skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have an HN account, because it is a poor use of my time, but I made one to counter your points (which date back decades, and have been already debunked by those more eloquent than I).

1. High-fat diets, as done in your 3rd paper and as done in most "high fat" studies, are incorrectly labeled such. "High-fat diet (HFD, n = 10: 55 % fat/25 % saturated fat/27 % carbohydrate)"[0] is not what the parent meant by "reducing sugar and carbs altogether instead of promoting whole grains as they do." A more honest interpretation would be "max 40g carbs, the rest fats and proteins." This is because the main benefits of such a diet only come out when carbohydrates are severely restricted -- as has been known for a while now.

2. Linking papers, without any sort of commentary or notion as to the reason for their inclusion, is in poor taste. In most cases this is done when the poster themselves haven't thoroughly read the articles in question. I won't go so far as to say this has been done today, but I will say it is a disrespect of our time to post lengthy papers without any sort of reasoning behind why they've been posted.

3. The first two links (technically one paper)[1][2] are statistical analyses of different food groups and their association with type 2 diabetes. The same error is done here as has been mentioned in my first point: without controlling for the whole diet, and using a very low carb, high fat/protein diet, the findings are irrelevant. Risk ratios are a notable finding, not a be-all end-all. Correlation is not causation. Continue platitudes ad infinitum and ad nauseam.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291812/
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506108/
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.31198
this is the same concept as the bitter lesson, am I correct? I don't see a substantial difference yet.
Are ChatGPT and GPT-4 Good Poker Players? Yes but Not Game Theory Optimal
The thing is, there's already a set of concepts that unpack this issue: it's called intersectionality. Intersectionality is the idea that we have overlapping sets of privilege. For example, while I might be a straight, heteronormative man, I'm also a dark-skinned POC who grew up poor. So while I benefit from not being singled out, harassed, or hurt for my choice of gender expression or who I date (somewhat, people often disapprove of interracial dating with darker folks, and it's come up a lot in my life) I can get treated badly due to how I look and the stereotypes around what people like me do. We all benefit from and are hurt by a combination of our privileges and the negative stereotypes surrounding us, and it helps define our experiences.

Intersectionality is complicated, but ingroups and outgroups are a lot more fun. Humans tend to be wired into finding tribes and a lot of people use social media to find their tribe and, regrettably, find outgroups to isolate from and criticize. An interesting manifestation of this is watching white LGBT spaces debate Islam. There's generally an obvious outgroup effect in those discussions and it definitely adds a temperature to the discussion that I think wouldn't be present if Islamic POCs were considered more part of those ingroups.
It seems like there is a project on github called simple-rsc that works without Next.
The dependency array is a huge footgun. Engineers, experienced and newbie alike, get it wrong all the time (either causing infinite render loops, or skipping necessary re-renders). This affects useCallback and useMemo as well. After a while, I stopped thinking "oh the developers just aren't doing it right" and more "the React team can do better than this."

> What API would you prefer? Something more like signals?

Yes. Or full tree redraws like Mithril.js did 8 years ago.
This is a standard dark pattern user manipulation technique. It's a continuation of the trend where techbro-run companies make it LOOK like creating an account will be easy and take seconds. But every time you step forward, there is one more hoop to jump through.

It's a very common manipulation technique where if you are a baddy, you ask someone to do a small thing that is not something they would normally do. And then keep asking them to do incrementally larger and riskier things, eventually backed by some kind of threat.

Unfortunately this one is darker because it's even more actively evil. They are claiming to suspend your account, causing you to believe you are "in trouble", a very real fear for most people, while actually doing nothing of the sort. They just want your phone number and are literally bullying you for it. They could just say, "hey, we'll need your phone number if you want to create an account with us," but they would lose some percentage of sign-ups by being honest. Which is pretty much all you need to know about that business!

