skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d certainly rather try that than keep with our fully failed system, but I’m curious: with so many members (from both resetting the constituent ratio to what the original one was, plus multi-member districts), would it start to physically look like the Galaxtic Senate? Maybe a basketball arena packed with representatives? Clearly we are now equipped for simple votes to be taken instantly even in those quantities, but part of me thinks that this would be tough because ultimately 22,000 people can’t have a floor debate together unless in practice only a handful actually matter. Same for committees of say, 10x the current size.

I’m not saying it’s worse than what we have now, I’m actually more curious how the people who would like to see that reform would want it to look in practice so I can know whether I could support it and how I’d argue for it.
White skin will probably go away in a few thousand years or so. It likely only ever appeared to absorb more UV light and synthesize vitamin D at low sun angles while mostly covered in heavy clothing. Since we can now supplement vitamin D, all the other disadvantages should make it maladaptive.
But there are nuances to that.

I know several people who have escaped a war-torn country and had a successful life elsewhere, instead of getting affected by military propaganda, and possibly losing everything just because of other people's territorial conflicts.
Python Development -- notes by Victor Stinner
> remember that we are not descended from fearful men

Edward R. Murrow
Isn’t that how all JavaScript code runs in a browser?
"This documentation is not an official Python documentation, but a collection of personal notes by Victor Stinner."
I would say he is write about LinkedIn, TikTok, Snap, Meta and its associated gram's, threads and face... BUT - HN has a different vibe, this is a community with sharing knowledge and information - on HN, I never doom scroll - there is genuine interaction and useful content. To some extent X provides useful updates from the main AI labs, so it is knowing how to use it and not be used by it.
I had to dig around the docs but here is what I understand:

AI generates code that will perform "zip all files", but that could be dangerous because "rm -rf *" running on employee laptop is a risk, thus create this disposable desktop for AI to connect and manage, build the code, run the code, then evaluate results, and then destroy the instance.

I personally like it and think every laptop needs to have a read only OS with disposable desktops running for each app. Why does my Outlook need to live in the same world as my IDE?
> I think the author is using the original motivation of musing on null hypotheses to derive the title "The Higgs Discovery Did Not Take Place",

It's probably a reference to "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" by Jean Baudrillard, which took a similar critical view of the Gulf War as TFA takes of the Higgs discovery.
Only in scale and intensity.

Agriculture took hold in numerous civilizations and indeed introduced one of the primary threats of collapse for those civilizations. Throughout history, we can see civilizations collapse when their dependence on agriculture faltered, which happened often enough.

But neither the technology (agriculture) nor its failures (blight, famine, etc) were universal and so it hadn't become a threat to the species as a whole.

Modernity, however, has become aggressively global and more successfully universalizing. We not only invite every community into it, we insist they do so for their own good. Further, its technological contrivances (and therefore their brittleness) are more intense because of industrialization and later accelerating technology. As it continues to progress and expand, it brings the whole species into its gamble and raises the stakes of that gamble at the same time.
Only certain plastics contain phthalates.

There aren't any in polypropylene plastic, polyethylene plastic or polycarbonates.

I'm sympathetic, less plastic is probably good - it does have to be a well thought through change. If the change reduces safety, or if it gets manufacturers to switch to a worse risk profile product, we could be net worse off.
There is plenty of legacy software out there that has no and will never have a nice API to integrate with. Those are the situations where the terrible solutions are either let a human do it or automate the human tool chain from a high level. This is the LLM spin on it. Is it an efficient or even good solution? Hell no, but if there is no other solution to automation (assuming that's the goal) then does that matter?
Could you drive at all in a Waymo outside of a strictly geofenced area in a handful of US cities?

How about in a Tesla?

They are approaching this from two fundamentally different directions.
Yes, it's the CS majors who are murdering a quarter million Americans annually due to preventable medical errors (including misdiagnoses based on radiology readings), good point.

Nobody, and I mean nobody beats physicians at the Arrogance game.

The very second that ML models begin to consistently beat humans at diagnostics, it would be a moral imperative, as well as an absolute requirement by the terms of the Hippocratic Oath, to replace the humans.
You can actually see this behavior in the car when it runs into a difficult situation. It tells you it's asking for assistance or something similar, and pauses for a few seconds.

I also made the mistake of assuming the remote operator drives the car but if you watch Waymo's technical videos, it's clear that the AI is in control of the car all all times and the remote operator is just doing near real time labelling of what the car is seeing.
This makes me sad every time - I know for a fact that mountains are evolving, but in my lifetime the mountains are just mountains. Still. Not changing a bit unless I'm looking really really close (which means that it's not the mountain that changes, but merely its surface).. So the same with humans.

