skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does nobody question how they get from a non-preregistered, 9-mouse study (where the treatment group gets only 6%-10% acoholic drinks and nothing non-alcoholic for 10 weeks) to this headline?

Addtionally:

> First, we did not generate offspring using the cessation males. Therefore, we do not know if the sperm noncoding RNA signature we identified correlates with changes in offspring fetoplacental growth or if the resulting offspring would develop normally. However, as significant differences in the ncRNA signature of EtOH-cessation sperm and epididymal mtDNAcn remained, we speculate that abstinence for 1 month is insufficient for the epigenetic memory of paternal alcohol exposure to abate, likely due to the ongoing stress associated with alcohol withdrawal.45, 46 Furthermore, we acknowledge that our analysis does not distinguish between changes in sperm ncRNAs that are causal drivers of altered epigenetic programming in the next generation versus abnormalities that are merely additional symptoms of alcohol-induced stress.

I´m all for science on alcohol abuse and effects of moderate drinking, but this doesn't look like solid science for me (especially as afaik, there is still very few reliable, double-blind controlled evidence on epigenentic effects at all).

But please correct me if I´m wrong (worked with biotech companies on admission studies for several years but no biologist myself).
You can only truly trust someone when your incentives are aligned, and people's incentives aren't aligned with OpenAI, Facebook or Dropbox. That trust simply can't be earned.
As someone with a Tesla FSD beta - the "not needing to intervene" is a little bit of a stretch.

I would describe it as a system for rapid reaction and lane assist. It's very... very poor at self driving, outside of an empty interstate.
It seems bizarre to consider the effects of maternal drinking during gestation and these postulated effects of paternal drinking prior to conception to be the same disease
You're getting downvoted, but your post is partially correct.

You missed the best part though. Charlie Lee sold all of his tokens at the top and then told everyone he sold the top, causing the top to not be so top any more.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/litecoin-founder-charlie-lee...
Ai is having explosive growth and the hype around it and research is definitely at a high. You could say we are in a "bullish market" when it comes to AI R&D ;). Assuming that this persists for 10 more years or even beyond that seems like a bad bet but I guess we'll see.
...which also "proves" that cops aren't doing jack shit about organized looting, so that's no longer a useful argument.
I’ve been working on some side projects for this sort of thing. Would you be interested in trying out a beta of this? I really like the idea of adding some summarization with gpt and if others are interested maybe I’ll wrap it up and share it?

Now it’s just a simple JavaScript app I use locally but maybe I should make it cooler… this idea sounds cooler than what I was thinking
The peril of being older is that everything "new" reminds you of something else.

Synapse

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17827992/antitrust-tim-rob...

Antitrust, released in 2001, is an extremely dot-com-era take on the conspiracy thriller genre. The film starts with hotshot programmer Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) getting recruited by tech tycoon Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), who runs a massive and ubiquitous computing company called NURV.

Just like Microsoft, NURV is being investigated for antitrust violations, although it’s less clear why. (We learn vaguely that NURV is infamous for cloning software, and that it’s building some kind of media empire with hardware like set-top boxes.) Where Microsoft was once referred to as the “Death Star,” billionaire philanthropist Winston complains about websites calling him Satan. But Milo’s job is to make NURV far more powerful than Microsoft ever was since NURV is about to launch a data network called Synapse that will link “every communication device on the planet.”

Q. Is there a new Gary Winston in town? :-O
I can't actually put it into production at my company, but for selfish catharsis, I ran datamodel-codegen over our cluster's jsonschema and generated Python pydantic models for all resources. I was able to rewrite all our helm using pure Python and Pydantic models, since Pydantic serializes to json and json is valid yaml. Felt pretty good

We don't have any CRD, but the approach would extend to those, plus you get auto complete. The k8s jsonachema isn't super easy to work directly with, though.
I wonder how they explain the "rogue dev" somehow clandestinely communicating the reset procedure to the manufacturer's shop.
Even if they did keep that paperwork, they should be punished alongside the manager who asked them to do it. They knew it was unethical and did it anyway. They should have refused. Risk of being fired is not as big of a problem for a programmer as it is for almost anyone else.
> Almost everyone who drinks has this view of their own alcohol consumption. They aren't always wrong about this, but certainly very many of them are.

