skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is evidence that it is not a lie:

PMCID: PMC10465444
PMID: 36869181

Habitually Skipping Breakfast Is Associated with the Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers: Evidence from the Kailuan Cohort Study (2023)

> Results: During a median follow-up of 5.61 (5.18 ~ 6.08) years, 369 incident GI cancer cases were identified. Participants who consumed 1–2 times breakfasts per week exhibited an increased risk of stomach (HR = 3.45, 95% CI: 1.06–11.20) and liver cancer (HR = 3.42, 95% CI: 1.22–9.53). Participants who did not eat breakfast had an elevated risk of esophageal (HR = 2.72, 95% CI: 1.05–7.03), colorectal (HR = 2.32, 95% CI: 1.34–4.01), liver (HR = 2.41, 95% CI: 1.23–4.71), gallbladder, and extrahepatic bile duct cancer (HR = 5.43, 95% CI: 1.34–21.93). In the mediation effect analyses, BMI, CRP, and TyG (fasting triglyceride-glucose) index did not mediate the association between breakfast frequency and the risk of GI cancer incidence (all P for mediation effect > 0.05).

> Conclusions: Habitually skipping breakfast was associated with a greater risk of GI cancers including esophageal, gastric, colorectal, liver, gallbladder, and extrahepatic bile duct cancer.

There is actually a lot more evidence in favor of breakfast if you follow the related links on the aforementioned PMID page.
> "1. every time AI is able to do a thing we move the goalposts and say, yeah, but it can’t do that other thing over there"

So are you happy that a 1940s tic-tac-toe computer "is AI"? And that's going to be your bar for AI forever?

"Moving the goalposts is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports such as football and hockey, that means to change the rule or criterion of a process or competition while it is still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an advantage or disadvantage." - and the important part about AI is that it be easy for developers to claim they have created AI, and if we move the goalposts then that's bad because ... it puts them at an unfair disadvantage? What is even wrong with "moving the goalposts" in this situation, claiming something is/isn't AI is not a goal-based sport. The metaphor is nonsensical whining.
Yeah his father probably had been receiving lowball and unserious offers for years if one were to find the right email folder
I know what you mean.
What I found very helpful in getting music out of my head via an instrument was a lot of very tedious scale practice, and similar exercises. This appears to get my fingers habituated such that I may often hear a (simple) line on the radio then immediately pick up an instrument and play it.
What even is this? People reading conspiracy theories from a chatbot spouting random garbage?
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The idea he's describing is Le Sage's theory of gravity, and it does correctly predict many of the things Newtonian gravity predicts. Specifically it predicts an inverse square attraction between pairs of bodies and that the attraction is proportional to the masses of the bodies.

It turns out it doesn't quite work, but it is interesting enough try that does get enough things right that quite a few well known physicists over the years have taken a look at it. The Wikipedia article on it covers a lot of them [1].

Feynman talks about it briefly in section 7-7 of volume I of the Feynman lectures [2]:

> Many mechanisms for gravitation have been suggested. It is interesting to consider one of these, which many people have thought of from time to time. At first, one is quite excited and happy when he “discovers” it, but he soon finds that it is not correct. It was first discovered about 1750. Suppose there were many particles moving in space at a very high speed in all directions and being only slightly absorbed in going through matter. When they are absorbed, they give an impulse to the earth. However, since there are as many going one way as another, the impulses all balance. But when the sun is nearby, the particles coming toward the earth through the sun are partially absorbed, so fewer of them are coming from the sun than are coming from the other side. Therefore, the earth feels a net impulse toward the sun and it does not take one long to see that it is inversely as the square of the distance—because of the variation of the solid angle that the sun subtends as we vary the distance. What is wrong with that machinery? It involves some new consequences which are not true. This particular idea has the following trouble: the earth, in moving around the sun, would impinge on more particles which are coming from its forward side than from its hind side (when you run in the rain, the rain in your face is stronger than that on the back of your head!). Therefore there would be more impulse given the earth from the front, and the earth would feel a resistance to motion and would be slowing up in its orbit. One can calculate how long it would take for the earth to stop as a result of this resistance, and it would not take long enough for the earth to still be in its orbit, so this mechanism does not work. No machinery has ever been invented that “explains” gravity without also predicting some other phenomenon that does not exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sage%27s_theory_of_gravitat...

[2] https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_07.html
there are a few ways really.

this is usually called finding product market fit or validation stages and each person will approach it slightly differently, but generally what (in my own opinion) works best is:

1) do something that doesn't scale to see if people need it. want to create a mental health app? start by talking to people in mental health-adjacent subreddits etc.

