skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he's correct, amyloid plaque theory was founded on bad data. Amyloid plaques as causal agents is unclear, but it was made to appear clear by poisoned data, and many studies conducted afterwards, in good faith, assumed that the information and conclusions were sound. However it doesn't appear to be the case, and instead something along the amyloid beta pathway is more likely to be the true causal factor, and plaques an association. It has spawned something of a wild goose chase in Alzheimer's research and treatment.
I wonder if any teacher has the courage to teach kids "critical thinking skills" when it comes to the school closures of 2020-2022. Teacher's Unions won't back up that teacher if there's any controversy I suspect
Did they properly remove it or does no one there even know it was/is happening. They didn’t shut it down, the seem to have left the lights on with nobody home.

Bigger picture - given the role news making and sharing in real time has always played in Twitter, it seems logical that services which may not provide obvious returns but which build a platform that journalists find useful would help do that.
> I'd personally prefer that we establish a standard for a sane distributed trust federated ID system and then pressure the states into gradually adopting that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

However:

"... on April 27, 2020, the extended deadline after which identification documents would have to satisfy the Real ID Act standards to be accepted by federal agencies was again extended, by one year to October 1, 2021. On May 3, 2021, it was further extended to May 3, 2023, and on December 5, 2022, it was extended once more to May 7, 2025."

But if there's a gold star on your federated state's driver's license, you have it.
> This is the kind of hyper sensationalism that I'm talking about. Do you really believe that, or is this you extrapolating to what could be possible in the future if the technology keeps improving?

I don’t just believe it I already see it happening directly. I have made changes in hiring strategies and employment situations based on massive increases in productivity from using LLMs.

The difference in productivity of developers that embrace the new tools vs those who don’t is very obvious in my opinion. It’s probably the next 18-24 months when the impact becomes more obvious on larger scales.
Given there are 3 credit bureaus, is there a way to avoid having a credit score at one of the credit bureaus? I think that's a way that we as consumers could try to increase competition in the field.

I did some Googling and it didn't seem like there's an easy option.
>Obviously this entails some effort spent

Do you even begin to understand how big these forest areas are?
It's largely a function of the much higher rate of violent crime in the United States
Unsurprisingly as the spec was ratified slightly less than two years ago, and mass production hardware generally takes closer to four years.

I don't know what Herculean effort was made to get the K230 SoC and dev board out already, and at a very low price.
I do! Just the other day I was trying to find this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__-NKgcRM2c

Tried it twice in the Archive Finder tool: first time had no hits (and the Wayback Machine timed out), but the second time the Wayback Machine didn't time out and returned a download link for me that included an intact video file.

For this particular video I did find a reupload on Niconico when I was originally searching (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11640795, if you're curious) but the archive finder tool is a game-changer.
Coming from Russia, I cannot remember so that Ice Cream machine in McDonalds would be broken. Maybe it was once, out of 25 years worth of visits.

Is this actually a thing?
All they need to do is take pics and sell them as NFTs, and they'll make millions on each phone.
Chipotle's founder builds a new concept light on meat and long on automation
> For example in Krita you can't resize a crop rectangle with the mouse that holds its aspect ratio

I've never used Krita, but I was skeptical that it can't do this, so I just now installed it and gave it a try. It does have this feature! I made a crop rectangle, then right-clicked on it. A little menu popped up, titled "Crop Tool Actions". One of the things in the menu is a checkbox labeled "Lock Ratio", which was unchecked by default. I clicked the checkbox, and then I could resize the crop rectangle with the mouse without changing its aspect ratio.

Took me under a minute to figure out, having never used the software before or read any documentation. I'd say that's one sign of a decent UI.
Except “Can you hire from your network?” is an explicit grading criteria when hiring senior management.
Totally agree. Some of the older stuff used to be worth money, but seems like they were not focused on sales/marketing.

Just to haul it all off to the dump would cost a fair amount.

I think they need to hire a zoomer on commission to promote the phones on TikTok and shilling them away with the bluetooth adapter being free. Tie this in with a giant telephone art project to draw folks in.
Not archived across the board for a video I tried.
https://archive.ph/u7bMs
> For a bilingual child it's much more important for the name to sound the same that to be written the same.

There are downsides to the different spellings.

I have this issue within English. There are several ways to Matthew. If misspelled, it is usually Matthew. Occasionally, some spell it Mathieu.

I hate to use phones for any kind of personal info transfer for this reason, as it has caused headaches everywhere from the bank to travel agents to charitable donations to even sharing my email.
Experian reminds me of enshittification, except it never had any interest in providing actual value to the general public to betray, so started off one step further along the process in a way.

No individual in a personal capacity ever wanted to do business with Experian, like they wanted to buy an iPhone or something. You're introduced to the unpleasant fact of its existence at some point. They don't have anything you want, you're the product from the start, and you don't have to walk into their net, you're probably born in it.
Is your problem a UI problem or a functionality problem?

