skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not an expert here, but the main difference is that in machine learning the goal is to find/optimize algorithm to fit given datasets, whereas in genetic programming the goal is to find/optimize dataset to fit given algorithm. There is a lot of overlap though.

EDIT: > what are the most suitable problems that Genetic Programming is to solve

Given above, genetic algorithms are really suitable when part of your problem domain is bounded execution time. You perform n iterations of genetic algorithm and even if the result does not fit within fitness function, you still get some result that is closer to fitness function than a wild guess.
"Political enemies fired by a coding error" is an obviously idiotic claim on its face. And when called on it, they immediately double down on their innocence by somehow blaming the firings on Joe Biden. Who is triple checks notes no longer involved in the US government in any way. This has been Trump's playbook forever. Outright lie about things, and if that doesn't work, pivot to a different lie. Always deflect blame. Never, ever, admit fault.

A whole lot of harm could have been averted if the media was willing to call him out on this 10+ years ago instead of embrace the profit potential. But welp.
I had a sneaking suspicion that I wouldn't be the first to think of it.
My startup isn't "tech" enough so I hesitated before making this post, but I saw that people talked about their PhD or master thesis and all sorts of cool things, and after all, the prompt is "what are you working on", so here we go!

I am hard at work preparing the 2nd edition of Seoul SPARKS (seoulsparks.com), a 6 weeks pre-college summer program in Korea (currently aimed at US students but open to students all over the world). It is designed to be a high quality, rigorous but also as immersive as possible program, for high school students who want to deepen their understanding of Korean language, culture, and history while earning academic credit at Seoul National University. My aim is to educate the future generation of Korean Studies scholars and I hope my program can be a stepping stone for that! My program director designed a chronological history curriculum, that explores Korea’s past and present through site visits and expert-led discussions. Each week focuses on a specific era of Korean history, beginning with the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897), where students visit palaces, wear hanbok, and learn about Confucian traditions. The following weeks cover the Japanese colonial period (1910–1945), the Korean War and its aftermath (1950s), Korea’s rapid economic rise through the Miracle on the Han River (1960s–1980s), and finally, modern Korea, including democratization, globalization, and the Hallyu wave. These themes are reinforced through guided tours of historical sites, museums, and cultural landmarks. We try to make it fun too and I think our students last year had a blast!

We try to offer a lot of other really cool things, such as a 100% Customized Cultural Activity (these have included K-pop dance training at a professional studio, Korean Sign Language classes, traditional calligraphy, culinary workshops, and even mini-internships with local businesses ), the opportunity to work on a research project under the supervision of a Korean PhD student if they'd like, and we also link them with university mentors (basically, Korean college students) who hang out with them, answer their questions about life in Korea, help them adjust to life here, and just have fun with them really.

Last year's pilot program was very successful, we were blessed to have a fantastic cohort of very bright and motivated students. The program was also highly rated by parents and students alike (the only serious negative comment we received was: why is Korea so hot and humid during summer?), and I hope we can continue to grow and keep attracting the best students from all over the globe!

Anyway applications are open until April 30th so if any of you have kids or know someone who could be interested, I would be very grateful if you could spread the word :)

Thank you for reading!
Again, how do people here think public servants will live beyond their service to the government?

Or is the idea that if they choose to work for the government, they need to work until they die.
Yuan Devaluation Market Chatter Grows as Trade War Worsens
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I am surprised that nobody has tried to market some kind of "smart medication dispenser" that will leave people without their meds when the net is out.
>I did not test a number which had it disabled; I can’t rule out whether or not all Verizon numbers could have been impacted

Seems like the problem could be even bigger than described
At best checkmarks were "verified" accounts. That meant that most likely party with access to account had identifiable identity connected to it. Say celebrity or real business. For any given value of celebrity also big enough "influencer" counting.

Now would celebrities, influencer or company marketing accounts always be trustworthy sources? For more cynical almost never...
Isn't the simple answer to that question just to look at history?

It is no coincidence that the rising availability of contraception coincided with the swinging 60s.
> So not even a left-leaning person. Which means that’s not it.

Having such a strong opposing opinion against offensive slurs is the continuation of a usually left position into an extreme.
You know, I decided which Catholic high school to attend after I put my fingers on the keyboards of their brand-new C64 machines. [The other Catholic school only had PET systems at the time.]

I learned how to type there, and the rest was history. I owned a VIC20 already, and Dad purchased peripherals such as the 1541 and the 1701.

