skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do we have another language can easily control Microsoft office? I mean, it is possible to perform analysis by another tool/programming language, but what if we need to control PowerPoint?
It’s not. It’s called brainwave entrainment and it’s well studied with both sound and light having a strong effect that’s measurable on EEG.
Do you have any idea by how much installed renewable capacity increased during the periods you mentioned? Hint, way, way more than the subsidies...
How Senior Developers Successfully Implement Feature Flags
> who decides what AI is or not?

A good question. The authors themselves speak about ML. Many (if not the most) who are involved in the hype speak about AI instead.
"we've canceled your Netflix account, permanently, on behalf of our publishers since it appears that you are accessing [country] content from [actual_country]. We've determined this from public conversations you've had on the internet. Have a nice day."
Bacteria-based biosensor can monitor water pollution without power source
why would they? if you wanted someone trained in food chemistry then your coffee would cost 2x. hell, chances are the manager doesn't know much more, either.

they have dishwasher, they put cups in dishwasher, they run, they serve in clean cups.

it's clear from the article that this is an issue across the entire food service industry, and has nothing to do with whether or not your pimply faced barista knows what the safe level of rinse aid in pre-made clears is.
missed the /s tag.
Ellen, an AI child influencer, teaches kids about energy
you can guess, which statements I ridicule about.
start a family and go to cabin to go skiing and nothing inside of them says "if i work hard good things will happen."

I'd argue that if you have a family, a house, a cabin and time to go skiing then good things have already happened.
In a Japanese city, kids can send robots to school instead of going themselves
What do you use instead? I also only use it for the price.
The Low Down on the Greatest Dictionary Collection in the World
> Handmaid's Tale, that invented a whole new sexist society to draw parallels with Christianity instead of Islam.

The point of the book is that religious fanatics can take over even in the USA. It is a cautionary story. It "invented" new things because it is a fictional book, not one describing real events.

Atwood talked about how the Islamic revolution in Iran inspired her description of Gilead. If you don't understand the concept of taking something which happened "far away", to "other people", "a long time ago" and bringing it closer and making it more personal to the audience then you must be very new to this literature thing.

> There's no better example than Handmaid's Tale,

What do you think it is an example of?
CVA6 – an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux
FWIW you can tweak the line height in kitty, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.modify_font
Interestingly, Mary Beard was cut from the American version of Civilisations. She was replaced by the renowned scholar of ancient Rome and professor of classics, Liev Schreiber.

https://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/986200738627047424
Often those SMEs are data folks, and if they are allowed to develop in $TOOL_DU_JOUR, and that app becomes business critical, the IT folks will be stuck supporting it. And if that thing doesn't become well supported, or it isn't easy to find someone who can support it, that's a problem.

I've run into this quite a bit at my workplace. Some business group writes an app in Excel using VBA + an add-in and it becomes the core part of some workflow. But IT didn't know about it, nor did they know about the (for example) 32-bit ancient Excel add-in that it requires, which then breaks when an Office upgrade happens...

Now IT is stuck where a routine upgrade broke some weird edge case thing and needs to maintain a downlevel version of Office for a small group until they can re-develop their business-critical tool in something else.

Use-known-stuff rules up front -- in this case which may well be VBA -- alleviate a lot of these long-term problems.
At the time I got some 'hormone' ointment from my doctor ( this is really scary and amazing stuff btw, apply it before bed, next morning : completely restored fingers ).

I noticed the eczema returned as soon as I did wet cleaning in the house, so I converted to a staunch cleaning gloves wearer.
I'm happy to hear about any other open standard that you think might be better. The key is interoperability.
The problem is scale. Since the other responder didnt want to do napkin math - you could give it a go w.r.t to hydrogen. It gets very very expensive rather quickly. So very expensive you might start to wonder if you shouldn't have built a nuclear plant instead.

Local factories etc. might see a need/use for hydrogen production (Swedish Hybrit comes to mind) but as a national grid stabilizer.. I'm doubtful
Let's not pretend that Google cares about any laws that are from the USA or lead to financial fines.
100% it won't happen.
Why are people so insistent on having unary minus? In my experience, "0-whatever" is just as good as "-whatever" except in a single case where you're trying to write an INT_MIN but then again, unary minus doesn't help you in this case either — unless you, as e.g. SML does, make the unary minus the lexical part of the number itself. However, SML has to actually use the tilde "~" instead of the minus for the negation because otherwise "1 -2" would be ambiguous.

