skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's obviously nothing inherently evil about "processing". If you put some fruit in a blender you've made no significant changes to its nutritional value.

The terminology is so annoying because it's hopelessly vague to the layperson. The actual research I've seen generally finds that the problem with "ultra processed" commercial foods are the usual familiar villains: salt, sugar, saturated fat.
Yeah, you'll have to wash and boil them, not too long though or they're not crunchy anymore.
A lot of supplements are also mislabed or incorrectly dosed, because the regulations are quite lax. So even if a supplement makes sense in theory, you don't know what you're getting unless the manufacturer follows the Good Manufacturing Practices and does some kind of third party testing.
Given the relative simplicity of integrating LLM autocomplete into OS text fields (compared to other integrations supported in modern OSes), I would be shocked if a state entity with balls (like the EU) doesn’t introduce laws enforcing that OSes must have open support for third-party LLM/generative text integrations.

That said, that’s almost certainly Microsoft’s short-term strategy until then! And probably part of why Apple made their sudden priority shift towards LLM features.
It grinds my gears that electric lawn mowers are marketed by voltage even though that has no relation to grass cut per time.
RLHF works on problems that are difficult to specify yet easy to judge.

While RLHF will help improve systems, code correctness is not easy to judge outside of the simplest cases.

Note how on OpenAI's technical report, they admit performance on college level tests is almost exclusively from pre-training. If you look at LSAT as an example, all those questions were probably in the corpus.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
The "socialists" is from the 1950s US poetic version of Niemöller's confession of 1946:

... the people who were put in the camps then were Communists. Who cared about them? We knew it, it was printed in the newspapers. Who raised their voice, maybe the Confessing Church? We thought: Communists, those opponents of religion, those enemies of Christians—"should I be my brother's keeper?"

So most other countries have the poetic version as "First they came for the communists ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Great word. When flying over a foreign country I like to look out the plane window at people driving on remote roads and wonder what they're like and what stories they have. Didn't realize there was a word for that.
Sometimes. IBM was still considered big when Buffet invested in them early in the 2010s. And it took almost a decade worth of bad performance for him to finally exit. It might be slowly sliding into irrevelance but its stock hasn't completely tanked -- during or after that period.
> you also could not pay me enough to crawl around under a poorly jacked-up car.

Indeed, but it’s not difficult to set yourself up with multiple failsafes.

By the time I’m set up to get underneath a car, I’m in a safer situation than driving the car given how many things would have to go wrong for the car to fall on me.
I find it a huge red flag that the article tries to combine together several “woke” talking points. It often indicates that each points is a product of ideology more than anything else:
- the strange, I am quite sure straight up false, self-referring point about African and Asian metallurgists of the past, which basically add nothing to the core message

- A strong “degrowth” orientation based on a reduction of the demand, because steel production emits CO2. It seems to be the core message. It doesn’t address the issue the author himself raise that most steel is used for machinery or buildings

- A digression which tries to find an additional reason to reduce steel production: reducing potential war output. If someone needs two reasons for something it usually smells fishy, plus I would love to hear what the Ukrainians and NATO members have to say about reducing the already failing western arm production.
Free bare metal access to Supermicro systems from the browser
looks at the market for coding skills "hmm... guess I'll interview at McDonald's for practice" ;)
LCDM existed before the Planck (or WMAP) data became available. As did MOND (including TeVeS). There is no argument here regarding "a posteriori" either way. The only relevant fact is that pure LCDM can explain the curve, while pure MOND can't.

>DM is necessary because if you used any explanation other than DM it must be wrong

You completely missed the point. Although at this point I fathom it must be intentional. DM is necessary. End of story. You even said it yourself. By your own statement, any explanation (such as the one linked by OP) that uses no DM at all must be wrong, yes.

Of course it is much more complicated to come up with a sound theory of both, especially if you also want to retain some predictability. That's why we regularly see lone researches publish stuff like this. But it is neither the consensus nor really relevant to the field as a whole.
That's wishful thinking but not true. I've directly called a legitimate taxi company before and been scammed and had to pay over triple the price. This was after specifically discussing the flat cost that this particular trip had. Due to circumstances I'm not going to discuss here I had no choice but to pay it, but if I'd been in a different situation I would have left.
A jack is basically suicide tbh. Jackstands are fine, provided they're used correctly.

Ramps are nice, provided you don't need to take a wheel off, then you're using jackstands anyway, so, if you're buying one or the other, jackstands are a good option.

