skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also tons and tons of people trying to lose weight, and having an awful time at it :-) . Just three minutes ago I was summarizing 2024 for myself. I did an awful lot of SUP, and tried to lose weight. Results: weight decreased, then increased back when I got into a relationship that included unhealthy habits. I got rid of the factors that worked against my weight control effort and now things are looking up again. But most people in my age are married and with kids, and they are not going to leave or even fight their significant other and the kids over the family's eating habits....
Vimeo does offer downloadable DRM-free paid videos, I used it a couple of times for crowd-funded movies and comedians releasing their shows. But yeah, it's pretty rarely used unfortunately.
Majority of learning surface will come from framework and not the language, if you need Python elsewhere just learn that as well, but this shouldn't move framework choice much.
iirc the talk I learned this from said there's simply not many cancer variants that don't need abundant glucose to grow tumors. That the whole defect stems from hijacking the energy side to fuel uncontrolled growth, and it needs glucose.
The last time I looked into this, at least one US pesticide* banned in the EU seemed to significantly disrupt oxytocin, notably the pesticide in question seems to be present on fruit, in the store, and can be absorbed through incidental contact. Oxytocin is most notably involved in empathy, giving people a nasal spray of oxytocin and testing them on empathy indicates higher response (in the one story it boiled down to roughly, "how much do you give a shit or relate to the suffering of other people who you do not know") after their oxytocin has been raised.

It does seem like there's room here for a study to see what the general oxytocin level is in the US versus other countries — if it's notably reduced, I wonder if that can help explain why all the US legislation around societal benefits and e.g. healthcare, feels not just apathetic towards, but particularly hostile and mean spirited to people who are suffering.

* - When i originally penned this, I was under the assumption it was Atrazine, but it isn't and I can't find the pesticide in question and don't feel like sifting through a list of "1000 pesticides banned in the EU that the US loves to use" to find the one in question

edit, NB:

HNers that love to skim read and argue based on that, take note — the only claims made here are:

- At least one US pesticide that is banned in the EU disrupts oxytocin (plausible, if not cited)

- Oxytocin is directly connected to expression of empathy (incredibly well-founded)

- US legislation around societal benefits and healthcare feels apathetic and mean spirited (opinion, take it or leave it)

Note that I very carefully do not claim that a {pesicide contact -> reduced oxytocin-> reduced empathy -> mistreatment of the poor and sick} chain is actually the case (I leave that in speculation — "I wonder if"), I only say that it seems viable and worthy of investigation if and only if the first claim in the list above is true. I also do not claim it to be the only cause — that's why I say the words "can help explain". Thank you for reading.
If someone started a rumour that “the_optimist on HN sleeps with seventeen goats every Thursday” and you started getting calls of people saying “you’re a pervert for sleeping with seventeen goats”, it would be quite obvious what motivated the call, would it not?

Before calling something impossible, consider the bare minimum effort to skim the linked article, or read any article on this subject. It is in fact quite trivial and provable.
The issue I think there is never the specific claim but the manner in which Jones makes these pronouncements linking a fact like this to broader conspiracies and politics. That somehow this shit is a left-wing / liberal conspiracy blah blah blah when it's just run of the mill (and far more insidious and systematic) corporate malfeasance in the search of profits.
Biden wouldn't have to preemptively pardon anyone if there were not about to be a shit ton of sham prosecutions.
WordPress CEO quits community Slack after court injunction
Plusses: better desktop app, dark mode, Meta AI, payments, multiple accounts, profile QR code.

Minuses: "communities", business spam, "channels"

I'd say meta did pretty well.
Many people are on autopilot. They have not been taught to be intentional about the day to day fundamentals of their lives. For the most part, I think that used to be achieved through social contact which has substantially diminished in the past few decades.
The flipside is they just price the discs so high that nobody wants to buy them in the first place. DVD boomed because they were reasonably priced, notably being cheaper than the VHS tapes they were replacing. Blu-Ray discs still tend to be priced as a "premium" product, even though the competition isn't an even more expensive physical medium but much cheaper streaming. There is really no mystery why the entire industry segment is dying. It is the same reason S-VHS and Laserdisc were flops while cheap DVDs sold in the billions.
I apologize if this is tangential, but I have noticed BMI research is often heavily criticized, but the same issues that plague BMI can easily be applied to psychometric measurements of intelligence (IQ), but somehow IQ is spared the same beating for some reason I must not understand.

Perhaps my low IQ is showing, but why is one metric heavily criticized while the other is not? (Rhetorical)
I am sure Google has the resources to compete in this space. What I'm less sure about is whether Google can monetize AI in a way that doesn't cannibalize their advertising income.

