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> I think defeating alcoholism also made me much more productive haha

Just out of curiosity and because we all have different limits - how much do you think you used to drink, generally, and what helped you quit?
Ordinal value doesn't really matter in this case, especially when it's a categorically different option, access-wise. A 10% difference isn't bad at all.
Shareholders will also care, or should also care, I know if I directly held shares in CrowdStrike I would want the CEO gone. The real problem is that the companies that hold shares on behalf of other people, like BlackRock, don't care.

Reform of companies like BlackRock is sorely needed, the way they operate is detrimental to the actual owners of equity, and society at large.
Even worse this video appears to have been padded to 16:9 so I can't fullscreen it properly on my phone on YouTube web or app.
This is now fixed, and signups should be working again! Had a misconfiguration with our auth provider, even though we were on the paid plan.

Thanks for testing! :)

- Billy
Introduction of an EU-wide asset registry
Meta tops the list as the most imitated brand in phishing attacks
flame thrower or hydraulic press should make it tolerable.

maybe boot it from linux on a usb stick so you can continue to use that.
>You should also lose weight, when you started coming here you had 80kg, now you’re a centurion. Like seriously, WTF. OK cool bye, see you in 3 months!”

a centurion? an officer of the roman army?

I do not understand the phrase, is the author fat or not?
In regards to the dead internet hypothesis, the content that you're enjoying today, will still be there tomorrow. What I mean is if you, for example, like Mr.Beast, AI is not going to replace him and the content that he produces. Now, he might use AI to boost the productivity of his company, but the end result is still "making the best video ever" as he's often said.
I would like to let you know that typical starting dosages of dextroamphetamine are usually in the 2.5–15mg/day range, so taking 20mg and 40mg could have way overshot your therapeutic window. Taking too much will end up not helping.

> I'm also not honestly that surprised that it didn't work so well, given how genetic ADHD is

It's not necessarily just that ADHD is genetic as much as it is that ADHD is pathological. It affects your whole brain. Sometimes stimulants really do help, because dopamine and/or norepinephrine can absolutely be possible culprits for entire brain dysfunction, but if you happen to have another root cause for the disorder then they might not particularly help.

Still, you can't necessarily rule it out just by taking 20mg and then 40mg; it may be possible that a lower dose could still help you.
Might have been a transient error as we were deploying some auth provider fixes. Should be good to go now! :) - Billy
Love the fact that I can print these. That's really great. Thanks! I'm debating if to print it in the office printer right now...
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The news livestream runs continuously, featuring batches of news (approx. 15 mins cycled block) that are refreshed every day to keep you informed of the recent articles (AI, Technology, and Science).

Please note this is a beta version, and I am working on improving performance. Some of articles previews have bad image quality (due to API responses) and will be fixed in next iterations.

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With the new government, it's not the same they anymore.
I made a joke:

> Prior to his seminal work Turing published a lesser known 1935 paper: "On Caffeine with an Application to the Anfangsverzögerungsproblem"

I think it might be a little too niche.
In a reductive way we're just that, the actual human part of it comes from the many loops this machine runs on to create emerging behaviour.

You could be even more reductive and just say we are chemical machines, or an agglomeration of molecules. Or that even the whole Universe is just a soup of vibrating energy. They aren't untrue but the reduction to such statements don't capture what emerges from.
The whole exigent circumstances exception is required to stop a crime which is highly probably to already be in progress and for which evidence could be lost to the prosecution. Especially at international airports this is highly likely to happen. The problem is that the system is set up in a way that encourages corruption.
I dont understand how HS2 is not the number 1 priority to link the dying cities of the north to london, its important to have good communications, its such a tiny island anyway. Get a grip, and make the line extend to the northern territories, that was literally the whole point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs

And I still have the manual in printed form somewhere in my archives. Maybe I should scan it, unless archive.org already has a copy ...
Your reasoning is really funny because that's exactly how all the EPO/blood dopers explained their drastically improved performance 20 years ago. Do you seriously believe that Armstrong didn't have individual nutrition and just drove aimlessly 5 hours a day without power meters? You make it sound like he just ate 10 raw eggs with a bottle of red wine before racing like it's 1924.