Personally, if you have the space for it, a trench is the best option, I had one previously and I miss it alot. Nothing leaves the ground, car just pulls in and is ready to go. Mine was like 2ft deep, so, maybe a little cramped, but very comfortable once you're in there working. You couldn't make a standable trench at home without engineering it anyway, so, a crawlable trench is really the way to go.
That's a reasonable point. I wonder if returning a default avatar rather than a 404 would be a reasonable deterrent?
EU legislators are totally detached from reality, it can be seen that they do not understand what is the matter with AI, for them it is just "another IT tool" that can be "regulated".
As always: US innovates, EU regulates.
Great comment, you really showed them!
> Go lift and count your macros. Do this for 30 days you’ll see night and day results if you’re just starting out.

You're talking about your muscles, which tells us nothing about symptoms such as cancer and anxiety. Your anecdote doesn't even approach the questions raised in the study.
I think they have it much better than over at faangland
I'm the opposite. I enjoy engineering and understanding systems. Manually coding has been a necessary to build systems up until now. AWS similarly was great because it provided a functional abstraction over the details of the data center.

On a personal level I feel bad for the people who enjoyed wiring up small data centers or enjoyed writing GitHub comments about which lint rules were the best. But I'm glad those are no longer necessary.
But your mouth basically does the same thing?
I can't take your replies seriously.
Right? One of my garage door lifting cables broke, and although I knew how to replace it, the $150 or so that it cost to have an actual professional fix it was money well spent.

I've done car repairs for decades, and climbed up on roofs when I had to, but I'm not dicking around with garage door springs.
pretty cool. anybody have a site with an example? I tried google.com but it is not there.
Can't find the source I want to share, but my understanding is that it was developed accidentally in multiple places, as it's a matter of accidentally getting the carbon content of the iron correct to make steel. Then you pass down your accidents and people gradually improve on it. It wasn't until relatively recently that we understood the chemistry of what's going on and were able to reliable make different grades of steel.

Found it, this blog is great if you're interested in the history of blacksmithing: https://acoup.blog/tag/blacksmithing/
You're right on the isolate.. Just found this video showing how they're separating the starch and fiber from pea protein.

https://youtu.be/wbX_w0ZIunM
Does that mean, instead of saying "I am conservative", you instead only answer about specific policies (e.g. whether you use vim or emacs)?
My thinking was that it is one less HTTP request. Rather than call the WebFinger, process it, then call the avatar - this is a one-and-done request for the image itself.
U.S. bans asbestos, which kills 40k a year
I'm sure "ultra processed" is a term concocted by the industry to cause a muddying of the waters leading to discussions of semantics over specifics.
If you have showdead set to "yes" in your settings, you'll see a lot more spam like this. You also get to see comments that add to discussion but were downvoted to oblivion because people don't like certain things being questioned.
Its an easily enough conducted experiment to find out for sure, first hand here. We're all developers here right? Get out some previous project ticket (you do have those right?) and put your Manager hat on. Take a whole big step off the LLMs plate and convert your ticket input to prompts directing the AI to generate a certain subsection of code for a particular requirement. Do this for all the requirements until every use case is satisfied with some code to execute it.

Now, get all that code to compile, run at all, run correctly then finally run optimally. Hell, get it to pass a basic test case. Use the LLM for all of this. Feed the bugs to the LLM and ask for a correcting fix of the condition etc.

Even simpler, pull a ticket from your next sprint and assign it to a dev with the instructions to use the LLM as entirely as possible for the task.

The results of this experiment will be informative and unless you're building a demonstration API endpoint that reverses binary trees or something else trivial, then you will cease to be worried about AGI taking over anyones job in the near to medium term. Try it FIRST - THEN flame me if you still feel like it (if you're not still busy fucking with prompts to build code you could have built in less time yourself)?

To be clear I'm a proponent of this kind of technology and I use it daily in my dev/ops/everything work. Its faster and more accurate than reading docs to figure something out. Im never asking GPT to "do" something novel as much as Im asking it to summarize something it knows and Im setting a context for the results. I can't tell you the last time I read a Man page for some Bash thingy - Its just fine to ask GPT to build me a Bash thingy that does XYZ.

Of note, Ive asked GPT4 for some very specific things lately re-configurations (I have 3 endpoints in different protocols Id like to proxy via Nginx and Id like to make these available to the outside world with Ngrok - tell me the configurations necessary to accomplish this). It took me quite a bit of mucking around to get it working and the better part of the day to be satisfied with it. Im pretty confident a suitable intern would have had difficulty with it too.

AI is great and ever increasing in its abilities but we're just not there yet - we'll get ever closer as time goes on but we'll never quite get there for general purpose development-in-whole-by-AI. A line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance, thats an asymptotical relationship and I believe that describes where we are very well today.
The issue with RCTs is that you can only run them under tight conditions for so long on humans, so it's difficult to measure long-term outcomes like lifespan.

