skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US is an outlier in that the executive appoints about 4,000 civil servants; most places don't work like that (even in the US; _most_ civil servants (about 2.8 million of them, federal) are hired, promoted, disciplined etc by other civil servants; the president doesn't sit in on every interview or anything.)

This is one of the concerning parts with the incoming administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/25/project-2025...

> Project 2025, which is backed by the rightwing Heritage Foundation thinktank, has proposed to “dismantle the administrative state”, while Trump’s official “Agenda 47” calls for “cleaning out the Deep State” and “on Day One” issuing an “executive order restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats”.

> That executive order would set up a system, known as Schedule F, that would revamp the federal bureaucracy so that far more jobs could be filled with political appointees rather than through traditional merit rules. Trump’s supporters say Schedule F would cover about 50,000 federal employees, but unions representing federal workers say it would cover many times that. Currently, approximately 4,000 federal positions are subject to presidential appointment. Trump’s allies are said to have compiled a list of 20,000 loyalists who could quickly move into federal jobs in a new Trump administration.

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That 4,000 is looking to become 20,000 and potentially increase up to 50,000 (and beyond depending how far reaching the reclassification is).
How do I discover accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse?
Given the large amount of information that Twitter claimed that turned out to be false, one correct claim doesn't really change much. It goes from around 0/1000 correct to 1/1001 correct. Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
> The idea that "human-like" behaviour will lead to self-awareness is both unproven (it can't be proven until it happens) and impossible to disprove (like Russell's teapot).

I think Searle's view was that:

- while it cannot be dis-_proven_, the Chinese Room argument was meant to provide reasons against believing it

- the "it can't be proven until it happens" part is misunderstanding: you won't know if it happens because the objective, externally available attributes don't indicate whether self-awareness (or indeed awareness at all) is present
I'm not trying to convince anyone that she is. My point is the opposite: that many people do not. If you don't, then great, that's what I'm talking about.
This reminds me of Dead Internet Theory. We have a phone network of AI scammers endlessly calling AI counter scammers. What a time to be alive.
I have an idea for a parody of that song called "We Bilked This City" about the non-profit industrial complex.
Strangely, the most comfortable I've felt with symbols was when learning quantum computing. At the time, there was no established standard (perhaps it has a standard now), but the symbols were used more intuitively than any other math class I've taken.
What are you... Total Eclipse of the Heart is all in power. Were you alive when it was playing on radio all the time? Being played too much doesn't make it bad.
It obviously can't work in all circumstances. Walking is one. Driving, whether you're controlling the phone via CarPlay or just have it mounted, is another. Using it in the dark, presumably the phone on its own doesn't light your face well enough. You can't use it with sunglasses on.
They had a baby.

It’s a boy!

That said - perhaps harder to change the name that shows up as quickly as you could leave a recorded name? :)

Still one of the best ads ever made.
you mistake lethargy for strategy!
Because in the 90's for example, your typical lithium ion battery would have been too heavy for an electric quadcopter. The electric motors for each of the quadcopters fans also became very efficient recently (< 20 years). That is why this category of drones were not viable 30 years ago.

Gas powered remote control flight has certainly been available for a long time, however commercial GPS for navigation and high bandwidth wireless connections and cameras for video feed certainly weren't available. These RC planes used to be a novelty, you'd fly within visual line of sight only. Now you can bomb targets 1000 km away with them with decent accuracy as shown in Ukraine - Russia war.
Mark Zuckerberg f8 Keynote (23 July 2008) image
You’re solving novel problems all day every day?
What are you offering in return?
In the same Unicode block is "2129 ℩ TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA" with explanation "unique element fulfilling a description (logic)".

That seems a ridiculous choice for a symbol — turning one of the most symmetrical letters upside down!

Background: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/51563/what-is...
>> can experience personality changes from the donor

> organs outside of the brain don't contribute to memory

Interesting question. To start, personality typically refers to the totality of a person's behaviors, not the memories they may be able to bring forth. Behavior, esp automatic, is informed by cognitive states informed by the body.

