skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not jump to conclusions. That guardian article is about a pre-print study that used frozen brain samples from a single tissue bank, and RNA sequencing was done on a single machine.

There's a lot of controversy around this[1], because contamination is possible and it's known that the blood brain barrier weakens with age. The sample are all from older individuals.

[1] https://www.news-medical.net/health/Is-there-a-brain-microbi...
It's a pizza slice out of the broader pie of facts, which you are mostly omitting.

Mostly in regard to what actually happened in the years following: Ukraine drifted even further from NATO aspirations, going so far as to pass a bill in 2010 precluding Ukraine's membership not only in NATO, but in any military bloc. Despite the hawks' attempt to mollify themselves with that backhanded proclamation at the very end -- overall the summit was unequivocally a setback to them, and a win for the pro-sanity camp.

Which a saner Russian leadership could have easily leveraged further via purely diplomatic means. But that's not the leadership we have in Moscow, and when it did choose to invade in 2014, it wasn't because of the NATO issue (or at least not out of any rational response to it).
> I'm having a really hard time coming up with an OS feature introduced in a full OS upgrade within the last 10 years that I actually want.

- Live Photos. I won't consider any device that doesn't have something analogous, now. They're magical. Non-kid-havers may feel otherwise, but making every photo I snap of my kids a "Live Photo" is one of the most important improvements any technology thingy has provided in my entire life. (I think these are under the 10-year line? Very close, if not)

- Transparent OCR and text selection in images. The first time I used an image for a couple full minutes, copying text out of it, before realizing only when I went to share it with someone that it wasn't a PDF but a PNG, was when I knew this had to be a table-stakes your-OS-is-incomplete-without-it feature for me. Sure it could just be a feature of some program I've got installed, but having it in any native image view is way better than having to open some specific program to use it, a thing I could long have done, but never did. Making it first-class, fast, and transparent to the user, makes all the difference. I rely on it all the time now.

A couple off the top of my head.
It's probably due to how division is implemented, by shifting the divisor and subtracting it from the remainder. Subtracting (0 << n) leaves the remainder the same as it was and the corresponding bit in the quotient will be set at every step.

Intel's 80186 produced a result like that in one special case, because of a missing check in the microcode. This could be called a bug or an optimization: the "AAM" instruction was only documented as dividing by 10, but in fact takes a divisor as part of its opcode (D4 0A = divide by 10, as listed in the documentation; D4 00 = divide by zero). The normal divide instruction - as well as AAM on all other x86 processors - check for zero and throw an exception.

RISC-V just doesn't bother doing that.
The X32 is a series of audio mixing consoles[1] to combine the signals from multiple microphones and/or musical instruments to a venue's speakers or to a recording/streaming apparatus.

In this case, there are multiple points of interest on the stage which are sometimes used, and sometimes not. When an area of the stage is unused, the microphone(s) at that location are manually muted to eliminate unwanted noise. The remaining unmuted microphone is at a location of interest, which is also the logical thing for a motorized camera to point toward and zoom onto at that moment.

This project uses the muted/unmuted states of microphones as a cue for camera movement, although it takes some upfront work to set it up. It also could cause trouble for looser or more improvisational shows where such rigidity might actually get in the way.

[1]: https://www.behringer.com/series.html?category=R-BEHRINGER-X...
The quadrate Sperry logo is cool. It was giving me Saul Bass vibes, but I looked it up and it was from Gerald Stahl Associates. I don't have JSTOR access but would like to read this if I did: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002224296402800102 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1249219

Also really love that Varian Data Machines logo. Down-Up-G with Up interrupted (iykyk) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varian_Data_Machin...
Good, then maybe it'll be a forcing function for companies to stop collecting personal data for their users just because they can, and we can go back to the days when the only metadata associated with an online account is its salted and hashed password.
Content Drive – How we organize and share billions of files in Netflix studio
Location: Munich Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: react.js, react native, typescript, graphql

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohaddese-kermanizadeh/

Email: mohaddese.kermanizade@gmail.com
My thought when I was reading it was that Murderbot is a stand in for people on the autism spectrum. This is an unusual viewpoint in literature and probably resonated with a lot of people in a similar situation. I personally liked the stories and will read the next installment when it comes out, but found myself gravitating more towards ART than Murderbot. If I had any quibbles it would be how the living people are underdeveloped and sometimes no better than background furniture. This naturally arises from the viewpoint of the protagonist, but can be somewhat annoying to the reader.
Any reason not to run SSH on localhost only? This way there would be no network requirement whatsoever.

