skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again, if Apple shared your opinion then maybe they'd call Europe's bluff.

One can believe regulation is counterproductive while complying with it. Compliance isn’t evidence of success.

> you're still mad about a $4 gas station cable? Seriously?

USB-C is the last connector I’d cheap out on for my personal electronics, given its tendency to fry devices. In any case, the rationale for standardizing the connectors was that buying cables was an environmental and anti-consumer catastrophe, which is hilarious for a continent that imports wood pellets from across an ocean to heat homes. Suddenly me having to buy one is no biggie?

(I’m not mad, I’m perplexed.)

> imagine the free market with a bunch of yous at the helm

It’d be much better. I actually care about asking if regulation is productive and effective. You seem to be focused on whether it’s a sick own and think people who question efficacy are “coping”.

For example, I commented elsewhere in this thread that Apple’s requirement to only rent Macs for 24 hours at a time in VPS services is silly and shouldn’t be enforceable.
Lead was introduced into the environment at least as early as the Roman Empire. It’s why we call plumbers plumbers.

How much slower would we have reasonably gone to avoid lead?
My post more or less says this. Thanks for the extra clarification.
Disproportionate? Google must be worth what, a trillion dollars by now? And they can't get emergency service dialing working worldwide? There's clearly not enough legal liability to get them to do what society expects them to be doing. People are going to fucking die because of their negligence. Literally every minute is precious when someone is having a heart attack, we don't have time to fuck around with Google bullshit. Society should start calculating that damage and making Google pay all of it multiplied by 10.
Is anyone else finding that AWS is overcharging for the Zen 4 CPUS? I get better price performance for m6a vs m6i but the M7 series is too close to call for my workload.

This is really dampening my enthusiasm for future AMD hardware. I wonder if AMD is aware of the damage Amazon is doing to them right now.
Some monkeys are paid 15/hr flipping burgers, some other monkeys are paid 900k/year at facebook to study how to trick your brain into doomscrolling and clicking ads

Weirdly enough the money is available when it generates more money or to lobby against regulation...
The TrustedBSD Project
The perception is that success in the field is driven largely by factors other than the quality of music. It'd be extremely interesting to see a Richard Bachman / Steven King [1] type experiment with a Desmond Child, Max Martin, or whoever else.

Keep their existence completely out of the picture, and have them scout and produce talented no-name, but require the no-name to use only the sort of avenues that would be openly available to anybody/everybody: YouTube, Tunecore, social media, etc. Would the new party now be meaningfully likely to have a real breakthrough?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bachman
Culpability, rather.
You could simply add randomized queues.

Example, typically have 1000 tasks and 10..100 hardware threads.

So, make one ordered list of 1000 tasks, and than make copy of it for each thread, each time randomize order of copy.

Than, each thread will just read it's list and execute task and subscribe to one list implemented as non-blocking multi-thread queue.

In worst case, few threads will do some task repeatedly.

And atomic operations this way will scale up to 1000 times.
I wasn’t trying to be ironically correct. The EU doesn’t have to weigh in: Apple failed its appeal of the case.
The symptoms of autism are more obvious in males, socially
I don't think it's correct to assert that a different algorithm would be less harmful, and it could even be the opposite.

In the article, it says that Wirathu used multiple personal accounts to "friend" at least thousands of people. I don't know to what extent his reach would be diminished by favoring "friends" -- and it might even increase his reach.
Only like ~15 diet drink drinking mothers of females with autism were included in the study. They said they didn't show a link, not that they demonstrated a lack of a link. And I believe none of the links shown for males were claimed to be causal but were hypothesized to be.

To control for demographics they divided that ~15 into 6 different demographics (or 5 if male/female was already included, about 3 people per demographic if so).
Having had to migrate a messy legacy system from old MySQL to modern MariaDB, I can confidently say that I never wish to work ever again with anything MySQL related. Postgres is much more boring than MySQL, and that's a good thing.

Edit: in case you're curious, part of the reason why I found it so difficult was because of MySQL's take on UTF-8 support.
Adblock doesn't hide search results, child comment gave an example but in many cases it's worse, worthless SEO crap is annoying but not quite as bad as the ones that clone genuine content to obtain higher rankings and then attempt to deliver malware...
All humans are doing is ripping off other people's work to train themselves to produce art, or writing, or code, or whatever other endeavor that's not completely technical.

If you'd spend any time at all looking at midjourney creations, there's no way you can conclude that there's any significant amount of "ripping off" people's work. Certainly not in all or most cases.

With the right prompt you might be able to get something that looks eerily similar to an existing work, or artist style, but hardly anyone is interested in doing that, except for memes which are by definition modified and transformative. Nobody wants to AI-generate a mimic of a copyrighted work. If they wanted to do that, they'd just rip off the original work.