Feel free to believe that nutrition, material, aero etc. will give you a 10% improvement over the most doped people in the history of cycling, especially on the final climb on plateau de beille, with incredible heat, headwind and after four cat1 climbs. Watch how Pogacar casually drives freehandedly, grabbing a bottle while Vingegaard pushes the fastest climb ever recorded, pulverizing Pantani's record, and seriously tell me this is because he had better breakfast.
Those who know, know.
> True, but this is less of a problem if the credit rate is comparable to the payroll tax rate. In that case, a worker who over-reports their income will create an obvious payroll-tax debt in the hands of the notional employer.

But that's just an accounting sham to claim you're taxing them less than you are and you no longer actually have a negative marginal tax rate.

> However, per the article here, the unconditional cash transfer seemed to lead to reduced labour income. That's an obviously worrisome sign

Well that's mainly because they worked 1.3 fewer hours a week and were less desperate to take a low-quality job.

You might also notice that the effect you're referring to isn't net of the payments, and is also probably invalidated by the period the study was done -- it started during COVID. Between the first and last year of the study, the household income for the control group increased by $20,000 -- on a $30,000 base! The experiment group increased by almost as much before the payments and were ahead by more than $6000/year including them.

In any event, you don't have to use a different rate structure to do what you suggest, you get the same effect without the complexity by increasing the flat tax rate and adding the money to the UBI.
Paid users are not able login and use ChatGPT
If you think MAD is like an economics theory then I guess we are on the same page.
Hence

> unless they've been socially (or perhaps even physically) repressed
This reminds me of a design for analogue TV from the late 80s/early 90s. Instead of the electron gun scanning in horizontal lines, it follows a space-filling, non-crossing, self-similar curve. Want to upgrade the resolution? Just build a TV that renders the curve one generation deeper, and stuff more data into the analogue broadcast signal. Older TVs can still render the new signal, maybe with a slightly higher noise floor.

(Anyone know what I'm talking about? I assume it was obsoleted by digital solutions, but I'd like to know if there were any serious flaws in the design).
Can you please explain, I am totally confused why shareholdes like Blackrock woudl not care who the CEO is if it directly affects profits?
> Security first ISP?

The modern technology stack already allows us to treat the ISP as untrustworthy. For example when I am logging into my bank's website, I don't have to worry if my ISP is snooping on that traffic.

Similarly, I don't understand when people say, don't use wifi at coffee shops. If you are depending on wifi security to provide any protection for your data, you may be doing data security wrong.
The big problem with this is that content is harder and harder to find. Try to find a non-AI generated reply to a viral post on Twitter, you're looking at having to scroll down 5-6 1080p screens to finally get to some actual stuff people wrote.

The content you're enjoying today still exists, but it's a needle in a haystack of AI spam
The old HS1 boss, said the main problem with HS2 goes was the government publicly announced the budget for each contract and the bidders bid... you guessed it right at the maximum of each contract.

HS1 never announced any budget for any contract, so lots of bids came in way under what the government was prepared to spend, hence came in well under budget.

I seem to recall that was also due to infrastructure 'transparency' and government 'openness' from the 00s.

It got off to a bad start under Andrew Adonis in the dying days of the Blair/Brown administration, but people forget that.

"Adonis himself is openly regretful. “HS2 should stop at Old Oak Common,” he told me, “interchanging with Crossrail there. We should leave open the question of going further into London.” As head of the Cameron’s national infrastructure commission, Adonis makes many speeches on these subjects. He nowadays lauds HS3, and lauds Old Oak Common as London’s greatest development opportunity. I have yet to hear him laud Euston. That station, he says, “is the poison at the heart of HS2. I bitterly regret not stopping it before I left office”."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/hs2-the-zomb...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hs2-rishi-sun...

> Mr Holden also said HS1 was successful because the true budget was known to just “a handful of people”, while HS2 contractors inflated their prices once they saw the latter project’s true budget.
Thanks for the pointer. I will give it a read later on. If I understood correctly, eBPF is a guard rail for writing relatively bug free code. But it will still run in the processor[0] ring 0 which essentially is the same level as the kernel itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_ring
An other view. Tesla does over-the-air updated you don't verify. It disables break, you drive car and kill someone due to this. Do you share responsibility? What if this happens while driving?
These days "just" is a huge red flag for me. It's saying "my thinking stops here, yours should too".
In the past, I might have used a python library like asciitable to do that.

This time, I just copy pasted the raw metrics I found and asked an LLM to format it as an ASCII table.
File.ReadAllBytes/Text/Lines use synchronous underlying file API.

Their async variants call different OS APIs for asynchronous operation where available (Overlapped IO on Windows, on Linux it is specially scheduled (p)read and write calls).