Affect is the general sense of feeling that you experience throughout each day. It is not emotion but a much simpler feeling with two features. The first is how pleasant or unpleasant you feel, which scientists call valence. . . . The second feature of affect is how calm or agitated you feel, which is called arousal. [0]

Simple pleasant and unpleasant feelings come from an ongoing process inside you called interoception. Interoception is your brain’s representation of all sensations from your internal organs and tissues, the hormones in your blood, and your immune system.

...[M]oment-to-moment interoception infuses us with affect, which we then use as evidence about the world. People like to say that seeing is believing, but affective realism demonstrates that believing is seeing.

0. Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (p. 72). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

1. ibid (p. 56).

2. ibid (pp. 76-77)
I'm hoping that Department Head Rawlings and Jim Anchower will return as contributors. When did T. Herman Zweibel pass the reins to Bryce P. Tetraeder?
I find AI most helpful with very specific, narrow commands (add a new variable to the logger, which means typescript and a bunch of other things need to be updated) and it can go off and do that. While it's doing that I'll be thinking about the next thing to be fixed already.

Asking it for higher level planning / architecture is just asking for pain
What a FUD-fuelled bullst

> Oracle broke compatibility between Java 8 and Java 9+,

No it didn't. Introduction of modules (Java Platform Module System (JPMS)) would be mostly transparent to majority of users.

> so many of the libraries that have a dependency on older functionality are not getting maintained.

Any example? (I already herad the same argument on bluesky and asked for example and suprisingly didn't get it either)

The biggest issue around that time was switching from javax to jakarta namespace but that's somewhat on the side of the Java versioning.

> Java 8 is turning into a dangerous space because even though the JDK is getting patched quarterly, much of the components that work with it are not.

Again - examples?

If the library is not update then it could happen in any ecosystem - python, c# and whatnot.

> It is only going to get worse. SpringBoot, for example, requires either a commercial contract for Java 8/11 support or Java 17+ for the community supported stuff.

Of for f sake - if you are still stuck on Java 8 (released a decated ago) and didn't update then it's only your fault. Supporting ancient platform cost money so you either put that money to be up to date or you pay companies to maintain compatibility you ancient stock. MS is doing the same with old OSs and virtually any other company requires to pay/pay more to support old stuff... (because it costs money)
Aerosmith was about to call it quits, they did that duet with Run DMC and had another handful of platinum records afterward. Tyler was ~38 when Walk This Way charted the second time. Many of their greatest hits are from after they were old.

And then there was Tom Petty, who had hits in three decades. Practically David Bowie levels of staying power.
I have to disagree. Sequoia .0 was spectacularly broken and .1 is a very noticeable improvement.

…of course I’d rather stay on Sonoma if I could go back in time…
Well, 3600 billionths of a meter IS kinda close...just sayin'
... so... your answer to my question is "no"?

I thought so. I use Twitter daily and, for all its flaws, I think the "community notes" feature is pretty awesome. In fact, I like it so much I would enjoy having in on pretty much any information stream I receive.

Maybe I could even start following and possibly trusting legacy media again - if they would bother adding it.
"and they're not even reasonably cheaper than the competition."

Such as?
That would take away the joy of rolling coal on people.
The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies
> That's full multi-modal training with embodied agents (aka robots). 1x, Figure, Physical Intelligence, Tesla are all making rapid progress on functionality which is definitely beyond frontier LLMs because it is distinctly different.

