skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original source cited in this article:

"A short history of saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus"

(Published in the journal: Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Obesity)

https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/fulltext/2023/0200...

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Short HN discussion from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942840
The changes that would permit Firefox on iOS will make Chrome’s dominance worse.

Losing iOS users is the only reason we don’t have “only works in Chrome” everywhere.
I think so too. Talking about monopoly and then participating in advancing a de-facto monopoly (Chromium on Android and Chromium on Windows)
> definately

relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2871/
It is the worst search I have ever used in any product.
It definitely is possible to "ban" software in China. Just block the network addresses needed to run the app. Perhaps the USA could license technology from China to do it? But that would be too ironic.

Actually, without something like a GFW, the USA can't do more than "ban" app stores from carrying the app in the US market, they can't even really prevent you from switching markets and using an overseas credit card. But they can definitely ban American based tiktokers from getting paid, or American based advertisers from using the platform commercially, which will probably hurt more than anything.
What kind of stuff are you doing that you need many CSS/JS hacks nowadays?
Something that annoys me about this post is the emphasis on Chromium being open source as if WebKit is not. Chromium started out as a fork of WebKit!
One thing that I see in my industry is replacement of knowledge with rule based systems exacerbated by engineering degree inflation.

Boeing had all the required systems in place. Even 2x the quality systems they needed.

None if this matters if people are playing legal word games with quality requirements instead of basic engineering. Technically following a rule might win in court, but it wont win over physics.
Yes. If you built a UPNP spammer, it could effectively create a persistent DOS. Considering how many corporate networks rely on UPNP for printers and the like, you could really make life hell for IT departments if you were to embed this in a malicious invoice.
As a long-time professional RoR developer, I disagree with the article's premise.

AI seems like the last nail in the coffin for an easy, slow-evolving, highly standardized ecosystem like Rails'.

In short, using Rails was already pretty easy pre-AI, now it's just too easy. That might be nice for misc purposes like prototyping something, or teaching people how to make webapps, but for all other purposes it makes us disposable peons.

Even in better times than 2022-24, I expect Rails salaries not to grow particularly. I don't expect it to die either - probably it will be not unlike PHP: easy, pretty nice, but ultimately a voluntary choice to have a lower salary.

I thank Ruby/Rails for various aspects that have made my career better, but it's wiser to move on to something more niche and that doesn't pretend we're still living in 2008.
'hearing this from Brave' -- this is a community post on the Brave forums, and doesn't even seem to be from an employee of Brave.

edit:

Also, Orion is WebKit based
I've always been sort of leery of the idea of pivots, because a pivot for a company really doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless it's more of a course correction, and/or heavily utilizes the company's built-up IP (eg Slack, the famous pivot from a gaming company to a productivity tool that they made for themselves).

What would make more sense for everyone is for the company "pivoting" to simply shut down, return the unused money to the investors, and reincorporate to do the new thing. That new thing would then go get investment for itself from investors who are more aligned with the new mission.
I used to work in financial software, and when writing the charting UIs, I'd wire them up to a randomwalk to generate fake time series data. It was a relatively common occurrence for a VP or the company CEO to walk by, look at my screen, and say "What stock is that? Looks interesting."

Unpopular opinion backed up by experience: a randomwalk is the most effective model for generating timeseries that have the "feel" of real stock charts.
They literally show X-ray pictures of the organelle splitting in sync with the host cell. The mechanisms are not completely separate. These organisms have been evolving that process for 100 million years, from a more common (and long and stable) endosymbiont relationship. There is no magic.
Pandas API on Spark
I think pretty much everyone I follow on Insta and Tiktok use Linktree or similar. Several are more than capable of setting this up.
Allowing choice is good. All that is going to happen though is chrome will take over on iOS.
It does seem to be much wider than that. The second page of the EOL notification[0] lists PEG, VEG & AEG variants - DIP40, PLCC & QFP respectively.
They've made it clear as mud by putting different parts in different EOL notices (eg, the Z80 SIO[1]), but it seems to affect all Z80, Z180, support chips and Zbus peripherals - but not EZ80. (Also doesn't help that I can't find any trace of the Z80 ever existing on Littelfuse's site, so I can't get much from the horse's mouth.)

[0] https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf

[1] https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C40.pdf
Nina Teicholz is a beef industry shill who doesn't use good evidence to make her claims.

And the article mentions seed oils (a "low carb" social media guru talking point) without any evidence against it. The evidence on seed oils shows that they promote positive human health outcomes. https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/a-comprehensive-rebuttal-...

Btw here's Seth Yodal's rebuttal to Nina Teicholz's book:

- Part 1: https://thescienceofnutrition.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-b...

