skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
plenty of studies on caffeine. Chocolate usually comes with loads of sugar unless you mean sugar alternatives? That wouldn't apply to just post war UK though. Also, it's hard to over consume non-sugar so that's not a lot of overlap. Remember carbs break down to sugar as well.
Two different types of people. One wants to create lightweight applications. The other wants lightweight development.

Lightweight development for lightweight applications is a bit of an oxymoron at this time.
In my experience it depends more on the company you’re in than on the profession.
Ehhhhhhh they need a demo up before they get an email, even a Firefox relay email. Sorry they lost me already :(
This works in "sh" as well for me.
Best bet is to read the paper (linked in a sibling comment). The introduction is very approachable and has a great introduction to causality/correlation/association and how they interact.
For the red Lambada line in Fig 13 when the model predicts ~0 the ground truth is 0.7. No one can look at that line and say there is a meaningful relationship. The Py Func Synthesis line also doesn't look good above 0.3-0.4.

> The abstract also quite literally states that models struggle with out of distribution tests so again, what is the contradiction here ?

Out of distribution is the only test that matters. If it doesn't work out of distribution it doesn't work. Surely you know that.

> Would it have been hard to simply say you found the results unconvincing?

Anyone can look at the graphs, especially Figure 13, and see this isn't a matter of opinion.

> There is nothing contradictory in the paper.

The results contradict the claim the titular claim that "Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know".
Not many large companies that have proper HR departments in here. Noticing some very suspect job postings using bug "bounties" for their own products as "interviews" for their roles. Quality of a lot of the postings has gone down. Hopefully tech hiring improves after the election.
There's no such thing as a new $100 iPhone.

You can't compare an unsubsidized price with a subsidized one -- it's not a fair comparison.

I love the SE2 as well but it doesn't cost $100 and it doesn't cost $189. You're still paying ~$429, the remainder is just hidden among the monthly payments.
One nice thing about sleep apnea treatment (CPAP) is that you always have fresh air.
WebKit Features in Safari 18.1
If you want to modify my statement to 92%, fine. It makes absolutely no difference.

Almost none of the Jewish population in 1948 could be termed "native," except for the tiny minority that had actually lived in Palestine before Zionism (and that Jewish minority was by and large opposed to Zionism). The overwhelming majority of the people who founded Israel were European or American, with a small fraction of young people born to European/American parents.
The reason to do RCTs and establish causality isn't to generate excuses for a sugar diet, it's to head off bullshit alternatives that don't fix the problem but advertise like they do.
See previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014650

81 comments, 241 points.
Of course we only see one side of the story here, but as written the original manager sounds like a maniac. Letting someone complete a major and well received project and then sniping backward at how they did it with a performance review reeks of incompetent tyrant. Where the hell was the feedback and mentoring when it mattered?

If you are worth your salt as a manager your reports should know exactly where they are going into performance reviews and that process should just be a formality to make the HR department whole. Unfortunately, a lot of dipshits end up in management because once you make it here it is a lot harder (ironically) to get performance reviewed out.

The second manager also sounds pretty foolish, but at least in a more endearing and earnest way. That kind of emotional thing can and should be discussed on 1:1s once you have built up the relationship. As a manager you should be looking out for your reports and trying to set them up for long term success, and that means learning about their personal life to the extent that is mutually decided to be appropriate. Forcing emotionality out into a group setting sounds like a cringe moment in the Silicon Valley sitcom. This is a bad idea for so many reasons.. for one a lot of us are introverts and doing that is crushing anxiety.. and the innate peer pressure if others are doing it are going to lead to overshares and yet more anxiety. No.

If the depression era fell under the same manager they also missed the importance of momentum. Momentum carries you through failure, depression, hard times.. and you need to give your team easy wins if they are falling behind to rebuild momentum. Otherwise it feels like jumping back on to a moving train.

Based on this I'd wonder what's going on at Stripe. Run not walk from a situation like that, author made the right call.
Certainly compared to early Google Sheets this is true, and it may be that first impression that a lot of older people still remember.

Google Sheets today is totally adequate for most people's spreadsheet needs. I'd believe there are cases where Excel is still better, but they are at the extreme end of "power user" use cases.
Discussion (23 points, 1 day ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016225
I think it’s mostly that grok is not used in a serious way. You don’t see research or open source projects that support it like, say, anything from OpenAI, Anthropic, Facebook…
A _suspicion_?