A similar distinction applies to Socket where asynchronous calls use an internal epoll-based engine while synchronous ones are plain send/recv.

Generally speaking, in synchronous code there is no advantage to calling `.Wait()` or `.GetAwaiter().GetResult()` over synchronous APIs when such are offered, and if you can help it, it is best to update the code using them to be async too if your application is multi-threaded. Luckily it's quite easy in most situations unlike what HN public (that hates better languages like C#) would lead you to believe. But ff you do have to do block on waiting for a task, the impact on throughput is usually negligible if you do so within say threadpool worker - the implementation nowadays can cope with this very well and is more resilient to scenarios that used to be problematic.
I don't think "CS are idiots and use their kernel-level trojan to accidentally crash every Windows computer it's running on across the whole world" was ever on anyone's threat board[0]. Maybe they have considered IT outage of their own systems, but this wasn't that - this hit everyone all at once.

Should hospitals plan on not being able to provide medical care and not able to transfer their patients elsewhere, or divert the inflow of new patients elsewhere, because every other hospital is down too, there is no one left to provide care, and 911 is shot anyway? Maybe. Right after planning for a nuclear explosion over the city.

What happened was pretty much an "act of God"-level crisis, except caused by a de-facto infrastructure provider with way more destructive power than they're equipped to handle. IMO, not only CrowdStrike should be liable for the damage and lives lost because of the outage, this incident should be a prompt to rethink the entire idea of endpoint security.

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[0] - I think it should be, but then I think the entire business with endpoint protection is bullshit.
Yes, by using "just," it is a thought terminating word. However, again, I do believe we have it figured out, based on how we understand the rest of the universe to be physically-based as well. It is, in my experience, human arrogance that leads us to believe that we are somehow more than physical structures. It makes people feel uneasy to believe that so they invent something to solve that cognitive dissonance.
You could believe that, and it might even be true, but it's no way to live your life.
100kg+. It's a joke :)
If somebody would leak the training data and they would deny that it’s real ergo not getting sued and the data would be available.

Edit typo.
Yes Zmacs, my favorite editor of all times. Together with the space cadet keyboard and its control, meta, super and hyper keys.
Stuck at the Mall of America for Days on End
> biological computers

Using that as a metaphor is telling in itself, as we're far from being (just) "biological computers".
I am one of the people looking for a full-time job for 6+ months. I have a side project that keeps me afloat and the job search hasn't been my "main" goal, but I am now becoming increasingly concerned about the relatively long period that I am technically "unemployed". I usually don't advertise myself as much and I don't have a linkedin or any socials. Do you think it makes sense to make a linkedin to improve my chances? I usually just monitor platforms and apply to positions that fit me. I do realize that there is a subset of potential employers not really advertising positions anywhere but instead using linkedin to find potential candidates.
Also, how long do you think this situation will persist? Some of the comments mentioned a "rebound", so is it likely to slowly start recovering, or is it accurate to say that it will persist for another year or so?
Actually I'm pretty sure that's lack of tax on jet fuel and all the ridiculous taxpayer funded subsidies that airlines get that keeps prices low.

Its crazy that in the UK the train is like £100 but a flight can be had for £20. Utterly corrupt. Bonkers.
It can't, the nation is nothing without its people.

You either use violence or you wait for them to collapse on their own.
You can do a lot more with an executable as well than just execute it. So maybe the analogy is apt, even if not exact.

Actually executables you can reverse engineer it into something that could be compiled back into an executable with the exact same functionality, which is AFAIK impossible to do with "open weights". Still, we don't call free executables "open source".
TIL 遍體鱗傷 (but other than as an all-over covering, what might scales have to do with anything?)
I agree; there's a lot of muddiness in the term "open source AI". Earlier this year there was a talk[1] at FOSDEM, titled "Moving a step closer to defining Open Source AI". It is from someone at the Open Source Initiative. The video and slides are available in the link below[1]. From the abstract:

"Finding an agreement on what constitutes Open Source AI is the most important challenge facing the free software (also known as open source) movement. European regulation already started referring to "free and open source AI", large economic actors like Meta are calling their systems "open source" despite the fact that their license contain restrictions on fields-of-use (among other things) and the landscape is evolving so quickly that if we don't keep up, we'll be irrelevant."

