skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fattest person I ever worked with used to drink 4-8 litres of diet coke a day. When I met him again two years later, his weight was normal. Asked how he did it, he just stopped drinking the diet coke.

NNSs trigger the same insulin/fat storage mechanism as sugar, but they arent absorbed, and stay on the blood longer, leading to insulin resistance.
Why would this affect Apple? I would think China would not want to destroy TSMC, quite the opposite they'd love to have it. They would also want to get Taiwan humming economically again as fast as possible.

Apple has been plenty happy to work with the CCP in the past, so I don't understand how/why this would bankrupt Apple or really even cause them lots of problems.
I'm confused because it's never clarified, and it starts with:

> According to their Redpanda vs Kafka benchmark and their Total Cost of Ownership analysis, if you have a 1 GB/s workload, you only need three i3en.6xlarge instances with Redpanda, whereas Apache Kafka needs nine and still has poor performance.

but scanning it again, I think they are in fact doing 3 node vs 3 node benchmark. It's just a bit unclear.
I use LXD. I can spawn any distro I want. I also use GUI apps this way (including video/audio eg firefox). I also use chezmoi for different HOME environments I want to have inside my LXD containers.
also surely “scientist experiments on themselves” is far too broad to dismiss out of hand
LLVM has multiple issues that makes LLVM-Bitcode as a modern ANDF unsuitable.

It is a moving target. SPIR (OpenCL/Vulkan) used to be based on LLVM-IR, but each version had to be locked to one specific version of LLVM and that wasn't viable in the long run. So SPIR-V got its own IR, and hasn't looked back.

There are many subtle differences between architectures and their ABIs. In some ways LLVM-IR is too low-level, so the compiler has to lower to a specific ABI even before emitting LLVM-IR code.

LLVM-IR was made for a C/C++ - compiler, and retains many C-isms still. What is undefined behaviour in C is often undefined behaviour in LLVM-IR, and therefore bugs have different effects on different hardware. A large software vendor would therefore still need to keep a farm of different machines to test its code on, and that is the total opposite of what one would want to accomplish.

A truly hardware-agnostic platform would need to both have its own virtual CPU with defined semantics, and its own ABI, so as to provide an abstraction around the specifics of each hardware platform. But if it has its own ABI, then it wouldn't be 100% interoperable with existing Linux libraries on each hardware platform either.
I often tell people I was raised by NES and SNES.
100% my point. Drawing a line at the purity of "maths" over "math" is the beginning of a rock fight in a village of glass houses.
DEC was desperately trying to stay relevant when the "PC revolution" completely ate their lunch throughout the 90s. At the same time, Microsoft was trying to push more deeply into the "enterprise" at a time when minicomputers and the various UNIX vendors (and DECs own VMS) ruled the datacenters.

Windows on AXP allowed Microsoft a place to run SQL Server on 64-bit hardware, getting a foot in the door there. It also allowed DEC to push powerful workstations into large Windows customers. But NT definitely felt sluggish on Alpha- there was a lot of room for optimization, but it was always a bit of an afterthought, vs running VMS or UNIX/OSF-1 on Alpha.

That wasn't enough to save DEC, though. Alpha was an awesome platform at the time. The AlphaServer 8400 "TurboLaser" machines were insanely fast. I'm still looking for an AS 2100 "Sable" machine to restore.

Source: Worked at DEC in the Windows/Alpha team.
What differentiates second-degree corpus poisoning from first-degree advertising?
It would be interesting to see the breakdown by client - e.g. Amazon are paying more than €500k via Fleishmann-Hillard and at least another €400k via FTI consulting. Maybe I'm cynical but it seems like an attempt at indirection.

EDIT: Searching by client, it's possible to see that Amazon pay 16 different consultants for lobbying [1], and that's just under the Amazon name, they also have ten subsidiaries that lobby the EU via consultants.

