skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely some kind of spectrum of response, rather than just either or.

Cilantro to me isn’t something I would generally describe as soapy. If it’s real heavy there can be a slight soap aftertaste that comes through, though at that point the cilantro essence itself is just too much.

I do find the comparison of the essence of cilantro as similar to stinkbugs a bit more apt. There’s this hard to describe chemical smell that some insects give off that isn’t cilantro exactly, but is in some sort of similar class. Kind of how we group sour things together.

I can tolerate some cilantro without noticing much, but if it’s heavy in a dish it’ll become repulsive and ruin it. For me it’s fine when treated like a spice, not a salad.

Apparently Methoxypyrazines are found in stinkbugs and cilantro, and are responsible for a lot of “vegetal” smells.

Likewise it seems that stinkbugs can give of “trans-2-dodecenal” [0] which I guess can be written as “(E)-2-dodecenal” (I am not a chemist) which is found in cilantro and has a chemical citrus peel type of smell. [1]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359322168_Expressio...

[1] http://www.thegoodscentscompany.com/data/rw1005071.html
Looks like a similar idea to mine with Tube and Chill (https://tubeandchill.com) except I am not doing the voting system.
Like probably many people here I still remember having to find facts in books in libraries, before the internet made this skill mostly redundant. Then, as a student I remember having to put together facts from various (internet) sources into a coherent narrative. Now chatbots can just generate text and that skill seems less valuable.

I use both the internet and GenAI extensively now. But I feel that having gone through the "knowledge work" activities without the crutches puts me in a better position to assess the correctness and plausibility of internet sources and AI in a way that kids who grow up using them constantly don't have.

I feel quite privileged to be in that position, that I wouldn't be in had I been born 10 or 20 years later. I also feel sorry for kids these days for not having the opportunity to learn things "the hard way" like I had to. And I feel extremely snobbish and old for thinking that way.
> the search bar (which is also AI, by the way)

It's AI in the older sense of Machine Learning, not in the currently widespread sense of an LLM, which is the source of the problem that the author is discussing.
Some errors in English come straight from Finnish, and only sheer quantity of exposure can overcome them I guess.

And consider one of the more subtle English constructions - when to use "so" or "such" with an adjective or adverb. This might be the most common error I see from Finns, and again, perhaps only sheer exposure - esp. written English - might cure it.
Good, let's look at hard numbers!

Windows 3.1 came out in 1992. One of the highlights in the CPU world in 1992 was the launch of the Intel DX2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_DX2). It used an 800nm process node, ran at up to 66MHz, had 8k of cache, and was usually coupled with either 4 or 8 MB of RAM.

Windows Vista came out in 2007. That's the year Intel released their Core 2 Quad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2). It was a quad core, manufactured on a 45nm process node, running at up to 3.5GHz, with 256k of L1 cache and 8M of L2 cache. In this era, computers often had around 2 GB of RAM.

So we're talking 4x the number of cores, 50x the clock speed, 256x the RAM, 1024x the cache. Benchmarks comparing the two are extremely difficult to find, because they're from completely different eras of computing; but I think it's pretty safe to say that your 10x is completely insignificant in comparison.
Most (all?) organizations are hierarchical above a certain size. I don't think agile ever addressed the resulting problems; some of it was designed for smaller teams. For an "agile" take on organizations of a medium double digit size and up, see SAFe - there's nothing quite like it
I don't buy into the rhetoric about misinformation but the author touches on a real concern. I blame ChatGPT and other LLM clients for not surfacing their fallibility more clearly. They should highlight claims in their UX and allow options for the user to "research" or "verify" in their own way, without relying on that very flakey single one-shot inference. The big honchos (Anthropic, OpenAI) need to make it clearer that their output is, at best, an informed guess. A tiny disclaimer doesn't cut it.
Exponentially more money isn't just sign of institutional decay. Resources/energy required to discover X ray is a grain of sand on a beach compared to energies required to discover Higg's boson.

That's just energy. Compare cost to make an X ray tube vs LHC.

Science used to be able to snatch low hanging fruit. Now those are picked, but people still expect same rate of innovation.
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There is a lively stage of SC2 YouTubers, be they commentators (like LowkoTV) or gammers. Harstem is dark and edgy, including his iconic series "Is it IMBA or do I suck?". At the same time, it is lovely to watch challenges by MaNa and uThermal - especially on how much fun they have, regardless of whether they are winning.

Also, it is still interesting to see the diversity of grandmasters' personal play styles. In a mature game, one would expect it to converge to a single "optimal" playstyle. Yet, even after the dust of a new balance patch settles, it is impressive. And for a reminder, SC2: Legacy of the Void is over 8 years old.
Maybe the link should be changed directly to the video it discusses?

