skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about law so I do think the arguments presented make sense, the account is owned by X; not really by infowars.

However, I'm pretty sure the name is now owned by the onion so they could argue that "infowars" on X might be impersonating them, which I think other corporations have successfully gotten people removed from the platform for that.

Now, I don't really expect Musk to care about the rules when they don't suit him.
Is this any different than prompting an image generator
"Give me a classic king chess piece in the style of <prompt>",
"Give me a classic queen chess piece in the style of <prompt>" for all the piece types?
Perhaps some tweaking to promote consistency between the pieces?
Weight loss/gain is specifically tied to calories consumed vs calories burned, yes.

But that is not the purpose of the study.

2 groups of people, 2 diets, and the 1 group given an unlimited amount of relatively healthier food, chose to eat less of it and lost weight. The other ate more junk food and gained weight.

That implies that there are non-conscious factors at play and that diets may be more naturally successful if they are comprised of healthier less-processed food even without restriction.

Additionally, this implies that there must be an X factor that takes place in the processing of foods that causes overweight people to keep eating when they have met their caloric requirements.

For context, look at the data regarding nutrient density in vegetables over the last 60 years and see that the nutrients aside from fat/carbs/protein have been on a steady decline year over year.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10969708/

When I put these things into perspective, my hypothesis is this:

Being overweight, commonly viewed as a weakness of character or a sickness of the mind or body, is more likely a symptom of some larger issue.

Evidence of this can be found piecemeal from studies on human diets the world over.

The foods that are readily available to people are making them sick, my guess is that this is from some form of malnutrition. This may be a nutrient malnutrition or some compounding effect that the overprocessing of foods has on the human body that isn't trivial to differentiate from its non-processed counterparts.

I feel it is reasonable to assume that in general overweight and obese people on an ultra-processed diet are overeating in a non-conscious attempt to compensate for a lack of fundamental nutrition in the foods that are available to them.

Therefore, to test the hypothesis, the underlying nutritional issues should first be addressed by eliminating ultra-processed foods from the diet and replacing them with minimally processed foods, the higher in "quality" the better.

Theory: An overweight person will naturally reduce their caloric intake when their diet meets or exceeds their nutritional requirements.

The results, listed in the article above, seem to suggest that this theory is correct.
Google's moat for search are the advertisers networks. Others can't bootstrap a search engine business because they don't have the advertisers to pay for it.
It’s the modern hatred of hierarchy at work. People today so desperately want to believe in equality that they deny the plain and simple truth of intellectual hierarchy.

The problem is actually worse in the world of work than in school. Even workplaces like Amazon warehouses would greatly benefit from IQ testing of new hires, with fast track promotions for those in upper percentiles. It doesn’t happen because of beliefs about racial and social equality. Dumb people end up running places out of nothing more than inertia and fear of acknowledging excellence.
>Human presenters aren't too expensive and are quite flexible, are easily replaced and can make or break a show.

well, if you owned 257 local media outlets across an area five thousand miles wide, you might have the experience and the insight to see it differently. you might identify an opportunity for innovative advancements in efficiency
> And so, they give the market what it buys. Simple as.

It's not this simple.

Marketing isn't just about making an existing product attractive to consumers - it's also about creating new products and even new product categories, and then creating a desire amongst consumers leading to purchases.

Where do you think all of the ultra-processed food has come from in the past decade? It didn't always exist...
> You could make a case for honey, but, like all other natural sources, it contains other ingredients that somehow limits ingestion or metabolization.

In the natural environment, said other ingredients would be the angry swarm of bees?
Vehicle choice is probably much more of a personal-identity / status thing for the soccer-mom.

To riff off of a Bujold quote about uniforms: "Fleet vehicles are always correct, or, if not exactly correct, clearly not the driver's fault, since they have no choice."
Being able to roll without crushing the cabin doesn’t take that much. It’s airbags that are causing wide blindspot inducing pillars and there’s options that maintain good visibility.
This sums up my view on AI and machine autonomy in general. The human added value is accountability. For a similar reason, outsourcing to faceless off shore companies usually does not work out.

There is nothing to suggest that AI will not require an expert in the loop in the future. Every single one of these products has a disclaimer that it will produce false and misleading results.

Of course, there are only so many experts needed for a given problem domain to fulfill all the demand, but that is true even without automation.
pip doesn't do an actual smart solution but it just bruteforces it. The way of pip installing packages is to download the package, execute its setup script that imperatively installs dependencies. There is no proper metadata in PyPI ecosystem. There is some but not enough so pip doesn't know what a package needs until it runs the setup script.

This is the reason Conda exist. It is a proper dependency system with all the dependencies recorded in a package's metadata. So it is possible for the package manager to query and know which dependencies a package needs and what the current environment is and then find a set of packages to install.
First congrats on the launch - I like it.

