skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your claim is falsified

No, as we have both quoted, and you miscounted, there are four states:

- Male (gonochoric)
- Female (gonochoric)
- Sequential hermaphrodite
- Non-sequential hermaphrodite

True hermaphrodite is a misnomer, a term for an intersex disorder known as ovotesticular syndrome[0]. To quote the great Wikipedia:

> In the past, ovotesticular syndrome was referred to as true hermaphroditism, which is considered outdated as of 2006. The term "true hermaphroditism" was considered very misleading by many medical organizations and by many advocacy groups, as hermaphroditism refers to a species that produces both sperm and ova, something that is impossible in humans.

To check, we can apply "our" quote - a hermaphrodite would either be sequential, which we know humans are not (I hope we know that much), or able to produce both types of gametes at the same time.

True hermaphrodites cannot do that, and the paper you shared makes no claim that they can or that they have. None of the examples show that either.

Your claim is false.

> Not all humans reproduce.

I'm sorry, but you're bringing the conversation down to a level too silly to bother with there. Every human has a reproductive strategy, and from conception to boot. Whether any individual actual reproduces is irrelevant to that.

Really, that kind of argument is beneath the level of this forum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovotesticular_syndrome
To those of us that use and understand this technology, it's laughable to think that AI can replace an actual human, but I've seen enough people unable to detect obviously reckless AI recommendations floated to leadership that I'm afraid of the near future.
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Isn't there also some display "room" where they show these huge mining machines from CAT?
They should have these at malls where wifes can drop their husbands off
That had to be resolved somehow. All problem with crime in the US is not catching the criminals but that there are so many of them they can't be affordably imprisoned - and death penalty applied on machinegun scale is out of favour with the public. If El Salvador can provide an affordable solution that allows to imprison everyone who say, ever stole a catalytic convertor, for 20 years - that will be great!
You don't need to be dumb to fall for a dumb idea. Also, the average person is smarter than about 4 billion people.
It's great Americans criticize the EU. I just wish they did more than (paraphrasing) "EU sucks, lol." Wouldn't hurt being a bit more constructive.
When does that age start?

Secret tech doesn't stay secret for long now, in the age of organic regular intelligence.
Note those words most and probably.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426
Dealt with here[1] but I'm more than willing to post the quote again:

> In the past, ovotesticular syndrome was referred to as true hermaphroditism, which is considered outdated as of 2006. The term "true hermaphroditism" was considered very misleading by many medical organizations and by many advocacy groups, as hermaphroditism refers to a species that produces both sperm and ova, something that is impossible in humans.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929198
Wow! Really shows how mitochondria are actually just bacterial cells living inside us!
He's not a public employee though. Well, wasn't when I posted the comment. News moves fast.

I'm still not sure if the kids were actually hired though.
Has worked for Musk so far. And Trump. Seems like a path to success.
Yes, an hour. In practice, most scheduled maintenance will take closer to a minute than the full scheduled hour. If it's good enough for the government and the bank, it's probably good enough for you.

What happens if you're on vacation and something breaks is that you call/email the DC and ask them to replace what's broken, same as if you were not on vacation. In my experience most DCs will have the replacement done in less than 30 min from receiving the ticket, good ones will do it in under 15. If the project is ran by more than one person, simply don't all take a vacation at the same time. Worst case scenario you point DNS to a free static page host that reads "Server broke. Working on a fix, check back tomorrow." (or the appropriate corporate-PR phrasing of the same if applicable) while you wait for the computer store to open so you can buy a new one.

Even if you are once-in-a-lifetime unlucky and the damn thing breaks while you're on vacation and for some reason your monitoring fails to notify you, big whoop. You can probably get away with just apologizing for the inconvenience and moving on. If a week long outage is enough to make or break your business, your business isn't gonna work out anyway.

This applies to practically all web projects from the home page of the pizza place on the corner of your street to 100-employee e-commerce sites. If a single machine can run it, it can probably run on a single machine. Use the dumbest tool that will get the job done, switch to a smarter tool when it won't.
Not just that but you CAN train people. It's possible for juniors to learn >.>
How credible is this gentleman’s experience? He says:

> Anything with a piston currently, plus a whole new slew of VTOLs and STOL aircraft, will go electric, so Light Aviation remains way down the ladder on Row F.

