skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't agree with the federal dietary guidelines. The foundation of that article blows up.

Each time the guidelines come out, they make their usual appeal to authority comments. Say that all the latest science was taking into account.

60% of your calories coming from carbs is a very bad idea. I don't care if you're vegan, carnivore or whatever but the latest science says don't do that.

Elimination of fat in your diet? You know the premium factor in food. The more fat, the more expensive. Why would you ever do this? All keto science says high fat is the way to go.

Reducing cholesterol to basically 0? That's basically criminal advice. You require high dietary cholesterol to exist.

It's remarkable to me that the government gives such bad unscientific dietary advice that's causing immense health problems. Making single payer medicine impossible. Also at the same time the military cant recruit anyone. It's kind of a national security thing that they stop giving this bad dietary advice.
since everyone is sharing code, why not? I feel this is a simpler way of sharing reasoning anyway. (in k; ! is iota, % is divide and +/ sums up a list)

wa:!101 / world amplitudes given we picked red (i.e relative probability)
wp:wa%+/wa / convert amplitude to probability
np:(wa-1)%99 / probability of next pick being red for each world

+/wp*np / sum the conditional probabilities

of course, if you wanted to golf this, you'd end up with {2%3}
Are you looking to test different prompts on a set of questions? I have not found anything that specifically does this. When I have tested different prompts, it has just been with a short script iterating through the questions/prompts. Could be a fun project to build something where all you do is add the prompts you'd want to test, but the challenge that first comes to my mind is creating the question set to be used.

As I write this, when you say you want to test prompts, are you looking to test the system prompt on a set of questions or is the prompt the question and just asked in different ways?
Almost as if "doing the right thing" requires an underlying moral framework.
Not for me personally. I already have too much to be doing to waste my time going to court. Plus, we all know what eBay does to people who upset them:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/ebay-inc-pay-3-million-co...
Ha, how much did that cost you?
This is a classic combination of cargo-cult matching with ZIRP regime.

23andMe never had a business plan, but it didn't matter because their investors figured they had the connections to make it work (look at the explanation of how they booted out the other founder). Their Libertarian/lazy attitude towards regulation is just an example of how couldn't be bothered to even do the necessary homework. Their attitude towards their data breach is another.

Makes me wonder how good their science is. I don't know anyone on that side of their business, but comments from friends who used to work their about how their parts worked are not encouraging.
It beats the alternatives. Their children will have to help, as is common in many parts of the world.
USPS isn't a company, it's a government department which provides a public service (deliver mail at very low prices). Because the USPS has so many branches all over the country, many people (myself included) think it would be a good idea to also offer banking services and so that the unbanked can become banked. Even just a basic checking account would mean people don't have to pay check-cashing fees anymore.
Yes, I forgot to add that there must a type of universe which can start from nothing, or exists always. Otherwise this argument doesn't make sense.
Especially for prostate cancer which has relatively low death rate. It's not the prostate cancer that kills old men, it's the complications around it
In the EEA (EU), you'll be able to uninstall Edge easily, with an update in the coming weeks: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/11/16/preview...

(And I'm guessing it won't be hard to do that outside the EEA either.)
I think you would see the opposite. You would incentivize going to grad school for a few years under a student visa. Universities could name their price.
Well, it IS a UX Improvement. They just need to make sure that they are asking for consent properly and dont ignore the answer
> And not that it is even an interesting question but my take is no this is not a simulation. Way too much detail. Even if some civilization had the resources to run a simulation the size of our universe it would be a massive waste to do so. The most efficient computational system for simulating a universe with the high fidelity our universe has is to create a universe and let it evolve.

I also don't think we live in a simulation, but if we did, how can you know anything about the outside universe, leave alone its resource limitations? Perhaps what we consider to be huge and complex (our own universe) is the equivalent of a simple Conway's Game of Life to the outside world.
God bless the people who do these things

But the payoff is at the end.

>Doing the math, this means that it would take 599 years to run Doom on cells, according to this simulation.

Regardless of where you stand in the regular debate, that's a noticeable framerate drop.
There's always one moron who wants to bring race into the discussion
And maybe putting your pc on big concrete pads and using gold power cables makes a difference too. Unsupported conjecture is still unsupported even though it could in principle make a difference (to those not intimately familiar with the relevant engineering, at least).
Yeah I don't know how we're supposed to have good faith conversations about nontrivial issues if we as a society can't accept that sometimes valid arguments about an issue run counter to personal politics.
Knowledg.io: How to build highly customizable AI Runners
Their existence isn't hidden, a lot of people who don't think like me want the ability to overdraft and use it frequently.

In fact, for a few years now, overdraft is legally required to be opt-in:

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/consumers/consumer-news/2021-....
I lost 30+ lbs recently. Feeling great. More energetic and focused. My journey involved:

- opting to exercise more. I adopted a dog to help motivate to go on daily walks. No gym membership required.

