skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been disappointed in some of these services before, because in the early days and I suspect now still as well they used RAG for obvious reasons. I feel like for research it's rare that RAG works really well.

What I'm really excited about is a tool like Elicit using the new Google Gemini 1.5 Pro/Ultra models with the 2 Million token window sizes, filtering down the papers using traditional search and high quality meta-data, then critically, prompt/activation caching to make the tool economically viable.

Maybe it won't work better, but I'm willing to bet it'll find those really specific ideas/needles in the haystack a lot more often than vanilla RAG will.
Yea I definitely don't consider the SAD diet meat based since they insist 45-65% daily food should come from carbs. According to the USDA I should be eating 300-400grams of carbs per day which is just insane to me. Based on my fam history it guarantee I will be a diabetic. On any day I eat maybe 0 to 30g of carbs from whole foods. The liver is always producing endogenous glucose there is no need for dietary carbohydrates. The USDA's guidelines are an absolute disgrace.
> Trusted by Researchers At ...

How did you get all those blue chip orgs give you permission to use their name? None of our blue chips clients allow us to do so.
Google Cloud VP Joins AWS
maybe we need tackle this from a totally different perspective.

tie the performance to rewards monthly, no more stable monthly salary other than some base salary, you get paid each month based on your results, the manager can focus on how to itemize the tasks and set expectations, instead of how to watch out low performers.

the better you perform, the more you earn, if the produce is not good for a while, you're let go so you can focus on your other freelance jobs.

yeah this is rare a common approach, but something needs to be changed to cope with remote jobs.
In early 2000 I was playing a stand alone mod for Unreal Tournament 99 called Tactical Ops. UT99 provided an IRC client right in the game and people used it to coordinate matches, when somebody from nato-ladder (North American Tactical Ops Ladder) discovered that spamming a specific character to a player in private message (or even in public channel where the player was) caused the game to crash with nothing to show in the logs.

They used it intelligently during tournament, not overusing it, just making a particular player drop at the right moment and probably abused it for sometime before it became publicly known.

I don't remember if this was an issue also present in UT99 or just TO.
Yes, there are .NET teams using Macs exclusively, it's no different to using Node/Spring/etc. Except much better experience and performance (Spring is notoriously slow, JS "performance" needs no introduction).
Let me counter by saying in-office work should be just for poor performers who need to be watched, or socialites who like to pretend to work but maintain their role by being popular with the right people.

I can be reductive as well!
> You just have to have the right people on the team

you put it nicely, the flip side is most of companies/teams may not have the luxury to have all 100% right people, they may get disengaged and some of them may come back engaged again. the challenge here is remote work makes it relatively harder to get some of them back on track.
What size of company are you targeting as your customers?
Are you focusing on self-serve and marketing or deals and a sales team?

Do you already have customer prospects you could ask? Are they more concerned with a runaway bill or paying for subscription services they end up not utilizing?

Could you find a sweetspot in the middle? (“You only pay $3.14 for the days when an employee use the service” or “You pay for the usage, but it’s very transparent and predictable pricing, we’re not AWS”)
There you are! Hope you are doing well my friend.
And are not on the list of KDE patrons.
> I use it all the time for things I didn't think I would

The very existence of a power tool, even when inert, laying (nay, waiting!, biding!) on the shelf, it shapes your mind, aspirations, disposition.

Truly supernatural, a fetish, a cursed monkey paw in the curiosity shop.
My beef is that NASCAR uses a rolling start. This isn't a horse race or Olympic 50m dash where all racers start in the same place under a starters pistol.

Buescher started 4 rows behind Larson. Doesn't that mean he raced the 400 miles faster than Larson?
> Adventists are by and large vegan or vegetarian (even after leaving the church I grew up in I'm still vegetarian), they don't drink and they don't smoke.

There is the problem all these studies: which of the above is the cause factor and which is irrelevant. In general vegetarians are likely to not smoke as well, so is it not smoking or is it their diet, or some mix - it is very difficult to tell.
Why do people make music?
So disappointing not being able to click the images through to high res versions
I've noticed teens using snapchat to just send quick videos. Just one sentence and then send. Is there anything like this for work, maybe where I can do a really fast screen recording?
Most food studies aren't designed adequately.

Differentiating "meat vs. plant" is too narrow of a scope - or too vague of contexts for comparison.

From my understanding in regards to meat consumption and demographics who eat plant-based, these two fundamentals issues exist:

1) Burnt red meat produces carcinogens, and

2) it's the other food that the majority of people eat as part of meat [e.g. a burger with a bun + sugar-loaded ketchup etc], as part of the industrial complex-driven Western diet that are, where people who eat plant-based are likely more conscientious about the food they are overall vs. the general population who eat meat, where also I believe the majority who eat highly processed meat rather than straight animal product.

