skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then, just like now, unscrupulous product marketing and media mistates medical consensus or ascribes consensus where there there is none. Just look at Snackwells. The product marketing term "Doctor recommended" does not mean all doctors, or even specialists in the relevant area.

Unless you are talking to a physician or reading a medical journal, anyone should assume that someone claiming to talk about what the medical community believes is probably wrong and possibly lying.

In the context of the current conversation, reducing saturated fats and bad cholesteral was a reactions to this epidemic https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24811552/

After peaking in the mid-1960s, the number of heart disease deaths began a marked decline that has persisted to the present. The increase in heart disease deaths from the early 20th century until the 1960s was due to an increase in the prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis with resultant coronary heart disease, as documented by autopsy studies. This increase was associated with an increase in smoking and dietary changes leading to an increase in serum cholesterol levels
Dwarves are short people, so there's really no mystery there. As for gnomes and trolls, they could be explained as birth defects. The myth of "changelings" are probably these birth defects that might not be noticeable in a newly born child, but later become obvious.

I think the real cultural memory of the Neanderthals and other species related to us is in the myths of Titans and Giants. People who were on earth first and who battled furiously with man-like gods for dominance.
> I get that deepfakes are superimposing a non-consenting face on a (presumably) consenting body, but how does that matter? Is it that "visually lying" is a legal loophole?

That's not how deepfakes work, since nothing is superimposed.

Models like Stable Diffusion build a training set out of several images of a face (e.g. with something like LORA), and reduce it to a set of algorithms. That algorithm is a sophisticated way of expressing "green shirt, black hair, large chin, etc" It's not actually storing photos of faces. It then unmasks a new face out noise using those blueprints. You can change the blueprints, for example, I could ask SD to give me an image with gigantic rabbit ears.

To a layperson it might look the same since the technology is so new, but it's not in any way analogous to a photograph, it's analogous to a painter who saw someone, wrote down some notes on a notepad, went to their studio and painted them. The painting might look realistic but it's not the same as the original photo.
> If Youtube made some guarantee that the money I spent would only go to the creators I watch, I'd subscribe instantly.

Do you mean that all $14 would go to creators you watch, or do you mean that whatever fraction of that $14 goes to creators after YouTube takes their cut only goes to creators you watch?
You trade latency arbitrage with statistical arbitrage were participants try to estimate the market and overbid to try to capture as much of the market as possible. That seems dangerous and unstable.
The first paper I wrote in my PhD was about how we could use reinforcement learning to automatically find models that have trap space (attractor) behavior that matched experimental observations. A big bottle-neck in that process is figuring out what the actual attractor states of a model are. I resorted to just running simulations until the model reached a steady state, because its flexible and easy, but it's also prohibitively slow for models that are reasonably large. So, hopefully this paper will let us find the attractors of much larger Boolean models without having to run full simulations.

That said, the whole experience convinced me that modeling biology with Boolean logic is a bad idea. First, you have to force biological data, which is weird and long-tailed and multi-modal into two logical buckets, on or off, zero or one. Biology just doesn't work like that, lots of genes have graded, gradual differences in expression, not just zero/one. Then, you have to actually build a Boolean model, but you never have enough data to properly constrain the model. There are probably hundreds of wildly different model configurations that all give you equivalent behavior. Which one is right? Who knows. Finally you run the simulations and you get the attractors or trap spaces, and you show your results to a wet lab biologist and they don't believe the results because the model is way too simple. Genes aren't just on or off, and interactions between genes don't work like Boolean logic.

It's way better to just write down differential equations that describe the actual biophysical processes happening. With modern computers and solvers, ODE's are basically just as easy to simulate as a Boolean model, and they're much better representations of biology than Boolean logic.
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That's exactly how I feel as well. I don't want them to be the default but here we are.

And I'm definitely not going to pay which would encourage/send the signal that this is what we want.
> Is an extra $4,400/yr in their budget a big deal to the people in question?

Well, since you saved it by excluding a lot of pleasurable spending, you can't really count it as "fun" money and therefore it's not that great, really. With the current market, it's also not nearly enough to get you anywhere near buying a house or an apartment. It can be used for a car, but then again, is a car a better investment than nice coffee and food?