- opting to use public transportation where necessary and use a car when only necessary (prefer biking or walking now). Helps me stay fit and active without having to go to a gym.

- significant changes in diet. Reduced consumption of meat. Reduced consumption of sugar and artificially sweetened foods and replacing with fruits. Increased consumption of more leafy vegetables and opting for more healthier options such as salmon (omega-3s, ”healthy fats”).

- intermittent fasting. Very difficult at first but was able to find my groove after a couple of weeks

- added a few OTC supplements as part of routine as recommended by doc (vitamin d3 , fish oil)

I am fortunate enough to have been able to do this without any supplemental Rx medications like off label usage of “ozempic”.

I will admit it did take some time. Maybe 2-3 months to begin to reap the fruits of my labor but it was definitely worth it.
ChatGPT already does that when you create a custom GPT. If you don't connect it to an external text or service that's basically all custom GPTs are.
In mathematics, this is just called a clique!
Techno-Optimism vs. Malthusianism
I'll second this. Jumping straight into a conversation is also pretty stressful. You ask, "Have you practiced conversations before" but answering "Yes" doesn't mean I'm any good at them. I'd like to start with lessons not free form conversation.

Also, please for the love of god remove the 'streak' mechanic. There is nothing more demotivating than breaking a long streak and it's why I don't use Duolingo.
These citation games are at least decades old. The PageRank algorithm came out of the literature on ranking academic papers by citation, and many of the SEO manipulation techniques work in both cases. I'd guess it's being done on an increasing scale given the article.

As a semi-related phenomenon, I also feel like mathematicians are culturally prone to under-citation. I don't just mean that nobody cites older mathematicians like, say, Leibniz or Euler, for techniques they invented. But pretty frequently I'd read papers that really seemed like they were heavily indebted to a paper that came only a few years before but didn't appear in the 5-10 citations. Maybe there it wasn't mandatory to cite those papers, but it made it hard to chain backwards into the literature to get more context on methods and ideas. And sometimes it came off as the author trying to make a tool appear ex nihilo. I'm sure this happens in other fields too.
No, you can conclude that there aren’t any immediately discernible radio signals pointed our way in our rather extremely small space-time vicinity.
> We have been able to largely get rid of COBOL.

My understanding is that Cobol is still largely relevant in the banking industry, it’s
not mentioned that often.

Someone could correct my if I’m wrong and has more insight.
Yeah, some people are very alarmed that population growth, and thus economic growth might slow down. Elon Musk for example, is very alarmed about it.

I think we have to find a sustainable future, or it will find us on terms we won't like at all. This is a good thing.
If Theranos devices had been able to do what they claimed the business model was clear and likely very profitable.

I don’t understand how anyone ever thought 23andMe had a viable business model selling a test that only needed to be done once(and apparently selling it at a loss to boot)
Would any of them work in academia today? It seems unlikely.

There are research problems to solve in industry, with more prestige, more pay, and so on.
The DE most people will end up running (Gnome) doesn’t even support VRR.

Older games have a decent probability of stuff like controllers not working.

Gaming on Linux has vastly improved yes, but its still much worse than on Windows.
The two go together, of course. In places where rent is cheap, more kinds of businesses are viable, because surviving is easier.

Also I suspect a lot of places have really loose ideas about zoning, so a person might live in the back or above their store. Don't see much of that in the US.
I wonder if SpaceX has enough clout to influence the ITU decisions somehow, through political lobbying, for example?
I would have thought they were pretty well positioned to find new targets for currently untreatable diseases. But maybe they don't quite have the capacity needed to target specific diseases and/or data not granular and clean enough, or not enough capital/runway suitable for that kind of stuff. If they had the sequences for people with diseases such as alzeimers/Parkinson, they could just look for common mutations and see what specifically it affects
Maybe they are compelled to pay for it by an intergalactic ethics code created by the Apache foundation.

I smell a conspiracy theory.
Networking Triboelectric Nanogenerators to Harvest Ocean Blue Energy
Yeah. It has so many moving parts that I doubt anyone can make a science out of it, but people will try for sure. Just like with most psycology/social experiments and SEO. I'm flooded with prompt engineering course spam these days.
You've missed the point, entirely. I'm not talking about credit, I'm talking about capability. By any measure, the image at the top of the article is polished and it grabs your attention, and if an artist had made it by hand, even experienced artists would commend their solid technical art skills. It also sucks so much at accomplishing its job as a communication tool that it detracts from the article content for many people. A layman having powerful image generation tools doesn't make them capable of communicating ideas visually any more than copilot makes laymen capable of designing sane software architecture, or having Grammarly would make them any better technical writers. People that don't think so don't realize how much they don't understand about solving communication problems with imagery. There are plenty of lifelong fine artists that could whip my ass making compelling imagery in physical media, but would still need years to learn the fundamentals of visual communication. It's a set of skills that need to be learned and practiced, and making the images themselves is probably the least consequential part of it. Art directors generally don't make any images at all, and the idea that someone could step in and do their job because they could whip up a bunch of slick-looking junk at a prompt is beyond hilarious.
> To create a recurring revenue stream from the tests, Wojcicki has pivoted to subscriptions. As media companies launched streaming “+” channels, Wojcicki rolled out 23andMe+, offering personalized health reports, lifestyle advice and unspecified “new reports and features as discoveries are made” for an initial $229, with annual renewals of $69.