It wasn’t until 3-4 years ago when I began to study history, Irish history in particular, and recognized that the model numbers weren’t chosen arbitrarily or accidentally, but indeed they correlated perfectly to the most ignominious dates in the history of the UK, when anti-Catholic laws were passed and the Irish were stomped into submission.

It makes weird sense in retrospect. I mean, nobody ever taught Irish history in school because we are Americans now, and the whole Reformation thing is water under the bridge. And the superior general has a distinctly posh RP accent.

Much like the “bitten apple” and its rainbow colors and the $666 price tag, these signs and symbols were hidden in plain sight, as harbingers and warning signs of future troubles. We were all working for the construction crew on a modern Tower of Babel. Literally.
> This means it can be passed more quickly.

Is that a goal here? I'm hypothesizing that this maneuver has been done in order to withdraw the original bill, not in order to pass the new bill. I assume that if the new bill fails, the maneuver will have succeeded.

The question is why this was easier than actually killing the original bill.
Open Source is a practical take on software. Free Software is an ideology.
I loved the purple/pink mood lighting when boarding. Their safety video was legit great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1A5BtqsaPM
install TLS root cert, MITM all outbound connections
I looked at openrsync when I was writing my own https://github.com/gokrazy/rsync implementation (in Go!) and it’s good code :)

It’s a shame that openrsync is not 100% compatible with rsync — I noticed that Apple was starting to switch to openrsync because my own tests broke on macOS 15.
I find ideologies and ideologues off putting.
> they're more like calculators of language than agents that reason

This might be honing in on both the issue and the actual value of LLM:s. I think there's a lot of value in a "language calculator" but if it's continuously being sold as something it's not we will dismiss it or build heaps of useless apps that will just form a market bubble. I think the value is there but it's different from how we think about it.
Indeed! Have a look at http://github.com/stapelberg/rsync-over-grpc/, where I demonstrate how to use the rsync protocol (specifically, my https://github.com/gokrazy/rsync implementation) over gRPC.

Very handy if SSH+rsync is locked down in your corporate environment, but building services with gRPC isn’t :)
How do you think dog breeds get bred out? There aren't wars against them.

Its simple genetics and eugenics but i guess that doesn't work as good as a strawman and is too real for comfort.
I'm gay, how does my having sex create babies?

But that's all beside the point, none of this is something the government should be acting to coerce. Abstinence is fine as a personal choice.
I am not american nor I live in america so I don't really have a horse in this race, but the DOGE approach seems to be the classic "move fast and break things" approach. The reactions to it are the classic reactions to that approach, competent people speak out to get broken things fixed and others are confused about what is happening.
And what contraception facilitated the orgies of Roman times?
You may have adhd. This is how I am. I can’t relax ever, I have to be constantly moving mentally or physically, I have to make the most of every moment. It’s an adhd thing, and medication does help with this. Worth getting yourself checked
Everything is computer.
Never thought I'd hear someone complain Google takes privacy too seriously.
This is a licensing issue for Apple, and only a small proportion of their users will care about this, and those users will just install rsync.
I love this, thanks for posting. I mean, I hate that it is true. But it is perfect for this moment.
The OSI has approved a public domain dedication, so clearly they accept public domain software as OSD-compliant:

https://opensource.org/license/unlicense

An advisory blog post warning people not to assume that "public domain" code is actually unencumbered is not the same as saying that actually public domain code is not open source.
Who would have thought you could get your TAS run published in Nature if you used enough hot buzzwords. (they have been using various old-school-definition "artifical intelligence" algorithms for a long time)

https://tasvideos.org/
How do you break bad news at work?
and when?
Indeed using PGP for personal E-mail was never easy and required sufficient knowledge from end users. Using it in corporate setups was a piece of cake and I've seen it personally. I had been using and working on software that manages PGP keys centrally, end users did not have to do anything about encryption or signature verification. The problem was indeed solved. Arguably that is what Gmail tries to (poorly) do right now.

> Not to mention the extra issues caused by HTML in message bodies.

Proton Mail came out with a pretty good statement about this and I fully agree.

> Recommendations to disable PGP plugins and stop encrypting emails are completely unwarranted and could put lives at risk.

https://proton.me/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail
Sometimes Never Compete on Price
> Do we actually want "I just want a stable job" people being a significant part of the federal governments workforce?

