skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because some people love different drinks? Water is good too but people enjoy drinking different things. I actually don't understand how so many people in this thread are completely blind to this and are like "Why don't you just enjoy the world like I do?"
This article does not address the cognitive aspect of aspartame.

What is the impact of 'faking out' the sugar processing components of our metabolism? Specifically is there anything bad associated with our brains thinking that we're getting sugar and some, perhaps incomplete, chain of reactions taking place to prepare the body for sugar processing, and then the sugar never showing up?

I haven't read any of the literature on it but I imagine that some of those metabolic components stay "flipped on" for longer than they would if they had real sugar exposure, because they never get what they are prepared to receive by our brains upon consumption.

Disclosure: my grandfather died of pancreatic cancer and was a heavy consumer of artificial sweeteners (daily, in tea).
Once you have an intuition, you can use yacc.
> Most people don't want to play moderator and create huge lists of filters in order to not deal with shit.

Sure — but think of Ad block filters. Filter lists eventually get developed (eg Easylist), and if the maintainers ever do something radical, users can easily remove one filter list and substitute another.

It’s much harder for users in communities with moderators to do the same — if I get banned from /r/detroit and I live there, what’s my alternative?
Yep, you'd want to copy the parser per thread.
To be suuuuuuper pedantic here: Relativity tells us that time is a dimension, one that is a bit unique. In that it has a constant attached to it. So, the 3 dimensions you're used to are just normal, they have no constants.

(x,y,z)

Meters of x are meters of z and meters of y. Relativity (and I'm really simplifying a lot by just saying 'relativity'), well relativity comes along as says that time is also a dimension, just with the constant of 'c' attached (the speed of light). That way you can convert seconds into meters.

(x,y,z,ct) not just (x,y,z,t).

So now the time dimension is much larger than the spatial dimensions. About 300,000,000 times larger, a third-ish of a billion. So a meter of x is ~1/3 of a billion meters of time.

Now, there is a lot more about relativity, like, just tons. And I skipped most of it. And trying to just say that time is a simple little conversion away from meters is just wrong. And how that all relates to entropy is a mess that we really haven't figured out yet.
IP addresses are PII under GDPR.
This paper isn't aimed at random developers, and it's not a criticism of mmap in general.

This is an appeal to core database engineers to stop using the wrong tool for the job.
Fair enough - the sentence in question was indeed 'What's Happening?'
Andrzej Sapkowski (polish fantasy author, of "The Witcher" fame), when asked about his advice for young people who want to be professional writers like him said: "get into an honest and, if at all possible, profitable profession". We're not dreamers here in EE like people in US, we're not reach enough to afford it :)
On Linux, it's a SIGBUS.
> Back in the days of USENET one common choice was using a / to delimit /emphasis/ - the usual reading was that this indicated words that would normally be rendered as /italics/.

Fuck no. Same idiocy as turning -- into long em, makes writing any technical posts mighty annoying

Get better screen keyboard. On mine _ doesn't require shift, neither does *
Entropy is an orthogonal to Einstein's laws of physics.

Both newtons and Einstein's description of the universe are time reversable. The physics are valid independent of the direction of time.

Entropy is literally a separate observable phenomenon with it's own set of axioms.
I can think of alcohol, seems like a terrible poison but it's also 'stood there test of time'.
If there's no law to prevent it, "traditional" cars will also soon come with unskippable ads. At least, that's the way how "traditional" TV manufacturers went. And if there is a law against it, Google or VW isn't a meaningful distinction anymore.
This sounds familiar - Weren't you just asking the same question about UX a week ago?

If you are trying to write primers for different topics, yet need to crowdsource what the content should be, and moving on to new topics weekly, my guess is that you are having AI create the content, and then spending a week editing?

I did that experiment on a different topic a few months back to see how feasible it is to write a small book, and the results were really mediocre. I do agree that creating primers on different topics is an interesting use case for AI, and capitalizing on it early before AI can just spit them out on demand may be a good move. But my findings were that unless you are already an expert and could have written the book anyway, it is going to be difficult to deliver a AI-written primer that is more than the sum of the parts.
Can you distinguish between a system that did and a system that didn't have qualia? I think that would be a major breakthrough.
My LinkedIn feed included a few quantum computing leaders seething about him recently and it seems that no one who works in the industry/academia (building stuff) takes him seriously.
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It's worth mentioning that there are embeddings inside the model (e.g. what vector does each token correspond to / nn.Embedding) and the "embedding" of an input, which are used in the same context. They might not even live in the same space (so are not comparable) but the former are learned during training, and the latter are computed during inference.

For example, take a sentence like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". A tokenizer turns that into "[The][<S>][qui][ck][<S>][br][own][<S>]..." which corresponds to a set of indices in a lookup table: "12,0,653,34,0,...". Those are then looked up in the model embedding (creating e.g. 300-dimensional vectors for each token). The model is run over that output, creating a 500-dimensional vector for the sentence (for example, if the model is an nn.Linear(300, 500)).