I am not trying to criticize, but am just curious what you gain by having this access split across two machines?
The AWS deal is not a "Foundry win" in the true sense. It is still a chip designed and built by Intel for AWS: custom Xeon chip and custom Intel Clearwater Forest AI chip.

Unlike true foundries which manufacture chips designed by customers.
> And be focused. Understand everything in every article, do not accept not understanding everything.

I read my first programming books that way. Always ask "Why is that word here" and "Why is that ! there". Made me see details.
> By opening up Mars, incentives are wrong and we will probably become even more lax

The history of conquest on Earth shows no such example. If anything, given a choice, humans will happily push the unsavoury to the periphery. I'd much rather e.g. risky biological, chemical and nuclear research happen on the Moon or Mars than Earth.

The honest truth is our first colonies on Mars will be Jamestowns. Unlike the Jamestown in our past, however, this one's horrors will be broadcast real time. The deadliness of space almost promises that we'll be keenly reminded of how special our safe harbor. Not that we'll forget it.
We started with making the core search technology faster. Then we added a Unicode character folding/normalization tokenizer (diacritics, accents, umlauts, bold, italic, full-width chars...). Last week we added a tokenizer that supports Chinese word segmentation. Currently, we are working on a multi-language tokenizer, that segments Chinese, Japanese an Korean without switching the tokenizer.
Towards an AI Native Auth Framework
That doesn't seem to be that clear cut.

Evidence is scarce and the article is talking about brains with active illnesses. It could be that there isn't any microbiome normally but if the safety mechanisms fail and bacteria colonize the brain, that would cause the illnesses described.
Eval is a good place to start because nobody wants to do it. Back when I was working on search engines and between jobs I talked with many companies in the full-text search space and found it was unusual for them to do any eval work.

Even though I had lived through using eval to make a search engine that was much better than competitors it turns out that enterprise search customers are more concerned about having 500 "integrations" to load stuff from different data points (each of which is like 5-50 lines of code exclusive of initializing connections to the various products) than they are about quality results. It's not like the people who buy it use it.

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Listen. If you want to make the kind of query systems that people are dreaming about you are going to need some hybrid of RAG plus ordinary databases. For instance, if you are going to be asking questions that filters like "sample size of over 2000" you can build some system that extracts the sample sizes out of papers and puts them in a database column. DONE. On the other hand you could screw around with vectors and get to: 50%, 75%, 81%, 83.5%, 83.7% and such accuracies with increasing effort. Don't be that guy.
Or you could recognize the possibility that space might be treated as territory to be developed by more advanced intelligences that we could run into someday. There is a paper as a solution to the Fermi Paradox and YT videos under the term "grabby aliens".
I recall reading about this 1 or 2 years ago! But I don't remember details. Has there perhaps been tentative evidence?
The lungs, mammary glands, uterus, ovaries, vagina, placenta, semen, eyes, skin, and nasal cavity all have their own documented microbiome so far, and we've been finding out about new microbiomes about once a year. They are not a thing that is reserved for the digestive tract.
It's not the title that's the problem. It's the part where people and go write software that gets deployed at scale in an environment where bugs can cause very real and significant damage (monetary or otherwise).
You should keep in mind that code quality is mostly subjective.

You can create a PR that coworker 1 loves because it hides the complexity and then have coworker 2 come in and say that it's complete garbage, because while the complexity is hidden, it still has to be understood in this context, only increasing the difficulty of working with the project

I.e using a state-machine vs a switch/case to determine a status attribute.

Both viewpoints are valid. Some code is objectively terrible, but most discussions on code quality are massively overblown
Without accepting this specific rule, that's not how any rules of evidence work in any (common law) court. There needs to be a point where things are presumed true to maintain a working court system. Imagine if e.g. you had to prove the _concept_ of DNA testing every time it was used.

In the US, see for example the debate between the Frye standard vs. the Daubert standard.
I guess some people never learn from trying to cover their mistakes as children. I've explained this to my kids: often the initial mistake is minor and warrants nothing more than "please don't do that again". It is the lying and hiding that blow it up into a big issue. The odds of being found out are very high. There is little reward and lots of risk.

When you have such a widespread and ongoing problem it becomes clear that such a large proportion of postmasters can't be criminals. Computer bugs are well known. Eventually it is going to come out that the computer is wrong. Why double-down? The earlier you admit a mistake and apologize the lower the impact and the less anyone cares. They had a built-in scapegoat that everyone understands and accepts: the vendor's software had bugs! We have daily meetings to yell at them to fix the bugs we promise and we will fix the problems ASAP.