[1] https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/client?cid=627
I do think the Internet-connected pocketable camera deserves some of the blame.
Did you ever get any feedback from journalists and researchers using it?
I was kicking around a similar idea a few months ago but for a single-user Mastodon instance. Obviously a phone is a huge single point of failure, but there are likely dozens of hobbyist use-cases like this that don’t need strong reliability guarantees.
The reduced availability of food energy from fibre is already accounted for in at least Canada's food labeling rules: https://inspection.canada.ca/food-labels/labelling/industry/...

Energy value of dietary fibre

A value of 2 Cal (8 kJ) per gram should be used for the dietary fibre portion of the fibre source.

A value of less than 2 Cal (8 kJ) per gram may be used for the dietary fibre content if a specific value is available for the fibre source.

Energy value of bran

The energy value of the fibre portion of wheat bran is 0.6 Cal (2.5 kJ) / g and the wheat bran itself has an energy value of 2.4 Cal (10 kJ) / g.
There's really no reason for Confluent to be so expensive, the pricing depends on so many factors that it's so easy to fuck up and receive stellar bills.
Also the fact that they are releasing so many components with restrictive licenses, or that they postponed the Kafka tiered storage feature (that allows you to unload some of the topics data to S3 instead of expensive SSD disks) so that they could squeeze more money from their customers.
Definition of toxic.
("identically possible" as: as legitimately grounded. But of course, if you are convinced that people who are not convinced by your argument can only be dishonest, of course, for you, they are not identically possible)

> because we don't see those declines until after the smartphone is introduced, regardless of age.

Again, there are a lot of identically possible explanation: the whole society has changed and became globally more anxiogenic, the measurement of the decline may be biased as people are nowadays more incline to be honest with their mental health or less incline to "shake it off", or ...

> Furthermore, other factors causing both depression and social media use would have to be cross-cultural because the issue is global. Other than social media, what factors do you know of are cross-cultural? Guess what, they eliminated most of them in prior articles.

What do you mean "cross-cultural"? Isn't the study showing that it's mainly a US problem? And how can you have a cross-cultural effect when the usage of the smartphone amongst young people is so linked to cultural trends that are very different from country to country? I have the impression the argumentation jumps from one to the others according to what benefits the authors: if it happens at two places, they say "see, it proves there is no other sources", if it does not happen in other places, they say "sure, but it's just because the smartphone usage is socially different in these countries".

> Haidt and co have published multiple articles going over the data and the possibilities, so I recommend reading them all before claiming the situation is so murky.

And other experts, with similar credentials than Haidt, have been critical of the work.
My position is that we should not jump to the conclusion: the jury is still out. Your conclusion seems to be "I choose to trust Haidt and to distrust equivalent scientists, just because Haidt's explanation seems more obvious to me".
I had to go to the repo to see the benchmarking setup to get an answer. Looks like 3 Kafka nodes.

https://github.com/Vanlightly/openmessaging-benchmark-custom...
I’ve been getting great results from Notion AI. I like how the LLM is integrated into an already powerful knowledge management tool. It makes it easier to iterate on ideas and learn new concepts.

https://www.notion.so/product/ai
Repeal the patriot act.
I got dickish, which is definitely a word: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/xX5U

Google finds it in many dictionary sites:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dickish
Ding, dong, the witch is dead
Interesting use case of smart contracts that actually can grow a lot if it gets some traction!
You can find it, but you literally have to look at every single label to find it and probably buy it online only. I was in a grocery store not too long ago and every single 'monk fruit' sugar they sold, had it in there. As a filler, it is everywhere.
> No, social media does. I think it's important to be specific about that because a smartphone is just a tool, same as a laptop or a desktop computer is (when I was a kid there was plenty of bullying that went on via AIM!)

This sounds like a “guns don’t kill people, people do” argument. (Edit: I am not rcme, although I saw they posted along the same lines a couple of posts below.) We know that children crave validation and group belonging. They cannot avoid social media in general or anything that looks like one (from Tiktok to multi-player online games) if they have any kind of access to it.