The world would be a lot better place if we taught our children (and people in general) about how all kinds of manipulation techniques can be used against them.
Fair. I’ve had a really good experience with the voice controls since I read a “cheat sheet” someone posted with common control commands.
To look for life like urchins? Or urchins specifically to eat?

Full Disclosure: I am not an expert on inter-tidal foraging. Here are my thoughts, but I do not know if they are correct. I have eaten purple urchins out of the Mission Bay channel, but I don't recommend it because they're just so small and, frankly, just not worth the effort. But I don't have any health concerns. I'm very reluctant to eat any bi-valve shellfish that I harvest myself for concerns over Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP). I'm sure it can be done safely, but I am not knowledgeable enough to have self-confidence. I don't like the idea of eating filter-feeders (i.e. oysters) out of Mission Bay because of what they might be accumulating. Eating a scallop out of Mission Bay seems okay because the only part you eat is the muscle, not the whole digestive tract - but I still have the PSP concerns. If I find a legal lobster when the season opens, I'll eat that our of Mission Bay.

Just looking for life itself, just to see and photograph - my two go-to spots are Mission Point Park and La Jolla Shores between the Marine Room and the cove. Mission Point is nice -- the protected cove feels safe, but the channel side is pretty exciting too. My wife and I are beginning to branch out to other parts of the bay. If you'd like to chat more, DM me on iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/people/dolfindave
Imo LLMs are absolutely the CYC dream come true. Common sense rules are learned from the data instead of hand written.
If we’re lucky the next one will be ‘No calories. Ever.’
The only times Discord has asked for my phone number (and I have many alts) is when a server specifically says that only people who have added a phone number to their account can join. This is off by default.
That's if they are not ambitious. Might also be trying to become the new Google, or at least put the O in MANFANGO.
Is it practical to keep logs detailed enough that would capture exfiltration like this from the corporate network?
> The left is viciously classist

???

Isn't this a caricature too? In what way are socialist beliefs, which generally push for more unions and worker power, "viciously classist"? "Eat the rich" is a "blue" meme, not a "red" one.
My favourite licensing models for self-hosted software are perpetual fallback licenses. Jetbrains does this well and their description of it is:

A perpetual fallback license is a license that allows you to use a specific version of software without an active subscription for it. The license also includes all bugfix updates, more specifically in X.Y.Z version all Z releases are included.
EA is effective altruism. A group that spends their $ and effort trying to do the most good in the world, and is adjacent/overlaps with many of the author's group, rationalists. They are pro-technology, but existentially concerned about AGI.

e/acc is effective accelerationism. A more recent "spin" on EA, more loosely associated moniker, for people who are extremely pro technology, more tech = always good, and wish to herald in AGI asap. Their "founder", is on record saying that it's ok if AGI reigns supreme and humans die, as it would be our progeny.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1683462000360280065...
A suggestion that came from a member on here :)
Recent and related:

Threads.net Can Go to Hell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254294 - Aug 2023 (60 comments)
The key belongs to Microsoft. Microsoft is the one signing the auth tokens, not the end users.

I'm saying that Microsoft should have a separate private key to sign government auth tokens with.
It's very easy to protect kids online - simply don't allow them online. Banning children from the internet violates fewer people's rights(the number of children) than violating everyone's right to privacy(the total population: adults + children).

The podcast makes a unsubstantiated and unexamined assumption: kids must be online. A cursory glance reveals that they in fact do not.
You can basically just make the numbers bigger. Quantum computers aren't magic, and are still limited in what and how they can process within normal informational theories.
But then they should be found all over - thrown weapons were lost all the time.

