skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/155982761142576...

This is an extensive review of many papers from 10 years ago, most data agrees that vegetarian diet is considerably healthier.

More modern literature merely adds that if you go full vegan you need to eat quite some if you want to preserve lean mass.
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ChatGPT is too nice. I need an AI that can put out several vulgar insults in a short time span to be broadcast to other AI enabled vehicles so that other drivers have severe epiphanies in bad taste.

But seriously, I don't expect much from this. The car industry worldwide fails to make convincing products relating to interfaces for drivers. There is that high school MBA that invents heating your arse as a microservice and little else. The technical advancement is restricted to drive assists and car interfaces feel like expensive vaporware the moment you but the newest model. And every component is optimized against you, be that for self repair or simple maintenance.

The one use case I have is navigation, but there are already some nice systems for that. Perhaps good for kids that ask how long the ride is taking every 2.5 minutes.

But anything VW does relating for software is probably still positive...
This industry is ridiculously slow compared to IT. Air traffic comms (both voice AM and text ACARS/VDL) are not only not encrypted, but also crucially not even authenticated. So you can send text messages and speak to any aircraft at any privilege level (just say you're ATC) with a simple SDR. Or you can spoof a faulty engine message on the downlink channel.
Airline pilot privacy.

CVRs were always highly contentious when introduced, due to exactly the situations you see today in the media. The pilot unions were concerned that these recordings would be released to the public, both out of context and releasing private personal data not relevant to the public - especially if anything at all salacious could be found.

There were strict protections about CVR data never being released, but of course those restrictions more or less no longer exist today in reality - leaks abound.

I think those that dismiss this concern entirely are the folks who cannot think critically. It highlights a legitimate concern for workplace privacy, of which the Overton window has shifted drastically into less privacy expectations over my lifetime. The public will nearly unanimously call for 25 hours here, but this was not the case even 40 years ago.

I think the benefit outweighs the concerns in this particular case, but you are now seeing the same fight regarding cockpit video recorders. I can't say the pilots are wrong given the history of CVR data breaches.

If I were a pilot I'd grudgingly support the existence of the CVRs, but I can't say I'd really like the idea. I've seen how sound bites get taken completely out of context and sound worse than they were intended at the time. I've also seen how CVR data is absolutely critical in resolving some accidents. It's all a tradeoff, but certainly not an immediately obvious one unless you value privacy at zero.

Edit: The idea behind the 2 hours thing, was that 2 hours would be plenty of time to record anything relevant to an actual accident. Either the plane is in pieces and recording has stopped, or the recordings get pulled on successful landing after declaring emergency. The entire intent was to limit what was available to only the accident sequences - not general chit chat 5 hours prior to any event while they were waiting for taxi clearance. Technical limitations at the time also didn't hurt this argument.

Also I think it's good to point out that relying on the pilots to pull the breaker after an incident is not ideal and one of those things that the union has absolutely kept in as a feature, not a bug. This has obviously been abused.
They have a reputation for a very drawn out and unnecessarily grueling interview process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857
They have already collapsed some places in the world. Like the Baltic sea where a keystone specie like the cod is in so much trouble that it seems irreversible.
Probably, but why would I want to keep formatted blank cells in my CSV data, when it doesn't even represent the style/formatting in any way? If there was any data I'd care about from those cells, it'd only maybe be the styling. But if it's not going to export the styling information, and the content is blank, then don't export those cells.
I read a lot about these sort of bleak predictions from people very in the weeds on the topics, but rarely see it being surfaced in a way that's easily citeable. I've seen second hand reports that the Amazon rain forest will experience it's tipping point within the next 3-5 years no matter what happens and even that it's already tipped, but we haven't figured it out yet. Frustrating that such dire claims aren't widely reported and made more aware. I fear that everything climate/earth system related is stuck in with the view that we should only say how bad things are when it's already over and measurable beyond any sort of doubt. That obviously leaves the public with no time to act
> Can’t get so fat and unhealthy.

Why can't someone get as fat and unhealthy with a vegan diet? I'm friends with vegans who eat a LOT of processed foods - Gardein crispy tenders, Carl's Jr. for Beyond Burgers, etc.

> And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups.

How much of this is attributable to a specific diet vs highlighting that those who care about what they eat generally perform better?
George Hu cut his teeth under Benioff during the most meteoric rise of both Salesforce and Benioff's celebrity. I would be very surprised if Jeff's desire to be a public facing CEO would even cause George to notice, let alone bristle at.

