skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This advice has always come off as paternalistic to me, like the emphasis is on people just not being able to control themselves or something.

The first part is obvious.

The second part smuggles in a fundamentally incorrect take on the "eating too much"/obesity problem, namely that it has something to do with willpower: including "not too much" in the advice implies that we need to be told not to eat too much, but that a diet that naturally induces overeating is otherwise OK.

The third part is arbitrary and unfounded, and if you ignore it you can ignore the second part as well: get some good fatty meat on your plate and you can safely eat to satiety.
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When someone asks for examples of particularly bad actors, replying "everybody is a bad actor" is a pat non-answer that communicates nothing except the answerer's disillusionment.
People keep finding more hills to die on.
I would say OJ and soda should both be avoided.

I compared Oreos to red meat because two medical students argued with me that Oreos, which are vegan, were equivalent or even better than red meat.

They believed this because the medical establishment had gone full tilt against red meat for the past 50 years.

And of course they used their authority on the subject as an excuse for believing something insane.
Yada yada pre-registering their high-variance bet so they get credibility if it happens to come true.

It’s pretty much a dead heat with maybe slight advantage for Trump.
Such a terrible use of "inclusive". Just say it's dumb to use non-global references to time in global events, this isn't about being inclusive, but about not being an idiot and noticing we do have a very global way to measure time, in months and years, and use that instead.

Worse, if you're in the tropics, northern hemisphere or not, there are only two seasons, so these seasonal references make even less sense.
I think there might be a misunderstanding here.

The point I’m making is this, these platforms aren’t made with the artist best interests in mind, they are created in order to create profit for the business.

It’s the same principle as being signed to a label. The artist is an employee who brings in revenue for the record label.

Read up about Steve Vai’s approach to the music industry.
... in excess. Like sugar.
You seem to have missed the point that the OP is about a newly launched fediverse TikTok competitor [1], not Mastodon. I am not sure the people building Loops want it to be "small and unpopular". You are also confusing server size with the overall adoption of these platforms.

I am trying to tell you that the broader movement for (re)decentralization is stalling and that is (in part) because it too closely emulates the successes of centralized adtech media.

[1] https://loops.video/
> I think their opinion is along the lines of “no one is ‘inflicted’ by ADHD, and there is also no permanent cure for it, because the disorder can simply be redefined as being those who are in the lowest quartile or even the lowest 10% of X, Y, Z cognitive metrics.”

That's not how ADHD is defined, though.

> Imagine there were a pill that could boost your IQ score by 25% but in order to receive a prescription you need to have an IQ in the lowest quartile. Such a pill could also help already smart people simply become smarter.

Yeah, that's a nice hypothetical but that's not how ADHD meds work; boosting dopamine out of the normal range does not continue to have beneficial impacts to executive function, instead it leads to anxiety, insomnia, aggression, and hallucinations. That's one of the reasons dosing for ADHD meds tends to start on the low end and be carefully titrated up to what works for the individual.
Thanks for the interesting link! Nitpicking a bit, but if I understand this page (linked from the wikipedia article? see point 3)

https://pinyin.info/readings/zyg/what_pinyin_is_not.html

correctly however, the text was not meant as an argument against romanization but as a playful example of how pinyin are unfit for classical rather than modern vernacular chinese.
Yeah, because they are both intensely sugary.

3500 calories of lean meat won't.
You can have zero of everything in the same place and time.
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Yes, there are plenty of them. That is not the point I was making.
That sums up how I feel about it. I can see the appeal, but for that kind of mental effort I rather just keep coding.
Exactly, that’s an organizational nightmare and you just don’t know where you end up stuck.
>I don’t think anyone opposes the practice in its basic free market form

The people who run these companies oppose this practice. Minimum wage exists because these suits would pay you less than that if they could.
The term should describe where the event will be held. If it is held in somewhere where it is summer, then call it Summer Expo. If it is held somewhere where it is winter, then call it Winter Expo. Not sure how this could even be remotely controversial. Of course it is based on where the event/organizer is located, not wherever you happen to be reading the email.

If it is truly a global, virtual event not linked to any one place (or a group of physical events), then yeah you shouldn't use either.
a lot of debate here but one thing is not a debate: both parties want to portray the other one as a devil, in truth the actually both are going to be OK. We had Trump for 4 years, we basically had Harris for 4 years. We are not China or Venezuela. Everyone relax and figure out how to focus on similarities rather than difference. One Love!
I figure the OP link and adversarial images (in ML) are special cases of a more general class of tomography problems.
This isn't really a metric though. It's a formal existence proof that the bug exists. The key difference IMO is that you have to create a test which A) looks (to the maintainer) like it should pass, while simultaneously B) not passing. It's much harder to game.

