skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you follow Steve Blank's approach, the ideal thing to do is start with "friendly first contacts" - that is, people you actually know personally and/or people who you are referred to by people you know personally. Then, once you get even a few "friendly first contact" meetings, you ask those people to refer you to their contacts, and so on in turn.

Note that this stuff is never as easy as it sounds on paper, but if you put enough effort in, it eventually works (in my experience anyway).

Also note that even if you're not pitching a product for sale (yet) asking people for their time for an interview is still an ask. Ideally you'd like to be able to offer to compensate people for their time somehow. I don't mean paying them cash or anything, but think about how to structure your invitations in such a way as to communicate that you're offering them something in return for their time. That "something" might be "an early peek at a revolutionary new technology for ABC" or whatever you can think of that is a way of giving some value to them. Be creative.

Also, it's not always the easiest thing to go in asking people "what are your pain points" in an extremely open-ended way. You might find that it's easier to start with a hypothesis about a possible pain point, and pitch things in terms of "We've noticed that firms like yours often have to deal with problem $FOOBAR. To that end, we're developing a novel solution for $FOOBAR, and we'd love a few minutes of your time (no sales pitch!) to talk about how $FOOBAR and related problems affect you. In return for a 30 minute interview, we'll offer you $SOMETHING".
Yep. If you ask people at a mall, they're already there, and probably aren't as interested in saving time. The people interested in saving time also wouldn't stop to answer your "mall survey person" trying to stop them in the mall, even if they were there. ;)
I think in the intro they show a Nikon on a motorized panning head.
Interestingly DDG (in NZ) returns no relevant results for "Railway Startup Program" yet Google does.
Once every human has access to cutting edge AI, that ceases to be a differentiating factor, so the human talent will again be the determining factor.
6 prompts, but I couldn't reproduce it a second time to verify the code. So either AI sucks at following instructions, or it's at least inconsistent in how it responds.
It's hard for me to imagine AI really helping Meta. It might make content cheaper, but
Meta was not budget limited.
> Under Rick Osterloh, a new platforms and devices team will be dedicated to bringing AI to your phone, your TV, and everything else that runs Android.

Who is asking for this? Why can't they just make their search engine work again?
> the account was brand new when they were posted so they were probably killed by the spam detector
I didn't even bother checking Libgen, because if it wasn't in Libgen, it'd be in some other dataset.
seL4 is not doing badly in the performance side. It is even seen beating Linux in the slides.
Oh, I’m in that database!

You might be also - if you are EU based, send them a request under GDPR.
You're just sharing anecdotes without actually addressing anything I said, so I'm all done here.
IDF's Unit 8200, known for producing top-quality engineers and entrepreneurs, is embed in BigTech and Israel's tech scene. It isn't far-fetched a few might be involved in clandestine operations when it comes to Palestine, if nothing else. In 2015, some inductees/personnel even resigned in protest citing the level of persecution enabled by Unit 8200: https://archive.is/wmEw5

It isn't a secret that Palestinians are guinea pigs for IDF, some allege they're lab rats for their biological programs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Deception) and sitting ducks for their autonomous weapons (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721285/the-palestin...).

In that backdrop, Paul's article makes for a grim reading, if you identify with (or belong to) persecuted peoples.
As humans we do things for teleological reasons. Meaning we can say we did X in order to accomplish Y.

Ascribing teleological explanations to evolution is technically wrong, since it doesn’t look ahead.

However, it does something very similar. Our brains process competing options, from plausible to nonsensical, before selecting an action, partly in sequence (ideation), but also in parallel (competition processing).

Evolution tries many options in parallel and sequence too. Just by actually doing them and then selecting which of those choices to keep repeating (better survival), and those to forget (extinction of genes, clusters of genes, or whole species).

So over longer time periods, it acts very teleologically. A kind of reverse teleologic by hindsight.

The same is true for the “brilliance” of this teleology. Evolution tries so many things, that it can solve very difficult problems in very novel ways.

Is that “intelligence”? Our casual usage of intelligence isn’t defined precisely enough to say one way or another.

One person would say evolution is blind, and in the short run it is. But another person might point out that evolution is anything but blind. It is an epic version of Edison’s lab, where millions or billions of false solutions are continually tried and ruled out, to find each new fitness enhancement.

It relentlessly experiments and follows the “data”.

On longer timescales, evolution is effectively teleological, highly creative and very intelligent.

And all three aspects compound over time, just like human learning and research, because evolution doesn’t just find new features, but new abstractions and modularity. Such as flexible reusable gene systems for encoding body parts, epigenetic reuse of features in different kinds of cells for different purposes or triggered and “run” by different conditions, nervous systems, etc.

Thus evolution “learned” to speed itself up over time, letting it more rapidly optimize larger more complex solutions. I.e. orders of magnitude faster creation of new novel animals, than it originally took to optimize the first cellular life, colonies of cells, etc.

Watching evolutions first billion years would not have suggested that the plethora of different intelligent animals, from octopus, parrot to human, would have been remotely possible in the time it took. Evolution’s compounding meta learning created brains, our “true” teleology, and its expansion into technological and economic expressions of the pursuit of survival. All meta extensions of evolution, found by evolution.
Yes. Build your own midjourney and provide api access to it.
Send a data access request (under GDPR if you are in the EU).

I did so a few years ago and found I’m on their shit list :)
> Who is asking for this?

Anyone who regularly uses Siri or "Hey, Google".
> will make most humans' (economic) value evaporate for the same reason

With one hand it takes, with the other it gives - AI will be in everyone's pocket, and super-human level capable of serving our needs; the thing is, you can't copy a billion dollars, but you can copy a LLaMA.
It seems like this tool does not create a fully deterministic nor reproducible environment. Hermit seems to only intercept and modify syscalls, but this is not the only source of non-determinism and randomness. For example, the layout of environment variables in memory also causes non-determinism, caused by the content of the environment variables as well as their order in memory. CPU instructions like RDTSC, RDRAND, RDSEED and similar also introduce randomness. It seems like Hermit ignores some these sources of randomness, but I can't test it, because it doesn't build on a current Arch system with the Rust toolchain from the repo.

At least it seems Hermit masks RDRAND and RDSEED via CPUID, but not every program is written to support ancient architectures which didn't support these instructions and therefore not every program tests availability via CPUID.

In addition, even if all of this was deterministic, CPU flags set by various instructions with "undefined" flags according to the CPU manual can slightly differ between different microarchitectures. A "normal" program should not be influenced by this, but it is still a source of non-reproducibility. This might be relevant for certain rare compiler bugs.
An american company is never going to be able to produce phones as cheaply as a korean or a chinese company.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOO

How do I turn this off?
I'm getting a "concurrency error" so maybe it's been hugged to death?
The first thing to do is to put LLMs to work to generate large knowledge bases of commonsense knowledge in symbolic machine-readable formats that Cyc-like projects can consume.
One of those reads that changes your perspective on life in a way.
You're basically walking into the middle of a niche debate about semantics. There is a faction that dislikes the use of the word "anthropocene" to refer to the current geological era - and specifically, the past 100 years or so. Their main argument is that it's an imperceptible blip on the radar compared to the scale of other geological eras we study.

This article is a response that can be summed up as "no, we're changing the environment faster than anything before, so it counts". It's framed not as a genuine debate, but as an attempt to dispel "myths".

"Why this matters" is left as an exercise for the reader...
Back in 1999-2000 there was an "International RoShamBo Programming Competition" [1] where computer bots competed in the game of rock-paper-scissors. The baseline bot participant just selected its play randomly, which is a theoretically unbeatable strategy. One joke entry to the competition was carefully designed to beat the random baseline ... by reversing the state of the random number generator and then predicting with 100% accuracy what the random player would play.

Edit: the random-reversing bot was "Nostradamus" by Tim Dierks, which was declared the winner of the "supermodified" class of programs in the First International RoShamBo Programming Competition. [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180719050311/http://webdocs.cs...

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.ai.games/c/qvJqOLOg-oc
https://archive.today/qDmVU
People may not like Joe Rogan but he described BJJ perfectly: 3D chess with consequences. It is a great way to relieve stress and forces you to temporarily forget about whatever is bothering you that day.
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Me too. I play a TON of VR stuff (mainly streaming to oculus quest) so Windows is still 100% needed.

Edit: As mentioned by Cieric below.
I wasn't aware that medical school cited fMRI studies showing that emotional response immediately halts in the human brain after 18. The rot goes deeper than I had ever imagined. Johns Hopkins ought to be investigated.

This may be shocking for you, but it is indeed possible for a person to experience justifiable anger in their forties. Particularly when said person's personal dataset of your profession's gross incompetence causing direct medical catastrophe to loved ones is not n=1, but n>10.

I'm heartened to know that when members of your profession legally get away with murdering their patients due to their own "mistakes", standard practice is to console the survivors by calling them "angry children". That has to be satisfying to psychopaths, but not quite as satisfying as raping the deceased's estate for everything you can.

One can only imagine how nice it must be to work in a profession in which success is rewarded with precisely the same compensation as failure.

Patrick Bateman definitely chose the wrong career.
Ioniq 5 is great. The software is imperfect and could use a bit more customization but generally decent. It needs a Tesla charger and ability to set default settings for temp heat etc.
As I said in another comment: they respond to GDPR requests.

I found out I’m on their list, as have a few other friends.
Blockchain is so 2023 for Google. Speaking of blockchain, what happened to the crypto accelerator Google launched in 2023?
The context of my reply is that "slaughterbot" short video, not 100kg+ drones.

It goes both ways. Just half a century years ago plenty of people were convinced we'd be having flying cars by now, projecting the speed of progress in one particular area forward. It doesn't work like that, progress in any given area is S-shaped, not exponential.

It's even worse when processes are adversarial. Where are the TB2s in Ukraine? Are you aware that FPV drones seem to have less than 10% success ratio nowadays?
I think it's just still less capable than his hidraulic ancestor. so they did what they can for the video
This really puts the two years my UC and I could only eat one meal for every meal in perspective. I eventually got used to being the weirdo who brought my own food, or just declined everything if we made spontaneous plans while we were already out.

But at least I could eat.
This is fantastic really. I run a Windows 7 laptop as part of my setup, and there is a real dearth of resources for securing Windows 7 online in 2024.

I'm shadow banned so no-one is going to read this comment.
As a former professional baker for 2 decades, from corner bakeshops to a hippie co-op to a large scale dessert manufacturer with worldwide distribution - as soon as I saw the recommendation to use volume instead of mass I closed the tab, nothing of value could be there.

Baking is both an art and a science. If you're a home baker you can ignore the science, if you are trying to make money you have to understand at least the basics of the science/physical behavior of your materials.

I take a more intuitive/heuristic approach to cooking, and the single best resource I've found for cooking confidently & authentically by the seat of one's pants is Samin Nosrat's "Salt Fat Acid Heat". I've yet to find a similar guide for baking, and don't think one could exist given the narrow range of actually useful parameters.

https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/

Reading down in the comments - ratios can be useful conceptually, but for production baking the actual size of the batch vs. the mixer, oven and other tools make all the difference. Gravity plays a part in, say, how a moist dough behaves in a 5 lb. vs. a 250 lb. batch, same for how things bake/burn in a full vs. partially full oven, same for depositors, extruders, sheeters, etc.
From reviewing my own record there - it contained some factual errors.

Friends reported the same.
The original Chinchilla authors have now identified the original bug, apparently: https://twitter.com/borgeaud_s/status/1780988694163321250
I truly dislike them (and Mistral and others) purposely not comparing it against GPT3.5 or 4, of which a vast number of developers are familiar with.

It makes me thing it's nowhere near in terms of performance.
I don't think it's hazards only. It will alert you if the directions change (e.g., traffic or if you're following a different path).
That's true, but there are good reasons for calling theft and rape crimes in civilization.

Conflict of interest, on the other hand, was invented by some lawyer and HR types just to make life harder for the rest of us.

I'm an optimistic engineer, believe in win-win situations, and don't see everything as a conflict.
Fixed! Sorry about that, didn't anticipate the concurrency haha
On an unrelated AI subject, can any of the image generators generate new animal species? Like ones that might exist on an alien world. So maybe it would have trilateral symmetry, or something.
Reminds me of a flash game called something like "SpeedMath." The timer could be toggled on or off. It had a beige/pink background.

It was made by a guy name "william" or something (or maybe a Spanish-sounding name?). He also released an unfinished RPG based on rapid arithmetic.

Anyone remember what I'm describing? I was unable to find it via internet search... (since it was flash, it probably wouldn't work, anyways...)
Haha that's pretty good, I should make it harder
Colorado's law is pretty weak sauce, but I guess it's a start.

For my part, I can't think of a group of entities I'd trust less with this sort of data than SV and SV-style companies and startups. The fact that they are increasingly sticking their fingers into health/body/brain-related stuff terrifies me.

I mean, I can avoid using their stuff in my daily life -- but what happens if I end up needing medical care? Are my doctors just front men for these companies? How can I know? I don't know how I can reasonably protect myself from them, at least if an urgent medical matter comes up.
The article says Walmart said it didn't know when they told Walmart.
Does it drop off after a certain time period (= length)?
Structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction
I’m curious how you produce this? How could I make this for my house or neighborhood?

Things like matterport seem too proprietary. This particular one seems to be a far higher quality as well.

I’m curious what rig they used.
It's not always the staleness of perspective that is the problem. Often it is your personal opinion (the perspective itself) that is both right and wrong.

I think the greatest mistake in software design is the pattern of structuring UI/UX around assumptions. Every assumption made in software design is a demand for the context that that software will be used. The reality is that context will always be fluid, and that it will often contradict itself. Free software can be liberated from its assumptions, but it requires redundant work for every unique contextualization.
aka property testing.
It wasn't AI that made google search bad. It was SEO and google's acceptance paywalled sites like linkedin showing google one document and visitors another document.
Cosmetic Batch Code Decoder(designed for girls)
Only two comments there.
Not at all.

It only contacts my tongue and then my lips.

It took a couple of nights finding the correct position, how far in to stick my tongue, from there it's been no issue.

Less complicated than any of the mouth pieces.
You just need to give the wrong answer ;)
was a failure? they are still building it, when they shut down or sell off the division then you can call it a failure
"Following the rules of war". Do those rules permit forced starvation, destruction of the healthcare system, targeting journalists, aid workers, healthcare professionals, exterminating entire families in their homes?
> Almost 1 in 3 Americans (adults) have been arrested for a felony crime.

That one is absurd. How do your governments (on all spheres) keep up? Do they even know who is arrested?
So maximize medical costs and minimize opex for best returns.

At least opex is in the calculation, California utilities don't even have that. It goes a long way to explaining why I pay 50c/kwh in sf (CA private) vs 15c in Sacramento (municipal) or Nevada (private without cost+)
Your assessment is more or less spot on. We are replacing many pipetting steps with electric and magnetic manipulation of samples on a surface.

Traditionally these operations when done manually (or even on other automation) are done inside tubes. When these operations are carried out inside tubes you have many limitations: you end up using a lot of tips, when pipetting manually some workflows require special techniques to pipette handle the samples. These operations are also extremely painful when do them over and over again -- very tedious and very easy to make a mistake.

Yes we have seen increase in throughputs relative to human. Most humans (often) process samples in batches of 8 / 12 samples. To give you a sense of the length of the workflow in a lab it can range from two hours to two days. The Callisto system can process anywhere from 1 - 24 samples for many workflows and is software controlled. It not only eliminates the manual steps: it provides at least 3X the throughput with 15 mins setup time, provides reproducible results and improves quality.
Everything was vigorously wiped with alcohol because any bacteria would be injected straight into my heart.

Anyone with a serious medical condition that requires home care on par with hospital care deals with this -- often, while at their very worst. It's probably one of the scarier aspects of living with a serious chronic condition.
I am not sure if the burning was related to inflammation. I recall the sensation of marker fluid aburning as it moves towards the heart, but it might just be a sensation rather than a reaction. Wasn't clear from the post at least.

Maybe one could burst only some convenient nutrition that is easier to deliver in higher doses like glucose, while still drip-feeding the bulkier macronutrients.

Another crazy idea could be to intentionally introduce glucagon and insulin to artificially induce highs and lows.

I'm sure it's a very hard problem space, but it might be one looking for a creative patient willing to put effort into further research...
Why not use Finder? Connect to the old Mac from the new one (or vice versa) in Finder, then drag the folder from on window (remote) to another (local).

If it’s extremely large and this will take too long over the network, use an external hard drive, again just using Finder. No need to mess with Time Machine or any of this other stuff people are talking about. It’s just files, that’s what Finder is for.
Is Copilot free now?
>The person can run two threads in their brain, one that deals with Samsung and one that deals with the internal product.

There's a reason we don't make a police chief investigate their own misconduct.

"It's a perfectly OK thing to do. The person is just the host hardware. There can be multiple threads running on that hardware at the same time. They can run two threads in their brain, one that deals with investigating the case and a seperate one that might or might not did it".

"He didn't just declare himself innocent of misconduct and embezzelment out of self-interest. The independent investigating "thread" must have arrived to an impartial decision".

"In any case, it's not blatant misconduct, you only see it as such. There's no notion of misconduct in nature, it's a made up thing we invented".
If I had been born ~90 years earlier I would have died before I formed my first memory. That thought comforts me when I feel like life is unfair or difficult. The whole thing is a bonus for me… I should be dead. Maybe similar feelings provide some comfort for people who have to manage their lives with diseases like Crohns.
I’ve heard that Walmart and Amazon also use various unethical means to scrape the websites of competitors to get pricing information and adjust their own items’ pricing accordingly. This feels a lot like the algorithmic price fixing that is now being scrutinized in the rental industry. I wonder if more attention should be paid to how these companies compete with each other, leaving aside the numerous other controversies around how they treat sellers, how they abuse sales data of manufacturers to compete with them with house brands, and their plain market power from size.
The almost single most important feature of supercomputers is guaranteed low latency interconn3ct between two nodes of a supercomputer, which guarantees high performance for even very talkative workloads. This is why supercomputers document their network topology so thoroughly and allow people to reserve nodes in a single rack for example.
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Ruff v0.4.0: a hand-written recursive descent parser for Python