Or do the sneaky thing and fix the issues, stop prosecuting postmasters, and ignore the ones you prosecuted by mistake. Cynical, cruel, and immoral... but contains the damage.

Instead the UK Postoffice seems to have just let the problems continue while simultaneously allowing prosecutions to go ahead knowing they were faulty. Literally the worst of all worlds: ongoing accumulation of liability, now with provable malice!
I think it's a mistake to conflate consciousness with AGI and vice-versa. It's entirely possible that you can have AGI without anyone being "home" and conversely it's also possible that there is a subjective experience going in much simpler systems. We just don't know, and maybe we never can.

But regardless, I think it's easy to imagine that there could be a machine that is generally intelligent, or super-generally-intelligent. but doesn't experience.
Humanity as the great filter. A dark version of The Culture. Solid sci-fi premise!
This was a political exile because his side lost and he was politically active. Very common everywhere and doesn't refute my post
It seems to have a lot of resonance with trans people too. I'm autistic but there's enough overlap between the two groups that I've noticed how people in both communities react to the series.
I found the Il-Rien books more engaging than the Cloud Roads. Especially the Fall of Il-Rien trilogy. I'm currently reading the two-in-one book they released earlier this year in the Il-Rien universe.
how does it work for aircrafts? how does it work for anti-money laundering policies?
Where do you handle that stuff? Doing them on a desktop seems like the same thing but less secure and less convenient, and sometimes with fewer features (mobile deposit from a laptop camera would be... awkward at best). Do you instead avoid using computers for things like banking?

[EDIT] FWIW I'm in the so-called "Oregon Trail" mini-generation, so have definitely lived in and remember a world far more low-tech and connected than the current one, was a very late smartphone adopter, and have only reluctantly and recently come to admit that my phone is basically the only really useful computer I own for my personal life, and the "real" computers are mostly just toys for me that, at best, can replace only part of my phone's useful-in-my-ordinary-life functionality, in its absence. A high-quality internet-connected sensor and I/O suite in a pocket-sized package is just too damn useful, I've found.
There’s an episode of Omnivore about coffee, going from farm in Rwanda to coffee shop in the USA and addresses these challenges.
The incredible explosion of Swift language complexity has really killed a lot of my desire to continue working with it.

It feels like you need to be full time invested into the swift ecosystem in order to stay on top of the speed of the language changes.
You can definitely mix gaussian splats and “traditional” meshes

Splats very new and still many things to figure out: relighting, animation, interactivity.
I try my best not to talk about my job when I'm not at my job
So an massive "ugly city" on the moon is what you meant? I don't think a cemetery on the dark side of the moon will be visible.
I don't do it every day, but at least 2 days a week. It can be hard to assert yourself well enough to do this in some organizations, especially as a junior. It should be normal for individual contributors to have 4-hour blocks in their calendars (managers live by meetings, though).
I don't see that error being made. What makes you think that? Tons of people died in their 30s and 40s from curable illnesses before modern medicine. Life expectancy of people that reached adulthood was still under 50 during that time period.
I wrote a step-by-step guide on creating a workflow to pull structured data from PDF email attachments. It walks you through fetching emails, processing the PDFs, extracting and exporting the data.

Full code here: https://dub.sh/eTUQL8t
The industry will be 80 years old soon. If it's not "mature enough", it's only because of the pervading culture.

For comparison, electrical engineers started introducing things like national standards for plugs by 1915.
Is that this book?

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL88800W/The_Machine_Stops
The root page is just a landing template... is the author of this paper writing a textbook?
you can play in a browser on the web. you can download the web versions and play locally in your browser. you can download the source and build. you can download builds for many different platforms.
> Is it "hating humanity" to mourn this loss a little, to want to preserve something like it for future generations?

It strikes me as naively presumptuous more than hateful. We don't have the capability, today, to ruin a celestial body by any reasonable defintion of those terms. Maybe we figure out what we can do and what's over there before we loop in the space NIMBYs.

> it would suck to burry the evidence for abiogenesis before we understand it

What threshold of sureness would you propose for what amount of activity? Even massive (1mm+) colonisation wouldn't ruin evidence planet-wide.
I've also been looking for a sheet music rendering and editing library (i.e. placing notes) library for java (or any other way to write for android/ios). So far I haven't found much so interested to see what people are using for this.
The terrifying thing for me is, even if you lever up on them, there's no safety.

A tale as old as time. You can diligently study the masters, take your time designing the perfect system, and it is pure and correct until the real world comes in.