IIRC Elm didn't have unary minus for quite some time just fine unless its author decided he really would like to have specifically unary minues but, weirdly, not any other unary operator. So, what's the deal with unary minus, why do people want it so much?
I really dislike the neurotransmitter discussions because they do not differentiate between "free" or "in-transit" neurotransmitter levels vs. "stored" or "awaiting dispatch" neurotransmitter levels vs. "receptor sites" or "available destinations" for neurotransmitters vs. "receptor activation effect" or "destination's response on delivery." That doesn't even get into the complexity of different types of receptor sites or their roles in all the different bodily systems and organs. It leads for utterly confounding conversations without strictly delineating what everyone knows and/or assumes about the topic at hand.

So, here is my quick and slipshod armchair theorizing: serum serotonin levels may be a predictor of ADHD due serotonin's role in activating certain autoreceptors that mediate dopamine release.

Does serotonin deficit mediate susceptibility to ADHD?: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01970...

Is there an Effect of Serotonin on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?: https://repository.unair.ac.id/106894/1/Is%20There%20an%20Ef...
You don't need to understand much of what "move like a person" entails to understand it's not the same method as "move like a car" even though both start with energy and end with transportation. I.e. "we also predict the next appropriate step" isn't the same thing as "we go about predicting the next step in a similar way". Even without having a deep understanding of human consciousness what we do know doesn't line up with how LLMs work.
> In France about 63% of the final energy is produced thanks to fossil fuel

have you go a source for that? the parent comment seems to contradict that fact
Differentiate what?
Reversal of biological age in rat organs by young porcine plasma fraction
Constant debate between me and my significant other. She’s always annoyed that I go through and reorganize everything so that things drain and rinse properly.
I'm sure Apple users love the shitty images/videos they get when I text them :)
In a lot of countries you are not allowed to just record private conversations with listening devices (and it is not happening as a mass phenomenon), so clearly we can legislate successfully against use of technology.
I'd like parental controls at sub-app granularity. For example, to monitor a child's chats, with full knowledge of the child. To see all social media activity and add to the blocklist remotely. That kind of thing.
I guess that suggests commercial success, which is random, is more fair than critical acclaim - which is rigged.
I mean, of course.

But the whole point of people/companies not putting timestamps on articles and posts is precisely to hide how very old their content is, because they are (rightly) afraid people will click away.

It's not laziness or ignorance, it's generally intentional. So it's not like this advice is going to change their minds.
Always wondered what dishes look like with rinse aid and why people buy it. What am I missing? Are my dishes and glasses not sparkly enough without this aid?
Terraform, because the tooling around it is just much better for things like drift detection, showing planned changes, pipelines, etc.
I agree, but this is a result of both SEO and humans prioritizing “fresh” over “old” content, which led to the removal of timestamps - or in the case of news websites, eternally rolling artificial “last updated” timestamps on decade-old articles.
You might want to read this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/clearly-predatory-we...

I had 4 WD Red 4 TB HDDs like WDC WD40EFRX and 2 out of them already failed SMART long tests and hat uncorrectable errors reported by the kernel after about 25000 hrs powered on. I've messed a lot with the drives bought 3 other used drives and it turned out that one of them had the same failure just undetected.

I was able to "fix" the issue by running testdisk in read-write mode forcing the disk to overwrite the bad sector. That's how I forcefully fix pending sectors on desktop drives. But it seems that WD Reds don't want to replace sectors because the data is still readable. The drive just needs a second or two.

I'm not happy with that but I'm also glad, I could confirm that's not an issue caused by my setup.
One would say, I should replace the drive immediately but I trust in ZFS and my backups. I would put the drive on my shelve and maybe reuse it as temporary buffer storage because why would someone buy such a used drive for a high price? In my eyes, it's still okay.
Since you mentioned this, what would you say would be the right Lisp for more pragmatic, cynical reasons?

What Lisp should we learn if we want to make money from it?
I think you very nicely sum up the real reason for all these arguments on independent repositories versus distributions.

It's really two worlds, and it seems that most people belonging to one don't fully understand the problems faced in the other, even though they think they do.
They know better than to drink out of the machines which were supposedly cleaned when they weren't there to know for sure.

In the best-run high-turnover locations where cleaning agents are used according to a rigorous schedule proven to prevent slime and bacteria, it might be even more likely to have exposure if the chemicals are habitually incompletely rinsed from the apparatus afterward.
Whats the best direction for someone who wants to write apps for either given your comment?
Bruno, Leo, H/Ugo... although a lot of french kids receive Italian names like Enzo or Matteo
And what not. You missed that bit trying to be smart. Their whole 8’ wooden privacy fence was lined with weatherproof blue drums full of various foodstuff. Yes, they had rice, beans, various grains. I’m not a damn prepped, so I just rolled my eyes at the whole thing. I always assumed the weatherproof wasn’t really and it would all be ruined after the first rain. But yes smarty pants, they had all of that stuff. Don’t you feel good about yourself now?
> The problem here is that from your end, no reasoning was applied.

