skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think it's fully cultural? I agree that it can partly be the case, but I doubt that it would explain all of the difference for several reasons:

- Wikipedia cites the study that showed this effect for the brain size (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8675415/)

- IQ is known to be mostly genetic (see e.g. Pinker's "Blank Slate"), so it's unlikely (though not impossible) that the differences in IQ stddev are cultural

- Wikipedia cites another study that found similar effect in birds: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7423667/. This kind of difference could evolve due to different reproduction strategies for males and females.
Maybe, but if the perception is that they're going to get the stick no matter what they do, I'm not sure that creates much pressure or incentive to do the actually do the right thing.

Either way, I don't think it's a net positive for us to choose to be less correctly informed about an issue or encourage the same in others, even if it's in pursuit of an otherwise worthwhile goal.
Interesting, I was reading elsewhere that the pitch-up tendency is not extreme and within limits of other approved airframes.

And there's the stabiliser trim that helps a lot with control forces of course. But I didn't read that book, I will check it out thanks!
Perspective: live in the USA, from Australia (where the “locale” mentality is the same as USA), lived for years in France. So I understand both sides.

The simple explanation is that nobody in the US really cares about the point of origin — even wine labels are considered more a brand than a location. There is no sense that « terroir » might have any consequence.

Sometimes you encounter food labeled with the state where it was grown or produced — that’s mainly a “buy local” claim, nothing more.
Yeah. The anecdote was partially a response to the point in the article about it not being marketed as a quitting aid; and partially just a tangential anecdote about my experience of addiction and conditioning.
>Siri is mostly useless

I would normally agree with you, but both my daughter and I had experiences with it this past week where we asked it to provide information while we were driving and it actually did - correctly even. We both commented that it felt like something had changed or improved
What if the brain can perceive more signals but that the most common signals are those that are "known" to be captured by the average of the population?

To put it another way, there could also be cases where what is deemed an hallucination isn't, but it might lead to psychosis if the subject doesn't know how to interpret the new signal.

To reason by analogy, that would be akin to everyone being blind and a couple people developping sight.

Whole point is that unless we can understand what the brain is doing, we simply observe a phenomenon but we don't know what the phenomenon actually is.

(not talking about drug induced hallucinations, just to be clear)
> Is nicotine itself dangerous?

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tobacco_Sickness
The Future of Nukes Involves AI and Nobody Knows What Happens Next
> You also start to realize how narrow and sometimes shallow expertise is

Thanks for putting this in such clear words.

What I would really like to learn is not to be ticked off about seeing this. I get annoyed when somebody is pawning their expertise of as something grand while I think it's quite limited, and often, of course, so limited that they can't even conceive of the space outside their limits. I find my natural reaction overly negative and just not productive.
bfloat16 mostly matters for training stability, not for inference. M1 is inefficient for training any reasonably sized model and most inference efforts target 4-8 bits, even.
> We deal with ordinary DDoS attacks in the normal course of operations, and we are generally able to mitigate them on our end. However, this is not an ordinary DDoS attack; the attacker posesses considerable resources and is operating at a scale beyond that which we have the means to mitigate ourselves. In response, before we could do much ourselves to understand or mitigate the problem, our upstream network provider null routed SourceHut entirely, rendering both the internet at large, and SourceHut staff, unable to reach our servers.

It feels like these days you need to be a customer of one of the internet giants, like CloudFlare, to prevent this. SourceHut has always flown in the face of that argument, seeking to prove that independent, good old-fashioned systems administration is all that's needed to run a website. I have loved their demonstrating this independent spirit. I hope that independence will still win here, despite attacks like this one.
>I'm honestly curious how CloudFlare will handle reference checks for these people

Just like every other company: confirm the start date, the end date, and the job title. Nobody in their sane mind will give anything else.
Amazing! I was looking to make a very minimal triple-store based client db with lrw sync and triplit looks great. Is the underlying db using wasm SQLite in the browser? Is it open for contributions? And also any other "competitors" with similar reach to triplit? I've been looking into the current SQLite based + CRDT implementations but not sure how they compare
On dating websites women mostly target the top 10% in terms of looks and attractiveness. That suggests kindness isn't high on their wishlist.

However, getting yourself a dog and going for morning runs does get you approached by eligible women, so I guess it depends on the social context.
Show HN: A GPT-4 chat loop that can directly read and write your code files
I was fed up with pasting code into ChatGPT and copying it back out, so I made this interactive chat tool which can read and write your code files directly.
> There are literally no downsides to using nicotine itself besides the addiction.

Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?
The project website is at http://stellarium.org/. There is no need to have images inside a project repository. Every maintainer already knows what it looks like. What next? Marketing materials?
Copythat.com
Fun MIC keynote on the future of global manufacturing [video]
This is Peter Zeihan, a sort of global prognosticator and someone who tends to make fairly dramatic predictions about the world (China will disappear in 10 years... because of demographics|finance|despotism) but I found this talk interesting for the breadth of the geopolitical scope and the nuts and bolts of the global economy and manufacturing, as well as historical perspectives. At a minimum I found it entertaining, even if reality is likely to be a bit less explosive.
I don't care.

This is not an academic paper, this is an internet forum.
Anyone seeing any groundbreaking features or reasons to try this over x64dbg or other existing debuggers?
There are a lot more Arabic aspects of the Fremen in the books that didn't make it into the movie. They could have left those and removed the word Jihad but they went all the way.
Or looked at another way, employers value workers time even less and people notice.
> But people-a husband and wife pleasuring each other? Intolerable!

Exactly this. There are plenty of couples out there making videos of themselves having sex, and it's not my place (or anyone else's) to tell them they can't.
No they hadn't, no they didn't. No it wasn't. No they didn't... in that order.

The Nazi's had no atomic programme advanced enough to create a reactor, even less a bomb. They certainly knew it was theoretically possible, but didn't pursue it thinking that development would take years longer than they anticipated the war to take.
Orwell was a far better essayist than a novelist, so it's a shame they don't get read as much. I highly recommend the one where he analyses some children's stories: https://orwell.ru/library/essays/boys/english/e_boys.

The political implications he teased out are very interesting.
Just wait until you read the comments calling for reprogramming them, heh.
This is all so wild to me. All of human art is derivative of other art and all human artists wildly steal from one another.

Further, "style" isn't copyrightable or sellable.

Artists don't sell a style, they sell artwork.

I just think it's wild that the entire human art scene is allowed to blatantly rip each other off (all pop sounds the same, all anime looks the same, all comic books look the same, etc etc) and it's OK, but the second that a computer does it, it's the most horrifying crime against art in history.

I think the fascinating part to me will be when AI is good enough to pick apart human art and point out all the thefts. "You stole this chord, these lyrics are basically ripped from here" "Your style is 98% this artist and you've only really change two elements" etc.

Artists hide behind their influences and it's going to be a new world when a computer can ascertain every single reference that was stolen, going to be a lot of interesting law suits.
Somewhat of an aside - it occurs to me there's an analog in population ethics here, e.g. Parfit's "Repugnant Conclusion".

Would you rather have a few people thriving and the rest not doing so well? Or is it better to have more people doing marginally better, at the cost of those few thriving exceptionally?
That's modern python. There's really no single stable python to target anymore. Only pythons. Every project requires you to set up a container in which you just create a custom python specifically for that project.

Breaking feature removal is more of the same spirit. These are the consequences of popularity and rapid progress. Perl would never be forced into a corner like this and chose to break things.
I'm using LocalSend for local network sharing needs (typically stuff between my laptop and my phone).
It works like a charm, and is really easy to use

https://github.com/localsend/localsend
The language spec is the only place able to introduce meaning to a source byte sequence starting with a backslash that has been invalid before (e.g. not double-backslash, or backslash-u). ${ on the other hand never been an invalid byte sequence inside a string literal, and was hence already used by many APIs. It's nothing but courteous by the language people to avoid avoidable collisions. Keep in mind that this new syntax is completely open to everybody else who might have a use case for strings-with-expressions, it's not like they are appropriating a previously blank spot for exclusive use.
J-20 is now powered by Chinese WS-15.

Y-20 is now powered by Chinese WS-20.
- If you ever find yourself in Reno, Deli Towne U.S.A. is locally known for making amazing sandwiches in a Chevron station at the corner of Lakeside and Moana.

- Maverik stations in the western U.S. are about the nicest convenience stores I've ever visited, and their onsite kitchens prepare pretty decent gas-station food. Lately, they've rolled out premium pizzas in their larger locations; I had a thick-crust Detroit-style slice recently and it was absolutely restaurant quality.

- I understand Wawa stations in the eastern U.S. are known for their food; can anyone here comment?
I wanted to read, but not on a .ru site.

edit: I just tried it on mobile Safari and it was a pleasant read. :b
LOL, having a read about it on Wikipedia now.

That’s certainly an amusing way of looking at it!
Am I the only one that didn’t know the price differed between locations?

I just assumed that, other than airports and other special cases like that, the prices were set nationally.
Playing devil's advocate, this could be considered the limit of an incident, as the plane could still operate.
>Have you actually watched Jodorowskys movies? Because if you go and watch one, you know that his Dune would be have been an absolutely incomprehensible nightmare.