While I do see the value in saving and I get why spending this money looks wasteful, I can also see the other side of not bothering pass on convenience for a bit of extra money. Of course, it all depends on how well you're set up generally (i.e. if you don't have an emergency fund, those 4k$ are a lot more important).
That's the thing with wrapper libraries: amazing at the beginning, but quickly becoming frustrating.
... Or a lifetime Nebula membership, if you want to support a company that deserves it.
I see, thanks for your feedback. Would make sense if that ruling is still active. However at least I would know for the future, though I also learned reading this article would probably be helpful. So guess it woudn't be a bad thing either way :)
The other paper I showed was always public over a decade before.
Anecdote: as a bisexual guy (now married to a woman), dating women was much, much harder than dating men. This extends beyond sexual encounters to actual relationships: for every relationship opportunity with a woman, I'd guesstimate I had five opportunities with men. And I essentially never had the opportunity to date a woman with over half my income (at least until I met my wife), while I regularly dated men making substantially more than me.

I think the mismatch is largely due to implicit standards on the part of women (must be a certain race, must be at least average height, must be gender conventional) that are so ubiquitous that they don't even consider them standards.
I personally loved the Freespace games, and have taken advantage of the awesome work by the FreeSpace Source Code Project to replay them over the years. That said, FreeSpace is Descent in name only, and totally understand how folks who had very fond memories of playing Descent feeling a bait in switch when getting FreeSpace and having it not be very Descent-like. I mean, heck, aside from the Glide mechanic, there's no real Six-Axis style movement, you know, the hallmark of Descent.

They're just different games. I love them both for what they are. It's a shame that Interplay tried to use the Descent name to sell more copies, because even if there was some minor inspirations in development, Freespace definitely stands solidly on its own two feet without the tie.
The reality is that you can have better conversations with them than with most actual human beings via social media, comment sections, forum-equivalents, etc, so why not?
Notion is the best.
They aren’t true aggregates since stories still go through their editors for filtering.
The end-to-end infrastructure (and parts of PaaS delivered within Outpost, from within the set of AWServices) is in fact a cloud "extension", with an on-prem leg, NOT an on-prem solution connected to the cloud. There are a lot of constructs which force the AWS cloud products/services usage, not the traditional on-prem ones.
"Do Black Holes have Singularities?" by Roy Kerr (Yes, that Roy Kerr)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841

https://www.pbs.org/video/what-if-singularities-do-not-exist...
I personally don't pay for any streaming service. Too damn expensive for the few shows I'd have any interest in, most of which aren't even available here, or would require me to subscribe to 5 different services. Along with that, I prefer having the highest bitrate versions possible available to me.

Which I can't with a legit service, as I don't usde HDMI.
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"In this study, a training-free classifier based on GPT-4 Vision has been developed to estimate building age epochs from facade images... Based on the analysis of MAE of only 0.85 decade and special confusion matrices, we found that most of the age epochs can be predicted successfully but only approximately, which means they are predicted to be in adjacent but not far off age epochs."
That is correct for the first half, but the Vegas scenes where he is "observing the floor" and showing the games, including the Black Hole, are parodying Casino scenes specifically.
What I think paulg might be getting at is that programming is a way of thinking as much as a practical skill. The job market fluctuates with economic cycles but the mindset that one develops when mastering programming is transferrable and useful in other contexts. Most people are not genuinely interested in mastery and are content with mediocrity (which is fine). I spend a huge amount of time programming, even though I don't even particularly like computers, because of what I learn about myself and the world through the work.
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On my properties dialog for the OpenSSH authentication agent, all of the buttons under "service status" are disabled.

I could probably get this enabled for myself, but all my users are also using this tool with ed25519 keys on PuTTY version 0.77.

I need to stay in this realm.
There always has been and always will be a “tax” on those who cannot or will not apply math to their financial decisions. Of course the degree to which we provide opportunities to collect this tax is a societal decision and we’ve almost certainly increased the opportunities for tax collectors in the last ten to fifteen years quite dramatically. And of course, de facto the under educated folks, who also are likely to be poor, will tend to be taxed at a disproportionate rate. Yet another wealth transfer. I wonder what societal attitudes led us down this road?
That is what, a few million users at 10 a month? Make it cheaper get more users, or target whales and make it with fewer...

Entirely right ballpark for good product if there is enough options for customers to pick from.
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Youtube gives 55% of your sub to the creators whose videos you watch. It is not at all like spotify.
Maybe the ability to parse a typical documentation site, like https://react.dev/reference/react or https://react.dev/reference/react, and make a table of functions + 1-line descriptions + examples, with a link to the full page?