None of this is a new issue. The Warhol case even resolved one remaining facet. If you take an original work and apply photoshop filters to it, or do the equivalent manually or with AI, that doesn't alleviate the copyright compliance burden. The fuzzy area is how similar something has to be to fall under copyright; that'll remain subjective until the law or courts resolve it or copyright collapses entirely under its own weight, but the vast majority of AI generated content is nowhere close.
Corporate IT loved blackberrys, they could lock them down so it was email only, great stuff, I'm sure it matched some policy which had been set by someone

Then a couple of execs got an iphone for christmas and started talking about angry birds to their chums at the golf club

Then those execs got themselves iphones, but didn't want to carry two phones around, so they forced corporate IT to make it happen

Corporate IT never recovered
No, there is another way (perhaps the only way) to find some objective knowledge - by the interaction of many consciousnesses. This is the scientific method.

Comparison of experiences, with agreement, or refutation, can produce more reliable knowledge than any individual. See Popper, Lakatos, et many al that you seem unaware of.
Individual consciousness: self aware, memory, can make choices and remember.
There's alot of crap on grocery store shelves, doesn't mean its healthy. The FDA approves alot of garbage. I don't trust them. You don't need a PhD to not drink soda, even easier to avoid aspartame (its listed on the back of the bottle).
Not at all, Brazil doesn’t have +100% yearly inflation.
It’s so bad that the government started reporting weekly inflation trying to trick people to think because the number is smaller, there is less inflation.
I've been wondering how to test this, thank you
I've been writing HTML since the mid-90s and have been a professional web developer for a decade. I frequently reference the flexbox[0] and grid guides[1] from CSS Tricks. I have both of the summary sheets printed out and sitting on my desk. They are invaluable resources.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

[1] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
Except their results are still sub par, which is the whole point of the case - Google has abused it's position to make competition difficult to impossible.
I had an iPhone 3G for about 6 months and then got a job that came with a BB. I though ok, everyone raves about how good it is for email, this will be interesting.

It was ghastly. The email and messaging UI was a mess, the physical keyboard was an instrument of torture. IIRC it had a settings app and a configuration app, and they flipped a coin what to put into which buried under two Byzantine menu structures. It had a lot more ‘features’ but they were all awful.

The iPhone did a lot less, but it did all of it easily and beautifully. The only think with the first two ones was they were so sluggish. The 3GS was wonderful just because it was half as slow.
What Lina Khan’s antitrust case could mean for Amazon
https://archive.ph/hf7Vn
> The case-control study collected retrospective dietary “recalls,” or written estimates, of diet beverage and aspartame consumption during pregnancy or breastfeeding from mothers of 235 offspring with autism spectrum disorder, and 121 offspring with typical neurological development (the control group).

Who remembers what they had to eat yesterday? What about last week? What about over the course of 8 months, *literally years ago*? What, you don't remember how much soda you drank in 2020? That's weird. All 300 study participants here probably have better memories than you, I guess.

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Many very different things fall under the label of science, but not all of these things are the same. The confidence we can have of our models and understandings in particle physics is very different than the confidence and understanding we can have with vaccine trials is very different than the confidence and understanding we can have with nutritional epidemiology. Personally, I think the last falls outside the realm of science [1], and closer to "here's something I thought of. There's some data attached too. Misled yet?"

Aspartame has been exhaustively studied since the 1980s! The odds you _don't find_ correlations between consumption of a novel compound (that has the most explicit healthy-user bias you could imagine) and medical conditions is 0.

(A reminder that is _not_ a pro-aspartame comment. I don't drink diet soda (unless I get snipped by Diet Coke), or much regular soda for that matter. But a single, *non-randomized, retrospective, recall-based (!!!!) study* making it to the front page is really surprising to me.)

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Edit: even a cursory skim of the paper should totally disqualify this from the front page, IMO, *even from nutritional epidemiology standards.* The paper does not even attempt to account for "for maternal overweight/obesity and diabetes, maternal mental health, and other potential confounders in our study." The classic: let's imply a casual variable, ignore the rest of the other possible ones, simply b/c "no covariate data were available."
Dumb Offtopic question. Is there any way to ask gpt4 to summarize an article online?

I tried giving it the url and it was a disaster. Is there a plug-in?
They’re using Elon Musk principles. No part is the best part.

Eventually they will release an album with complete silence
"The burden of proof falls squarely on advertising to justify its intrusions into users’ attentional spaces—not on users to justify exercising their freedom of attention."

https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-...
The day Lex Friedman sold out. Recorded for posterity.
> Thank you for staying in touch with critics! That's super encouraging and so is your "Matrix 2.0" talk.

thanks.