Cool, but we already have robots doing this in 2d space (aka self driving cars) that struggle not to kill people. How is adding a third dimension going to help? People are just refusing to accept the fact that machine learning is not intelligence.
A similar mix took me under 20 minutes to get a C++ + Rust + C# + TypeScript codebase working between VS proper and VS Code. In fact, I don't remember doing anything at all to get it working except installing damn node for TS and choosing CMake configuration in a dropdown.
Bluesky ("X" alternative) new profile counter
Until they catch on and un-blacklist the numbers periodically.
As a self-identified metalhead who hated 80's pop in the 80's, I have to agree. Over the years I've gained a newfound respect for a lot of that stuff. So much great music by Bonnie Tyler, Belinda Carlisle, Meatloaf, Bryan Adams, REO Speedwagon, Carly Simon, The Eurythmics, The Bangles, etc. etc. I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to that stuff in 1989 (my metalhead friends would have crucified me, although I did manage to sneak in liking Madonna all along), but these days I dig quite a bit of that stuff.
Vibrant Open Worlds: Busy Cities That Stand Out [video]
The same one that hates Nickelback (they're not great, but terrible?, nah), clowns ("eek, let's collectively decide to feign fear at the humorously funny looking people with big shoes at the circus, even without having read "It"!"), and "moist" (who wants an arid cupcake?).

There are anti-fads, too.
To blame the the macro / US policies, 2 key things are impacting technology

- The end of 0% interest rates

- The 5 year amortization of the R&D tax credit as part of the 2017 Tax Act (versus same year since 1981)
MinGW and Side-by-Side Manifests
You can use library targeting Java8 with Java 23 or even newer (assuming they don't use Unsafe or some weird workarounds not covered by the API)
The "Global Tetrahedron" site already has an Infowars Web 1.0 slant, the Everytown for Gun Safety ads are great.

https://global-tetrahedron.com/
Apple has been pretty thorough about not allowing actual eye tracking data through to apps (just the resulting interactions), to the point that a lot of Vision devs have complained about it getting in the way of immersive UX design.
Except that also for trusted publishing, they only allowed github in the beginning and eventually added a couple of other providers. But if you're not google or microsoft you won't be added.
Chinese mass production is my uneducated guess. I can get a drone with a 4K camera and 10 minutes flight time for 60 € which is absolutely ridiculous. 15 years ago the price would have been 100 times higher or so.
Again, fair enough.
( I'm pretty sure that when I used the word heritable first, the person understood it, although he/she may not have agreed with me.)

And if I may defend myself most terms with a formal definition start out being used colloquially and later if/when adapted scientifically may have a more nuanced definition. And after it is adapted scientifically the word continues being used colloquially. Isn't it generally assumed that when 2 people talk the colloquial is assumed? Unless they both decided to use the formal definition, or they are both experts in the subjects.
Pretty much, yes. My job is pretty fun; it mostly entails things like "take this horrible file workflow some research assistant came up with while high 15 years ago and turn it into a newer horrible file format a NEW research assistant came up with (also while high) 3 years ago" - and automate this in our data processing pipeline.
I am a soccer coach for kids (my own included) in my free time. In a lot of ways it is the same as working on FOSS software. You don't get anything for it, but you get to work with other people and it is pretty fun interacting with the kids. And even if one of the kids becomes a pro you won't get any compensation for your work as well :)
Cool use of tech!

> I ended up writing a small JavaScript function to maximize font size: it makes the text invisible (via CSS visibility: hidden), tries displaying the text at a very large size, and then tries successively smaller font sizes until it finds a size that lets all the text fit. It then makes the text visible again.

That would be a good application for dichotomic search if performance was ever a problem (I doubt it though).

More generally, having elements on a grid of different sizes should hopefully be much more easy once CSS masonry grid is available.
I'm completely ignorant here, but my understanding is that Scrum is (perhaps at a high, reductive level) a software workflow/collaboration tool. Genuinely curious how that ends up being used to moralize about acceptable sleep patterns.
I’ve been restarting my MacBook weekly for 2 years now. It’s way more than I’ve done this with Windows.
But a LLM can certainly make up a lot information that never existed before.
I still don't see how AI replaces the understanding of what a server is, what DNS is, what HTTP is, or what...