There are easily enough people and a growing body of carnivore diet followers that could facilitate including them as a comparison, but in reality there should be other groupings like ; and what about including measuring if the participants have historically done water-only fasting (and number of days on average), and number of water fasts they've done during the study period, etc - so then we can see if there's a chance in the distribution?

Such "complex" studies ideally need to have say 100,000 to 1,000,000 participants to get enough diversity - and we'd also want to be careful that the studies aren't co-opted or influenced-captured by industrial complexes and their own interests.

It'd also be ideal to include as part of the participant cohort dietary changes for willing participants, say switching 1,000 to 10,000 people to high-quality high-fat red meat - who perhaps have other arguably healthy diet-behaviour changes to how that cohorts distribution changes vs. the general population.

The issue with such a study is you'd need to subsidize some participants is industrial complexes have maximized accessibility to low quality-harmful "foods" - maximizing profits too to maintain market dominance by also having more profits/money to advertise to remind people to buy their brand - and so high-quality red meat, for example, is too expensive for most people to switch to - even if the long-term cost of cancer treatment and loss of productivity far outweighs the higher initial cost; and so industry isn't going to pay for such a study, it would likely have to be heavily funded through philanthropy.
I have never dried my own cars but my dad and grandfather insisted on towel-drying cars to avoid water spots.

Though come to think of it, a leaf blower might not work for that, unless it's actually managing to remove the water mechanically and eliminating evaporation. I recall mechanized car-washes using blow driers so maybe this does, indeed, work.
You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019)
> And this has been a particular challenge for poor C++. If we prove a property then the property holds, but if we just found and meticulously fixed 846 of the crucial holes in our system, the bad guys exploit #847 to break in just the same. Is there a #848? #849? Maybe.

That is an unattainable goal for most properties we care about, particularly if they're as complex as "an unauthorised user cannot obtain some information". Even a complete and total elimination of all memory safety bugs and all concurrency bugs won't get you anywhere near that goal (and you can verify that for yourself by looking at common server vulnerabilities). I should have said that the attainable goal is etc..
Was it the time of the year that most people would be buying mulch?
In 2020 those in power in the media and government told us that left unchecked, the virus would overwhelm hospitals and cause even more people to die, and to some extent that did happen.

The pandemic is over because if you go to the hospital now, on a random day, there are empty beds, and there isn't a COVID ward. There doesn't have to be careful testing and whatnot to know that the pandemic is over. You can just look around. It's either over or so minor that calling it a pandemic seems to be a misuse of the word.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. I'd be curious to hear his thoughts on this student design.
Cloudflare R2 for Static Storage
Reading about all these >= 1 Gbps connections, I'm envious.

The fastest I've been able to get quoted to my office in the centre of a UK town is 17 Mbps, and to home it's 34 Mbps.

The speed limits are both due to old infrastructure that's outside my control unless I move. Landlords aren't going to upgrade. In the central library where they have "superfast broadband" in this "superconnected city", it seems to be capped at 10 Mbps per user.

None of those products are worth it - my mid-range phone is faster and gets 20 to 100 Mbps down at different times of day, so I use that for internet connectivity instead. I was surprised at the phone connection speed recently, when I downloaded 30GB of LLMs in 30 minutes on the phone. But the latency is noticably poor.
MPLS vs. SRv6
Current gen of "AI" companies aren't that interested in such trivial things!
SynthID relies on putting watermarks in AI output in the first place. We already have high quality open source models with no such watermark in the wild that are as good as CoPilot, “scrambling” would be totally unnecessary.
Thank you for fighting the good fight, Paul. We miss you and Alex around here.
I wish you meaningful work if you can find it. Most work is not; self awareness and full context is important in how we operate when interacting with others professionally.

If you die tomorrow, are fired, or laid off, you will be replaced. If your company fails, you will move on to the next job. Per the US BLS, approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more. Broadly speaking, ~90% of startups fail. So, I also wish you luck.

Very few of us are saving or improving actual lives or legitimately changing the world for the better (deep gratitude to those folks). The rest of us are not. I am sorry to be the messenger.
Yes, sure, I could have phrased that better. There are no doubt many possible applications of the idea. The recent headline-grabbing applications of machine learning tend not to be like this.
Also, as far as hallucinations go, no symbolic representation of a set of concepts can distinguish reality from fantasy. Disconnect a human from their senses and they will hallucinate too. For progress in this, the LLM will have to be connected in some way to the reality of the world, like our senses and physical body connect us. Only then they can compare their "thoughts" and "beliefs" to reality. Insisting they at least check their output against facts as recorded by what we already consider reliable sources is the obvious first step. For example, I made a GPT called "Medicine in Context" to educate users; I wanted to call it "Reliable Knowledge: Medicine" because of the desperate need for ordinary people to get reliable medical information, but of course I wouldn't dare. It would be very irresponsible. It is clear that the GPT would have to be built to check every substantive fact against reality, and ideally to remember such established facts going into the future. Over time, it would accumulate true expertise.
I doubt it applies to leaf blowers unless you get one with a battery pack that mounts on your back, but battery powered snow blowers are considerably more powerful than cord powered snow blowers since a cord is limited to 1500W continuous.
Why Is the World Losing Color?
re: why does Swift have a package manager if Xcode doesn’t use it:

I occasionally use Swift but almost never use Xcode. I find command line Swift tools, including the package manager, with either or both Emacs and VSCode makes for a nicer dev experience.
Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military
>Projecting all of this on to “fantasy escape world” is silly.

I kind of agree. How I see is that there's a lot of frustration in people in general, and many manage their internal turmoil by manifesting it into external stimulus. Many behave actively, organizedly anti-social ways, so much so that new words, Wikipedia articles have been created to describe the behavior, like "Rolling coal" or "Whistle tips".

Now, I think that these can be thought of as tips of an iceberg. The iceberg being unhandled emotional stress, a system that perpetually creates it, and the behaviors of people that handle it.

I agree that the business incentives are there to keep ICE around. ICE is mature technology, battery-powered are not, and since batteries have not coalesced or aren't regulated around a handful of standards, manufacturers use this to lock in customers into their own ecosystem, among other kinds of power struggles being present as well. I'm personally not confident that I can buy a replacement battery for a new device in 5 years for a fair price, as I expect that there is going to be a new battery standard, with which my "old" device will not be compatible with. So ICE makes a lot of sense still.

On another level, I think it's important to note that noise is power. It affects us on ancient, animalistic level. Loud noise means us danger, or at the very minimum something important to pay attention to. A low level of constant noise feels like safety. No noise is creepy, we better watch out. To be able to make a huge noise is powerful - people and animals usually have gestures explicitly for this reason, and it has been used in warfare too, both in the distant and close past.

So, people are sensitive to this power. Combined with the ability of increased mobility, or the safety that a metal chassis provides, it makes it an attractive way for people to feel like they are in power, or to reduce the powerlessness they feel in other parts of their life.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_tip
These were my neighbors growing up. Chain saws, quads, backhoes, bulldozers, fire engines, school busses -- anything with wheels and big motors they would be running all day long. Every day during the summer I'd wake up at 8am to 3-4 quads being driven around outside my window by the neighbor kids, and that would go on all day long until sunset.

That actually wasn't bad though compared to moving to San Francisco, where they decided to carve a narrow chunk out of the side of a solid-rock hill right below my window. Jackhammering all day from 7am until 5pm. I bought a sound meter and complained several times that they had exceeded the sound limits but no one cared.

It really affected my wife, we had just moved to SF and she had no where to go while I was at work. She tried libraries and parks and such but there were too many homeless there and they harassed her. She has trouble sleeping due to mental health issues and she usually sleeps from 4am to 12pm, but she couldn't do this due to the jackhammering outside of our window that started at the crack of dawn.

This meant she didn't sleep at all for months, and she ended up having a psychotic break, for which she was hospitalized. She was sent to a hospital in Santa Clara, and I drove there every day to see her.

Anyway, all of this is to say that noise issues are serious to some people, and there's really no limit to how much noise someone can make. You can complain but nothing happens.
I think of AI as a super keen arrogant intern. With GitHub copilot, an intern that constantly interrupts me.

When that works for me, I am probably weak on the subject material myself. eg writing quirky love poems to my wife in different styles.

For research tasks, because the AI is not deeply self-reflective, it can output inconsistent and incoherent results. What it does is present text that only *looks* as if it confidently knows what it is talking about.

For domains where high rational quality doesn’t matter like love poetry, it is amazing. For other domains, be wary. If you can’t tell the difference between what is actually good and what merely looks good superficially you will be in trouble.
>and it stays out of the way.

Funny because Gnome's defaults are so not what I want, that it really doesn't stay out of my way, on the contrary, it keeps frustrating me, and the worst part is that it's really not easy to change it to your liking. Had to use Ubuntu Gnome at work and it made me pull my hair out.

At least with KDE, IceWM, XFCE, OpenBox, etc. there's gonna be some setting or at least a config file to change what bothers me, instead of looking for the 20th extension which either is out of date and doesn't work on Wayland, or will break at the next Gnome update.

Gnome is only good if what's out of the box fits you like a glove, and then it's VERY good. Otherwise, forget about it, it's like trying to run a marathon in a shoe that doesn't fit you: it will be very painful. And I'm too old and set in my ways to completely overhaul my workflow and usage patterns to a new DE paradigm, the way Gnome expects of me, instead of sticking to those DEs/WMs I know already work for me.

