skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He has been a paid consultant for pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, McNeil, Janssen-Orth, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Shire, Takeda pharmaceuticals, and Theravance"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Barkley
Do folks really watch these hours long videos? Or more so do they come back and watch them after the fact?

I get the whole twitch thing (I mean I think I get it, with folks watching video games) but after it’s recorded, that’s where I’m curious.
Now split the remote workers on whether they are being hauled back to the office sometime shortly.
Here's some terrible, unholy advice along the lines of violating "don't cross the streams":

Setup a WINS server.

WINS, ancient and depreciated, and "they" say it should never be needed anymore, will act as a "cat herder" in a workgroup environment.

The nice part about WINS is the server requires no configuration. You start the service and point the clients to it and that's it. Configure your DHCP server to hand out the WINS address and you're done. There's a good chance your problems may disappear.
FYI, last code update on the repo was Sept 22, 2022. seems inactive already
why computer in openAI have magic can let author lose their copyright ? you know, because they have a magical algorithm?
Battery's a pretty big fucking deal on a laptop tho.
...the Monster would likely be the well-funded R&D team-project of some global corporation.

Resident Evil, the Umbrella Corporation.

Or, further back, Bubblegum Crisis, Genom Corporation.
Points taken on methodology, don't have enough knowledge to speak much further on it constructively but I would say my intuition is that "stuck to" is not that much different to "absorbs into the outermost layers of" although I would like to know more about what's going on molecularly, and will look into it. I'm also not sure the distinction between PFAS introduction in manufacturing vs washing/distribution is that important to this study - does that distinction matter to the end user of the straw who is looking to reduce PFAS intake?

On coatings: If you're a glass factory who has been pumping out say, PFAS coated glass beakers for years and then you decide to get into the straw game, why not coat those too if your beaker customers like the coating? Doesn't seem like much additional cost at 'shipping container scale' if you're running the coating shop anyway. And, I believe polymeric glass coatings can be attached 'for life' these days. Again I'm not an expert but I believe they are applied to smart phones, solar panels, exteriors of buildings, etc.

Cynically, a coating doesn't even have to stick around to be important enough to spend money on. Maybe it falls off immediately but just keeps the straws smudge free during packing with 20% less time on washing or something. Given the social understanding to wash new food grade stuff before use, I don't believe is a situation out of the ordinary.

I'd like to know more about all this as someone who uses glassware for ingested items - will do more research.
To be clear, there absolutely is evidence climate engineering can be done quickly: we may have ready done it by moving to and then from sulphur bearing marine fuels over the course of a couple decades:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...
As others have asked in this thread, what does "fully sequenced" mean to the layman?
Copyrighted content was not _copied_ into the training corpus?
The book does not exist verbatim within the model. You cannot open the model and find the full text of some copyrighted work anywhere.

The model just trains a set of weights for a neural network, then probabilistically generates text in response to prompts.

And yeah, humans "input entire books verbatim" (aka, reading) and then regurgitate that knowledge later when they determine it is likely to be an appropriate response to a question or comment from someone else. It's really not that different. It doesn't even have to be a fact. How many responses on the Internet are just quotes from movies or TV shows?
There can be more than one problem.
Also, fashion (clothing, homewares, home interiors, vehicles, etc) is such a driver of sales that it's hard to neuter. Meaning that people are constantly striving to earn and replace things that are unfashionable but completely usable in a practical sense.
If we don’t reign in our fetish with copyrights, China will be happy to become the world leader in AI.
EELS robot might help JPL look for life on watery worlds
>The entire global ecosystem faces collapse IMO within 10 years or so.

Gonna be that guy and point out 10 years ago someone was saying we face collapse in 10 years.