Oh when did that become an issue for you?
I thought it was all just common sense.

Common sense. Common sense. Common sense. Common sense, Common sense. Common sense. Common sense. Common sense.

That better?
What I had in mind was more like self-defence. The attack would only be carried out so long as the copyright offender is attempting to leech.
1) Serotonin reception explained - https://balancewomenshealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/T...

2) Serotonin and ADHD - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25684070/

3) Dopamine cycle explained in context of ADHD - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/

4) ADHD and sugar explained - https://www.verywellmind.com/the-sugar-and-adhd-relationship...

5) ADHD and sugar study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133757/

That last one mentioned coloring agents multiple times. Different research has show artificial colors, as derived from petro-chemical processing like reds and yellows, are strongly linked with neurotransmitter disruption in all people, but the effect is an order of magnitude more significant in high risk children.
we rely on Russia for nuclear fuel because our government approved selling many of our own uranium mines to state backed Russian organizations using shell companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One
And AI art is theft.

Hell, even a18n have admitted it! https://i.imgur.com/auBNG0N.jpg
Don't forget access to the .NET ecosystem!
I wish it was so simple, there are a bunch of different bodies; only the parlement is directly voted in. Especially the EU commmision the most powerful part are picked by the 27 leaders. Consequence is lot of deal making and influence by main countries France & Germany; and no direct responsiblity to citizens. It's not all bad, but also not all great.
I can only endorse this, but would like to add that I always put my name and email address and a version number on top of the document. The additional version number is useful for keeping track of changes. Often I indicate what changed since the last version of the documentation or I have a separate HISTORY.txt file in the documentation folder including all versions, dates an a brief comment, what has changed.

If a question comes up later, I can first ask the questioner which date or version of the documentation they are relying on. More than once, the problem has been solved simply by sending the person the current documentation again.
It’s also the ultimate discoverability tool.

People struggle with not knowing how to describe a task they can do but not with code. The record gets you very close very quickly. If you’re fluent in adjusting selection logic you’re usually going to have it pretty easy.
Ooh I know! Building your phone OS and app store, right? Right?
There's only so much you can leave to Azure.

I have no idea how many tokens/second OpenAI gets[0], but 100 M users, each generating an average of (to pick an arbitrary number for a Fermi estimate) 1000 tokens per day, is 1e11 tokens/day or ~1,157,407/s, which could be anywhere from 36k severs to just 830 depending on which value[0] I use as the anchor to guess how many tokens/s their specific servers can generate with their specific models.

At the upper end, they may have bought about 8% of all H100s currently in existence. The Microsoft investment (1e10 USD) correlates better with the higher range than the lower range of my estimates for how many machines are in their cluster ((36k * H100) * $30k/H100 ~= 1e9 USD).

[0] a quick google said 30/s in the automated answers section (which is citing a May post on Reddit), while one of the links says ~300/s on an H100, and the Llama.cpp github page says ~1400/s on an M2 Ultra (but for a relatively small model).
They also encourage innovation, iteration and speed up the pace of progress by providing an incentive.
That's a bummer. My team does standup at 3 PM (we're also bi-costal), but I let the teams chose their time, and this is what one particular team chose. Maybe talk to some of your teammates, and maybe you all decide you want an afternoon standup, so you can hit the ground running in the morning for a few hours, before the interruptions start.
Fair point. But are the “superior” systems like Big 5 (or more recent approaches that utilize independent component analysis) really that much more predictive than MBTI? It seems like there is a lot of squabbling over the difference of a few percentage points in information gain.
Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones
Give context in titles. (The post is a size of a tweet about using them on publications.) Don't make me click to see if I might be interested in opening this content.

Dropping timestamps is very akin to using terse catchy titles, it draws in the unsuspecting and gives content wider/longer exposure.
Wow, I’m more bothered by all the faffing around they do on that issue (write an RFC before developing, but discuss it on this issue more before writing an RFC) than the actual issue of a single auth provider.
If you’re concerned about the plastic you can use reusable silicone bags.
My favorite use of chatgpt is having it explain pg's posts to me. It does a pretty good job there.
Same. I've used normal 5% vinegar for years and haven't had any problems.
That's true, the stupidity of the workplace will always exist.

But like I know that pain. I've been there before. After getting into FAANG there's still plenty of meaningless work but at least the people are smart.
There is more than one WordPress theme that shows the time of day,month and day of month, but not the year.
What's the difference between stolen art and ai generated stolen art? Both are illegal under the DMCA
I've recently been wondering if maybe I'm overcrowding myself in this way. I mean I definitely am, but I'm starting to wonder if there are any other options besides burning through tasks whenever I get a good day.