This just seems like a trap. "Alcohol doesn't negatively impact my life." "Well, that's exactly what an alcoholic would say!" So, you can't rely on the person's own judgment. But you can't rely on others' judgment either. For any level of alcohol intake, from 1 beer a year to a liter of vodka a day, you can easily find someone who says it's too much and someone who says it's fine (or at least 'it depends').
Thanks - what is your sweet spot use-case do you think? I've built a few GraphQL projects in the past, so I'm curious where you fit into the ecosystem?
Sorry, I said you were correct, when in fact you weren't.
And it's super awesome every time!
> What is the difference between these on Windows?

A command line interface (CLI), as the name implies, is a user interface pattern consisting of an application that you pass arguments to it through the command line to form a request/command to be executed by the application.

This type of user interface also covers features such as exit code and text input/output through standard streams as to allow programs to be compostable through pipes.

For example, '$ cp origin rest', '$ grep -Ri foo /opt | sort', etc.

A terminal user interface (TUI) is a type of user interface which uses a terminal's limited features to provide a windowed user interface that supports interactivity.

For example, see apps like vim, fdisk, etc.
Anecdotal hearsay. Coinbase has nearly 5000 employees and they found 2 unverified examples of racism. Does that mean its a systemic problem? Why does have a crypto exchange have to take a stance on "racial justice"? What does that mean?
> This and the most recent hbomberguy video (4 hrs about plagiarism) is a perfect microcosm of the issue, actually: The population at large does not want to read, they want to be read to.

I think long form essays are better done as a video, actually.

If I'm going to absorb 4 hours of content, then 4 hours is a lot of time to dedicate. A video playing while I do the laundry is a lot more doable than trying to read at the same time.

And if you're doing some sort of in-deep analysis, then a video allows for very seamless diagrams, screenshots, and video excerpts.

Different mediums have different tradeoffs. Not everything is best as a webpage.
Hardly matters to whom? Intel would surely like computers based on their processors to sell to the same demographic that Apple sells to. That’s where all the profit is.
That is a correct inference.
> Tesla’s full self driving system is the only one on the consumer market that will drive on city streets for you in the form of beta software.

Why do people ignore comma.ai? They call it ADAS instead of FSD? Their marketing is confusing because they just provide hardware for MIT license OSS?
Power is generally defined by the ability to make exception to the rules. Anyone can make a rule, but are you above being punished for breaking it?

Important Americans are protected from being tried for war crimes. We have the Hague invasion act. We said out loud "we will kill you if you try to hold us accountable for our actions." If the United States was a moral country that would not do war crimes on purpose, this law wouldn't exist.
"Technically true" == true

"Always a driver in the car" != driverless

You often see waymos cruising around sans driver. That's real driverless.
Yeah, the 28W number is a load consumption. The driver of "battery life" is idle management, which as much or more to do with OS software as hardware design.

(Also, it needs to be said, with simple battery capacity.
Apple ships a monster 72 wH unit in the current MBP, which is fully half again as much as typical Intel/AMD/Chromebook devices.)
I don't think MakerDAO ever integrated USDT as collateral, but they did integrate USDC. It's unfortunate DAI is not fully decentralized, but the best fully decentralized stable coin efforts (like RAI and LUSD) often suffer from a capital efficiency problem.

I think it's fine to have a spectrum of centralized assets and decentralized assets represented as tokens. Blockchains are public, permissionless, ledgers.
... as opposed to targeting only "qualified investors", thereby shutting out the vast majority of interested parties from participating?

Yes, it's risky. That doesn't mean it should be restricted only to the wealthy.
> I wasn’t interested in implementing the "social" features of a fully-fledged indie reader. I didn’t mind opening another tab to comment, nor having my "content" scattered across third-party sites.