Fearmongering like a broken record does not change the fact that it's fearmongering.
I have used many different programming languages (including BASIC, C, Python, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, and others), even with powerful abstractions (which I can understand how helpful they are), and I still think C is better, and mostly use C. There are improvements which could be made (and I have some ideas of such), but most of the stuff I have seen is usually just worse instead. Some GNU features are good though, and can be used in C, so I often use them.
"We are quickly reaching the limits of current AI"

So many words in this piece, but nothing to back up this primary assertion.
https://archive.md/MEfg2
Looks amazing. Would you ever consider using Claude as well?

I prefer to use Claude for code generation if using a newer framework or language (the 2021 cutoff with gpt-4 is unfortunate)
Apple supports right-to-repair bill
I started something here about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37121384
They mean they have obtained the complete sequence for a particular Y chromosome that is considered to be a "reference" chromosome. This is similar to what was done for all the other chromosomes.
It would be a worsening problem if we stopped burning fossil fuels today; we’re already committed to more warming. Seas take a while to get up to the new thermal equilibrium.
I don't usually comment but just wanted to say that I absolutely love Obsidian. I have been using it every day for about 2 years now and my life would not be the same without it. It's amazing. I also gladly pay for Sync, it's more than worth it.
Many genes are highly conserved or consistent enough. E.g.: if there's a 1% difference between two people, then it's a bit like two very unique sentences that have a couple of small typos. They're sill recognisable, and it's also still pretty obvious that they're the "same".

A gene sequence allows researchers to determine the amino acids that are coded for, and from those, which proteins match which genes.

This can be matched up with genetic diseases. If you know that damage to a certain location in a chromosome causes a problem with a certain biological process, then ergo, the associated protein is needed for that process!

So: genetic illness -> gene sequence -> protein -> role in the body

Without sequencing, that chain can't be built.
What would you consider "actual change"? Just last year, the US passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is by far the largest investment in addressing climate change in US history. I'm sure there's a million other things that could and should be done, but it's not like people are just completely ignoring the issue. This is a problem centuries in the making; it will not be cleaned up overnight.
“The study found 130 and 42 deaths among staff at the two schools in Beijing between December 2022 and January 2023. Men accounted for 76% of deaths in Beijing, with 80% being 85 or older marking it higher than any deaths combined in the 85 year and older age group before the pandemic and during the pandemic's first three years.”

So it kills teachers fast and olds. Fodder for the Anti Public School and Social Security savings fans.
Okay, so "absorb" sounds like it's not be the exact right word. I am a layman here. But how long does it take for the outer few layers of glass to achieve a level of PFAS density which is meaningful to people seeking to use those outer layers? Do diffusion calculations offer insight into this?
So was I and everyone I know.
https://archive.is/NvD7g
I would imagine all sorts of genes are necessary to have blue eyes depending on how you look at it. After all, you need eyes in order to have blue eyes, and a whole bunch of other machinery to open them to check the color...
Almost every significant character in the recent limited series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a Frankenstein's monster and there were multiple doctor Frankensteins, some corporate and some freelance, competing against each other.
Indeed there hasn't been much movement on that project in a while. My project was inspired by OS.js and a few others like Windows 93.

It's been actively maintained since I started it nearly 3 years ago. I hope to work on it for a long time to come. If interested in checking out the repo it's on GitHub as daedalOS.

My personal website is the demo: https://dustinbrett.com/
https://archive.is/fRHgJ
Well, I started a company that has the potential to reduce consumption of a range of resources and carbon emmissions.
This project seems very well made; someone should fork it to make a more active revival project.
That page describes the human genome as having been sequenced back in 2003. *confusion intensifies*
I absolutely love aider and tell everyone I run into about it. Keep it the great work!

Question: can aider work with Ooba/llama.CPP/meta code llama on local llm? If not yet, are you planning on it?

So many users just can’t use GPT4/Copilot because of corporate policy. But they have Macs with M2.
We need to bring the monocle back. Very portable.
Camping will be great without all of the bugs. Of course all of the trees will be reduced to charred logs so it’s kind of a trade-off.
This is the power of information manipulation. Elon is of course turning this fairly common practice, into a conspiracy theory...
It completely ignores details in the "add something" box. I asked for gray trousers, it gave blue jeans. I told it doc martin boots, it continued showing white sneakers. I told it "burgundy sweater", it produced a sweater at least, but pink.