Plenty of us saw it coming ...
Thanks! That’s all I wanted to see, and you provided a good example. “viscerally offensive” and “SEO spam” made my eyes roll like a slot machine wheel.
I use Firefox on Linux, but used Safari on OS X. My point was that this gave some efficiency advantage to my MacBook Air running OS X, compared to the same machine running Linux (and Firefox). Safari is a little marvel of energy efficiency. This was countered, to some extent, by a simple barebones X11 setup on the Linux side. Otherwise, my setup was identical on both sides.

Linux tends to be regarded as energy inefficient because it ships with defaults that prioritize performance on desktops, workstations and servers. Some simple tweaks with udev rules can make a big difference. For example, adjusting the energy policy of your SSD can reduce consumption by 0.5-7 W. Wake-on-lan is also something that is typically enabled and drains a lot of battery when the machine is suspended.
Even if it was indeed fully optional and nobody felt the obligation to share even though they didn't want to (which I find hard to believe), you have to consider that you're also imposing on the people who are listening. They didn't sign up for group therapy either and sitting through accounts of potentially tragic events might be an unnecessary emotional stressor for them (e.g. maybe they were also recently divorced or lost someone to an illness), especially if they're expected to go back to work and be productive afterwards.
No, it's portable shell syntax.
Ask an endocrinologist. Robert Lustig has written extensively on the subject. This stuff has already been figured out. Here's one of his famous talks on sugar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmC4Rm5cpOI&pp=ygUNcm9iZXJ0I...
it’s great to see more utilities taking advantage of Google App Script. It is one of the best things about Google’s Ecosystem, basically a server-side AppleScript for Google’s products, and not enough people take advantage of it.
This ^

The effort required to change a process shouldn't be underestimated.

Especially considered that industrial environments are already (a) automated for lowest-hanging fruit things (e.g. moving stuff around at human height) & (b) optimized around human capabilities for the remaining things. Substituting a not-humanlike robot would require reconfiguring a lot of existing automation around it.

If you have "like a human, but costs less" that can be plugged into any existing still-human process? You can literally swap them in.

Eventually we'll get to hyperoptimized machines, but an easier sales story to say "We automate your existing human processes."
Because you have a blind spot over people responding differently, as indicated by your original question.

If you look at the history of celiac disease the cause wasn’t recognized until a hospital of people were reduced to eating sawdust/dried up tulips, only to find a group of patients actually improved when this happened since they were no longer being actively poisoned. You are not alone in your blind spot, but it is amazing the enthusiasm with which it is promoted by those that should have worked this out years ago.
I have to admit, I have no idea how I came across this book from Latour, I guess I just liked the title. But the one you quoted looks interesting beyond just the title
No, I'm saying if you have 640k you can't just download more RAM, and Apple wouldn't ever try to because that's a free new feature they can market in the next model.
What about a pre-digital bank? If you came across knowledge of a security issue potentially allowing anyone to steal stuff from their vault, would you release that information to the public? Would everyone knowing how to break in make everyone's valuables safer?

Medicine and biosafety are PvE. Cybersecurity is PvP.
I've never seen much gratitude for a HN post. Thank you!
It rejects the URL

Www.myurl.com

For reasons unknown

Then I have to refresh and then I don’t want to do it again.
Something tells me this is more to do with a product Google wants to launch rather than a genuine attempt to further the web.

I’ll keep my eyes on this one, see where we are in a year
We can't though. This is what the marketing department keeps shouting from the rooftops, this is what the futurists keep prophesying, but in practice these things seem to be giant liability machines with no common sense, self doubt, or ability to say "I don't know, let me ask someone else."

They're neat, they have uses, but they're not replacements for anything. Even Whisper cannot replace a human transcriptionist as it will just make up and insert random lines that are not present in the source audio.
If the US had been established in the mid-20th century through naked colonialism, then yes, a great many people would question its moral right to exist.

Israel was founded at a time when anticolonial movements worldwide were gaining strength. That made its founding - through the mass expulsion of the native population - an anachronism.

Einstein was very clearly against the foundation of a Jewish state until it actually occurred. He accepted is establishment in the end, and like many people of the time, he glossed over the incredible injustice that had been done to the Palestinians in order to establish Israel.

