skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The increased carcinoma in the experimental group was an anomaly. It was pretty much all accounted for by non-adherers, which cuts against the notion that PUFA increased the risk. There were no significant differences in the higher adherence strata.

> Many of the cancer deaths in the experimental group were among those who did not adhere closely to the diet. This reduces the possibility that the feeding of polyunsaturated oils was responsible for the excess carcinoma mortality observed in the experi- mental group. However, there were significantly more low adherers in the entire experimental group than in the controls (table vI). In both groups, the numbers of cancer deaths among the various adherence strata are compatible with random distribution (table V). A high incidence among high adherers would be expected if some constituent of the experi-mental diet were contributing to cancer fatality.
well, ideally both partners submit to each other. that is, it is my responsibility to help realize the wishes or goals of my wife, but it is just as much my wifes responsibility to help realize my wishes or goals.

why is that better than everyone just realizing their own wishes and goals? because this way a space for cooperation is created because we'll both end up working on and supporting each others goals or wishes, and also each of us are able to notice if there is a conflict between each of our goals and wishes, and then we can work them out.
Trying to strike a balance between raw enumerations of all valid states and practicality:

Rooks and Knights are identical, so their positions fall into [64 choose 2] states + 1 state for when both are captured (only one can occupy the King's location) + 3 states for when both are in the starting position and castling is available for one or the other or both

2020 states = 11 bits * 2 colors * 2 piece types = 44 bits

Bishops only occupy half the board (32 states) + 1 state to track captures

33 states ^ (4 unique pieces) = 21 bits

Queens and Kings just store their location

64 states = 6 bits * 4 pieces = 24 bits

Pawn promotions uses the same method as the article

9 bits x 2 colors = 18 bits

En passant can be stored by the column + 1 state for none

9 states = 4 bits

Pawns can be in, uh, [64 choose 8] position states. (It's only 4 billionish)

[64 choose 8] states = 32 bits * 2 colors = 64 bits

And captured pawns can be 'unpromoted' and placed on an empty spot in the top row since unpromoted pawns will never be there.

And 1 bit for whose turn it is

1 bit

Total = 176 bits or 22 bytes

Started out thinking about ways to use more of the duplicate pieces, rediscovered the idea of ranking and unranking, started to understand what the person with a limit of 19.2 bytes was doing, tried out just treating position state as [64 choose 32] and only got to 194 bits, then finally worked through this approach.
The first programming language I learnt to program in was Logo, namely IBM/LCSI PC Logo. It too did not have any command to draw curves or circles. However, we were taught to draw a "circle" using code like this:

REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1]

But alas, circles did not exist! It is easy to realise that the above code does not attempt to draw a circle. These instructions specify a triacosiahexeacontagon instead.

Screenshot: https://susam.net/blog/fd-100.html#circles
The AI explosion might never happen
How about 86box?
If 99.999% of humans die, the remaining 0.001% probably will be killed by unmaintained infrastructure failing. Imagine every nuclear reactor melting down, dams failing one after another and flooding large areas, dangerous chemicals leaking from unmaintained tanks, et cetera. We avoid a lot of disasters daily because people are actively maintaining things.
This is why AMP HTML was forced by Google - to make websites faster and more lightweight.

One solution is to use uBlock Origin, disable JS on most websites and whitelist it only for those which really need it.

Another is to use a textual web browser in the cloud, such as Carbonyl Terminal: https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal
Thank-you! Now I need to find a Windows machine to play it on. :)
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Are you saying that these exchanges are trading at prices to a precision of 10 ^ -10 dollars (or other currency)? I saw private exchanges pricing to hundredths of a cent (a long time ago - it's been a decade and half since I worked on Wall Street or in the City) or yen, but never any finer than that. Even then, all transactions were recorded in whole cents.

I'm sure you've done your homework, and I'm long out of the finance business, but even so, I think the applications where this matters are, as financial applications go, very unusual.
The Sentinel Island tribe ofc.

I've watched plenty too many movies about it.
Who is actually at risk of falling victim to Oracle's infamous licensing shakedowns, though? And how bad are they actually?
On purpose. Maximizes their control to censor what they don't like to craft a wider narrative.
Agreed, but devastating consequences are my interest
Or just having overly-large screens. Or just going back to the video after reading the comment :p

IcarOS seems like a fun thing to play with. Don't go too deep in the obscure OS rabbithole, it's indefinitely deep.
MariaDB is out of cash and losing $12 million per quarter.

Would you also throw in your savings next quarter to pay for the new losses? And the next quarter? And after that?

Paying $30M today isn’t enough when the business is making heavy losses and nearly out of money. You need to have a plan to either raise a lot more money very soon, cut costs, or probably both. Employees aren’t well positioned to do either.
I encounter situations where I used to rely on Stack Overflow, which carries a similar (if not higher) likelihood of being incorrect, often due to outdated information.

