skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t aware of the new debate over saturated fats, I’m curious and will be watching this evolve with interest.

That said, for me this publication has red flags right from the start. Complaining about difficulty of changing everyone’s minds is a political and non-academic persuasion tactic that does not convince me. Calling it “resistance” and “bias” is a bullshit framing that makes me less likely to trust Teicholz. Of course there is resistance to 50 years of publication and research, and there should be. There’s a lot of bias towards the earth being round, and a lot of resistance to the idea that it’s flat, right? If I repeat the claim that the earth is round, is that “propaganda”? It would indeed take time and effort to change everyone’s minds about that.

Multiple times she references “>20” papers that back up her claims. Except 5 of her references in this paper are her own. And she has around 10 on this subject. So is she claiming this “new consensus” is based on what she herself and maybe one or two other people believe? If 50% of the evidence for consensus is her own papers, then I doubt there’s any consensus at all. It’s funny to claim there’s consensus at the same time she complains that it’s difficult to change the consensus. Even 20 independent scientific papers not authored by Teicholz is practically nothing in the big picture. It will take many more papers and much more time, and the evidence needs to be overwhelming, clear, obvious, and true.

She might be right! But Nina Teicholz is a journalist, not a scientist. She does have a PhD, but her publications don’t appear to be scientific research, and most look like opinion pieces.

Out of curiosity, if saturated fats aren’t the culprit, what is? Looks like she does have one paper questioning sugar, so is she claiming sugar is the real cause? What if it’s the combination of sugar and saturated fats? Does that make her right or wrong?
Potsdam Giants: Prussian regiment of tall soldiers
Science is[1] impressive but does it have a method for resolving the numerous conflicting "truths" in this thread?

[1] except when it isn't, of course
I wish I could train myself to sleep on my back. I've been trying for years, but I can't seem to fall asleep without the pressure of the pillow on my face.
There's also at least one other drag-and-drop Nand2Tetris-compatible simulator out there, Andrew Wilkes' desktop-based LogicSimX/Logic Simulator 2 https://logicsimx.com/about/ https://andrew-wilkes.itch.io/logic-simulator-2 . It seems nice but I don't know enough to review it properly.
Pascal deserves a second look
This feels completely stupid, but I noticed what seems like an unmistakable improvement in my sleep quality (more restful, less waking up too early) a few days after I adjusted my diet to include a lot more fiber intake. After googling it, it seems like it might be supported by studies, but I'm always a bit skeptical. Either way, if you have trouble getting good sleep, it's another dietary consideration to make. Increased fiber intake seems like it mostly has upsides.

(The other advice in the article is obviously also solid, but none of it, including changing caffeine habits, really ever seemed to do much for me. So I guess it will vary a lot from person to person.)
QA has the disadvantage of knowing how it should work. Users are not so burdened and very creative.

It can decrease the chances but isn't a panecea.
As a website owner, I have an incentive to provide access to the Google crawler because of the visitors they send me. They've started to show more content directly, but a fair amount of people still click through to websites.

It looks to me like ChatGPT Search hides links much more. Is there any incentive for website owners to allow access to ChatGPT?
So basically trained a model on minecraft. This is not generalistic at all or whatsoever. Is not like the game comes from a prompt, it probably comes from a bunch of finetuning and gigadatasets from playing minecraft.

Would love to see some work like this but with world/games coming from a prompt.
AI Forecasting Web App with 45 Models and Excel Integration
(Snark warning, but even more than that, I find myself amused and amazed by the overall story)

Ah, yes. Ruwix, the beloved Rubik's cube tutorial site that abused and cheated their way to the top of SEO rankings[0] in ethically dubious manner by directly victimizing end-users.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27427330 ("How I uncovered a black-hat SEO scam")
Ignoring any ethical concerns, my other criticism of this is that it's so poorly done. It's ham-handed, easy to discover, and unlikely to actually do what the author intended.
Apparently an even-sized cube is harder to make though so it should count as the record for even-sized cube
Thanks thund and jdthedisciple for these points and corrections. I'll update the section today.
Although this is your reality most of thr time, people need to go out with family/friends, from time to time. So when they disappear where people are going to go?
That's not an accurate comparison.

