skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is literally a fallacy [1] in that it's invalid logical reasoning.

There are many types of argumentation that are useful for drawing practical conclusions about the world but are not, strictly speaking, valid logic. For example, "correlation doesn't equal causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively" [2]. If you know nothing about the truth or falsity of a statement, knowing who's saying it can provide some information that might tilt your opinion one way or another. But the person saying something does not make the argument true or false, otherwise I could make myself as detestable as possible to some group of people and then kill them off by giving them common-sense advice like "go to the doctor" or "eat healthy". (Come to think of it, this is exactly what happened to Republicans during COVID, where somehow wearing masks & getting vaccines became politicized.)

Bringing it back to the topic at hand - I found the digression about who Emil O Kierkegard is to be momentarily interesting, but I'd still like to know if he's right or not. The idea that this article might be due to Simpson's Paradox is plausible, and it invalidates the central conclusion of the study if it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

[2] https://xkcd.com/552/
Just a reminder that Twitter was full of bugs before the baddie took over. They just didn’t all get covered in the media
> Title should include “in healthy lean individuals” which was the study title

Weightloss improves various metabolic biomarkers, including markers of insulin sensitivity, and so the fact that people who lose weight following a particular intervention (low-carb or whatever else) see such improvements is unsurprising. That's why looking at subjects who are already lean is much more informative: it gives a better sense of the metabolic effects of the dietary intervention itself, not confounded by weightloss.

> Without that it sounds like the study contradicts a huge body of evidence which it doesn’t.

What huge body of evidence? All of the people drastically restricting their carbohydrate consumption so they can cheat on their fasting BG and HbA1C tests? Give those people an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and measure their insulin response in real time, and the vast majority of them would fail, especially the ones on high (saturated) fat diets: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602127/

> Our finding of a strong relationship between VO2max and relatively unsaturated IMCL pools in controls and athletes points to a role of exercise in decreasing the amount of saturated fat within the IMCL store. The association of insulin resistance with the accumulation of saturated IMCLs, even within a healthy control population, could suggest an early involvement in its pathogenesis and provide a reason why combined exercise and diet are effective therapeutic options in the early stages of insulin resistance.

High-fat diets are atrocious for insulin sensitivity.
that is some amazingly crap UX. who the hell thought this was a good idea?
It's not t necessarily fallacious, but it certainly can be. A known liar stating that 2+2=4 doesn't mean that 2+2!=4.
Haha I wouldn’t say it like that, but I’m pretty sure we feel the same way deep down.

Regardless of how true your comment might be, this can seem a bit hostile or condescending to people who don’t have a “cleaner” reference point for language design.

Or, in the “fog of war” of competing alternatives, it may even appear unreasonable to experienced programmers: we’re so used to thinking that everything is a tradeoff that over time we can forget that some things really can be “just better” than other things. Most of the time when we hear such claims, it comes from a place of subjective preference or over-generalization, so our brains pattern match strongly against that.

And at the end of the day, as a practical matter, the best camera is the one you carry with you, and the best tool is the one you can use.
> With all the attention being paid to macOS these days, there's enough mods and addon's that I don't miss Linux so much on my laptop.

One problem that I have is all that all those mods and add-ons are out there, but there's a real mindset that "everything must be an app" and a pursuant mindset that "might as well charge for it". I don't mind paying for a complicated app, but there are certain basic features that used to be served by the freeware model on Macs that just aren't any more, and my impression is that things are heading ever more in that direction. (As well as in the direction of subscriptions over app purchases, which are right out for me for basic utility needs.)

You mentioned Rectangle.app and Hammerspoon, which are both open source. Do you have any good recommendations for where to look for other high-quality open-source mods and add-ons for macOS?
> and is replaced with a relentless driving machine that never tires or gets frustrated and has no fear of death.

Listen, and understand! That relentless driving machine is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

FTFY
As a non-north-american I can empathize, but I believe the main reason for that is simply these news outlets are from the US, so naturally they'll use that frame of reference. Down here in Brazil news outlets will compare stuff to Brazil.

The fact we are reading English news probably accounts for a good part of that bias.
> Scores in verbal reasoning, matrix reasoning, and letter and number series all declined but, interestingly, scores in spatial reasoning went up.

The more popular video games require spatial reasoning far more than the others.

> The reasons for both the increase and the decline are sill very much up for debate.