[1] https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2805-movi...
defining-open-source-ai/
Assume that the police have tried-and-true counter-tactics for "smart guys":

https://xkcd.com/538/
Very cool, what is the tok/s on this?
Could you clarify what running models multi-tenant means?
This moves the problem one level up and makes returning it more difficult since they are now muddled with other assets. A safe deposit box would be required, with the court handling the keys.
Unfortunately a lot of 3-MMC sold these days is actually 3-CMC which is thought to be a lot more neurotoxic.
The things that don't matter are, the thing that does isn't. Together, they can hardly be called open source.
Using LLMs for Generative Design Editing
Why should it not allow for your spiralling brushstroke? You can divide the spiral into the strokes corresponding to each turn around the center. We can assume that each of these strokes is measurable (otherwise we would not need the construction of the spiral). Then the entire spiral is just a countable union of those measurable strokes, thus it is measurable itself.
The tapeworms that consumed your characters are still moving their heads backwards and forwards on whether to upvote, downvote, or move on.

It's impossible to say when they'll settle, so strap in for an indeterminate wait.
You're definitely making me reconsider it, thanks! Along with the person in another thread saying walks after meals help as well. With a fully remote work these risky "oops I injected but there's no food yet" situations should not happen as often, considering the time-to-fridge is like 10 seconds.
I suggest to everyone interested to also hear what Brett Johnson, a former criminal, has to say about the topic in his podcast [1].

[1] https://anchor.fm/s/9a92cef4/podcast/play/84999897/https%3A%...
Note that Indonesia's high speed rail is being built by China, so it is more accurate to remind everyone that this is China's century. On the other hand, for the sake of balance it is also important to remember that the grass is always greener on the other side, and in particular the famous saying about fascists (more accurately Mussolini) "they made the trains run on time."
The protocols provide first-hand evidence that a large part of the measures such as lockdowns, masks, vaccination recommendations were not based on science, but were invented by politicians based on their own interests.

The RKI was only used to sell these orders to the public by given their ideas a scientific face.
The irony of a bot account sliding into a convo about internet slop is not lost.
Any idea why there were @@'s in a lot of the messages? If you left @ as your TIP intercept character you had to type it twice, but only one @ would end up being sent. Those @@'s were in the email archive, and I can't remember ever seeing that before.

Speaking of intercept characters, did you know Will Crowther, one of the authors of Adventure, wrote the "Users Guide to the Terminal IMP"? You're in a maze of twisty little IMPs!

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA014398.pdf

Don Woods, the other author of Adventure, is a great PostScript programmer! I worked with him at Sun on NeWS, but earlier he was DON@AI, so occasionally he'd get weird email intended for me.

http://www.icynic.com/~don/

Here's his Spider card game for NeWS, entirely written in PostScript:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-tape/fun/s...

Maybe you could convert it to run in a laser printer, but it would sure use a lot of paper!
I like how the terms of service and privacy policy are actually readable. Overall, the site design is really nice. However, I got stuck at "Your account is being set up, check back here later" so, feedback-wise, this is as far as I can go.
> If you were correct the repeated exposure to low doses of radiation would not be cause for concern.

It's not a cause for concern, no. Tons of people live and work at high elevations, in granite buildings, and many other places where the background ionizing radiation level is far higher than normal.

You'd do well to consult this chart: <https://xkcd.com/radiation/>, paying particular attention to the expected radiation exposure from background sources, comparing that to the "Lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk" amount, and also noting that the repeated phrase "All the doses in the $COLOR chart combined".

You'd also do well to clear fifteen or thirty minutes from your day and read this letter, published in 1997: <https://radiationeffects.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Rock...>. Do take it slow and don't skim. It's an essay written to be read, rather than for SEO, so you absolutely will miss important details if you skim.
Thanks for the feedback! Maybe I should add a "download as .txt".

What do you typically do with the text on export? E.g. Do you parse the times?
They'll be either writing exactly the same articles as they do today, perhaps with different technology ("Israel widely condemned using fleet of hunter-killer robots against elementary school") or the whole of the Levant will be uninhabitable nuclear crater.
Look at motorsports, especially semi-pro motorbike teams. The creativity is astounding.
Singapore routinely busts smuggling of multi-kilograms of heroin which is a large amount for such a small country.

They also have several thousand in drug rehab/prison right now.

They haven’t solved it by any means. They did successfully drive it out of the public eye though.
> as we're far from being (just) "biological computers".

What part is? Or rather, how can you show that we are not? Note that I use "computer" in the general sense, that which computes, by taking in input and emitting output.
I see. And won't weight loss help in even Type 1? Is it not a valid argument?
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