Witness arrowheads - every plowed field in the American midwest has arrowheads. Because they were used for thousands of years, and lost for thousands of years.
Just need a longer string for the balloon and it'll be ok. And hike in places with less trees (although, after a few mishaps, the trails you frequent will have less trees, too).
Not surprising considering a monkey throwing darts at the S&P 500 will outperform the best analysts in the world.
In my country phone numbers are public information so not really giving up much.
I had a very efficient, fun, and great at squeezing into city parking spots stickshift Honda del Sol as a second car for about 20 years. Alas, as it got old and I stopped commuting, it was silly to pay for keeping a second car around for the <2,000 miles per year I was putting on it. But Fits are cute little cars. An EV version of something like that would make me as least think of using something like that for most of my local driving.
Then how do you explain zero-shot performance?
FUSE does not work well with a large number of small files (due to high metadata ops such as inode/dentry lookups).

ExtFUSE (optimized FUSE with eBPF) [1] can offer you much higher performance. It caches metadata in the kernel to avoid lookups in user space. Disclaimer: I built it.

1. https://github.com/extfuse/extfuse
Sure, they could. Doesn't mean they should, or do.
He has a house in Vermont, a one-bedroom apartment in DC, and a lakefront cabin. For an upper middle class octogenarian, that's completely unremarkable. Most American software engineers could easily do the same by middle age.
That's interesting. While perhaps not "standard", I'd definitely say it is very common among educated US speakers. Not to blame Bruce Springsteen -- who for all I know might have been trying to depict via grammatical error a certain sort of person in his song -- but for me it always brings to mind the song Bobby Jean. But now I see that apparently that is "wished" not "wish" so it's extra confusing :)

Me and you, we've known each other
Yeah, ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known
I wished I could have called you
Just to say "Goodbye, Bobby Jean"
Digging a hole and filling it back up again. Work for the sake of having something to do.
> "i can tolerate anyone except those who attack my in group"

Yeah, this essay is misleading about why Eich was so disliked. Eich wasn't just homophobic, he actually worked to help eliminate rights for gay people in the state of California by donating money to the corresponding political campaign.
"low in milk" (as a risk factor)
strikes me as an extraordinary claim
It's a real world problem, but one constrained by toy objects.
> If you open a security bug bounty program, for example, you’ll mostly get either auto-generated garbage like this, or just super generic non-issues like exposing numeric ids to clients, using anything less than the strictest CSP headers, etc.

No need for a bug-bounty program. I receive regular emails to any public address on our website, warning of clickjacking and capture of passwords (there’s no passwords nor sensitive data on our website), not using the strictest of all SPF/DMARC, …, all from “honest security researchers” and “expecting a bounty no less than 150USD”.
I think they mean gpt3.5 ChatGPT
HN is a funny place.

A useful feature that an insane majority of React devs have come to prefer is "downhill."

Kids these days.
i highlighted this last night which seems to be making the rounds - https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1699369076529971545

Alec's CV (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecradford/) seems to be:

- 2011-2016 BSc Eng from Olin College

- 2013+ started a data/AI consultancy as a sophomore that turned into a vague startup/product?

- 2015 first paper on GANs coauthored with soumith https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf%C3

- 2016 first GAN paper under openai email https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2016/file/8...

- 2017 the generative reviews paper mentioend in the Wired article, with Ilya https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf

- 2017 coauthor on PPO paper (precursor to instructgpt/rlhf) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06347.pdf).

- 2018 lead author on GPT1 https://www.mikecaptain.com/resources/pdf/GPT-1.pdf

- 2019 lead author on GPT2 https://insightcivic.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/language-mod... blog https://openai.com/research/better-language-models

- 2019 coauthor on RLHF https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08593.pdf)

- 2020 coauthor on gpt3 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

- 2020 coauthor on scaling laws https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361.pdf%E4%B8%AD%E5%BE%97%E5%88...

- 2021 coauthor on DallE http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ramesh21a/ramesh21a.pdf

- 2021 coauthor on Codex https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf?trk=public_post_comment...

- 2023 lead author on Whisper https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/radford23a/radford23a.pdf

name a more successful 7 year CS career post undergrad...

Update: FYI openai just announced a "developer day" in Nov - somehow not blessed by the HN gods https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408234
Now, let’s apply the Gell-Mann amnesia analysis to this insight:

If this is true on trading forums, what other forums is it true on?