Base Freq Chip
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2.4GHz EPYC 9654
4.7GHz Ryzen 7950X

As a result, the SINGLE core performance difference is ~2x

Geekbench Single Core - Score
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1,827 EPYC 9654
2,986 Ryzen 7950X

Having such a large difference in single-core performance, will negate the sizable difference in total core count (96 vs 16).

--

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-epyc-9654

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-9-7950x
arguably, since its often used to signal financial health for startups and publicly traded companies, it would be considered fraud by the FTC
> Switched to linux when they EOLed Windows 7

Me too, I think a lot of people did. My concerns about Linux were outdated. Never had any problems.
The High Cost of Low Prices
Invention Is Always Being Reinvented
Desktop and phone: Firefox + uBlock.

Router is OPNsense with its own validating recursor, domain blacklist, and routing blackhole.

Phone runs a private VPN to my router when not on my home network.
Valencia Flood Disaster
Not an academic, not an expert, but...

The history of the elites in this period is quite well documented from multiple sources. There are some minor royals - third and fourth sons - where little is known other than some titles and lands granted, but the historical record is both comprehensive and considered accurate, particularly for those whose stories were quite shocking like the 7th wife of Philip II (Cleopatra Eurydice, the young woman whose remains are being discussed), whose death may have been suicide, or a murder made to look like suicide...

The thread they're pulling on seems to start here, from the paper:

> There is a unanimous agreement that Tomb III belongs to King Alexander IV, the son of the Great Alexander. This is important because it shows that the Great Tumulus belongs mainly to the Kings of the Argead dynasty, and this contributes significantly to the identification of Tombs I and II as belonging to either Philip II or Arrhidaeus

If accept that unanimous agreement is well-founded, and it is beyond any reasonable doubt that Tomb III belongs to the son of the Great Alexander, then it seems very likely that Tombs I and II must belong to Philip II or Arrhidaeus. The paper seems to then try and work out which one belongs to who.

Now you look through the historical record of each, and you identify that there are multiple sources indicating that Philip had a young wife (Cleopatra Eurydice), who had a young son who was murdered [1]. Then you find a tomb that along with a male, has a younger female with an infant son interred. There is no other known tomb that contains similar remains. That matches Philip II, but does not match Arrhidaeus.

You then look at the other tomb, and realise those remains better matches Arrhidaeus.

This is not proof in a scientific sense, it's not irrefutable, but you have to ask if the young woman and infant are not Cleopatra Eurydice and her son Caranus, who exactly are they? Which other persons match the known historical records? If they're people from outside of the known record, just how likely is it that they would be buried in this specific context of a tomb neighboring Alexander IV? Unless you then want to unpick that assumption of Alexander IV of course, which you're entitled to do, but you're now pushing back against a collective assumption with some significant weight (and I presume, evidence), behind it.

The rest of the paper starts to pull at the logic of other papers published over the last 60 years or so to help develop the case further, but in reality without some better science that seems absent (radio carbon dating, DNA analysis to show familial relationships of remains, and so on), it might be hard to get it over the line from "seems very likely to be the best explanation given what we know today" into "almost impossible to be explained any other way".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_Eurydice
Hot damn, you’re totally on the money. Fair play to you. An island of sanity in a sea of “but we’ve eaten fatty meat for thousands of years.”
Me too. I can sort of "trick" myself by putting a balled-up blanket on my pillow and turning my face to rest against it.
Your copy-and-pasted reply is as wrong here as it was there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016863
I'm in this dystopia: WFH, delivery groceries, delivery meals when I'm feeling lazy. If I didn't have a dog, I'd probably only leave my house on the weekend.