> It's possible to use a smartphone without social media.

It’s possible if you are mature enough to restrain yourself, or if your phone is completely locked down. The average adult does not look mature enough.

> It's possible to set up a child's smartphone in such a way that their access to social media is limited if not totally removed.

Limitation does not change anything. The same issues will show up the second there is anything that can be used to exchange messages. Hell, people used to do it in Pokémon Go with their pokémons’ nicknames.

On top of that, you assume that the average parent is competent enough to do it, and that the average child is incompetent enough to not get the password or work around the lock. Both assumptions seem very flawed to me. Again, the pull is huge. I’ve done much more complicated than avoiding parental controls at that age with a much lower motivation.
Easy.

"No child under 16 years of age shall possess any device with a screen smaller than 7", or any device with a screen under 11" which contains a LTE radio, unless the device's screen is no larger than 3" (edit:) and has a physical numeric keyboard without alphabetic characters."

There you go. Devices smaller than 7" (all smartphones) are banned. 7"-11" devices are permitted if there is no LTE radio (school tablets). Dumb phones almost always have screens 3" or less in size and are permitted, while anything to do with social media would be almost unusable at that size, let alone bashing out letter-by-letter on the solely numeric number pad.

And as for why smartphones specifically, smartphones are much, much harder to control impulsively. The average American checks their phone 96 times per day, and unlocks it over 150 times per day. How many times does the average American have trouble unlocking their laptop constantly per day? Laptop usage is far more deliberate and intentional than smartphone usage.
> unfortunately ...

Is there a better alternative for pixel graphics in the terminal? If yes I'm all ears. The way Sixels encodes pixel data sucks, but currently it seems to be the only way to render pixels in the terminal (and that's implemented in more than one terminal application).
Some people, the kind of people who use the word cringe unironically, live in a world where other people look at them and judge them all the time and they care about what these strangers think and will mole their personality and behaviour to avoid this. They stand as a warning to others not too be like that.
Given the chances if it going through are quite limited, perhaps they're playing the odds and this is a purely political decision. Sending some signal to US/UK/MS that we're not party to.

Plus if it somehow goes through they'll have a big US target to fine if they step out of line. I'm sure they'll like that.
Ironic to focus on Picasso copying (excuse me, “taking inspiration from”) African art in an essay on how human creativity hinges on originality.
great domain. what is pricing?
Special 2 major changes in the top languages to study
The example root cause is not even close to the "root cause", this is just the root cause that auto-dealerships would like to sell you. An additional why yieles something like:

6) Regular maintenance is often more expensive than repairing the car on failure, or buying a new car, and when maintenance predicta that a part is going to fail, the solution is still to replace it
> I use the defaults because I don't use home row

That's funny, I use the defaults because I do use home row. That said, I do use Dvorak, so that may explain why things seems to work better for me than the average other user.
Count me in the group that would use a headset, but never one made by Facebook
Ten Principles for Designing Good AI
Reminds me of: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/FAQ.md#why-doesnt-...
Because it would be unenforceable. What are you going to do? Unlock every child's phone for random inspection to see if they have sideloaded social media apps or not? What if they have a custom launcher that hides the apps?

Much easier and far, far more enforceable to say "under 16 + smartphone = seize and fine."
Living Abroad Helped Me Cope with My Tourette Syndrome
> It's a little disconcerting to hear American words ("fall", not "autumn"), and New York accents from people who've spent their lives in Helsinki.

Why is it disconcerting? Should people adopt a British accent simply because it’s closer geographically even if most English media they consume is American?
Not sure what I expected but I immediately recognized the bottles in the article!

https://weigel-comments.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/3v6Yz-158...
A bit of (simplified) X history and how we got here
An introduction and development guide for open-source LLM — MPT-7B

Edit: See also

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b
“Bottle of water” is one that my French colleague used to make fun of. Ends up something like “boh-ooh a wa-uh”.
Author here. Yes both Kafka and Redpanda were deployed on identical hardware: three i3en.6xlarge.
> Lightphone (absolutely love this product)

What made you pick the Lightphone over a cheap dumb phone. Looking at their product page, the only obvious difference that stood out was the e-ink display.
Locals just call it “Ciren”…
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/cities-pandemic-moving-tren...