- Part 2: https://thescienceofnutrition.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/the-b...

Nobody would listen to Nina if she weren't telling people what they desperately want to hear: that actually butter and beef are superfoods and "they" want to keep you from knowing that.
Safari is the only thing stopping Google from having a monopoly on the browser market. Take that away and Google will single-handedly control the future direction of the internet.

While I may like the idea of browser engine choice on iOS, I think preventing Google from owning the web is more important.
Enough to raise >6m in donations in 2022: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
Portr: Open-Source Ngrok Alternative
I really dislike holding up scientists as a type of person to aspire to. Science is just a tool, and is frequently used to damage the interest of the public good. I would rather venerate those who are veritably kind to their friends and community.
Wouldn't this be "transformer models" rather than LLMs?
> YC adds almost no value

For some definition of "almost"

I am not in the market, but if I were 22 in San Fran doing what I was doing when I was 22 in Auckland, I can see tonnes of value

Networking and mentoring mainly
> The government was so concerned about the tremendous national security threat of TikTok that, just 2 months, ago Biden decided to start his very own TikTok account.

CCTV (Chinese central TV) has a Twitter/X/Youtube accounts even though it is banned in China. Heck, Tiktok itself is banned in China but the Chinese government doesn't mind using it to push its messages abroad. This isn't really weird from a Chinese perspective anyways.
Not exactly the same game but you might be interested in Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge, Marcolli, Chomsky, Berwick (2023).

When we speak we give a string. When we think we don't have to use a string. But we do have to have a functionality to map something that has no single ordering to something that has an ordering (externalization) - a sentence. And vice versa we have a functionality to turn strings into things without a specific ordering (internalization) - thoughts.
It was a Ti-83 vs Ti-85.
> They would have to search the entire space of possible programs that includes infinite syntactically incorrect programs

That’s not really how AIs work, at least not the LLMs of today. They aren’t operating on a search space, and they aren’t following or explicitly constrained by any defined rules of grammar (programming or English or otherwise). It’s “just” probabilistic next token generation, it doesn’t care if your language is typed or not.
I was flying into Atlanta international when thousands of planes were relocating from Florida to avoid a hurricane (ie so planes parked on the ground don't get damaged).

I believe at the time it was the busiest day for an airport in history.

That's when it finally made sense to me why they talk that way. Sometimes they need to
If you do this, keep in mind that ARC (audio return channel) is an alternate configuration for the HEC pins. If the cable is going to a sound system, you cannot cover those pins (unless you have another audio-out cable, like TOSLINK, in which case you wouldn't connect to the sound system via HDMI to begin with).
I'm kinda conflicted and confused by this, as I think a lot of people
are. The value of long-term thinking seems laudable and vital right
now. But the only exposure I aver had to this crowd was people
talking about escaping the heat death of the universe - which frankly
all seemed a little unhinged given more pressing slightly less "long
term" matters. Also what seemed on the face of it to be a Humanist
creed seemed to have "transhumanist" or even anti-humanist elements.
Or did I misread that? I know some of these folks hang out here, and
I'd rather get a different take on it than from The Guardian. So what
went wrong?

Also just reading the headline "The Future of Humanity Institute
closed this week" kinda has overtones of really dark humour... like
"We won't be needing that any more!"
Be careful what you wish for. This is good until it isn’t.

With Google owning the market, there is really nothing to stop them from implementing “features” that are good for them, but bad for the intent as a whole.
LLM Leaderboard with explanations of what each score means
The app also has obscure and incomplete features & UI purely to comply with Apple guidelines (or trick human reviewers paid beans into not actually realizing what the app is).
Let me translate that from newspeak for those who aren't read in. If truth destroys the planet, it is no longer truth because truth is something that is useful for getting people to do things that benefit humanity in the long run. We call that kind of truth that doesn't benefit humanity "science denialism." We need to make people choose the correct decision when they are tied to the tracks and faced with a trolley problem by making sure they believe the correct truth about the situation.
I mean, it doesn’t work exactly like that (the article describes it more accurately) but I consider that literally every cell in your body contradicts you.
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/amp/news/wikipedia-was-funded-by-...
I felt like the stuff about Kaczynski, while interesting, was a diversion. The meat is the beginning and the end: Skinner, how conditioning led to gamification which led to the addiction economy, and then strategies for turning the tables and take charge by choosing what games to play and how to play them.

An evolved and condensed version of the closing with practical examples and practice exercises should be taught in schools.
Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector
from the POV of the incumbent, yes, competition is a bad thing when you are losing.

The US government doesn't want a foreign country in control of the communication platform its youth are using. The Chinese government doesn't want that, either.
"Everyone is already doing that, which is exactly the problem."