For instance, I was recently inquiring about a specific task with CMake and consulted ChatGPT. Initially, the response was inaccurate, but it was obviously so when it didn’t compile. Upon reprompting, I received the correct answer.
A recent study shows that ocean microplatics were overestimated. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-plastic-litter-oceans-overesti... Most of the platic is in larger pieces. So it seems probable that focus was misplaced, yeah.
> Crossing six of the nine boundaries isn’t a guarantee of disaster

Then are they really boundaries? How were those boundaries chosen? Sounds like they were chosen to be sensationalist rather than facts.

For example, the by far biggest problem in their graph is "Genetic - Bisophere Integrity". But that doesn't seem to be a major risk today, but looking at how out of bounds that value is you'd think that we are at the brink of extinction.
I think "endorse" is far too strong of a word. No, YT isn't "endorsing" Chris Brown.

But it certainly raises the question of YT being arbitrarily punitive. Rather than endorsing, it ignores certain allegations while demonetizing others.
Brand could argue he was discriminated as a man, in the sense that he was assumed as guilty of rape because he's a man.
They bought Reddit. YouTube was bleeding Google's profits for a long time at least (is it still? I don't actually know). It's not exactly absurd, just extremely unlikely.
I have a ThinkPad Chromebook and it is very solid and durable, even though it was a bargain.
If they are doing any of the above, it would be a 180 degree change from the Russel Brand that I blocked from my feeds a few years ago.
It was included, I think the wording was changed to include something like "when technically feasible" or similar
For an AI to be capable of doing 99.9% of human jobs, it's going to need to be as capable of critical thinking and decision making and dexterity as a human. Why do you think such a being would be willing to work for free (or at least for much cheaper than a human)? You're making the pretty big assumption that it's possible to make an AI that's equal to a human in every way but completely subservient, why are you so sure that's possible?
Oh, I completely agree! "Observable" is pushing the limits of the word past absurdity. 1200dpi would put the resolution of the system at just twice the wavelength of their laser. I feel like that's about the limit of what's possible due to physics [citation needed]. I'm fairly confident their actual performance is less.
This is like saying that if you don't like the planet Earth, find yourself a planet suitable to terraform, go there terraform it, populate it the way you like and live there.

Sure, you can do that but you can also solve the problem at hand. Ownership, money, property etc. are all constructs based on a social contract, Sundar Pichai by himself can't have control on more than a suitcase and a vehicle maybe - he can control Alphabet only because as a society we decided to operate in a certain way and sounds he makes and finger movements he does end up steering giant network of people who interact with other networks of people who happen to have control over some machinery. This means, if the social contract isn't working out we can change that social contract to suits our needs better. One change can be about how computers that transmit videos over TCP/IP should operate.
Extreme SIMD: Optimized Collision Detection in Titanfall [video]
This is an amazing talk from three years ago that deserves more attention. The use of divide by zero alone is mind blowing (for most people).

"Come discover how the 'Titanfall' team made already optimized continuous collision detection code more than twice as fast! This talk will go deep into the CPU and geometric optimizations that made this possible. Topics include AABB tree construction, rapid cache-friendly traversal of a bounding-volume hierarchy, and swept capsule vs triangle mesh collision. This presentation will show how to perform these operations efficiently on modern x64 CPUs' SIMD pipelines, including bit manipulation and register packing for branchless programming."
What's the state of microfluidic cooling? Heat has become more and more of an issue and the AMD CPUs CCDs that have 3D V-Cache have serious trouble keeping cool.
I’ve not run “python3” in years on my Mac, and I’m almost certain I never type it into Linux machines either; either I’m losing my mind, or there are some ludicrous takes in this thread.
Oh yeah, for sure. I've developed some VR demos in Godot and it seemed quite capable.
But, I was never calling this many raycasts from the CPU side of things. Never had an excuse to do so.
I'm just saying this because I really think Godot is able to produce good 3D experiences as of now. I appreciate the criticism, and of course would like it to get better.
But, I don't know, something tells me the dev could take another approach in the meantime. It seems the post started some ongoing conversations with the devs to solve this issue, so that's nice.
Still magnitudes less efficient than just building gravity batteries.
When people today talk about Elon Musk's political views they mean his sudden right-wing radicalization in 2022 that happened exactly when he was tipped off about sexual harassment allegations coming his way.
I got info from February 12, 2022:

ChatGPT:
I apologize for the oversight. Yes, I do have information up until January 2022, which would include events that occurred in December 2021. Here are some notable sports events and their outcomes from that time frame:

FIFA Club World Cup: Chelsea won the tournament by defeating Palmeiras 2-1 in extra time on February 12, 2022.

https://theathletic.com/4182369/2022/02/12/chelsea-win-first...

https://chat.openai.com/share/8e63ebff-f3f0-4d95-a103-acdd43...
There has never been a situation in history where 99% of people live off a much smaller 1% of slaves. That's insane.
Yes. Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37575318, which has that original source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We thought we were going to escape a CCP style social credit score in the US, but big tech has an exploitable loophole in the administrative layer.
This is great -- all the way up to the point where you have to hold and drag. The usability on a laptop goes out the window as you realize you can't accelerate past the edge of your touchpad. Getting to the top item in the menu -- maybe even the most important item -- is extremely hard. You rapidly become limited to the number of items you can have in this menu.

