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by thecatvoid | 2025-04-02 19:03:54+00:00
Bullshit. It's like saying protein powder doesn't increase muscle on Ronnie Coleman or Arnold or anyone who is at their protein limit.

Some people have high creatine by themselves from meat sources or from own body, or some already have muscles saturated with it.

Creatine slightly boosts pure lean muscle growth. But most importantly it saturated muscle with creatine and increases its mass, ofcourse the increase isn't muscle tissue but water and resources bond to it. People usually count sarcoplasmic hypertrophy from glycogen as "muscle gains" even when they are short term and goes away after low carbs or depletion. Also as with anything when you stop doing it, it will go away. Also muscles are mostly water (75-80%), Mike Menzter also said that which reminded me.

Who will benefit from creatine? The ones who has it low. How can it help? Allows to push harder, allows to store more fluid and hydrate cells internally, may trigger MPS more often/recovers better.

It is like, "by itself" creatine don't go and build muscle, but it boosts whatever mechanism if they weren't already.

Some reality checks, don't expect signifiant size, don't expect significant contractile muscle size increase, expect water weight and boosted performance, but that is if only your muscles weren't actually saturated with creatine.

Ps: not sure about the boosted MPS signalling.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-02 19:04:08+00:00
> If you compiled an enormous dataset of everything Borges read, and combined it with an exquisitely sensitive record of every sensory experience he ever had, could you create a Borges LLM?

Hmm, what if you could recreate, word-for-word, the great works of an author like Borges (or, say, Cervantes) by so thoroughly understanding their life that the words themselves came out of you, not memorized and recapitulated, but naturally and unbidden? What an interesting idea for a story, maybe an LLM will be able to write that one day.
by chasil | 2025-04-02 19:04:10+00:00
As the article states, the taste is complex beyond our understanding.

"When it comes to taste, coffee is amazingly complex. A single cup may contain up to 1,200 volatile compounds. Yet what you perceive in a cup depends on many things besides the plant’s genome: the environment in which it grew, the weather, the roast, the water used for brewing. Even the color of the cup matters. White makes coffee seem more intense, while clear glass makes it seem sweeter."
by ThalesX | 2025-04-02 19:04:21+00:00
> That's fair BUT do you see how this is a decision that a) won't always have a clear line of demarcation and b) reflects an internal mental model of news that likely isn't universal?

a) I think there's a clear line of demarcation to the "what".

b) I can see how this isn't a universal mental model, I just fail to see why the "why" makes for a better one.

> irresponsible and bad journalism

I honestly don't see how left / center / right fixes this. If there's no consensus between tens / hundreds (and I'm in a small country) sources on the actual thing that lead up to the what, I don't see why that should be included. Else the news would just be (for example, not political affirmation) "Trump Won't Rule out Military Intervention in Greenland[...] as loss of key trans-atlantic partners considered less valuable than securing arctic trade route".

> Another example: insurance rates are rising for coastal properties in Florida. That's the "what", but there is no honest, legitimate exploration of the topic if the journalist doesn't explore "why", because the "why" of this story if also a "what" of the many contributing factors. Since that "what" will necessarily include climate-related topics, it is now considered "political" by many. And in this instance, exploring "what effect" this is likely to have on homeowners, renters, and businesses seems a core element of the phenomenon

Honestly it's the same thing, if 80% of covered news sources point out to a why as climate change, sure. If only the left (or right, or center) ones do and they're not a solid majority. I don't particulary care. I care more about the "what".

Again, this might tie into the mental model more than anything but the whole left / center / right divide seems political and high noise to signal ratio to me.
by tracker1 | 2025-04-02 19:04:34+00:00
Even if it's in one's own living space it's possible to not get used to something. In those cases, for those types of personalities, it'll usually get replaced or painted over. One thing I completely abhor are busy tile patterns, it can be the shapes or colors, and no, I wouldn't get used to it.

In terms of the colors of the world... I'm fine with nature... it's the man-made that gets to be garish at times.
by Klonoar | 2025-04-02 19:05:01+00:00
I'll tell you what's right about Telegram: I don't know how they're the only independent app that seems to be able to produce such a well built UI/UX for a chat application in 2025.

I maintain that someone should fork their codebase and bolt on a different backend (Signal, Matrix, whatever). It's right there and it's very, very good.

