skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really something new - it's been known for a long time that fluoride needs to be on the surface of the teeth to work. In jested fluoride doesn't do anywhere near as much.

So fluoride toothpaste, or even better fluoride rinse's are much more effective.
All phones these days can act as a hotspot, so basically you always have a WiFi router with you all the time.
>> to engage with parents it helps to find something they are interested in.

this point is something that is both true and something that hurts me, ngl.
because to a point it's like, why should I do that while it will not work in the opposite direction. while my parents will not do that for me.

I mean, I agree with you, just... had to say that.
The number of mountains named for the shape of a lady indicates plenty of us get confused like this all the time! ;)
Meta Llama 3 vision multimodal models – how to use them and what they can do
Captcha is not safe – GPT4 Captcha Bypass
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> with recognized safe levels,

Funny because many countries choose to NOT add fluoride to their water sources. Despite all the "safety" data available.
That's good, at least more and more people will move away from Chrome.
WiFi4EU phase 1 isn't a federated WiFi network, it uses whatever the WiFi operator uses. This makes a shared SSID less relevant. Not sure if phase 2, which will be OpenRoaming like, is active yet.
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React on the server is not PHP
Maybe we need AIs that take care of our growth as well. Let's say a school or company mandates one hour chatting with an AI that will ask you questions and probe your knowledge, and give in explanations as well for things you don't know. The more time you spend with it, the better, it acts like a tutor not like a subordinate that hides away complexity from you.

There is no reason AI can't work like a tutor, the current crop is just a first take on the human-AI interaction problem. The motivation part can be solved by gamification and constraints - you need to earn a number of points by chatting the AI, and those points are reported to your teacher/manager. So a triad of student+AI+human coach would solve the motivation part.
> AFAIK, there is reasonably clear evidence that deterrence has a very low impact on this sort of crime,

Could you share some of this evidence?
$X * 1.07, or $X + 7% (of $X)
There are definitely people who drink a lot of tea or eat a lot of rice in California.
Thanks, I didn’t realize they’d done it this way. Seems pretty clever, but does also seem like strict wiretapping.
I assure you that the kids that are struggling with severe dental problems are not drinking two liters of tap water per day. Maybe we should fluoridate Coca Cola.
if only this went into where the ocaml escape came from :)
I'm not planning to deny evidence. But I don't think the conspiracy theorists need my help to think there's something there. If I don't give them something they will just make something up. That is the definition of a conspiracy theory.
I agree on building to learn, but disagree on the massive leg-up. It's like believing that using a template off GitHub is going to teach you much (outside of specific use cases). This is also why a lot of GitHub issues now submitted by users don't even follow very basic processes you may have outlined on narrowing down problems. Here's this long copied code from terminal, fix it.

What makes the most difference in building to learn is the tiny steps you take to build. Printing hello world for the first time, changing it and seeing something else, using inputs for the first time to print hello, [variable], getting that image to animate across the screen. Each step becoming a great foundation for further curiosity, rather than turning your project into a black box.

In contrast, I've heard from a bunch of people who wanted to learn software development, but now don't see a point since AI can do it. Same with drawing. There's a large growing apathy towards learning skills I've noticed.

This is why most advocates for it don't do it from the perspective of learning. They do it from the perspective of building fast in the hands of those who already grasp the foundations.
is your product roadmap empty? why would something like that even show up in the back log?
I’m shocked you elude to animals not having consciousness. I would say all life, even bacteria and ameba have consciousness, it is rather a matter of scale and biotechnology.

Perhaps you confuse our capacity for consciousness with our biotechnology?
It might sound strange but for me the most efficient days are when I wake up early, have a quick breakfast and commute to work, when I am in the car I mentally plan what I will do today and start programming in my head so when I reach the office (around 06:30) I connect my laptop, take a coffee and start working I typically manage to work un-interrupted up-to 10:00 and I typically manage to finish all my planned tasks, only then I check my phone/email and start interacting with other colleagues.

What I think is the most importante thing is the planning I do while commuting to the office (30 minutes), no phone, no radio, just thinking and planning the day.

The same thing happens when I do long trips for work 3-5 hours by car, it might seem as lost time but they really help me organise my thoughts that when I sit in front of the PC I dump everything.
If I had a nickel for all the clients I’ve seen with micro services everywhere, and 90% of the code is replicating an RDBMS with hand coded in memory joins.

What could have been a simple SQL query in a sane architecture becomes N REST calls (possibly nested with others downstream) and manually stitching together results.

And that is just the read only case. As the author notes updates add another couple of levels of horror.
Sure, if only there were studies measuring their IQ.