Or the ability to generate Census tables from a natural language prompt? Like "Real income vs housing costs for San Francisco, 1980 to 2024". (You could graph it too once you have the table, but that's secondary to just being able to fetch the right data and format it as a table from natural language input.)
Maybe niche for girlfriends/boyfriends but I would imagine there will be a big market for personal assistants. Imagine an assistant that knows your preferences, your schedule, your family details, your task list and has the ability to act on your behalf. Online order my food for the week knowing I have people coming on Friday, maybe ask a few questions for clarification, order a present for my wife knowing what I have previously bought her and what she did and didn't like, notice that my favorite band is coming to my city and ask do I want tickets, find the cheapest insurance when my renewal is up and pay it, notice that my gas bill is unusally high look for cheaper providers. The list is endless and whoever is first in that space with a reliable product will be a trillion dollar company.
This framework is attempting to make PMF seem so hopelessly complicated that you'll need their magic system (pricing unavailable, apply here).

Trust me, you don't need a system. It's so much simpler than this. First, start with the M, not the P. Talk to real human beings in any market to find a painful problem, create a product that addresses (doesn't need to 100% solve) that problem, and (don't forget this part) charge money for the product.

That's it. Anything else is galaxy brain. Don't get distracted.
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Free paper was everywhere I remember. Especially the coffee shop.
They're already working on the ticket? (assigned to them) This is about people stopping by for help on their assigned work, and at the end of the day I get no credit for the contributions to their work or leeway on my own.
This sentence trips you up?

""Not many academic philosophers discuss magic, however, five centuries ago, prominent Renaissance philosophers, such as Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), and Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), wrote extensive treatises on the topic""

I think you'll find a lot of people would breeze past this and not debate commas and semicolons.

You are correct, by the letter of the law, according to the semicolon police this should be a semicolon.

But that is like arresting people for jay walking. Yes, it's wrong, but come on.
VCs have very much embraced content marketing
Link to the paper, unfortunately, goes to a 404.
Well, as a Co-founder and CTO of Timescale, would you say TimescaleDB is a good fit for storing weather data as OP does?
A lifestyle business isn't the success this "black boxed highly performant Product-Market Framework" article is advocating for. A lifestyle business is a small business that is no better than a corner store selling liquor and cigarettes or whatever. The popular trend is to chase after frameworks and technology that enables inhuman commercial growth.

You don't need a Kubernetes cluster for a little gas station business. You also don't even need the concept of a minimum viable product for that "humble" little success which is more probable for the average person to achieve.

Silicon Valley startups want big achievements. Astronomical stuff. That's why MVPs, PMFs, and KPIs were invented. For doing aerospace science as opposed to building local mud huts.
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Yeah was going to say...with this and the Sequoia article the other day...
Or possibly several people: it's worth remembering that there were no photographs in most of human history.

The story of who a person was can easily be a combination of many.
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Stan Honey, heavily mentioned in the article, most famous for his contributions to sailing, also built the yellow first down line graphic were used to seeing in American football.
It's interesting to read about the original announcements to port to Bazel, e.g.:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/android-aosp-bazel/

...it reads like one of those overly optimistic 'process optimizations' a middle manager new to the team would come up with after having a look at 'the accumulated mess'.

Maybe said middle manager moved on, with the rest of the team letting out a sigh of relief and carrying on with actually being productive ;)
Hypertrophy improves performance in any sport which demands speed and power, up to a point. Anyone playing basketball or gridiron football or hockey at an elite level tends to be pretty heavily musceled.
Fair, but that's not central to my argument. My point still holds.
I only ever played the shareware version of Terminal Velocity. +1 to fond memories of the soundtrack. Time to find a playthrough on YouTube.
I struggle with this too, and to some degree at least with my specific job and lots of the ones I see posted, it feels like its not the illusion of alienation, but that its actually correct and that the work is actually useless.

At least for me personally I find it so very hard to be motivated to do something that doesn't matter for 40 hours a week. Which is easier than something that directly harms the world I guess..
The problem is at 'normal price points' you can't make the profit. The battery alone is so expensive, even at good yield, that it a huge part of the cars cost.
> I'd rather pay google with my money than my data or eyeballs anyway.

If you pay them money, they don’t stop collecting your data and eyeballs, so you’re paying purely for the user experience with the site.
I wonder if the publisher is A/B testing various titles? For me, the title is
"The big new way to get rich" with a sub-heading of "Want to make a fortune? Target bored young men who want to make a fortune."

Looks like the HN post title has now been updated to that subheading.
I was responding to the "Jodorowsky’s attempt was ... never released" critique by trying to expand on both the similarities and dissimilarities between Etak and Jodorowsky's Dune.
Both are good for different things.

Mac's are much better for media creation, nothing compared to Final Cut Pro and Logic.

