skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of the success pseudo gender “science” had in undermining the scientific and medical communities was attributed to the centralization of science authority in the federal government. It makes me wonder if there shouldn’t be a separation of science and state.
Microsoft's 'performance-based' cuts have started
Exactly. This is essentially converting the parser to bottom-up just for these rules. It's how Pratt parsing/precedence climbing works.

I wrote this post on the connection: https://www.abubalay.com/blog/2021/12/31/lr-control-flow
I am sorry but I am specifically speaking of cases where the phenotype contradicts the genotype. For example, there are cases where an individual has an XY karyotype but develops female traits due to a mutation in the SRY gene.

The word "sex" is ambiguous, do we speak of phenotype (sexual traits/appearance) or genetic characteristics? And if you categorize people by their appearance, how do you categorize people with atypical genitalia (~1/5000)?
The idea of a perfect language seems somewhat ill defined in the first place. The definition used in the original comment seems to be more-or-less “most divinely inspired,” which is… not really something they can be argued about usefully.

If we’re going to discuss the idea of a perfect language, there will be a strong tendency for people to pick the language they can best use to express their thoughts—most likely their native language. So, English does have the advantage that even native speakers think it is quite a silly language, and nobody in their right mind would even think of calling it perfect.
Dark proteins hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases
> The following type designates an unsigned integer type with the property that any valid pointer to void can be converted to this type, then converted back to pointer to void, and the result will compare equal to the original pointer:

> uintptr_t

Given this, are you suggesting that the code would be valid if the char pointer was first cast to void as so:

char p[1], q[1] = {0};
uintptr_t ip = (void *)(p+1);
uintptr_t iq = (void *)q;
if (iq == ip) {
*(char *)(void *)iq = 10;
print(q[0]);
}

Additionally, it seems the code may be valid as-is:

> A pointer to void shall have the same representation and alignment requirements as a pointer to a character type.

> § 6.2.5.28
>All microSD cards have a high failure rate.

You can buy genuinely reliable microSD cards, if you really need them. Delkin, Innodisk, Swissbit and others make industrial microSD cards with SLC flash, ECC, SMART and power loss protection. Capacities are small and you'll pay a steep premium, but they legitimately have endurance and MTBFs that compete with conventional SSDs.
rousseau is a fraud of the first order.
This sounds a lot like the psychopath Anton Chigurh in the movie No Country for Old Men. His view of the world is he is the arbiter of people's destiny, which often involves them being murdered.
Some "academia" types I meet seem to be struck in this "skeptic vs enthusiast" discussion.

How do we harness LLMs’ potential while rigorously mitigating harm?
Nobody needs to be rich enough to own a 747, in order to justify making one. In fact, I doubt there are more than a dozen individually owned jetliners in the world. All you need is for a lot of people to pool their wealth and allow it to be directed towards a common purpose. In turn, this happens because society provides entitlements (such as financial and corporate regulations, the money system, etc.) that allow great ventures to be formed and operate.

The entitlements are justified by a social theory, that the activity produces a net benefit for everybody. There may be pockets of unfairness -- no system works perfectly -- but no reason why it must allow unlimited unfairness. If it does, then there's also no reason why it can't be restrained.
yes, now anyone who points out human obsolescence will be marked as a zizian. would love to see your road map for human labor at zero dollars per hour
Codebase has >16k stars on GitHub and only 1 open issue, and 3 open PRs. Never seen that before on a highly used codebase. Kudos to the maintainer(s).
I wonder if the macrodata refinement task in the show (well-reproduced here) is something like the work done by human moderators of Facebook, Twitter, etc? It takes a real toll on them, wading through some of the worst content humanity has to offer. It seems like "severance" could be a way to mitigate the real-world damage to moderators' psyche. And then by further decomposing into tasks like the ones done by macrodata refinement (and other teams across the world, praise Kier), that could limit it further.

... although by forking their identity and imprisoning one of them, it seems likely to do more harm than good. Freedom from Lumon for the innies would be the death of that identity, unless they could find a way to share the physical host.
Regular user can get up to YT-251, which is described in article, ~135kbps opus (i think target is higher, 160 kbps or so). But bitrate itself is good enough - on good headphones I can't distinguish flac vs opus-110kbps, except very rare killer samples. And YouTube audio clearly lacks detail despite having higher bitrate. So, probably, 256 kbps would not help much
Important thing you should be aware of: not all counterfeit cards fail a format/f3 test.

I recently bought a very expensive Sandisk Extreme UHS-II V90 card from Amazon. It passed without any issue when doing a full capacity check, but was still fake because they were using slower (150mb/s vs 300mb/s) flash.

The average user[0] would never know, because it was definitely “faster” than other cards and maxed out the UHS-I reader in my MacBook Pro. I returned it and bought from my local camera store (Henry’s) and the performance difference was very obvious.