The article is purely a link to this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4

The article itself as I read it doesn't really contribute or expand the concepts in the video and instead is a call to action (not defined) as it assumes you've watched the video, basically I'm just not confident the article contributes anything to the subject its presenting.
> if the problem is tumours

Google paraneoplastic syndromes. Cancer is rarely a problem of just tumors.

> just "laser" all the tumours out and problem solved right?

No. The tumors don't just evaporate. The treatment causes tissue necrosis. Your laser causes inflammation. Even the high tech IMRT you're picturing has those problems.

>Metastatic cancer is defined by essentially there being too many things to hit though,

Metastasis as a concept is fairly meaningless in how you're using it. There are so many more factors in treatment of various cancers that have nothing to do with the distribution. There's a lot that clinpath looks at and frankly I care much more about what's on those reports than playing where's Waldo with nodules. Frequently we assume micrometastasis just based on the cell line or other characteristics.

> therein lies the entire detail

So no.

> you can't treat someone faster than they die of either the cancer or the treatment.

Again far more consideration goes into it but I'm losing my desire to debate these contrived simplistic takes.
Wikipedia and LLMs are completely different entities that work in completely different ways.
I've taken a close look at AutoMQ. By offloading data to EBS and S3, it turns Kafka Brokers stateless, avoiding cloud provider traffic costs and shifting the architectural complexity to the cloud provider. It's really killing two birds with one stone.
Thanks to the AutoMQ team for their excellent work. I'll be giving AutoMQ a try in an upcoming project.
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And what about those who sculpt abstractly out of concrete?
I feel like this is a bit overblown.

Growing up we heard, ad nauseam, that "wikipedia is not a reliable source". People just need to state the same thing about LLMs- they aren't reliable, but can potentially point you to primary sources that -are- reliable. Once the shininess of the new toy wears off, people will adjust.
This is such a cool project. Always glad to see problem solvers filling the void left by MLS. (Unrelated, but the design looks great!)
Just ?!? I clicked on the comments to complain about all those indies still making pixel art games in 2024. But this is an actually fun physical item!
Face palm.
It’s something reflected in the conversations I have with my academic friends. I’m told that every essay is written in the same “voice” and that although they are usually a simulacra of an academic paper, they say nothing. The sad part comes when we reflect that these students are not learning the deep thinking skills that comes with academic writing
>Building an FPGA board

This seems to be a bit odd? This is already a more tedious hardware project to debug, but when it is about learning the basics, building a much simpler circuit would provide more insight.

It's also a bit questionable why building hardware should be part of a full stack digitial systems course? It's very good knowledge for certain, but seems like a sidetrack for me.
And what about those who abstract concrete from the concrete plant?

It had to be subtracted from the contract. The exact impact isn't a known fact. They extracted it by Amtrak.
How many fortune 500 companies primarily rely on that?
This document is actually pretty innovative in that it actually sets out a bunch of "legal remedies" for several situations and claims a right of violence by the state. In Medieval Europe, disputes were still legally settled via feud or vendetta until the 16th century. Even duels were still practiced centuries later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewiger_Landfriede
One more tip:

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide is amazing for returning to recent project folders from the CLI.

(Then I have a CLI command to open an explorer window. Directory Opus, actually)
not sure why Sweeney is still so motivated about this, but i am glad someone is leading the charge on countering apple's mobile ecosystem bs.

if apple behaves like a judiciary court about these things, then epic is helping setting precendence in favour of the rest of us.
"Writing is thinking." -- David McCullough
They don't just walk. Their whole lives are physically demanding as they do everything by hand. The men hunt, the women forage. Everyone crafts their tools.

Also it's not just this study. Research on this actually started in the 1980s when the double labelled water method became practical - unfortunately it's still massively expensive.

All in all there's a much larger body of research indicating that exercise is not effective at controlling weight. The Hadza study at least gives some clues and indicates that there's something we're missing and this mechanistic approach to metabolism where you can just coax it into burning more is a model that doesn't reflect reality.
> Another hypothesis: being extravert means getting energised by interactions with others; being introvert means that costs energy. (Most people will have experienced both, at different times.)

This isn't really a hypothesis so much as a restatement of the definition of each term. The person to which you are replying is giving a hypothetical explanation of _why_ the two conditions are the way they are.
I don't think they're "not a company you worry about" especially since slack (as just a random example) has had to worry about them. At the time this was written I think they were PG-dead, but now I believe they're either PG-alive or PG-undead.
If you take away standardized testing then what you get is conventional cheating... and AI can cheat there too!