My feedback: what’s there looks inviting. Email interaction is handy, other ways would be too.

If there was a low code way to arrange the humanlayer primitives for folks at the edge of using it, I think human tasks could meet something like this even broader. Happy to chat offline.

Onto your comment: The coding for coding agents is still kinda prototype. It feels like some folks quietly have setup a very productive workflow themselves for quite sometime.

Still, there no doubt you could ship production code in some cases - except ai needs to handle all the things development explicitly and implicitly checks before doing so.

Getting to build some things that became more than few orders of magnitude larger than planned, one can learn a lot from the deep experiences of others… and I’m not sure where that is in AI. Speaking to someone with experience and insight can provide some profound insight, clarification and simplification.

Still, an axiom for me remains: clever architecture still tends to beat clever coding.

The best code often is the code that’s not written and not maintained and hopefully the functionality can be achieved through interacting with the architecture.

This approach is only one way, but it can take both domain knowledge and data knowledge, to put in enough a domain and data driven design relative to how well the developer may know the required and anticipated needs.

The high end of software development is many leagues beyond even what I just described. There’s a lot of talk about 10x engineers, I’d say there can be developers who definitely can be 10x as effective or reach 10x more of the solution, than average.

If a lot of the code AI is modelled on is based on the body of code in repos, most on a wide scale may be average to above average at most, perfectly serviceable and iteratively updated.

Sometimes we see those super elegant designs of fewer tables and code that does near everything, because it’s developments 5th or 6th version creating major overhauls. It could be refactored, or if the schema is not brittle, maybe a rewrite in full or part of the exact same team is present to do it.

Today’s AI could help shed a light in some of those directions, relative to the human using it. This again says in the hands of an expert developer AI can do a ton more for them, but the line to automation might be something else.

There is agentic ai and human in the loop to still figure itself out, as well as how to improve the existing processes. 2025 looks to be interesting.
>The body doesn't need carbohydrates to function.

Only in so much as that it will built glucose out of other things you eat if you don't eat carbs separately. Your body runs on glucose which is a carbohydrate.
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Bakeries load their goods with sugar.

Typically you don't mix sugar with meat. Though I think that practice is unfortunately becoming more frequent.
The point of Kenji's method (really, all radial-ish methods, but radial is strictly worse) is that you don't have to do the horizontal slice. If you slice vertically, you do --- you can see it for yourself, if you don't the dice from the edges of the onion are almost twice as big as the diece from the center.
>against depicting women in leadership roles;

>keep any mention of transgenderism away from their kids

>want to see more racist jokes about Mexicans

>So, in the context of western comics, what does "too much woke" mean to you?

I think you're demonstrating the optimal strategy that people should take. If an opinion can easily get you labeled as a bad person, it's probably better to just not talk about it.
Maybe they didn’t think Trump would win? But yeah, those who don’t know the history are doomed to repeat it.
I am starting to call that Harry Potter AI prompting.

Coding with English (prompting) is often most useful where existing ways of coding (an excel formula) can’t touch.

Using llms to evaluate things like an excel formulas instead of using excel doesn’t feel in the spirit of using this ai’s power.
This is a bit of a non-sequitur? You couldn't just "choose to pretend to believe in Islam" and somehow escape slavery. And with castration having been a common practice, anything that was dependent on descendants was going to be different at face value. So, kudos to them for not allowing their slaves to continue their bloodline?

Look, I'm open to the idea that slavery in the US was somehow the worst slavery ever. But most arguments used to prop up the idea rely on laughably naive views on slavery elsewhere. Worse, much of it seems to stem from a naive "US bad" gullibility in taking in information.
It is very possible!

Just this year these girls discovered a proof for the Pythagorean theorem using nothing but trigonometry, a feat considered impossible until they did it: https://youtu.be/VHeWndnHuQs
> That's not easy to wrap your head around.

I am trying to figure out the formal version of this topological conjecture. Even that isn't easy.
I was hoping that, with sufficient practice, a studious person might be able to beat a JS chess engine. However it looks like these engines are in the ELO range of 2500-3000, so unless you're a young teen with a few years to spare for improving your chess score, it's probably not possible. Even for a smart teen, it would be a stretch goal.
Which fields?

Air travel is much, much cheaper and orders of magnitude safer. Progress is crap if you focus on speed but there’s much more to it than that.

Space flight has become vastly cheaper, with it now being feasible to blanket the planet in low-latency high-bandwidth internet connectivity. (Compare with the travails of Iridium just 30 years ago.) Again, progress is crap if you focus on the flashy stuff like boots on the moon, but it’s been tremendous in other ways.

Cars are vastly safer, more reliable, and more efficient. Two entirely new kinds of drivetrain (hybrid and electric) have been developed and popularized.