[0]: I guess you could argue that the average user wouldn’t be buying a $200 V90 card, but I still think you could fall victim to this if you didn’t explicitly own a dedicated UHS-II reader.
Ask HN: Who Uses Markdown as a CMS?
I love using markdown for basically anything static, from blogs to static pages on my site, to some docs and even email templates.

I tried using notion as a CMS of sorts for my blogs but it tends to cause more problems than solutions with rate limits on the API and slowness.

Do you guys know any markdown CMS system that just allows me to write markdown in a sexy editor, save it and give me an API that I can call and get a list of files?
https://books.apple.com/us/book/severance/id1613220757
I could also stay for one day, unless I want to stay for 6 months. The key point is were are talking about the maximum duration.
Building a Better Social Media Post with Semantic HTML (2023)
Only the Butterfly keyboard stands out to me as something that would have sent Jobs apoplectic. Apple stuff still mostly looks fine IMO, it's them turning themselves into a 'software and services' company that's completely ruined their aesthetic. Their ads are no better than Taboola/Outbrain garbage and are unblockable because they're loaded at the OS-level.
> Amazon has no equal competitor, there’s nowhere else for folks to go and people rarely look at the specific vendor they’re buying from.

I’ve bought more off target.com than Amazon and I read at least one other commenter here who does the same. Walmart.com also has a wide range of products.

Even sd cards. Which are still going strong.

https://www.target.com/s/microsd
Yes, I've always thought that LLMs need the equivalent of a limbic system. This is how we solved this problem in organic computers. There is no static 'reward function'. Instead, we have a dynamic reward function computer. It decides from day to day and hour to hour what our basic objectives are. It also crucially handles emotional 'tagging' of memory. Memories that we store are proportionally more likely to be retrieved under similar emotional conditions. It helps to filter relevant memories, which is something LLMs definitely could use.

I think the equivalent of an LLM limbic system is more or less the missing piece for AGI. Now, how you'd go about making one of those I have no idea. How does one construct an emotional state space?
Using `just` to properly tag and isolate Docker Compose projects
Most people in the US don't travel and have no clue that they're living in a pretty bizarre environment. E.g. healthcare has been a s.show for decades but people just shake their heads and spin up another gofundme for their medical bills. So expecting the population to rise up may be over optimistic.
Actually it's way easier to search for the information in an LLM compared to an 8 tb harddisk.

The search is vague, and the result is nondeterministic, but in a lot of cases it's still the better method.

https://fchollet.substack.com/i/137628402/llms-as-program-da...
I like the way this article puts it.
"LLM is a continuous, interpolative kind of database"
> 100% of the world's people are not lions, does that mean lions don't exist

No, 100% of the world's people are not lions, therefore people are not lions.

> people don't fit neatly into one of the two gender/sex categories

Don't conflate gender and sex. All people fit into sex categories because all people have a definite sex, and sex allows for a range of development, even malformed ones.

As for "gender", if it's defined separately from sex, then I don't know what it means because it hasn't been defined. My response was that the vast majority of people don't distinguish between gender/sex, because not only have they never encountered a person where these are distinct, they don't even have any inclination that this is even a thing. That's why I'm confused by the original claim that "nobody" thinks gender comes down to sex. It's just a bizarre claim. If you go to remote tribes in the Amazon, even they think gender and sex are the same.
I also recommend atuin.sh
And there are much worse examples too. But maybe that's the idea, write a horrible title that makes readers pause.
I think you may be misunderstanding what's happening. The goal is not to change the meaning of words, it is to explore greater nuance in order to expand the ideas that people are able to consider.

In the case of woman, the recognition is that "woman" as commonly used conflates two separate ideas: The gender that someone was assigned at birth (which in the vast majority of cases means someone's biology) and the social constructs that define "woman" (e.g. dress, role in society, acceptable behavior, etc.).

Separating conflated ideas allows people to think in more detail since they can consider them separately.
Because Null Is Not An Option (TypeScript `Maybe`/`Result` Library)
It isn’t just an idea for a science fiction story though. It is also a philosophical argument, just predicated on something unexpected, which is probably not true, but which presents for us an interesting scenario, and which isn’t technically ruled out by existing evidence (although, it seems unlikely of course).

Well, I guess that’s what the best science fiction stories are. But, the best science fiction stories aren’t just science fiction stories!
Great!

Now... What could be a real use case for something like this, I was thinking about it as I watched the series.

It's a bit like the Apple "perform AI operations on encrypted data without the server knowing the contents" I guess? Was it homomorphic encryption?
I do, all the time
Trudeau says Canada will retaliate for Trump Tariffs
When are we going to get tiny RAID10 microSDXC USB3 devices?