It's more likely that someone as smart as George might have just looked at the fundamentals of the business and decided it could not keep this up over the long term.

or... it might have just been epic timing too. Probably.
I had a spectacular break once. Sat my phone on my recumbent trike seat when I stood up, to take off my jacket. Went to pick up my trike, put it in the back of my truck and the phone spun off. About four feet off the ground.

Hit the cement spinning, which spiderweb cracked one corner. Not content with that, it bounced, now spinning in the opposite direction from the impact, hit on the other corner, spiderweb crack.

Now the bottom third of my phone was shattered glass with shards sticking out. And I had to call my team, learn their eta. One a week-long five hundred mile cycling tour.

Sucked.
Wow, if that's USB-C and it still charges, I'm going to stop worrying about reduced drop stability (while plugged in) compared to Lightning iPhones.
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On my end as well, Mac + safari
Depends. There's a pretty good theory on building compilers, for instance.

One interesting observation made in the post, on the other hand, is that the source code of a program does not necessary contain the idea(s) behind the program or even its intent. I can attest to that - it is indeed often the case that people who are involved in writing or updating a program's code may have different levels of the (mis)understanding of the code itself and, sure enough, of the "theory" behind it. (Unit tests reflect this situation.)
But in turn it would incentivize some better practices to avoid risks of fines.. It wouldn't be risky if companies didn't act maliciously and ignore regulations etc.
Right. If this was actually a general purpose VR headset, then it would be competitive.

Instead, it's a toy. It's not allowed to be anything more.
I'd be in favour of removing meat subsidies. If the 'true' price of steak or a burger was ten times higher people would eat it for special occasions and not every day with every meal. It's telling and hypocritical how many meat eating 'libertarians' are in favour of government handouts to preserve their food eating habits rather than letting the market do it's work. I'm a meat eater but I'll concede that those subsidies would have to be slowly removed -- otherwise it would result in the collapse of certain industries.

Commercial fishing is just unsustainable. So unless you're a guy with a fishing rod we'll eventually have to just stop the boats heading out to sea.
> These data center targeted GPUs can only output that many tokens per second for large batches.

No… my RTX 3090 can output 130 tokens per second with Mistral on batch size 1. A more powerful GPU (with faster memory) should easily be able to crack 200 tokens per second at batch size 1 with Mistral.

At larger batch sizes, the token rate would be enormous.

Microsoft’s high performing Phi-2 model breaks 200 tokens per second on batch size 1 on my RTX 3090. TinyLlama-1.1B is 350 tokens per second, though its usefulness may be questionable.

We’re just used to datacenter GPUs being used for much larger models, which are much slower, and cannot fit on today’s phones.
And if ypu wpuld care to read the details, you'd see why. Labour protection is a lot weaker in the US, and pilots are already worling under shitty conditions to begin with there as well. Handing over a 100% surveillance right to employers under these conditions actually does seem like a bad idea.
Only if Apple lets you install an adblocker. That's the issue with these closed systems, they might not allow it at all and then you're stuck with it. That's one reason why I use an Android over an iPhone, superior adblocking everywhere.
Yep this is a fair concern. Proponents would say that a good implementation would mitigate a lot of the data loss issues we currently see (I work in the digital id space so not entirely disinterested here).

Right now the way we verify identity is "dumb" in the sense that we prove identity using document ids or photos. This is "too strong" - to prove I am over 18 or just "the account holder" I must present valuable document IDs or scans which disclose other things about me such as my exact date of birth or my legal name. It is also "too weak" in that any verifier who receives these things can present them to someone else and impersonate me.

Today, every entity we deal with who verifies our identity can also impersonate us. There are billions of ID scans absolutely everywhere, in realtor's offices and lawyer's cabinets, at car rental agencies, etc ad nauseum.

A good "digital id" scheme allows for cryptographic proofs of identity which are non-transferable between verifiers. It allows things like proving that I am John Smith who is over 18 and holds a driver's license in a way that does not allow the verifier to then present those to someone else and impersonate me. It can allow for proofs of uniqueness, e.g. I can prove that I'm a person you've seen before with id xxxyyy in your database without disclosing my name (if the verifier chooses not to collect that). It can allow "blinding", e.g. I can hand over a token to someone who doesn't need to "see" my actual identity details unless they initiate legal process (say car rental scenario) and then I can be notified if that happens.