(Not to disagree with you on exercise. All data seems to point towards exercise being the first lever people should look to pull---as opposed to nutrition issues that people will have endless debates about---in terms of improving health.)
Unity's 2024 Gaming Report finds In-App Purchases decline but Ad Rev is up 26.7%
In a broad sense of 'taste', yes. I noticed a strong correlation between the taste preferences of heavier people for different bakery sweets (patisserie, I do not know if that is a thing in the US) and their varying caloric load. It is not a conscious thing, they just tell me they like the taste of them more.
Show HN: Finetune, build and deploy LLMs with AIKit
Hi folks!

AIKit is a side project of mine that's aimed to be a one-stop shop to easily and quickly get started to build, fine-tune and deploy large language models (LLMs) with only Docker!

I recently added extensible finetuning interface to AIKit. AIKit uses Unsloth under-the-hood for fast and efficent fine tuning of a model.

After finetuning, you can take the finetuned model and create a minimal container image for inference, which is OpenAI compatible powered by LocalAI, to create a seamless end-to-end experience.

I would love any thoughts and feedback!

Get started: https://sozercan.github.io/aikit

Demo of finetuning Mistral with OpenHermes and then serving the model as a minimal container image: https://youtu.be/FZuVb-9i-94

https://twitter.com/sozercan/status/1769769695081546236
Natural language instructions induce neuro network compositional generalizations
What's the point of using Docker for PHP apps?

The main appeal of PHP for me has always been it's ability to work as a “serverless” execution environment, long before this marketing concept even existed, so hosting your own PHP on a cloud machine with Docker sounds really backward to me.
> I can’t think of anything that prefers ticks as their main diet.

not 'main diet,' but can confirm free range guineas, chickens, etc help with the tick pressure.
Apple TV is actually killing it. Besides the ones mentioned they have the two best scifi shows running right now: Foundation and For All Mankind
Largest solar manufacturer to cut one-third of workforce
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Server Sent Events. Just simple and easy to use/implement.
16' x 7' metal garage doors are like 150lbs or more. Maybe I'm a weak old man, but I wouldn't say that "isn't that heavy".
https://archive.ph/rYehp
I opened the Amazon account I use today sometime in August 1998.
I'm glad you linked to one with subpixel rendering.

Considering that when we view text on a modern display we're almost always seeing anti-aliased grayscale pixels with subpixel rendering, it doesn't make sense to me that you'd design a font that doesn't take advantage of that.

Why not even grayscale? Surely a few of the letters could be improved by using a pixel other than pure black or pure white?
Because if someone needs to open the door and the power's out, or the motor has failed, many people won't be able to do it.

That might be acceptable day-to-day, but, if opening the door is what's required to escape, say, a house fire, it's very much not acceptable.
> If an artist can’t manage to set up a crypto account—or a bank account, which requires the exact same documents—they are probably not in a position to run their own art business.

The artist, sure. But once the artist goes through all that work to set it up, will they get access to food which they need in order to continue living? No, they won't. Because the consumers will prefer products that are easy to pay for.

> No—I am talking broadly about artists selling their work through crypto, and some of it does include $5 comics, like Sloth Zine:

aaand the link you gave is an NFT collectible...

The price point was not the main point here - sure an NFT doesn't have to be expensive it can also be cheap. That was not the point. My point was that the audience for ponzi-like NFT games is different from the audience for more "traditional" consumers of art. If you are, for example, an artist who currently makes comic books that people will pay for with Visa and Mastercard, you will not be able to provide food on the table by switching into crypto payments.
I suspect that a lot or all of those videos are about "extension spring" replacements and not "torsion spring" replacements. Probably shouldn't do either, but the torsion ones can have instant and catastrophic failure modes during installation or removal.
SpaceX building spy satellites for US Government, report says
Why have we settled upon annotating accessibility options onto a visual-first, generally high-precision/high-touch-density medium? Wouldn't it be better to just have a "low vision" version of the app, a "low touch accuracy" version of the app, etc?

Then you could provide the accessibility-minded users with something customized to their needs, instead of trying to shoehorn accessibility onto a layout that might have no commonality between what "normal" users want and what accessibility-required users want.
I disagree. We can only buy what's being offered. You joke about not knowing what ultra processed means, well, most consumers probably don't know orange juice from orange drink, the difference between chocolate candy and dark chocolate, etc. The question is, why is that stuff even available for sale if it is so bad?

Even whole foods sells a lot of ultra processed stuff, believe it or not. I wish I could go to a store and be confident that the bottle of orange stuff I pick up is just freshly squeezed orange juice and not... something else. That's just not the world we live in though.
Conflating Asia with Asia Minor/Middle east muddies things (there is a lot of history going on in both places), but then the implication is Europe didn't know about steel till fairly recently seems at odds with current understanding -it appears to go as far back as the African instance and perhaps further back. So, there may be some nuance with regard to purity or method or composition, but without putting that forward, it appears really sloppy in this area --so where else is he or she playing fast and loose?

