skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Beyond that - YMMV.

Looking at Inuit and Mongolian populations for stuff like this would likely be a good approach to actually learn stuff. Almost a strictly meat diet, but without all the confounding variables of sedentary office workers, industrial chemicals, and highly processed foods with tons of sugar.
It's somewhere a bit in between those things here. I don't think anyone reading the threads in question would believe that the commentators are being sincere: the tone is not sarcastic but the responses are obviously 'off' in quite a noticeable way. (Plus there are people complaining/giving the game away too, though they're downvoted to the bottom).

Feels a bit like an adversarial Turing test: (most) readers will get the joke, but the hope is that AI recommender systems won't.
The top-spent ad in the last 7 days included no targeting other than "nationwide, 18+." That seems folly, doesn't it? Huge waste?
This whole thread is a great example of an interesting phenomenon... whenever people talk about this people come out of the woodwork to nitpick the details of whoever is criticizing the wonton use of likely poisonous compounds. Theyll argue things like this about the details of the exact likely bioactivity of the compound, or go on about how its impossible to have modern society without poisoning everything in a huge perfect enemy of the good argument.

Like, go drink from a cup of pthalates if youre so ok with it being in your brain, balls, ovaries, etc. No ones arguing we need to ban plastics, but maybe coating the world in single use water bottles without considering the effects is suboptimal. Shouldnt the onus be on proving its safe before spreading it everywhere, rather than proving its dangerous?

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/06/wor...

Theyll call me extreme/ignorant/naive, but maybe a society where we have to poison ourselves to sustain "growth" isnt worth sustaining.

Not to mention the constant alarm bells about rising GI cancers in younger people. "OH BuT YOU HAVNEnT staTIstiCALLY prOved A cAusAL AssOCiaTION".
Yep. This is totally fair feedback -- we're still a super early product and haven't had a chance to optimize the phone experience.. largely because it's tough to see the magic from the phone

We'll improve it soon!
(Thanks for all your work on rust)

There is some work to get nix to work with Windows, this is mostly being done by john ericson.

However, the real issue is that nixpkgs (the repository containing all nix expressions) heavily assume unix paradigms.

There could be a "nix-windows repository" in the medium to far future, but it will likely be very divergent from the current nix+nixpkgs story of today.
To play Devils Advocate for a moment: Why do we need, or even want, a newspaper to endorse a President? How does it not undermine a paper's journalistic ethics to be neutral and fair?
There is no zero in Roman numerals. Who invented zero, and when?
Talk about normalized bad behavior.
Because you can't necessarily run everything in Kubernetes, or in the same cluster. OpenStack probably provides VMs, private networks and bunch of other stuff to run legacy systems, 3rd. party software, Windows application, tons of stuff that can't be containerized.

You can have a large Kubernetes cluster running OpenStack, because it's probably the easiest way to deploy and maintain OpenStack. You then build smaller, isolated Kubernetes clusters on top of OpenStack, using VMs.

It's not as crazy as it sounds, but it does feel a little unnecessarily complex.
Food fad or science – or both? Why cooking with water may help slow ageing
So the future of electric cars is only huge SUV ?
It feels like green washing
As you have no doubt encountered with your archive, readers don't believe everything, they believe what they want to. In many cases that means rejecting the truth and believing the story. AI only knows what it's been told, it doesn't even have senses to compare to its own experience.
I don't know why, but the one thing cryptobros fear is OFAC. They shrug off fraud, securities violations, and money laundering but when sanctions are mentioned people start running away. We saw this with Tornado Cash and hopefully Tether will get OFACed next.

BTW, Tether probably is backed 1:1 or better because they bought $XXB of US treasury bonds at >4% which return billions in profit per year. BTC is also (currently) near all time highs. Whatever hole they had was probably filled in.
Kind of new in the US, you can't stop people in the US from spending money on ads that amplify there speech. [1]

Political spending is regulated, but we now have "political action committees" that can support candidates but can't coordinate with them. They can accept money from anyone in any amounts. Its brought tons of money from wealthy doners into polics in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Comedey Centrals Colbert Report (Colbert playing a Conservative pundit) once set one a PAC with a political lawyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC

I'm not a lawyer..

As someone who is "swing state adjacent", and avoiding them mostly this year, I feel for those under the crush of political ads.
Also missing that he oversaw layoffs of 2550 https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-ceos-pay-rises-63-to-73m...
That spaceship‘s interior, functional space outfit, and most equipment will of course also consist of various plastics.
Seems like a general handy site in general as a sort of Google Trends alternative. I know it's not an actual alternative but to pick up on certain trends from advertizers.
You can use Clean Up with a clear conscience
“Confabulations” is sometimes mentioned as an alternative to “hallucinations”.

It’s a better alternative than “bullshitting”, because “confabulating” does not have that kind of connotation of intent.
Because chemical effects are not the only undesirable effects something can have. E.g., mechanical, electrical.

In any case, in one study [0], "researchers looked at 12 brain samples from people who had died with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. These brains contained up to 10 times more plastic by weight than healthy samples." Another [1] found "nanoplastics accelerate the aggregation of β-amyloid peptides" and that they exacerbate "the neurotoxicity induced by low-concentration peptides".

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
Per dietaryguidelines.gov cereal contains 8 times more iron per calory than beef: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/resources/2020-2025-dietar...
I think they, like even some on the left, have reasoned that Trump will only be there for four years. That's it. He's gone, or in jail. That's four years they know who their opponent will be and the Democratic Party can prepare. Thinking a long game, it is possible the left has given up and said fine, let's get it over with.
Interesting that money is considered to have a large influence on US elections, one side has a lot more money, and yet the race is incredibly close.
OK. How much red meat do you need to eat to have the excessive high iron levels likely to trigger the behavior under consideration in the study? How much higher is the risk?

Also, spinach has iron. So excessive spinach consumption at levels that most people couldn't tolerate could also increase colorectal cancer risk? Or no?
https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#c...
The current slate of Russian GPS jamming is not being done by satellites.
Wouldn't an essentially untargeted ad be the most expensive to run? Meaning that something like that will always be the top-spent?
Sure, but it's a winner-takes-all situation.

(That tweet is excellent.)
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Please please please if anyone knows somebody at DoorDash I am looking for an intro to integrate our drone delivery service ;)
"Electro-ag"

"Electronic soil boosts crop growth" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38767561#38768499 :

> Electroculture

> "Electrical currents associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal interactions" (1995) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3517382204909176031...

Electrotropism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrotropism
Let's do an extreme example. If one candidate were to say, "I will burn down the Washington Post" would you expect the Washington Post to be neutral? Seems fallacious.
Newspapers have several different departments- a news reporting department, which ostensibly attempts to be neutral and fair (but often isn't), and an editorial department, which is neither neutral, nor fair. The endorsement comes from the editorial side.

I can't answer why we would want newspapers to endorse presidents- except that historically, newspapers played a big role in shaping public opinion (now mostly replaced by social media).
It's technically impressive in a way but it's also a dystopian hellscape enabler technology.

The article even takes the opportunity to mention that It could be useful during "solar geo engineering events and nuclear winter". What kind of insane geo engineering event is envisioned where food crops cannot grow under natural sunlight and all food we eat is from GMO plants and mushrooms only?

Did I mention the health inspiring carbon-monoxide step in the electrolysis process to produce the food for the plants? I did now.
LLMs give you a plausible chain of words, the word "hallucination" assumes intentionality that doesn't exist — as if the LLM had a "clear" state of mind and one where it felt a bit dizzy — but all of that does not describe what is going on.
This is the most shocking part from an outsider POV. In Europe* mainstream media must obviously be neutral about each candidate but also give the same amount of airing time to each candidate. So like if candidate 1 is invited for a 10 min interview, candidate 2 must be invited too and offered the same airing time. Meanwhile here Fox can just call Harris "stupid" (and CNN reciprocally call Trump whatever they want), lie to make them look good/bad and support their candidate all day long while spitting on the other one, and it's fine.

Edit: my bad for generalizing all countries of Europe
There is usually some energy cost associated to keeping resistance unless critically needed. Or limited place on genome.

Any organism from virus to human will happily shed over time (generations) any resistance we now consider crucial to survival, just change its environment enough.
We have Nixstan on "Ops Team" who keeps pushing us to use it. We haven't seen need that much.

So can someone give me elevator pitch that if we are CRUD Web App, why Nix instead of Puppet/Ansible + Docker Containers?

Also, this from the blog article: "What if adopting Nix didn’t irritate your IT or security teams?" Too late, security team is already pissed. They did some scan, we pinned a package, it has 3 high severity and it needs to be updated tomorrow. So yea, we are just yoloing package updates, we don't have much of a choice.

Oh yea, we have some third party proprietary package we use. Support told us, Red Hat/Rocky/Ubuntu or we could kiss support goodbye. Any suggestions that doesn't involve shoehorning nix into Ubuntu which is like mud wrestling with a pig?
The standards people won't even add a standard buffer or slice to the language.

I kinda cry every time I see a new api with foo(void *src, int sz) signatures.
Overcoming Self-Doubt
True. I guess the root issue is often much more basic
All the whey down

Dios mio mayne
https://archive.is/pBDXs
It's arguably the most glaring element of background context I can imagine, there's a reason people are mentioning it. Just because it's not ready to compete right now, in the medium-long term it's looking like a flat out alternative to ARM. ARM wants their slice of the money now because this decade could easily end up being peak ARM times. Sell high.
Here's one from X via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-f...
The end of the NFL concussion crisis, what happened?
The Intelligence of Noetic Fields
> any CS/SWE problem that couldn't have been solved without?

Any computing problem that could be solved with category could be solved by brainfuck.
You're mistaken. Polygenic scores for educational attainment correlate negatively with fertility in the US, UK and elsewhere (in fact, AFAIK everywhere it has been tested). So it's not just because people in poor countries have more kids.

Note also that natural selection is about correlation not causality. If an lab accident blows up MIT, that will select against intelligence, even though intelligence wasn't causal.
"Facebook users" or "Google users" are way too broad for a political campaign ad to target. Party A's ad will go to too many of Party B's users and vice versa. They need to be much more carefully targeted to be effective.

The purpose of a political ad is not to convince undecided people to vote for [party]. The number of undecideds is vanishingly small, so there's no ROI there. The purpose of a political ad is to convince people who have already picked a side to actually vote vs not voting. So you need to carefully target your "go vote" message to your own team.
Israel does not exist around Gaza. It exists on two sides of Gaza. On the Egyptian border, Israel has made an agreement with Egypt to prevent imports and exports, and on the Mediterranean, they prevent access to the sea by force.

Israel has long prevented the import of all sorts of goods. They do not provide "everything necessary." Israel also has prevented the export of almost all goods, so that the Palestinians will have no money and be completely dependent on Israel to provide for basic needs.

I'm sure you're right that if the border were opened up that Hamas would import weapons and attack Israel, which is why Israel surrounded Gaza, as I said.

As you say, "peace requires proof", but that goes both ways, and ever since Camp David collapsed, Israel has likewise proved that it does not intend to make peace by further expanding the settlements, and generally making the lives of the Palestinians intolerable, often in capricious ways that do not enhance Israeli security.

The very obvious long-term goal of Israel is to drive the Palestinians out of the occupied territories and annex them for Israeli use.
What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt
> How does it not undermine a paper's journalistic ethics to be neutral and fair?

Where did you get this? Every news source has some bias, journalists, editors and owners of the media house are not some ideal beings. The good ones are honest about their bias.

As to endorsing a candidate, it's absolutely for the paper to decide. Endorsing a candidate might alienate some readers, not endorsing others.
Right. The uncertainty will be high when responding to garbage inputs and it will be distributed along many tokens.

If probability(sum(tokens[:5])) < 0.5:
Respond("I'm sorry I don't quite understand what you mean.")
No, I agree with your remark completely but I'm still ambivalent about the tradeoff.

We agree there should at least be one medium of advertising for political parties. But where do we draw the line?

For instance, I would be happy with making all ads plain text, standard font and size so that the ads won't abuse human attention by showing bright colors, happy images etc.
Doesn't sound worse case to me. It could use a better name anyway.
Yeah! I want to use the logprobs API, but you can't for example:

- sample multiple logits and branch (we maybe could with the old text completion API, but this no longer exists)

- add in a reasoning token on the fly

- stop execution, ask the user, etc.

But a visualization of logprobs in a query seems like it might be useful.
Suppose I want to wrap a GUI around my visualization. Can I hand pygfx a surface I created with a GUI tool kit?
I'm not nitpicking the parent. The parent comment is just wrong, full stop. You should not listen to them.

They have an incorrect notion of what a phthalate is (usually a slightly greasy ester or an alcohol), how polar/hydrophopic they are (mixed; generally ampiphilic), and whether or not they tend to bioaccumulate (in general, they do not).

Your broader point is well-taken, however, but not in the way you intended: chemistry does not reward a shallow understanding. The details matter a lot.
I'd love it if you checked out what we've been working on.

It's still in early stages, but might be usable for something you're trying to build. Here's an example (this buffers the entire JSON object, but you can also gen as you go): https://docs.mixlayer.com/examples/json-output
I actually agree with you, newspapers really shouldn't be doing this. Our major local paper in the Twin Cities basically torched its reputation by endorsing wildly unqualified candidates for city offices (like, one guy they endorsed for Minneapolis city council didn't even live in Minneapolis). They recently decided to stop doing endorsements at all, which I think is the right decision.

But that's not what happened here. The editors did their normal endorsement process, but the owner of the paper stepped in and personally overrode their process for this one particular endorsement. That's a way different story from deciding to stop doing endorsements.
Here, it is more like the smartphone market is stagnating and manufacturers need something to encourage people to buy new smartphones instead of keeping the one they already have.

They are already doing planned obsolescence, with hard to replace batteries, limited software support combined with closed systems, etc... But they can't abuse it, as regulatory agencies are already after them and customers are starting to notice. They had a go with cameras, as it is a significant differentiator, but nowadays, most smartphone cameras are as good as they can be for what they are used for.

And it turns out that AI is the big hype right now, so of course, they are using as a selling point.

The funny part is that "AI" (machine learning techniques) have been running in smartphones for a while (I'd say a decade), hidden in camera software. How do you think these tiny cameras can do pictures that look so good? But they mostly kept quiet about it, as it had implications of making "fakes". And yeah, stuff like Siri that works mostly on servers, you don't need a phone with "AI capabilities" for that, just internet access, but they are certainly going to put in in their ads.
The cross origin iframe method is the same I’ve employed in
A few browser extensions I’ve built
How is doing it server side a different challenge than something like google collab or any of those Jupyter notebook type services?
It's also not something unique to Parmesan, all shredded cheese has additives to prevent it turning into a cheese ball again. Kind of the nature of shredded cheese
Sounds like Google is making good money on this then
Depends on the context, I guess. In some, a method can involve multiple techniques; some of these techniques can be borrowed from other, unrelated, methods. (You could say that a photograph is kind of data storage, but still.)
The analogy holds in more than one way. For example, iPhones will gain/lose features at the convenience of Apple (even the bigger screen had to wait until a new CEO was in charge). You buy it as it was designed, the same as you buy a Cybertruck. They behave like designer brands.

Chinese EVs are more focused on what people need, and brands have a wider range of offers, similar to how you can find budget or flagship Androids to suit your tastes. They behave similar to traditional auto makers.
If one spends any time on the various GLP-1 reddits you'll see plenty of these stories. It's clear that the current formulation or dosing regimen isn't ideal for everyone. That said, there is hope as there are multiple variations of the drugs now and more in the works. Part of the weight loss component of this drug happens in the brain and targeting that mechanism and developing formulations that mitigate nausea is almost certainly happening in labs across the world right now.

It will probably be the case that there will be a diverse set of offerings of these kind of drugs, with different priorities and people will just have to try each until they find the one that works best for them.
Louis Vuitton fake bag may look 1:1 from good enough distance yet for some reason people keep buying them... what's the problem supposed to be? And that's before going into topic of being European and actually appreciating heritage, place of origin, craft skills etc. that go into making one of these.
Quantum computing is still a bit niche, no? And graphical notations already existed in physics and quantum computing, I believe. What does the category theory do here, except reformulate things that experts already understood, but in category theory language?

I think a convincing application of category theory should involve doing calculations with category theory concepts and definitions, which involve things like: commutative diagrams, representable functors, universal properties, adjoint functors. If a whole heap of these concepts doesn't get used - and you don't perform calculations with them - then you're just reformulating something using different terminology.

Thanks anyway for the link. Very pretty.
Exactly - a massive failure of regulatory bodies. I wonder why. It was similar with Madoff - there were people literally sending documents showing it's a fraud, and they did nothing for years.

I don't follow crypto lately, but it seems that Tether is printing money in high interest rate period.

But back before that, it was a complete joke - it was so apparent that they published only made up numbers that didn't really add up, pretended to get legitimate transfers of billions of $ on Sundays etc.

They were investigated once by a US A.G. and found out to have lied on the reserves in the past, but nothing really serious happened. They got a fine and were forced to published a pseudo balance sheet, which was a joke (still a bit better than FTX's Excel spreadsheet).
From what I've seen in other projects, I think that translates to:

1. we have a management k8s cluster where we deploy app blueprints

2. the app blueprints contain, among other things, specifications for VMs to allocate, which get allocated through an OpenStack CRD controller

3. and those VMs then get provisioned as k8s nodes, forming isolated k8s clusters (probably themselves exposed as resource manifests by the CRD controller on the management cluster);

4. where those k8s nodes can then have "namespaced" (in the Linux kernel namespaces sense) k8s resource manifests bound to them

5. which, through another CRD controller on the management cluster and a paired CRD agent controller on in the isolated cluster, causes equivalent regular resource manifests to be created in the isolated cluster

6. ...which can then do whatever arbitrary things k8s resource manifests can do. (After all, these manifests might even include deployments of arbitrary other CRD controllers, for other manifests to rely upon.)

All said, it's not actually that braindead of an architecture. You might better think of it as "k8s, with OpenStack serving as its 'Container Compute-Cluster Interface' driver for allocating new nodes/node pools for itself" (the same way that k8s has Container Storage Interface drivers.) Except that

1. there isn't a "Container Compute-Cluster Interface" spec like the CSI spec, so this needs to be done ad-hoc right now; and

2. k8s doesn't have a good multi-tenant security story — so rather than the k8s nodes created in these VMs being part of the cluster that spawned them, their resources isolated from the management-layer resources at a policy level, instead, the created nodes are formed into their own isolated clusters, with an isolated resource-set, and some kind of out-of-band resource replication and rewriting to allow for "passive" resources in the management cluster that control "active" resources in the sandboxed clusters.
Do you have any public info or video about about your drones?

(I don't know anyone at DooDash, but if you expect someone to help I think it would be easier if you can provide some info.)
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