Just plug in four microsd cards and the hardware takes care of the mirroring and rebuilding when dead card removed+replaced

Be sure to use cards from different batches or even makes so they don't all fail at the same time.
Publishing no science at all, or only once it's been thoroughly scrubbed of all mentions of certain topics and the researchers threatened or punished is much, much worse than publishing too much on topics that you don't care about.

Take the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is the most prominent public health publication in the US (the first reports of AIDS were published there for instance). It's not being published at all now. If/when they start publishing it again, it will be highly censored, particularly on topics that are extremely relevant to public health (if these rules were in place in the 80s, how would they have reported on AIDS?)

That's so much worse than having too high a percentage of content discussing gender or whatever.
I suspect it must be what charisma looks like in a social environment I am not a part of because for the life of me I cannot see it as charisma, all I hear is barely coherent ramblings, in a weird tone.
I think of this as “humanist” sci-fi; which has heavy overlap with “golden era” SF.

Other authors I’d put in this category are Gene Roddenberry (TOS and TNG, particularly), Asimov, PKD, Vonnegut and Theodore Sturgeon.

Personally - fantasy stories are “and-then” stories, SF are “what-if”. Humanist sci-fi is then asking “what-if” about very human things, as opposed to technological things, although the two are always related.

However, practically speaking, literature vs sci-fi vs fantasy (vs young adult!) are more marketing cohorts than anything else; what kind of people buy what kind of books?
I'm a bit disappointed Industrial XI Ultra cards weren't evaluated.
What special privileges?
Typically, though not always, the people who complain about established science shutting down new research are the ones pushing crank and conspiracy theories.
Some of them do, some of them don't.

WTF is "trans-identifying"? They are not literally identifying as "trans". They are identifying as men/women (although the opposite of their biology), not as "trans". "Trans" is a description for people who identify as other than their biological sex; it is not an identity, per se.

You can doubt whether a trans woman is "really" a woman. But you cannot doubt that a trans woman is "really" trans. Trying to be the opposite of your biological sex is what "trans" literally means.

It makes as much sense as replacing "tall people" with "tall-identifying people".
These don't use SLC, they use TLC. SLC is hard to find in SD cards and SSDs due to cost.
So it's unreliable, doesn't have a backing theory demonstrating why it should be considered secure ("we can't figure out how to crack it, so it's uncrackable"), and requires manufacturing a physical object in order to work.

...why on earth would anyone find this compelling?
When IT policy prevents root access to the host but VMs are fine
I don’t think there is any such law, not that I could find. Telekom refuse to make the connection. They say that if it isn’t there when the apartment is built a new one can’t be added. I live in an attic conversion
Ahh got you. Yeah agreed on a lof of that. What I do is when I learning something that I think will be useful, but that I'll forget, I stick it in Anki.

Otherwise I know the fact will be written in the sand, it won't be there for me to use at the time when it would be useful. That's terminology from a book on memory I read a while back, which ironically I've now forgotten name of because I never put it in Anki.

Also should say I used to be much more scatter gun with what I put in Anki, but these days I combine it with Obsidian which I think is more managable.

Anyway not trying to sell Anki to anyone, if you don't need it don't use it for sure. I just know (think?) it's working for me, at least compared to the alternatives.
Looks interesting! I’ve been playing with UTM to do aarch64 VMs and I even cooked up a little Sinatra server to do some AppleScript to reboot the VM and do some other things on the host. I’ll look at this as a more robust solution as to be completely honest, UTM has left a lot to be desired at least for virtualization.
https://archive.ph/i0e7e
...After optimizing the experimental procedure and training the neural network, they showed that the neural network could accurately retrieve the encoded images 90-95% of the time. They say that this rate could be further improved with more extensive training of the neural network.

Ah yes, the lossy, sometimes-it-works kind of encryption.
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> Meaning: there is a population of people who believe gender is abstracted from chromosomes by factors including psychology, and there isn’t a population who claim the believe that gender is 1:1 with chromosomes, but who handwave away the inconvenient < 1% who have a chromosome pattern not mapped to a gender. Thus, nobody actually believes this.

I don't think this is true at all. I actually think the population that really believes there is some abstract distinction between gender and sex is relatively a tiny minority, mostly in Western nations.

