skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article lists several reasons why the regimen is dangerous: if you get the bacteria that you're supposed to be getting, that bacteria will be continuously producing an antibiotic. Having bacteria constantly dosing you with antibiotics can lead to all the sorts of issues that long-term antibiotics present. Secondly, the article claims, probiotic manufacturing is very susceptible to contamination. Luckily, there are steps a manufacturer can take to avoid contamination, but it doesn't appear that this manufacturer is taking these steps.

All of this is stated in the article, if you missed this on your first read, you might consider re-reading it :)
Lots of products besides commodities will lower their prices to remain competitive. General Electric keeps their prices competitive with Pratt & Whitney, but that doesn't make jet engines a commodity.

This product from Google clearly competes on price/performance ratio, speed and of course, brand.
He's willing to buy it without the algorithm, which seems a little insane to me.

If it were easy to replicate the algorithm, Meta wouldn't have an algorithm that is so stunningly bad that it seems like their team never uses it.
There are some specifications that are always there, like the absence of reachable panics or the backward compatibility between releases on stable entry points.

Otherwise you can outsource this work to specialized companies such as Formal Land or others!
From your article:

"The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may also be limited, said co-author Dr. Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, Gif-suv-Yvette, France. “Studies have shown that plants acclimatize, or adjust, to rising carbon dioxide concentration and the fertilization effect diminishes over time."

The beneficial effects of increased CO2 will also be more than counteracted by other problems as the world temperature rises, such as greater heat stress and lower soil moisture.

> Trillions of dollars have been spent to date on emission reduction with many incurring a consequent lowering of quality of life

It's cheaper to avoid the warming in the first place rather than deal with the consequences, so complaining about the cost is a false economy.

> To date (as far as I can tell) there has been no discernible reduction in the rate of increase in CO2 as measured at Mauna Loa station

It's possible that we've reached peak CO2 emissions:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

...however we need to cut them significantly.
Yeah did anyone actually expect tiktok would be banned, as in the domain not working and the app banned?
The only way Adobe can get out of this conundrum is by announcing a transition to a new interface, finding ways to incentivize schools to teach the new interface, while keeping the old one around for as long as possible to give time for the oldies to slowly retire. We're talking decades.
Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
You mean you don't see people that have a mental breakdown rocking back and forth? It doesn't help it's a thing that happens!
Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure
AntennaPod is a great open source podcast player. It's amazing to see a huge refactoring to reduce package dependency cycles over the past four years.

I'm delighted that I was mentioned twice in the blog post! :-)
Exactly right. You're making my point for me. :-) Oracle can now say it has one solution, whereas with IBM the attention is split between Terraform and OpenTofu.

If you're an enterprise customer, do you want your enterprise deployments on a company that knowingly does two near-identical implementations, and can't seem to decide on which one to favor?
what is your theory of how human emotions arise?
Ebury infects 400k Linux Servers over 15 years
> 130k amounts to 65 EUR/hr if you're working as a contractor.

As a contractor, you have B2B contracts which means you have to pay taxes over your revenue. In general this amounts to a tax rate in a range of 20%-30%.

> This is a low rate for an experienced (...)

I repeat: in Europe, FANG salaries only start to come close to these values if you are principal/staff engineer. Your "experienced" weasel word contrasts with reality.
Problem is, the idiot customer copies and pastes the wrong thing, and then goes on bothering customer support, who go and bother me, the dev, to fix the account. Obviously there are solutions to fix all of this, but that's not how management dreamed up their website, so I'm stuck between supporting idiots and disabling paste.
OpenAI are smaller and more focused. Google don’t have good vision and anything new they do has to be checked against their existing products (how will this impact search, advertising, Google Assistant). OpenAI don’t have the same baggage, and they don’t have the same obligation to shareholders since they’re not a public company.
Not quite. Tesla has a high valuation mostly because traditional auto carries an enormous amount of debt on their balance sheets. I think Tesla is one economic downturn in a high interest rate environment from meeting the same fate. Once an auto company is loaded with debt, they get stuck in a low margin cycle where the little profit they make has to go into new debt for retooling and factories. Tesla is very much still coasting from zero interest rate free VC money times.
> This is an issue of privacy, not speech.

I'm curious about this part of your argument.

It seems to imply that the only relevant framework for analyzing this issue is the privacy angle.

If that's actually the point you're making, how would you justify it?

Especially when AFAICT it's pitting two apparent goods, privacy and free speech, against each other?
Uhmackshully, since it's registered, it's "Linux®". The ™ is for unregistered trademarks.
But if you're not gonna ship it to all your millions of users and receive the outrage as feedback, how will you ever know if it works or not?

A/B testing to a few users only works in web-app front-ends, not in professional tools where all single end-user releases need to look and act exactly the same.

