skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No papers to link. Anecdata of n=1.

My cholesterol levels were always very high. Even with statins. They helped but less than doctors wanted and they kept increasing even when increasing statin dose to the max. I craved lots of sugary stuff too. Cut out fat, didn't eat any eggs except what's hidden in the sugar stuff etc.

Then one year I decided to do Keto. Levels were still elevated but multiple points lower than before. Actual <20g carbs Keto. Quite a bit on the carnivorous side too.

I'm back to a 'normal' diet but this time I am not cutting out fats. In fact I'm eating lots of healthy fats (that were previously and maybe still are marked as "bad") such as eggs and butter and cream. I also eat carbs again, though I try for less sugary stuff. Cholesterol levels are slightly up again.

My conclusion: Carbs (overall) are the bad guy.

My doctor told me (again I have no papers to link) that the most up-to-date science nowadays seems to suggest that carbs, especially refined carbs, cause inflammation and calcium deposits in arteries which the body tries to "repair" (overlay) with cholesterol (that's its job). Problem is if it keeps doing that up to the point where it blocks. But cholesterol isn't the bad guy basically. It's just doing its job and if you don't eat the cholesterol, the body makes it by itself so that it has it available to do its job.
Honestly never was interested in Patagonia (associated them with Silicon Valley bro types). After learning about the company and its owner from the move they made yesterday I'll probably refresh my wardrobe with some of their products for the coming winter.
>Why do you live in the US, then?

Why does anyone live somewhere under a government they're not happy with? Why do women live in states with abortion laws they disagree with, is it because they're edgy teens? Why don't you personally live somewhere else that is closer to your goals of governance, surely US is not the most ideal for what you seek?

I don't really think you want to go down the road that presumes someone isn't thinking hard enough if they don't run away from where they're currently living. Personally when I did leave the US I did it to help the Kurds, not to abandon my own family, and without the permission of the mother of my child to expatriate it isn't exactly proof I'm not thinking 'harder' because I live here right now. Regardless of how fucked up the US government is I have certain obligations to my family who happen to be here more for logistical reasons than political reasons.

If it were just about me, or if I had permission from the mother to expatriate our child, sure I'd likely not be where I am right now.
Time to go for penpot then: https://penpot.app
Same here, reporting the same bug.

I thought it was some weird nerdy inside joke or some obscure pop culture ref that I should see for myself but nope just a good old malfunction and of all places, it was HN that broke the news and I came across it.

This community is really something :)
You keep copying and pasting the same thing on comment after comment (down to the typos) and never back it up with a source.
I think the main difference is that GDNative only had access to Godot's scripting API, so it could only manipulate the same stuff that GDScript or C# already could. So in 3.x, if you wanted to manipulate engine internals, you had to "engine extensions" which had to be compiled with the engine itself. But with GDExtension I think you're supposed to be able to do _everything_ that "engine extensions" could do, but without having to re-compile Godot itself.
Right. People were greatly incentivized to pay off the loan as quickly as possible as well as make the largest down payment they could -- unlike today
Speaking for myself, I'm tired of learning yet another templating language re-implementing basic features like if, else, and for loops when I could just use an existing language with a few additions. Learning HTML is pretty easy, even for non-engineers.

Doesn't this syntax:

<callout type="check">...</callout>

Look better than:

{% callout type="check" %}...{% /callout %}

?
lol, roundabouts in Tokyo or Manhattan... imagine... a skyscraper in the middle... underground entrances to it... mechanicals on the ground floor because nobody wants to have cars coming straight at them...
"FBI has [Internet company] spy on [all their users]" is a story.
Some of these definitely look intriguing. There's a lot of good techniques that have fallen by the wayside for years because they required way more computing power than was practical at the time they were prototyped.

https://treevis.net/ has an especially comprehensive collection of network visualization tropes. I'm not averse to coding and do some in this area already, though in the Lego-assembly fashion of mixing and matching things in Jupyter notebooks with Python or Julia rather than product engineering.
If we just look at how much CO2 something produces when it's ready-built we potentially ignore a huge part of the pollution. You usually do a life cycle analysis (LCA) and come up with a g CO2-equivalents/kWh. No energy source has 0g/kWh.
Really cool of @koomen to donate the domain, from the github repo (https://github.com/markdoc/markdoc):

Special shout out to:

@marcioAlmada for providing us with the @markdoc GitHub org.
@koomen for gifting us https://markdoc.dev.
Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins
Most of the time an "API Gateway" provides nothing. Usually this kind of service is just looking at the request path and maybe the Authorization header. In general it's just a useless hop in the TCP connection chain from the client to the server.
Bad marketing, bad pricing, bad positioning. It's crazy. Amazing technology.
Sri Lanka, they could use the help right now.
just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I think it dates from the time when the only decimals the average person would use were in currency.
Yes I've noticed that a lot of authors expect you to read through some parable before they tell you what they are going to tell you. It would be fine with an abstract or even a sentence below the title that says "ML models are not being adequately evaluated for composability and it makes them look more intelligent than they are". Just diving into "consider clever Hans" makes it tough to know if it's worth reading.
In the real world, people play trading card games all the time and a big part of the ecosystem is trading the trading cards. Only, it is really annoying to have to ship around and maintain physical cards, and I want my card collection in the cloud. Some people would thereby prefer to play an online version of, say, Magic: The Gathering, or whatever the Pokémon one is called, etc.

The problem now is... how do you do the trading part? You could go to the trouble of yourself building a marketplace for the cards and then integrating all of the payment methods required, and then dealing with all of the trust and fraud issues that result from people sending money via banks or PayPal that they later chargeback or refund, all while dealing with whatever crazy tax implications come up from running a market.

But you don't want to do any of that: you want to code a game, and it isn't like Wizards of the Coast is trying to take money off of the aftermarket! They just make money by selling the initial randomized official card packs. Because you went digital now you are doing a ton of extra work and are wasting a ton of time dealing with payment processing issues when none of that is related to your actual business model or product design.

And, at the end of the day, doing that giant marketplace is a hard job that other companies specialize in. If I told you eBay provided some kind of digital asset API that let you simply assign tracking numbers to products but then eBay kept track of the ownership as it changed and all your game had to do is ask "what cards does this user still own?" when it opens, I imagine a ton of developers would jump on that bandwagon.

Only, eBay doesn't provide that API, and likely would avoid doing so out of concern you would shut down the game on a whim and cause them issues; and, even if they did, now your entire game backend would then be built around a single marketplace that might randomly pull your game for some reason and shut down your entire company in a way where you are SCREWED as your end-to-end ownership pipeline is modeled inside of eBay's database rather than being something you control and can migrate.

If only there were some off-the-shelf technology for tracking digital assets that you could trivially add as a dependency to your project, letting you write a few lines of code to define your asset and which had APIs for querying ownership... one which was an open ecosystem controlled by a shared protocol instead of a single company, thereby allowing not just one market but any number of competing markets with different ideas on auctions or escrow to exist. Wouldn't that be amazing?!

Well: that's Ethereum; like, that's precisely what Ethereum is doing. If you think collectible trading card games aren't a dumb idea--and even if you hate them and think the premise is bad for gaming, I am going to remind you that these things are SUPER POPULAR and so your opinion doesn't in some sense matter here as you are just ignoring reality--then Ethereum is a GLORIOUS idea that makes it absolutely trivial for game developers to build them and for users to participate.
You might compare with a stock dividend or with paying employees with company stock. A company can create more stock and pay it out without using any cash.

When converting to cash, it's still the case that for every seller there needs to be a buyer.
That’s a different thing, since solving an existing open problem doesn’t mean inventing a new theorem.
My wife tried to cancel her subscription but the agent on the live chat just quickly and out of the blue gave her 4 months of free subscription. Not sure if this is unusual or part of their playbook.
Oh sorry yes, I'm not a native speaker, thanks. And yes, they commit to not exercising some of the rights they have been granted as part of the copyright they do indeed still hold.
They are making a joke.

“Third world” was just a grouping of nations that didn’t align themselves with the USA or USSR during the cold war.

Over time labelling a country as “3rd world” become the de facto way of categorising it as a “developing country”.
If you want to learn about another fascinating company, research Rolex.
The fact that we need satellites, whose manufacturing, launches, and operation produce insane amounts of GHGs, is disheartening and doesn't really justify the earth-sensing industry. Audits and enforcement can be achieved without satellites.
Signed up for adobe trial to use a feature of it that was not included in the free version. Forgot to cancel during free period, tried to cancel subscription they wanted a 120$ early cancellation fee. Charged it back on my cc and blacklisted adobe from charging my cc ever again. Sad say for sigma users have always heard really good things from friends that use it.
a nitpick, North America includes Mexico in those charts and as a mexican I can attest a lot of piracy went on in the PS2 / Xbox consoles back in the day
it's probably as far from SV bro's as you can get
Could you share the reasons you decided to move off it?
A fine meme, but what's your point? I never disputed that media tribes have been known to coordinate their talking points. This is true of media tribes regardless of their perspective.
This is called the AI Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

> The AI effect occurs when onlookers discount the behavior of an artificial intelligence program by arguing that it is not real intelligence.

