skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ketones have been shown to reduce oxidative stress and inflammation in the brain. We've known for a hundred years that it can be effective at treating epilepsy, and increasing evidence is mounting that it can be helpful for Alzheimer's, mental illness, and many other diseases.

It's weird that there is such a stigma surrounding keto.
There is still a huge volume of people who haven't used a large language model, and haven't had their own "aha" moment. Getting your core functionality available on the front door is good marketing and they have the funding to burn GPT-3.5 tokens.
The article briefly mentions that this was unbelievable because rain should make Wi-Fi worse not better.

That parallels my experience but I didn’t realize was commonly understood. I noticed that in the hot summer the Wi-Fi reception in my yard (IE, farther from the access point in the house) is worse. Eventually I decided that summer heat is really proxy for humidity and that it wasn’t unreasonable for high water concentration in the air to provide an obstacle to Wi-Fi signal.
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anyone have any tips for smoking weed? I just got a new job and i really like it.

trying to lose like 10 pounds and i think the weed is holding me back
my interpretation: MAU are going down rapidly and they need a KPI to counter that
I'm assuming it is because Bun uses Discord? There are Discord links on their site and on Github, though the links don't seem to work.
Thanks. I almost want to try this as a small project, just to add degrees of separation with no target.

It would be nice to be able to put in single articles or words and see where they went to with 1,2,3... Or see what is 1,2,3... away and then jump over to those.
They would need to use the AGPL if they want folks that self-host to release their changes.
That... made my day. Brilliant from top to bottom.

Hmm. I'm starting on a new project tomorrow. Perhaps I should mail the customer and tell them I decided to rewrite the whole project in Rust?
You should not lose your right to vote if, for example, you lost your wallet the day before the election.

The type of in-person voter fraud that can be identified by an ID is very low, and trying to change an election this way would be very expensive. More people have gone to trial because while they were legally entitled to vote they were unable to get appropriate ID.

Other types of voting fraud, like registering in and voting in multiple districts, is much more common.

The people who for decades fought against requiring ID for so many things said it was a slippery slope. Now you are on the slope, thinking it flat.
Python on 2024 hardware vs C++ on 2004 hardware ... I don't think it's obvious that C++ always wins here, though it would depend on the use case, how much of the Python is underpinned by native libraries, and the specific hardware in question.
Idk what to tell you. Profit model that can’t work without a speculative DeFi bubble, which will die eventually because it’s not useful. AML is good and there’s a lot of history there. I don’t care much about the libertarian stuff.
I imagine the complaint is around Bun's use of Discord as community coordination tooling -- linked in the site's header. The post isn't implying Bun should be involved in the creation of an alternative.

(I'm not here to throw shade at using Discord for OSS "communities" - I do as well - And am concerned about the path forward. Just want to clarify the question's intent.)
I stan zstd hard. Hopefully now that browsers support it, HTTP middleware libraries will finally support it too. I already use it everywhere else.
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https://archive.is/MwNL0

> Human-to-human transmission of avian influenza A viruses is rare. Probable limited, non-sustained, human-to-human transmission has been reported in a small number of people without poultry exposures who had close unprotected exposure to a symptomatic index case of HPAI A(H5N1) virus infection, HPAI A(H7N7) virus infection, or LPAI A(H7N9) virus infection. Most reported cases of probable limited, non-sustained, human-to-human transmission have occurred among blood-related family members after unprotected, prolonged close household exposure to a symptomatic family member. However, a small number of reported cases occurred after unprotected, prolonged close exposure to a very sick family member in a hospital. A few cases of probable limited, non-sustained, human-to-human transmission in a hospital have been reported among unrelated patients after unprotected exposures.

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For those looking:
"All participants were taught and instructed to follow a KD, (macronutrient proportion 10 % carbohydrate, 30 % protein, and 60 % fat; at least 5040 kJ). Participants were not instructed to count calories, but to reduce and monitor carbohydrate intake to about 20 g (excluding fiber) per day, eat 1 cup of vegetables per day, 2 cups of salad per day, and were encouraged to drink 8 glasses of water a day."
Why would it ever be good for the environment? It's not going to reduce power usage or capture carbon
We don't talk about Google "not having a moat" since their patents on PageRank expired.