Shipping to only a handful of users wasn't a thing in the era of "Gold CD" releases, and even in the era of the internet updates, nobody will want to take part in A/B testing and end up with a different Photoshop UX than what his colleague is using, so you either ship to all or none.

So it seems Photoshop's UI is more of a cause of inertia and resistance to change, rather than nailing right the first time.
Liver damage requires alcohol in the bloodstream at extreme levels or very long term habitual use.

So for a collage kid throwing up really does provide meaningful protection for their liver. Though obviously it comes with its own risks of asphyxiation etc.
The image description stuff is already surprisingly good - I noticed when I got a photo text while driving and it described it well enough for me to know what it was.
i think you and google have a different idea of what "open" really means
Literally not the same as in personality change or as in unable to stick to reality after?
Just my 2 cent, but the Japanese work culture can be quite stressful, in the way it's demanding and hierarchical. As a tech worker you have more leverage when choosing jobs. Also tech is a bit more modern / younger so there's more willingness to circumvent that hierarchy and cultural work pressure (drinking out, over-politeness etc).

But still, the work is a bit more hectic and you're expected to prioritize work when required (deadlines etc). Also not as much paid leave. Which is not too different from the what's plausible in US, but in Europe this attitude is often strongly frowned upon, even in tech, so it might be an absolute deal breaker
I know it's not your argument but that doesn't make sense either. Processes on desktop OSes can read each other's memory anyway if they're being run by the same user.
Key piece is "ETF flow on the indexes you join".

Any ETF that a company is a part of increases demand for the stock which will increase the share price.
If they cared about the kids they would out ahead of this before it spreads like wildfire.
I guess you mean non-textual data then because the amount of text data they are being trained on ought to be enough for agi by now?

Some kind of diminishing returns asymptote from text volume alone must have been hit a long time ago.
STIR/SHAKEN: A Looming Privacy Disaster (RWC 2024) [video]
They keep getting so close to finding another earth… yet still are so far.
#2 People aren't evaluating this risk correctly. If the war in Ukraine has taught me anything, it's that the assertions, "Putin would never do..." is wrong.

#3 The real risk is the refugee crisis. The world is going to be split into two groups: refugees, and those trying to keep the refugees away. Large countries are going to experience crises from both internal and external migration. Think, people from mexico flooding into texas, while people from Texas flood north into the great plains. It's going to happen slowly, then all at once.
The first AGI will probably take way too much compute to have a significant effect, unless there is a revolution in architecture that gets us fast and cheap AGI at once the AGI revolution will be very slow and gradual.

A model that is as good as an average human but costs $10 000 per effective manhour to run is not very useful, but it is still an AGI.
Isn't that the point? That the different environments incentive different patterns of transit and that in turn induces different modes of dependency in the children?

From my experience city kids are substantially more independent than their suburban counterparts for exactly this reason. The latter can't go anywhere without their parents unless they live particularly close to a park or some such, and even then will often be yelled at for doing so as it's "too dangerous for someone their age"
I use Lisp extensions all the time for things people claim GIMP can't do, like draw certain shapes.

GIMP is to Emacs as Photoshop is to Intellij. Both GIMP and Emacs are fairly lean out of the box; it is meant to be molded into what the user wants. The problem is the target audience of Emacs is much more keen on programmatically modifying their systems than the target audience of GIMP.
As someone, who used Photoshop a lot, the UI/UX is good. It would be pretty hard to make it significantly better. And yes, even if you somehow made it better, many users would complain, because they have muscle memory of the UX, and are extremely efficient with it.
Anthropic desperately needs a product to differentiate itself it seems to me. Basic LLM foundation Models are getting commodotized fast and it seems there are diminishing returns setting in, despite what some of these CEOs say in podcasts.
It's as if most of us don't have a background in biology or genetics.
What about a little more expensive version with enough memory to handle VGA mode 13h?

PS: If I’m not mistaken, this would mean a minimum of 256K video memory - so, say, another 256K for general RAM. So perhaps a 512K or 1MB system.
Why do people treat these technologists doing career moves, as if this was lineup changes in a major league sports teams?

Are these "first name" (ugh) "influencers" smart? Sure.

Smart is not that rare. These people are technologists like most of you, they aren't notably smarter, they just got lucky in their career direction and specialization. They aren't business geniuses.

They're just people filling roles.

Do changes in leadership affect a business? Sure? I guess? About 5% as much as you'd think from the tea-spilling gossip-rag chatter around AI people.