> Author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"
>associated them with Silicon Valley bro types

Patagonia themselves dislike this association, going so far as to refuse to make clothing for many of these people.

https://gizmodo.com/patagonia-will-stop-selling-those-horrib...
I’m guessing it’ll shortly be an excellent time to pick up a second hand graphics card.

Which ones we looking for?
Regardless of opinions, you can't know the owners of many corporations today. Are you sure you're not doing business with businesses that have owners hidden behind Virgin Islands numbered shares? I wouldn't be, it's actually very common. And if you're actually doing business with them - where's the problem?
As an aside to any Google people here, not having error handling in your JavaScript is a bad idea - that blank page does not shout “you should trust your most sensitive data to us” even if I know those are separate teams.

Echoing other people, limiting it to 90 days / 10GB is an odd choice – if you need Spanner, you’re likely to bump into both of those limitations, especially if you’re not already a GCP user. Databases are a critical service and it takes time to evaluate one.
Not really. It is more
immediate than that. Right now we heavily rely on CO2 emitting power generation. And if bitcoin becomes wildly successful, or simply gets into another bubble, while trying to combat climate change, and it stays on PoW that is an issue.
Yeah it’s been happening for a couple days now. I’m so confused.
that employee should have setup a VPN, shame
The "do it on your own right" is actually the weaker part of it. It's somewhat ill-defined, and I could imagine some future instance where it's highly debatable whether the AI was working on its own or being used as a tool by a human. There aren't yet any cases where that's in question, though, so it's a hypothetical future debate. In any case, it's certainly not the meat of the test.

It has to be maths for a specific reason. I think it's in some sense the purest form of an ability distinctive to human minds and pervasive in how they work. As I mentioned, it's an ability that can be demonstrated in the absence of any particular physical capability, and yet despite it being perhaps the oldest goal of AI it may be the one we have made least progress towards.

Anyway that's my goalpost, and it's not moving. AGI, being "general", surely should be capable of this hitherto uniquely human activity. If our attempts so far are not capable of it, then clearly they are not "general". If you know of any evidence that my goalpost has been achieved, please let me know. I'm very eager to see it happen.
I think you might want to change your perspective a little bit and think about what value this system could offer for the problem solvers other than compensate for their time and attention.

(Why would I spend 15 minutes reading your post and writing this comment if I am not getting paid?)
> We don't care what animals in the zoo think.

Tangential to AGI, but don't we? Vegans seem to have quite a strong opinion on this assertion.
Except the British didn't genocide during the partition of India - the internal clash of Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims going to war was it's own doing... You're framing it like British soldiers went in there and massacred India during that time. Wrong.
Would be helpful if you had a solid example.
Using the words "centralized" or "decentralized" when describing crypto (and probably many other tech things) is perhaps frequently the worst oversimplifications one can engage in.

I think what you want to discuss when using these words is the extent to which it is either likely or possible that a small number of players can unduly influence a thing, but there are frequently MANY MORE FACTORS at work here than "that number." You have to look at how the thing is set up, what governance looks like, what technical limitations there are, and -- perhaps most importantly -- what incentives are there in place for the players to do so.

A lot of the "centralization" fears are bad because they're the sort of thing, that -- if executed -- would destroy the value of the thing to the centralizers themselves, and thus they would literally never do it.
I'd also say, every of these images would fail a reverse test (i.e., asking a person to describe the image and what it represents.)

The task is not just about generating an image that may somehow be in accordance with the prompt, but also to generate a significant image.

[Edit] The equivalent to a Turing test for compositional images would be something like this: have as set of 100 images with their respective prompts, some generated by an AI, some by a human graphic designer / artist; let the test person pick the images that were generated by a computer. Mind that this would not only involve the problem of compositionality per se, but also a meaningful and/or artistic composition of the image itself. Is someone attempting to express what is given in the prompt?
"De-growth" should be understood to mean we will have to give up some things in the name of the greater good.

Yours is quite a common argument, but ultimately it is justified by a sense of entitlement of having the technology that is now assumed to be necessary and inevitable. The reality is that we as a civilization have jumped too far, too fast, we don't actually need those things to survive, and we will need to be comfortable temporarily sacrificing certain luxuries to attain a long-lasting sustainable path forward.
India should focus on getting their own shit together. They can be content in the knowledge that Britain is a shadow of its former self, without the resources to pay back a fraction of what they took.
What authority do you think this bill is claiming that would be impacted by other countries launching? You can read it here: https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/...