2) build something that solves your problem, then show it to others to see if they faced the same issue, this is usually more 'fun'
At least they know what all the heads are doing so could design them to cooperate or model/predict the disturbances pretty well, unlike for external vibrations from neighbouring disks.
A whole industry of bottom-feeders buyers, but the companies they are buying are not necessarily in the same markets as each other, at all.
The incessant "won't someone think of the downtrodden rich and powerful" attitude is tiring.

There is not a systemic problem with people paying too much for safety in the US. In every case where a law doesn't apply, the funders are the ones with the final say in whether safety measures get funded, and as such all the incentives are for too little money spent on safety. The few cases where laws obligate employers to spend money on safety, are laws written in blood because employers prioritized profits over workers' lives.

In short, your concern is completely misplaced. I mean, can you point out a single example in history where a company, went bankrupt because they spent too much money on keeping their workers safe? This isn't a problem that exists.
There's vastly more profit in buying a few companies at 33 paise on the rupee than in buying lots of companies at 99 paise on the rupee. And coordinated punishment of any newcomers - who try to disrupt a status quo of systematic underbidding - does not even require communication between the incumbents.
The idea of the eggcorn database is that these are descriptivist linguists - they believe language already existed anyway and they're just explaining an observable phenomenon, not somehow dictating what is or is not English. Some of these changes just remain forever considered mistakes. If you woke up a hundred years from now the chance everybody calls the little things which fall from oak trees "eggcorns" is negligible, they're acorns, you've misheard.

But on the other hand it's possible that in 2124 everybody considers "bi-election" normal as duh, there was an extra election, that's two, so bi-election, losing the analysis which got us the current word "by-election".

There are eggcorns related to the manor/ manner distinction, in particular "bedside manor" seems like a pretty obvious misanalysis. But you're correct that both "to the manner born" and "to the manor born" are considered reasonable idiomatic English.
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It conveys to me that black swans happen, and best to take them into account. I don't get your point.
Great post and fascinating series of comments.
“Everyone wants to catch violent criminals and put them away”

I assure you this is not true in Memphis and many other cities with District Attorneys that are focused on elimination of jail time for nearly all crime. The DA blames gun policy, but then releases violent criminals (with real victims) back out on minimal bond. It is really sick. It’s not a complex issue.
I think the problem is that in order to evaluate something you need to have equal understanding of it as the person that made it. This is a problem in every field, everywhere. In fact it’s the reason pure democracy isn’t the optimal strategy for governance - the masses aren’t really qualified to make decisions.
The thing is, as David Hume points out, there is no rational basis for the belief that the future will resemble the past.

There is an evolutionary basis for it, however, because those animals that don't hold this belief tend not to live long enough to breed.

Getting past Hume's depressing realization in the realm of philosophy usually comes down to diving into metaphysics and ontology. Good luck getting there with silicon.
> Apple security team seemed to downplay the Spatial Computing angle...
> Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service
> Description: The issue was addressed with improvements to the file handling protocol.

> [Update: After reading my blog post, Apple updated the CVE description to something more sensible.]

I call BS :-P The new description is, "A logic issue was addressed with improved file handling." Equally as vague/misleading/sanitized. How many other bugs with ramifications that would make you squirm are downplayed in Apple CVE summaries?
I have not found __builtin_constant_p to be very reliable when I want to fold multiple times. Is there any way to do this trick better using c++ constexpr I wonder?
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Fascinating. Does it mean that when we have an internal monologue, we're in effect collaborating with our immediate-future self?

This has parallels to the Chain-of-Thought prompting in LLMs, where simply by letting the model speak its reasoning, it generates better responses.

The way I look at things: language-less thinking is tapping into our evolved or ingrained patterns (aka intuition). This is like one forward pass of LLMs. But if you have to reason in a novel situation that you haven't seen before, you have to break it down into simpler steps and that necessarily requires some form of "thinking aloud".

I need to follow the references in the original paper, but most of their evidence of language-less thought was about intuition-type thinking, not multi-step reasoning.
arguably vast-vast-vaaast majority of projects, problems, solutions, developers simply don't need this.

but yes, given the premise of the article is that a friend wants to use a specific CPU instruction, yeah, at least minimum knowledge of one's stack is required (and usually the path leads through Assembly, some C/Rust and an FFI interface - like JNI for Java, cffi/Cython for Python, and so on)
Now that is fascinating. It's like you have blindsight for your mind's eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
when it comes to checking if it exists, sites like producthunt, g2 could come in handy. i personally like to 'reverse search' my ideas on twitter, reddit and hn.