Medicine has seen huge improvements in cancer treatments, imaging, various medical devices, and drugs of all kinds.
Optoma UHZ50. It's not a high-end model and a lot of people have reported issues, but I've had none and I think it was a no-brainer at 50% off on an open box.

It's not true 4K in that it's natively 1080p, but has a mirror that rapidly shifts the laser, allowing it to show "4K" albeit at 60Hz instead of 240Hz. Not quite as clear as true 4K, and if you get really close to your screen you'll see pixel lines corresponding to 1080p, but it's not noticeable from even two feet away.

It's also a single laser, not triple laser, so it's not quite as vibrant or bright as a triple laser, but it's also way less expensive.

Personally, I leave it on 1080p/240Hz when gaming and it's very lush. Paired with the right screen, it can be vibrant and have great black levels. I've been using it for a year and a half almost daily with no problems. I recommend it if you can find it at a good price, but if I got a projector today I'd probably look for an ultra short throw out of convenience. If you have a higher budget though, I'd recommend looking at some higher-end models.
Would you mind sharing which readings you found most useful in that review?
I agree - I would happily pay for a print subscription and donate a second one to the nearest high school (although teens may no longer visit the library, so you'd probably have to spread the magazines in toilets, corridors and cafes).
I can think of many nasty things that Stalin did, but I don't recall anything even remotely similar to "lynching all the teachers and kicking the bureaucrats out of the cities". In fact, teacher was probably one of the most respected occupations throughout the Soviet period.
The job of delivery services today is delivering small packages, not information. So everybody (USPS, UPS, Amazon) is converging on the same feature set:

- Van big enough to stand up in

- Door between driver compartment and package storage

- Bin/shelf type package storage, not bags or piles

- Good visibility

- Battery electric

- Optimized for 0 to 30 MPH with lots of stops. Aerodynamics don't matter much. Regenerative braking does.

Amazon has some cute features. The driver wears some small RFID device, and when they step out of the truck, the door to package storage closes and locks, and the truck won't move. Amazon's new vans also have very high visibility from the rear, with many LEDs, so it's hard to rear-end them by accident. Good because they double-part frequently.
Massachusetts is the state rated #1 in pre-K to 12 education, and they have about 100% of teachers in unions. This seems to destroy your argument that teachers unions need to be "abolished" in the name of helping students.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts
In your mind what does "static asset" mean?
> It would have been much more useful if you could just mount it like a hard drive without special library management software.

When I got my first iPod in 2006, I immediately put Rockbox on it, where the iPod indeed mounted like a hard drive and files (including all my .oggs, remember those?) could be dropped right onto the device. Never used Apple’s own UI even once.

I still miss the iPod. It let you really immerse yourself in the music without all the distractions inherent in a smartphone. I occasionally considered getting a used one and installing larger storage and a new battery, but by now I think that ship has sailed.
He grates for a tomato sauce, which makes sense, but you wouldn't want that as your default onion cut.
It essentially forced people into getting a bank account.
Lots of artists can reproduce existing content, should we get rid of them entirely, or just restrict them from publishing such content? If anything, it's the responsibility of the publisher to avoid copyright infringement.

> Also, personally I have no interest in a service that generates a song for you because it takes away all the fun. Maybe something that helps to find mistakes in composed music and help learning would be much more useful.

You are not forced to use the full raw output, you could use it sparingly in your new composition, the same way you might use ChatGPT to improve your lyrics.

All non-musician friends where thrilled to generate music. It's already extremely fun and will keep getting better. I think it lowers the barrier of entry and will increase the total amount of performers, the "real" musicians. I am sure musicians playing instruments back in the days had the same idea about digital music: "Not playing with the physical instruments takes away all the fun. You can't touch, smell, feel it. It has a negative impact on the music and on the people. I am so smart, I am a democrat, you guys are nazis, you want to destroy humanity while I want to restrict the majority of the people from having fun.".

> lot of effort and money to produce
Mathematical formulas too, and you can't copyright them.

If a new device is invented to replay memory "almost verbatim (but in lower quality) for example". Should its use be restricted with regard to copyrighted content? It's your memory, your unique interpretation, shouldn't it belong to you?

AI will get better and you'll be able to easily go up the tree from which content was derived (intentionally or not) based on the similarity and the publication date.

Artists don't need more protections than mathematicians.
This is super important in case of emergencies or disaster response. Lots of people no longer have AM/FM radios. Basic SMS communication, even if people can only receive government messages, is a great thing.
Subarus use a boxer engine that drastically increases the visibility. I have a short torso with long legs and finding a car where I felt comfortable with visibility was a priority for me. I settled on the Subaru Impreza 10 years ago. Still has the best visibility of all the cars I’ve driven. I’d expect EVs to also have better visibility - may be eventually - since they can drop the height of the hood as well.
warts and all, this is what cryptocurrency provides for an digitized economy rapidly moving towards cashless digital-first payments.
Agreed. I lean towards thinking I would've wound up further behind if I skipped one or more grades, due to the social aspect. Especially given how often I moved.