"That is a little-known fact in the Western world, where steel production only took off in the nineteenth century with fossil fuels. However, Asian and African metallurgists developed high-quality steels much earlier, and this knowledge eventually allowed Europeans to do the same – on a much larger scale."

Did it "take off" elsewhere? What does take off mean? Oh, is the topic high-quality? What is that? What defines high-quality? Try to be a little precise rather than throw things out there.
Look at the spread from #1 to #2. At young ages, the difference is pretty high, suggesting that young kids falling from things is common. In the middle age ranges, #1 and #2 are pretty close, suggesting that falling isn’t that different (from a statistical frequency POV) from the #2 option.

But then look at the split at the older age groups. Falling is by and far the biggest cause. By a ton. Starting at 45, the split just keeps growing. And these numbers are higher in general than any other age group, so they skew the “all ages” numbers by a lot.

So, while it is a major cause for all age groups, the effect size is very age related.
Show HN: Why Multiwoven Shines in ReverseETL-OSS Alternative to Hightouch&Census
Over the last few years, millions of Americans if not tens of millions who had been on the margins of economic stability, have now been inflated across the divide over onto the slope of economic uncertainty.

It can be a subtle difference since neither one is a very good position to be in.

But it's a slippery slope and those that can get back to where they were will be a result of overcoming a downward force that was not a factor just a few years ago.

And those that do will still not be in a very good position to be in.

For the rest, fuggedaboudit.

I get your point though.

I would say a few million more consumers becoming much further drained doesn't have anywhere near the chilling effect on Wall Street that you would get from a total energy shutdown or losing the same millions in a mass die-off, true. It's just a step in that direction but I do think the same faulty equations would be clung to, long after their unrealistic calculations have compounded beyond recovery. And surprise people at how soon a downward spiral could occur without any sign of immediate threat, since there's no system in place to give any warning until downward momentum has become dominant enough to be well-registered. When it's more likely to already be too late.

With energy the closest thing in memory may be the way oil drilling was cut in half at the end of 1981. That's nothing like a total shutdown but it was significant. It was an emergency, if they hadn't crashed the price, alternative energy would be 40 years ahead of where it is now. Turned out only to be a speed bump for Wall Street and here we are.
Wouldn't they just check for the default avatar then?
The architectures currently seen on cellphones and most (if not all) modern electronic devices make it so hardware buttons are just as vulnerable as software "buttons"... (the hardware buttons actually trigger software which maps it to functions, so if the software is attacked the hardware button could be vulnerable - just as a software button...)

The case for replaceable batteries can be made from a convenience/durability/sustainability point of view, sure, but how do replaceable batteries improve trust?
Ask HN: Do you (or your product) pay for AI GPU compute?
.. either indirectly (via e.g OpenAI API) or directly (self-hosted model on AWS GPU instances, colocated, etc)?

I'm building a product which will help with this and would be really grateful if you could answer some questions. Some of the usual ones:

- What problems to do you currently have?
- Does cost affect how you chose your current provider, and if so, what sort of discount would make you consider switching?

Domain-specific:
- What sort of models are you running, at what scale?
- How frequently do you change/update the model?

and some more esoteric:

- Does censorship matter to you?
- Does open-source matter to you?

Email/telegram in profile if you're happy to chat, also grateful for any replies below if not
That does not seem right, depending on how you calculate, 100 km to 1000 km seems more realistic. The ratio between 7 nm and 12" is 43.5 million, that makes a 20 mm x 10 mm die 870 km x 435 km. But as we all know 7 nm is just a marketing term, so for a more realistic estimate, you have to pick some feature and scale that up to 12". That will bring you down an order of magnitude or so, but you are not going to end up in the meters range.
I think they meant Adobe Illustrator.
There’s no external health risk though. I reject the idea that people don’t realize unhealthy food is unhealthy, they just dont care enough to stop eating it. The health risk is completely internalized.
The definition I've seen before is: If there are ingredients on the label that you cannot buy in a grocery store, it is ultra-processed.
According to Wikipedia the oldest known steel artifacts are from Asia Minor (the Kaman-Kalehöyük site in modern-day Turkey) which predates European steal by about a millenium which seems to support part of their claim.

For the claim about African metallurgists I suppose I'll have to wait to see what kind of evidence they provide before deciding if they are being "sloppy".
I thought this would be a real story, not a hypothetical...
> Modern people still need to boil water to safely drink i

Not everywhere. Drinking water in the little town I live in in Norway is merely filtered and a little aluminium sulphate added to precipitate out the solids. You absolutely could have drunk the water before that treatment with no ill effects. That's because it comes from a lake high in the hills above any industrial or agricultural activity.
The calories out is mostly your body surviving. You can just ignore all exercise to simplify the out portion. You can get your BMR tested close enough that you can work with it. Or, you can estimate and iterate.