Who the hell wants an AI that has the personality of a car salesman?
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eventually, other AI bots will be the only fans left

a trully automatic economy
I don't find calorie tracking to be very successful. In my mental ecosystem, it penalizes spending calories on healthy foods (why eat that banana if it's just calories), and I don't do so well with a budget, constant go over just slightly.

I had better luck with Weight Watcher with "free" healthy foods and the segmentation between weekly and daily budgets. Then weight watchers tweaked their point values so much that I couldn't stick with it very well, and when I dual tracked points and calories the new WW plan had me at under 1400 cal/day, which isn't sustainable.

> if you’re able to diet consistently I don’t see why a drug is needed

It'd really really really really really really hard to stick to a diet, especially long term. GLP-1s puts eating healthy and good portion sizes all on autopilot. I don't have to plan out how I'm going to manage my hunger and my food noise, it's just auto pilot. I naturally gravitate to eating enough, but not too much, and mostly plants.
Tested out Gemini-2 Flash, I had such high hopes that a better base model would help. It still hallucinates like crazy compared to GPT-4o.
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What it sounds like you're opposed to is even the consideration that your work can be used for purposes outside of what they're created for.

And um, yeah, the AirTag release was bad enough for obvious reasons and Apple had to make significant privacy changes. Almost as if they forgot to consider that their work could be used for purposes outside of what it was created for. Could've been safer from the beginning.

Edit: turns out Apple is being sued for Air Tags' uses in stalking [0]. So I'm pretty confused by your point since would presumably Cook care about Apple being sued. Will he personally be criminally liable? Doubt it. But it's not like he's blameless or ignorant to the situation.

https://apnews.com/article/apple-airtags-stalking-lawsuits-e...
> 2014, when Russia invaded.

Did anything else happen in Ukraine before that happened? Maybe somebody overthrew the government and installed a puppet who eventually left office with a 6% approval rating? Maybe a bunch of US congressmen literally flew out to show their support?
> You are made of marshmallows!

This is defamation, which is also against the law. However, the damages here are incredibly minor, and thus not worth punishing. Most people probably don't believe you.

However, if I made a lie about you that caused you to lose your employment and become unhireable, is that also protected speech?

You don't have a right to harm others with lies. You don't have a right to lie.
> Newer cards have wide PCIe 5.0 or some faster interconnect, like Nvidia Grace-Hopper.

There aren't any (edit: consumer) GPUs with PCIe5 yet, though they probably aren't far off. Plenty already have PCIe4 though.
I started buying Bluray/UHDs as a replacement for going to the theatre and purchasing/renting digital copies and streaming.

I was spending the money anyways, why not own a copy?

Streaming is primarily just for specific TV shows, subscribe, immediately cancel, watch the series, then resubscribe when something worthwhile exists. I can't stand the bugs, slow interfaces, forced ads in ad free tiers, bad audio quality, and bad video quality.

I have a few continuous subscriptions, but they are for weird stuff and they are pretty inexpensive (5-6$ a month). Dropout TV and some D&D podcasts for example.

What most streaming services are asking in no way aligns with the content they offer that is worth watching.
I stand corrected.

Found on Yi-Zhe Song's Linkedin :

> Runs on a single NVIDIA 4090

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7270141...
I use that as well. I found that it was a great way to slowly ween myself off caffeine while avoiding the caffeine withdrawals. My sleep is improving a little and I remember more dreams, not sure why.
it may also help that tobacco-free nicotine products (vaping, pouches) are gaining popularity vs. more traditional and deadly administration routes (cigarettes). of course there are myriad cons and unknowns resulting from any nicotine habit, but cancer trending down is always good to see.
Google trained Llama-2-70B on Trillium chips
I'm in a similar position. I think one of the challenges is that you can get a guaranteed high salary working full-time in tech. A great success in entrepreneurship might mean acquiring your previous salary after several years of working hard and making little money. Of course, you might also strike it right, but you might not.

I'm currently working part-time on retainer, which allows me to work less than full-time and still make enough money to live (definitely less than a full-time job, but enough to live comfortably). This leaves me time to build my own thing while not living off my savings.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I might suggest something like this. Stay at the job for now. Use the financial security to buy a house and get a good mortgage. Then start working on taking part-time work on top of your full-time job. This will suck at first (full time plus extra work), but once you feel comfortable about being able to get part-time work, you can feel comfortable leaving the full-time job.
> What's that all about?

People learn what to care about and how to care about those things from others, with the most impact coming when they're young.

Many of today's parents already missed the boat on learning self-care, and don't even have the insights to share with their own children, who become even more detached from it.