(Yes, I know it's not as simple as "bolt on a different backend". You know what I mean.)
by jakelevirne | 2025-04-02 19:05:19+00:00
Exactly. We've now got help in the inner loop, authoring code. But the bottleneck just shifts. If you're using ai codegen to write production code, but then throwing it all over the wall at another engineer to review you're not getting the full productivity benefit. It's time to envision an ai first coding workflow that covers the whole development lifecycle.
by KittenInABox | 2025-04-02 19:05:35+00:00
I think there are ways a friend can be toxic without threatening death. This friend may encourage you to isolate from your jewish friends, or explicitly make your jewish friends feel unwelcome by saying slurs while in group settings. This friend is explicitly making you in the position where you have to isolate your own friend groups from each other to "keep the peace", i.e. you are forced to do the labor, instead of them, to handle the harm they are causing.

Like we all know a guy who we can't keep around because he keeps saying unhinged stuff, or creeps on any women, or whatever it is he does that ruins it for everyone else.

So I think it's more nuanced than just refusing to cut off heinous viewpoints. It's also how this person injects this view in your existing friend ecosystem.
by dang | 2025-04-02 19:05:55+00:00
This is against both the HN guidelines and show Show HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Please don't attack others or their work like this on this site, regardless of who or what you have a problem with. It's the opposite of the curious, respectful conversation we're looking for, and always has been.
by peterldowns | 2025-04-02 19:06:05+00:00
What makes you think capitalism is in "late-stage"? And what makes you think that free labor, voluntarily given, has anything to do with capitalism? And if it does, how could the astounding amount of value provided by the open source community be considered a failure?

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
by wasabi991011 | 2025-04-02 19:06:10+00:00
Seems interesting, do you have any place to read more?

I took a look at DEAP, but it seems to be more tree-based, where as you seem to be talking about "linear program tapes" which I know nothing about.

Also, it seems like the examples I find online of genetic programming are mostly discrete optimization, sometimes policy. The only classification problem that DEAP gave as an example was spambase, which uses pre-computed features (word frequencies) as the dataset (rather than the raw emails).

Can you describe linear program tapes a bit? And give an example of a machine learning task more similar to where DNN are used that would be amenable to GP without feature engineering?
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-02 19:06:10+00:00
Do you have original and redesign mixed up on Brass? 1's ID is much higher than 2's, not sure if BGG does sequential IDs but I think I've noticed in the past that they seem to.

Either way, I'd never even consider buying 1 (the redesign?), it's nearly impossible to "read" that board, while 2 (the original?) looks immediately inviting, without being at-all ugly.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-02 19:06:50+00:00
I mean, I don’t generally like to go over somebody’s posting history because it feels like stupid very-online silliness, but they brought it up.

I see some unflagged center-right political opinions sometimes. It is stuff that a mainstream democrat would probably disagree with but find, like, not odious or offensive. Therefore I think they are just getting flagged because any political opinions here have a chance of getting flagged. This is how the website is supposed to work, if we as a community decided that mainstream political opinions were ok, the site would become a place to argue about what exactly is considered mainstream.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-04-02 19:07:00+00:00
I believe in the future we will see a much more pronounced split between people who prefer reality to those who prefer un-reality.

Un-reality is the mediated, constructed "reality" that can be conjured up and perpetuated through mediums such as the Internet. It needs constant effort behind it to keep it going because it isn't tethered to actual experience. Un-reality is things like the hyper-partisan views on things that seem like they change on a whim, or extremist views on gender relations. It requires a tribalistic level of affiliation. It is something that has evolved to prize self-perpetuation (e.g. memes) over the views it claims to espouse. (This pattern of growth at all costs also occurs in other contexts, such as business.)

Reality, on the other hand, is the messy, boring, uncontrollable and unmediated thing we experience as humans. It is harder to transmit online because it isn't something that is easily swallowed, but it has a universal appeal to us as we recognize humanity in it. Reality has much bigger downs and ups than un-reality does, that's what makes us want to escape it sometimes. It also has really crappy truths and circumstances in it; there's no respawns or undo.