I did the same thing with my feed reader (where I'm subscribed), which sits nicely combined with my timeline (where I publish) in the same website system that I built.

Although the option to immediately reply to posts in my reader (by means of webmention) is very attractive, for now I don't mind clicking and visiting external websites and maybe leaving a comment over there.

For the rest, this article really hits home for me. I'm also dogfooding and trying to make it work for myself first, although my pub/sub functionality is part of a larger website/homepage system.

I'm really happy that more people are building this kind of stuff to be able to ignore algorithmic timelines, ads and other enshittification.

edit: Some kind of automatic reader is next on the list. I want to have that filter on keywords I entered upfront. In the background, this automatic reader should collect interesting articles/posts and create a sort of Newspaper or Magazine, which periodically presents itself to me as a sort of surprise.
What markup do you use to obtain the fixed width font for the yaml/json code?
> while it drives you from Berlin to Potsdam.

This is maybe technically true but in practice not really correct. Some conditions to use it are (per https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot):

Clear lane markings on approved freeways
Moderate to heavy traffic with speeds under 40 MPH
Daytime lighting and clear weather

So if it's night or raining or foggy, you can't use it for that drive. If there's no or little traffic, you can't use it for that drive. In circumstances in which you can use it, you're gonna be doing 40MPH in the right lane.
> ...people are worried that their private files on Dropbox...

I'm not worried, because I use Cryptomator. Great app, acts as a file encryption layer on top of any cloud storage.
Downvoters are wondering where their apes went.
AI Bus Route Fail
Being used in != designed for

Industry applications are calling for general purpose computing. Yet Apple only delivers products and services aimed at end consumers.
That doesn’t seem to be supported by any evidence I can find online (other than your “that’s what my dad told me”).

Rather, it seems that the old design no longer satisfied modern standards and was retired in favor of newer models that did.

As one example: “For the 2012 model year, all Crown Victorias were produced for export; as the vehicle was not produced with stability control, it was no longer legal for sale in the United States or Canada.”
PWA features could be a similar situation. They are also not a standard.
Alcoholics coming here to dispel the study.
No, you are being hard on the character, and it's kind of ridiculous. IRIX is Unix, she recognized it as Unix, it's not more complicated than that.

It's the people mocking the scene as unrealistic, most of which do so because they didn't know the software seen on screen was real, deserve jeers.
Hopefully, in a few decades: got cancer? Go for a biopsy, wait a week for a personalized vaccine. Even if some cells survive, mutate and start growing again, just repeat the procedure. Cancer becomes a somewhat annoying chronic illness.
> On suitable freeway sections and where there is high traffic density, DRIVE PILOT can offer to take over the dynamic driving task, up to the speed of 40 mph.

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovation/product-innovatio...
Really was one of the best heists he ever pulled off in broad daylight.

Probably should have left Coinbase in handcuffs, but I digress.
Yes if you want to build the binaries in containers you could mount a directory where the artifacts should go.
They do post audits on the regular: https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports
People often get mixed up about what causes what in these situations:

We might chat about all sorts of random things, but many times there's something that happened before, let's call it event X, that leads us to talk about a certain topic, say topic Y (like when you mention a cool shirt a friend just bought).

Then, if they see an ad about that later, folks jump to the conclusion that "Facebook was listening" to their chat. But what's more likely is that this topic was already trending among people like you, and that's why it popped up in your ads.

So, it's not that talking about it made it appear in your ads. It's more about a common event that sparked your conversation about it and also made it show up in your ads.
To be honest, I'm surprised quite how poorly teslas FSD performs. They have plenty of funding, plenty of smart minds, orders of magnitude more training data than anyone...

Sure, they have hobbled themselves with lack of LIDAR - but it seems that planning and decision making is the stumbling block for most systems, not object recognition.