I do know that not everyone thought this way, though. Some of my own Jewish family members opposed to establishment of Israel at the time, precisely because they thought it was unjust to the Arab population.
Calling Rust a "better Java" and not a credible alternative for C++ for "extreme systems software" without further detail is an opinion that I find hard to take seriously. So I'd like to understand your viewpoint better. Could you elaborate on what aspects in C++ specifically make it so much better suited for these tasks from performance and maintainability perspective?
Sorry for pedantry but Elo is a guy's name, not an acronym.
Author hasn’t tried to highlight TeX. Which is good for their mental health, I suppose, as it’s generally impossible to fully highlight TeX without interpreting it.

Even parsing is not enough, as it’s possible to redefine what each character does. You can make it do things like “and now K means { and C means }”.

Yes, you can find papers on arXiv that use this god-forsaken feature.
> My react code now doesn't look very different to my react code in 2019

Server components, Next application directory breaking emotion for styling, stricter rules for hooks, the compiler breaking change tracking libraries such as MobX removing the need for useMemo and similar. This is just off the top of my head in React land.
From what I read on their website, it's mostly used to "improve twitter". That doesn't sound very productive to me. I love using LLMs and they do improve my productivity, but they also use a ton of power that is currently mostly subsidized by investors. If I had to pay for the real power use of the prompts I made to learn VIM this month, I don't think I would could have called it a productivity boost.

I hope we get to see low power, local LLMs with good performances rather than continuing building huge energy sinks like this one in times where we should be trying to lower our footprint.

> Now we can use supercomputers to "simulate" the workflows of 95% of the office drones worldwide *(us included)*. I think that's a MASSIVE paradigm changing leap forward.

This is not what it is doing. And if it was, why would I, as an "office drone" celebrate this...?
>It costs $400,000 to run this cluster for 12 seconds.

No, and please dont spread incorrect information just because "there's a meme."

The cluster has 100,000 H100's. Each H100 takes about 700 watts. Call it 1kW per H100 for simplicity, and assume power is about $0.10/kWh (they probably built this somewhere power is cheap, so it's likely cheaper than that).

100,000kW * $0.10/kWh = $10,000/hour or $33 power cost for 12 seconds.

A possibly more interesting, and true, statistic is it costs about a quarter million dollars a day to power up this cluster.
Laugh. Probably! I gave a talk at that conference titled, "Software Abstractions for Matrix-Free PDE Optimization with Cone Constraints." I still work in the field, so you want to talk algorithms sometime, feel free to send me an email. I keep my email off of HN to limit spam, but if you search for the lead author on that presentation, it should list my website.
Tesla has footage of Optimus working autonomously. Not bad progress for something that has been under development for two years.

https://x.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/1846797392521167223
> The problem in US is the variety of food and how engineered they are to be hyper palatable

The best study done to date on hyperpalatable foods found that fat and sodium were the most common drivers of hyperpalatability:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.22639

> The HPF criteria identified 62% (4,795/7,757) of foods in the FNDDS that met criteria for at least one cluster. Most HPF items (70%; 3,351/4,795) met criteria for the FSOD cluster. Twenty-five percent of items (1,176/4,795) met criteria for the FS cluster, and 16% (747/4,795) met criteria for the CSOD cluster. The clusters were largely distinct from each other, and < 10% of all HPF items met criteria for more than one cluster.

(CSOD, carbohydrates and sodium; FS, fat and simple sugars; FSOD, fat and sodium; HPF, hyper-palatable foods.)

> Check out books by Robert Lustig on the subject

Lustig is a crackpot who relies on animal studies and mechanistic speculation, because the highest-quality RCTs (like the ones I cited) don't support his theory.
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> Add the fact that we don’t know why some people are more tolerant and we cannot predict it

Now this is what should be being researched.

The public health problem with that is you might come to a conclusion where it is harder to blame the patient. The “sugar is bad mmmkay” serves a convenient purpose when providing people with something to moralize about.
Embedded system? Or “I don’t need all that stuff for my comic book collection manager” or “minimalism has it’s own rewards”?
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> These things still don’t establish actual causation.
Nope, it says there's a connection.

>The problem is not the sugar per se, but the fact that different people respond to the same consumed items completely differently
That's true, but most people respond to sugar the same way. When talking about a population, the people that don't respond to over consumption of sugar with diabetes is a rounding error.
Sorry for being dense (or having a "blind spot" I guess), but I still don't comprehend how this answers my question.
I hate it so much... some programs are even worse, they don't take ctrl shift v to get rid of the garbage. I've made it a habit to first paste stuff in a text editor, copy it again, and then paste it into programs like outlook so the formatting won't be all messed up...