I was a heavy believer of 23andMe until this point. I answered all of the available research questions, which was a thing that took absolutely hours and was filled with semi-invasive medical questions. I did this under the premise that I would hopefully be helping research and I felt really rewarded having completed all of them. Then, they dropped the + bombshell and I felt really rugpulled. I paid them for genotyping on their v4 and v5 platforms -- so I paid twice, I referred friends, I bought people kits, I helped research...and now I was being asked to pay a subscription for what I was promised to begin with? Eesh.

I think the fundamental issue is that when the FDA stepped in and told 23andMe to cut back on their reporting that they really hit a roadblock. Promethease always gave better results than 23andMe, but when that happened it commoditized genotyping fully. Just download your data from any provider and use a third-party tool and you're set.

Fast forward to 2024 and they're stuck with a platform that's semi-limited and they haven't delivered on any of the research deliverables that many people wanted in the first place. The idea of getting new genetic reports monthly was appealing and simply never materialized. It's no surprise people aren't hot on this as a business -- but what is surprising is that they were completely passed by startups like Nebula Genomics in offering whole-genome sequencing and competitive data access. I think the stored data they have is their only advantage, but they don't seem to know how to leverage it.
While cool, this is just a model rather than real cells.

Still an interesting thought experiment!
I don't know. I moved to linux after windows 8. I do have a windows 11 machine just for VR at home and it's a nightmare to use.
It isn't voluntary.

13 U.S.C. § 221
The psychology of site speed and human happiness
Exactly. Current systems that work with large channel counts of high res deep colour real-time compositing are also around 6U 19" rack mount units and pull half a kilowatt of power. Not exactly ergonomic for strapping to one's face.
Rel: A Declarative Relational Language
I still think it's weird how many people's eyes are glued to their phone screen in everyday situations and social settings. I think it's realistic that these headsets become acceptable and normal.
It is an embarrassment that they bought Lemonaid health, I don’t know any other way to put it.

(1) Is that being associated with a penis pill pusher is brand destruction. Any normal person would get this right away without trying but executives just can’t see what their actions look like to their customers.

(2) It’s a form of achievement laundering. Lemonaid health failed, pure and simple. A circle jerk acquisition is alchemy that turns a failed business into an apparent success, now the founders, management and people who invested in it will get accolades for being successful when really the Silicon Valley Mafia stole from public investors to maintain its image.

It ought to be a lot harder for businesses to get acquired. Maybe we need a vote by the customers, maybe when Google buys a company they should be required to spend a 1/4 of the money on ads warning people that the business could get shut down, etc.
Richard Branson, Oprah, SNL, billionnaire neighbour investor, Google founder, celebrity parties, branded Barbie dolls and SPAC IPOs can take you a long way .
I’ve never been a part of academia but I know it’s been fraught with all sorts of fraud for the last few decades (maybe forever idk) but this is a new type of weirdness to me. Is anything trustworthy is that space?
I've been told who and what to cite in articles (even if it was only very tangentially relevant) as a Ph.D. student in HCI as far back as 2014. I also had to put my advisor as a co-author on papers that he didn't even bother to read...
I’m confused… you want more health recommendations from a service whose most basic scientific offering you also consider junk?

I have some pills for you. Just for you, mind you. Special made. Sign up for this subscription and we’ll send you a new supply each day…
If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls.

You are Plato and I claim my $5.
Buying McDonald's food does not make it legal for them to poison you. Buying Microsoft's OS does not make it legal for them to break antitrust law. Again.
I suspect multi account support is not ‘down the priority list’ but purposefully not implemented at least when it comes to iOS. Why make it easier for customers to share iPads at home when they can buy multiple iPads.

I use my iPad so sporadically that it could easily be the house iPad, but I’m signed in with my email and so on it can’t be.
> they are one broken dam away from a huge mass casualty event.

Are there any dam-having countries for which this isn't the case?
The situation is out of control. I've also seen that during peer review a reviewer may give a list of publications they 'suggest' for the literature review, sometimes completely unrelated fields. If you choose not to, you will likely see your paper rejected.