In short, as a tool for an art director or illustrator trying to avoid the expense of a model or a photo shoot, it's fuckin' useless.
The real world caught up, and passed cyberpunk.

The whole concept of a counterculture is gone. The closest thing we have to a counterculture in the US today is the MAGA/militia/Q-Anon movement.
https://archive.is/8BKRF
I want the dystopia I was promised in my youth, not the one I got.
Do you feel the same way about all-you-can-eat buffets?
The reality is that these factories are nearly lights out now.
Software salaries have to fall a lot more to keep semiconductor experts from doing lateral moves. I have an EE PhD, concentration semiconductors, and worked in the industry for a while, and a decade out my entire group of semiconductor PhD friends has now moved onto data science, ML, firmware, etc.
That’s only a little bit older than Paul Rudd.
I wonder what the gptbots dependency on these big media outlets are for training and keeping their dataset fresh.
Then why are these exceptions unique to human?
“Immigrants account for about 40% of highly skilled workers in America’s semiconductor industry.”

Well that’s not going to work. Maybe we should have a Tech Draft.
What? Thought exercises always belong in safety discussions. Where is this weird notion that "safety Uber Alles" is actually how safety works or even should work?

Going for absurd safety standards or expectations is absurd and self defeating. Again, as the other anon said, a practical solution that helps improve safety without handwaving material realities (cost, feasibility, adoption rates) is always better than a "safer" option that won't actually be used.

Obviously corporations try to make more money, but people also dont like buying more expensive cars.
https://archive.is/LGPbZ
> What prevents my program from behaving differently after each preprocessing run?

>The strength of your faith in GPT-4.

I got a chuckle out of that
Come again? Starbucks products sold at Dollar Tree are as real as those sold in other food stores. The Starbucks grocery business is owned by Nestle.
That's really great! Good job.
BillyDIY: he's made some zany crystal radios - https://youtube.com/@billydiy?si=DW68ywlOPujrXzAM

Cassinelli Alvaro - electronic art, not many subs - https://youtube.com/@CassinelliAlvaro?si=BDtPIlgkb1zJ9FzX

My nice EV (Raymond earle) https://youtube.com/@MYNICEEV?si=EpLMuOTpZAmrb9Hx

There are more things (math and folding experiments) - https://youtube.com/@therearemorethings9700?si=UT33lamMrXsHe...

Physion - physics virtual demos: https://youtube.com/@Physion?si=b2SdtuMgOD90K9u7

Wenting Zhang - display tech experiments: https://youtube.com/@nbzwt?si=1RVN9xe7giyPq6rR
what's wrong with you that you can't say something positive about it?
Don’t Look Up is a great movie. Like, okay, I’ve never been so full of furious rage while watching a comedy before, but I studied climatology. Explaining climate to people was my life, and I’ve lived through every frustrating part of that film. It was very cathartic, because it said the things I can’t say— not if I still want to try to save this rotten world.
There are plenty open source md note taking apps you can chose from. I don’t see why the tantrum for a tool you don’t even use. Are you doing a guilt trip for every closed source app shown here?
Can you engage with comments only through a dense layer of thoughtless hyperrationalism? Or is there a point that's been made here which you're missing?
How to drill your own water well
Link, please. Or were you referring to the organization name?
Well, it depends on your database, but honestly the knowledge was handed down to me by database enthusiasts of the times before.

I was studying SQL Server at the time, so Kendra Little, Brent Ozar, that whole crew were a good starting point.

Once you learn the basics of the DCL for your database, a lot of the stuff just becomes a natural extension, and almost always you're just talking about the official documentation.

Usually you have a server and a database level identity, and manipulating those usually break out the connection vs object level permissions.