Earth has entered the Vinge's Unthinking Depths, and we are struggling to notice it.
JBang can do this: https://www.jbang.dev
Have you, or is this a very uncharitable gloss on what they actually were saying?
i was able to do something similar with Siri using the shortcuts app. You can have siri transcribe your text and post it to an endpoint and then read the response back to you.

is it possible to use gpt-4 with langchain?
I think that's correct, but it is the opposite case as the hypothetical that we are discussing. The problem with everyone index investing is that there is not an infinitely diverse pool of indices. If most people index invested into a small number of indexes, they become targets for people to exploit their predictable Behavior.

This is a long way of saying that a limited number of indices is an assumption of the hypothetical.

It would break the market if everyone invested in indexes because nobody is paying attention to fundamentals.

If there are a huge number of indexes and people are diligently picking between them, that is basically the same thing as being active investors.
Wow, they asked the model to self-evaluate and it just outright cheated:

He has three cats.
Proposed: h’io’ngkiltrikumrikumrikumri’nguuy
Correct: h’io’ngkiltri’ngkumrikumri’nguuy
Points: 1
Hypothesis: N/A

(Other comments observe that it accidentally compensated for this by getting the sum wrong, haha, d'oh)

I have had similar problems with trying to get ChatGPT to do nontrivial things, "here are the rules for this game, do you understand this game, great, let's play it." And then it's like herding cats. "No that's wrong, the game pieces cannot leave the game board," "Oh my apologies you are entirely correct, here is the revised board (proceeds to dump the exact same state of the game board that I told it was wrong)." Eventually it will lie about its own capacities, "As an AI language model I am incapable of selecting a move to play next"... But you have done several already!!! This is literally the ONLY thing you have been doing right and now you refuse?

Some other prompts are more successful but it does seem to have a sing-song high school book review style that inclines it to be boring... Very uncanny valley.
Developing a feel for powers-of-ten seconds was the objective. The page was relocated from a site with an order-of-magnitude estimation focus.
Reviewed the paper, there is no mention of what the fat and protein ratios were and only talked about carb only.

Q:So was the fat intake for the low carb group and which band (% protein) had the elevated insulin resistance?

Since we do know that over eating Protein, causes Protein Poisoning, if intake is more than 35% of your diet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
Tell HN: Reddit just made their website even more unusable
Not sure if I'm part of an A/B test right now, but I'm seeing a new design which is absolutely crap.

Subreddits still have the "old new" design but instead of seeing a modal when I click a post, it navigates to another page and completely changes design. Colours, padding, even the font looks different.

I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like Windows at this point. What is going on over there that prevents them from building a decent interface?
Call me dishonest then but that seems like failing to actually apply logic.
Interesting! I actually do something quite similar, which is why I created this code generator

https://github.com/mintyPT/sal (still need to finish v2)

How long have you been going this? You create a custom language instead of using json or yaml?
All, I am not saying that having a solid vocabulary isn't valuable. Of course it is valuable. What I am saying is that potentially, for most people, having a vastly expansive vocabulary might not be as valuable as it used to be.
> Anyone ever think about what a nightmare driverless cars will be if they actually work?

Actually, yes. However, my take is a bit different from yours.

The future driverless car will not at all look like a Tesla.

It will be a moving office or comfortable room for family trips. This does not mean it has to be massive. Something of the size of a modern minivan could be fantastic if you did not have to worry about driving at all.

In other words, I actually see future driverless cars giving us more time rather than taking it away by being stuck on traffic paying attention to stay in a lane, press the brake or accelerator.

As for people forgetting how to drive. Well, maybe in one or two more generations?

Nobody really likes driving. People either need to go from point A to point B or want to (vacations, eating out, etc.). I enjoy driving, not on the street, on the race track. I do that with some frequency. Driving on the street is boring, dangerous, time consuming and stressful. I hate that kind of driving. I can't wait until I don't have to do it any more.
I grew up in Germany (this was the 80s) and one way my dad encouraged us to learn English was subscriptions to various US magazines, one of them was Mad Magazine. We loved it even though we missed a few cultural references.

The fold in was great but I have to admit, every issue the "Fold back so A meets B" instructions somehow created the wrong image in my head and I'd go, "wait, fold which one where?". Over and over.
There's no need to do that from within the class. It all works just as it would in an anonymous class today. This code, that employs an anonymous class, is valid Java today (you can paste it into jshell):

new Object() {
record Foo(int x, int y) {}
class Bar { static void print(Foo f) { System.out.println(f); } }

void main() {
Bar.print(makeFoo());
}

Foo makeFoo() { return new Foo(3, 4); }
}.main();

This JEP merely brings together two existing ideas in Java:

1. Anonymous classes

2. Unnamed instances of programming-in-the-large concepts are implicitly provided for you (today this is the case only for packages and modules).