about building it fi it exists, if i can see any clear major differanciator i'd build it anyway.
Lithography takes a more abstract approach to it, we are not actually calculating stresses, we have pretty powerful sensors which measure the wafer surfaces and then my department models the surface.
The Amiga also had some good DTP software (PageStream, Pro Page, ...) but Commodore not wanting to invest a dime in anything beyond the strictly necessary for a gaming machine (no hi res monitor included, no high bitrate audio, no MIDI interface, no stock harddisk, heck... not even a built in RTC chip! ...etc.) pretty much condemned it to fail although lots of software for other uses beside gaming was already there. The MIDI interface alone would have cost cents to Commodore to add; I built mine using parts salvaged from surplus boards, but parts were cheap and as there was demand I also made some money building and selling them as I did with parallel port audio samplers. Amiga users weren't just gamers or scene developers/musicians; many of them were professionals wanting more from their machine, but Commodore simply didn't care, and when PCs and consoles filled the gap they tanked.
OK so -- on this score. I have, I believe, a kind of partial aphantasia. Though maybe it's normal and people just don't really see the distinction?

I used to think -- until maybe ten years ago -- that I could not imagine the faces of friends and loved ones.

That is, if I try to visualise a person's face, I get an incomplete glimpse in my mind that dissolves away within an instant.

(People in my dreams do not really have detailed faces, if I can ever really look at their faces at all; it's like I don't make eye contact. Though they are not face-less horrors.)

This has been distressing, particularly when my mum died.

But then I discovered two really interesting things:

1) I can sometimes imagine a "still" face if I visualise a photograph of that person (maybe only slightly more if I took it)

2) I can bring someone's face to mind much more successfully if I associate it with an emotion or an action, and once I've done that, as long as I keep them in motion I can visualise a lot more for longer.

A quarter of a century after she died, if I want to remember my mum, it's a real challenge. She hated being in photos so there aren't many. But it's possible to start by imagining her angry (sorry mum) or the annoyed look on her face when she was trying to solve a puzzle game on the computer. Then I might be able to keep her face in my mind for long enough.

My dad passed away a couple of years back and for this loss I was ready; I have some photos, but more importantly I had spent the previous years learning his face experiencing different emotions. My favourite route to imagining my Dad's face is to imagine a situation where he might show puzzled, half-smiling amusement or fascination when presented with something he didn't understand or didn't work quite the way he expected. I will be able to recall his face in motion, just as my face starts to leak around the eye sockets :-/

So on the one hand: even now I can't visualise still faces at all! I struggle to describe faces of people I don't really know well. As soon as a face is still, it goes.

On the other hand, I have taught myself a visualisation process that can conjure up meaningful animated recollections that are filled with emotion. I have to do it deliberately, but it's lovely to do.

One final quirk: despite all this, I appear to potentially be a super-recogniser. I can't visualise a still face, but I do not "forget a face"; I can tell you with eerie accuracy whether I've seen someone before and where. And I do rather well with the "which of these faces did you see in this clip" type test, and very well at the tests like "which of these faces is this face from another angle".
You don't mean substack?

Both ssc & robin hanson are on it
There is a democratic process on which tourists don't participate.

I think this working as it should.
Is there a notebook demonstrating how this consumer buying and lending behavior has changed? Which financial metrics summarize these trends?

I found
pypi:mortgage in searching for a mortgage calculator written with the SymPy CAS Computer Algebra System; but isn't it just PV() or FV()?
Zebras come in colors?
Ours are all kinda monochrome.
Apple doesn't but tons of third parties do. And I leave mine on my MBP M2 permanently fwiw. There are ones that don't prevent sleep on lid close.
You're correct. I've realized that I what said adds little to nothing to the discussion. Nevertheless I truly hope that the IA appeals this decision and a favorable outcome revokes this kind of actions from shameless publishers. Restricting such a basic thing as books and knowledge is truly a disgusting move.
Happy to. Much warranted.-
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Or 3, USSR/Russia’s safety record is actually far superior here.

> As of March 2024, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents.
Isn't that what CNC machines do? Or even 3D modeling software, which then gets 3D printed? Is that not creating things, potentially as complicated as David, using language? I know CNC machines use G-Code.

I think the only limiting factor we have on that is we don't yet have a robot that can chisel marble to create a carbon copy of such sculptures, but we can otherwise do it with other materials.
> but I think the LLVM folks have purposefully tried to match what GCC would do.

I never got that impression in my perusal of LLVM bug reports and patches. I wonder if there is an open issue for this specific case.
So, I think that we differ at a fundamental level.

While you prefer to work in a Neoplatonic world of ideas, I prefer empirical facts and convictions that all models are approximations.

English grammar is not fixed per se; it evolves with region (have you ever been to Singapore?) and time. Your judgment (or Chomsky's, or anyone), however founded, is not a fact. It is an opinion up for experimental scrutiny.