I don't think I've had an empty task list in my entire professional career outside of changing jobs and effectively declaring task bankruptcy. Todoist's end of day notification often says something like "review the 54 tasks remaining for the day".. One day someone will figure out a system that works for every ADHDer in the modern world and we'll have a new tech/space/etc renaissance, haha

Incidentally I saw this meme on Twitter while procrastinating something or other earlier, quite apt https://img.imgy.org/1xkR.jpg

Best of luck to you, me, everyone else struggling with this one!
I don't think it bungled it and I don't agree that there's a clear ground truth here. Quite the opposite: you've only convinced me that the semantic ambiguity is real. It's like debating whether interim CEOs should be included in a list of CEOs.
I do too and I have an upset stomach sometimes.. I note and try to adjust, since I'm not going to throw out virtually everything I buy to be 100% safe at the cost of absurd food waste. The point of health inspectors, etc, is that we can't take all the same kind of risks in a high volume kitchen.

I don't understand why the idea that an average person gives themselves food poisoning often is rocket science here.
Demasq: Unmasking the ChatGPT Wordsmith
This paper details Harold Katcher's recent research into rejuvination (he was one of the discoverers of the human breast cancer gene (BRCA1).

Also interesting to read is his book "The Illusion of Knowledge: The paradigm shift in aging research that shows the way to human rejuvenation" which details his new and fascinating theory on aging.
One of my first full time software engineering jobs was working on the trading floor of a bank, sitting next to the currency traders.

I was hired by the head of Market Risk Management, whose job was to make sure the bank didn't lose too much money on any given day. He hired me because he did not trust the officially approved IT department to write the code to implement his algorithms. One example: they got something wrong because they did not understand mathematical precedence operations, like multiplication over addition.

So one need was to get all the trades as input to the market risk calculations. This was early 2000s, and I installed Apache with Perl CGI on a PC under the desk, and created a little app for the traders to enter trades and track their positions. The traders started favoring this to the official IT solution because it was easier to use and see their positions.

All of this to say, yes, figuring out how to bypass IT is an important function in a lot of corporate environments.

And back to Excel: the traders used it for all of their calculations and simulations. We tried to work with them by giving them tools that plugged into Excel so they could leverage it along with what they were already doing.
Author here. Happy to answer any questions.

@dang please replace the above link with the original: https://rnikhil.com/2023/11/12/quitting-fulltime-poker.html
I don't know how to do this without doxxing myself, other wise I would.
The fact that his TEDx Talk had 0.2% of the views of her TED Talk and he actually knows what he is talking about tells you everything you need to know about TED Talks.

Let me add some substance to my comment. I grew fungi for a living and my boss bought an anaerobic chamber to try and find fungi that like no oxygen or low oxygen (microaerophilic) environments. Think glove box with thick plexiglass walls and all that. Even using lake sediments etc., we really couldn’t find any that grew or liked it at all, or at least before the plates dried out over several weeks. Fungi are aerobic organisms for the most part. They love oxygen. And switching from aerobic respiration to anaerobic drastically reduces how fast something can grow. An old rule of thumb quoted is aerobic processes produce up to 38 ATP per glucose, anaerobic processes yield only 2 ATP per glucose. I assume in a coffin or buried underground, oxygen is gone very quickly from the bacterial bloom. So I don’t understand how her mushroom suit idea was ever going to work. You weren’t going to sprout a big flush of oyster mushrooms out of your body, it was just a fantasy like most TED talks. It’s science junk food.
This is not fair, there are definitely people who struggle with ADHD and do so with the belief they are lazy or internalise their issue as a problem that is due to personality or not being organised enough.

My psychotherapist said something along those same lines but it was in order to force me to answer the question why is it a problem.

For me, in my life, I have always "worked" during the day in an easily distractible state and without being able to commit effort to anything substantial or focus. I self-medicated with caffeine to get anything resembling focus and did all of my actual daily tasks in a 3hr window when I got home and worked into the late evening. Usually with a massive sense of guilt about how I didn't really do anything during the day.

This was ADHD, I could not control when or how I focused. It gets worse with open office environments, but that's not the cause. I have an issue with executive function and delayed gratification. I do not have the ability fundamentally (even when motivated!) to task my brain with working.

But I can hold down a job and have done so for 16 years at this point and I am very successful in my career. That is not a good judge, you work around your issues if you have them- in my case I just don't have anything resembling a life outside of work in order to paper over my executive function disorders.
> When someone has a solution that works for them, why possibly ruin it for them by pointing out placebo?

You are likely aware of this already, but for others readers, it's important to know that placebos are still effective even when you know they are placebo. The term is "open-label placebo".

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33594150/
The Railroad Industry Intimidates Employees into Putting Speed Before Safety
The incredible shrinking heat pump