There are no new changes or restrictions to Java syntax in the body of the anonymous class.
> could present semi-permanent damage to the biosphere.

Burning coal, gas or oil present immediate, virtually permanent (at least on a human time scale) damages to the biosphere; hydro electric power already killed at least two more orders of magnitude people than even the most delirious casualty estimations of nuclear power accidents; and air pollution is estimated killing millions of people per year.

At some point, people should start learning to count.
Yes, it is. It absolutely is a fallacy to use that as your reason instead of something about the argument itself being wrong.

To use an analogy, even stopped clock can be right twice a day. Nobody expects anyone to use such a thing to tell time.

But anyone who looks at a broken clock displaying 6 o'clock and declares "it can't possibly be that time because the clock is broken" is engaging in faulty reasoning, because they're still taking information from a broken clock which contains none.
Not to say I'm a current enthusiast of self driving cars, but I assume many of the issues you outlined would get better rather than worse. Ownership of car will become continually less rational with hyper effective rented transport. With fewer cars overall parking should be much better especially on busy areas. Cars of the far off future may be more predictable and thus more rational when traffic increases. Networked cars open up a lot of possibilities.

None of this is coming soon as far as I'm aware mind you. I just don't think the end game of self driving vehicle is bleak - just the long mid game :)
For an example of a faster demo, see my Slint backend for the Teensy MicroMod:

https://twitter.com/charlesstrahan/status/163002622435647488...

Now, admittedly, this is 600 MHz beast (the NXP i.MX RT1062). But I’d like to think it’s still impressive for the hardware involved.

As mentioned in the Twitter thread, to eke out the performance I had to implement an 8-bit parallel bus using FlexIO along with DMA (all written in Rust) — but with that implemented, the display is pretty zippy.
Ah, thanks for that. I read through the article but somehow I missed that. So kinda half true.
How much of this is unique to the cars being self driving rather than being taxis that have to pick up and drop off people without well designated areas for doing that? Because if it’s the latter, it sounds like these vehicles don’t have problems different from manned Ubers or taxis. But then again, at least in the latter cases the drivers can respond better to context.
I was similarly going to mention Loopanics press which i used to collect. (principia discordia, lock-picking)
Bees are sentient: inside the brains of nature’s hardest workers
they want you to get disoriented, click mindlessly, hit an ad, ka-ching!
Does old.reddit.com not work anymore?
Over half those in the EU are deployed in France too. For the US to match France’s 80% electricity generated by nuclear energy, we’ll need to deploy about 300 additional equivalent reactors. I my opinion, this a good thing: 1. The per unit reactor costs will plummet if we build 300 identical units 2. France enjoys the lowest per capita CO2 emissions for electrical generation than any nation in the world. America should match them.
Put it in a text to speech software and listen to it closing your eyes. Here is one you can use:

https://www.texttovoice.online/
If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why
In the absence of reasonably strong natural selection pressure to select for red hair, how could red hair not be disappearing over time?

This is somewhat tongue in cheek, obviously. But to spell out my point, genetic inheritance is way more complex than most of the comments here are treating it.

If you can’t confidently explain how people with brown hair can keep having red-headed kids, it might be challenging to understand why average parents can produce smart kids (or vice versa).
that too, in the long-term, living in meatspace will be an expensive privilege reserved for the wealthy
There's a 30-day free trial, so if you cancel during that period you get a complete refund.
Just today I needed to run some software only available in .deb and only on Ubuntu 22.04. So whipped out an old laptop that had Ubuntu installed and ran sudo do-release-upgrade to upgrade to 22.04. boom! GUI gone and the terminal was flooded with weird filesystem errors. I had to spend the whole afternoon reinstalling from scratch.

I would love a Linux daily driver but I've had similar experiences to the above every time I've tried it for the last 15 years.
Very hard to quantify this. I personally believe many companies fail to find product market fit due to poor execution (bad code being a common culprit) but we don’t say they failed due to bad code. We say they failed to find product market fit.

More broadly there is this idea in tech startup internet bubble land that you just need a novel idea to get you to product market fit. In reality you need to execute. Starting a car company isn’t a bad idea simply because many competitors exist. But you better build great cars. If you don’t, you might be inclined to say “we couldn’t find product market fit”
> arbitrary software

Windows Defender isn't "arbitrary software" - it's built into the OS and enabled by default. To anyone building an application for Windows, it should be considered part of the platform.
There may be sandwiches but there will definitely be ads.
it's not that simple. context (timing, culture/politics, market conditions, regulations) is very important.

there's a lot of interest nowadays in "progress studies" which tries to tackle this (or a very similar set of) questions

yes, sure commercial fusion is definitely one of the toughest nuts, but fission based small modular plants are viable, yet it's barely being done. and there are many products and technologies that are economical yet not widespread. (let's say public transport.)
BART (mainline) runs a maximum of 10 car trains, with a “crush” (maximum) capacity of 200+ per car.
> there is no mention of what the fat and protein ratios were and only talked about carb only

Wonder if this came up during peer review (and if yes, what the justification was for not mentioning)
Thanks, I got a good laugh out of this. You're right, 47 would be a ridiculously bad hit man in real life.
Looks pretty awesome!