I don't care about living forever, I just want to see what happens in 10k years. Just out of curiosity.
If you read the papers related to the work it's really not all that clear how much of this is genetic (inherited) evolution or just adaptation from birth to different environmental conditions, i.e. any child born and raised at high altitude might display such adaptations, regardless of parentage.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0701985104

> "Tibetans (the study sample were Sherpas, an ethnic group that emigrated from Tibet to Nepal ≈500 years ago) who are born and raised at high altitude have higher capillary density in muscles as compared with Andean high-altitude natives, Tibetans born and raised at low altitude, or lowlanders."

> "Are These Functional Adaptations Heritable? To evaluate the hypothesis that natural selection accounts for the functional physiological characteristics of Tibetan highlanders relative to Andean highlanders or of highlanders relative to lowlanders, a primary consideration is the presence of heritable variation in the traits under consideration. However, the genetic underpinnings of these quantitative traits are mostly unknown (with the exception of nitric oxide). These traits are also influenced by individual characteristics, including age and sex."

> "With respect to identifying specific genetic loci contributing to high-altitude functional adaptation, efforts so far have not been successful."

An accurate headline would replace 'are evolving' with 'might be evolving' for this work.
> But it's inescapable, for example, that education rates are now strongly negatively correlated with fertility.

You can easily say that city dwelling is strongly correlated with higher education rates, and higher noise pollution, therefore high noise pollution is strongly negatively correlated with fertility. Correlation doesn't equal causation.

> Reliable birth control has fundamentally broken that link.

Reliable birth control has severely reduced unwanted pregnancy, but there's a whole host of people who would like to have children that can't.
Being "extremely conservative" in their rulings has no relevance to the likelihood of them being politically motivated. It's entirely possible that the Constitution itself is "extremely conservative", given the well known commitment of the framers of the Constitution to limiting the power of the federal government through Constitutional restraints, and the 130 years of judicial history during which the SCOTUS consistently ruled the way the current SCOTUS is ruling on cases.
Eh even current AI where it makes a summary of your preferences is ever so slightly increasing signal. I don't expect this ability to diminish over time, but instead increase, which would lead to more personalized signaling.
Can't buy Avocado toast anymore .. /s
I highly doubt birth control has altered the selection process in humans in the span of two or three generations.

I think you're right for the wrong reasons. Correlation does not equal causation. I think it's very clear it's our modern lifestyle. Our diet. Many of us are over weight. Most of us are sedentary. We're consuming higher percentage alcohol and weed. We're consuming other drugs. There are microplastics in our blood stream and the food we eat. There are chemicals like BPAs that were in our products for years before we removed them. Pollution. The list goes on. I would rule out these factors first before ever considering the idea that evolution is at play.
We are also not descendants of the 18 year old who eagerly followed a leader and died in a trench.

What is it with people nowadays, can't there be at least some room for touching this type of sensitive topic?

My post seems to become a downvote magnet. I just wanted to try an unusual perspective that is seldom talked about.
Well, we know exactly how Waymo's remote operators help out: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/. They can't prevent accidents in real time like the Tesla drivers do and can't "control" or "drive" the vehicles.

Tesla FSD is impressive for a driver assist system. But that's all it is — a driver assist. They need orders of magnitude improvement to match Waymo's performance and go driverless.
I hate how normalized this is. Breathing in a difficult to break down plastic dust is not something that seems healthy.
Yeah. The higgs evidence is pretty convincing visually. Not so sure about LIGO. There is an extraordinary claim of noise reduction that requires extraordinary evidence and it's all obfuscated behind adaptive machine learning based filtering, and the statistical analysis on that is unparseable to a non-expert (that is worrisome). The pulsar timing network though is easily believable.

Luckily, there's pretty simple statistics that one can throw at that once the third detector comes online. Hopefully that comes in before we spend too much money on LISA.

It's basically this, from the article, but from astro:

> Particle physics does have situations where the hypothesis are not so data driven and they rely much more heavily on the theoretical edifice of quantum field theory and our simulation of the complicated detectors. In these cases, the statistical models are implicitly defined by simulators is actually a very hot topic that blends classical statistics with modern deep learning. We often say that the simulators don't have a tractable likelihood function. This applies to frequentist hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and Bayesian inference. Confronting these challenging situations is what motivated simulation-based inference, which is applicable to a host of scientific disciplines.
How Hardships and Russian Language Made Dostoevsky Immortal
Amazing that starting in ~2010 you can literally see where Oklahoma went all-in on fracking.
I wonder if this will ever be a significant factor. How much can a LiDAR setup cost? 4k? Maybe 2k if built in-house at car manufacturer scale in the long term? Is that significant when buying a whole car?
What is better bang for buck? Pretty small buck too.
Free market philosophy is more of a dogma that it is an empirical fact.
> Yeah, it takes longer, but with the right tools and practice it doesn't take much longer.