From all that I have heard from aviators as well as manufacturer side, electric crafts seem highly unlikely beyond small/unmanned vehicles or research prototypes. As much as I would love electric planes, I wonder what’s the veracity of his data (or expertise).
3rd world currency is often barely worth the paper it’s printed on. Making it crypto removes even that value.

Seriously though, the reason is that they can do digital currency without crypto just fine.

For example there are many popular payment operators in Africa who provide money transfers and micro-payments on phones. M-PESA launched in 2007 and has tens of millions of users:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

These successes don’t usually get reported because they lack the exciting novelty of crypto, even though they are much more popular and usable. They are actual free market solutions, not coin casinos built around libertarian dogma. And for that reason lots of people don’t want to know.
We dont need "total autonomy" when we have friends that already produce chips, for example.

Rather, invest in defense and protect trade with Taiwan.

We can do what we are best at and produce lithography equipment at ASML and the Taiwanese at TSMC produce the chips with it and send them back to us.
Toilet paper supply issues were not an example of an efficiency problem, they were misinformation creating a demand shock.

Your average supermarket has limited shelf space and stocks to the level that it will reliably clear shelves before new supply turns up, or things spoil.

If a whole much of people just buy one extra pack that week, this can easily empty the shelves... Which then gets posted to social media to imply a supply problem, which then prompts people to increase their buying rate.

There's no solution to this other then education: there was no supply issue, and never was. Any "solution" would be concluding that a supermarket should devote an absurd amount of shelf space to toilet paper, just in case misinformation goes viral again.
Related, Oslo has rules for reducing emissions from building sites which has made it a pioneer in the development and use of electric building machinery. Some of it is battery powered and some requires a really long extension cord. I do wonder how practical that is when maneuvering and if they need somebody to move the cable out of the way when it reverses.
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A 38-ton electric track excavator that requires a cable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYuYgPv8s5c
And what caused that inflation? I seem to remember some sort of worldwide health issue.
You're more confident about that than I am. I find it easy to imagine how a person who produces the first kind of analysis could be technically useful in analyzing government data. He presumably didn't know anything about ancient scrolls before working on the first thing, so he has a track record of conquering a steep learning curve.

But we don't actually know what they're doing.
As many issues as we have, I’d rather have somebody who understands the consequences of a security breach having access to sensitive information than someone who does not.

Think what you will about who came before or after, but everyone involved here should have experience or training in how to handle and secure sensitive information.
Some of the unacceptable activities include:

AI used for social scoring (e.g., building risk profiles based on a person’s behavior) - Oh, so insurance, and credit score is banned now? And background checks.

AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively. - Oh, so no more ads?

AI that exploits vulnerabilities like age, disability, or socioeconomic status. - Oh, are we banning facebook now?

AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance. - pretty sure that exists somewhere too.

AI that uses biometrics to infer a person’s characteristics, like their sexual orientation. - oh, my, tiktok does not even needs biometrics, just a couple of swipes. Google actually too, just where you visit.

AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement. - but cameras everywhere are ok.

AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school. - like every social network, right? or a company with toxic marketing, but without ai (hello, apple with green bubbles)

AI that creates — or expands — facial recognition databases by scraping images online or from security cameras. - oh, this also probably exists. So companies could track clients.
I’m not from the US and news like this change my perception of that country - it seems unstable; just like I’m not considering a Wordpress blog, I’d think twice before any long term plans that involve the US.

The comparison to the Wordpress drama works surprisingly well for me, complete with vendettas and an overzealous leader, just on an even larger scale and affecting more people.
You shouldn't pass invalid values to a function. If a function can return some sensible value for some input, then the input is not invalid - even if the return type is an error by name.

Ideally, you can constrain the set of inputs to only valid ones by leveraging types. But if that's not possible and a truly invalid input is passed, then you should panic. At least that's the mental model that Rust is going with.

You do lose out on the ability to "catch" programming errors in subcomponents of your program. For example, it's extremely useful to catch exceptions related to programming errors for called code in response to a web request, and return a 500 in those cases. One could imagine a "try" "catch" for panics.