I'm asking, because I can understand wanting functionality (eg. decent calendar integration). I don't understand UI complaints but am willing to imagine "it could be better" (eg. UI-complaints of Gimp)... except I've used Thunderbird, and the UI does its job fine.

Sure, maybe with some MS ribbon-alike thingy it would work better for some, and maybe I'm a dinosaur, but most UI changes in programs I've used the last decade were either shrug or a bad idea. So I've become very hesitant about overhauling UIs simply because they come across outdated to some.
Very cool. I tried it humming the choruses from the batch of my own songs I’m working on at the moment to see if I might have committed unconscious plagiarism. There were no close matches and I was feeling pretty good. Than I hummed the chorus of My sweet lord, 29% match to a cover, 18% match to the George Harrison original, He’s so fine by the Chiffon’s wasn’t in the results. I guess this wouldn’t have saved George.
I tried it for English and Polish and the results seem quite mediocre. It gave me some names that are misspellings in Polish (like Carolina, Joanne, Veronica; those would typically be spelled Karolina, Joanna, Weronika, but bad parents can of course pick the wrong spellings). And some names don't feel very English to me.
It attempts to solve a naming problem using a dataset and algorithms, failing miserably.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
Have you read the linked PDF? They go through it all in extreme detail and prove each one of those points.
WASM Debugging with Emscripten and VSCode
The amount of effort of typing in a name and checking an ID which everyone has on them is inconsequential relative to the benefit.
I started with “serious” image editors on Paintshop Pro, not Photoshop, and have used Gimp several times as much as I’ve used Photoshop.

Gun to my head, have to do some unknown-in-advance image editing task, I get to pick the software, but can’t look anything up, I die if it takes far too long? I’d pick Photoshop. I might survive with PS. Near-certainty I’m dead with the Gimp, hell I might be dead with Gimp even if the task is incredibly simple. It’s not that it isn’t like PS, it’s that it’s UI gibberish.
kde3 with kdemod and the breathtaking choices of _actual_ themes (not just color schemes or "accent color" bs, but a plethora of widget themes that could make it look like anything you wanted plus rich guis to customize any and everything) plus the "emulation" of windows 9x HIG which kde apps back then used to copy and even improve upon was the pinnacle of desktop OS for me. Every major OS has been a major downgrade since... :`(
I cant't comment directly on whether or not he was or wasn't actually trying to start a cult, but I am interested in cults in general (and any kind of esoteric/occult stuff) so I devoured a lot of content related to this. I mean, a 21st century digital cult!? That is some juicy stuff!

What I found was a young idealistic kid who was playing a character online. He was optimizing for views and we all know what kind of behavior gets attention online. The character was overblown and narcissistic. There is zero argument from me that if you take selected clips of him from when he was at the height of his streaming fame he was a dumb-ass edge-lord playing the role of a prophet or spiritual leader. He even leaned into it when he was accused because he thought it was funny. But when you watch recent videos of him (he does a pretty good react to Asmongold's react of him), I think I saw a different side.

All that being said, he isn't a kind of character I trust. He seems to me to be very much the kind of person where the ends justify the means. He has some pretty high ideals, some of which I agree with and others which I am sympathetic towards. It's like Greenpeace or animal rights activists ... even if I agree with their overall goals I often disagree with their methods.
This is a valid concern. Of course, the problem is Congress is dysfunctional so a strategic fix (universal public higher ed) being enacted is potentially many years in the future (if at all). This is immediate, tactical relief for people who are suffering financially. In the same way that someone bleeding to death on the pavement doesn’t care about dysfunctional healthcare policy at that moment; they want to get stabilized.

(I hit the highest marginal income brackets and support this policy; good policy is the interaction of compassion and pragmatism at scale)
Of course the government should regulate financial products.

There is no end to complicated weapons of mass destruction financial products that bankers and lawyers can cook up.

You think the average joe stands a chance interpreting them vs banks?

This is why some products require you to be an accredited investors. Or in retail for example ARMs require plain language one-pagers and disallow bad features like balloon payments that caused harm during GFC.

Banks do not choose to limit themselves altruistically in the absence of regulation.

This is the problem with retail crypto.
Wasn't mainstream media's consensus it was sabotage by Russia themselves?

No other narrative was allowed at the time in the UK.
There was a competitor to Shazam when it first came out that had something like this I think. I remember preferring that app.

Edit: found it. SoundHound. And it's still around.
> Specifically: raising 200 goats, trucking them around from place to place, the human logistics (and their vehicles and food and supplies) and the cradle-to-grave carbon expenses of every piece of this activity ... it's not obvious that that is smaller than the released carbon of 10 acres of spindly brush.