Yes. People looking for a stable job put down roots and grow communities. They gain deep knowledge of the systems and people they work with, and they gain valuable wisdom from experience. I have no idea why you wouldn't want people looking for a stable job at your company. Why would you want an employee who was looking to work at a place where they were likely to be fired for no reason at any moment and couldn't expect any of their co-workers to still be there tomorrow?
There is an unlimited amount of money you can lose when shorting stocks.
rc and 9front's philosophy. Unix, but better and removing all the cruft.
The thing that keeps my mind boggled is the sheer number of right wing commentators who appear to genuinely believe that it's even remotely possible for America to build (and grow, and mine) everything they need inside of their wall.

It's a literally ignorant opinion that requires zero perspective on what the supply and manufacturing chain for the stuff they love to buy actually looks like.

All of that doesn't even touch at the jobs Americans clearly do not want part.
I already replace the bundled rsync on mac with the proper one, as the bundled one is ancient and is missing some features I like. Same for grep, awk, sed, find

Mac OS is getting a bit worse every release, clearly trending towards an iOS world where we have to ask apple for permission to run anything, even in a sandbox
Why are you having a debate here? People are trying to understand the benefit for Trump voters, they are not directly taking a position.

Abstinence and fidelity are good things, and so is curing diseases.
If we look back in time we find that promiscuous behavior and dangerous back-alley abortions existed well before STI treatment and safe, legal abortions.

But no, I don't value "chastity" or -- to phrase it more accurately -- denying women control over what happens with their own bodies.

People should have lots of sex! Sex is great!
I figure they've been playing Minecraft too much.
I believe it is of the "there's only one lab in the world that does this kind of thing" variety. Testing and various services for extremely rare diseases.
That just sounds like a knowledge work job.

Lots of knowledge. It’s moving. And you don’t know it all. You learn and muddle through.
Democratic governments tends to create and maintain a lot of checks and balanced on corporations. Things like workers rights, consumer rights, product quality, environment protections, etc etc. Many things that corporations would love to do to make more money are illegal. That makes it harder to earn money. Removing such barriers seems like a pretty straightforward motive to me.
I have seen takes about the environmental footprint of unused data before, and I have severe doubts this is a relevant issue.

I mean, sure, there is some impact. Storage media has to be produced. But there's a reason storage is cheap, it's not a whole lot of resources going into it. And hard drives that are idle in some data center without being accessed don't consume a lot of electricity.

There are very real and concerning problems with the environmental impact of IT. But they are primarily found in other areas. Energy consumption is mostly a function of "how much you compute with data", not "how much data you have".

In other words: be concerned about so-called "AI", be concerned about Bitcoin. Don't worry about unused data too much.
> Dark Liberals agree that democratic institutions, free speech, a free press, human rights, tolerance for differences, and a cultural melting pot are all essential parts of maintaining a free society

Honest question - is the "cultural melting pot" thing considered a liberal ideology in the USA, now? It was my impression that nowadays its considered an offensive bad thing, not "a strength of the USA".
> Probably one reason why free providers don't tend to offer End-to-End encryption.

I would think that email providers tend to not offer E2EE just because it fundamentally isn't practical with email. Providers like Proton try to do it, but it works only if you talk to someone else on Proton (at which point you may as well do it on Signal, which has better encryption).
That's exactly what I've been doing. It was a no brainer. Made enough in 2 days to buy me a new car.
> Is there some benefit here for Trump voters?

Sure, stuff like this will disproportionately affect gay men. The average Trump voter things homosexuality is a sin.
Fascism being colonialism returned home was a big lesson from the middle of the 20th century that not enough people learned.
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What 8 months? If you believe that, you’re a sucker.

Edit: how about all those fired "for cause" even though it's obviously not "for cause"? If you wanna call this shifting goal posts, fine, but consider this - the DOGE is doing something like a "broad spectrum" attack on government employees. Neither their firings nor offers are legal.
I implemented an acoustic segmentation system in FPGA recently. The whole world model was a long list of known events and states with feasible transitions. Plus novel things not observed before. Basically rather dumb state machine with machine learning part attached to acoustic sensors. Of course, both parts could be hidden behind weights. But state machine was easily readable and that was the biggest advantage of it.
You are right, but I have written my comment exactly for making those users aware of this problem.

I consider this a very serious problem, because most naive users will assume automatically that when they give a file copy command they obtain a perfect duplicate of the original file.