It is likely that a lot of verifiers might choose to "over collect" (say, request up-front proof of my legal name when strictly speaking they don't need that to rent me a car) but this can at least be discouraged by measures like tuning service charges so that more invasive verifications cost them more and ensuring that verifiers are subject to different regulation tiers based on the scope of data they collect. Even if the entity loses my PII e.g. my name, DOB, phone number, the systems are designed to not allow anyone accessing that information to impersonate me.

Strictly speaking digital id schemes / properties are orthogonal to "national ids". There are centralised, de-centralised and more or less anarchic (p2p) "versions" of digital identity. However, a government operated scheme at the national level could reduce a lot of commercial capture and the kind of "waste" that happens when you need to stitch together many disparate data sources.
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There are many other system other then Starlink you could also use. And most airlines already have these installed anyway. And if a new plane costs minimum 25 million $, and most cost 50 million $ or more, a few 1000s to safely record data seems reasonable.

Bandwidth issue for a bunch of audio files? I think we can figure that out.

> (3)

I don't think a single person would suggest we replace the Blackbox. This would be in addition, not instead.

> (4)

I'm sue the plane produces lots of data that isn't transmitted. It would generally be smart to transmit far more data then we currently do and I'm not sure those methods are up to large increases.

But if they are, then yes that would be good.
At least "we" can reclaim the name, take it back for good, unlike the cool iconography and salutes that the nazis ruined forever
This is ignoring other words that we have. If Crazy Carl says that something happened, that is a claim, not evidence. That something is missing is evidence, but not that anyone/anything in particular took it.

And pushing that "alleged facts" boil down to "someone says" is ignoring some methods of science. Some people have recorded what the value of gravity on earth is. They have also recorded an analytic equation to calculate it, with the argument that it would work in other locations. They have then worked examples validating the equation in other locations. They have also given directions for how you can, personally, validate the value where you are. This is all very different than "someone says."
I've replied consistently to everyone in this thread, to the point of monotony. I haven't switched anything. I've replied so consistently and repetitively, with the same statements, that it's actually grating. This is the second time someone has tried the "you switched what you've said" argument tactic, even though it's very clear the only thing I've talked about is liability of the creators of the software, not the software itself. You have either not fully read my comment that you are replying to, or are misunderstanding it thoroughly enough in order to pretend that I've said the opposite of what I've said.

I don't owe you any further replies, but I wanted to make this clear to anyone else skimming the thread.
Being a celebrity CEO makes sense when interest rates are low and your main job is to keep convincing investors to pump in money. Of course when interest rates are high, and your main job is business and company fundamentals that's a lot less useful. I'm seeing a lot of startups (and public companies) with CEOs like that floundering right now.
They're playing a dangerous game. While they are currently one source of many they could easily be excluded from the training data and it won't make a dent in the capability of the model. Attempting to get payment for use of their data is a very short term viewpoint since the vast majority of written training data is likely to be synthetic going forward. They should be angling for citations and referrals back to their content so that they keep the current benefits they get from search engines after a large chunk of search gets replaced by LLMs.
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I fail to understand how you are (trying to?) justify the US nuking Russia or China. I’m not from any of these countries but I don’t follow your logic. Should some other country be permitted to nuke the US if the IS “became evil”?
Well, you can maybe put some qr codes less sensible to compression XD. OK, OK, it was a joke, just do some steganography.
I'm just explaining the truth. I'm not saying it should be considered OK - we should absolutely look down on the behavior and look for solutions to discourage it.

Obviously without looking at the code behind it I can only speculate, but I think my speculation agrees pretty well with their business model and why they might choose to ban people whose analytics data (or lack thereof) matches yours. In fact, it's indeed not a ban, since you can appeal it by providing extra personal data - the concept of "bullshit ban -> provide personal info for security -> automatic unban" procedure is routine nowadays, pioneered by Twitter.

> charge me with a completely unwarranted ToS violation

I'm not defending their claim - we all know "ToS violation" has been bullshit since the dawn of startups. It's the generic "unhandled exception"/500 error equivalent of the software world.
Yeah, but CGI has fallen out of fashion and needed a re-branding!
You've constructed a false dichotomy. You can have the current 2-hour system and a cheap 24-hour system at the same time.

Then you can gradually harden the new addon. This could be a way to make it all even more expensive.
This is a genuine question... isn't that his job?

For a public company, the CEO has to be a public CEO. Everyone takes on a different persona (some sell themselves as business geniuses, others as creative geniuses, and others as someone you wanna grab a beer with). Some really like it, and some do it begrudgingly. But at the end of the day, you can't be the same CEO of a public company as you were when you were private.