I could go on and on.

Copy paste is great until you literally dont know where you are copy and pasting
I’m sorry I do not buy this as a form of “corruption”. Employers aren’t obligated to create perfectly leveled fields for candidates to apply on, especially when candidates are using AI to gin up fake resumes. Perhaps in some fields this is a legal obligation, but I don’t think that is what we’re discussing.

If the world were both good and just then perhaps I could hop on board. But it most certainly isn’t. Frankly, saying so sounds like sour grapes.
Elections are not remotely a "coin flip" though?
Go with the UK unless you have a good reason not to as it will make follow up funding much easier.
Nothing wrong about slavery, when it's about other species. We are milking and eating cows and don't they dare to resist. Humans were bending nature all the time, actually that's one of the big differences between humans and other animals who adapt to nature. Just because some program is intelligent doesn't mean she's a human and has anything resembling human rights.
> error-prone cryptographic bits if they don't need to

They can't. Because you wouldn't accept their key anyway.
Ads kind of are the reason though. Algorithmic feeds are found in every social media product because they create nearly infinite ad space "inventory". If your feed was limited to stuff people you know post you could spend an hour, read it all, and be done for a while. But if you're not "engaged" you're not viewing ads.

Metrics like "eyeballs" and "engagement" are important to social media products because they're proxies for the quality and quantity of ad space inventory you can sell to advertisers.
The US courts have ruled that there are time, place, and manner limits on freedom of speech.
Good set of tips. Thank you.
I don't code on weekends but 15 years in and I am finding inspiration in the AI tools. I'm so pumped in being extra productive. Especially when working in a new technology, the learning experience is so much better. I can chat back and forth to learn things, I can ship so much faster. I love it. I hope you can find that.
I see articles like this and nearly everytime while everyone thinks there is a shift to another company to go in that AI direction its nearly always the same. They‘re leaving to start their own company.

If you‘re a top end talent in that space, you‘re probably getting tens of millions in funding offered constantly. That would be hard to turn down. And, in my opinion, always a good career move. They can go back to being an employee if they don’t like it.
I don't think one can reasonably suggest a location with only the information you've given, but it is worth considering where your most senior employees and their administrative staff will be based. Not all countries in Europe have fully electronic submission of business documents, so you will need a physical presence that is actually manned. There are companies who can provide addresses or PO boxes for forwarding, but I'm not sure I would trust those with anything valuable - directors are still personally responsible for official communication.

As a British person, I suggest you be careful with incorporating in the UK. It is in many respects an excellent location for entrepreneurship, but the new Labour government and Trump's re-election in the USA means that our relationship with the EU could go either way. If you absolutely need public money from the Commission to make the business work, there are 27 countries that don't have the imminent risk of that disappearing!
Or, in comic form: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-of-the-machines
IBM and Llama: Working to enable AI builder creativity globally
The teams he assembled and worked with had a crazy impact on programmers, software development, computer platforms and end users. Even when he way not a developer himself, he looked for very bright people in software development to make it possible to develop new computer platforms. Home computers, early graphical workstations, desktop publishing, UNIX workstation for students, next generation operating systems for personal computers, ...
Im not sure I understand your question. Who is trying to convince who?

Ultimately, individuals are responsible for managing their own health. Thinking it is the doctors job and responsibility to keep them healthy, and not their own is the root of most problems.
I mean, IR35 happened because you could avoid a lot of tax as a contractor. In Ireland however, being a contractor is fine, but you end up basically paying the same tax as an employed person, so the tax authorities don't mind.
Definitely commercial 80s cheese and mastered for a mono clock radio like most 80s soft rock but it seems a bit of hipster stretch to call this the worst or even bad.

The synth and processed drums sit in the mix reasonably well for the time frame. There are some comical 80s songs in the same time frame where the synth really doesn't sit in the mix at all but somehow it remains endearing like Europe's "Final Countdown" or even Don Henley's "Sunset Grill" or Van Halen's "Jump" all of which are rescued by other musical and production value.
They were a powerful factor, now are a historical one.