It's establishing (assuming it gets passed and signed) the work for a demonstration program on active debris removal from orbit. It's not imposing the US government's will on anyone else.
I think it's an interesting restriction. The one thing I object to is not having sources and especially "See also". Most of the time I can get things within 10 clicks even with the restrictions.
Sri Lanka hasn't recognized the Taliban government and India would also say no due to the China factor.
The Python sqlite3 module caches prepared statements, I think it's the last 100 by default but can be overridden. To be effective, this cache requires you to use proper parameters (rather than string interpolation) but the benchmark code for this article does that. So, in effect, it already uses stored procedures.

As others have pointed out, it's the lack of a suitable index that's the real problem here.
Would you rather they not make this move? Comments like yours are unnecessarily exhausting. Are they perfect? No. If your standard is to criticize and tear down anyone doing anything less than perfect than you won’t ever be happy. Compared to almost everyone in this industry, this is a major move. How about we applaud it and hope others do the same rather than approach everything with a jaded eye because it doesn’t meet some impossible standard?
> You have no meaningful way to testify that you recieve an item from killing a boss, for example.

Surely you could have a smart contract that implements that (and, in the extreme case, I guess you submit the random seed for this boss fight and a hash of the button inputs you used or something - of course there's no way to stop you using a bot to automate pressing the buttons at the right time, but that applies to real WoW too).
What's ridiculous is that the residents of London "put up" with this constant noise of planes overhead all day.

Heathrow is in the perfectly wrong place possible. Due to the prevailing wind, practically all planes landing at Heathrow cross right over the entire city before landing!

It's noticeable how loud the first planes landing at 6am are (there is a curfew fortunately). That means they fly over the city ~5:40am.

What's even more frustrating is that 30% of arrivals/departures are passengers transiting through Heathrow and not even benefiting the local economy who have to put up with the noise!

And they want to build another runway to make even more noise pollution! NO!
He must have done quite a lot of rotting in the whole three weeks he was a national security advisor, especially considering that role has nothing much to do with purchasing components, uniforms, or anything else really.
Probably, and if they did, it would be just as wrong.

The difference is that a lot of Republicans have lost total faith in institutions and the media because they feel they are largely coordinated at this point.
It's the cheap price of a cover story for capabilities with military applications.
> they need money a lot more than Britain, and tangible food and resources are a lot more useful than a pretty diamond

This is the comment’s point. The benefits of a trade deal might measure up to the worth of this diamond in minutes.
Are you sure? I couldn't find any good sources on British genocide, but Wikipedia has a list of massacres in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_India In sum, the number of casualties from Colonial India is orders of magnitude lower than both pre-colonial and independent India
Game boss dies, triggers a web3 call which mints the NFT. What’s the problem?
My company uses Stripe among others. We do on the order of 8 figures of transactions over all our payment channels. Not a whale by Stripe's standards, but not nothing either. We also have enterprise agreements in writing and signed contracts with all of them. It wasn't necessarily an underwriting process as far as I know, more of an enterprise software licensing agreement. But either way, they are obligated to provide services under the terms of the contract. The terms include some commitment to future use and get us at least a smidge of discount off their fees. As much as startups love buying services with transparent pricing where you just pick a service level and plunk down a credit card, when it's business critical, just call their biz dev team and ask for a contract.
> That is a silly situation I agree. But it's a situation that perpetuates in part because too many contractors tolerate it.

A sizeable proportion of contractors I used to work with simply removed themselves from the market when the changes were introduced.
Many of them retired early, and one retrained as a plasterer.

I only tolerate it because I have a mortgage to pay. I'm not willing to take a 50% pay cut to go perm, or a ~20% pay cut for the few contracts outside IR35 that I'm offered. The rates on those used to be significantly higher than before the changes.

Speaking to a lot of recruiters over the last few years, we have noticed wage compression in the market. The bottom end has been brought up quite substantially, the top end has dropped.
its a solution built for google where they need to track ad budget burn down globally. Most enterprises dont have this problem, or the latency/performance/uptime requirements of google.

Then you've got a google proprietary API for what should be similar to Aurora with PostgreSQL wire compatibility.

Add in Google's history of deprecating and non-backwards compatible changes to SDKs.

That makes you wonder, who exactly Spanner IS geared towards.
Cheating? Thatd make sense if the bet were about the future of products and ethics. Weren’t they trying to predict the future of the state of the art technology?
> the difference between this and an IPO is academic in my view

More theatrical than academic — if both options have a risky short-term outlook, optimize for the story.

Sold for $20B? Or lackluster IPO? As GP of a VC fund, which story is going to better-enable you to raise your next several funds?
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Toshiba's external HDDs are quite good in my experience. Have two for my own use, and two more for use by family members and those disks haven't failed us yet.