Tap-or-swipe-to-open, and tap-or-swipe-to-close have rapidly engrained themselves as the easiest to understand for users. I'd love to see this demo with that in mind.
It's time to end the YouTube monopoly, too much of this nonsense we have seen in the last few years, it's nothing but virtue signalling and pandering to one side without ascertaining facts.
Invasive species, need to introduce a natural predator into the ecosystem.

Rats-Snakes

Rats/Snakes-Mongoose

Birds-House Cats

Human-?
...
>What can they do?

There's literally thousands of different things they could do.

But why do anything when the real business of academia is in the tax-free hedge funds they operate and the government-subsidized international student gravy train? There's no short-term incentive to change anything.
> in the case of the GM stock particularly, are shareholders/investors reaping profits and benefit? go look up the GM stock, it's flat/down over 5 years

You failed to take into account that GM issues real stock (unlike most tech companies) and thus pays dividends. If you take dividend payouts into account, the value of an investment in GM has been indisputably positive (though probably not more positive than inflation).
This seems weird to given the number of breakages and standard library changes I seem to run into every version.
I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook for ~$20 and it still runs very well under Linux.
Celebrating 50 years of TCP / IP with Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn [video] [live]
They’ve calculated that this is the right business decision.

There is never anything more than that with corporations.
Long before that in 1054, was the East - West Schism that split the Catholic and Orthodox churches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism
Florida is now adding more solar power than any other state
I think the algorithm simply suffers the same problem as googles search algorithm: it was gamed years ago. I usually have to block a dozen or so of crazy or low effort content farms for every type of content I watch on youtube and after that the recommendations seem mostly acceptable.
I still keep an old 4-port hub in my junk-box because that way I can diagnose/snoop on network traffic... Although so much of it is encrypted these days that it's harder to see what's going on.

P.S.: Yes, modern alternatives would be to to buy a switch and that can be configured to "mirror" packets onto a chosen port, or a smalls Ethernet network tap unit... But why buy more stuff if I don't really need to?
Most people: no. Some people: yes.

If Tiger Woods was the only way Nike could think of advertising then they likely would've considered him worth keeping, but when they have so many alternative good options for sponsorships it tips the balance in favour of not sponsoring somebody that even 0.1% of your customers might think badly of you for.
Then why dispute YouTube is profiting from videos they themselves classify as harmful?
It’s not that I don’t believe that his car couldn’t detect an oncoming car- my four year old Honda does that easily on a regular basis. I simply don’t believe that videos like this aren’t staged anymore to push a particular story by people who are Tesla enthusiasts/cultists.

There have just been one too many questionable videos trying to promote FSD as far better than I know it is on Twitter. Apart from the desire to promote Tesla it has the added benefit of getting instant engagement because it presents a potentially dangerous situation on video.
> there wasn’t a bunch of stuff there already that violated policies

Are you suggesting that it could be that his existing videos were in violation of community guidelines? Is there any evidence for this? I've watched some of his videos, and this seems like a rather silly accusation.
Living in a society with a V-shaped population pyramid seems... depressing.
I don’t like installing things on the local machine like that as it doesn’t have parity with production and harder to manage. Containerization solves real problems in my world.
> Neither is helpful. We're going to need lots of tires for a long time. Trains don't (and can't) go everywhere. Bikes can't carry everything, and any imaginable bike that could would have the exact same problem. Trucks of all kinds, and buses, are indispensable and need tires. The question is how to make the tires better. Fortunately-people are working on this.

As with many things, scale matters.

You are correct in saying that bikes can't carry everything, but a significant portion of vehicle trips are private car owners driving alone (whether for shopping, commuting, etc) and over shorter distances bikes can serve a very similar purpose. Likewise, while nobody is seriously suggesting replacing (say) long-haul trucking with bikes, mail carriers have made good use of cargo bikes for last-mile delivery within cities.

You are correct in saying that trains don't go everywhere, but they can go more places than they do now. (And in the US, they used to!)