Twenty years ago I knew opioid addicts utilizing pill mills. I no longer do.

Today I know people in chronic pain buying illegal opioids because that is the best of their awful choices.
this research paper says that the basis of the collection is 2019 version law from fifty US states. The descriptions of why and how are useful here, but this 2019 date implies that a more recent collection, or a very recent collection, is not available to the public under a broad license. The texts they build from are specifically owned by the public, not a research group or spinoff company. Historically, compendiums, analysis and indexing is real work that costs real money, usually in protected print format.

Is it too much to ask for, that any link to code or data might be included somewhere in this pre-print research paper?
There are two factors: One is that the Constitution disallows laws for a special case. Thus a "fire joe law" may not exist (without Change to constitution)

However: Yes, who you vote for impacts government. If you vote for a party which sets priority in building bike sheds, the authorities will move staff to the required departments, while Joe remains in the department nobody cares about anymore and thus can't meet the promotion goals. (While he will still receive the regular raise for the job level he is in) And if one truly wants to get rid of Joe there certainly is a way to find a reason for demoting him ..

But it's way different from the American system which sweeps thousand of jobs, according to [1] about 4,000 jobs directly, where then many of those bring in their assistant, advisor etc.

[1] https://presidentialtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/...
That assumes you are in a position of being able to paste the character (and as unicode), which is not always the case.
I called out email because email actually has this problem. It's not reductio ad absurdum if it's true.
I don't think defamation law is unconstitutional.
Or The Onion!
Trust Is Not for Sale
Remember to tip your LLM

https://minimaxir.com/2024/02/chatgpt-tips-analysis/
> Perhaps it should give us pause that nobody they are ostensibly calling Nazis can make a defamation case stick against them.

Lol, you know that isn't what's happening.
Stephin Merritt was 34 when 69 Love Songs came out.

Dick Taylor was an early member of the Rolling Stones and then in his 40s joined the Mekons and played guitar on some of their best records.

I'm sure there are more fun examples.
Are you sure that referring to an event from 8 years ago as an example of a much more common phenomenon is in good faith? Your second example doesn't specify exactly how large the gathering was, but from the context of the article it sounds like it was maybe a dozen people. What threshold are you using for "much more common"?
I don't think you should feel bad for using heritability in its colloquial sense. I'm just saying that you won't be able to support the claim you made with the evidence you had available. That's how discussions work: you make claims, some of them hold up, some of them don't.
> the model chokes, starts hallucinating, and makes your job considerably harder.

Coincidentally this also happens with developers in unfamiliar territory.
If every third call you make goes to Daisy you are using shit data and are likely part of the problem. Are you absolutely sure they are fucking up the spam detection, or are you just doing all of your cold calling with blinders on?
Good news: the system successfully detected an error and didn't send bad data to air traffic controllers.

Bad News: the system can't recover from an error in an individual flight plan, bringing the whole system down with it (along with the backup system since it was running the same code).
Despite only having a CS degree, I was always especially fond of ξ due to its distinctiveness (and also didn’t have trouble writing or pronouncing it), moreso than letters like ν or ι, which are too close to v or i/j visually for my taste.
That's comparing Democrats with Democrats.

Which groups did Harris outperform Trump in?
Try to run your own gitlab instance and use this to publish. See what happens…

At this moment this only supports github.
Will Amazon be able to exploit the same direct shipping loophole that is why Temu exists?

Also, "mobile only" limitation is dumb.
I seem to vaguely recall this Wildfire brand name....Because when i first got google voice, it was really half of an acquired company...which if remember correctly was a competitor to wildfire, no? Like grandcentral or something? Anyway, yeah, when i first got google voicemail, this feature was really impressive! But, of course eventually learned that this tyoe of thing already existed in some corners :-)