You CNAME it to a domain that expired.

There was a good chance of 23andme being able to make full-genome sequencing (which they weren't yet scaled up to) a commoditized service with the privacy protections that need to be ensured for all customers. However the business model collapsed along the way.

Now we see the most predictable outcome - someone who knows they can profit from the data is buying the remains of the company (with the data).

Only in the USA is the genomic data that valuable, and there is one sector of the economy who can benefit from it more than any other. Regeneron knows which industry that is, and while they aren't a direct part of it themselves they know they need to serve it.

Regeneron bought the data to eventually sell it to the Health Insurance Cartel. The Cartel was granted effective license to print money with the passage of the ACA, but they want more power. They still own an overwhelming majority of congress - on both sides of the aisle - but they want more power. With the genomic data they can start rewriting the rules on pre-existing conditions. As all other plans go up in price they can start offering plans that are less expensive if you consent to DNA testing, which will lead to treatment for some conditions being denied.

We can't win as long as the system is set up this way. We can't change it when the people who benefit from it control the people who set the rules.

The Trump administration has been largely a copy-paste production. When they initially wanted to "replace" the ACA back during his first term, their plan was to replace the ACA with the ACA - made better by putting his signature at the end instead of the signature of President Obama. When they were finally called out on that, they quietly dropped their efforts to repeal the ACA, instead focusing on various things they can do in the name of "border security" (nevermind that no effort has been made this term for the wall that he used to talk nonstop about).

This store reflects a retail model that is simply dead now. You don't go in to a surplus store looking for something specific, as you likely won't find it. You go in with general ideas and you see what you find along the way.

Unfortunately very nearly nobody shops like that any more. We have a chain of surplus stores where I live, and the last several times I've gone in I've walked back out empty handed as they didn't have anything I wanted. They had plenty of things that other people want, but nothing I was looking for at the moment. 500 feet of rope in 12 different diameters? Yep they have it but I'm not looking for it. Cartoon character umbrellas? Yep they have it but I'm not looking for it. Firewire cables? Yep them have them but I'm not looking for them. Strange animated movies I've never heard of? Yep lots of those too. The list goes on and on but if they don't have anything I'm looking for then they won't get any money from me.

The list of 6 speed manual cars sold in the USA is very, very short. If you drop the ones sold by Porsche you cut that list in half. If you then drop the ones from VW (yes I know Porsche is a part of the VW corporate empire but we'll acknowledge them separately here) after that you end up with about 3 vehicles, and you find that even those only offer manual transmissions in very specific configurations.

The bigger news is that this isn't really news, as the manual transmission has been dying a gradual death for decades here. People don't learn it, and they don't want to drive it. On the plus side it makes it a theft deterrent technology for those who do drive it.

To put out a hacker prize for laid off employees to target big AI companies for data center elimination.

Only somewhat correct. Unemployed because the AI companies convinced the CEOs that they can cut headcount and be fine.

And with 50% of the software engineers in 2019 now unemployed (even among senior level developers) they'll have you reviewing that code for minimum wage.

Yeah, kids can't use maps after everyone has used GPS directions to do it for them. Nobody remembers all their contact's phone numbers. Sometimes not even their family members. Things like how to use a card-catalog system are right out.

Considering bypassing education via LLMs seems to be happening for everything in all highschool and college courses, it's fair to say it's a major fucking concern. We may just be the tail end of human engineers and scientists.

(But LLMS and neural nets ARE artificial intelligence. So is any search function, or ants. That doesn't elevate them up to people, that just lowers what "intelligence" means. And an AGI isn't some sort of god, it's just broadly applicable. Don't buy tickets on the hyper-train.)

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

Came for this comment.

You are SUCH a smarmy little punk. Even Stephen Wolfram agrees with me as pointed out in the very link you yourself need to read more:

"neural nets can be thought of as simple idealizations of how brains seem to work. "

"There’s nothing particularly “theoretically derived” about this neural net; it’s just something that—back in 1998—was constructed as a piece of engineering, and found to work. (Of course, that’s not much different from how we might describe our brains as having been produced through the process of biological evolution.) "

"Are our brains using similar features? Mostly we don’t know. But it’s notable that the first few layers of a neural net like the one we’re showing here seem to pick out aspects of images (like edges of objects) that seem to be similar to ones we know are picked out by the first level of visual processing in brains."

"But what makes neural nets so useful (presumably also in brains)..."

"Neural nets—perhaps a bit like brains—are set up to have an essentially fixed network of neurons"

He does note how computer memory is separate from the CPU while meat memories are just another neuron.

"But at least as of now it seems to be critical in practice to “modularize” things—as transformers do, and probably as our brains also do. "

"a—potentially surprising—scientific discovery: that somehow in a neural net like ChatGPT’s it’s possible to capture the essence of what human brains manage to do in generating language. "

All of which is generally what I was pointing out and you just.... didn't care to listen? This is such a fascinating topic and it's significantly important. But so many damned people have been poisoned by hollywood, have their panties in a bunch about being compared to a non-human, are fed up by the techbros fueling the hype-train, or are themselves those hyping techbros. I had higher hopes for Slashdot of all places for this topic at least.

No, you should step on their toes until they apologize.

Then dismember them.

The trade imbalance is a political football. One team blames it on the other if they need something different to use to paint their opponents in an unflattering light. Then the next month they won't care about it.

I AM arguing that we are all neural networks here.

But I already knew everything in that page. “given the text so far, what should the next word be?” Yeah, exactly. That's what YOU and I do. The "text so far" just incorporates our entire lives and if we were bitten by a dog as a child we will choose to avoid the dog in the next contextually pertinent instance. I know what a transformer is. You've been transforming all 31 of these here characters into words and concepts and knee-jerk reactions. Bravo! It's like an intelligence or something. I'm not suggesting LLMs don't distill it's training set down to probabilities of what to pick as the next word in the chain, I'm saying that you and I don't really do anything all that different. And you've failed to address that because, as I said, that would be a discussion over neurology.

I asked you to think a little, but all you've got are petty insults. Tsk.