Maybe it depends on the kind of feature as well? I do the rebase with clean separate commits approach when it's easy, where reordering and squashing commits doesn't create tricky conflicts.

But for more exploratory stuff like UI/UX changes where I'm moving blocks of the UI around, and making changes in multiple files to add plumbing to get data where it needs to go, and changing it after demoing and getting feedback, it can get really messy with lots of dead-ends you backtrack out of later.

For that kind of work, it's probably easier to start again in a new branch, figure out some logical way to group the changes, then copy in code snippets from the other branch rather than rebasing? I can't see how this would be worth the effort in most cases though. The more granular commits helps figuring out where a bug got introduced, but then I don't think this happens often and when it does it's usually pretty obvious which lines of code caused the bug even in a large commit e.g. if dates are now being formatted weirdly, look for changes to code that does stuff with dates.
Only if giant thumbs are useful in using tinder to reproduce more.
The Big Bang is a mirror, hiding another universe behind it
Run for the DSF Board, and my goals for the DSF in 2025
Ooh, this is a fun variant of nonograms! If you like this puzzle, I think you'd enjoy those too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram
That’s a pretty binary way to describe a spectrum of behavior. The stereotypical sniveling coward, sure, he’s probably not going on a lot of dates but what about someone who’s prudent or careful about the risks they take?

One especially big confound here is remembering the distinction between having sex and having children. From an evolutionary standpoint, the latter is the only thing which matters and unlike animals humans have contraception which completely changes the situation. From an evolutionary perspective the stereotypical bad boy who’s sleeping around constantly might not have even as many children as the cautious, financially stable guy who is monogamous because the former guy’s partners are looking for fun while the latter’s is intentionally trying to start a family.
The boundaries between tectonic plates are usually really rich in minerals, water, and other resources. Perfect conditions to build society.
It’s all the same. HN is just smaller, but before Reddit disabled 3rd party apps HN was even more focused and, IMO, a little less startup/growth hacking focused.

If HN ever gets big, you’ll see the same things.
How does this work on ios? In my experience, a phone can only have one apple ID at a time.
So what I propose is completely different than what you're proposing, which is that you're proposing massively restricting the right to engage in political speech as we define it now.
Understanding the OpenTelemetry Transform Language (OTTL)
Not GP. This is not evolution, every human is like a lottery ticket, it doesn't change once you draw it. The system "evolves", not humans. Every human is merely a data point (a vector if you will) in this simulation.
The CI tests could take hours because of compilation time + waiting for hardware. Trivial rebases without conflicts got exempt from additional testing, because by the time the test finished, someone else would've submitted to main. Merge commits likely wouldn't be tested in an alternative workflow either.

Not a case of the company being too cheap to spend the money, because there literally aren't enough engineering prototypes in the world to satisfy our CI needs for testing on them.
Where is this magic side of the Fediverse? What I saw: Rust lunatics, hardline Communists or straight up Nazis, the most extreme alphabet people or the most extreme red-pillers. And many of them have the overlapping topics of questionable *orn or even more questionable anime content. Every time I get a random post from a an a Fediverse instance and I dare check it's main feed to see what it's like, it's always (always!) a dumpster fire.

I don't like Twitter much but if I had to pick one or the other it would be a no-brainer.
Title says read meat, article says it’s actually the iron and genetic factors?
Thermochemical Reactor for Heating Applications in Buildings
They test in many cities (Buffalo, Tahoe, Bellevue, NYC) . But they won't deploy to any cities which they haven't mapped because they consider it critical to safety.
Astronomers discover complex carbon molecules in interstellar space
The ancestry of greek and roman columns are fascinating. People tend to think of the white marble ones, but many of the temples were adorned with beautiful colored marble columns. These were sourced from throughout the empire and conquests. A good book or guide can outline much of greek, roman, and islamic history using columns alone.
Chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C is 'virtually zero' on current trends
What are the attack vectors for a web browser js environment to do malicious things? All browser code is sandboxed via origin controls, and process isolation. It can’t even open an iframe and read the contents of that iframe.
He can abstract more models in general frameworks (This is true for every job). He just is hesitant taking the leap to go all Camus and derive money from absurdism ;)
Polish radio station ditches DJs, journalists for AI-generated college kids
> There are reasonably good c++11 conventions for lifetimes [...] Almost nobody follows them [...]

I swear I'm not trying to be snarky or rude here, but is it actually a "convention" if almost nobody follows it? This seems like one example of my general issue with C++, in that it could be great if everyone agreed to a restricted subset, but of course nobody can coordinate such agreement and it doesn't exist outside companies large and important enough to enforce their own in-house C++ standards (e.g. Google).
doing less generally works better.
ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
No. Where did I ever say that? I take the drug and it makes it significantly easier for me to eat healthy foods and in healthy quantities.