There are other cases where Goodharts Law fails as well: consider quant firms, where the "metric" used to judge a trader is basically how much money you pull in. Seems to be working fine for them
Well nate silver is still trading off his past success. Now 538 says it's a toss up, so what's the point of that site if it offers no new insight.
If polling is as wrong as they think here, I wonder how much effect it’d have in places outside of politics.

Basically any company that tries to do market research or any organization measuring public opinion is wrong in systematic ways.

there will be some very exciting opportunities for whomever can come up with a polling methods that works with modern communication.
Maximal effort, minimal impact: How I learned what engineering guidelines should
AWS Graviton servers are ARM. These tend to be cheaper and more reliable than Intel/AMD counterparts.
Do not sit there and tell me Javascript hasn’t absolutely proliferated across the stack and that these problems don’t surface more. Just because ANYONE can introduce ANY framework of ANY language doesn’t meant that Javascript hasn’t championed a lot of those issues. You’re handwaving away my points for no good reason.
We are learning more and more that gaining weight has more to do with insulin response and various other super complicated pathways -- not simply "calorie in = some weight gained". If that were true, people wouldn't lose weight on near/full ketogenic diets high in fat.
I am obligated do my usual unpopular reply that people are not calorimeters, the type of food and the cadence matters a lot and perhaps even more than the quantity. Humans are very complex organisms made up of many other complex organisms that react in very complex ways to food and each other. The effect of hormones dominate the caloric expenditure to the point that sufficient hormone intervention can be impossible to overcome with any amount of eating.

I think the desire to simplify the model down to calorie in and calorie out is a way of putting all responsibility onto the unhealthy individual as an aversion to empathy. Our population has been intentionally misinformed and our food has been poisoned in a way that personal responsibility cannot always overcome, so while people may still deserve the brunt of the blame we must also understand that the food industry/medical/politics played a substantial part in creating the situation and as hard as it is to fight back against these profitable industries it is even more difficult to remodel people to have more willpower.
Even approved and trusted admins can be a liability (disgruntled employee, social engineering). Like OP said, mandatory access control (MAC) implementations like SELinux can be used to even further restrict what an administrator (or process running with admin privileges) is allowed to do.
Do you think the original person making the claim was referring to high serum cholesterol, or shadow boxing against an imaginary interlocutor who claims even a single individual cholesterol molecule is harmful?

I thought it was obvious, hence the original broad quote, but the bizarre Wikipedia response made me think that perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. Hence the clarification with my follow up.
I don't know about other people, but I seem to be able to focus more with visual and auditory noise. Something to do with "stochastic resonance"?

A quick search yields:

> Beneficial effects of noise on higher cognition have recently attracted attention. Hypothesizing an involvement of the mesolimbic dopamine system and its functional interactions with cortical areas, the current study aimed to demonstrate a facilitation of dopamine-dependent attentional and mnemonic functions by externally applying white noise in five behavioral experiments.

> ..These results suggest that white noise has no general effect on cognitive functions.

Differential effects of white noise in cognitive and perceptual tasks
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4630540/

> Perceptual decision-making relies on the gradual accumulation of noisy sensory evidence. It is often assumed that such decisions are degraded by adding noise to a stimulus, or to the neural systems involved in the decision making process itself. But it has been suggested that adding an optimal amount of noise can, under appropriate conditions, enhance the quality of subthreshold signals in nonlinear systems, a phenomenon known as stochastic resonance.

Stochastic resonance enhances the rate of evidence accumulation during combined brain stimulation and perceptual decision-making
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6066257/
"Why anyone wanted to unlock their door with their phone instead of tapping a fob, "

I would want to do it with my phone because then I only have to have one thing to carry around with me. I haven't carried a key ring in years. I don't even carry a wallet these days. It's really quite useful. Way fewer trips back to fetch the keys/wallet, etc.
Yes.

I eat lots of healthy fats and no sugar or wheat. I'm borderline underweight. When you eat such a diet, your insulin levels stay low. High insulin is what causes your body to convert sugar to fat and store it. Low insulin causes your body to burn your fat reserves. I just got back from a 5 day, 50 mile backpacking trip where I averaged about 1000 calories a day. Not once was I hungry.

The arctic explorers weren't gaining body fat from the fats they ate, they were burning them almost immediately.
Yeah, I admit it’s not a great example.
Java doesn't run in browsers so the comparison doesn't make sense.