> I don't want to berate you, but

...

> After hours of, experimentation and piecing together Client-Server API documentation, method documentation, MSCs and Github discussions (I could find a single piece of high-level documentation, which is marked as outdated and doesn't cover much) I managed to do some basic things with the JS-SDK (sliding sync support is solid, Rust crypto is not).

I'm assuming you're talking about https://matrix.org/docs/legacy/usage-of-the-matrix-js-sdk? Yes, matrix-js-sdk's documentation is substandard. The rust crypto is brand new and hasn't landed in Element Web, let alone been documented yet, but is rock solid, fwiw.

> the spec is mutable (we’re on room version 11 already, and pretty much everything can change between room versions), and we’ve been steadily fixing stuff over the years

Room versions typically define how rooms are replicated between servers, and unless you are implementing a server you can ignore them almost entirely. They have never changed anything client-facing, and we've never significantly broken backwards compatibility on the Client Server API. In fact, I can still take the very first ever Matrix client (matrix console, which I started in July 2014) and use it with a modern synapse.

> I mean: Fixing stuff is great (sliding sync is much needed), but I can't/don't really want to build my house on sand.

You're not.

> I guess this puts me back into the situation of having to use a "first-party" SDK (JS/Rust) to be certain that things will continue working after big spec updates (I'm both excited for and frightened by the move to MLS).

No, because we keep backwards compatibility. So yes, obviously a client that doesn't implement MLS won't be able to participate in MLS rooms. Just as a 2014-vintage Matrix client that doesn't implement Olm/Megolm won't be able to participate in Olm/Megolm rooms either.

Matrix is designed to be roughly as robust as the Web, and evolve similarly. Most consider that a feature rather than a bug.
> I paid $200 plus tax for my iPhone 13, which I bought through Sprint

Presumably you're also paying a tens of dollars a month premium on your cell plan (compared to an equivalent "sim only" plan) which is subsidising that?
> It cost 0 to not be obese

It's not, it is against fundamental animal/human instinct and hormonal response developed during evolution: eat as much as you can when you have access to food.
The study is also self reported over something that happened years back. It's hard to take it seriously, also it'd mean diabetic mothers would be a lot likely to have male offspring with autism with aspartame being a common substitute for sugar
Sounds like you're talking about both version control and project portability, which are different concerns. But with respect to version control, many systems like Cubase use XML project files. As long as you don't physically delete any audio from your disk, basic version control on your machine using git should be possible.
* There are paid alternatives now, if you want to opt out of what allows them to offer search for "free" then go use those.*

Paying for search won't change the fact that 75% of all web traffic contains Google trackers. This is a fundamental violation of privacy that no one should have to "opt out" of.

Basically, you value Google's business model over human dignity.

https://whotracks.me/
Common misconception: Most estrogens (particularly phytoestrogens, but also plastics) bind to receptors so weakly, they work more like antagonists in the presence of stronger estrogens (like red meat).

It'd be like trying to do anabolic steroids while your natural testosterone is very high.
> A matrix code, also termed a 2D barcode (although not using bars as such) or simply a 2D code,

barcode is not the preferred term because they don't use bars. A QR code is called a matrix code.
I agree. This is way too small of a sample size and it's quite a big leap to see causation from the mild correlation they found.

They asked about 350 mothers to think back and recall if they drank diet soda daily during pregnancy. Of their children, 235 have since been diagnosed with autism and 121 were in a control group. From their data, the kids with autism were about 3x more likely to have moms who remembered consuming daily sodas during pregnancy.

The best you can say is they have a hypothesis (inkling?), and much more research is needed.
They were able to spoof tokens for a long time, access mailboxes, etc.

If this isn't enough for you, there's also ChaosDB, the cross-account vulnerability Palo Alto found (https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instance...), among many others.

This isn't an isolated instance, that's a pattern.
Factorial Number System
Yes, that’s right.
However, Argentina has been continuously getting worst since I was born.
There is a common phrase there used to describe this, “today you are better than tomorrow”, most people default to that line of thinking.
> LLMs and AGI seem poised to give us a huge and expanding space in which to discover how consciousness works

How?

My own intuition is that LLMs will contribute precisely nothing to the
philosophy of consciousness. Philosophers have been considering the
consequences of intelligent machines for some time.
I know a 20 year old boy who was diagnosed not long ago with inattentive type. I wonder how different his academic career and life would be if it was caught earlier.