They don't know how to cook food that isn't either prepackaged or some ornate gourmet meal that takes lots of work, they don't know how to eat for their health in a way that's satisfying, they don't know how much to eat, they don't know what it means to be active throughout the day, they don't know how to rest without constant stimulation so that they're emotionally and physically refreshed, etc etc

We can point them towards some study or a bit of blogspam that asserts some narrow claim about what's optimal, but that's not the way that most people learn self-care and never has been. So they mostly keep doing what was actually taught to them, which tends to bias strongly towards sedentariness, overstimulation, and indulgence these days.
Or it could be made faster because certain manual optimizations become possible.

An example would a table of interned strings that you wanna match against (say you're writing a parser).
Since standard C says thou shall not compare pointers with < or > unless they both point into the same 'object' you are forbidden from doing the speed of light code:

char *keywords_begin, *keywords_end;
if(some_str >= keywords_begin && some_str < keywords_end) ...

Official standard sanctioned workarounds would require extra indirection (using indices for example) which is suboptimal.
a legitimate stance held by idiots* --- if politics consumes your life that much, you should seek help
weirdly I'm more in favor of it with steam - I guess there's not a really great equivalent for movies and music? I mean band camp is pretty close to gog but it's a little bit of a hassle to manage your library still, and easier to keep CDs in the car.
Yes, and the blame is always placed on some cabal or minority group or political tendency that the conspiracy theorist dislikes... rather than looking at anything systematic.

Which actually has the ultimate effect of blunting change rather than fostering it.
I don't know if the gp's question is intended as a bait or not.

However, it describes a real scenario playing out literally as we speak.

While I absolutely don't mean this in a confrontational manner, if your ethical framework doesn't provide you with means to address a real-world ongoing situation, what's it even useful for?
I'm sure it does, but I'm not a good enough strength trainer to really notice. I'd say I'm closer to an intermediate lifter than a beginner, but I'm not advanced enough to really notice a difference.

Time in the gym is my biggest blocker today, not what I ate.
You're downplaying a catastrophic loss of family. All of these people you're rattling off are connected to you and are part of your social graph, which is something humans thrive on. You disconnect people from a community (death loss of job) and you're likely to see homeless. It's one of the reasons people give up and succumb to living on the streets outside of mental illness (which is another major factor that goes into this). A clear means of treating this problem is to put people BACK into a community that has expectations and guidelines.
Bro, have you tasted food before?
Wouldn't that be for fixed-dollar fees? I think here all the costs we're talking about are percentages.

I.e. ignoring taxes, the amount I theoretically expect to exit with should look like

entry_cost * (return_rate * fee_rate)^T * exit_cost

Where return_rate might look like ~1.1, fee_rate might look like 0.9983 (17 bps), and entry_cost and exit_cost might look like half_spread/price (under some assumptions...).

So I think this comes down to whether T is large enough for that exponentiation to dominate the half-spreads.
Can you elaborate on humans starting out all female ? Are you talking about the women's egg chromosomes ? I wouldn't call that a human.. an embryo has a strong claim to being a human, but an egg ?
You go, author - beat that straw-man up! Kill him good! Show us all how this exaggerated claim can't possibly be true!

Nobody ever told me that Linux was supposed to be a paradise; indeed, I'm sure I've read this same list of complaints dozens of times over the last few decades.

I didn't switch to full-time Linux use because I thought it was the best thing ever, but because the alternatives grew sufficiently irritating that I no longer cared to put up with them.

Yes, Linux sometimes requires tinkering - though far less often than people who complain about this seem to think - but the fact that it can be tinkered with means that the machine can always be made to do what I want it to do, even if that takes some work. It's my machine, not Apple's or Microsoft's or Google's, and I will decide how it is to work and what it is to be used for; Linux alone(1) still seems to understand that, so that's where I'm staying.

[1] I'm sure the BSDs are good about this too, but I've never had reason to try them.
I have some feedback if anyone from PeerTube is reading. The https://joinpeertube.org/instances page should have some more useful sorting for the instances it shows. (not to mention the ability to sort by something useful)

E.g. in my page as I see it, there's a random channel with 20 videos appearing as the second instance result, and then the 6th result is Freediverse.com with 741 subscriptions and 465,094 videos. Surely the latter should be on top.
The models themselves are going to be replaced by those same AI Impersonators. Onlyfans has to be the most predatory service I have ever used. You are pretty much signing up to be a target of scammers, whether they be some kids in the Philippines sitting with 20 phones, or AI bots, it has become incredibly obvious that every creator uses them. They all employ the same tactic of seeing how much you are willing to pay and then increasingly offering you more and more expensive content. A few years ago you could have some real conversations but now it is just glorified spam. Even if a creator wasn’t using these tactics, the water has been so muddied that you just assume it’s all fake now.
I've developed a drug habit over the past year. I'm not overweight at all but, I assume people's mental health leads them to neglect and abuse the body for quick dopamine hits. Baconator with a large coke would immediately improve my mood but then make me feel miserable after.
> why the milestone isn't something classically hard but easily verified