Splitting the language might make sense from an engineering perspective but what about all the extra energy and bandwidth that will be needed?
How does this apply to FOSS under a license that explicitly doesn't provide any warranty?
It's obvious for several reasons that political polling is at best nonsense and worst outright fraudulent. Reason 1: people don't change their voting intentions much. So how can polls swing one way and the other so much? Answer must be that they are measuring noise. Reason 2: headline numbers aggregate several polling results, but apparently don't discard known fraudulent data from partisan polsters. So the results can be trivially changed by simply spending money. Reason 3: nobody sane responds to a polster. So they are measuring data from provably insane people. Reason 4: polsters often exclude samples that should be included, for example by requiring respondents to have voted in two previous elections. So the samples is skewed. And on and on. Add to this the incentives in the news industry to make things click worthy and you have the result we observe. Nobody wants to say the emperor has no clothes. There's also a bias in some media to report a close race for fear of being accused of influencing the outcome.
Cost differences and price sensitivity.
I like the dashboarding more than the analysis lol. I think FL is just a red state now and positing it as anything else smells a little fishy to me. Also, I think there's a thing now where all sorts of analysts know they can get a name out of making one big correct prediction that everyone else got wrong. That's lead to a lot of predictions being made with the intention of being contrarian.
myth that juice is somewhat healthy should be added to this list of fiction that we are discussing. eat raw fruits. much better than extracting just the sugary water and throwing most of fibres away.
A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
That's not a car person.
More like, they're both equally shitty for the average person. We should focus on how little they've done collectively for the people. If people would just stop registering as one or the other they might be a little more objective about how shit they both are.
Which is the wrong path IMO. If users want to shoot themselves in the foot, let them do it. The only way to learn responsibility is to let get their systems pawnd. Maybe they will finally learn the Linux way - never login as admin, always as normal user. You want admin login? Cool, then the "su" equivalent in Windows is called "runas".
It distracts from the points, whether they're valid or not. It suggests that the person is driven by something other than getting to the truth. They're more interested in demonstrating superiority and punishing the enemy.
"demonstrably incompetent" and "demonstrably unsuccessful" are two different things. You can be the latter at a task without necessarily being the former.
That's what I'm suggesting - the catastrophe proceeded to the point that all members of the cluster were either ejected (far away enough to be indiscernable relative to the quasar) or absorbed by the quasar core.

Thinking some more about it, there are probably some ways to constrain the amount of time it takes for a past runaway to have occurred that rules this explanation out.
I mean what if it is a toss up? Were we talking about a literal, actual coin flipping, calling it as 50-50 is a better insight than calling it as either heads or tails.
Looks interesting but I have to say it seems a bit limited. For example I cannot find Java/Spring Boot anywhere which is one of the go-to frameworks for web app backends where performance and reliability counts.

Are you planning to add more languages and frameworks or is there a specific reason that is is so biased in this regard?
According to this paper, talking to AI companions is helping reduce loneliness

"AI Companions Reduce Loneliness" (Harvard Business School, 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613513
I'm not the authors of Loop nor have I ever tried to contribute to PeerTube so I'm not in the best position to answer that.

What I will say is that I have tried self-hosting PeerTube in the past and it felt very heavy-duty, and I'm not sure I would try to host it again.
To state the obvious---if nobody was doing the math to get the result that (by certain methodologies) it's a toss-up, we wouldn't know it's a toss-up. Should forecasters stop publishing results as soon as the needle hits 50/50?

Also, FYI, 538 is no longer using Silver's model. He took it with him when he left.
That’s not at all what they implied and your example backs up the point they WERE making.
Except for the 20 million people Trump says he's going to deport. No love for them.
The trees move in the wind when you zoom in. Factorio takes sprite graphics to the next level! I felt the same as you, I've always wanted a brighter reskin of Factorio but I've realized it's way tooooo much work for anyone to do for free...
I don’t disagree and, to be honest, that kind of work is something I really enjoy.

I’m mostly, personally, talking about building toy apps or hacking my microwave to play Doom. Not throwing shade at those who do, it’s just not what motivates me.
And if oil, sugar and tobacco are out, where can we work guilt-free? At one recent discussion, a tenured sociology professor said her industry was not bad. And someone else chimed in by pointing out that they take huge tax dollar grants to churn out near worthless degrees studying research that often can't be replicated. And then they load on student debt to get the kids to pay for it. This made the snooty, tenured scold shut up.
A little tangential, but 538 is no longer affiliated with Nate Silver; he sold it to ESPN in 2013.
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Everyone wants easier to predict US elections.

Are there free elections anywhere that are easy to predict?

In a world where $1.00 in Instagram ads yields $1.02 in donations, does it matter?
> It seems like some (most?) of the security vulnerabilities are analogous to things that physical goods manufacturers do not have liability for either.

I don't think this is true — just shipping whatever junk you've piled together by some deadline has become frustratingly common. Also note the article has this to say:

Software makers can avoid liability if they prove a defect was not discoverable given the “objective state of scientific and technical knowledge” at the time the product was put on the market.
Of course. Processing is a grayscale, but as you go up the scale, the less healthy something is, as a rule of thumb.
Not to mention YouTube has shorts for years now
The fact that you don’t know the difference in capabilities between cameras and LiDAR means you shouldn’t really be commenting. LiDAR allows you to also ‘see’ things in conditions where weather is bad visibility is limited. Cameras cannot allow you to do this.