But I also have known women who will happily bounce from topic to topic and the hint of a tangent, and it’s obvious to me they should have been diagnosed by ten. Some have been as young adults, some older, one at least I don’t think ever was. It’s not just different presentations. We don’t want to see it.
I think the issue here is you can earn many $$ by selling poison.
You can tell by who is fighting the current. Some get paid in ideology, some in fiat. Which are they here for? That's the question. I'm just here to get paid, and enjoy working with others desiring the same outcome (strong opinions weakly held while bank acct goes brrr). We can chat war stories at the hotel bar with a comfortably large investment account from the work.
You're right she wasn't fired. It was implied it might happen only. I misread:

> she would be placed on administrative leave, and that he was instituting perhaps unprecedented proceedings to revoke her tenure.

They are at different institutions. I meant that her claim at her own institution about misogyny seems like lashing out. She falsified data, the evidence is fairly convincing. But in a broader picture, in the media, she has gotten more scrutiny and flak than Ariely, that's what I meant.
Yes, stop fearmongering everyone, just kick back, relax, and crack open a can of that sweet Diet Coke and put on one of your favorite must-binge shows on Netflix.
Doubt it. I cannot speak to that field, but references/citations can have their own dynamics and life. As the OP pointed to the limited consequences of the papers being retracted, the citations could be just "expected" nods to certain things in papers.
I have an "old" 32c/64t threadripper 2990-WX as my primary dev machine. I'm really looking forward to a consumer grade Zen5 with 32c/64t as an upgrade, as threadripper is now locked to high costs OEMs..

In fact, I wonder how much market there will be for threadripper once we have 32c/64t consumer grade desktop CPUS.
To have a 50% create 50% consume balance you would have to have an average of 1 person consuming everything you create, no more.
That’s why I specified their older algorithm where it prioritized people you actively engaged with.

Even if Wirathu sent me a friend request that was accepted, unless I actively engaged with him, his content would fall off my feed.

So it wouldn’t eliminate his reach but it would have reduced amplification. Today, because he’s popular, Facebook would prioritize him on my feed.

In essence, Facebook went from saying I should care about my close friends at school to caring about the most popular cliques. (As an analogy, I’m not in school of course)

I do agree with you that it’s not as trivial as any of us are writing here, but it’s also clear imho that facebooks current algorithms have harmful incentives in the face of inadequate moderation.
I understand the WHO is a large organisation with many moving parts, but the WHO also say that "traditional chinese medicine" is effective. Personally, if you tell me nonsense about one thing, it's hard to know if you're telling the truth about anything

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-health-...
It’s so funny that pretty much everyone recognizes that individuals are smarter than groups, but somehow Evil Companies pull off one decades-long too-secret conspiracy after another, while the individuals who make up those Evil Companies are just monkeys.

It’s a very strange möbius loop of self-contradiction.
You can’t just dismiss his point like that. It’s a valid question. If your argument is “people don’t know any better”, then why can’t someone also say “companies (which are just groups of people) also don’t know any better”?

You can say “companies should do more research on the consequences of this chemical before releasing it”, and you can also say “people should do more research on this chemical before drinking it”.
Are you really Philosophy TrollGPT?

That is certainly how your utterances appear. All language games, as Wittgenstein might have said.

No more discussion with you, just downvotes, troll.
Noticing that someone is a member of a racial (or any other group) is benign. It is just a fact, nothing more. What you do with that information is what matters. As an individual, I can claim that I am colour/gender/whatever-blind but _in the world that exists_, that is just ignoring what certain groups of people are experiencing from other people who are not as agnostic to these characteristics as you claim to be.

Also, I doubt that there is any place on earth that is colourblind and somehow race is not a problem. And no, "nobody speaks about it =/= the problem does not exist. Most countries have some issues with race, are largely homogeneous (sometimes despite spending decades brutally exploiting countries with other races a century or two ago), or have a long-running kerfuffle with some local minority.
more power to you if you made a career on MS technologies, for a long time they were the big dog on the corporate world but to be fair there are better options there and actually bragging about vendor lock-in is ridiculous, if you're full in and it works for you good! But its not something to brag about, specially since MS refuses to fix their certificates after they got hacked by China
So true, but then also for anything we might breath in: exhaust from cars & factories for example.
Graphs We Care About: Fixed Human Energy Expenditure
Tried responding earlier but HN is in the habit of blocking me.

Basically... The telos of sex is reproduction. To separate reproduction from sex renders sex meaningless, and thus irrational from an aristotelian perspective.

The typical objection is that sex is also for pleasure. However, Aristotle considers base pleasures like sex not worth pursuing.

Now another typical objection here is that this could mean that ivf should be pursued while we don't have sex. This is I suppose where some religion may come in since Christianity typically sees sex within marriage as a good to be pursued. Nevertheless, I've not heard any modern argument that says we should eliminate sex and sexual desire and pursue only ivf.

So basically, separating sex from reproduction renders sex meaningless and irrational.
IBM Tries to Ease Customers’ Qualms About Using Generative A.I