I think the advantage is that goats are easier to control than fire, especially in very dry conditions, which is why they are used in high fire risk urban areas.
archive.ph misreports its IP address when responding to queries from cloudflare, apparently on purpose. It's not too hard to dig up some old threads/comments discussing the issue if you're curious about the details--you can find A (The?) Cloudflare Guy discussing it from cloudflare's perspective here on HN, and The Archive.ph Guy tweeting about it from his perspective.
It's curious that this simple proof -which don't require invariant speed, aka Maxwell equations- was discovered after Einstein's proposal which depends on invariant speed assumption. I wonder how the history of physics would have been if someone proposed this before Einstein. The maths needed for this derivation are quite simple, so I guess Newton or some mathematician before Einstein could have proposed special relativity.
Can anyone show me one of these loan agreements?

I distinctly recall talking to a loan officer when I made my 100k+ student loan, and the paper had in very large numbers, amount loaned, loan duration, per month loan cost, the interest rate, and total loan cost.

I want to see a student load agreement where the minimum monthly payment simply does not create an expected end date for the load.
I feel like this has to happen. They operate like a private utility company, with little to no other options.

Imagine if they were like password manager apps? We could evaluate all of them, choose what we wanted, and migrate whenever something happened.
Try editing 10 images in a row with Krita and you'll see the issues right away. Layer handling, selection handling and tool placement is cumbersome, to put it mildly. Maybe invite someone who has extensive experience working with photoshop and watch how often he starts to curse or ask for help and whether he uses the gun to shoot himself in the head. Then change things accordingly, if the creators don't use their own program...

I worked with Gimp ~ 1 year ago, not touching that again until I feel the need to flagellate myself.
For people with kids - yes many do want to go to the same place at the same time. There’s not a heck of a lot of flexibility when kids are in school.

I don’t do the whole timeshare thing, but I have family who do and they seem happy.
I have been using it for about 3 years, perhaps at a max of twice per week. I started using it for the same reason as you, I had issues staying awake. I only drink coffee when absolutely needed as I get very irritable withdrawals when off it. I gave the gum a try after hearing about the use of it from a Hamilton Morris podcast.

I personally have not felt any lingering affects outside of some drowsiness after wards. It seems like an easy enough habit to drop as well, as I have done so for a few months at a time for surgery recoveries. I am in agreement with the study linked in this article that nicotine by itself seems the same (for me, better) as similar stimulants like caffeine. I would never smoke however, as that seems to be the real issue.
Businesses report data to them. So, you'd have to avoid businesses that report to one. But, they all report to multiple.
It's soldered.

Socketed is a lot more expensive. There's also no point as the SoC is worth vastly more than the motherboard, so you'd probably pay 80% as much for a new CPU as for a new motherboard with CPU. The RAM is socketed, so you can reuse that.
Wegovy's heart benefits due to more than weight loss, Novo says
The other day I was on hotel Wi-Fi and I got this recapture loop. I got off the Wi-Fi and went to mobile network and it came back. Are some ISPs blocking it ?
Like most people, I generally try to do the right thing.

My ideas of what's the right thing, and how determined I am about it, change over time.

One reason for change is receiving new information, or realizing a different way of looking at a situation.
Of course, we aren’t the customers for these spying companies. But it is surprising that the total lack of security isn’t a deal-breaker for their actual customers. I mean if you can basically impersonate anybody using this service, what is the point of using it?
I'm curious how you use gimp. Do you use mathy/programming/terminal kinds of editing - stuff applied over the whole image with little mouse usage and mostly setting dialog parameters.

Or do you do little edits with the mouse, painting masks, selecting regions with the mouse, and generally using the mouse/pen a lot?
I bet you pay rent
It seems the video is making rounds yet again—it was also recommended to me by the algorithm a few days ago.
I think it were the ancient Romans that created the distributed command for armies, where every decision is taken at the lowest hierarchical level possible.

It became somewhat out of fashion at the Modern age, but AFAIK no army operates purely on "your job is to respect hierarchy decisions".
The no ID thing is interesting. The article mentions that as a major issue as well. Seems like it'd be a pretty cheap intervention to just issue all out-going prisoners a gov't photo ID on their release.
Now it's "Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them"

...which I read as between 2 and 5 (one for each of them or landlines at one-ish for each room of their house).
n’est pas une pipe.
Ramming against edges doesn't work as well in a multiple monitor arrangement. I forget which environment had this as a default and in what era but one of the smarter defaults I've seen is super(windows key) + keypad numbers. For instance 1: Bottom left quarter, 4: left half, 5: maximize
"(I personally don't mind coding boilerplate stuff, especially since I can learn how the framework works that way)"

^ Isn't that what folks used to say about programming in assembler?
How much time do I want to spend learning frameworks (beyond what I already know) vs. how productive do I want to be?
Have you considered that labor laws protect workers, and workers who are happy and feel safe and not exploited are more productive?