Going through this thread, it is mind blowing how people let their fanboyism for others talk nonsense. So many Elon lovers here. Can all those Elon lovers just jump in the backseat of a Tesla and turn on FSD (which is an oxymoron) and jump on a high way or something? The world would be a better place. I can’t wait to see their faces and a the drivel they will come up with next year when Elon announces delays and other bull**t fit why he can’t launch what he promised. It’s going to be hilarious.
Chatham House: The internet under attack:
Insights from Afghanistan and Ukraine on maintaining a resilient internet in conflict and crisis

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/08/internet-under-attack/0...

DOI: 10.55317/9781784136123
Hey HN,
I've tracked my calories and macros off and on for years, and always felt that the existing solutions were bloated and clunky to use. Since food tracking is something you do multiple times a day, I sought out to build something that made tracking a bit less of a pain in the butt.

A few things that make FitBee stand out:

* Fast, lightweight and to the point - The app is just about tracking your nutrition and makes that front and center. I've tried to make things that you do often as simple as possible (e.g., log yesterday's breakfast).

* Photo Logging - You can take a photo of a food and get an estimate of the calories and macros. It's not 100% accurate but it's been super helpful for me when eating at a restaurant that doesn't have published nutrition info.

* Accurate nutrition data - The nutrition data is sourced from the USDA dataset and nutrition labels off the packages. I also spent effort adding east asian foods (e.g. things you get at 99 Ranch or Weee) to the database, since those were hard to find/track in other apps I've tried.

* Recipe importing - You can pretty much point any recipe at the app and it'll import the ingredients and generate nutrition information for you. As I got more into fitness, I started to cook more so this has been super helpful.

* Robust Apple Health support - You can sync data with Apple Health. I wear an Apple Watch so it's great for getting the energy burned through exercises.

* No Ads, Sign in with Apple - Uses Sign in with Apple to protect your privacy. No ads.

* Monthly Subscription - If you want to use some of the more advanced features, the app has a monthly and annual subscription.

You can try FitBee here: https://apple.co/4aGUw5X

If you end up trying it, I'd love any feedback!
I'm pretty sure it's going to be Harris or Trump. One of those two.
Even the Chinese Character Heroes competition mentioned in the article seems a lot like the spelling bee in the US, doesn't it? I wonder if the anecdote about the PhD students has a cultural dimension in addition to language proficiency — could the students have refused not because they don't know the characters, but because they aren't fully confident they wouldn't make a mistake?
> That's not how ADHD is defined, though.

How is it defined?

> that's not how ADHD meds work

Are you saying no one without ADHD takes prescribed medication?

When I was in college people with prescriptions would sell their pills for $5-10 each (10+ years ago in Boston). That’s $300 for a month supply purchased by fellow students who weren’t diagnosed, but used it to cram for exams and studying and concentrating during exams.

If what you say is true, then the free market (black market) for adderall wouldn’t be so lucrative.

Perhaps you haven’t been exposed to the plethora of Instagram ads convincing kids they have ADD based on a 5 question survey and prescribed without any other criteria besides “is trouble concentrating impacting your work or personal life?” - these days it’s literally that simple, quick telegealth appointment, say concentrating impacts your work life, and there you have it, you officially have ADD.

This thread is going on a ton of tangents. My original point was simply that diagnosis is subjective and relative to the people around you. Second point is the meds will help anyone who takes it with improving concentration and making it possible to increase productivity substantially not just for short bursts but for extended periods of time (months/years). I think both points still stand

(And none of what I’m saying invalidates the seriousness of the disorder for people who “really have it”. I fully believe there are people who find the condition truly debilitating. But there are also loads of people who are diagnosed through instagram or TikTok ads because “concentrating is hard” and “motivation is difficult” and other obvious statements that resonate with a majority of college kids, for example)
Not just you, I had the same experience with Factorio. Other building games like Minecraft I could play for days, but Factorio stresses me out. I want to chill and make cool stuff, optimizing a factory while fending off aliens wasn’t relaxing.
Conflating propaganda from think-tanks, and PR from think-tanks is disastrous for our oligarch... I mean democracy.
Just no.

Browsers operate at a scale never seen before. Imagine all the extra energy and bandwidth needed if core functionality is moved to the application code when you have billions of users.

What we need is more native functionality (implemented in the JS engine with C++ or Rust) to have as less user land code as possible.

As an example, imagine how much energy, bytes, and CPU would be saved if browsers and JS engines included reactivity and JSX. Or if browsers included an API similar to jQuery.

Quick math to grasp the scale: 100kb * 1 billion users = 100TB of data that needs to be transferred and parsed many times, every single day. It's absurd.