Why would we want vector databases for this? Suppose the sentence is actually a help text question. The final 500-dimensional vector for the question and the correspond text of the answer could be stored in the database. When a new user asks a new question, you can run the model to create a new 500-dimensional vector, find the nearest answered-question vector, then return the corresponding answer text.

So to answer your questions: (1) Yes, the model embeddings (300 dim above), but not all "embeddings" (500 above). (2) Yes (in both cases). (3) Yes, people usually define a similarity measure (e.g. cosine similarity as mentioned by siblings) and train the model such that if texts X, Y are similar (X ~ Y) as defined by humans, then f(X) ~ f(Y) (where f is the neural network).
UFOs are a distraction. The CIA maintains several psyops in circulation for keeping people distracted and giving them something to talk about. The aura of secrecy around aliens and UFOs is part and parcel of what makes the psyop so effective as a distraction from more pertinent issues like the war in Ukraine, French riots, and global warming.

Another way to say all this is as follows. Is it really possible that an advanced civilization has the technology to travel between stars but at the same time does not have the capability to avoid detection by some primate species with chemical rockets, kinetic weapons, and electromagnetic radars? It is entirely preposterous when expressed this way. Any civilization that can travel between stars would be capable of evading all of our most advanced detection and weapons and they most certainly would not be shot down by some F16s.
Why mad? I see plenty of people in the states with RHD vehicles that mostly seem to be Japanese imports, rarely it’ll be a fancy UK vehicle. (In WA state)

It seems to carry a bit of fashion but not sure if it would translate the same to other places like the UK for example. I personally wouldn’t want a RHD vehicle but more for practicality/parts availability

Edit: not attempting to vouch for Tesla in this case at all, this reacher is ridiculous and a bad move imo
Subject then downs an entire bag of Doritos without complaint
With all due respect, you can't claim half a dozen links are compromised of "invalid data" if you're not going to provide a proper source that states this data is invalid. You are a single commenter on HN, why would anyone read your posts and then invalidate the entirety of modern climate science? You need to give a little more to go off here.
That at least is rarer than paths.
I’m not sure that’s going to be viable. From my understanding there are some unique features of the M1/M2 architecture that aren’t commonplace. The unified memory, certain specifics of the system on chips, and a couple of extra instructions that Apple added to facilitate Rosetta 2 support.

Intel Macs were largely generic PCs with a different firmware and a few custom chips thrown in here and there. Apple Silicon Macs were a big departure from this.
It’s very well documented that US healthcare and insurance costs are the highest per capita in the world.
I find that carbonated water drinks really scratch that itch for me.

Plain carbonated water with ice and maybe a few drops of lemon or lime juice is "interesting" enough for me.
This reads more like "don't write your own DBMS" than "don't use mmap."
Yes, that overlaps largely with what I said.
> Would you use such an extension to filter the pages you're visiting?

No.

> Would you spend a couple of seconds upvoting/downvoting a page after visiting it?

No.

> Would you consider leaving a comment?

No.

It'd easily get abused, and the comments would just be insults, racial slurs and other things because this is the internet.
rare enough to not matter
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IMO more damaging fact is that it doesn't work. The evidence is pretty clear it doesn't actually help you lose weight and in some cases there is actually an increase in weight, obesity, and type-2 diabetes. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28716847/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27129676/)

For me this can be pretty easily observed eating a meal with water vs with diet soda. Especially if it's like a 'bad' meal with fast/fried food. There is definitely something that causes you to crave/eat more.
Given the number of topics that you already have, it't impossible to suggest anything in such an extensive and complex context.
Speaking as an American ex-Diet Coke addict who now mostly drinks water, I've found the off-the-shelf sweet drinks I do occasionally consume — fruit juices and ginger ale, mostly — taste better mixed roughly 4:1 with water, because less sweet.

When offered a drink, aside from the occasional (non-sweet) alcoholic beverage, I typically choose (flavorless) water.
> its widespread adoption

Without specifics about what its you're talking about, I have no idea what you're talking about.

What do you understand as Lisp? Does it include Clojure, Janet or Hy?

Every project has its unique struggles.

The adoption of absolutely everything outside of some half dozen popular things is virtually nonexistent. It has nothing to do with their syntax, because the field is full of wannabes striving for popularity of their project, by means of deliberately imitating the syntax of what is popular. It's not working; they're only ruining their project with garbage ideas for nothing.

Most of what is not popular is non-Lisp. Making a non-Lisp is as good a path to unpopularity as making a Lisp.