It's entirely possible to run a business without exploiting your workers and trying to squeeze every red cent out of them.
Projection for sure.

Sic is correctly used when it quotes an “odd or erroneous” phrase (Oxford English Dictionary).

In context those quotes are extraordinarily odd. They are both too flippant for a serious article and do not follow logically anyway.

Pointing out faulty logic has nothing to do with stanning Elon.
It's somewhat ironic that the author is essentially proposing a blender-like UI for gimp, considering that blenders UI is one of the most maligned UIs out there.

For the record I think the blender UI is pretty genius for an extremely complex graphics program and it could also work with gimp. Also the loud shouting around blenders UI have died down a lot in recent years, which I attribute to 2 things:

1. the great work done to make the UI more discoverable.
2. Blender having become almost a standard so there is lots of tutorials and it's now much more often the first 3d graphics program that people get exposed to (hence less it doesn't work like Maya,... complaints).
What a coincidence, recently saw it on Asianometry's video about the Iran water crisis.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEhNTpvEN8
"In mice" is one of those shorthand sayings that scientists/professors themselves coined, it's not as dismissive as you're making it out.

In this context of social media it's very useful as a reminder.
Five SNES Games That Don't Look Like SNES Games [video]
70B parameter LLM running in WebGPU
In particular areas things like differential privacy may work, for example medical sets where there are lots of regulations and potential fines for the companies involved.

But do you think your average ad tech company gives a fuck? They are going to keep the original data because that's where the money is. Yea, maybe they'll have privacy datasets they sell/release to other groups, but all the real data will remain in a database, and with most companies in this industry, be given to government agencies on demand.
Scientists enhance cognitive abilities through direct brain stimulation
I spent some time with my kid trying to get ChatGPT 4 to write bedtime stories. We found that it kept devolving into the pattern of a generic but acceptable setup followed by something like "and then the heroes solved a variety of challenges, learning together and having fun all the way" that completely skips the meat of the story. We also noticed that it was difficult to goad the AI into adding any quotations; the characters rarely _say_ anything.

We only tried StoryBee once but unfortunately got a very similar result; judge for yourself: https://storybee.app/story/the-purple-mystery-654fbfe43da40f....

We did have fun with ChatGPT getting ideas for specific plot turns and generating illustrations (e.g. https://photos.app.goo.gl/coonT1bT7BLRqXeu8).
What rate limiting? The login requirement change is policy, not a rate limit.
I agree, it seems like they left it to rot instead of shutting it down. But again it is irrelevant to the business so who cares?
It was a joke about the game which goes by several different names including "telephone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
I ended up following your suggestion and removed it from the navbar. Thanks again, looks cleaner.
Possibly related, yesterday the Ukrainian energy minister threatened attacking Russia's oil and gas pipelines in retaliation for any attacks on Ukraine's energy grid: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/10/ukraine-energy-russ...
>Lately I've been hearing it like it's some kind of new discovery.

I guess it is to some people. Every time there is a wildfire in California they want to use GW as a scapegoat. That might be part of it, but really they just don't do controlled burns; why I don't know. I think the "eureka" is for politicians to save face.

The Indians were doing controlled burns well before the Europeans landed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
I'm willing to bet that "most" people live in or travel to areas of bad cell coverage often enough that they will definitely appreciate an increase in coverage to literally 100% of the Earth's surface. Starlink capacity and reliability increases will enable a lot more people to ditch bad ISPs, not just people in extremely rural areas, and that can have a big impact on people's lives. Also I would say that international air travel had a big impact on civilization even long before "most" people globally could afford to fly internationally (if they even can today, I haven't found a good estimate for the percentage of people who will fly internationally during their lifetime but it could easily be less than a majority).
Not entirely true. Some of it yes, but much of the debt wasn't money borrowed, but fees and interest accrued after borrowing.
It's a pretty good rule of thumb that anything that gets sold with so many high-pressure sales tactics is going to be a bad deal for you.
Oh 100%. You are an idiot for believing a car would appreciate or taking wild speculation as a future fact.
This belief in the invisible hand pricing everything right is silly.
> First, taking a simple and intuitive view, we can see a dialogue agent as role-playing a single character2,3. Second, taking a more nuanced view, we can see a dialogue agent as a superposition of simulacra within a multiverse of possible character

Roleplaying is such a perfect term of LLMs. They are basically LARPers.

Another term I like for an LLM conversation is "Improv." Their "knowledge" is applied with the explicit goal of continuing the conversation, including making up convincing nonsense up on the spot and rolling with it, just like a good improv actor.
> Except where there is no fiber at all, or no choice of good ISPs

So, like, a majority of the world?
To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians