skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the author is a bit too quick to debunk/discount the weird extreme claims of the carnivore tradfluencer set and jumps into the opposite direction: there seems to be a consilience of evidence (not just archeological) establishing Paleolithic / pre-agricultural humans as hypercarnivores: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24247

I'm totally in agreement that the "raw meat only" pseudo-traditionalist influencer stuff is absolute ahistorical LARP (the frightening doses of steroids certainly is disqualifying) but humans seem well adapted to hunting animals and digesting meat in ways that other primates just aren't (flagrant examples that come to mind are stomach pH and small
intestine vs large intestine size, the linked paper has more). Of course, there indeed have been more recent adaptations to survive better on plants/grains/etc, i think spurred by megafauna becoming more scarce; but that's not really a counterexample for the thesis that prehistoric preagricultural humans ate a lot of meat (not uniquely meat of course!).
Just because a license is 'friendly' and you don't see the point of an open release, doesn't make it open source.

There's been all sorts of closed source libraries that you can freely integrate for whatever reason. They're not open source either.
The EU is just doing to Apple what Apple does to everyone else.

They're saying "our App Store, our rules" ... where the App Store is the European market.

Apple should just be glad they don't take 30% off the top of all revenue as a condition of doing business.
what alternatives exist?

I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?
At some point Open-source models' performance will follow. Llava will improve.
> a 14GB of a dump of mainly numbers that were constructed algorithmically are not "source".

I'm sorry, but what do you expect? Literally all code is "a bunch of numbers" when you get down to it. Realistically we're just talking about if the code/data is 1) able to be read through common tools and common formats and 2) can we edit, explore, and investigate it. The answer to both these questions is yes. Any parametric mathematical model is defined by its weights as well as its computational graph. They certainly provide both of these.

What are we missing? The only thing that is missing here is the training data. That means of course that you could not reproduce the results were you to also have tens of thousands to millions of dollars to do so. Which if you're complaining about that then I agree, but this is very different from what you've said above. They shouldn't be providing the dataset, but they should be at least telling us what they used and how they used it. I would agree that it's not full "open source" when the the datasets are unknown and/or unavailable (for all intents and purposes, identical). The "recipe" is missing, yes, but this is very different from what you're saying. So if there's miscommunication then let's communicate better instead of getting upset at one another. Because 14G of a bunch of algorithmically constructed numbers and a few text tiles is definitely all you need to use, edit, and/or modify the work.

Edit: I should also add that they don't provide any training details. This model is __difficult__ to reproduce. Not impossible, but definitely would be difficult. (within some epsilon, because models are not trained in deterministic manners, so training something in identical ways twice usually ends up with different results)
Why does it lower your opinion of such sites?
This reminds me of the first ever solar desalination system, which was built by a Swedish engineer, for the saltpeter mines in Chile, over 100 years ago

It would be great if they can scale it up and make it widely available
I actually really enjoy React Native with Expo. The over the air updates allowing me to bypass the app store approval process for minor changes are a game changer. React Native renders Apple's UIKit which looks and feels much better than Flutters attempt to emulate it. It's also much easier to make Android Apps look like an Android app with Material design while iOS apps look like their made for iOS. Flutter for web just draws everything in a canvas so it's not accessible and the resulting file size is massive. While with React Native I can leverage Solito to run the same code base as a Next.js application for the web.
8th law of journalism: questions in headlines must always be answered “no”
How did they actually raise prices? They are still competing on prices on everything. They have the best return policy even besting Costco. FTC and Lina Khan can pound sand. They should go after Walmart for destroying American towns and small businesses before they go after Amazon. I cannot think of a single company that produced more utility for consumers than Amazon.
KBParadise V60 here. I got mine with Cherry MX Greens, but I don't think they offer them with those anymore. Nice and clacky.
> Often with natural selection people will presuppose that different traits must have purposes or necessary advantages.

This is very true and even experts with good communication skills fall pray of perpetuating this misconception.

It's because of all the synergies that emerge in nature, it gets so tempting and to explain these as if they happened through intention. "This butterfly has a pattern that looks like the pattern of trees that grow in it's habitat so it will blend in and avoid prey" sounds so much more like a good argument than "The random mutations in the patterns of these butterflies over time that made them stand out more probably made them easier pray, so survivors would be those that were best at hiding so over time with that selective pressure we are now seeing butterflies that blend in well with the trees, even though they where never at any point able to look at a tree and go 'I want to look like that'".
I'm looking into maybe doing a BGA / MPU through KiCAD soon. Not that I'm confident in my abilities at all, but it'd be a challenge that I'd like to succeed in.

Yeah, you've listed off ~100 nets vs 1000s+ nets. But...

Many MPUs are BGA200 to BGA400 in size, and seemingly designed for 4-layer to 6-layer boards (available from OSHPark). Which means I expect around... maybe 200 nets or so in practice (a lot of the pins are either power-or-ground. But many other pins would be in fact connected to "something" and be their own net). More than your first number, less than your second number.

In your opinion, is that still within the feasibility of a hobbyist laying things out by hand? A lot of SiP MPUs have "internal DDR2" in sufficient quantities to boot Linux, although I'm also thinking about routing my own RAM for maximum flexibility.
There is Analyzed-by, it's not super common but in the end you can make up whatever *-by you want. You can also say "Thanks to ... for analyzing the issue and suggesting a possible fix".
The drama was not indicative of any real world issue.

EVs have a fire rate of something like 25/100,000. ICE cars have a fire rate of something like 2500/100,000.
I fully understand where you are coming from, but have you had a toddler?
Nice idea, but not useful unless each DAW manufacturer supports the format. And there are a lot of DAWs.
Of course it's a real phenomenon, but it needs to be brought up without jumping to negative conclusions about the person one is talking to.

Fortunately nine_zeros gave a nice answer and clarification, but often what happens is that the original commenter feels smacked by the mean interpretation, hits back twice as hard, and we end up with an unfortunate flamewar.

This dynamic is in fact one of the main ways we get flamewars, and HN has that guideline to remind us all to consciously avoid it.
It's likely that the last version of Windows where it all was consistent through and through was Windows 2000. Someone may correct me by bringing up an exe that ships with the currentest Windows and which looks unchanged from Windows NT 4.0.

I remember an article showing the UI of Windows system apps, and as you go deeper and deeper into %SYSTEM% or whatever, you get UI from progressively older and older versions that are sort of left behind. You get an incentive to polish all the immediately user-visible stuff, but there's so much of it anyway so if the deeper-hidden stuff that a handful of people is using is still working, nobody will touch it. Look, the WMI console was probably unchanged since Windows 2000 at the time of Windows 10.
Leaving the work to the victim isn’t exactly great and getting a refund of some credits that you were going to spend with them anyway often doesn’t come close to the repetitional loss + time spent on the issue. The incentives for the large players are all based on making more year on year profit.
I take your points but some of this is just semantic. Absolutely , nature does not have intentions. That’s clearly misunderstood given the wording. But what do people mean when they say this?

Clearly its generally better to eat more whole, fresh foods and less processed, preserved foods or things with insane amounts of sugar not found in nature. We can argue if this is truly natural vs unnatural but its a valid guideline nonetheless. Our bodies have adapted to certain types of food and certain “unnatural” foods do have negative effects which are contributing to widespread issues like obesity, diabetes, and probably cancer.
Before talking to your lawyer, talk to your investors.

Do you have signing authority? And for how much?

Who signed for the accounts etc?

Ignore the people here. The overseas contractors aren't going to sue you. Your ex partner won't either.
I think that says more about the foraging skills of modern domesticated humans (and the location choices for Alone) than it does about the nutritional viability of a foraged plant based diet.
I suspect that something similar is happening with the shift to remote work. You can live in a big house in the beautiful countryside! But now doing anything other than being in the house or the countryside is considerably more effort.
For whatever reason Pistol Whip gives me crazy anxiety.
I have wide shoulders and like to spread my arms out, so I personally prefer the number pad build into the keyboard. I even like reaching far out for my mouse.

I can assume that people with narrow shoulders would prefer a narrow layout on their desk.
I agree. It's kind of ironic you mention "denial". It turns out this is one of the favorite attacks by "SBS proponents" against those who challenge the scientific reliability of the diagnosis. We are called "denialists" and we're accused of "denying the existence of child abuse" (?). Parents in my organization (Adikia) who face false allegations of abuse are said to be in "denial" of their own abusive behavior. This story line appears to be quite credible and powerful within the medical and judicial communities.

Here's one among thousands of examples, from a really terrible paper by one such powerful SBS proponent here in France [1] (another of his papers was actually retracted this year [2]).

"Fake news 11: the caretakers’ denial is sincere

Clinicians and defenders can become intoxicated by the denials of parents suffering the agony of having their child in dire condition, and at the same time being grilled for their possible responsibility. The mental mechanisms of self-denial are well-known to psychiatrists. A perpetrator, after a violent burst, and faced with its terrible consequences, can experience a dissociation mechanism similar to witnesses of catastrophes, dissociation being understood as “a break between the memory, the perception, the consciousness and the identity…when faced with unbearable feelings”. Sincere denial easily elicits compassion from the medical staff as well as defenders, a natural response which is enhanced by professional training. Some authors have documented with functional imaging the sincerity of denial in a case of convicted child abuse and concluded that the sincerity of denial is not a criterion for innocence."