The discussion shouldn't be a binary choice between "eliminate cars and trucks" and "do nothing" - there's room in between those two for reducing our reliance on motor vehicles. To the extent that the problem of tire dust (among other things) scales with the number of vehicles on the road, reducing the number of vehicles on the road will help to mitigate it.

And yes, we do also need to pressure tire manufacturers to develop less harmful tires. But I don't think the other concerns are as orthogonal to the issue at hand as you say they are.
If a post is unambiguously "advocating for violent criminal conduct" that's one thing, but I don't think your interpretation is something most people would call obvious. In fact, one could argue that it's another way in which you broke the site guidelines, which include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not actually in your interest to argue aggressively or abusively, because it undermines the point you're trying to make. I know it's frustrating when people don't get the truth of your points and/or repeat false claims, but the proper way to deal with that is to make better arguments and/or communicate more clearly, not to fulminate against the community or throw your weight around.

For example, it sounds like you have a great point in your GP comment: the parts are known to be stolen because the lockout was sent. But this information gets eclipsed by the putdowns, snark, etc., which made up the majority of your post.
How to Create a Psychometric Test
Google is not a monopoly. Youtube is not a monopoly. Google ads is not a monopoly.
There will always be people who make those choices, but the majority of players don't shop on engine.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/tax-cuts-budget-deficits-republ...

I'm fine with spending cuts. But let's start with the oversized military, the fossil fuel subsidies, the industrial tax bribes.

Instead of, you know, cutting food stamps and social services.
Yes, you want the gnu units. It's in homebrew as gnu-units (and you run it as gunits)
This excellent tale has appeared many times on HN; here's dang, in 2021, listing some of the past threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29213472
I'll make one point, which is that if you are a violent asshole who punches anyone in the face that looks at you wrong, you still can't actually harm anyone through Youtube except by trying to convince someone to come get their ass kicked by you.

Russel Brand is accused of grooming a 16 year old girl while he was 31, if true, that means there is the very real possibility that Brand could be using the YT platform as a means for finding other victims.
i would say most marriages (in western cultures at least) are based on the expectation of an equal relationship. however many still have not learned what actually is an equal relationship. (it's not splitting home chores 50/50).

for me an equal relation ship means that each of our wishes, goals and needs are of equal importance. it can mean that both partners work and split housework equally, but it also can mean something different.
Oh, get a grip. If parenting was really critical for their development, then it would be on my infant's YouTube playlist.
If you know how to code it's very easy to learn, it doesn't matter if you come from C#, C++, JavaScript, Python or something else.

There's almost no nasty surprises. Nothing like learning JavaScript and then discovering the weird behaviour of this, or using Python and discovering for the first time that the weird bug you had was because you set a dictionary as a default value for an argument.

It's got some of the syntax sugar you might expect from modern languages. Not as much as Python, but that might be for the best if they're trying to keep things simple.

Some of the syntax sugar (@onready, $, %) is specifically there to integrate with the engine and it is very very nice.

Documentation is good, integrated with the editor and the inspector.

The debugger works well (98% of the time, hopefully it'll keep improving).

It's one of the nicest languages I've learned in a long while. I think it's because it's only trying to do one job and it does it fairly well.

When I started learning it I noticed many things that were done better in other languages I've used (it's specially tempting to make comparisons with Python since it looks similar). After a few months using it almost daily to make a somewhat simple game I realised most of those things don't matter and for the purpose of making games in the engine it's pretty solid.
> I doubt YouTube worries about being demonetized by advertisers at this point.

They've been the target of that twice at least, in 2017 over hate speech [1], in 2019 over pedos[2]. Large brands spend insane amounts of money on advertising, and they do not want their content to appear next to people facing allegations of sexual misconduct or otherwise bad behavior.

Hell just look at Twitter and how much advertising income they lost in the matter of a few months [4], as brands didn't want their ads to show up next to actual Nazis [3]. And instead of recognizing this and getting rid of the Nazis, Musk wants to sue the ADL [5].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15053990/google-youtube-a...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jilliandonfro/2019/02/21/advert...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/06/twitter...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66217641

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/05/elon-musk...
…CEOs
"I think it's more like, he knew this was coming out and it was going to make him look bad, so he preemptively decided to modify his audience to consist of people less likely to leave him once the news did break."

The accusations mainly seem to be from around a decade ago (give or take). How long do you have him down "modifying" his audience?

I personally think ... well I don't know the bloke at all, only his public persona. However we are seeing an outrageous pseudo trial by media (all of them) and ill-informed public "opinion" before he is even in the dock facing his accusers. How on earth can he face 12 unbiased jurors with this bloody nonsense going on?

Perhaps we should adopt a professional approach to trying crime, involving trained magistrates instead of the old school "12 men and true" bollocks. The jury system doesn't really cut it these days in the face of your and other shrill accusations. I gather that the Netherlands does that, for example.