IMO it's not so bad. I don't miss grocery shopping. I do miss walking to work up Powell St.

I do know my neighbors though, and talk to them on a pretty regular basis. I don't like sports especially, but I also do have some recreational hobbies that get me outside.
The original offer was about 50% above my current comp.

Sure I was underpaid, but that's life working for a startup run by a friend.

After this situation, I heard of several situations where this company generally starts low and can go high.
hey now, some of us are fed up being around other people.
Humans murder humans for all sorts of idiotic reasons. Are you so confident a corporation cannot hold a grudge, or more simply, see value in “sending a message?”

Maybe the net benefit is more cowardly journalists and whistleblowers across the board.
There's no such thing as a "self-made" millionaire. Everyone who has amassed wealth has done so with the help of others.
That population is the most vulnerable, and indicative of the issue. The heat indeed killed them, but the availability/affordability of AC could have saved lives.
Not true, obviously: M4 Max in the new Macbook Pros has been benchmarked to be faster [1].

Its not just a little faster than the #2; looking at ~15-20% uplifts in both single and multi compared to the previous kings. The previous production single core #1 was ~3100; Apple skipped over most of the 3000s right into the 4000s.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8593555/
I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion. Just because a life has a step early in the process of forming that includes an egg and a sperm does not mean that it is a living thing at that point. You are affirming the consequent here, which is a logical fallacy.
As I said, happy to move onto AA once we’ve closed off the n3:n6 ratio thing. So do you have any evidence that the ratio is an issue in humans, or do you concede there’s no such evidence currently?
Dongzi Securities Big Data Research Report on Public Opinion

Release date

November 1st, 2024 at 9:25 AM

The Dong Zi Securities Sentiment Big Data Indicator (I) - Overseas Chinese Securities - Daily Long Positions Comprehensive Index

International investors' confidence in the overseas Chinese securities market has recovered

DongZi Securities - November 1, 2024 9:30:00

Dong Zi Securities' latest "Overseas Chinese Securities - Daily Long Positions Comprehensive Index" stands at 59, up 9.3% from the previous period. After a three-day decline, the index has stopped falling and started to rise, reflecting a change in international investors' attitudes towards the overseas Chinese securities market. The driving force behind this change is the recovery of China's manufacturing activities. The growth of manufacturing activities seems to confirm the effectiveness of recent monetary easing policies and relaxation of real estate regulation, which may have begun to have a positive impact on the economy.

The rise of China's PMI further confirms the effectiveness of these stimulus measures. Market participants are closely watching the upcoming important leadership meeting,
TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters
Bennett Scale (Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity)
If you look at the list, it’s primarily (but not completely) about oddities in their UTF-8 encoding. Most of them appear to be on the boundary of adding additional bytes when the case is changed. That’s not really Unicode’s concern.

There are also some that appear to change from single characters to grapheme clusters, which would be a Unicode quirk.
Have a toddler.

No, seriously: Since we have now a toddler running around who absolutely does not want to go to sleep when the adults are still running around has led US to much more healthy sleeping habbits
thanks!
Why do you say have chance?
This right here is why executive leadership is complete bullshit.

Can’t even handle unfiltered questions they become so fragile
The byte-changes listed are for the UTF-8 encoding though, so it's about UTF-8 in that sense
I was interviewed by the Union Trib in the late 80's about home affordability.

Between the Sunshine Tax and thin strip of land that everyone wants to live in, and there is no solution to affordability. (Except the usual go So Cal go east until the price drops)
Legit question, what's the reason for wanting to sleep in what seems to be an uncomfortable position for you?

I also can't sleep on my back but have no urge to change that.
That seems unrealistic. Can you give us an example of a specific residential property that is both uninsurable, and recently sold for ~$4M? Being uninsurable tends to crush value.
https://archive.ph/Zc5Nn
Those are wild conspiracy theories. This should be a wake up call.
This is a valid point. Some other theories that were originally thought of as radical and untestable were plate tectonics and germ theory.