I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing concentration and not social equity focused distribution.

"You tax everyone and use the collected money to subsidize a limited number of cities with unrealized potential."

There are already cities with untapped opportunities. In my opinion the reason rhey remain untapped is because leaders don't care. They'd rather follow group-think.
> There isn’t a single end feature that you can deliver in Rust but not C.

There are! Namely, when it’s open source with volunteer-ish developers, who cannot be arsed to not use Rust, as it’s simply that much more pleasant to be spending your time with.

So in some sense, it’s either done in Rust because the implementers want to for one reason or another, or just not at all, as no one can be forced.
The synthetic data creation and meta-learning scenario is the only use case that sounds remotely plausible.
I had a finance professor who once did a study that correlated the construction of new fancy new office building with a major decline in stock price. Hubris before the fall.
Counterpoint: Apple
> > I defined it as (a) guaranteeing food, clothing and housing; and (b) where people are not compensated for their actions.

> every possible problem would be solved if your utopia was real.

So, if food, shelter and clothing were covered, you think people would volunteer to study, train, and work as medical doctors – treating the sick and the dying at not-insignificant physical and psychological risk to themselves – for no compensation? I mean… I can actually buy that: there are probably enough people like that in the world, and if they wouldn't get money but didn't need to work for money, this might be what they chose to do.

But you think we'd be entirely rid of sexism, pub brawls, and pieces of Lego left on the carpet? That'd require the complete non-existence of certain classes of behaviour. I find it hard to believe that partially-satisfying everyone's basic needs would have such a universal effect on any kind of behaviour.

And you think we'd be entirely rid of climate change, plague, cancer, and falling down stairs? Really?
If I recall being able to embed an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document was OLE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding
What does that even mean? How is the atomic bomb not real?
Tip: You need to hover over the benchmark title to see what it means.

https://imgur.com/a/fzWTVN8
Why is a WSJ article flagged?
If you're using Windows, in my experience Thunderbird is essentially unusable until you add a Windows Defender exclusion for your Thunderbird profile.
> How would this make any difference for a single threaded program?

Coz can slow down individual sections, not only threads. This will show you how your program behaves with specific lines sped up regardless of threads. A modern computer is also a distributed system, so it has the same counter-intuitive performance behaviours, even when just looking at the memory hierarchy.
You are not reading what I wrote and instead replying to continue pushing that false narrative we've established here to be untrue: that most in YC aren't from an unknown university.

Your insistence only confirms the rumours, does not dispel it.
Enforcing webkit prevents websites from going back to "best viewed with internet explorer" today just with IE replaced by "any broweser using chromium".

I don't use apple, but I do appreciate the suffering of limited choice their users endure for the effect of higher diversity. Thank you, iphone users.
I assume you're ingesting PDFs. If so, how are you handling tables accurately?
Intercepting communications between US persons and foreign non-citizens isn’t “unlimited spying powers” and is not illegal.

Do you disagree?
I'm actually working on something like that, but not so US-centric... More like a "What's happening in the world right now" thing.
I don’t need TikTok for foreign ideas. I see them everywhere.

For example while I don’t buy them I have absolutely heard the Russian arguments for Ukraine. You can find complete texts of every Putin speech online, not to mention thinkers like Alexandr Dugin.

The Internet is absolutely boiling over with both pro and anti Israel arguments and propaganda too. You almost can’t even avoid it.

If the powers that be don’t want me seeing arguments against US policy they are doing an awful job.

The TikTok thing is about two things: trade unfairness and how it leverages addiction to push propaganda.

Both points are valid, but the latter applies just as well to all modern social media.
Like oxygen, money is only important when you’re not getting enough of it.
i think you should read the article again because thats exactly what i mean. people saying you are wrong without really offering rebuttal.
> The rule now is US companies can operate in China if they obey the same rules in China that Chinese companies have to obey in China, and Chinese companies can operate in the US if they obey the same rules in the US that US companies have to obey.

China practices the maxim of "we don't have a rule book, but don't do anything that makes us angry" to enforce a maximum of self censorship on its operators. Heck, Chinese services are actually required to break rules in ways that would violate America's FCPA laws (it is impossible to operate in China and not break either American or Chinese laws).

> FB is not in China because China requires social media companies to turn over the identities of posters that post things the Chinese government does not like.

FB would probably setup a JV in a heart beat if the Chinese government would let them (letting the JV handle the data and interaction with Chinese regulators, and keeping it completely separated from Facebook in the rest of the world). The issue is that China wants to know the identities of people outside of China, like in Taiwan or Hong Kong, and Facebook would be breaking Chinese law not revealing them, but would be breaking other country laws revealing them. Again, it is simply impossible for Facebook to operate in China without breaking either Chinese or other country laws. So they pick the rest of the world.

