to here in Germany, but having drilled it doesn‘t mean you can use it as long as you please. Ground water levels are falling and eventually it will be forbidden.

But we also have a 13k liter cistern and with drip irrigation it holds reasonably long.
He's a French figure and they do make movies too. The last one is from 2009 and then there's the 1991 one with Terrence Hill who was already a Cowboy parody all by himself.
It's a totally coherent position to hold that the name 'ADHD' gestures at a real thing, but also reject the medicalization of that thing (or, more weakly, that that thing can/should be addressed solely medically). The predominance of the 'medical lens' in addressing cognitive differences is reflected in the language available for naming and describing those things, whether you actually agree with it or not.

The notion that ADHD 'really is' a neurological disorder and 'really isn't' anything else misunderstands the purpose of psychiatric diagnostic categories like ADHD in the first place. Psychiatrists and psychologists aren't in the business of ontology, and clinicians especially aren't.

Take it from someone who has it: this is a stupidly narrow way to think about ADHD.
True, I'm just throwing multigen out there as a wild ass solution
However you could do multigen across different models, e.g. GPT/Claude/LLaMA which should not correlate entirely
I grew up in the US and have American citizenship. My partner is not American, but he has an in-demand skillset and has numerous standing job offers in the US that pay much higher than any job he could get in his home country.

Yet when we became a couple, we opted to settle in his country, not mine. My quality of life improved when I moved away.

The US is a lovely place to visit. We go as often as we can. But it's not a good place to raise a family and grow old.
>I think not all deaf people have the same mapping of words and their precise phoneme to the typical expected muscle movements. If this mapping differed from a regular person this system would not be that useful on the interpreting speech side.

...unless it could be trained on the individual?
IMF Fossil Fuel Subsidies Data: 2023 Update
> Interactive Runbooks exist in some sort of tech-debt limbo where you have enough time to write a nice little runbook but apparently not enough time to properly automate whatever the task is

I think this is a really common place to fall into. Automating 100% of conditions is hard, but having a google-doc full of bash commands is kinda meh.

One of my previous teams decided on a "Maintainer Lambda" which would help with some tasks we couldn't automate fully. The Lambda could either make an action (trigger a db backup, trigger a bounce, etc) or it could perform some query (find FQDN hostname of server where ${INPUT} metric is in alarm). It'd help with calling complex APIs (eg. AWS APIs) repeatably, and testable, and it'd handle any permissions and input validations. The Lambda had unit testing, and it could run automatically under certain limited conditions. Over time, we've added to it, and let it handle more tasks, as long as it'd log it's actions in a ticket (eg. drain server, then auto-bounce on mem-full alarm).

We'd embed cURL scripts into the runback doc, to trigger the functions manually. But the biggest win was whenever we got an automated ticket, for things like alarming metrics, it'd auto-run and parse the ticket, spitting out useful commands into the comments that the on-call could run (eg. copy+paste'able SSH-to-host commands based on which server triggered alarm). It's basically a reverse-run book. Instead of looking up what to do, we let the ticket tell us what to do, then slowly automate those steps.
Wow, nice. Thanks for the explanation! This is fascinating stuff. I’m looking by forward to giving it a trial run.
Automatic differentiation feels magical.

Many compsci people have been captivated by it and wrote introductions, trying to put the technique into a wider perspective. Here is mine, including a "poor man's variant" of automatic differentiation which does without operator overloading, but uses complex numbers instead:

https://pizzaseminar.speicherleck.de/automatic-differentiati...
I don't encounter a lot of "small", one-copy-paste-size problems in my daily work that I couldn't quickly solve myself, so I haven't found a lot of use for ChatGPT while coding, yet. (I reckon this is changing though.)

However a few times there have been some mechanical refactoring-style grunt work I've delighted to have been able to let ChatGPT do. However, the rate ChatGPT is giving me subtly wrong results is just high enough that I end up cross-checking everything, and then it takes me a bit more time than it would've otherwise taken. Give it a year or two, maybe?
Climate change will hit holidaymaking
Threaded or asynchronous tasks can have multiple exceptions result from a single source event, think 2/5 tasks having a problem. Currently there’s a few library specific ways to handle this and the Python team want to standardise.