Plus, the strongest effects of fluoride are on kids and kids might drink 0 to half a cup of tea a day.
> On the other hand, I couldn't care less

Sounds like you should be in club "Ditch the penny" - because you don't use cash, the only effect it will have is lower taxes (or more efficient use of what you pay now), because of how much it costs to make pennies.
Do students who don’t use AI learn anything though?
"Write to allow skipping over formulas" is great advice beyond just mathematics. Many a technical blog contains something like "I opened the file and look what I found!" followed by line after line of someone else's code or, even worse, a log file. Paraphrase your displayed matter so I can read your text fluidly. If I want to dig deeper, I'll go back and parse the details carefully.
There is though. It's a great way to offload fluoride waste. In fact, the reason we discovered the dental effects of fluoride was because a dentist noticed the yellowed and hardened teeth of patients in the area where the water was contaminated from local industrial waste.
OpenRoaming, like Eduroam, requires an Identity Provider (IdP). This would be something that you could call an account. At least you would only need to create this once and the WiFi operators wouldn't see the details of your account, only the IdP would.
The conspiracy theory component isn't that there is some downside to fluoride in water, it's that the government did it for nefarious purposes.
This totally happened me as well but I don't necessarily see the connection with calculators. This is all anecdotal imo.
One half of the entire basis of modern machine learning is creating algorithms capable of reaching the pattern recognition levels of humans.

This is a given.
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why even go looking at the book of kells is the sentiment about the deliberate versus knee jerk information consumption, which was prompted by the reflection on the levels of ugliness and indignity supporting the knew jerk consumption. it wasn't a comment on the value of book of kells, or the effort of making it available to the public.
Fairly bad faith argument on your part.

The limits are set such that if you _only_ drank tap water you won't consume more than the safe limit. If you then reduce how much tap water you consume because you get hydration from other sources, your well under the limit.

Not accounting for someone eating tubes of fluorinated toothpaste, which is out of specified usage.
I still remember time when spyware was considered on same level as virus.

Now it is just: 'we care about your privacy, allow us to sell it'.
Apply jobs to what?
> It was frustrating because I remain convinced it didn't have to turn out the way that it did.

That's the curse of the optimist. You may be an optimist at heart.
> Pointing this out usually generates a bunch of "pipenv/poetry/uv/whatever works fine for me",

I had to use bundler (Ruby) and got some non-descript “missing dev dependencies”. After installing “dev dependencies” (?) for my Linux distro it still didn’t work. The first StackOverflow answer (for Windows) had over a dozen answers with “this worked for me on macOS”. No logic to it, just a random of assortment of commands that happened to work.

At that point I decided to use devbox. And give up if that didn’t work (but it did).
> Yet not one of these companies think to release a phone that proffers to give the best rooting experience or Lineage OS compatibility - or better yet, comes with LineageOS out-of-the-box.

How profitable do you think this would be?
I often feel the way Sabine looks and sounds in this video.

It is actually uncanny how many topics Sabine touches upon in such an unreserved and brilliant way.

She is a model for modern intellectual thought. I hope she is protected and preserved from the easily upset mob of conventionalists who rather we were all agreeable.
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> Even if the Netflix microservices architecture is an objectively good idea (which I honestly have no opinion on

I have no opinion on that either, but at least this[0] story by ThePrimeagen didn't make it sound all too great. (Watch this classic[1] before for context, unless you already know Wingman, Galactus, etc.)

[0]: https://youtu.be/s-vJcOfrvi0?t=319

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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It’s very simple - when it suits your argument, Trust the Science and go with the government position.

When it doesn’t, say they courts and the regulators are captured and crooked.
The authentication and registration requirement would be good from a legal perspective, but bad from a privacy one. Then again the alternative is cellular data which is tied to an account anyways.
Depends on the definition of cheap. I.e. firstly is available in most countries afaik, no matter where your residence is.

https://www.firsty.app/

It's not very cheap if you want to use it for months, but plenty of other options around too
Though Wifi4EU's website doesn't seem to have any clear indication on expected speeds of the networks they offer? Further, their selection criteria includes things like the historic value of the municipality rather than actual unmet demand or something connected to user desires.
That is a minuscule disaster versus the overall impact of those mines and other similar industry activities on the environment. All that contamination used to just get dumped in the water supply.

It’s only big because we don’t really consider Cleveland’s burning river or LA’s smog blanket to have been “disasters”.

(As the link notes: "The event drew attention to toxic drainage from many similar abandoned mines throughout the country.")

> Prior to the spill, the Upper Animas water basin had already become devoid of fish, because of the adverse environmental impacts of regional mines such as Gold King, when contaminants entered the water system.