I think ByteDance actually did the right thing with TikTok. It would be impossible to have a service that legally works both in China and outside of China, because Chinese rules would require breaking other country rules, so they did two services instead. But unfortunately, I guess the Americans don't think they are organizationally separate enough, and that the Chinese government can still exert pressure on ByteDance to reveal TikTok data, not just Douyin data.
The two-party system isn't so heavily institutionalized "by law". The law generally gives advantages to parties that pull in more than x% of the vote, and it so happens that the first-past-the-post system of electing representatives makes it very difficult for a third party to take root.
I moved states and schools midway through 3rd grade and was seated alphabetically, in the back, for the first time in my life. The teachers in my previous school knew me to be a model student, so would sit me up front "to set an example."

My parents couldn't figure out for the life of them why I was suddenly struggling and thought I was having adjustment issues. I had taught myself to read when I was 3; how could I suddenly be having trouble keeping up?

It took longer to figure out because I was only nearsighted in one eye. I was tall for my grade, so as long as the person in front of me to the left was shorter than me or the teacher was writing high enough on the board, I was fine, because my left eye was fine. But when everything aligned just wrong, I was suddenly helpless, because my right eye could barely see clearly an arm's length from my face! It's a hard thing to notice when only one of your eyes isn't working very well, especially when you're 9.
You Do Not Own This
Yes, Congress can defund the FBI, NSA, DIA, … or simply forbid them from spending money on foreign surveillance.

What they can’t do is allow them to spend money on foreign surveillance, but only if an Article 3 court gives them a warrant.
That’s no bad thing in my book
I’ve used it professionally on some occasions and tend to reach for it when a) its purported value outweighs its crude utilitarian aesthetic, or b) I want to loudly signal my awareness of “inclusive design”.
That's because it was built by amateurs. Auto industry pros would never make this mistake.
What valuable differences would an open source version have over aquavoice? Why do you need an open source version?
I can see pivots being worthwhile for existing investors if the business needs more investment. If the pre-pivot is a worthless thing you own 7% of, it would be better to inject another bundle to own 14% for a new thing instead of starting afresh and owning 7% of nothing plus 7% of a new thing.
What’s most interesting is this is incredibly unpopular amongst voters of both parties.
Building on the point about using LLMs for finding market asymmetries, I'm looking to team up with a trader to create a UI that leverages AI to spot these opportunities. The idea is to use custom prompts to generate actionable insights, tailored to real trading scenarios.

I'm a developer with experience in clean, effective UIs like this QR and barcode generator[1] and have worked with neural nets in competitive settings - recent robotics contest livestream[2]. I need a trading partner's insight to ensure we focus on the right features and data.

If you're a trader interested in shaping and using this tool, I'm proposing a partnership where you'd provide the trading expertise and potentially fund the initial development for a stake in the project. Think of it as investing in custom software that you'll own and can directly benefit from.

Anyone interested, please check my profile for my contact. Just looking for one trader-partner who really wants to dive into this.

[1] https://qr-code-and-barcode-generator.taonexus.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/live/IDF7zN0NGgA
The S3 API isn't unknown or anything, the client library SDKs all being open source. So I'd imagine a software developer writing a tool that aims to be S3 API-compliant would use one of the open source SDKs, and write their API while making requests to it locally through a client from one of the Amazon SDKs. Not trivial effort, but also pretty easy to imagine how you'd start off. If a client function from the SDK doesn't work with your API, you write your API handler to handle the HTTP request that function makes until it is supported.

I have wondered if Amazon has some additional tooling for other software providers to make their own S3-compliant APIs, but I don't know what Amazon's motivation would be to help make it easier for people to switch between other vendors. Whereas the incentive is much more obvious for other software vendors to make their own APIs S3-compliant. So I've so far imagined it is a similar process to how I described above, instead.
I think some of the financial applications around LLMs right now are better suited for things like summarization, aggregation, etc.

We at Tradytics recently built two tools on top of LLMs and they've been super popular with our usercase.

Earnings transcript summary: Users want a simple and easy to understand summary of what happened in an earnings call and report. LLMs are a nice fit for that - https://tradytics.com/earnings

News aggregation & summarization: Given how many articles get written everyday in financial markets, there is need for a better ingestion pipelines. Users want to understand what's going on but don't want to spend several hours reading through news - https://tradytics.com/news
Not sure what AIPAC has to do with this. The tiktok bill was brought up as a separate measure, just voted on the same day.