Is it true on technology forums? Are 98% of participants in tech forums making bad engineering decisions? Are they upvoting things that confirm their beliefs?
The standard red herring of form over function - focus on these scary metal things rather than thinking too hard about what's directing them. In reality non-metal extrahuman intelligences have been killing humans far longer with their various paperclip maximizing orphan crushing machines.
While I'd love to attribute this to data harvesting and don't love Meta as a company, as someone who has tried to scrape Instagram in the past (to get recent images users have posted for specific restaurants), I believe this is a reasonable measure to increase the cost of new spam accounts.

The cost of an email is virtually 0. The cost of a unique phone number that can receive text-messages is non-zero. This was a pain in the butt for me, as you often have to get a real phone number (they reject VoIP ones) and that takes more work to get working.

Bots and scraping is a huge issue for Instagram. Instagram really dislikes the fact that you can buy a lot of likes for very cheap, so I kinda understand why they do this.
We should downgrade our expectations of the usefulness of this debate since the champion for the intellectual debate couldn't be talked out of the evil he was perpetrating. Slavery was unpalatable to a lot of people Jefferson knew, like James Hemings.
The only reason why I don't have an Oculus is because meta built it. It actually required you to sign in to your facebook account in the past. They don't any more, but Zuckerberg could change his mind about that at any time.
To expand on the angles of a polygon idea. It looks like each of these tracks has about a 30 degree bend. So you should have 360/30 = 12 more right-handed than left-handed tracks, or vice versa. It takes some counting, but you could probably get pretty quick at going around the track and adding or subtracting 1. If you end at 12, perfect. Your distance from 12 is an estimator for tension.
I wanted to reply to your comment, but see you've since edited it. Congrats, that was a good edit!
Yeah those are excellent examples of brain games!
It's probably coming for us all. The increasingly saturated smartphone market will not provide the sales that manufacturers need to maintain the current economies of scale. That is, unless they perfect the art of phones engineered for a very particular lifetime.
Can I get a ChatGPT plugin that will search the list for me?
Jesus, can we find a phrase like "tech giants", rather than changing the acronym according to the stock market?
Then make the statement. You're implying it and then expecting us to do the work for you.
Eich was attacking the ingroup though. He worked to remove rights from gay people in the state of California.
I'm not aware of any consumer phone that would follow a pure red/black architecture.

There are a bunch that are CNSSP-11 compliant, though: https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Commercial-Solutions-for-Class...
Roku Slashes 10% of Workforce
React does full tree redraws (well, unless you use memo).

useEffect is for side-effects.
You'll have to convince the clipboard warriors who write/perform industry- and government-mandated "security audits" of that first. Good luck...
According to the DOT over 70% of US roads are in areas that receive snowfall. (https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/weather_events/snow_ice.htm)

The inability to operate in conditions where people are most likely to not be able to use active transportation seems like a pretty major flaw.
The server owner decides this and if you have a somewhat big server you want it enabled. I guess you could blame Discord for not having better spam prevention and toxicity filters but it's not an easy problem and I presume they catch a lot we don't see.
I have never heard "eat the rich" or any of the associated rhetoric from anybody lower class. It's classic struggling upper class making 100k in a super HCOL and living paycheck to paycheck with student loans. Core blue demographic. There's a reason why Democrats want to bail out student loans borrowers, but not actual poor people in debt.
Alternate take: describing how the unions held the local authority to account after illegally underpaying women for a long time, which the supreme court had already ruled they had to pay...
Would you mind explaining what TFA means, as I've seen that acronym quite a bit here? "The f-g article"?
To be clear, I agree with you (and drive a car from the 80s when I need to drive) - but am also in favour of legislation absolutely banning this kind of collection for when I ever do need a new vehicle. If you want your hobby to remain affordable it's probably a good idea to push for new cars to be at least as good as old ones!
The issue was caused by a race condition in extremely complicated software. Good luck setting up a gatekeeping organization that can track that level of detail (and understand every dimension of a possible fault like this).
The best example of we want to destroy the west vibes is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBDuJBuKpQ
Yeah, because it's already a business but non-competitive like in the States. Pharmacies can still sell me medications without an Rx - it's not allowed, but they still do it, because why do I need to schedule a doctor's visit get a medication thats for life (like my wife's Levothyroxine).
> The team of scientists examined 150 limestone spheroids dating from 1.4m years ago that were found at the ’Ubeidiya archaeological site in the north of modern-day Israel.