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/05/03/why-americans-are-le... (Control-F "On the move from big cities to rural communities" and "On where Americans want to live now")

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture...

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/metr...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Enjoy the city if that's your jam, genuinely! Lots of options for everyone to live their best life.
This is the kind of answer our industry needs more of. Chuck Moore would approve.

Q: "How will it handle scaling to millions of users?"

A: "By crashing. But it will handle 100s or maybe even 1000s, and you currently have 3, so chill."
My teenager has fake icons on her phone that say Snapchat, instagram, etc. they open up the calculator apps.

She doesn’t like being embarrassed that she’s not on social media, so she fakes it to fit in.

Her Grandma didn’t smoke, but all her friends did. So she kept a pack in her purse for years, never touched it. But had to fit in.
As mentioned in another comment, it started with bringing over a bunch of developers from Digital, hence why NT has a lot of VMS influence in its design.

Per the Wikipedia page [1], the similarities became a potential legal liability, which Microsoft managed by continuing to invest in NT on Alpha.

"Although they added the Win32 API, NTFS file system, GUI, and backwards compatibility with DOS, OS/2, and Win16, DEC engineers almost immediately noticed the two operating systems' internal similarities; parts of 'VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures', published by Digital Press, accurately describe Windows NT internals using VMS terms. Instead of a lawsuit, Microsoft agreed to pay DEC $65–100 million, help market VMS, train Digital personnel on Windows NT, and continue Windows NT support for the DEC Alpha."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
> The global economy just tanked and advanced economies were barely recovering. I would see that as enough of a cause for children to feel a bleaker future and be impacted in direct and indeect ways.

The other poster noted data points that refute your claim, mainly because this is a global trend and you've pointed out a mostly US-centric condition.

Another point to consider is that it's simply implausible that 10-12 year olds understand or call all that much about the economy or recovery.

A final point: previous generations went through literal wars with military drafts, and Cold War nuclear bomb drills which are far more direct dangers, and yet we did not see these other issues with mental health. They only arose since the advent of smart phones and social media.

Many other possible causes have been explored, but systematically eliminated because they aren't global, wouldn't preferentially affect genders or age groups, and so on. Other explanations just don't fit all of the data.
> or some "smartphone is a confounding effect of a deeper cause, obviously".

But isn't this equally admitting smartphones are the issue? Like whatever deeper cause you're talking about existed before the smartphone. Like imagine you're a farmer and you grow crops that need a lot of water and climate change causes water to dry up in your area. What you're saying is basically "climate change didn't cause your crops to fail because you weren't growing drought resistant crops. Climate change is just a confounding effect on a deeper issue."

I think what makes the discussion about smartphones unique vs. other social topics is that the adoption of the smartphone and social media was so swift that it's very easy to study mental well-being before the smartphone and after the smartphone without worrying about other changes in lifestyle.
I'm sure they'd love to have good benchmarks, but there aren't any and realistically if Anthropic invented their own no one would trust it.
A Journey into Norway’s Endless Night
You’re forgetting the books specifically about the development of the post office and the railways at least.

Edit: and the police, and the telegraph
The GrammarlyGO LLM makes an already essential writing companion even better. I’m now drafting new content and expanding ideas all in GrammarlyGO. It even checks the grammar and style of the LLM output!

https://www.grammarly.com/grammarlygo
Our model railway runs hourly but it doesn't go to round rock :P
I have yet to see a good article that lists any generation in the title.
I think the EU objections, and proposed remedies, make a lot more sense than the UK "bad exclusively because of cloud gaming" argument. A mandatory ten year period for games to be available cross platform probably solves the immediate problems of this (inevitable) merger. I doubt the UK decision will stand up to further legal procedures, and best case scenario they just split off the cloud gaming division and continue without any grounds for rejection.