All the talk of OpenAI's moats (or lack thereof) since the memo, seems like humans being stochastic parrots.
thanks i will try to incorporate this.
Fixing Duplicate API Requests
Only in the warped, "5 years is ancient!" sort of compressed timeframe of consumer electronics.

It's not hard at all to find a wide range of parts for 20-30 year old vehicles - though quite a bit of this is due to the OEM not being able to lock down physical parts. I expect it will be far harder to maintain current cars in 30 years than a 1990s car today, due to exactly this issue: "Well, we don't build parts, but you also can't replace a door handle with one that doesn't support VIN-pairing, and you can't use a used one because it's VIN-pared to that other car so... would you like a loyalty discount on a new one?"
I know what you mean, but in terms of phrasing, one might even say they have a way of cheaply creating more GPT-3.5 tokens if they ever run out :)
It was actually about to happen, but thanks to a heroic effort from 1995-1999 we did avert the "Y2K Elvis Problem"
Super great idea!!
Nice. I have been using rmsbolt for a similar feature, but it is very rough. I'll need to give this as try.
I don't know what you mean by "archaic".

But here are a few pointers:

Visual Prolog, https://www.visual-prolog.com

Once it was Borland's Turbo Prolog. Quote: "It combines the best features of logical, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms, offering a powerful, type-safe, high-level language. Visual Prolog is well-suited for developing applications for Microsoft Windows 32/64 platforms and supports advanced client-server and three-tier solutions."

There is a comparison of Prolog implementations on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Prolog_implement...

This explains the OOP extensions of SICStus Prolog.

https://sicstus.sics.se/sicstus/docs/3.7.1/html/sicstus_35.h...

I haven't researched this, but there should be zillions of language extensions like this to Prolog. It is one of the symbolic AI languages, as such it has a long history of extensions.
This looks like AI output.
You just described the problem with using keys for any login, like the latest fad is?

And generally with depending on a device (phone, xxxkey or whatever) for access.
Google has a data moat on traditional search. Its really hard to train a traditional search system without google scale data. LLMs effectively side stepped that whole issue
love it, even `bun upgrade` is fast:

On my rpi 4 that I capped to 600mhz for performance testing:

Bun v1.1.0 is out! You're on 1.0.36
[3.93s] Upgraded.
It’s obvious to me that the universe was intelligently designed. For exactly the reasons the author states, it’s simply too perfect and conducive to life.

If you have 10 minutes watch this video of a cardiac surgeon whose patient had a near death experience:

https://youtu.be/JL1oDuvQR08

The most arrogant thing I could possibly imagine thinking, is that I know all of the mysteries of the universe and what happens when we die.
If I build a custom backend, I use PostgreSQL and hosting on Hetzner.

Otherwise I use Supabase/Firebase for storage and (mostly) Firebase for hosting.
I don't disagree, but where are those techniques presented in the article? It seems like she exploits the particular shape of her matrix to align better with cache. No BLAS library is going to figure that out.

I am not trying to say that a simple 50+ year old matrix solver is somehow competitive with existing BLAS libraries. But I disagreed with its portrayal in the article, which associated the block with NumPy performance. Give that to a 2024 Fortran compiler, and it's going to get enough right to produce reasonable bytecode.
I think more and more people are slowly realizing that LLMs aren't products in themselves. At the end of the day, you need to do something like Midjourney or Copilot where there's some value generation. Your business can't just be "throw more GPUs at more data" because the guy down the block can do the same thing. OpenAI never had any moat, and it's a bit telling that as early as last year, everyone on HN acted as if they did.

LLMs are like touch screens: technically interesting and with great upside potential. But until the iPhone, multi-touch, the app ecosystem comes along, they'll remain an interesting technological advancement (nothing more, nothing less).