But still, I think there must be some poor management or a lot of bad luck in that team not to see more success.
When I think of the hilly suburbs of California, I cannot imagine a system that could convince even a fraction of those people to give up cars, no matter how elaborate or well-designed. But the design of those streets and the terrain make them extremely well-suited for cars. So instead of devising some radical and expensive re-design of the thousands of suburbs in America, autonomous cars seem to solve the problem quite elegantly. And there's nothing stopping people from tacking their autonomous car or taxi to a train station for more urban-oriented travel.
> in specific situations

Very specific situations.
> I don’t think so: I think this is a combination of confusing wording and the eternal vagueness of what the term “consent” means in a world where everyone agrees to the terms and conditions of everything without reading them.

Bullshit. Consent means consent.

There is no confusion here. Nothing is vague. This is explicit fraud.

I feel like every day now, I'm reading an article where the problem is obviously just fraud.

Fraud has always been illegal. When did we stop prosecuting it? Why aren't we talking about that every day?
I think you should spell out your implication.
Eh, driving the 99.99% of miles where nothing happens is easy.

It's the 0.01% of miles where an empty carrier bag blows across the road, or a fire truck is stopped in your lane, or a kid crosses the road without looking, that makes self driving hard.
Whatever you don't pay for in money, you pay for in your time.

I was pointed to this phenomenon by the book Suburban Nation thirty years ago, and it continues to explain so much.
I lived 2 years in Sweden, I just bought a good winter coat. Somehow that an a few good sweaters/base layers were enough to keep me warm without hammering my face every evening. But that's just me I guess.
LiteLLM proxy (100+ LLMs in OpenAI format) is exactly compatible with the OpenAI endpoint. Here's how to call it with the openai sdk:

```
import openai

client = openai.OpenAI(
api_key="anything", # proxy key - if set
base_url="http://0.0.0.0:8000" # proxy url
)

# request sent to model set on litellm proxy,

response = client.chat.completions.create(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "this is a test request, write a short poem"
}
])

print(response)

```
Docs - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/quick_start
"Something, something, Darwin" ought to be a journal
A drinking problem isn't defined by quantity, it is when you have a problematic habit/dependence that you can't quit at will. There are plenty of people who enjoy a few drinks several days a week but can just cut back or stop completely when they want/need to because they don't have alcoholism.

I used to drink 3 beers almost every night. I cut down on it to lose weight and now have a single beer 2-3 nights a week and no alcohol other nights. Some weeks I have none. If I had an actual "drinking problem" i.e. alcoholism, I wouldn't have been able to do that.
> Xorg though... hasn't [changed] that much...

Meanwhile, you in another comment:

> You can use `xdpyinfo` yourself to see all the extensions you have loaded.

So, which one is it? Is it unchanging or is it evolved through several extensions?
Interesting to see you guys talking about this, I just read something with Adam Curtis where he was describing Britain right now as being like the USSR before it collapsed. Disillusionment, lack of vision for the future, a growing sense of nihilism.
I never thought about it like that... And to think, I learned this by...reading.
I certainly don't "trust" OpenAI or any other big company about what they say they did, or will do, or are doing.

Yet I believe OpenAI isn't using data from Dropbox to train their models without users' consent.

BUT I don't think that's the problem here. The problem is data in transit; data sent to third parties who can actually read it, and who may have rogue employees that Dropbox has no control over; data that can appear in logs or subject to different policies, etc.

If I send private data to Dropbox they can't send it to anyone for any reason, including "improving" their product, without my explicit and informed consent. I'm not sure how this is even debatable.

If Dropbox wants to house models and offer RAG search themselves, to consenting users, that's one thing.

If Dropbox sends all data of all users to third parties without telling anyone before the fact, that's another thing. A terrible thing.
New Threats to Society from Free-Speech Social Media Platforms
Back to the 20s and 30s at least, when they ran glowing coverage of the USSR's forced collectivization, ignoring the resulting mass famines and megadeaths. The NYT would be better served as a one page crossword sheet with wedding announcements on the back.
Most of what was listed above aren't the fundamentals which would help to properly understand what's happening with neural networks but rather completely different branches of machine learning that have little in common with neural networks. If they learn SVM, naive Bayes, and gradient boosting, then their knowledge will definitely be broader but just as shallow; using your analogy, it's not like trying to program in JS without understanding for loops but rather like trying to program in JS without understanding C, COBOL and Haskell.