Enough already. Attend to the technology. Attend to the actual work. The number of you who are professionally impacted by these people changing paychecks is closer to zero than 50%.
You remind me - wasn't Crispr going to cure Malaria by modifying mosquitoes and releasing them in the wild? Wonder how thats going.
I don't think they will. The problem with them isn't that people don't understand what they mean, it's that they require a lot of context to understand even when they are used naturally and freely. There's a reason why languages have grammar. They're really used for decoration, or to disambiguate between a short list of expected responses already established in the past by using words.

i.e. a handful of emojis to explain the state of a machine is no more expressive than using a handful of colors to do the same thing. In that situation you'd react the same way to an emoji that I've thrown at you for the first time as with a color I've thrown at you for the first time. Suddenly the indicator is violet, or the indicator is smileyface emoji with big hearts for eyes: the question is what that meant to the programmer, and the emoji doesn't give any more indication than the color. "Are you trying to tell me that the server really loves my new blouse?"
How many other classes of such bugs exist. Without a public COE one can't know that it was systemically fixed. One can't know whether security boundaries were by-passed by the bug. One can't know what sorts of extra protections are introduced for this type of systemic error. So what confidence would you have in the product with no public explanation -- are you saying, oh they're google, I'm sure they're doing the right thing.
Absolutely. You could taper off really easily with loosies while with 20 packs, you end up smoking the whole thing and get addicted again.
Top performing athletes are better than me at being athletes.

Meanwhile, the more therapy someone does, the more miserable they are compared to me. I’m the Usain Bolt of mental health compared to them. Makes me think their trainer is an idiot.
One could try gum with xylitol instead, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

from https://www.aapd.org/globalassets/media/publications/archive...

"In addition, xylitol has a number of other effects on
S mutans that may account for some of its clinical effects
in caries reduction. Short-term consumption of xylitol is
associated with decreased S mutans levels in both saliva
and plaque.15 Long-term habitual consumption of xylitol
appears to have a selective effect on S mutans strains. This
results in selection for populations that are less virulent
and less capable of adhering to tooth surfaces and, thus, are
shed more easily from plaque into saliva."
In Photoshop there are at least three completely different dialog boxes [0] for saving an image as a JPEG, each with totally different UI widgets and functionality.

They simply refuse to revise anything in the interface—they just keep adding. It's the software equivalent of hoarding.

[0] Save/Save as, Export As, Save for Web (Legacy)
Even if they did, you could just sign the message for real.
> At +5C, there is no growing food in any substantial amount outside of high tech,

It seems you have some specific geographic region in mind. Earth has a lot of regions that are more than 5C colder than the most fertile regions.

People adapt. People move. Sometimes they fight wars about it. This has happened many times before.

We're currently living it the most peaceful, prosperous and safest period that humanity has ever experienced. (Despite what social media is tricking our brains into believing). In the future we will surely live through periods that are closer to the average. But I'm not seeing any extinction-level events due to climate change within the next few hundred years.

AGI or nukes, on the other hand, they both DO have the potential to end us as a species.
I know it has been fashionable to have one, but why does a company truly need a Chief Product Officer anyway? Is it for creating revenue-generating ideas? Users essentially pay when they believe they receive immense value for their money. I don't think you need a CPO to tell you what will give users this value. You could just talk to the users or see their error logs if you don't already understand their pain. As I see it, the CPO role is just another parasitic prune-worthy role that delivers negative value because they keep piling on substandard new products at the expense of sacrificing the quality of existing products.
So… did you read the article?
Or are you going to dismiss it because you disagree with the magazines overall politics?
Exactly. This guide makes the computer my own. I'm always astonished when I see ArchLinux users openly praising the distro. It's great... but for people like me. I especially wouldn't recommend using it on a laptop, since skipping a few steps could mean an awful battery life, while other distro would be decent by default.

Having said that, my guide does use some advanced or very recent tricks that are not done by most distros. To which extent all of that help? Hard to say, but we are clearly in the premature, but fun, optimizations territory.
Hoisted by my own petard!
Average increase of temperature has negative consequences, but the accompanying variance increase has a lot more catastrophic impact. Storms, forest fires, floods, droughts are some of those things where increased variance can screw societies over.

A lot of this can push insurance costs so high, that insurance companies stop working. There are only so many times insurance can payout damage due to extreme storms, or crop failure. Once insurance stops, there is rapid deterioration of infrastructure.
Not sure what argument you’re trying to make here.