It is surprising for them to discover that this is frequently not true.
>Unihertz

Man I had the Titan Pocket. I got it and loved the physical keyboard. What a disappointment though. The wifi would just cut out, and no solutions available.
>I have very little doubt that that’s the point

No, there's a couple of idiots in charge whose policy is being shaped by outside forces that literally want to destroy the country. This isn't some attack on a social issue.
>We have an infinite renewable resource which costs nearly nothing to reproduce infinitely. We have a defacto monopoly on technology and digital services.

That doesn't work for ever. And Trump was voted by the blue collars. So he wants to create more blue collar jobs.
Termux: Using a tar archive with "mkfs.ext4 -d" to populate the ext4 filesystem
It is so very important that we all understand this: not everything worth doing is profitable. Not everything which creates value for the economy or protects society is profitable. A system that expects all worthwhile things to be profitable will simply fail to do all worthwhile things and society will be worse for it. That society may appear to be functioning but it will not be the best society possible.
Well, we are set by your "Windows philosphy", and forget NT being a VMS rehash, we would still be using the crappy W9x designs with DOS crap back and forth.

Even Risc OS seems to do better even if it doesn't have memory protection too (I think it hasn't, I didn't try it for more than a few days).
What do you mean by perfect copies here? Do you mean the file content itself or are you also including the filesystem attributes related to the file in your definition?
Not if you choose that, but there is a problem attempting to coerce people into it by cutting off any fundings of STD research. And as for yourincontrovertible truth, many people have vasectomies or have contraceptives, so babies aren't actually an inevitability.
They stacked the cards with vultures, it’s by design.
It's funny how back in the 1990s the concept of software was different. You might buy an actual shrink wrapped package with an install disc and be happy with it for years. Nowadays it would be unthinkable to use software without getting regular updates (at least security updates) and always being able to install the latest version.
Silphium? /s
> But this is the problem with capitalism and health care, the providers just stop if there's not enough money in it for them.

Is this supposed to be a flaw?

If the cost of a lab is $500/patient then the patient (or their insurance) pays the $500 and the lab exists. If the cost of the lab is $50,000,000/patient, the lab probably shouldn't be funded, because its cost/benefit ratio is very bad and the same money could have saved more lives by putting it somewhere else.

What would you do in the alternative? Have the government provide unlimited funding for things that cost more than they're worth?
Wow, I can't believe I actually appreciate the direction and overall production value of an airline safety video.

Probably serves its function better for it too! I can't imagine nearly as many people would tune it out or just feign attention, but it's not totally sacrificing the focus on what matters.
> it still assumes that users understand that it is a problem

3 decades ago everyone with a mobile phone knew that you should never charge the battery unless it's empty. They knew "it has memory" and if you charge it when it's half full it will "remember" that new charge as its capacity. A decade or so later with LiIon or LiPo everyone knew the opposite, never let it go to empty.

Nobody knew why, how, they just knew this is how you should do it.

This would work for EVs too because they're expensive to buy, expensive to replace batteries, and range or charging speed are super huge deals.
Ken Thompson and Unix folks agree with you. The point is... Perl was a solution to the former Unix (BSD/GNU) bloatings.

When you have a look at Plan 9 (now 9fron) with rc as a shell, awk and the power of rio/acme scripting and namespaces among aux/listen... Perl feels bloated and with the same terse syntax as SH derived shells.
It is bad because can be weaponized and give the judge a too wide area for interpretation.
Note the government lawyer who acknowledged this on court was dismissed by the US government...

"Justice Dept. suspends lawyer who acknowledged deportation was a mistake" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/05/...

"Trump says he'd 'love' to send American citizens to El Salvador federal prison" - https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-hed-love...
Yes, exactly. People who just want a stable job are in it for the (stable) money.
A: That's not socialism!

B: What is it then?

A: It's free-market capitalism with good regulation and a comprehensive social welfare system.

B: Well, let's do that!

A: No, that's socialism!
They did not follow modern Christian values. Sex was looked on differently, as was parenthood, and adoption.

Also, contraception did exist in those times.
“Pesticide wildly unpopular with pests.”
>Countries like China can do more long-term plans without worrying about silly things like electability.

China always does long term and very long term plans and executes them. US, on the other hand, is much more agile and reacts very fast to changes and opportunities.

Probably the best strategy is a mix of both, have long term plans but be able to react fast when needed.
Prompt won’t just work from one mother transplanted into another.
Well, that and it justified doing something which gives him a power trip anyway.

Reports from his antics years earlier[1] at Tesla was that he would go on firing sprees, which was a problem they tried to manage because predictably it was enormously disruptive.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-giga...