The truth is that almost all papers published across almost all fields cannot be replicated, full stop. For those that can, the results rarely match up, indicating that the tests are chosen to boost the performance of the method.

If you want to boost citations legitimately, purposefully leak your own paper to get past the publisher pay wall, make it colourful and accessible (if it's too dense they are unlikely to understand it), give examples on how to replicate your method, the abstract is likely the only part that will be read so make it count.
When there are perfectly good intelligence agencies to sell to at home? /s
there's no guarantee they will go under. They have low debt and while unprofitable and a relatively reducing number of potential customers.

Their huge problem is hackers. All the latest news is how hackers have grabbed up those databases.

What's likely to happen, they'll self restructure, get to profitability, start a stock buyback program. But IF and WHEN?
I think surely it 'teleports' - the one activating hovers is presumably the last moved; I think others must be dummy placeholders as it were, not actually independent simultaneously usable cursors.
Likely won't work indoors where humans spend most of their time.
Legal absolutely has OKRs.... usually around management of a hypothetical legal liability and how much they reduced it by when it came to actual payouts or vice versa
If we’re in a simulation and that simulation is advanced enough for our ancestors to build a simulation of the simulation - at what point does the recursion break down?
I hope you removed the barrel battery from that A2000, and potentially from expansions in A1000 and A500.
> I, personally, can make a judgement about both of things better with a patch that I apply locally than with a PR.

How come? How is a text .patch file easier in this regard than a UI for essentially that same .patch? Can't you check out the PR in the same way you would 'apply' a patch to review it?

For what it's worth, you can just add .patch onto the end of a github PR URL to get that.
> as long as the light source has a sufficiently flat spectrum (like sunlight!), the difference between spectral rendering and RGB rendering will be negligible.

(Great comment, nitpick ahead)

...to the human eye, that is. For industrial applications spectral rendering can still be useful.
It is not like they are doing real genomics. It’s devilishly hard to find genes responsible for conditions like schizophrenia, heart disease, asthma, diabetes, etc. The last thing you need is mountains of low quality data.

Attempting to discover drugs is a proven way to make a small fortune by starting with a large fortune. Everything north of the Charles River in Boston would vanish if people stopped believing though.
I kind of doubt he'd do that. AFAIK most of Elon's wealth is in Tesla shares, and a lot of them are pledged against loans. If his Tesla shares go done seriously in value that could leave him open to margin calls.

Over time, he may be able to unload those Tesla shares, making him less tied to the company, but I'd guess it'd take a while to sell that stock without risking a serious share price drop.
Is the European Union’s Digital Markets Act relevant here?

IIRC Meta now has to implement interoperability with other chat apps like Signal, I wonder if GitHub will have to do the same through AP soon
I think that also has to do with the amount of complexity. Henri Poincaré is often said to have been the last man who knew all of math. Today, you need research teams across the world working on a very narrow topic to make tiny progress iteratively in the best case. I think the time when one man could bring us a century forward like Newton or Einstein is gone.
Royal Mail uses someone else for their underlying banking infrastructure, but Poczta Polska definitely runs all banking services themselves.
Camping in Lassen area of Northern California as a kid, I would tease the bats by throwing a ball of tinfoil in the air. The bats would chase it.
> trying to figure out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin

Wasn't that a parady of silly theological questions in general? Or maybe a "it doesn't matter" analogy?

The nerd discussion on this sim question is totally serious.

Edit:
Oh. Ye. There is no upper limit on the size of a needle, so there is no upper limit on the amount of angles that can dance on its tip no matter their size, if they can intersect or what not. Anyhow, at least one, should cover any set of boundary values to the problem.
Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom
We need some Gitea sent to the GitLab! :) Make people aware that there are more options for self-hosted git.
I think they’re about as well-positioned as some guy with an idea for an app.
To clarify, I should have said virtual "desktops" instead of monitors. I don't even need all desktops to be active at once, but be available in physical spaces for me to access in a way that is more intuitive and customizable than pressing the F2 button on my Macbook keyboard and then hovering my cursor over the desktops bar. That would totally suffice. Also, somehow that bar can show what's on each virtual desktop, and in real time, so I know that's at least possible.
Which other CEOs of companies as large as Tesla have 10x-ed their company’s share price in just five years?
I thought it was a semigroup.
Note that the article specifies that these cartels mostly feature participants from bad universities in countries that have really whacked-out academic reward mechanisms that arose because some powerful central government force that doesn't understand research productivity came up with a dumb way to incentivize it.

Prestige is not a failsafe guarantor of quality, but it kind of is, in the sense that somebody with a reputation to protect is going to be more careful about coming across as "unserious", and doing stuff like this is a good way to get a bad reputation quickly.