Still don't know of a single case where the "feature" was useful.
Aktienbolaget in Sweden are a notable exception there. Even they find ways to do things beyond profit while profiting, not just for profit.
In case you didn't know, op was just referencing a meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-costs-x-to-y-for-z-seconds
This shows why BYD developed their "e-axle" system.[1] The drive axle, differential, and motor are an integrated unit. There's an electronics box that connects the battery, the e-axle, and the charging port. It's controlled over CANbus. So there's a coherent standalone component BYD can reuse in many different vehicles. Which they are doing, and clobbering Detroit on price.

[1] https://www.yolegroup.com/technology-outlook/whats-in-the-bo...
The Pearl Street station began in 1881 and was delivering power to customers in 1882. It was far more advanced than Hammond's which strung a few overhead wires to arc lamps, and Hammond's work never went further and was a dead end. Edison's company evolved into General Electric. By 1884 it was serving 508 customers with 10,164 lamps at 110V.

see "Edison" by Josephson starting page 251

Quoting from page 256:

More than fifty years had passed since Michael Faraday had discovered the mechanical production of induced electricity and had been possessed by a vision of the future electric power. It needed Edison, however, as well as Faraday, Ampere, Arago, and other scientific explorers, to make the Electrical Age.

"Scientists and inventors have more in common than in difference," James G. Crowther has written in discussing the relation of invention to science. A Faraday might discover far more new scientific facts than Edison, and in this their roles were different. "But the importance of
Faraday's discoveries cannot be explained without reference to the work of Edison... This is why Edison is truly a 'man of science.'"83

It was Edison who had finally applied the knowledge of electrical science that had been accumulating during those fifty years in a decisive form (his "system") and boldly imposed it upon the "new" commodity, electricity, which thereafter was introduced to practical usage on a large
scale. Thenceforth, the mass production and sale of electric current was to be carried on in all the world's markets. His successful carbon filament lamp, taken together with his System of electrical distribution, constituted the key invention in this technological drama. More than any other
individual, he gave impetus to the advance of this new art, creating new wealth immeasurable, new convenience and enjoyment, and a new tempo of life.
RE "....did not behave honorably with people's subscriptions....." My experience - Does not respond to (several) support requests. Has not even provided the paid for service over several years.
One time at a corporate retreat, we had to fill out each others' "friend books" (I'm not making this up). One question was about our personal motto. I wrote down "Hell is other people" - I think some people took the hint.
It likely arrives as spam there too :)
Already happend
> From what I read on their website, it's mostly used to "improve twitter".

I hope they use it for more than that.

Because the way Twitter is going at the moment they are likely to be massively fined and/or banned by the EU. They have been continually warned to sort out the misinformation and by every definition it has gotten far worse since Musk took over.

Was always surprised this purchase wasn't made by Tesla given they have actual use cases for it.
https://lynx.boo/lynxboo (and I have put one on the index as well)
Wrong, sorry. The construction costs have exploded in recent years for a number of reasons, not least of which is a constraint on construction supplies. This problem actually exists in more places than SF, and it will have varying levels of contributing factors depending on where you are, but as much as the internet loves to cry NIMBY, it’s simply not the primary factor here.

You may need a permit to build, but it’s not nearly as impossible as Reddit would have you think.
Being vulnerable can be great and helpful when forming personal relationships. A manager asking their direct reports to be (personally) vulnerable in a professional setting, in front of a group, is inappropriate.

While I agree that it wasn't forced (and I know that I would personally have no problem sticking to whatever level of sharing I was comfortable with), I bet you that at least one person on that team felt uncomfortable with it, but also felt like they could be penalized in some way (even just socially) if they didn't share. That's not ok.

If you can't forge bonds with your teammates without your boss asking people to share vulnerable moments during a team meeting, there are deeper problems that this sort of exercise is not going to address.

From my most recent job, I have quite a few strong friendships that we've maintained over the years, even though we've all left that company years ago. But most (if not all) of my so-called friendships with coworkers at other jobs faded quickly after one of us left the company. That's pretty normal, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's also nothing wrong with having a vibrant social life outside of your colleagues, and not really being interested in those colleagues beyond acquaintance level.
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