I don't say that your examples are incorrect. Still, measure the percentage of correct (or consistent) answers for humans against particular models. Otherwise, it might be maths, might be philosophy, might be arts, but it is not (empirical) science.
I feel like it's a bit weird they didn't mention Rsbuild. Rsbuild is a "nice" wrapper around Rspack and SWC.

It's probably more holistic/batteries included than Farm, from a cursory glance. Rsbuild also aims to be a Vite alternative, but leans more into the webpack philosophy (and ecosystem) than Rollup's
...so does LLVM, unless you specifically instruct it to do otherwise with -ffast-math. Don't be fooled by the name of this flag, if it were possible to just do math faster without compromising anything, it wouldn't be a flag, it would be the default. It seems that Julia has a flag with the same name but a different behavior. Okay? What's your point exactly?
I just got a new computer with windows 10 installed. First thing when it booted up, it asked me wher I live. Using that "fuzzy kindergarten teacher language". Ugh.

Destroyed that abomination with a nice debian install.
It's not really lisp curse (I'd argue the whole "Lisp Curse" article is incorrect, even), but as mentioned by other responders in the mailing list thread, it's organizational dysfunction if anything.

I have seen it in various forms with all kinds of problems, including being hated for the audacity of not bearing the pain of previous distro upgrade and wanting to take away some seniors ability to mess with production servers.
Questions > Answers
Anybody can come up with a million great answers to a problem, but unless they are asking the right questions, they’ll never change the world.

That’s why I spent the last five days building this little question generating app. It provides an unlimited supply of truth-focused questions to help people with too many answers and not enough questions.
i'm assuming you mean 'lazy' in the context of the paper and not more a general system of lazy evaluation. what was in particular that you found difficult about binding pure functions under the notion of a xapping? thanks so much for posting your work
100% this, with the modern redefinition of the word “racist” a lot of statistical correlation is being being reinterpreted as causation and people in control are attempting to manually “fix” systems that aren’t broken. It’s gotten so bad that crime itself is no longer punished in the name of “reparations”
In a merge-based workflow you can have commits like "wip" or "before lunch"; no reason to believe those were ever tested either.

I like rebasing but it's ultimately up to the author. Even tools like Fossil, that don't have official history rewriting tools, don't ensure that history has never been rewritten because people can use external tools to do the rewriting (and I've done this).
In most cases this isn't accurate. The author (or, more commonly, their agent) submits the book to several publishers, who either accept or reject or refer for edits. Unless you're in the top percentile of published authors, there's very little room for negotiation. It's pretty rare for an author to have more than one "accept" on a work simultaneously, many publishers frown on multiple submission precisely because it can lead to a bidding war.
Isn’t commitment to beliefs that aren’t true part of the value of intelligence? Like right now multiple billion dollar companies are being built on different theories of the future of AI. They can’t all be true.
For what is imo a more balanced take, see these comments from a China law expert at YLS:

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/overseas-police-station...

https://mstdn.party/@Chinalawtranslate/110226885383647349

https://mstdn.party/@Chinalawtranslate/110503867487792072
You can never trust an optimizing compiler. I’ve seen similar issues in pretty much every language I’ve written performance-sensitive code in. Point revisions change optimizations all the time, sometimes with horribly disastrous results. One example: every time rust upgrades the version of LLVM underlying the compiler backend, the team prepares itself for a deluge of optimization regression reports (though this has been somewhat "mitigated" by a massive regression in rustc's ability to convey sufficient information to the LLVM backend for it to optimize to begin with, thanks to a change made to improve compile times [0]).

This is almost universally true across all languages. The behaviors you see are usually the result of countless heuristics stacked one atop the other, and a tiny change here can end up with huge changes there.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/91743
for appetizer I recommend Cliff Click's "A Crash Course in Modern Hardware" talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZOuCuGrw48 (and here's the 2009 version https://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-moder... .. might be interesting for comparison )
Enforce squash merging to main and move on with your life. Linear history on main, individual contributors can rebase and merge or format-patch or do whatever they want on their PR branches and it doesn’t matter. There are zero downsides to this approach.
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Yes, I agree, scientific theories have their value from being new/confabulated. Though this isn't mutually exclusive from solving today's problems of confabulations. The proposed methodology could be used to mark semantic coherence, but it doesn't mean we have to hide confabulations.
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Some museums do try to frame memberships as something that is part of one's identity. A museum in my city sells annual memberships with a physical card with nice artwork on it, discounts on tickets (including a discount for a friend), and an invitation to a monthly evening event at the museum that is rather quite nice.

I haven't seen Uber or Lyft effectively go down the route of having their service be a part of a user's identity. But Waymo could make an effort, if they wanted to: they use a distinctive car model, and they could offer incentives to make carpooling with Waymo cheaper (to try and make a user 'known' in their social circle for using the service).
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