The thing is, it takes a lot of discipline by authors to not riddle their code with panics/exceptions when the language provides a try/catch mechanism (see C# and Java), even when a sensible error as value could be returned. So Rust opts to not introduce the footgun and extra complexity, at the expense of ungraceful handling of programming errors.
> In my experience, youth has little to do with honesty or corruptibility.

It has a lot to do with naivete and not having the confidence to stand up when needed.

There's a lot of easily indoctrinated, exploitable idealistic youth out there. A lot of organizations run on them.
You mean a good environment for doing R&D?
The issue isn't just FFI - for example calling directly from Rust into C without any expression of the semantics means you have no mechanism for reasoning about ownership, and that removes many of the security benefits of writing code in Rust in the first place. If you have a strong description of the semantics of the C code then you can write Rust bindings that expose that, but you're then constraining the maintainers of the C codebase in terms of their ability to make arbitrary changes without considering the impact that has on the Rust consumers. Doing this badly is fairly easy, doing this well is hard.
> This is who they are bullying and putting a target on. The best of us nerds.

Wilfully choosing to work for DOGE/ current Musk certainly isn't "the best of us".
Not really. Such a system would be evaluating the whole context and not solely profiling the person. What the person is doing (delivering parcel vs cutting a chain link fence) is not a part of their personality or profile. How much danger they’re posing in the moment also isn’t, and so on.

Arguably, an AI security system with great objective understanding of the unfolding circumstances would be a lot better than one profiling people passing by and raising an alarm each time a person that looks a certain way walks by.

It’s just that simple CV-based classification, perhaps trained with unsupervised learning, is easier in AI than observing a chain of actions. The labelled data set is usually accessible from police orgs if you want to simply train an AI to look at people and judge them based on visual traits. By the EU saying “this easy way is not good enough”, it is encouraging technological development in a way. Develop a system that’s more objective than visual profiling, and the market is yours.
You might be right, but Rails is always touted as one of the best things about Ruby...
Take it to extremes and the answer is self evident.

I don't agree though with prescribed removal of poorly informed nonce - just let anonymous warriors once again travel the dark lands of social media and with armed with reputable links, plain simple logic, common sense, and mostly kind words, sort out at least some of the folk who know no better since they've missed out on a thorough education or the topic involves something few lay people would really know that much about.
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Obama wasn't a member of the Weather Underground. He was 16 when it was dissolved and had never lived on the same continent where it operated.

Separately, your unprovoked personal attack on me is contrary to site policy.
hahaha it was a good idea to remove that last sentence from your comment

I'll nibble at the bait regardless:

Your comment of spending patterns is missing the forest for the trees. A modern, capitalist infused, economy works like a big cardiovascular system, or like an engine. That is to say, it's happiest when blood/oil is pumping through it. Therefore, you can compare to a certain extent the different states an economy can be in to its cardiovascular counterpart.

When an economy is struggling with deflation, you can imagine this as the heart pumping slowly. Slower pumps mean less blood going everywhere, means less performance. The less money circulates, the smaller its multiplying effect, the harder it is for suppliers to stay afloat, prices fall.

The opposite of this would be someone walking around with their heart rate through the roof nonstop. Too high, too much blood, too much pressure, dangerous. When money is flowing too quickly through an economy, its effects are magnified, and in a sense, you can think of it as harder for the consumer now, prices rise.

To aid the visualization, step into the shoes of a dollar for a moment, and imagine its journey in these different scenarios. It comes into someone's account from a paycheck, it stays for a while, goes to the candy store, sits there, goes to a supplier of the candy store, etc. Now multiply that journey countless times. See if you can spot the effect that more or less tendency to spend can have on these journeys.

So you see now, it's a pendulum. A delicate balance that must be struck. And there you have the job of the federal reserve and other central banks like it. They are in charge of modulating the accelerator of an economy and making sure that we're neither going too fast nor too slow. Right in the middle is where you get the most stable and efficient economies.

Bitcoin is unsuitable as a currency because it belongs to the same family as other tried and failed systems of _hard currency_, think gold, but now its worse. Due to its decentralized nature, it will never (by design) be controlled by a central bank. And so it will be at the whim of all the things fixed supply currencies are at the whim of. If you want examples of why this is bad, just take a look at basically anything before 1970's.