Edit:
>There are 8B people on earth; no serious scientific or political position can be built on “if you ignore millions of people who don’t fit”

To clarify, nobody ignores people who "don't fit". Prior to the spread of transgender awareness, feminism spent a lot of time and effort breaking down stereotypes of what it means to be one sex or the other, in order to allow anyone to express any kind of behaviour or presentation. Taking the position that you have a definite sex regardless of your behaviour or presentation is not "ignoring people who don't fit", it's just recognizing the reality of sex and letting people do what they want, while avoiding a commitment to some completely undefined, fluid notion of "gender".
It's the same cycle we saw with Crypto, there's so much money flying around that the motivation to "believe" is overwhelming. The hype is coming from all directions, and people are social animals that put greater weight on words that come from multiple sources. It's also a platform for people excited about the future to fantasize, and for people terrified of the future to catastrophize.
> the result is nondeterministic

That funny way to spell "hallucinated"
Is Generative AI Creating a New Three-Body Problem?
https://archive.ph/ckPEb
The Lexington file is also posted, which explains some of the background and the onboarding manual: https://books.apple.com/us/book/severance/id1613220757
The IR doesn't have to cater to programmers in the same way, and can support many choices of semantics simultaneously in a single program.

For example, LLVM IR is used to compile C both with and without strict aliasing. The choice is lowered into metadata applied to individual pointer operations. Similarly with signed integer overflow.

Nim could even have gotten some of this benefit when compiling to C if it had been willing to target a specific set of C compilers, rather than standard C.
You've submitted 8 generic news articles just in the last 24 hours or so. Do you believe all of them should have had a separate discussion? That would be nearly one third of the HN front page. In that period there were at least two such threads there with plenty of hang time. That might not be enough for you but it's hardly some conspiracy of silence.
Huh? It was made in 2019
That's my take too. She will fall in love with the hard working aspect of him.

I wonder also, did the innie take all of the good traits and the bad ones are... Gone, from the outie?
I think you described much of the European Java job market atm where shops prefer hire Spring/Boot-experienced devs. A lot refuse to invite you to interview if you have 0 XP with it or will try to hire you as junior (less pay), no matter that you were in fact doing Java using other tools. Absolutely insane.

edit: typos
So. This hasn’t happened yet. It’s just a bill sponsored by a nut job representative. Not a law. Not even put up for debate yet.

From your definition, North Korea forbids the “import” of most of the Internet for normal citizens. The fact that Kim jong un can drive around a Mercedes is just showing the supreme leader can get whatever he wants under a despotic state- if through some miracle this stupid bill became law and Trump wanted to run deepseek on his government laptop I’m sure he could do so as well.
https://archive.ph/LTSBl
I was responding to the point that leaving affected the 'day to day life for most' more than joining with, I'm not saying it doesn't change anything, or doesn't change the day to day life for anyone - I even offered international truck drivers as an example, yours is another, but I don't think most people are in that position.
For every Chinese company banned in the US, I can easily name ten US companies banned in China. Just start naming all the internet companies blocked.

So yeah, you finding some examples, and completely ignoring examples of China doing the banning, doesn't prove that the US is worse. Not even close.

> Now we want to do the same efforts for llm, not even allow to download to run locally

1) You're confusing proposed bill with actual legislation. Plenty of really retarded bills proposed by all administrations.

2) Even if it somehow became a law, you can't enforce it. How are you going to stop someone from downloading an open source model?
What is your source for this? As far as I can tell there is absolutely no guidance whatsoever on what is and is not acceptable language now. The executive orders use terms like "gender ideology" but make no effort to define those terms. So everything that could even remotely be construed as being "gender ideology" is being removed.
>>What we’re witnessing is active malice>>

What do you think brought on this malice? What would cause 99.5% of the population to suddenly have malice against 0.5%? Was it spontaneous?
Are you sure this class of people don’t implicitly do spaces repetition via:

- “reading books” (coming across the same ideas in different books, tying new ideas to old books)

- “discuss and debate” (remembering and being reminded of previously learned things)

- “study their subjects” (?) (presumably restating the previous two? - Maybe original research, which is finding new facts or reinforcing old ones)

- “work hard” (??)

I also wonder if there’s something about the mental process of people who seem to “just get it” - is their mind subconsciously turning over stuff they’ve learned in the same way an external spaced repetition regimen would? They may be getting the benefit of spaced repetition, but from the outside it doesn’t look like they follow a study plan.
Because as far as I can tell, he's pulled it straight out of his ass.
> It's even okay to hardcode them into code (not a config/json file).

Yes, as I understood it that was what the article was all about.
If obvious and topical facts like Donglegate are still downvoted, I assume that the proponents of the left cancel culture indeed only understand one language, namely counter cancellations.

The Python Software Foundation should lose its 501c status because it is an overtly political organization that strays from its purported mission. It should further be defunded by all tech CEOs who were present at Trump's inauguration.

Watch this being flagged and another Python marketing post rise to the front page soon for compensation.
Is it reasonable that social media influencers may be assigned some degree of credit? After all they are generally effective at selling products.

I also agree that people have responsibility for their actions. For example, it has been personally sobering to observe some friends and colleagues agree that defunding PEPFAR and putting 20 million lives at risk was morally the right thing to do.