Once you understand the maps of those and grouping users, you can do stuff like detect a user did a bad thing and add them to a group of users who are default denied from the database, insert a row in a table, and roll back their changes. A logon trigger that does rude things to people's sessions, or certainty that your developers can view some parts of some data without exposing your secrets.
What are your citations?
I don't see much of a difference, seems like google profited off of copyrighted material that they didn't own.

I dont understand the purpose of your feelings comment. I have no affiliations or preferences for any dogs in this fight.

I don't necessarily think they are identical scenarios but if I were OpenAI's lawyer that's probably what I'd try and point at.

I didnt say it would spit the book back out, at any point. I've said a human chose to copy the entirety of copyrighted texts, verbatim, into the training corpus for a language model that they intended to sell.
https://archive.is/ggZiw
Straws might be preferred for social convenience so you can focus more on the person sitting next to you than on drinking the drink in front of you. Straws can be less messy and avoid the risk of spilling a drink.

There are also accessibility reasons to need to use a straw. And some people prefer the taste of a drink with a straw.
Python 3.11.5 (2023)
Or semiconductor salaries need to rise...
> I think the idea is that if you can't make a substantive comment, you refrain from commenting at all.

me too. how many of our grandmothers repeatedly said, “if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

it’s wild to me to see how much The Internet has tried to pretend it can escape from things humans figured out were important a century ago. in a lot of ways we’ve collectively fooled ourselves into believing the people who came before us were all stupid.

i mean, so many of the failures we’re seeing from companies or large communities have turned out to be our own hubris pretending as if The Internet wouldn’t have super basic, reaaaaally basic human problems like, “if you’re not nice, 1) people will be rude back and 2) a community full of assholes will _shockingly_ be a shitty place.”

this is basic shit that even a social halfwit knows when they go out in public, but we (myself included) are hilariously relearning and pretending like it’s a deep revelation.

if we can’t post anything nice, don’t post anything at all. we act liek this is complicated.
Love Notepad++, I've run into a few people who use it for moderate programming even.

On my work laptop the company installed "Snagit" which seems to do the same thing - it's extremely useful!
See also, executable-tutorials:

https://github.com/dharmatech/executable-tutorials/blob/main...
There's tons of videos from the queen of electronics Limor Fried (LadyAda), but she is mainstream.

I've copied at least one of Caroline Buttet's great ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/@carolinebuttet7095

Atomic14 always entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/@atomic14

He's stopped posting, but... Microwavemont
https://www.youtube.com/@microwavemont
I’m not sure how that’s relevant as shopping at dollar tree isn’t a crime.

I’m nothing thinking that shoplifters are Jean Valjean stealing bread.

If you’re starving, then there are many better ways to get food than stealing from a dollar tree.
Would love to see it compared to RAP rather than just ToT, MCTS is SOTA in RL task planning
> $3.5 billion/mile is a lot to pay for new track!

That's mostly paying for the tunnels, not the track. It shouldn't cost nearly that much, but it's not surprising that it isn't cheap either: the tunnels are being constructed under some of the densest and most expensive real estate in the world, and the resulting stations are significantly larger than others in the system.

And note: if you think that's expensive, you won't believe what it costs to repair highways in NYC[1].

[1]: https://ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/news/2020/02/25/city-council-fl...
Everyone is a bot except you
I disagree. This isn't about technicalities. I think it's about you assuming that others draw a "false connection" just because you saw one. Most people don't see HSA/FSA and automatically assume that a service is medical care. HSA/FSA funds are for healthcare-RELATED expenses and cover lots of things that aren't medical co-pays or medication: sunscreen, condoms, breast milk pumps, glasses or contacts, health-related home improvements (e.g., wheelchair ramps, hand rails), transportation for medical care, weight loss programs, menstrual care products, band-aids etc. All of those things are healthcare-related, but they're clearly not medical care.

