skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultra-processing is still not a real thing. There's no consistent definition, there's no good scale of what is more or less "processed" despite the name implying some degree of severity. The actual definition is circular -- "if you already think it's unhealthy, it's ultra-processed."

I'm all for dunking on the vegan lifestyle, but not through pseudoscience.
"ultra-processed" is a non-specific scare term for more specific descriptors, most specifically "low fiber". Foods with their fiber removed are consumed faster, keep you feeling full for less time (low satiety), and spike blood sugar more rapidly (higher glycemic index). Seitan (gluten) is a useful source of concentrated protein for those eating a plant-based diet.
I'll see your Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves and raise you the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" (SPCSCPG)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_the_Prevention_of_...
Sure, psylocybin won't kill you, but the threat of inescapable psychological distress is real. Maybe it's less likely if you aren't predisposed to psychosis, but you can't easily know for sure that you're not.

And yes, it's possible to misuse SSRIs, but taking an obviously oversize dose is still often a treatable situation. Combining them with depressants I think is a degree of misuse that is incomparable.
> games(Bejewelled, Space Trader, DopeWars) or graphic calculator software

Snake!
It’s from 2016, so probably lost its mojo.
There's a subdirectory in the Windows folder (WinSxS) that can easily eat up 50+GB and deleting files there or in the Installer subdirectory can easily break things like updating any Adobe products you might have installed (which I've experienced directly and seen plenty of reports about online). 9GB is a joke and so is that article.
https://archive.ph/AVCm1
> What would be the point of a no smartphone section in a restaurant?

It elevates the experience. Going back to the class thing [1], cell phone on the table or cell-phone use during dining is a noticeable thing between e.g. Michelin-starred restaurants and diners. (And I’m only counting N > 1 tables.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41820633
> I absolutely agree with this in theory, but in practice I'm not sure it would ever work because they just aren't going to put in the work to build and maintain APIs for things they don't care about, and there would be a very long tail of things to do (and sometimes those things are legitimately a lot of work). Call recording being a classic example.

I thought about this a bit and I think that at the end of the day, the entire OS is just a bunch of these APIs. And I do think there's even a market for these APIs, they just don't want to set that precedent, I don't think it has anything to do with it being a lot more work than anything else they expose. They already have some very privileged APIs you can bless some apps (e.g. think of MDM) except not for everything and in the case of the MDM APIs it's very difficult to use it as a normal end-power-user.
Nowadays very much most services can fit on single server and serve millions of users a day. I wonder how it will affect overly expensive cloud services where you can rent a beefy dedicated server for under a grand and make tens of thousands in savings (enough to hire full time administrator with plenty of money left for other things).
Yeah, I know Linux can do gaming, dev and is stable and good. But there is always something which needs a hack / fix, different lib or something.

"Normal" people just take the convenience of a working system out of the box than having a privacy respecting OS.

Personal anecdote, installed Linux Mint on an old Laptop of a friend. First thing, we open Firefox and go to YouTube, hard freeze of the whole OS. Not a single key worked anymore.

Not the best advertisement for the stable and better OS Linux I was showing him.
RetroArch is cancer to the emulation scene. Multiple emulator devs despise RetroArch and users don't like it because of the confusing UI. It's sad that standalone emulators for homebrewed console (e.g. Switch) have gotten so rare "thanks" to RetroArch.
"Starship's fifth flight test is targeted to launch on Sunday, October 13. The 30-minute launch window opens at 7 a.m. CT.",

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

Edit: that's 12p.m. UTC, I think.
I want hear more about this. I'm playing with langroid, crew.ai, and dspy and they all layer so many abstractions on top of a shifting LLM landscape. I can't believe anyone is really using them in the way their readme goals profess.
>Last time I tried Mint, I had to use a script that runs on startup to configure mouse scrollweel speed

not a linux but Mint issue. Both Plasma and GNOME offer this.
Such a dogshit definition makes it impossible to target any specific chemical or process. With that definition and a meal, I can't tell you whether that meal is "ultra-processed" or not. Just tell me the processes, and show me the studies on them. If there aren't studies on them, do studies on them. But talking about "processed" foods actually seems to use generalization as a smokescreen that somehow still allows deceptive labeling, an enormous number of chemicals, and no specific criticism of the industry.

Food preservation is important, Fortifying foods with vitamins can be awesome. It's good when foods are cheap, food "preparation" and food "processing" are the exact same thing in English. There's always going to be processing. Finding out which processes can cause disease or ill-health is reasonably straightforward, if you want to do it rather than throw around political and marketing rhetoric.

72% less processed!
There are great places to discuss AI safety out there, but every time they get mentioned on Hacker News they are subject to sneering middlebrow dismissals. That's sort of the OP's point: this is not a great place to discuss or even meta-discuss the subject.
Even on Windows, you just run the binary separate from the model file. I actually run a single binary separate from the model files because I run it with multiple of them, so I kind of forgot that that was even the default way it kind of expects you to hold it.
I simply don't use either. never have, never will. they do not serve my purpose, so they are irrelevant to my life.
Worked great for me. Placebo might have worked too, but doctors don't prescribe those!
It does indeed. And the author of this post is the founder of EksiSozluk. Hi Sedat. :)

Because of this tense, I often find myself prefixing my sentences with "as far as I have heard".
Interesting theory. The notion that some expressions of personality are obstructed by social 'noise' and thus benefit from solitude makes a lot of sense. By their reckoning, solitude is positive, voluntary and purposeful, the means to a desired end. In contrast, loneliness is negative, involuntary, a response to the loss of several sources of social support.

The OP (and others) suggest solitude's desiderata to be: 1) pursuit of a personal passion, and 2) disinterest in affirmation (or criticism) from others, 3) the belief that this journey will be preferable when taken alone.

Do the terms introvert and extrovert capture such personality quirks usefully? And are solitude and loneliness synonymous? I've long thought not.

As I understand the terms (informally), introverts are drained of energy when in a group while extroverts gain energy. But by that definition, loneliness should arise only when extroverts go it alone. Introverts should be immune. But not so, so there must be more to the story.

The best work I've read on the complexities of introversion and the merits of solitude is Susan Cain's marvelous book, "Quiet". As I recall, it confirms the OP's thesis.
Crystal Heath, a veterinarian and animal welfare advocate, provided the images. She acknowledged she didn’t know for certain that the cattle had died of bird flu, but questioned why animals would be piled in this way with “no signage warning of the biosecurity hazard.”

The title says bird flu but the person providing the information did not confirm this. Cattle die-offs are not uncommon and sometimes caused by large temperature swings or sadly in some cases the rancher not properly monitoring their water supply. Sometimes it's intentional and blamed on an outbreak when a rancher is going bankrupt and can't sell off the cattle. People should investigate further starting with lab samples and autopsies.
My entire team is in another time zone. And like many, I don't even have an assigned desk at the office. So, my RTO is commuting in, booking an empty conference room, and then dialing in to meetings with people on the other side of the country.
> A surprising number ended up being academic types that were extremely smart but could never actually finish anything.

As a startup CTO currently building with Elixir, I can say that it's absolutely possible to hire people who know how to deliver. I completely agree with the parent comment re: self-selecting people who write code as craft. I've put together an excellent team of developers who deeply care about what they do and are focused on shipping.
Oh!

What really bothers me is that this kyegomez person wasted time and energy of so many people and for what?
ticketswap have a max markup of 20% and then you can be refunded if you overpay for tickets. I guess the idea is that people start looking there and people naturally use it. The problem is that scalpers will empty the platform and sell em for more on ticket master and everyone is again forced to buy from there.

It would be great if artists had a way to force people to use it. Hopefully that's the plan.
> Did I get that right? Having to work to earn money makes a business bad?

Having to work too much for not enough return is what makes the business bad.
For 1., I was citing Debian as an example which doesn’t include it, and that’s certainly a big distro. Other might be better and this isn’t needed for them. For 2., as i said, the default driver was absolutely unusable for me.
The Foreign Affairs investigation (probably the most detailed of any) suggested multiple reasons for the breakdown of the process. For the purpose of this thread, the main takeaway is that it squarely rejects the "sabotage" theory, stating:

The claim that the West forced Ukraine to back out of the talks with Russia is baseless.

https://archive.ph/lSQPr
Because clearly a school bus is too expensive. /s
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/prehistoric-structure-lake...

https://imgur.com/gallery/lake-michigan-mastodon-rock-undoct...
CCDs can't access each other's L3 cache as their own (fabric penalty is too high to do that directly). Assuming it's anything like the 9174F that means it's really 8 groups of 2 cores that each have 64 MB of L3 cache. Still enormous, and you can still access data over the infinity fabric with penalties, but not quite a block of 512 MB of cache on a single 16 core block that it might sound like at first.

Zen 4 also had 96 MB per CCD variants like the 9184X, so 768 MB per, and they are dual socket so you can end up with a 1.5 GB of total L3 cache single machine! The downside being now beyond CCD<->CCD latencies you have socket<->socket latencies.
Over how long of a time span are we giving this? I don't think so.

https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/streams = most popular live stream has 33M views

https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/videos = most popular video has 29M views

I'm pretty sure this also includes embedded views from news articles that embed the videos.

So to answer the question: In the short term, unlikely it seems. Over the span of hundreds of years? Likely so.
I hope it is more successful than their previous launch. I also hope that it does less damage to the wildlife sanctuary near the launch pad than the previous attempt. They are going to spray huge amounts of water to try and avoid destroying the launch pad. There is some concern that the water may become contaminated with harmful combustion products from the launch and flow into protected areas nearby. They will be doing some testing after the launch to better understand how big a problem this might be.
In August, they said the rocket was ready to fly .. but they were quite visibly still doing significant work to the catch mechanism on the launch tower.
As I understand it, only if the test article is identical. Any modification, new permit required.
Got it! I saw this in the code and assumed you were using embeddings
def evaluate(input: shared.EvaluationInput):
ds = Dataset.from_list(input.dataset)
metrics = [metric_map[metric] for metric in input.metrics]

llm = ChatOpenAI(
model_name=shared.LANGUAGE_MODEL,
base_url=os.environ["OPENAI_API_BASE"],
api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
)

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings(
model=shared.EMBEDDING_MODEL,
base_url=os.environ["OPENAI_API_BASE"],
api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
)
The previous license also allowed multiple launches, so this license allowing multiple launches would be consistent.
The analysis is pure BS.

"On average, a user visits about 100 websites per month, totaling 1,200 websites per year."

First, that is not in the cited link. The word "month" isn't even present.

There is the line 'In the US, the average internet user browses over 100 different web pages on a daily basis.", but that cites a blog post from 2007 ... which include numbers for dialup users(!)

Second, if users visit 100 new and distinct websites in one month that does not mean they visit 100 new and distinct web sites every single month. You've got DuckDuckGo and HN and Codeberg and your Mastodon instance, which you visit every day.

And once you've said to allow or disallow tracking, the web site can, you know, remember the answer for next time. Using a cookie.
One great thing about phone bans is that it brings equilibrium to teachers.

A teacher has a bad day and a kid films the teacher crying? It's all over the socials and teacher is mocked.

A kid has a bad day and throws a chair through a window while the teacher films it? Teacher is likely sacked for filming kids at school.
Yet the same corporate will eat anything that Google or MSFT does while we all know they kill projects just like anyone else or like any smaller company going out.
Impressive:

<https://urlshortenersaresoyesterdaytrythisamazingsuperlongur...>
MAJC (Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing)
They could make the ticket IDs unpredictable so you can't subscribe yourself to any existing ticket by sending it an email
I feel like that ChainsawMassacre channel on YouTube is an example of what happens when The Brand attempts to lengthen their content.
>> “That is a determinant of what makes a good investment,” Brody added. “It is not a determinant of what makes a good film.”

Coppola is no Fellini, nor a Michael Bay. I feel film artists lose their ability to make art when their brain is infected by money and power. This happened to Spielberg and Lucas. It's okay. It's how Hollywood unfolds. Coppola should have restricted his budget and hired someone who is brave enough to tell him when he's wrong.

Creativity blossoms under constraint.
It has always felt absolutely bonkers to me that smartphone bans weren't put into place instantly across US schools as soon as they started becoming common.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. If I'd brought a handheld game console like a Gameboy or something into class, it would have been confiscated immediately. Sure, I get it, that's not the same thing; obviously phones have other uses.

But there is absolutely zero reason a kid needs their smartphone during class. All educational materials should be provided by the school. Kids do not need to be and should not be communicating with anyone outside class. If parents/guardians need to get in touch with kids during an emergency, they can do it the way they've done it as long as we've had the telephone: call the main office and have someone walk to the class to bring the kid to the phone.

I do expect that smartphones could actually bring something useful to the classroom -- after all, they grant access to more or less all the world's knowledge -- but the downsides of allowing them far far far outweigh any possible upsides.
Typically you can argue about classifying something as “state-sponsored terrorism”, but this is just about the clearest example I could imagine.
Touring used to promote record sales when their main revenue was the music media itself.

Thanks to Spotify (and streaming media in general), where music is almost worthless, artists need to tour and sell merchandise just to keep break even.

It's a sad state to be in really :(
I'm not claiming they don't.

You were clearly implying they don’t when you downplayed all SSRI downsides as “a handful of annoying side effects”.

Weight gain kills. Suicidal ideation also kills many people when they start SSRIs. People have killed themselves because of permanent sexual dysfunction caused by SSRIs that never went away after stopping the drugs (and yes, this is a known possible adverse effect listed in the official prescribing information).

I don’t think the choice is as “obvious” as you’re making it out to be.
> If you're stuck in a room and the only thing you can do is read a math textbook you are going to do it.

I'm not so sure if this is true. No clue about kids, but if I'm (personally) stuck at the office and I'm really not feeling like working, I can literally stare at a wall daydreaming rather than do something. And the contrary is also true - if I'm "stuck" at some fancy place with lots to do (like home, lol) but feel like working (and have means to do so), there's no stopping me.

I suspect the problem isn't the phones, the problem is lack of honest, genuine interest. Compliance can be enforced, but I'm not sure about efficiency of learning under duress. Compulsion brings aversion.

This, of course, is a purely idealistic view, assuming ideal high-skilled spherical educators in vacuum rather than actual real-world conditions. While there are always ways to captivate interest and steer it into productive learning, it requires some orders of magnitude more resources than what's available.
So is this HN post gossip about the gossip tense?
when I tested zendesk for potential ticket system I felt that this is half abandoned, there are probably more security issues to find
For my use cases (a stable environment for writing and running systems code locally, browsing the internet, reading pdfs, etc), desktop Linux peaked about ten years ago.

That was back before systemd/wayland, and back when deleting pulseaudio just made everything work better.

Also, minimal window managers like evilwm were more tenable, since the only useful thing that really used the notification area/dbus was wifi.

Anyway, being behind on the spiral of instability I’ve seen with recent Linux desktop environments seems like a feature, not a bug.
A lot of interesting debate on phone bans right now. Including a great discussion on twitter about how some of the research being used to justify bans is using some dodgy stats: https://x.com/MatthewBJane/status/1843795198109000034
The underlying assumption is that the average European internet user visits 1200 unique web sites a year. That seems a high estimate to me.
Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs sold out for next 12 months. This likely means that their profit margins jump again when sales from those chips come in.

Bernstein Research:

MI325X: "Training performance seems 1 year behind Blackwell (on par with H200) while inferencing is only slightly better,"

MI350X: "Even the company's MI350X tease shows raw performance that, while on par with Blackwell on paper, arrives a year later, just in time to compete against Nvidia's next offerings. Hence we do not see even AMD's accelerated road map closing the competitive gap."

https://www.businessinsider.com/amd-latest-gpu-still-lags-be...
Using grayscale setting as an intervention for problematic smartphone use
Why did you take a very high dose?

As someone who was experienced with psilocybin some 20+ years ago, I always took fairly consistent doses (roughly 3 grams), as I could sense taking much more would be playing with fire. This was pretty much a given amongst my circle of a dozen friends who experienced these trips with me… hero doses were almost never a good or healthy idea. Fun to read about on Erowid though, mostly as cautionary tales.

My time with the substance ended after two bad trips (after a few dozen great ones over a period of 5 years), but neither produced any sort of even minor lasting effect.
If it were only 9, you might have a point, but as mentioned it is only one of many instances.
> The underlying issue is that AI agents too slow,

Inference speed is being rapidly optimized, especially for edge devices.

> too expensive,

The half-life of OpenAI's API pricing is a couple of months. While the bleeding edge model is always costly, the cost of API's are becoming rapidly available to the public.

> and too unreliable

Out of the 3 points raised, this is probably the most up in the air. Personally I chalk this up to sideeffects of OpenAI's rapid growth over the last few years. I think this gets solved, especially once price and latency have been figured out.

IMO, the biggest unknown here isn't a technical one, but rather a business one- I don't think it's certain that products built on multi-agent architectures will be addressing a need for end users. Most of the talk I see in this space are by people excited by building with LLM's, not by people who are asking to pay for these products.
That latest hologram video is one of the best quality YouTube videos I've ever seen
Note that this launch has been ready to go for weeks and the FAA were stalling SpaceX. Elon joked that it's easier to build self landing rockets than push papers through the FAA. I really hope if Trump wins he guts that regulatory body.
That won’t matter because AI changes the market from a “speculative, broad-appeal” content model to an “on-demand individually tailored” one. Consumers will stop searching for something sorta like they wanted and start asking for exactly what they want. Pushing static content onto a web site won’t be able to compete most of the time.
Did Stenzek publicly discuss his motivations somewhere, or did this happen in some unindexed chatroom/backroom? It would probably be good to look over the rational and complaints causing the fallout first hand.
In this case, that probably means that H1 had a Zoom or Slack convo with the team and is relaying their decision into text instead of making them write it down themselves.
Comet last seen by Neanderthals to brighten night skies
Your comment hits home, I come across this reasoning a lot at work.
I propose to improve a part of the product, something for most users. And I usually face a littany of "yeah but it will not solve this guy's edge case so it is not good".
Their launch license requires them to initially aim at the water, and only shift to aiming at their tower if both the booster internally judges it's in perfect health, and they send the signal from their control system.

I think there is a reasonable possibility that something goes wrong enough at some point for the booster to go in the drink. But if that happens, maybe it'll be close enough to the shore that we'll get some nice video of it?
What benefit does catching the booster provide? (Or, what's a good written guide to that system?)
Exploit or no, the bug and potential impact are the same. I personally find it a waste of time to sink evenings into an exploit when they're going to fix the bug anyway if I simply tell them about the problem. They also know the system better than I do and can probably find a bigger impact anyway

Of course, this is only a good strategy if you're just wanting to do a good deed and not counting on getting more than a thank you note, but Zendesk or Hackerone (whoever you want to blame here) didn't even accept the bug in the first place. That's the problem here, not the omission of an exploit chain