Keeping the regular pace also allowed me to do a lot more extracurriculars. I started helping with quantum computing research in my freshman year of college and joined a bunch of clubs.
> Don’t ever arrive at your computer without a clear list of priorities

Sometimes I find it best best to stop my workday before entirely finishing a task: The next morning (or in some cases, the next Monday) there will be an obvious next-step to work on that which I'm already familiar with.

In contrast, arriving without a clear next step can trigger some severe doldrums.
Born in 1988. Things were cool until around 2007, at that point everything great about the internet rapidly started dying off, though at first it seemed kind of exciting that it finally seemed to be getting global recognition, it was really the beginning of the end.
read other comments, so talk people can stand up in the back and short people and see over the hood.
It’s both. I do recognize, and agree with most of what you’re saying. The junk food industrial complex is real.

But people have autonomy and if you took their burgers away tomorrow they’d riot.

> It's not an eating disorder to eat junk food in America.

It absolutely is a disorder to eat to the level you described in your previous comment.

Just because millions of people take part in it, and it’s socially acceptable doesn’t make the way Americans eat not an eating disorder. They’re also aware, not silent, or ignorant. Everyone knows junk food and eating until you want to throw up is bad for you.

And yes I fully understand there are people out there inventing ways to make food even more addictive. Fuck those people. Those are the worst people.
As having a masters in computer science I respectfully disagree with you. Would you consider a program that translates C code to FORTRAN a compiler? Nope, it's a translator. A compiler compiles a language into a direct executable. Just like Microsoft Windows has executables, .exe file, there's no runtime required to run those files.
The seat height in the banner image looks too tall for the mailboxes.

The very first image in the article shows a driver putting mail in a mailbox. What more proof do you need?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/11/20/multimedia/00xp-m...
> "being able to create full professional illustrations based upon textual prompts. That is huge. .. (and I'm not talking about "AI slop" type stuff that DALL-E does)"

Then what are you talking about, where can I get it?
No, but they do beat the shit out of the onion. The bigger thing though is that they're a pain; you have to clean it out when you're done (also: have it handy on your counter to begin with), as opposed to just wiping down your knife, which you're already using for other things.

I don't do much with my food processor anymore besides grating cheese; even biscuit dough I'll do with a box grater at this point, just to avoid having to clean out the food processor.
> Angus Barbieri

So far as I can tell, he consumed yeast extract, which all my suppliers of assure me does in fact contain carbohydrates.

But perhaps Barbieri ate a special kind that didn't?
The Fed still does purchases and sales, but not for the purpose of driving the overnight interest rates towards its target. The level of the overnight rate is not affected of any purchases or sales that the Fed does.
Because you can't imagine, I can't carry whatever cash I'd like for a legal use case without the risk of seize-first, ask questions later? Nonsense implication if so.
Sounds like bad designs. If you can get rid of something to reduce complexity you absolutely should.
The instructional approaches I mentioned in the parent comment are not based on pointless 'busywork'. In fact, quick feedback to the pupil is considered an essential feature, which helps cope with the all-too-easily distracted "monkey mind" that's typically associated with ADHD.
Short form video content is absolutely terrible, every time I watch one I have an extremely strong urge to verify whatever I heard in the video, so I just avoid watching them altogether. I’m not sure how anything of value can be 45 seconds long with absolutely no context, outside of comedy.
My comment on Apple was hardware investment of Apple users. Neither Google nor Apple's own store of hardware matter in the age of "the cloud" imo.

I would agree that moats are relative and companies can stay ahead without deep moats. But I think you still the problem of the specific way that LLMs are generic. Users don't invest in an LLM, they just learn to use them and that learning can transfer. User don't get "bragging rights" for using ChatGPT rather than a competitor (almost the opposite). ChatGPT output doesn't have a "flavor" distinct from other LLMs - in fact, as a user, I want the output flavor I ask for rather than anything identifiable as ChatGPT.
It's unlikely any sharpener is going to ruin your knife; at worst, they won't put the best possible edge on it. Your knife is probably just an inert hunk of steel. :)
It's somewhat encouraging that there's more of an interest and that it's driving prices up. It means there's less chance that film will die completely as a consumer product. You can still afford some professional grade gear that's in excellent condition for peanuts, as long as what you're after isn't particularly trendy. I paid about a hundred bucks for a Canon Elan 7 that's in perfect working order and works with all my modern EF mount lenses and flashes. That's about the price of shooting and developing four rolls of film! Just stay away from the rangefinders and you're generally fine.