What I'm also noticing is that very little effort (and money) is actually spent on value generation, and most is spent on pure bloat. LangChain raising $25m for what is essentially a library for string manipulation is crazy. (N.B. I'm not solely calling out LangChain here, there are dozens of startups that have raised hundreds of millions on what is essentially AI tooling/bloat.) We need apps--real, actual apps--that leverage LLMs where it matters: natural-language interaction. Not pipelines upon pipelines upon pipelines or larger and larger models that are fun to chat with but actually do basically nothing.
You will take my iphone 6s plus (the last with headphone jack) from my cold dead hands.

Honesty as non mobile gamer, it would still work fine for basically all the apps I use on my newer iphone pro (except for the camera).
Let me see if I'm the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, "I cannot send email further than 500 miles"

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Or the Magic/More Magic switch

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

It's fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.
Parts of the cosmos for sure are and there's no need to look very far for it - for example the part that forms me writing this right now is, in fact, conscious.
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Do political mailing lists get through in the first place? I don't live in the US, but someone must've sold one of my throwaway gmail addresses thinking I did.

Every couple of months I end up checking its spam folder and it's just a daily barrage of spam from both DNC and RNC, 1-2 emails per day like clockwork. None of them ever got through to the inbox though.
I’m not in the region where they have Africanized bees, but following the research and stories from active keepers, it seem like it’s a combo of both keepers learning how to manage them plus shifts in genetics causing them to mellow some. From what I hear, there are small scale and hobby keepers in the southwest that are actively keeping and working them
It's fun being an engineer and a parent. You find yourself just naturally exploring these things. I came to the same conclusions about the toys with the binary switches, and also tried to do the unused combos.

But my favorite were the toys that require the kids to twist or push buttons in a sequence. It had no batteries so it was all mechanical, and it was fun trying to reverse engineer the mechanics so that it only opened the door when the right combo was used, but also didn't seize up when the wrong combo was used, and you didn't have to "reset" it to start over.
Another upscaler, for images and video

https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x
You can query CSV with DuckDB
Not really, no. The population is being artificially propped up by managed hive splits and a continuous influx of stock from breeder mills. To exert real selection pressure requires careful husbandry at industrial scale in an environment isolated from introduction of unmanaged genetics.
Practical Nix flake anatomy: a guided tour of flake.nix
I couldn't use my apartment complex's laundry machine if I was still connected to my own Wi-Fi (and using it).

It would interfere with the Bluetooth signal.
I'm no expert on weaponry but isn't there a long history of countries inventing weapons that other countries assumed weren't possible until they saw their use?
So...

> “There’s no economic benefit (to doing a postdoctoral fellowship),” said Ginther. “If you spend four to six years in a postdoc and then jump into the industry, your starting salary is the same as if we would have just entered into industry automatically.”

> The pay gap between academia and industry is also astronomical, ...

And (that I've heard) academia has a very long history of treating postdocs like absolute crap.

Are we somehow supposed to feel sorry for the raking-in-the-billions drug companies, after the "d'oh, obvious" consequence of this situation hit the fan?

Up next: "Weep for the woes of the poor owners of >500' superyachts!"
Language models are an inefficient way to store knowledge; if you want to have a “pseudo-backup of a large chunk of human knowledge,” download a wikipedia dump, not an LLM.

If you want a friendly but fallible UI to that dump, download an LLM and build a simple ReAct framework around it with prompting to use the wikipedia dump for reference.
I was waiting for this.

Google showed that providing an input field in which people can put their questions and then display ads next to the answers is one of the best business models ever. If not the best business model ever.

Google was free, open and without ads in the beginning. It is just too tempting to become the Google of the AI era to not try and replicate this story.

Microsoft is trying it too, but for some reason, they do not provide the simple, clean user interface which made Google successful. I always wondered, why they didn't do that with Bing search. And now with Bing copilot they chosen the same strange route of having a colorful and somewhat confusing interface.