I mean David/Goliath wasn't totally made up for fun, slings were a key weapon in early warfare. They work.
Tesla Model S Plaid with Track Package flat out on the Autobahn (200mph)
The young will leave for better pastures when they can, and when they can't, they'll just stop having kids and the locale will die out. Sad watching the old and wealthy choke the future to death, but that's humanity for you.
Long time Far Manager and midnight commander/mc user. Just being at the terminal is good enough for me.
They sure are. They are selling budget, cobbled-together hardware that "supports FOSS", when in reality you are the one providing that support.
I agree. Clarity of speech is representative of clarity of mind, "complicated" ideas are often half baked and use the supposed complexity to hide the flaws in the argument.
Many folks were criticizing hooks when they were introduced.

Of course React devs will "prefer" it; they are the idiomatic way to adding state/triggering effects in React.
It is always Chicago, because of right-wing echo chamber. One would think an honest economic study would try to control a bit for being mere miles from Indiana. And yet it is always Chicago.
> The air crackles with an almost Beatlemaniac energy as the star and his entourage tumble into a waiting Mercedes van. They’ve just ducked out of one event and are headed to another, then another, where a frenzied mob awaits. As they careen through the streets of London—the short hop from Holborn to Bloomsbury—it’s as if they’re surfing one of civilization’s before-and-after moments. The history-making force personified inside this car has captured the attention of the world. Everyone wants a piece of it, from the students who’ve waited in line to the prime minister.

A lot of words for saying absolutely nothing regarding the topic. And the article goes on like this. Thanks for nothing.
Lol I did always wonder how Netflix qualified for FAANG but little ol' Microsoft didn't.
It's also a GDPR requirement to minimize the collection of personal data and to purge it as soon as it is no longer needed.
Took me a while to figure out, thanks. "Turbo 8" is a useless search term.
I agree on the intractability of the problem. But could it have gone
differently?

I'd like to think so.

How could it have gone differently?

Sincerity and honesty from the get-go. Using science and mathematics?

It is the deceit and self-deceit, the avoidance of difficult questions
that has marred this bill from the start.

Ambitious social aims need backing up with outstanding technical
competence, in computing, law, social sciences....

That didn't happen. Ignoring the advice of experts has been business
as usual for our government, at least since Covid.
We simply don't know the specific terms of the license because it's never been made public.
If they were honest, more people would opt out of the deal. The waste your time signing up for an account so that there's a loss incurred by abandoning it. Then accusation is a lie that probably helps shame some percentage of people into complying or makes them afraid they've accidentally committed a crime or maybe their new account has been hacked and will be used nefariously if they don't comply.

Meta even uses this to extort driver's license scans out of long existing accounts. Twitter and Microsoft both use this altered the deal scam to get phone numbers as well for new accounts. Meta and Twitter have both been fined for using 2FA numbers for tracking in the past. They want that PII and they don't have a problem with outright lying and misusing data to get at it.
Sort of.

"Under the Chatham House Rule, anyone who comes to a meeting is free to use information from the discussion, but is not allowed to reveal who made any particular comment. It is designed to increase openness of discussion."

Which I'd say is a bit different from absolute confidentiality.
The problem is with linking the account/activity with your identity.

HN can only use less reliable identifiers (eg GeoIP) to link my account to other data. A phone number (potentially) connects me to more data about me.