On the other hand, I think the reason why this gets brought up so often for string theory is the degree to which it appears untestable. Multiple curled up dimensions and something like 10^500 possible versions of the theory, and with everything operating below the Planck length, which according to other widely accepted theories is the smallest possible measurement. How do you measure something smaller than the smallest measurable thing?

I think the only comparably untestable theory was atomic theory when first suggested by the Greeks 2000 years ago. Germ theory and evolution were relatively tame by comparison.
Show HN: Zidezi.app – A Wordle-Like app for language learning
Hi HN! I built this app to help me stay consistent with learning a new language. It’s like "Wordle" but for language learning, with daily articles adapted to the user's level. The app uses ChatGPT to generate fresh articles daily, and users can click on any unfamiliar word for an instant explanation. My goal was to keep it smooth and minimal — no clutter, just learning by discovery.

Each language has a distinct article, adapted to three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. So all levels get the same topic, but the vocabulary and the grammar scale to match. I started with intermediate Spanish but moved to advanced over a few weeks as I progressed.

I’m thinking of adding features like an audio mode, more detailed grammar explanations (like verb conjugations and noun declensions), and spaced repetition to reinforce vocabulary you click on. The long term plan is to introduce ways to practice not only reading, but also listening and speaking. As it stands, you need a basic understanding of the language to use the app, so definitely not something for complete beginners. I'd love to hear any feedback or ideas!
Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective (LaTeX vs. Typst vs. HTML)
Simpsons in CSS (2013)
All of this could've been prevented if Go just had two ways to compile. Debug and release.

The go devs decided against this since they didn't want to build a highly optimizing (read: slow) compiler, but that is missing the point of developer ergonomics.
NDAs don't generally have an expiration date. (As opposed to non-competes and non-solicitation agreements, which generally do.) An NDA typically ends only if the information in question becomes public, and then only for that particular information.
Thanks, a couple other people gave me this same feedback in another comment thread and it definitely makes sense not to overindex on input token size. Will update that section in a bit.
> Do you look at the keyboard?

It depends on what I'm typing. Code? Very rarely, unless I'm using a keyboard that I'm not familiar with. Letters or other prose? About 25% of the time.

But to the deeper point, thank you for clearing this up for me. We are indeed using different definitions. To me, "touch typing" is a very specific method of typing. It's not just the ability to type without looking at the keyboard.

Now that I know there are different definitions, I can be more careful to make sure that I'm using the same definition as others.
The media was lying all the time. It didn't start lying just after advent of social media. Just look at sitcoms like Yes Minister. The reason we now consider media to lie is because their lies are exposed, documented, tracked and refreshed to remind users not to trust them blindly.
I’ll admit the builder DSL stuff is a bit of a Turing tarpit for me. I may have wasted the day yesterday trying to implement a BNF grammar DSL.
Recreating my '80s dev system
"in Geekbench 6."
And who will provide those universal basic services without getting paid? And let's not have some pseudo-religious nonsense claim that magic robots are going to do it all for us.
Just because I can order everything I need for home with a couple of taps (which I can, BTW), work from home time to time, and can cook and clean by myself doesn't mean that I don't need to leave home.

Taking a long tour along the neighborhood, to see what I want to buy first hand before pulling the trigger, or seeing an old friend and getting a nice coffee at that café are all valid reasons to go out.

Getting fresh air, regularly walking, seeing a couple of different and unknown faces are regular maintenance tasks for the body and brain.

I don't think humans should hole up at their homes and work/doom scroll/eat/doom scroll/sleep/repeat just because they can. That's unhealthy for every aspect of your body and life to begin with.
libav.js is in the direction you're thinking.

> compilation of the libraries associated with handling audio and video in FFmpeg — libavformat, libavcodec, libavfilter, libavutil and libswresample — for WebAssembly

https://github.com/Yahweasel/libav.js/

EDIT: Looking closer at the above I don't see image formats, only audio and video. Maybe this gets closer:

> Decodes images using Rust's image crate compiled to WebAssembly.