I've never known Jeff to hobnob with celebrities, travel in luxury or abandon his company. I'm not sure he's a "celebrity CEO" as much as he just became a public one, although I don't know him personally.

(FWIW, this is the reason I'd never want to go public. I personally don't like the system, but that doesn't mean it's not how the system works.)
Don't be so dense. Even if that is the case, it it probably is not, there exists a certified flight recorder module with 25h capacity. They should not have to go through any 'soup to nuts' certification process for a new module with this capacity. They could simply take the current module they use in europe, give it a quick once over ( assuming european standards are at least as strict as american standards.. which i'm sure they are ) and say 'yup, buy and install those in all new craft'.
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Consider that 'no evidence' is a contraction of the phrase 'no verifiable / scientific evidence'.
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When did Mr. Bates, the X poster, find the phone? The time shows 2:21 and the picture was taken during daylight. Is that 2:21AM or 2:21PM? If in 12hr mode I'd expect the later.
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I don’t about instagram, but it was all over the internet. It was Bloomberg and the economist as a twitter killer and was definitely on the front page here as well. It was advertised as only needing an instagram account and as an extension of that
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I think "ignoring it" is unnecessarily imputing bad faith.

But ignorance is a thing, even for authorities.

There's a difference between a person/institution having no evidence of X, and no evidence of X in general. So, "who" doesn't have evidence, and how much effort they took to attempt to find evidence before they declared it non-existent, is a relevant question when "no evidence" claims are proposed.

It's funny, because when a person or institution comes out and says "there is no evidence" of whatever (without a context), it would be discredited if any obscure person in the world has such evidence, even if not widely published. It would, IMHO, be much better to say that "we have looked into <all the reasonable sources and literature> and found no evidence" instead.
So the world's top machine learning experts, when they trained GPT4 got together and said "Let's design it to lie to everyone about how it works." As part of a plot to deceive you for some unstated motivation. I mean, it couldn't be the folks who know how the sausage is made made sure that the sausage was accurately labeled, that's not possible?

Also you think the claim that GPT 4 is less intelligent that a cat is "trolling" even though Meta's chief scientist in December has said we don't even have cat level AI yet. I guess he's also part of this plot to deceive you about how AI works?
It looks like they did redact the last 4 digits of the person's credit card number in the email. It seems odd they would have done this and not done the same for the name though.
Are there people using PL/SQL today?
I work with plsql daily at my job. But i seldom see people using it in any projects beside my job. are there people using PL/SQL?
I'm not sure this is true in principle though. For example, there's plenty of encryption in use today that has "perfect" security (in the sense that a cipher hasn't been broken) and which is transparent to the end user. This wouldn't have been true a long time ago, when there was no such thing as computer science and the security of information was more to do with how many soldiers you had and how beefy your strongbox was.

Similarly, there's no reason in principle why certain classes of fraud couldn't be rendered practically impossible by an advance in technology, which would undermine the whole "you should welcome some fraud" argument.
I understand, like others have pointed out this will be an echo chamber result set. However it's nice to know I am not alone (especially being young). My newest vehicle is from 1999, my smartphone is going on 6 years old (still 2 days on a charge) I have 15 apps total on it and spend a max of 20 minutes a day on it. My newest computers are in my rack from 2018 (I have a small hosting business). Asus ultrabook from 2016 still plays my video games fine and decent battery life.

No IoT, no automation stuff. I have a tv w/htpc but it has been unplugged for 6 years. I get all of my current events/media from RSS feeds or email (highly curated). During the day mobile notifications are silenced. I mostly pay in cash when I go out. Had a fitbit 5 years ago never connected to phone, got rid of it when it died.

I like the sound of the engine when I drive, otherwise FM radio. I avoid taking my phone when I go places unless I need GPS, but I often print directions if I'm traveling to semi familiar areas. I always keep a few maps in the glove box as well.

I was recently laid off and I'm bummed because it's going to be hard finding a new remote work job in tech that isn't soul sucking in regards to tech.
The author of which is in this thread as well
Got to admit, reading that, I thought it was describing the free market failure to 'right the ship'. The bad actors are not actually bad; they're just responding to market forces. They cannot choose to do otherwise, else they simple go out of business because they are uncompetitive.

The namecalling and villain-choosing is pointless. It's a system that must be designed, one that works with rules and forces in a useful direction.
Weird how the "privacy heavy" EU manages to have 25 hr recording requirements...
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Hm, last time I checked and tried this, there were still limitations, but it has been a while and maybe something improved.