I'm all for learning the fundamentals properly - but those fundamentals are going to be completely things, things like core principles of statistics (limitations of correlation, confounders, bias/variance, etc), the relevant parts of calculus and linear algebra that matter for understanding optimization, the best practices for management of data, experiments and measurement to not cheat yourself, etc - not the checklist of many different, parallel methods of machine learning like decision trees or reinforcement learning, which are both useful and interesting, but not related or required to properly apply e.g. transformer-based large language models for your task.
I don't see it as adding a hurdle, but rather giving people, who might be trying to conceive, a hurdle to avoid.
The memory is actually very fast, it just also has large latency, particularly coming from SNES where you essentially had single cycle access to anywhere in memory.
> Bringing the biggest CPU architecture upgrade to the everyday laptop
Intel's new Core Ultra processors introduce three new major architecture features to its laptop portfolio.

Phew, i was crushing my brain to remember when the M3 processors were better than Intel. On laptops.
Estonia is still accessible (and they drink more than Russians, on average).
As a 270lb guy who is also tall, with a healthy mix of muscle and fat... Two beers 12oz beers will get me a really nice buzz, if not quite tipsy.

I drink maybe once a month, though- it's pretty wild to notice how much more affected you are once you lose your tolerance.
It's not 2002 anymore. Apple has about 1/4 of the enterprise desktop market.
> Does no one read the site anymore?

I don't read the vast majority of sites linked here. I come here for the comments. I assume anything that's important enough to know will be directly quoted in a comment here.
Other than just manually generating a UUID and storing it then doing searches for it, is there any sort of formalized service/application/library for "Air Tag but for your data"?

Generate a unique string, store it along with my data, notify me if it shows up anywhere.

I wonder if it's possible to generate a canary of that sort that can be detected in AI models.
Ask HN: Anyone know if the brr.fyi blogger is ok?
After seeing several interesting posts pop up here, I (like probably lots of other HNers) enjoyed following https://brr.fyi and getting a taste of life in Antarctica. I was reminded of the blog this week and came to the realization that after posting at least once a month for 13 months, the anonymous blogger hasn't posted anything since August.

The blog's About page indicates the author would likely be finishing their work in November 2023 so they've probably departed Antarctica at this point.

Of course it's just a blog and they owe us nothing, but I hope all is well with the author. I'd imagine the isolation of life in Antarctica, especially at the South Pole station is intense and can be difficult to cope with.

Fingers crossed that there might be a wrap-up post or some reflections on the overall experience but if you're out there brr.fyi blogger, first and foremost thanks for sharing so much already and I hope you're doing well!
stone tools like hand axes were not well suited for combat. For example, war clubs the dominant weapon of choice in every stone age culture I know of, despite using hand axes for work and spears for hunting.
That is not entirely accurate. Thanks to the GDPR subprocessors need to be disclosed and changes to them too. As a result plenty of companies are now much more selective about how many they are willing to entertain.
I wish they'd capitalize on it by making ARM as well supported as x64 is, where any program, any OS, any line of code ever written will most likely run flawlessly. Meanwhile the average ARM computer struggles to support even a single version and distro of Linux. Like why is ARM such a fucking travesty when it comes to compatibility?
Thanks for the heads up - a page more focussed on dbt specifically is here:

https://count.co/product/data-modeling/

and associated blog post:

https://count.co/blog/how-we-made-data-modeling-multiplayer/
The scarier reality to me is less that I'm being actively spied on and more that we're all very algorithmically predictable. Why bother actively spying when it turns out that the websites they visit in a day does a good enough of a job predicting what kind of person they are.