But the worst part is that you cannot even say whether one pedagogical approach is better than another because measurements are now incommensurate.
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As I read the articles linked from this article, it occurs to me that generative AI could redo educational simulations to use characters familiar to the user. That would get us one step close to Neil Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer."
As an introvert, it's really annoying when I'm talking to someone else and tell them something, only to be told I'm wrong, with no arguments or data whatsoever.

If I wasn't certain, I wouldn't be talking about it in the first place.
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i greatly appreciate your very informed opinion!
I thought "Crystal Fragment" was the name of some piece of software...
"not trust non peer reviewed articles" - this is such naive advice. It is not black and white, peer reviewed articles only increase chance that information included in article is legit because it was verified in some formal process. I wonder how many times people giving such simple advices mention how often peer reviewed articles are retracted or can't even be replicated and how this vary accross disciplines.
JavaScript is probably the most notable example of that. It used to not have a guaranteed iteration order, but browsers implemented it in such a way that the iteration order was the insertion order, and then that eventually got standardized because websites started depending on it.

For general purpose hash maps in standard libraries, I think you ought to either randomize the iteration order so that it's different every time, or guarantee an iteration order. Leaving it unspecified but predictable in practice is a recipe to fall victim to Hyrum's Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/).
In 2021, she didn't.
The deal with the state is in principle the following:

1. If you have a conflict with some other person/family/clan the buck needs to stop somewhere otherwise you just swap murders back and forth indefinitely

2. Having the buck stop with another (third?) person/family/clan is unaccaptable to most persons/families/clans, why would you voluntarily yield power to them?

3. Having learnd from centuries of bloodshed and oppression you develop a system where you can collectively decide on with whom the buck stops and more important: a system where you can remove someone if you are collectively unhappy with their performance in that position.

Now there are a myriad possible ways of doing 3, with some of them tracking the collective will more closely than others, with different definitions of who is included in the collective, with different ways of persisting certain elements through the power transition etc. But anybody who knows about history and politics knows that without that you will even have more chaotic, violent and oppressive circumstances. Unless you happen to be in the clan that is currently in power and you happen to have no war and/or bloody throne-fight during your life.
>But, oddly, it was referenced then as if they'd always been active in the U.S. I remember thinking, "did I miss something?"

I think that was mostly propaganda. They were "active" in the sense that some form of anti-fascist or extreme leftist movement existed in the US prior to Trump, at least according to the Wikipedia page, but "Antifa" as an identity is clearly post-Trump viral marketing. I guess it depends on how much value you put on the label versus the ideology.

>I mean, where are they now?

Where is the hacker known as "anonymous" now? Even QAnon seems to have mostly fallen off the radar. Have they disappeared, or does the media simply not pay as much attention to them anymore?

I always have to remember that consensus reality is manufactured by capitalist and state interests, it's a product like any other, and its purpose is to influence and monetize first, and reflect objective reality last. Events are always happening in the background that I'm not aware of, simply because it isn't commercially or politically viable to make me aware.
Again, IANAM...but an aluminum smelter produces bulk metallic aluminum from ores (generally aluminum oxide, Al2O3). Vs. the input to a steel mini-mill is almost all bulk & scrap steel (not ire ore), and its output is various steel products - bars, beams, pipes, rebar, wire, sheets, and such.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_mill
On a related note: German beans are different. You'll find canned kidney beans everywhere because combining them with sweet corn, bell peppers and onions with a seasoning overpowered by vinegar is a popular cheap side salad (often called "Mexico salad") and you'll find Heinz beans in tomato sauce but otherwise it's white beans or green beans.

I was happy to discover canned pinto beans at my local supermarket but they were only available in a hot tomato sauce (branded as "chilli beans") - I only just found out the overpriced exotic Italian Wachtelbohnen collecting dust in the shelf next to them are pinto beans too.

Heck, I'm nearly 40 and I've met Germans my age who were intrigued (or put off) by couscous because it's so exotic and they've never tried it before. I've talked to people running kebab joints (Dönerbuden) who said that they stopped offering lamb meat because the Germans didn't buy it and the few Turkish and Arab people who frequented them weren't enough to justify the overhead.
The video this is referencing is by a pretty internet-famous scientist, Sabine Hossenfelder, who is NOT a climate scientist. She produces videos on various topics in science, in- and outside of her field.

I personally am of the opinion that an academic education in one field does not qualify someone sufficiently to produce critically interesting or novel content in another field (without an existing track record of doing science in that field, at least).