They're far from being able to do any such thing, so posing such milestone would make the field look stagnant and thus be a bad marketing and hurt the money stream. The "milestones" are chosen so that they are plausibly reachable in short time relevant to patrons/investors, because people working on this need to constantly demonstrate progress.
1800 on the h100s is with 2/4 sparsity, it’s half of that without. Not sure if the tpu number is doing that too, but I don’t think 2/4 is used that heavily so I probably would compare without it.
The State of Node.js Performance 2024
But you're running the compiler on the device rather than cross-compile?
the tooling might be in Rust, but now I have to write some new DSL that isn't Rust
A new class of antivirals could help prevent future pandemics
All processes use Postgres as a reference, so they can learn about pending workflows in need of recovery. The DBOS library handles concurrency management under the hood, such that only 1 process can work on a workflow at a given time.
They cross compile. No one is compiling code on these machines.
Again, you need to define AGI. According to the classical definition of the term by the people who coined it, the example you gave proves that it is AGI. You were able to specify a problem using a fully generic interface (chat) that the AI was not specifically trained on, and it got an answer close to the right answer. The process it used to generate that answer is general intelligence.
Alas, this is par for the course in the Fediverse. Mastodon is the only ActivityPub-using social network I'm aware of that has broken away from this. (Maybe Lemmy, to some degree?)

Social networks that focus on people and user experience have a shot. My hunch is those -- like PeerTube -- that focus on technical, political, or philosophical motivations will always be niche at best.

(Which is not to discourage experimentation! This seems to be a fantastic moment to experiment with social media design.)
It's not difficult and involves basically no skill set. There's a billion apps to help you scan documents and output a PDF. It's even built into mobile OSs at this point. It's just time consuming,that's it!
Of course it gets released a couple hours after I can no longer edit my HN comment. Thanks. :-)
In Sweden you have a personnummer and tax data is available to practically everyone. And that's the main measure they use for everything. So I'm pretty sure that the police use this data to get an idea of what you can and can't afford.
A lot of it probably burned on Cloud GPU/Compute.
level of discourse. you can just read journals
Kinda and sometimes. In this case most of Musk's growth in net worth was from a private valuation of SpaceX shares. They don't trade on the open market, so it would be harder to actually turn those to cash.

To OP's credit, nobody is arguing Musk is broke. But having a higher net worth suddenly overnight doesn't often correlate to a change in purchasing power.
Looks interesting, but I'm not sure I understand how it is different from Raycast
"...to be a philosophic belief?"

There are many people who hold beliefs that run contrary to the evidence on a variety of subjects from all educational backgrounds.

"...because this self selected group trends towards higher SAT scores seems to miss the point."

If it does, it's a point that hasn't been made yet. This entire post is about test scores, which is the way education is measured. If you're contending that public schools produce better reasoning than religious schools, then please provide that data.

"but we shouldn't have tax paid educators and curriculums participate in the cognitive crippling of children if our goal is to have a functional and productive society."

This part left me unclear, as this is also the same sort of complaint many parents are having about some of the ideologies being taught (or how they're being taught) in public schools, which are publicly funded. Most states do not publicly fund religious/private schools.

"Do you think that it is wise to spend time and money formally training "high potential" people to have such deeply systemic errors in reasoning to the point that they flat reject peer reviewed, high confidence data and methods as a positive?"

So how did your example achieve a PhD if he contradicted the peer reviewed evidence? I assume the review board and degree was from a secular school and you have implied the secular school process doesn't permit these sorts of reasoning flaws. Perhaps their reasoning on most subjects is solids and they have a few blind spots. This is generally true of most people, including those from public schools. Also, let it be known that many successful scientists have challenged existing positions successfully to discover new things. Science encourages challenging existing positions as part of the process to make new discoveries. This is one of the reasons there are so few "laws" in science and so many "theories".

"We aren't talking about religious beliefs as most christians support radiometric dating, we are talking about educational materials for the young that reject following the data in pragmatic, well documented, well confirmed, high utility fields and rejects them out of pocket with untestable unobservable and sometimes demonstrably false alternatives."

Ok... so what is your point? The vast majority of religious schools support radio cabon dating just as you admit that most religions do. I'm pretty confident that my comment chain has been using qualifiers to indicate that there may be outliers, but that in general religious schools do not have lower academic standards as indicated by the test score data. There may be outliers in any of the various school types, but the data is pretty clear that the current measures of academic success are test scores and post-secondary education, for which religious school score at least as well on. This refutes the original comment that religious schools have academically lower standards. Unless someone has actual data and not just anecdotal that says otherwise.
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Really curious.. use it for what?