In some sense, this split already exists: fans of un-reality we often label as too online, implying that they prefer online life to actual life. I believe the biggest difference here lies in the preference for mediated vs unmediated interactions.
by shoxidizer | 2025-04-02 19:08:04+00:00
Personally I think the collection used is pretty good, not perfect but not cherry picking. I find CC's explanation unsatisfactory and loose, mostly placing the blame on philosphers that predate the recent trend of less color by decades or millennia, and skipping over well known major events in the history of color fashion. But I do agree that ornamentation and color are less common today in architecture and product design than they were in prior decades, and than they were for much of history. Except perhaps for a narrow band of blue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation
by doodlebugging | 2025-04-02 19:08:21+00:00
Is that prickly ash? Like a toothache tree with all the sharp spikes on the trunk?

It looks like sancho is the berry produced by the tree. The leaves look similar to our toothache tree or Hercules Club as some call it. I know that the bark here in NAmerica has been used as a local anesthetic for a long time. It produces a tingly, numbing sensation when it becomes wet. I have used the bark to numb gums or throat pain. I never tried the berries.

My tree here died in the last drought. It was a birdshit variety since it was growing along the fence. The seed was dropped by a bird as it rested on the fence and I got a tree as a result! Gotta wait for the next one I guess.
by Teever | 2025-04-02 19:08:26+00:00
This place would look like 4chan if it wasn't for the moderation.

Moderation absolutely drives the culture, by setting a tone that drives away certain users while attracting others.

In other words what ever issues a site has are inherently due to moderation whether it be a choice on the part the moderators or a lack of resources to moderate as they would like to.
by johnea | 2025-04-02 19:08:46+00:00
I totally disagree. "Shattering" one's identity (which is a completely fictional idea, only existing inside one's head) is essential for finding one's place in the universe.

Failure to adopt an accurate perspective of one's place in the universe is the greatest source of human anxiety.

Plus, if you can't discuss something like politics with people, are they really your friends at all? Not very good ones at least...
by JohnFen | 2025-04-02 19:08:48+00:00
> Are you really astonished by this?

Yes, because it's literally not a thing that I see happen. It seems like a terribly intrusive question to ask, and I certainly wouldn't ever feel comfortable asking anyone.

> What your "social group" does is outside the norm.

Perhaps now, but myself and most of my social group are old enough that it absolutely was the norm when we were younger. I was unaware that this was a thing that had changed.

> They are using ignorance to maintain tribal unity

Certainly not, since most know each other's political stances through the ordinary course of interacting with each other over the years.

> My guess is that your actually not astonished at all.

You guess wrong, so your personal attack here is powerless.

> pretending you're unaware of how abnormally impartial your group is

I never claimed my social circle was impartial at all, let alone "abnormally impartial". You're reading things into my statements that aren't there.
by WXLCKNO | 2025-04-02 19:09:19+00:00
I had never heard of Unitree (Chinese robotics company) before today. A lot of their videos look like CGI but apparently the product is real.

What stuck with me the most browsing their website on the G1 model was seeing "Price from $16k"

Now I'm not sure if these are actually purchasable or what the value would be, but it's my first time seeing an actual normal-ish price attached to a humanoid robot that seems to be for sale.

With the rate of advancement we're seeing across the board, it honestly feels like people will have robot assistants at home much sooner than I thought.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 19:09:34+00:00
I would say as I've gotten older, I've actually tried to be a little more grounded in my beliefs. Our political world is so crazy, that I think sometimes, it can even be hard being committed to basic kindergarten morality. "Look at all these bad people doing bad things and being successful, maybe I should do bad things to be more successful" is a challenge to your viewpoints that is worth cutting off at the roots.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-02 19:09:35+00:00
Your example of personal family photos is in no way comparable to storing terabytes of essentially unindexed data for which one has no detailed knowledge about, under the notion that the government is somehow lighting a match to everything, and they're going to save it.

The government doesn't delete anything. It might be moved or inaccessible to the public but that data is somewhere in perpetuity.

It's one of the most deranged larps I've ever seen, then they pat each other on the back on BlueSky, desperately wanting to be a part of something.

These people envision themselves as folk heroes when what they really need to do is go outside and touch grass.
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by Animats | 2025-04-02 19:10:02+00:00
Maybe only on surfaces. Lighting has become very colorful.