What keeps me away from actually buying their stuff is the software ecosystem. Linux is great for development work, OK for everything else desktop-ish, but like 100 miles behind Android.

If they started moving into IoT, and had replacements for the whole Google Home/Assistant/Cloud/Keep ecosystem, maybe, but then there's still games, banking apps, NFC payments, and things like that which probably aren't going to work that well.

I hope they succeed, they seem to be the most promising FOSS friendly company out there, but I wonder if they wouldn't be better off focusing on the bottom up before jumping into phones and tablets. Pinecil looks to be the best iron out there.

Or maybe the phones and tablets are exactly what they need to get people excited, I'm sure not a business major!
Good idea, solar panel for trickle charge. Could power a few other things like a wildlife cam and weather station.
>Or at least, I think I agree. What I would have said is that you can write down words on a paper, and the words are a representation of meaning, but the paper doesn't understand meaning, nor do the words. You need a human, with a human understanding of words, and language, and what those things mean, in order to decode the meaning from the words. In other ah words, the words on the paper are a representation of meaning, but only for a human. For a cat, say, they don't represent anything.

If you change your perspective on language to mean any arbitrary capture of useful information (such that it can be used in the future), then you can see that the boundary between words and the world is not the heart of the issue. For example, your perception of the world works in a similar manner in that your sensory organs cannot comprehend the world, almost like your sensory organs interpret the world using their own language. Or maybe if that example is not very intuitive, then how about imagining an alien species that has sensory organs that act on linguistic structures. In some way, the aliens will figure out a coherent structure of their own, even though they cannot "experience" the world through senses like ours. What "intelligence" is doesn't seem to be bound by how "close" someone is to reality, and "close" might not even be the right word, since different perceptions can have different capabilities. I think the tricky part about "intelligence" is that there is always some "meaning" captured, it is just alien to those who do not share the same interpretive capacity. A cat could extract meaningful information from words on a paper, but certainly not in the same way we do.

Now if we want to make an AI that acts and thinks like us, then understanding our own machinery (the relationship between the world and language) is certainly important. But I think the bitter lesson rears its head here, and I believe that something that is truly worthy of being called AGI will be able to thrive given any set of arbitrary senses, even linguistic ones. In other words, I do not think embodiment will naturally lead to AGI, rather that embodiment is a necessity if we want make AI in our image. And making an AI in our image is the fastest way to get an AI to do useful work for us.
There are good theoretical reasons behind this as well
https://calculatedcontent.com/2023/02/01/deep-learning-and-e...
MIT does have a nuclear engineering department so not sure how un-biased this would be.
I don't know which cities we're talking about here, but i happen to know at least a few cities that are desirable to live in even if you don't have to commute to an office.
The trick is that ideologues can dispute power based on fraudulent ideas disguised as sophisticated theories that can always be reduced to banal lies (once removed how they are hidden in language complexity).
Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback
It can be a fun exercise to take lined notebook paper, label the lines one per year, and sketch out your life. "I was in elementary school from here to here; this summer I did foo". People often struggle ("well, this year I started working at foo, so that year I must have still been living in bar - ha, that isn't how I remembered it"). Doing columns or aligning papers can be fun for families - kids often have little sense of their parent's past.
Three sentences in, it was obviously sleep apnea. Guess the author was going for dramatic irony. I'm curious why he didn't do a cursory Internet search for his symptoms.
I’ve been working in software for 35 years. Never been laid off but ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of it happening to me. I saw how being laid off devastated my father and brother.

The closer I get to being able to retire the more this scares me. I need these last 5-7 years to get to a point where I feel like I could retire, and to have that stolen from me when it’s so close…it would be devastating.
Yes, many times, from many of them. Google "stem majors lack critical thinking skills". To drive the point home, google will autocomplete it for you.
The kernel yes, the distros and userspace, not so much. Linux is my go to for hosting, but macOS and Windows are designed to prioritize for the desktop user experience.
Recent and related:

Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746 - April 2023 (215 comments)

Is the current post significant new information* or just a repeat of that submission?

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...