I'd much rather see these megacorps get split up, but that's not going to happen any day soon. I suppose the EU approach is the best I can hope for.
Justine Bateman “SAG ACTORS: I want to talk about AI and how it will affect you”
https://archive.ph/nV4Dr
Cool site. It would be nice to be able to search by subject of meeting (such as "Artificial Intelligence act").

Microsoft: https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/microsoft-corporation?rid...

OpenAI: https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/openai-lp?rid=67221974675...

Google: https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/google?rid=03181945560-59
if you call out sick does your company's truancy officer drop by to make sure you aren't running around the canals with your friends?
> Wait Until 8th asks parents to sign a pledge, when their children are in elementary school, that they will wait until 8th grade to give them a smartphone. The pledge only takes effect once ten families in that child’s grade have signed the pledge so that the child will have a community of peers and will not feel so isolated before 8th grade.

> We think this is a great idea, we just suggest that the pledge should be: Wait Until 9th. Or Wait Until High School. Children are usually 12 or 13 at the start of 8th grade; that is still within the period of early puberty.

I'm going to contact the Wait Until 8th people and ask them if they'd consider adding a "I'm willing to wait until <grade> before giving my kids a phone" field. Maybe there are enough people in a given community who would be glad to wait until 12th grade, but just "wait until 8th" doesn't let them discover each other.

> Plus, if 8th graders have smartphones, that means that smartphones will be everywhere in middle schools, increasing the desire of 7th graders to get them.

A while back I was considering a school system for my kids where the grades are split up into a K-5th campus and a 6th-12th campus, but they didn't have any policy about cell phone usage at either campus. I guessed that every 6th grader was going to feel pressure to have a cell phone by Christmas of their first year on the upper campus, and this was my top issue with this school system.

They're now in a school where students have to turn in phones into a phone bucket in the office before the school day starts, and have to pick them up after school. I've seen the bucket in the middle of the day and there's only like 6 phones in there, so (it seems) there's very low rates of phone ownership for kids at the school.
The main benefits of Cedar are:
*Verifiable/Analyzable
*Deterministic Low Latencies
*No Security Sandboxing Needed
*Ergonomic (easily readable)
*Enables parallel execution
More here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1798&v=k6pPcnLuOXY&feature=y...
Soy has a bad PR problem despite no proof in tests.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/
Who are the trained professionals prescribing and dosing out smartphones and social media? Like, I get your analogy, but they are so dissimilar in practice that it just ends up reading naive.
How would they have any kind of interest in making an app without an interest garnered by using the device?

My interest in technology was garnered from getting a device then wanting to do more with it.
I’ve heard this theory before, but have never seen any actual science done. If you have a pointer to any, I would love to see it!
How is this in any way comparable to the project in the OP?
You may find this work interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/
So a metarant about medication?

Hard to take that serious on my side of the fence.

Ritalin allowed me finally to succeed.

I don't think you can really understand to want to learn, prepare everything, eat well, cut out any distractions, doing sport and than sitting in front of a perfect learn env and not being able to start at all.

Sitting there for an hour and than closing the book again.

Vs.

Taking Ritalin and than (still with a paper thin wall) breaking through and actually learning.
Thank you!

Yes, this is why we went through the pain of doing what we're able to do with this hardware.

Even in this initial release it's competitive with Echo, etc even on cost.
Sufficient quantitative change in capability causes a qualitative difference to outcomes.
What constitutes lobby costs?

Also why do some organizations have relatively big lobby costs but no EP passes or meetings with EC? Does that mean that they are less "effective" than their peer lobby organizations?
They say it is monk fruit, but how can you be sure that it is only monk fruit? That's the problem with this packaging.