If you want a more thought out and perhaps entertaining debrief on this, I encourage you to check out this blog post by Matt Ranger:

https://singlelunch.com/2020/10/21/badeconomics-putting-400m...
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I once bought video games from Steam with Bitcoin. Those were some expensive video games. Bitcoin is a completely new economic tool. It just doesn't seem to work that great as a traditional currency for day to day purchases.
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This is a Horizon grant, meaning:

- There's continuous reporting, and money is not guaranteed.
- You can be removed from the project by not meeting project goals on time.
- (In this case) There are corporations which are planning to commercialize this thing.
- There's a concrete and sound roadmap, and it's evaluated in a competition by an independent body and got selected.
- Without a sound landscape survey, you can't get this type of grant, so free market forces are included.
- ...and more (I'm trying to be concise).

IOW, these kinds of projects are not parades for free money. You have to put considerable effort and brainpower to write the proposal, get selected and get the grant, and then you have to realize what you have written in your project to get that money.

I'm in many European projects of this kind for close to two decades. These projects do not result in papers. They result in deliverables (documents and what you are intending to build), and they deliver. While I can't go into details, the atmosphere is never an "academic" one, but it's connected to real world. We sometimes work with commercial entities to improve their know-how and abilities, too. Many of the projects have commercial partners which commercialize these technologies, esp in earth/ecosystem observation.

Sometimes we support them for free, because they need to do the research to be able to show what they are doing for an initial grant. It's not about money, fame, having a corner office with free flowing grant money or travel.

People do this to improve the world around them and make an impact, and we don't fight over wins. We drink coffee and work hard to deliver what we promised.

Lastly, I don't get the grant money. It's just deposited to institution account. I have no monetary or material gain from this.
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The target to replace lead water pipes was abandoned by Trump yesterday.
Please, the exceedingly wealthy don’t muck out their own barn.
Where I live a piece of equipment like an excavator is a great investment. It’s a tax write off and it frees up time for you to do other more valuable tasks instead of breaking your back with a shovel for far too long.
Many (most) people will take out a loan to purchase a piece of equipment with the expectation that it will “pay for itself” over it’s service life.
Kamala did not promise to govern in a methodical way, she promised essentially not to govern, but to keep the system trucking along. The end state of "nothing will fundamentally change" and "I wouldn't have done a single thing differently" is exactly the same as the end state of Trump's accelerationism. It's not clear what other message is going to be sent either way.
Deliniating "AI" from other software is one of the tricky parts of the act and ultimately left as an excercise to the courts.

Trying to define it for scope was IMHO a mistake.
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It will at least greatly hinder LE's capability to do massive minority report type dragnets, targetted violence incitement campaigns, or grading workers or schoolchildren based on their facial expressions etc extremely nasty stuff.

The banned use cases are very specific and concerns systems explicitly designed for such dystopian shit. AI giving advice how to build weapons or explosives is not banned here. The "unacceptable risk" category does not concern companies like MistralAI or Black Forest Labs. This is not the same idiocy.
What? Unclear whether you're trying to say they are very good or not very good.
Neither side wants to give us affordable healthcare or education. Everything good comes from those two things imo. Voting doesn't matter anymore. Only money. The oligarchs have won (for some time now) and the government is their puppet.
How does this play with copyright on things like the product text and images? Which legal entity will end customers have a monetary relation with?
Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity
Yes, we do a great deal of R&D, too. It looks boring from outside, but it enables things for us and researchers. Oh, and we give the patches back to the tools we use.
> That is current maintainer doesn't want to be replaced with some new Rust-writing folks.

Almost anyone paying Christoph is not doing so because of his involvement in the DMA subsystem - he's got a sufficiently strong involvement in any number of core parts of the kernel that if he dropped all involvement in DMA he'd still have enough employment opportunities to spend as much of his time skiing as he wanted.
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Seeing as the free tier only lasts for a year, it seems fair to discount it. If it was free in perpetuity (below some use threshold) that'd be one thing, but it isn't.
I am in a similar predicament - if there’s an emergency call from an unknown number I won’t heat it.
Interesting. Does it return both the amount of partially written data AND the error if it fails?
The lower the transaction fees, the lower the decentralization, security and usage. There has been no new breakthrough that gives "efficiency" without sacrificing other important factors.