With a degree in Comp Sci I would be very careful to make any educational statements about state of the art medicine, even if I could sufficiently understand and explain basic concepts to people due to my academic education and ability to read papers.
I have a math disability called dyscalculia. Which basically means "number blindness". Math is about manipulating numerosities, which has nothing to do with problem solving.
I bet they are good friends with Jehova Witnesses, how many times have they moved the date of the end of the world?
i truly hope you never have to experience cancer treatments for a loved one where the treatments end up not working in the end. it is humbling and eye opening.
Absolutely right, great point. That's why I only use Windows addresses now. Can't break those with brute force!
So a neural indras net?
sure, and there has been since the paleolithic, they teach how to make them in boy scouts
To save HN users further time, it's a link to a five month old Sabine Hossenfelder youtube channel video titled I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.
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I think believing the first lie that conservatives would really reduce immigration is the product of trusting politicians too much.

Another faction of the pro-Brexiteers would think of the system in terms of a uniparty. The fundamentalists like Farage have no chance of getting elected as PM in the British system, though he did get an MP seat now.

Would things change if Farage were PM? I'm cynical, probably not.
I’m suspicious of the effect working as advertised. Looking at the photos closely there seem to be two different objects: a larger cube that is used for the best demos (Arc de Triomphe and plushies) and the pendant everywhere else.

You can distinguish them from a few details: the pendant has the small “hook” and has a considerably smaller “pixel count” which only produces uninteresting squares of colour without a discernible image. Plus look at the hand holding them and how far apart the fingers are.

Furthermore, both this website and the artist mention this produces an upside-down image (they have a clear example with a candle on the website) while the best demos here have images with the right side up.

As someone who’d be on the target market for this, I wouldn’t feel confident spending the money without first holding one in my hands and clarifying these incongruences.
Doomer content makes $$$
Did people back then have no sense of structure or desire to group the laws thematically? This text jumps back and forth between topics.
While I sort of agree with the premise, isn’t that a fairly low bar?

From the organisations perspective it doesn’t matter if the goal is achieved with 5 or 300 people, as long as it is achieved, but it feels wasteful to me.

I’d also kind of require the goals that are achieved to be the ‘right’ goals to qualify it as competence.

It’s hard to call a general that leads his army orderly into a trap competent.
I think a hunk of ginger in some food tastes like soap.
I have my real email address in my profile, and I've only been contacted once that I can remember (and it was by a non-troll).

I have no argument with anyone who prefers to remain anonymous, but the negative consequences you described haven't materialized for me.
I don't understand people who enter comment sections just to confidently state something so easily disproven? Losing Lena came out in 2019.
I vaguely remember reading something similar about stevia.

Anecdotally, I know some people who think it's a tasty sweetener, but for me it just tastes bitter and awful. When I add it to coffee, it ends up tasting like I added a mixture of Splenda and powdered graphite.
> I will not accept any point that attempts to show that the current developmental state of the countries of the world are inevitable in any way. It leads to an extremely slippery slope that only ever ends in racism—'oh, X person is from Y region, they deserved to be conquered anyway, they don't deserve a place at the table, they are... subhuman'.

That you refuse to accept reality shouldn’t affect us. Poorer countries are poor primarily because of bad governance and resource management, not long-gone colonialism.

Richer countries (Europe and North America) are rich because they manage resources better and have much better leadership.

Denying the above facts does nothing but keep poorer countries in their poor states perpetually, instead of acknowledging that good governance, preferably a liberal democracy, helps these countries progress.

In the 21st century, there’s really no excuse for widespread poverty except bad governance.

Yours Truly, someone from a poor country (Nigeria).
I don't think as individual we can do anything except:

1. Build energy independence by switching to renewable energy sources for your home.

2. Acquire skills that might be useful in a changing climate, such as gardening, home repair, or first aid.

3. Maintain mental health while dealing with the realities of climate change
All the hallmarks of a poorly thought out proposal. With the decision made purely on assumed cost savings, which the article gives several clear examples of those being highly unlikely to realised.
Sabine Hossenfelder is a Physicist and climate science is best understood from a physics perspective, heat equations in particular.
And, like all formal processes, it has been gamed. Many journals are full of high quality material; others are full of peer reviewed bullshit.
And yet, much of the same criticism applies to both.
Still better than ChatGPT.
Like I said before: there's a fixed energy budget and you only get to decide what you spend it on, not how much you have. There's less than 10% of wiggle room - the difference between utterly inactive people and those who get at least a little bit of exercise. No real difference between very active people and the former.

Similar studies on rats showed that increased activity reduces processes like inflammation, healing of wounds and production of reproductive hormones like estrogen.

Essentially our digestive systems are already doing their best.

There was an additional study in cooperation with several zoos which showed that other primates work the same. Humans have actually a pretty active metabolism in comparison, as it burns an average of 400kcal more.
Is this why a 99 ice cream is called a 99?