Some Lisp-likes are integrated into popular run-times and can use their ecosystems. Robustness of the ecosystem is obviously a non-issue for them. They can be used gradually; like a few files of some project written in another language can be in the Lisp-like. That counts as a valid use.
What proof do you offer everyone else’s problem is lack of acceptance of your argument except for your argument itself that everyone is wrong?
"penultimate" means "next-to-last"; I'm thinking you used the wrong word, or are making an obscure point I don't follow.
Off the top of my head - Germany hosts a disproportionate amount of sensitive data because it's the location of choice for cloud providers storing things for EU member countries. They have lots of fiber, lots of ISPs, plenty of datacenter space, a stable government, and data security laws that meet or exceed everyone else in the EU.
I mean, the author has a doctoral degree in science communication. It's his job and the point of the channel to try to make things easy to understand.

The opposite is true with fiction. You're intentionally trying to have the audience make connections themselves, like a Sherlock story or the Great Gatsby. The point is in the discovery by the viewer.
While C++ is basically the origin of RAII, I think a lot of this is a response to the Rust for Linux project picking up steam. Rust showed that these things were not only possible but viable without unnecessary overhead so the C side has to pick up these niceties.
"why /usr/bin/vi" turns /usr/bin into italic ?"

underlines is not used enough to take the commonly used character ~this is fine~, trailing tilde is rare enough
He pays his mortgages doing attention capture well. He is not fit for anything else.

Once upon a time the western intellectual class was known for their outcomes, not just their thoughts. Now its just overflowing with this kind of performing buffoon class, that spends their whole day not doing any actual work beyond mesmerizing the ppl with word play.
Sure, status does seem to reign. No reason why you can't have both. Many might choose to donate their earnings even.
> The people running the organization, and their actions, are what the goals of the organization actually are.

Obviously. Are you suggesting that one can’t appreciate those? Or that this is some secret? Maybe the communication in the orgs you’ve been with has been poor?
They did
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/science/room-temperature-...

Preprint is on arxiv
Silicon valley is based in a country that balks at universal healthcare FFS.
And I have no faith in the techno priest class that is just as corrupt as the Jesuits of old. They'd sell out their principles for a Lambo as we have seen time and time again.
But stay positive if that's what keeps you sane.
When I dream of swimming, do I have the qualia of wetness at the time, or does that only happen when I wake and remember the dream?

Any neuroscientists here: does anyone know that much about dreams? My memory of philosophy lessons was that philosophy doesn't keep up with the latest in real science…
I think this depends a lot on how sensitive to incentives one is.

Obviously, there are plenty of people who are. But there are also plenty who aren't.

I think at root we have twin problems. The very common ideology that personal financial incentives are the beginning and end of things. And the way people who hold that ideology (and those values) occupy so many positions of power.

But these are not universals throughout space and time. Paradigms change. And they change in part when we decide we want something else in the world.
> A new UCL paper has revealed that the wide-spread belief that the British have poorer teeth than our American cousins is, in fact, a myth.

> The research led by Richard Watt, Professor of Dental Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, found that the mean number of missing teeth a person has is significantly higher in the US.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/eastman/news/2015/dec/us-vs-uk-who-has...
The Euclid team didn’t launch it. The article is about the launch. It mentions the crowds applauding on the ground at the launch, etc.

If you don’t want to hear about spacex don’t read the articles mentioning the launches and wait for the ones about the satellite coming online.
I suppose you can envision UNIX clock with "inertia"/Newton's second law.

But when I count people passing me, I press my clicker each time to count them. Except once in a while I don't do anything, i.e. ignore them.
> The fact is there are ~9 million species of Eukaryotes on Earth. ~5 billion have already gone extinct, long before humans were running around. And life went on just fine without a million prior species of desert beetle, rare plant, and tortoise dying out.

There is a big difference between nature selecting a species for extinction and humans artificially destroying a habitat required for that life.

If you think that human comfort is more important than the turtles and beetles, then be honest about your willingness to exterminate other species. I’m not here to make a statement about the ethics of that one way or the other, but framing the argument here as a natural process is disingenuous.

I think the real question is how do you feel about the intellectually honest framing of your assertion here, which would be something like “I think it is acceptable for us to exterminate other species so that we can continue to live our current lifestyles unimpeded, while potentially making progress towards repairing the existing damage we have done to the climate.”
same difficulty on mine, just switch into alternate character page and both need no shifting or button holding there, no idea what he's on about.
> From my experience, bad evidence works wonders in arguments

It is because people have different goals and are using different metrics. They are just getting confused and thinking they are aligned with the same goals. If you are seeking truthful arguments with debates between good faith and purely rational parties, then weak evidence isn't great, because (like the parent said) it just creates a man made of straw than can easily be torn down. BUT if your goal is to perpetuate arguing and drive up emotions, the tool is fantastic. Because it creates a man of straw which can easily be torn down! Everyone likes burning a big man. I hear they even do it yearly out in the desert.