Let's see how OpenAI does.
I dont mean to imply anything about what you are protecting them from, and I dont know what the OP's end goal even is. Merely pointing out how inevitable life is, so dont try and solve human nature with technology. Or at least dont think your technical solution has effectively solved human nature.
https://archive.ph/CFM7d
Sure, but it's not really nature when you essentially have one keeper constantly raising and introducing extra disease and mites into the environment. It'd be like if you had an infectious disease and constantly went out into public instead of staying home to recover. Sure all the other people getting sick from your infection could be handwaved as being natural, but ultimately it's because you hung around them.
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An LLM will always give the same output for the same input. It’s sorta like a random number generator that gives the same list of “random” numbers for the same seed. LLMs get a seed too.
You have forgotten another form of carbon - charcoal. It’s not much used for writing, but it does have a niche with artists.

The lead shadows of Pliny the Elder are similarly used by artists to do rough drafts before committing pen to paper. Particularly cartoonists, prior to photoshop layers.
Even if you did, there's no way it could ever write so much data
This is some very interesting network topology/graph theory work. Some really interesting information is demonstrated here.

Also I'd like to commend the author on his choice of alternating call center hold music and synthwave. I found it to go really well with the video and the graphical representation.
cool study, but i wish they had mentioned ketones role as a signaling molecule - particularly around HDAC inhibition.

This has relevance to many diseases, including Kabuki Syndrome, a rare genetic condition affecting neuronal growth. Kabuki mice have been seen to completely recover from their cognitive deficits via a short course of a ketogenic diet.
We are the cosmos. So of course.
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The name that keeps coming up is Jia Tan (https://github.com/JiaT75/) but we have no way of knowing if this is a real name, pseudonym, or even a collective of people.
Companies coming up with outlandish claims on April 1st can look fun or enticing, and that's great PR. Otherwise, when a company does it because it's April 1st or worse, the CEO is the only one who thinks it's fun...it's just cringe.
There's nothing quite as kinetic as an asteroid, but megastorms, floods, and heat waves are expected more frequently.

More worryingly, changing weather conditions suggests more crop losses, which suggest more food insecurity, which suggest more political and social unrest. Strictly speaking, we produce a lot more food than we consume in this country (well, if you like corn, at least), but we've also built a fairly fragile system of monocultures and long supply chains that show up as outsize impacts from relatively minor disruptions (remember when the floods in Thailand meant hard drives were unobtainable for two years?). We're not really built for resiliency these days.

It's unlikely to be an extinction level event (although changing conditions mean different diseases spread in different ways, and one wonders what a couple failed rice crops in China would do for global stability), but it does imply a much shittier future for all of us on a much closer timeline than I think a lot of us were hoping for (I was personally looking forward to living out my golden years in the woods, but they burned down two years ago).
Only if it's backed by security-reviewed and fuzzed asm. Go's gzip implementation is slow enough that klauspost is worth importing, following that pattern, I would probably still use klauspost's zstd even if Go had a slow reference implementation in the standard library.

What I'm really hoping for is something as seamless as gzhttp but for zstd. https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/gzhttp
Am I right in saying some Apple hardware is now a brick because the initial setup requires creating/logging in with an AppleId, but Apple no longer will let those old insecure devices login?
I doubt that if Google detected it with some internal tool, they'd reach out to Microsoft to hide their contribution.

It was reported by an MS engineer who happens to be involved in another OSS project. MS is doing business with the US intelligence community, for example there is the Skype story: First, rumors that NSA offers a lot of money for people who can break Skype's E2E encryption, then MS buys Skype, then MS changes Skype's client to not be E2E encrypted any more and to use MS servers instead of peer to peer, allowing undetectable wiretapping of arbitrary connections.

But it's a quite credible story too that it was just a random discovery. Even if it was the NSA, why would they hide that capability. It doesn't take much to run a script to compare git state with uploaded source tarballs in distros like Debian (Debian has separate tarballs for the source and the source with Debian patches applied).
Historical behavior.

There doesn't exist anything else this could be based on.
Given that apparently people don't understand the difference between LPs and GPs this unfortunately makes sense
April Fools jokes don't create shareholder value.