Windows is better for gaming, plus I can dual boot Linux. Windows would be the better OS if Microsoft could stop trying to inject adds. Mac's don't feed you tabloid news.

I'm skeptical ARM Windows will be good. I think the laptops will be overpriced to the point you might as well buy a MacBook
> I now suggest that we confine ourselves to the design and implementation of intellectually manageable programs. If someone fears that this restriction is so severe that we cannot live with it, I can reassure him: the class of intellectually manageable programs is still sufficiently rich to contain many very realistic programs for any problem capable of algorithmic solution. We must not forget that it is not our business to make programs, it is our business to design classes of computations that will display a desired behaviour.

Nobody does this. We don't even try. As you said, everyone in programming is insane: so much so, that proposing "hey, why don't we try writing computer programs we actually understand" elicits laughter and scorn.

In every other engineering discipline, proposing a solution that you do not understand will get you fired. In software engineering, it's a Tuesday.
I don't know anything about biology; how clickbaitey is the headline for this? It sounds awesome, but I always take "breakthrough" medical news with a huge grain of salt.
Totally agree. I do feel like younger generations have much more difficult circumstances, especially when it comes to class mobility. Primarily education, housing and healthcare are just much more expensive and out-of-reach if you weren't born to wealthy parents, and the number of jobs where you can "work your way up from the mail room" has drastically shrunk.

At the same time, I see a pretty pervasive attitude among young people that boils down to "if I don't do well, it's society's fault". It's like this overwhelming victim mentality, like a sense of learned helplessness that affects areas of their life even where they are not helpless. Not only is this a bad attitude for society, it also becomes ultimately unhelpful for the individual as well.

Obviously I see where a lot of this attitude comes from (see the first paragraph), and yes, I'm speaking in very broad generalizations that don't apply to everyone. But it just feels like this big shift where a lot of people feel the only path to success is, essentially, luck or some sort of scheme.
burnout is such a horrible thing that happened to me quite recently
How is it possible that they messed the link to the paper up in their press release?!
I don't watch livestreams but I have Patreon subscriptions to two YouTubers that I enjoy. They focus on fairly niche topics and if everyone thought of paying them as "wasting money" I doubt they'd be able to produce as many good videos as they do just through ad revenue (and since I use adblockers I'm not supporting them in that way).
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I got into programming through making small games. It was very much a means to an end, a solution oriented path. I personally can't imagine trying to learn programming now in a similar manner to high school math courses, where problems are presented so abstractly. If I can't see a reachable and tangible end product in sight, it tanks my motivation to learn.
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Small lab scale test and having 100kg of high density batteries in a box aren't the same thing.
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Cloud seeding?

https://x.com/insiderscorner/status/1780176980807147601
In case you don't need an integrated GPU (that's somewhat powerful/potent), you can go with any other Ryzen AM5 CPU to receive proper ECC-enabled ECC UDIMM support, afaik :)
Might be A/B testing on the title ?
I used to be a heavy CLI user when I was in college, after 10 years of professional experience I now prefer GUIs for most actions. For me the response you mention is automatic for every program with more than 10 CLI options. The longer the manual the easier is to just understand what to do in a GUI.

I only really prefer CLIs for two things: commands I use really often so I remember their usage and I can type the command faster than clicking the right things in GUI (e.g. "git rebase", "gh pr checkout", ...) and writing shell scripts, especially if I need to often do the same chain of actions, writing a .sh script saves a lot of time and mental energy.

For these reasons I especially love software which both has a good GUI and a good CLI, like VirtualBox for example.
Why would the exchanges want to move their colos into the cloud. They've spent the capex and they can charge lots of money to rent data center space, cross connects and other services to their customers. If they moved to the cloud, all that revenue would go from them to AWS/GCP/etc.

Doesn't seem like a profitable move for the exchanges. They make more $$$ with on prem setups.
'Stone age' is a very broad term. Usually it's described in two periods, the Paleolithic during which tools were made by chipping stones to form edges and points, with dates back to the first stone tools (2.6 million years ago, or possibly 3.3 mya based on newish evidence); and the Neolithic, when tools were made by grinding and polishing and also when plants were domesticated (~11,700 years ago, afaik).

There's also mesolithic, inserted between those two, though I haven't heard it used much.
Did OEMs give away efficiency for reliability (eg, cycling things more frequently?)
> because you're never getting that time back again.

Which can also as easily be used as an argument to actually spend that money and enjoy it. In the end, it's important that the money is well spent: If you enjoy that 10$ coffee or 25$ takeout, it's awesome. If it's a daily habit that you're used to and doesn't give you much joy anymore, it's wasted money.