I would consider them both to be experts.
The video also makes it clear that only games using a certain microcode works for now. I imagine there are many parts of HLE emulation that gets added to the recompiled software as wrappers and compatibility code to make it all work, so in a sense this may be more akin to an embedded emulator into a native binary (recompiled code), which can overtime be worked on to add new features, fix shortcomings of the original software and make it more "ergonomic"/compatible with it's new target platform. But such work can only feasibly be achieved by reverse engineering the software and giving it human readable symbols. In a sense there is almost as much work to do as on the previous decompilation projects, but you can get results (run the game) right away (or at least much faster than traditionally), assuming of course the game uses a compatible microcode and isn't doing anything fancy that depends on the intrinsics of the n64 architecture.
I don't understand why Google TV doesn't have a Home app by default, like you get on Pixel phones.
It can be either, model is guessed by abduction, not deduction.
A simpler alternative is xylitol. Not a drug, no FDA approval required. It's a plant-based sweetener that cavity-causing mouth bacteria love to ingest, but which provides no sustenance to them. It essentially fills them up and then causes them to starve them to death, helping maintain minimum mouth bacteria. No bacteria, no cavities. Get it in mints or gum like Zellies or PUR (the only two I've found that don't include Titanium Dioxide). Take one a day after brushing in the evening so it kills bacteria overnight.

https://zellies.com/

https://thepurcompany.com/

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/xylitol-101

(Also if you have pets, make sure they don't get any, xylitol isn't good for them, especially dogs)
No. Most NoSQL dbs support indexes and secondary indexes too.

In SQL world we call this "denormalization". It's called the same thing in NoSQL, too.
An algebra book is a collection of paper pages with ink on them. An LLM is... nothing like that at all. LLMs are complex machines that operate on data and produce data. Books are completely static. They don't do anything.

Do you have a better analogy? I'd like to hear more about how ML models can't be intelligent, if you don't mind.

I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that we know enough at this point to make that claim definitively.
> To leverage the capabilities of MI250X, ROCm enables the use of GPU matrix cores through its rocBLAS and MIOpen library implementations that, in turn,are leveraged by PyTorch.

- https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.164.pdf

https://github.com/TurkuNLP/
Indeed. It's also obvious when the "hallucinations" create contradictory responses that a conceptual understanding would always preclude. For example, "In a vacuum, 100g of feathers and 100g of iron would fall at the same rate due to the constant force of gravity, thus the iron would hit the ground first". Only a language model makes this type of mistake because its output is statistical, not conceptual.
Attacking creativity is not the topic here. The topic is if new art styles can come out of AI.

I think it can because I think that "Style A + Style B + some unique qualities" is plenty to qualify as a new style. Like "Miyazaki made a new style from Toei Doga + Walt Disney + some unique qualities".

But, as expected, detractors require the goalposts to be defined as impossible to achieve. Generative AI has only been around for 4 years or so. Therefore, the current goalpost is placed at "It can't do anything new because it has not yet spawned a multi-decade movement" which is just silly.

Or, "It can't be creative because it can't yet physically go to school and instead it learns from a dataset" as if school was not a means to stream a dataset through a student :p Or, as if humans who never saw a painting before, but still swam constantly in an enormous dataset of nature and people, didn't make stick figure cave paintings.

At least this discussion is more interesting than the usual "I can tell just by being told it was made with AI that this piece has no soul". Where 'soul' is "A thing that AI is defined to not have that is unmeasurable in any way" And, therefore does not affect anything in any way and cannot be shown to exist or not because it is literally the fantasy of a ghost! :D
I got burned by Google "sunsetting" custom actions on assistant [1]. I'm not trusting Google to keep this open for 3rd parties.

[1] https://developers.google.com/assistant/ca-sunset
I understand the author's point, sticking with what's comfortable and working.

In a sense, I'm doing the same thing, but what's comfortable and working for me is Flutter. I don't have any Apple devices to develop on (but I do have a work macbook, and can borrow my wife's iPhone), so to target iOS at all, I vastly prefer cross-platform. Apple still makes that artificially difficult in many ways. You can't even upload a build without xcode (mitigated by codemagic.io). My distrubution certificate recently expired and I spent a lot of time on the Apple connect site before realizing there's no way to request a new certificate without using Apple tools that only run on Apple hardware. It should be a button in the same UI that shows the certificate!

Anyway, without cross platform tools like Flutter, I wouldn't target iOS at all. Apple just takes every opportunity to try to leverage you into their ecosystem, and I'm not going to do that.

And now that the WebAssembly target is officially supported, maybe I won't bother anymore.
Can you do that, are you not generally intelligent, or is that a bad metric for general intelligence? At least one of these is true.
It depends more on the parents than the locality, though parents of a particular bend may pick similar localities.

In our area kids are seen walking around and nobody really comments or cares, and it's certainly not very dense.
A and B is false if B is false, but that doesn’t make A irrelevant.
Please enumerate some right wing perspectives that we should learn about. I’m curious.
I don't see any connection between going public and giving the average consumer more input into the direction of the company. Making a company public means the company is beholden to operating in a way that maximizes return to the shareholders. Sure an average consumer can buy shares in the company but the average consumer isn't going to be sitting on the board.