Yeah, it would've been great. El Topo is awesome. Holy Mountain is probably even better.
They're all owned by different people (it's a franchise) and, as you might expect with a country the geographic size of the US, costs vary widely.

Land taxes, shipping costs, utility costs, average local salary pushing up (or down) the wage floor they hire at, all influence the minimum amount of money any particular restaurant needs to make to break even or be profitable.

Since they're all owned independently and merely rent the name (and sometimes the land) from the McDonald's corporate entity, they have some leeway on setting their prices. There's a whole lot of rules they have to follow, of course, but that's the jist.

Usually, prices don't vary much, if at all, when looking at a smaller area or among locations owned by the same person.

The exceptions are if a particular location is especially expensive or high demand, such as interstate highway rest stops or when the location is attached to a highly trafficked gas station. The rents and taxes on those locations alone are enough to push prices up.
Yes. Multiple studies have found nicotine promotes and accelerates tumor growth -- basically helping carcinogens develop into cancers faster.

Nicotine itself likely causes a whole slew of negative health impacts on your cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and reproductive symptoms. Not to mention it's highly addictive.

Worth a read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
Exactly this. Well said
Except then it would still be absolutely trivial for people to write their own string-interpolating template processors, which they would definitely do, and so we figured we might as well offer a standard one (that also offers better performance than hand-rolled ones). It is difficult to find the right balance between educating people to do "the right thing" as we see it and rolling with the recognition that they not always will. I wish we could say there's some formula we apply, but we need to exercise such judgment with lots of features and it's never a trivial decision. In this case we figured that if we make the thing people will want to do anyway no easier than the "right thing", that's probably as good as we can do, all things considered.
There is almost no perception that the company acted professionally. So she came out as a person who can stand up for herself.
It’s addictive, it costs money, and it makes you feel worse when you are not using it. I think that’s enough to say it’s harmful, although it’s every adult’s right to choose whether they want to use it or not.
A modern smartphone, no, not currently. Feature phones maybe, if made specifically with low-power parts.

Personally I'm interested in putting this in a watchy [0], that can get around on tens of microwatts average consumption because of deep sleep states and an e-paper screen.

[0] https://watchy.sqfmi.com
Reading that it sounds like to me she’s unipolar manic. And this is coming from someone who knows about it because I have bipolar disorder.

This would also possibly describe her drug addiction If the drugs weren’t drugs that would fuel mania.
I'm almost 39 and I did pass my driving test last year for the first time in my life.

Not sure how things work in the US, but where I am, we get a standard package of 30 driving hours before we can do the exam.
For me that wasn't enough,so I had to take additional hours,which did help a lot and removed knowledge gaps.
In a nutshell,the older one is,the more hours will be needed.
https://learndriving.tips/starting-out/how-many-driving-less...

My advice is to get a bigger number of hours so the instructor would have enough time to teach properly. Also I did on a manual, which is way less popular in the US, however it does help a lot understanding how the car behaves,etc.
I'm kind of with you. In line with the article, its more the application of computers that's the problem - instead of making the world a better place, its a more distracting place.

Is it really worth it shuffling digitized crap around at high speeds if the outcome is a worse human experience because we're only applying it to the low hanging fruit and therefore creating a slippery slope for ourselves...?

The irony is that escaping into a simpler VR world with less distractions can help you deal with this, but I don't think its the right move.

I'm also reminded of Lee Felensteins quote from Steven Levy's Hacker's book. "You're doing all that for the computer!? What are you doing for the people!?"
Coppicing
wouldn't it be easy at scale if you have RFID?
It's Humans All the Way Down
I imagine some OSS authors don't consider someone visiting the GitHub readme before visiting their website. I can't fathom thinking like that, but it must have never crossed their mind.

Here's the screenshots: https://stellarium.org/screenshots.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screensh...
The cancer risk from chewing tobacco is mostly caused by the abrasive damage it does to the oral mucosal soft-tissue¹. If someone chewed maples leaf with the same vigor as someone who chewed tobacco it would probably cause oral cancer to.

The nicotine itself doesn't appear to be a carcinogen² so unless your chewing gum is abrasive, I would be surprised if it caused cancer, but the scientific literature on oral cancer and nicotine chewing gum is almost inexistent so my opinion is mostly based on a feeling.

1- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172921/
2- https://cancer-code-europe.iarc.fr/index.php/en/ecac-12-ways...
That is if you consume too much. Anything is poisonous in great enough quantities, including water. I'm assuming OP is asking about whether it's dangerous in normal dosages.
Boeing is a negligible subset of the USG though.