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-021-05357-8

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-023-05889-1
I don't think I have ever accepted a pull request from Dependabot. I think that was already a stupid thing to do. Now it's even more obvious that you shouldn't accept a PR. Dependabot is a useful tool to find vulnerable dependencies, so that you can update them yourself.
I generally agree and gave you an upvote. The macros up top were hard for me to grok too, mostly I was reading it thinking, "why isn't this just a cast" and it turns out is could be! And I get this is the security mailing list, but it's 32-bit PPC, and they took days to really get to it. FWIW I think Ariel was being overly cautious; it's hard to see how this could be a significant security issue, and it feels counterproductive to punish him for being cautious. I can kind of see both sides, but I just can't get over doing all the work Ariel did and only getting a "Reported by" credit. His feelings are justified IMO.
Knots are shared a lot here. There are sites listing hundreds of them each with its own strengths and weaknesses and use cases. But is there any science/math to them? For example, if I want to have not with specific set of features, is there something like an algorithm to build that knot from scratch?
> I want to walk into my back yard

Aren't the VR headsets wired?
> what are you people even programming that you need to know so absolutely little about how anything else in the entire world works

Feoren, your comment takes an incredibly superior attitude and accuses its reader, every reader, of being stupid.

When taking the log of a number, the value in general require an infinite number of digits to represent. Computing log(100) / log(10) should return 2.0 exactly, but since log(100) returns a fixed number of digits and log(10) returns a fixed number of digits, are you 100% confident that the ratio will be exactly 2.0?

Maybe you test it and it does return exactly 2.0 (to the degree floating point can be exactly any value). Are you confident that such a calculation will also work for any power of 10? Maybe they all work on this intel machine -- does it work on every Arm CPU? Every RISCV CPU? Etc. I wouldn't be, but if I wrote dumb "for" loop I'd be far more confident that I'd get the right result in every case.
What kind of novel thing would convince you, given that you're also dismissing most human creation as mere remixes/rehashes?

Attempts to objectively rate LLM creativity are finding leading systems more creative than average humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3

Have you tried leading models – say, GPT4 for text or code generation, Midjourney for images?
Referring to other people as "townies/normies" seems like you're already looking down on them and not wanting to make any effort in getting along with them.
Since it is from the 80’s, maybe the Motorola 68000 can answer your question.

Looks like… more than 60 clock cycles. Yikes!

https://oldwww.nvg.ntnu.no/amiga/MC680x0_Sections/timstandar...
I think the search for a magic diet is because of the weird industrial food landscape we're in. Most of our food is designed for cheap production, shelf stable storage, and easy distribution. Nutrition and health aren't really considered. People think "everything in moderation" but when the industrial food supply is so far off of the ancestral norm, moderation really isn't the same thing.

You're right people will go off the deep end looking for magic cures. But sometimes a little ancestral influence can help guide us.

I've been eating beef, salt, water as my primary food for nearly 15 years. Sometimes I may have a potato here and there with my steak or eggs and bacon for breakfast. But I don't have vegetables or fruit otherwise (they just don't make me feel good). I'm pretty ripped for a middle age guy and have tons of energy and no health problems.

I would never proselytize or tell people how to eat, but I do like to give my N=1 data point that shows it's not as crazy as it sounds.
From a very cursory skim, I get the feeling that this would only work on public repositories where pull requests are allowed, correct?

Not to minimize the issue, as that type of situation is likely the norm on GitHub.

Another way of phrasing what I mean: private repositories are unlikely to be affected by this correct? Since the spoofer would have no way to propose the threatening pull request, only the real dependabot would have permission to do that in that case.
>Doctors do not order tests out of personal concern for patient's well-being to start healing them

I don't order server rebuilds because out of personal concerns for a companies well-being. WTF kind of standard is this. Maybe if we had 10x as many doctors we could afford some personalism with our healthcare workers.

>High-tech is able to supplant "safe, inexpensive and effective" by virtue of profit margins, patents, marketing, and customer perception.

No, again, 40 years ago, you just would have died of your ailment, or had life long suffering. With increased insurance coverage along with increased treatment offerings more people want and are willing to get what affects them diagnosed. Meanwhile we've not increased the number of healthcare workers at the same rate, and increasing with individual workers is very difficult and expensive.