There's nothing wrong with stating the objective reality that the cost of Shimmer is HSA/FSA-eligible. HSA/FSA-eligibility is directly relevant to one of Shimmer's key goals, making ADHD coaching accessible to people who can't afford traditional coaching. Using HSA/FSA funds brings down the overall cost significantly, so it's going to be a factor when budgeting. It isn't even close the same thing as snake oil treatments claiming to be "FDA cleared." Consumers may not realize that "FDA cleared" is an absolutely meaningless phrase, but I think we can agree that most adults know the difference between a condom and a licensed medical professional dispensing FDA-approved medication.

"HSA/FSA-eligible" is a legitimate, accurate phrase to describe the services Shimmer provides. Plus, anyone who has a HSA/FSA has most likely received education or literature about it through the company providing it for them (typically their employer). They're not reading this post thinking, "Since I can pay for this with the account that I use to buy sunscreen and band-aids, I will surely see a physician and get drugs." Personally, I thought, "Gee, I wish I had a HSA/FSA so I could use it to pay for this health-related service." All brains are different, especially ADHD brains. It's unhelpful to assume they'll all draw the same false conclusion as you did.
They put quite a lot of though into it, and so did the Greeks. They thought that the origins of words could shed light (sometime divine light) on meaning, and they used etymology to tell stories and offer moral guidance.

The problem is that many classical (and later) scholars, historians and poets were prone to uncritically repeating stories without doing any fact checking, or just making stuff up to fit the narrative. The same is true for their etymologies.

Socrates and Plutarch in particular have reputations for their imaginative etymologies.
> I wonder at what point humans go "enough is enough" and actual change happens.

I imagine folks might get going if they ever manage to set a river on fire?
You cannot fill plates and then take them home. You cannot pass food out the window to your friends waiting outside. You can’t program a robot to collect food until you’ve harvested as much food as 500 median customers would eat.
The attacks were lower tech than that. Just social engineering/phishing/sim-swapping. Things that could be done from any device without even a terminal.
GPs coping mechanism is to remember that they can’t make a meaningful difference. Your friends coping mechanism is to do little things so they get the feeling of taking action.

Both are actually the same thing; methods for emotionally dealing with the existential crisis on whose direction they cannot exert enough pressure to be observable.
The best way to conduct a proper experiment is to either send a human, or a robot that is as adaptable as a human. This will let us run an effective experiment, react to intermediate results and continue based on that. Anything else is a waste of time, we'll never get anything conclusive.
So...did they not think of this before they started building the factories, or did they just think the employees with the required skills would magically appear?
Cosmic rays or other random sources of data corruption?
Whatever framing gets us the right to repair, let's do it
[dupe] Lots of discussion on this already on earlier posts referencing this report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250434
For the same reason Monsanto sequences basically anything: Because we can tell what proteins are encoded in there, and what is near them, and we can have good ideas of what proteins are expressed together. When dealing with genetic modification, we get to see whether our modification went in, and where it landed: Having a protein in a genome isn't enough. Its expression might be having an effect on other things, depending on where it is.

When we have baselines, we can compare different individuals, and eventually make predictions of how they are going to be based solely on the genetic code. If I know that a certain polymorphism is tied to some trait I want, I might not have to even bother spending the time growing a plant: I know that it's not what I want, and discard it as a seed.

With humans we are probably not going to see much modification soon, but just being able to detect genetic diseases, risk factors for other diseases that have genetic omponents, or allow for selection of embryos in cases of artificial insemination is already quite valuable.

It's not source code that we are all that good at understanding just yet, but there's already some applications, and we have good reason to think there's a lot more to come
Would add "Aptitude Test Problems in Physics",S. S.Krotov. It is tougher than Irodov but definitely improves upon your skill in think about hard problems
I went looking for a terminal in the Apps menu
Earning the privilege to write a YAGNI blog post in 2023.
Some of the prizes are for satire, but many Ig Nobel prizes are for research that sounds absurd but actually had a valuable discovery of some sort. Despite the jokey vibe they do try to give attention to things which deserve the attention.