I find it more weird when Lockheed, CSC etc contract to run non-military programs for the USG. Whatever your opinion of military matters, I think it’s a bad idea to have a company whose main objective is killing people manage a program designed to, say, keep people from starving to death.
India's IndiGo places record order for 500 A320 Family aircraft (2023)
They would never write an article saying "communists have fundamental thinking errors".

Also, incels are always male and cis, by definition. You would be cancelled if you dared call a non-male non-cis person person an incel.
I shuddered when the (Canadian) iPhone app insisted that it was allowed to run as a background process and that precise geolocation was on. GFYS was my second reaction.
Have you considered an area where additional news sources can be suggested, or perhaps allowing subscribers to introduce additional news sites? This is a great site, and I use it regularly, but because it is curated by you I lose some control and ease of access. As an example, you include sites like the Intercept and Fox News, I suspect to introduce balance, but do not for example include Al Jazeera. This leads to your site aggregating with the inherent bias from your sources.
This seems quite condescending; I'm not sure if that's your intent.

I've met people who have "taken refuge" in such communities precisely because of real life interactions. E.g., being bullied continuously through school, being rejected or laughed at by women.

Being online obviously exacerbates the issue (be it radical forums, social media, online dating), but I think saying people only believe X because they're online misses the mark.
I needed that laugh... :-D
I think I see what they mean. "Misconception" means something where you can point out "no, that's incorrect". But these people have more than just an error in their knowledge, they are fundamentally misconstruing the world and how it works.
Thank you, this is amazing -- especially with so many stories about McDonald's sticker-shock recently. This actually shows where that is and isn't the case, how localized it is.

It also illustrates a fundamental problem with the Economist's famous Big Mac Index [1] -- I've never understood how they choose the price of a Big Mac per-country, when it's so extremely variable locally. Even if they tried to choose "major metropolitan city prices", Big Mac prices vary a ton even within New York City, for example. There's more variation within NYC than the Economist reports between many countries. I've never understood it.

Edit: their GitHub page [2] reports:

> In July 2022 we updated the Big Mac index to use a McDonalds-provided price for the United States (previously, we averaged the price from four major US cities).

Which again, gives me no confidence. How is McDonald's providing a single price? That's a black box. And even averaging the cost between four major cities, there's a meaningful difference between a McDonald's in Times Square vs. in the Bronx. So how did they even used to pick a price per-city?

So just thanks for this McCheapest site. Pretty awesome to have actually accurate data.

[1] https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index

[2] https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data
It is also true that they have errant beliefs. You're talking about the reason they have these beliefs, which is relevant too, but at some level they have to change their minds.
Probably a combination of the franchisee that owns them and higher shipping costs to that region.
Zyn is probably safer than nicotine gum. Gum often contains heavy metals like cadmium and lead.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9985244/
> Also, I think you may have misunderstood what this feature...

No, I am aware of the differences between StringBuilder and string templating. One of the most common usage is concatenation (e.g. toString() methods). Sometimes it's cleaner to use StringBuilder instead of + operator to do that. And templating will be mostly used for concatenation.

All I am saying is, it could be simpler. I read the full JEP before my first comment. I frequently do Python and did little bit of Kotlin before. I guess that's where all this is coming from.
> Are you causing harm through your actions?

1. I would argue the bar should be "more harm then good", otherwise most of human activity would be banned.

2. Since you've given no compelling evidence that that is the case, you don't have much of an argument for preventing it.
> is based on the authors definition of success in art which is box office returns.

It's probably also based on Lynch's comments about Dune being pretty much his only regret in life.
>My model is that incels are members of an extremist ideology

Contrast your model to what the article says about this.

> the study showed incels were ____, more ______ and more politically ________ than previously reported.
Pre-web, I used to work at a dating service doing many things, but the data entry, number crunching, etc. part was my main job. I really should have moved the data off of dBase III floppies but first I noticed trends, then I ran numbers to confirm my suspicions.

The gulf between what people say they want and what they actually do (whom they ask out, or from whom they will accept requests) is vast. Self-reporting is largely a matter of public relations. People who refer to evolutionary psychology as "evo psych" are dog-whistling for the tabula rasa crowd and can be safely ignored; you can't tell them anything they don't want to hear anyway.

In any case, your worst suspicions are likely to be true. Men did the asking out, by and large. Men were bigger on the shotgun approach, also no surprise. We asked people to rate each preference as to how important it was to them ("do you really need blue eyes?") and women, on average, rated all of their preferences as more important than the men did. Height was almost always in the top three for women, in terms of preferences, in terms of whom they asked out if that did happen, and from whom they would accept requests. That and income.

I've seen other studies, later, which bore all of this out, but if you want the true dirt, you go look at what people actually do, not what they want someone to think they do.