Honestly your post history is concerning. It appears everything is a vast conspiracy against you.
Is killing sentient beings with a will to live just as strong as ours, and with whom we share a common genealogy, physiology, and even psychology, ethical? This question trivially trumps all other considerations, be them about health, or the environment.
This doesn't seem to want to let me past the captcha. Bit odd.
It's the fifth result when you search "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE".
That's all I needed to see before making up my mind, Google needs to be broken up, or alphabet or whatever they're calling themselves these days. Advertising needs to become a separate company, not managed by anyone with controlling stakes in google and visa versa.
It’s 25/100000 vs 2500/100000. And most EVs on the road are Teslas. The EV fire issue has always been a rounding error, even if the work was 10x per fire. The resources to put out fires are dramatically more needed for ICE vehicles, even on a per vehicle basis.

People just wanted something to get angry about. As always.
The existence of carnivores doesn't advance any argument whatsoever about the relative difficulty of one task vs the other nor about what diet would be desirable. In fact there is no evolutionary argument to be made because what we should eat is a complex question that can't be answered by asking what we did eat.
> That kind of reasoning only works if the language or ecosystem has some kind of compile time error or linter or comprehensive testing that will catch the error if the preconditions ever change.

Most requirements can't be verified at compile time, or even at runtime in a feasible amount of time.

If you expect functions to do things that they don't say they do, I don't know what to tell you. Conventions and specs are the best we have.
> Wildlife identification

Wouldn't say this is super reliable, I gave it a photo of a small squid in my hand and it said it was a baby fish (very obviously was not a fish).
Yup, I do the sideloading.

It's kind of interesting how garbage most the sideloaded apps are? I'm not expecting amazing, but, like even your average popular Roblox game has more polish.
The linked Go library in the original article correctly places dot files in the correct Windows folder. Most of the others don’t.
aquire a personal access token, reconfigure the account icons and labels to spoof dependabot, rely on complacency bred of familiarity, push malware as fix, steal credentials.

for good measure restore account config, and obfusicate history
I totally get your point, but I think that AI will allow much "smarter" behavior. Where every appliance is an expert in doing what it is intended to do.

So sure, it will still have buttons, but those buttons are really just preset AI prompts on the backend. You can also just talk to your appliance and nuance your request however you want to.

A TV with a remote whose channel button just prompts "Next channel" but if you want you would just talk to your TV and say "Skip 10 channels" or "make the channel button do (arbitrary behavior)"

The shortcuts will definitely stay, but they will behave closer to "ring bell for service" than "press selection to vend".
Lithium-ion battery fires are a growing public safety concern
I'd actually say that including the training data would be like providing the IDE/debugger/compiler rather than the model/checkpoint being analogous. If I hand you Signal's source code you can run it, use it, modify it, etc. All similar characteristics to what is provided here. What they didn't provide to us is how they created that code. You couldn't create that software from scratch by just having these and that's true for any open source project. But I wouldn't say training data is as good as an analogy to peering in the minds of engineers, because it is an important part to getting the final product and analyzing it.
I switched from a 100% layout to a 34-key keyboard last year. It's not about the desk space at all, it's about never having to move my hands while typing. E.g. instead of reaching for the arrow keys I use a vim navigation layer. Instead of reaching for the number keys -- or, even worse, a numpad way off to the side -- I use a numpad layer. And mod-taps are amazing.

The small size is nice for portability -- my keyboard is split and wireless, so I can easily stick it in my backpack and set it in front of my laptop on a table anywhere. But again, the main benefit of a compact layout for me is ergonomics rather than size.
I don't think one needs to take it so literally.

"What nature intended" in this context is just another way of saying "optimal given the history of how humans evolved"
And those who wrote in Assembly would dunk on those C programmers. And those who wrote in binary would dunk on the Assembly devs. And those that only had 0's would dunk on those binary devs.
Based on the subject of his study over the last 30 years, I can see how he might have some feelings about the data.
I think "what nature intends" is just a way of asking what do our bodies do best with. For all the weird grab bag mess of evolution there are clearly things our bodies process and gain nutrition from better than others. For all our ability to be "gaping maws" as you put it we can't eat grasses enough to feed ourselves properly like a cow, our bodies aren't built to extract the requisite nutrition from that with our single stomach.

It's often deployed to argue that fad diet X or Y is what's best but it's not completely bunk science that there are diets that are better or worse for our health than others.
Try taking your phone out and start recording when talking to some random people on the street or in shop at cash register, or when talking to policeman etc. and see if none of them will start getting very annoyed or even aggressive - even if it's not (maybe) illegal people won't like it.
Would Mistral's engineers be satisfied with the release if they had to rebuild from scratch?
As someone else here said - I don’t care about a camera, I want a display, and I certainly wouldn’t want a camera from Facebook.
What year are you from to say such nonsense?
Sorry, fair enough. It was sticky thing to say but entirely correct. My real point beyond wizard of oz is plenty of animals only eat meat.
> Ceteris Paribus

There's no such thing as ceteris paribus when it comes to organizations where thousands of people work, doing insanely complex work. There's literally way too many variables.