YMMV.
Doesn't matter. We have quiet vacuum cleaners, quiet cars, quiet motorbikes, and quiet mowers, but that doesn't trigger the feeling of primal power that many buyers search for.
I got an electric leaf blower mostly to avoid the noise and partly to avoid gasoline engine issues (a Kobalt 80V blower). What baffles me is that here the designers had a chance to make something truly quiet but instead they blew it and used a super-high-RPM motor-powered narrow turbine placed inside the pipe. It sounds like a dental drill amplified through a set of loudspeakers.

I would kill to get a commercially designed blower powered with a large squirrel cage driven by a low-RPM brushless motor. I'm sure they exist by now and I imagine they are glorious. I'm not sure what these students did but if I was doing that project today that is the first thing I would try.
But I wonder if the high saturated fat content in fattier meats and meat's higher caloric content are still confounders here. I would be shocked if controlling for calories, saturated fat, and fiber still yielded differences in these risk factors.
Interestingly enough, I've seen other projects switch from github to email-based patch submission (using git behind the scenes though). If I understood correctly, to receive only higher effort contributions.
OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation
If we're going to be citing a random YouTube video as the same weight as scientific studies, I don't see much point in continuing this conversation
I also assume that human operating mowing will not last long. A tiny swarm of self operating mini rovers will probably do.
> but they are probably perfectly okay

Most are not, but at a certain age kids will have enormous social pressure from their peers to do that, and will relentlessly ask for that.

And sometimes you tell them "fine, just finish your homework before" or something like that.
That's a pretty low carb intake. I do a good bit of cardio and will cramp really bad when I'm under 50g of carbs.

I try to only get carbs from fruit, milk, and potatoes to keep the carbs clean.
I don't think the number is as important as the question of how would someone be expected to magically know which 10% is wrong and needs to be corrected?
What would be actually pretty nice is AI girlfriend that also acts as therapist and pushes you towards healthy habits.
It's also more dignified.
with the last project that i had some fixes for, i forked the project, fixed the issues so they would work for me, and then opened issue reports on the upstream repo, sharing the problem, and how i fixed it with links to the commits, in order to open a discussion to find out if that is the right fix for the problem i found. i didn't want to submit a PR as long as i wasn't confident that this was an appropriate fix.

on the other hand, in that project, just submitting a PR might have gotten me more feedback (i didn't receive any responses to my issues)

the main point though is that i fix problems for my own needs, so why should i ask you before doing so? but then i also do not have any expectations that my fix is accepted. if it isn't, then i'll just keep running my own fork.
There needs to be a recognition that giving developing minds devices that are capable of unrestricted access to information is not ideal because it makes parenting impossible.

This needs to be tackled at every level. If schools are expecting kids to do everything on tablets then that needs to be scrapped.

Most of us have tremendously successful careers in software off the back of pen and paper maths textbooks.

I firmly believe the issue is that society has rapidly switched into expecting everyone to use computers and if you don't want to you're just locked out.

There's no need for it to be this way.
Buzz Language – 0.4.0 Release
No, these things go back much further than the KDE 4 or Gnome 3 product cycles.

The distro/commercial ecosystem preference for Gnome dates back to earlier times, and comes down mostly to geography and licensing.

Wrt/ licensing, the underlying GTK GUI toolkit had LGPL some years before Qt moved to also having an LGPL option under Nokia ownership. That meant if you were a commercial entity wanting to invest (as, e.g. Sun and Adobe did with GTK at various points), GTK looked like the better bet.

Geography: When the Gnome community initially forked out of the KDE community, the fault line was partially regional, with the core of the KDE community remaining in Europe and the initial Gnome developers being American KDE devs. As a result, for many years (and to this day), if you go to a Linux event in the US, you're more likely to run into a Gnome/GTK person, and therefore things are more likely to happen.

The software industries in the US and Europe also tick quite differently. The US for a long time offered more career paths for young kids in FOSS to graduate into product companies involved with what they were doing before (e.g. Red Hat). KDE/Qt developers have generally graduated into consultancy companies that spend their time on proprietary products instead (with exceptions).

These things have a lot of inertia and long-term effects.

It's interesting to see a bit of a reversal of this trend now, with the latest breed of meaningful new Linux deployments that get to make fresh choices (e.g. Asahi for Apple Silicon or the Steam Deck) generally shipping KDE Plasma instead of Gnome.

> I heard they're planning to change this in the future and switch to a fixed cycle as well.

KDE has had time-based releases and has also been doing LTS releases for about a decade now, ever since the 5.x series.

But your comment still contains some truth; you're probably thinking of the monthly release cadence the KDE Frameworks libs have had vs. the slower Plasma cycle. This has indeed caused some discomfort at distros over the years, and KDE is now making changes to make this easier.