Look at modern Asian cities. Beijing is rather grey in daytime, but at night, there's colored lighting. Shenzhen, where LEDs are made, has reached insane levels of lighting effects at night. Not only do most of the skyscrapers have animated lighting effects, the effects are coordinated across the whole downtown area. Then there are frequent drone shows.

American cars are now coming stock with lighting effects previously seen on lowriders.
by hathawsh | 2025-04-02 19:10:09+00:00
OTOH, I am the kind of person who feels great joy in discovering that I have been wrong about something, I have learned something better, and I have deepened my understanding. It could be about anything. Challenging my viewpoints is very enjoyable.

It surprises me that most people don't seem to feel that way and I struggle to understand why. Apparently, people often feel angry and alienated by the truth. I think that never makes sense, but I've learned to accept that people simply feel threatened by the truth sometimes and I can't usually convince them otherwise.
by dang | 2025-04-02 19:10:12+00:00
Since you've continued to use HN primarily for political battle after we asked you to stop, I've banned the account.

(This is not a comment on your specific politics or which celebrities or companies or causes you're battling. We don't care about that. We care about preserving this site for its intended purpose, which is not this.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by rahkiin | 2025-04-02 19:10:54+00:00
> According to major auto paint suppliers, more than 80% of new cars are now grayscale. Black, white, gray, and silver dominate the roads. Reds, blues, and greens in auto production are increasingly rare.

This is biased data: when cars that are not white or black cost 1000 of euros more from the factory, and custom non-preselected colors even more, then people tend to but the cheap colors. Especially when they are corporate lease cars and the corporation doesn’t care about the color.

If car companies want more color, do not charge for it.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-02 19:11:03+00:00
I noticed that the author put their email address clearly at the very top of the article. At least they eat their own dogfood.

However, the problem is the great many excellent online writers do everything they can to make themselves hard to contact. Worst of all are those professional writers who work for major publications. Their interaction model is sniping from bushes on the hillside rather than deigning to descend amongst the filthy masses and speak face to face as a peer.
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by sebringj | 2025-04-02 19:11:28+00:00
Congrats Tom. I wonder if a particular model could be used as a baseline for these values or if they are already doing that to check first level prior to a human in the loop? I myself have been using AI for this purpose and have found it getting pretty good. I know its not a replacement for thoughtful moderation however, a tailored model for HN would also promote the tradition of HN in terms of having it not just be about who is there and have it more trained on its best practices to promote consistency, possibly as an aid.
by matznerd | 2025-04-02 19:12:24+00:00
This is one of the ways we get all of the secondary metabolites from plants, most of the compounds in supplements and drugs that are active in humans. They come from mutations of the existing DNA, then are able to change from there without impacting the plant's core functions due to being duplicates:

"Gene duplications drive the recruitment of genes for secondary metabolism. Gene copies are gradually modified to create genes with specificities and expression patterns adapted to the needs of the new pathway in which they are involved. Duplicated genes are often in tandem repeats, forming clusters within the plant genome. However, in some cases, clusters of nonhomologous genes have also been identified as forming a functional unit. The selective forces that have caused the establishment of new pathways are far from understood and might have changed repeatedly during evolution owing to the continuously changing environment. Recent data show that the way several classes of secondary compounds are scattered among species is attributable to independent recruitment and the inactivation of biosynthetic enzymes."

https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/abstract/S1360-138...

If you want to understand secondary metabolites, which is not the "how" do they work part of plant-derived molecules, but the "why" do they work?

You can follow this line of research:

"Over recent years, the consensus as to the mechanisms responsible for these effects in humans has shifted away from polyphenols having direct antioxidant effects and toward their modulation of cellular signal transduction pathways. To date, little consideration has been given to the question of why, rather than how, these plant-derived chemicals might exert these effects. Therefore, this review summarizes the evidence suggesting that polyphenols beneficially affect human brain function and describes the current mechanistic hypotheses explaining these effects. It then goes on to describe the ecologic roles and potential endogenous signaling functions that these ubiquitous phytochemicals play within their home plant and discusses whether these functions drive their beneficial effects in humans via a process of “cross-kingdom” signaling predicated on the many conserved similarities in plant, microbial, and human cellular signal transduction pathways."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S216183132...

The functional aspect of the duplicated DNA goes back to the point that humans, insects, and plants are all eukaryotes...