> It supports decoding PNG, JPEG, WEBP, GIF, BMP, ICO, TGA, and several others.

https://github.com/josephrocca/wasm-image-decoder
Galois often releases their tools for free. Their GitHub is here:

https://github.com/galoisinc/
That sounds like a setup for a bank robbery in a novel
I still search by default but i am starting to turn to LLMs when the search is failing and getting better answers.

For example, I couldn’t remember the word shibboleth, but an LLM was able to give me it from my description, search couldn’t.

For another example, I saw some code using a repeated set of symbols as a shorthand. I didn’t know what this does, but searching for a symbol is badly broken on Google - i just asked the LLM about the code and it gave me the answer.
> Hopefully it's clear from the domain name and intro that I'm suggesting technical writers are underrating how useful embeddings can be in our work. I know ML practitioners do not underrate them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014036

> I didn't see the strong argument highlighting what powerful feature exactly people were missing in relation to embeddings

I had to leave out specific applications as "an exercise for the reader" for various reasons. Long story short, embeddings provide a path to make progress on some of the fundamental problems of technical writing.
I'll admit to some reflexive skepticism here. I know GeekBench at least used to be considered an entirely unserious indicator of performance and any discussion relating to its scores used to be drowned out by people explaining why it was so bad.

Do those criticisms still hold? Are serious people nowadays taking Geekbench to be a reasonably okay (though obviously imperfect) performance metric?
Bold Hyundai Initium concept is first look at new Nexo
Important question. I think it could go two directions:

- one is that those who control the resources become wealthier, by cutting costs, and societies become even more unequal as they are now, with the lower economic classes, who are largely unemployed, scrape together a sorry existence; disgruntled masses cause social instability (and crime) which means governments have to take a firmer hand and become more authoritarian to control them. You could also end up with social revolutions.

- another is that we transition to a different type of economy altogether, based not on scarcity of resources (as is presently), but on all citizens having their needs met without having to work for them. This has been anathema throughout history, so I'm not hopeful.

In either case, these ideas that "AI will do everything and we'll be free to do the things we enjoy doing" is complete fantasy, or at least limited to the few who will have jobs/money. You can't enjoy doing anything if you're not putting food on the table.
What candidate are you referring to?
Cinebench is better to measure raw performance
Alyssa Rosenzweig deserves a Turing Award!
>In response to another question about ongoing layoffs and reorganizations and what might be coming in the future, Pichai said, "If we are making companywide decisions, we'll definitely let you know."

Yeah right, they'll definitely let you know when they lay you off, but not a minute sooner.
I wish they put the kind of effort they put into Ryzen, into Radeon. Legitimate ray tracing competition, and something at least approaching what CUDA does. I know they already do ray tracing, but the disparity is large. And I know they're already working on GPGPU tooling, but seemingly at a snails pace.
Pascal's compilation time is still unparalleled in its speed and that is one of its greatest features.
Good thing it’s always suicide via gunshot to the back of the head and drowning in freak storms and accidental slips out of hospital windows that keeps taking out these journalists and whistleblowers and not murder!
Dropbox has been using Zookeeper since the beginning. I assume they are just familiar with running it and understand its guarantees better.
Maybe we should train models on Mario games to make Nintendo fight for the "Good Cause".
That's a shame, maybe the Formula 1 teams who depend on the technology can group together, probably extremely unlikely.
While I can sleep on my back, I feel like I get better rest when on my side. It's not about how the pillow feels or anything like that, but my whole body and brain just seem to relax more.

Apparently [1] sleeping on the side is better for your health, as well.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=O8UoAASCUsQ
Key word here is “introduced”.

Check back in after some extensive use.

Have her interact with it in earnest about a subject she is an expert in.
> The government does not provide a more efficient military or education

This is news to me, or a novel use of economic terminology.

Source?