> In the 1990s, sections of the Animas had been nominated by the EPA as a Superfund site for clean-up of pollutants from the Gold King Mine and other mining operations along the river. Lack of community support prevented its listing… Locals had feared that classifying this as a Superfund site would reduce tourism in the area, which was the largest remaining source of income for the region since the closure of the metal mines.
Every comment thread about fluoridation on HN goes like this. Most countries that don’t fluoridate their water don’t do so either because they fluoridate something else (table salt) or because their natural groundwater contains sufficient fluoride, or because dietary trends in those areas already provide dietary fluoride.

Western Europe and Latin America are examples of (1), Central Europe is an example of (2), and much of Asia is (2) or (3).

And this is the point: if you have naturally occurring fluoride at safe levels, you shouldn’t add it. If you have it at unsafe levels (which much of the world does!), you should defluoridate your water. But the body of evidence is overwhelming that 0.7mg/L for fluoridation is not a significant public health risk, especially in contrast with its tangible benefits.
It's an LG 65QNED99UPA. There are a few caveats: using a 65" display up close imposes some requirements on your window manager (you want to treat the sides more like you'd treat a secondary monitor in a multimonitor setup, rather than have windows go all the way edge to edge); and you need to make sure that every GPU, KVM, and cable can handle 8k, in an ecosystem where most don't. If you can handle those two things, it's great.
Reads like a greentext put through a round of chatgpt.
Yes, but therein lies the rub. Those that know how to learn will benefit. Those that don't will regress, possibly for life depending on when AI is introduced.

This is especially demonstrated in essay writing.

Many students associate essays with busy work because the topics they're asked to write about are boring. When the typical assignment that's given is "read this boring ass book from the 40s that's been in the curriculum for decades without revisiting its application in today's world, then write a 1000-word essay on a topic that's been discussed to death that you couldn't give less of a shit about; points will be deducted for views that stray too far from the norm," then it's absolutely unsurprising that most students will shove this into ChatGPT and call it a day.

On the flip side, when English or composition teachers are forced to assign thess assignments knowing full well that it's a crock of shit, then it is equally unsurprising that they will feed GPT into GPT and call it a day.

Students that know how to learn and are actually interested in becoming better writers will find ways around this. Teachers who have the freedom to design their own curriculums will be more creative about the types of prompts they assign and the books they have their students read.

The common link between the two? Money, of course!
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I remember a similar article for some C compiler, and it turned out the only place the value 0x10 appeared was in the compiler binary, because in the source code it had something like "\\n" -> "\n"
In my experience, every mobile service provider (in NL at least) has different rules and restrictions on roaming data usage. For example, reduced data quotas, reduced data speeds, no guaranteed 4G/5G, etc.
It's worth noting that the logic in the article only applies to idempotent requests. See this article (by the same author) for the non-idempotent counter-part: https://habr.com/ru/companies/yandex/articles/442762/ (unfortunately, in Russian). I am sure somebody posted a human-written English translation back then, but I cannot find it. So here is a Google-translated version (scroll past the internal error, the text is below):

https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/companies/yandex/articles...
You have a set of experiences where the scientific method didn't allow for changing of results or conclusions?

Maybe you have a set of experiences where you've successfully debunked conspiracy theories and converted previous believers?

Otherwise I'm not sure how you can make such a wild claim.
If that's the case how do these patent troll companies sit on thousands of patents? Or they likely milk it to the last day of that time window before it expires I guess.
Well, when you are writing an apartment, people do generally go for the cheapest smallest place they can afford.

But when you’re buying a place, you’re looking to have isolation from shared walls, and generally a larger property will appreciate more in value than a smaller property With some limits in both directions up and down in size.
If a local police department wants phone records they have to go through the company's legal compliance department.

The disturbing revelation here is that it sounds like the federal government has direct backdoor access to all these records without having to show any warrants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
It’s quite sad. Firefox used to be the browser where I could just put AdBlock Origin on and would be good to go without too much tracking.

Now, I have to dive into deceptively named privacy settings just like with the other large browsers.
Careful what you wish for. There are likely billionaires considering this very thing as a method of dealing with “the AI impact”.

They will define what “…doing social or creative work…” entails, likely contractually, and then you’re right back where you started.

I think, we need to rethink, where this basic income originates.

- Philanthropic individual billionaires?
- Mythical creatures.

- Philanthropic trillionaires (aka: large govts or corps)?
- Mythical creatures.

- Collective individuals (aka: you and me)?
- Now you’re on to something.

Unfortunately, organizing humans is right up there with trench digging in terms of easy work.
Try things that don’t require (a lot of) money. Stuff like expensive travel to far away places is overrated in my opinion. Take walks in the local parks, volunteer locally or join local clubs. You may find something you never thought about that you like doing and that costs very little.