So people just aren't able to properly communicate because language is fuzzy and filling in gaps. That we're assuming those gaps are filled in the same way, but they aren't. Weak evidence is either very useful or very hurtful, but it depends on your settings and goals.
Yes. Also, one could quite trivially turn the driver’s seat and steering column 180 degrees in the UK model, yielding the benefits you mention, as well as that of facing the direction of travel in reverse gear.
I want to be able to try something without signing up. I'll sign up if it's good.
That can be it for you. But that's demonstrably not true for everybody.
Yes. I summarize books I read and share what I learned.
I have some beef with the methodology for excluding analyses from the lit review. If authors being from “obscure institutions” is a problem, then so too should authors employed by companies that manufacture aspartame or funded by companies that manufacture aspartame. 2 of the 3 reviews that the author considers very high quality have this problem.
The last is no longer true
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/science/room-temperature-...

The preprint is on arxiv but I’m too lazy to find a link
How unfortunate they chose to post to a closed platform.

Twitter users may as well not exist to the rest of the world.
> YMMV

I like a lot of your points, but for me personally, replace "writing" with "drawing" and it's a lot more relevant.

I expect for others it could be "playing an instrument" or "dancing". The point is to express yourself in a way that works for you.

Writing gets an over-large share of influence in our society, IMO. There is something special about writing and language, in how specific it they be, but there are also things special about those other forms of expression I mentioned, unique to them.

I guess I'm just saying that the important thing is "find a way to express yourself." Writing is just one piece of that puzzle.
Hopefully this ends up going somewhere. We've been hearing for decades how there's certain bacteria that nearly removes the requirement to brush your teeth regularly, but it never seems to reach the general public. Exciting times ahead if we can ultimately destroy the need for the dental care industry. In a few decades having to brush your teeth regularly will probably be regarded as an antiquated practice.
He got ill and died too early. I've met him once at a Lisp meeting here in town.
I grew up in Austin, and I used to make fun of it when I was in high school (post-dell, but pre-boom). I would just joke about how, in the summer, people here would move between air-conditioned facility in air-conditioned pods, like the entire place becomes some sort of approximation of reality like disneyland or something.

I left Texas for college, and tried to come back briefly a couple times, but after the city rejected any-and-all attempt to create a non-automotive transit system, and built an express lane on the highway as a solution to traffic, I finally quit for the Bay Area because of the weather and urbanism.

I still think central Texas is a fine place to live if you don't sunburn much and can stand the summers. The springs that flow out of the aquifer are pretty magical, and the land between San Antonio and Austin really makes me nostalgic.
I was literally just thinking about Rich Mironov and how I hadn't read anything by him recently (I admit I hadn't had my eyes out for it). Great to see new and relevant-as-ever content, his tips helped me a lot on the journey of switching from engineering to product management.
> most real world problems are also about subtraction knowing what not to try and why it might not work

This is true in most fields. I view school as giving you a broad overview of everything that you might need in your field, but for any given problem it will be on you to narrow it down to the solutions you actually need and then to learn that specific set of solutions well enough to apply it.

People fresh out of college will usually try to apply everything all at once until they learn—either from a mentor or their own hard experience—to filter it down. It might be that ML has it worse than other fields right now not because it's taught wrong but because it's new enough that there aren't enough mentors with decades of war stories.
Are there any decent ARM64 computers with good mainline kernel support that are easy to purchase for less than $50?

Nearly everything I’ve seen is either unobtainium, only supported by very specific kernel builds, expensive, or some combination thereof.
There are lots of those. I recommend Sonoff if you must go with wifi, but I really recommend Zigbee instead.
> If you want banking apps to work, you're fucked. Even getting some of the mainstream social network and chat apps to work without google play services is a pain.

GrapheneOS seems to do pretty well with this. It is a bit more involved and you have to check the docs but you can generally get banking apps to work just fine.
As much as I'd love this to be true, evidence suggests otherwise. We wouldn't be in a lot of this mess in the first place if this were true. In certain settings (e.g. academic) you're absolutely correct, but in public I don't think you are.
> There is still a significant portion of Android that is perfectly usable in an open fashion

There's not a single phone on earth running AOSP, you can't really compare it to Ubuntu. It's not made for tinkering or user ownership.
I love this article! It is not the first time I hear the bad reputation of aspartame is unfounded.

AFAIK, there was only one study which said aspartame was dangerous: they fed a rat with a HUGE amount of it (like way more than a human could consume, in proportion) and the rat got ill or died I don't remember. That "study" was obviously flawed yet the media kept talking about it everywhere.

At that point, it wouldn't surprise me if the sugar industry is behind this.
Also every single one of those people enjoys Doritos or Cheetos or Cheez-It’s which are all packed full to the brim with MSG.
No, it’s specifically the clients. Definitely predominantly men but it’s not a term for men specifically.