I became a programmer and have a career thanks to iOS, but I don't think I'll ever program Swift as a daily driver again. I took it up day 1, it was a huge productivity win. But I don't expect to find myself in a situation where I need it to deploy to iOS*, and frankly, I don't want to. Oddly, Dart feels much closer to a "modern Objective-C" to me.

* beyond one-off integrations, ex. writing a implementation for the ONNX iOS CocoaPod that I talk to from another language
The hidden costs of low-code tools
You raise a fair point. The likelihood that the high school students knew the original context of a slogan used with very ugly intent by both sides of an even uglier conflict is… not high. It’s more of a sign that kids are poorly educated than anything else.
I recognize the possibility I just don't accept it as a justification for a rerun of manifest destiny.
Plenty of people here talk about the mistakes from Intel CEOs. But do they really have so much influence over the success of new production lines? Or is this maybe caused by some group of middle-management that backed each other's ass the last 10 years? How high is the possibility that the production problems with new nodes are mostly bad luck? I haven't seen anything trying analyse and quantise those questions.
I've played that to completion with 2500 dots. I tried to go bigger but on my old machine I don't have the memory (or maybe nobody can with that architecture, i dunno, it got really slow)
This seems promising - more than anything I like that there's very little magic. With that said I honestly find it significantly easier to reason about / debug traditional control flow logic. As soon you introduce these frameworks it raises the complexity of your app 10X.

This might be warranted when you have swarms of agents but I don't think anyone believes the models are close to that level of capability yet. But the LogFire integration does seem useful.

Just for fun I rewrote their example using a basic query classifier + regular control flow. Personally I find it much easier to reason about.

https://gist.github.com/Filimoa/bd883bbbd6475993f3f6d2621275...
Holocaust survivors seek right to sue for compensation of seized property
We don't need to solve the halting problem. We just need to come up with a sensible set of practices that, if followed, make the risks small enough to be considered acceptable. Then we can point at that list and say, "this is what the reasonable expectation of due diligence in software engineering is" - and legally enforce that.
I'm more surprised about Gelsinger than Tavares. Gelsinger seemed to have a viable plan going forward, even if progress was slow.

But Tavares has been doing a terrible job for the past year: New Jeep inventories stacking up on dealer lots for over a year, mass layoffs, plant closings, unreliable cars, and no meaningful price reductions or other measures to correct the situation. You couldn't pay me to take a new Jeep or Ram truck right now.
I don’t think it really matters if some people upgrade more frequently as long as the old devices enter the secondary market.

What we don’t want is functional devices rotting in a drawer or landfill.
Agreed. Additionally, one of the mechanisms keeping the gut bacteria from taking over the rest of the body is an oxygen gradient: anaerobic bacteria in the gut are unlikely to be interested in an exploration of the aerobic environment of the body. Oxygen diffuses freely across the blood brain barrier, so it would not serve as an analogous containment mechanism.
I've been told that the secret to exercise, woodworking, playing the piano, whatever is to "enjoy it." But, having or getting the skill to have some successes to "enjoy it" is difficult and not everyone has the ability to get to that level. Just sticking with something or worse, fooling oneself that more effort will lead to good results is annoying to hear if one doesn't have ability. We can't all succeed at everything.
That's very interesting.

Yes, my understanding of Dr. Sapolsky's work comes from rather old videos he did, so, sure, I don't doubt that what you're saying is probably true, but I'm not a neuroscientist, so I'm going to have to rely upon the expertise of others to validate any claims/results. Thanks for your explication.

Regardless, what is important is (IMHO) that our notions of how genderish traits can mix and match in different individuals in ways that don't match our classical notions of gender. The best result of that would be recognizing that we have to take each person as they are, and let them be their happiest self, by their measure.

At the end of the day, however a person justifies it, respectful, kind, gentle-as-possible compassion is the best policy for us all, to everyone, always. It is always our choice.
Indeed. In order to even try to cross the blood brain barrier, an organism would have to be in the blood already. If that's unexpected, the immune system certainly won't like it. Large compounds and even immune cells aren't supposed to cross it. Usually brain infections are from tiny viruses because of that, unless they found another way (like ear, nose or eye infections, all of them effectively brain 'appendages').

Now, it could be the case that in a person with a compromised immune system AND a compromised blood brain barrier, that organisms would be able to live long enough to reach the brain. Once there, they would be mostly shielded from the immune system, except for brain glial cells (and I guess antibodies; usually the blood brain barrier stops most of them)