Acquiring expensive stuff is almost never deeply rewarding. There are exceptions of course such as good tools you might need for a hobby you enjoy but used tools are often a bargain or there are makerspaces or community workshops you might explore.
Just looked at the github -- wait, you wrote BQN? My God. Is there any prior art on this -- arraylangs with first class functions? I don't think very many people realize how incredible the semantic power of BQN is. The idea of an arraylang with first class functions... it truly staggers the imagination.

I feel like if I were able to wrap my head around it I would never want to code in anything else. Thanks again and excited to take another look at it!
A lot of developers struggle with Git. The only reason I don’t is because I’m interested in version control (too much according to some people I argue with).

Well I say that I don’t struggle but I’ve never had to use submodules.[1]

[1] Torvalds: people say that submodules is hard to use. True. But it’s gotten better now/it’s getting better. (Google Tech Talk 2007)
The NSA can’t regulate itself - it needs court oversight. Courts are allowed to decide what matters to national security and what doesn’t, despite not being agents.

The Police can’t regulate themselves - they need court oversight. Courts are allowed to define what is acceptable policing and what is not, despite not being police.

The EPA can regulate itself and understands science. Courts aren’t allowed to weigh in because they aren’t scientists. The EPA is a morally upright actor, all other government agencies aren’t.

A perfectly rational position. (I say that with extreme sarcasm - it’s malarkey.)
For me one of the most important things here is the clarity of the problem -maker- at the top. That's the difference between the "Iversonian" symbolic languages (J and K included) and others. It doesn't have the elegance and power of a one line solution, but it's just so clean and comprehensible even without the disciplined commenting. (Although I really think lamp is not a good comment glyph. Sorry about the sacred cow I just took a swipe at fellow array nerds.)

One line solutions are incredible, and tacit is mind-bendingly cool. To use the unique compactness of a glyph-based language as a way to efficiently describe and perform functional programming - then to do that all over arrays!? - whoever had these ideas [0] is utterly genius.

But as someone trying to make time to write a program ground up in APL, knowing that I won't be able to make it just a set of really good one liners, that example is also significant for me.

[0] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/fork.htm
I think the question is if you need the entire system to be strongly consistent, or just the core of it?

To use ElasticSearch as an example: do you need to add the complexity of keeping the index up to date in realtime, or can you live with periodic updates for search or a background job for it?

As long as your primary DB is the source of truth, you can use that to bring other less critical stores up to date outside of the context of an API request.
Show HN: Pantone Guessing Game
Hey HN,
I've created a web-based game that challenges you to match Pantone descriptions to its RGB color.

For those who don't know, Pantone provides "a universal language of color that enables color-critical decisions through every stage of the workflow for brands and manufacturers".

These descriptions can be surprisingly subjective and ambiguous (think 'Reflecting Pond' or 'Satellite'). I've created this app to hopefully gain insights into which colors have the largest variance and for you to test your knowledge.
Despite all the money they've recently spent trying to rehab the founder's image, Meta's core DNA is built around invasion of privacy, dark silent opt-in patterns, abuse of user data etc.

I judge anyone who made their money there because they simply have made the world a much shittier place just by existing as some low quality 21st century nicotine dealership.

These glasses will 100% be used to ID, track, and ad bucket tag people without their consent. I'll be slapping them off anyone's face who looks in my direction and you should too.
I suspect many people are simply not that intellectually curious about the world.

It a super power for the intellectually curious while the highly specialized that thought they were done learning can only see the threat to their intellectual moat. They aren't wrong.

I feel like I level up on a weekly basis practically.
This crossed the red line. So meta can use passer by images of like me, to train their models when I want nothing to do with them
> AI labs are constantly looking for new sources of high quality data

OpenAI has 200M users, and solve over 1B tasks per month interactively. This amounts to 1-2 trillion mixed human/AI tokens. The fact is that every user has their own unique life experience, and a reservoir of tacit knowledge they didn't communicate or write down anywhere else. The LLM can elicit that tacit knowledge that would be otherwise lost, it can crawl our minds for ideas and problem solving choices.

LLMs are in a situation of indirect agency. When they propose a solution, the human usually takes it out and implements it in the real world, and comes back for more help communicating the outcomes. Across many sessions it becomes possible to check what AI ideas worked out and what ideas were bad. This is a huge resource, it collects experience from every user. The LLM becomes an experience flywheel, people are attracted to the best models, and they will get the lion share of this experience.

And yes, you can do it with privacy in mind. You can train just a preference model instead of supervised training on chat logs. Just a model that would pick the right answer from a lineup. This way PII and user specifics don't leak.
The dead giveaway is that all companies stuff AI into their earnings calls. If you say AI only to pander to investors then it's not sustainable. It's FOMO-driven.