I'm someone who has spent many years of their life fit. I'm also someone who has spent many years of their life fat. I can tell you that when I was fit, I did not suffer from the sort of constant hunger I did before I was fat. It didn't take any sort of willpower or discipline on my part - I just wasn't hungry nearly as often, healthy food was satiating, and things were easy. Lifting weights multiple days a week took a bit of discipline, but it wasn't the reason I was eating healthy - I was doing that before I ever got particularly into exercise.

But I got busy with other aspects of my life and it became easier and easier to just grab some fast food, or order uber eats during the pandemic. But this was just laziness - I didn't have constant hunger or cravings. But before I knew it, I had gained significant weight, and then I did have constant hunger and cravings, and it became a tremendously difficult task for me. Losing weight by sticking to healthy food in healthy quantities required significant willpower, and shoving that hunger down had impact on my mood, ability to concentrate, etc. I struggled to make it past 6 months before some other event in my life would require me put my focus towards it, and I wouldn't have the capacity to deal with both things, so I'd go back to eating poorly.

Tirzepatide puts my relationship with food and hunger back to where it was before I had gotten fat in the first place.
They could give the rides away for free, and it would not change anything. Somebody willing to risk $1b on Waymo doesn't credibly care about the kopecks they are earning on rides today. If they did, they would just sit on the sidelines, and wait until it is a public company, and buy post lockup expiry crash priced shares then.
There are "bulk" stores that have no packaging and you fill up what you need into reusable containers that you either buy or bring yourself. They generally have common bulk items like flour but also lots of options for typical grocery store fare. The prices at those stores generally aren't 400% of what they are at a regular grocery store, and if they are higher I'm sure a large part is that this is a niche kind of store rather than how everyone gets their groceries.

That's obviously not the whole supply chain, and I'm sure many goods still arrive at that kind of store in plastic, but these tend to be run by the types that avoid plastic anyway so whatever they can get in reusable packaging I'm sure they are getting wrapped in something other than plastic. Anyway, if plastic is going to be used, the exposure from a single 100lbs bag of something that you refill into a container is probably vastly lower than from 100 individually wrapped 1lbs bags
I believe "promoting' is the wrong word here. "Surfacing" is, I believe, more fitting.

LLMs are a mirror of it's data. It's data are artifacts of our society, which clearly contain a heavy dose of racism. Thus these LLMs show us the ugly truth of our societal artifacts.

Although I despise Google, Microsoft etc, I don't believe it is constructive to paint a false picture of what is happening.
Iron is an essential part of your diet if you want to continue living. So it boils down to genetics, which is probably most cancers.
I dont suppose their is an English version? I know it isn't one of the national languages.
> So, to reiterate, the researchers found that the iron in red meat reactivated telomerase in colorectal cancer cells, thus driving the progression of the cancer.
So it is more about multiple returns, versus setting some local return variable and returning in one place.

However, setting that return variable can be recognized as a simulated return. If we know that after "ret = 42", there are no other state changes; that the whole if/else mess will drop out to the end where there is a "return ret", then we can just read it as "return 42".
Never mind AI, I just want Siri to have better text-to-speech quality than my freaking vacuum cleaner.
Unfortunately, it can be worth it. Having a social media audience can be very valuable to entrepreneurs. Someone who lives online with a personal brand can replace tens of thousands of dollars in ad spend with a single tweet.

As someone who hasn't had a social media presence for most of my adult life, and happy about that, I'm now seeing the downsides. I don't have Ivy League connections like some of my peers. Social media may be the only way I could build a network like the one they cultivated in university.
I think furniture and carpet would get it worse than most stuff. The alternatives to plastic (largely glass) in other cases are more like 20-50% more expensive, but furniture? Carpet? Solid wood and wool, leather—god, I dunno what you’d even use for cushion fill that’d last anywhere near as long. Those are closer to 400% the price of synthetic stuff. Or more.
Used and abused. That is the nature of intelligence.
Biggest problem with the corporate personhood stuff is how a corporation can’t be convicted of crimes and put in prison. Which encourages behavior that has that type of effect. Even if it were considered like a murder there’s no one to prosecute. Companies would behave differently if flagrant abuse of customers might subject the CEO or the board to prison.
Mostly involving structs. Someone at work once posted the following, as a slightly-modified example of real code that they'd actually written:

pub struct Step<'a, 'b> {
pub name: &'a str,
pub stage: &'b str,
pub is_last: bool,
}

struct Request<'a, 'b, 'c, 'd, 'e> {
step: &'a Step<'d, 'e>,
destination: &'c mut [u8],
size: &'b Cell<Option<usize>>,
}

To be sure, they were seeking advice on how to simplify it, but I imagine those with a more worse-is-better technical sensibility arguing that a language simply should not allow code like that to ever be written.

I also hear that higher-ranked trait bounds can get scary even within a single function signature, but I haven't had cause to actually work with them.