skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Excess sodium intake is associated with cardiovascular disease and heart failure.

The evidence for this is poor, and there is some evidence to the contrary.[0] Right now it is difficult to assert that there's anything more than a correlation, possibly because many popular high salt food choices could be bad for reasons other than sodium (e.g. fast food staples). In recent decades, widespread success of anti-salt messaging means that lower salt intake is now highly correlated with eating a healthy diet.

There's no first-order harm in a low salt diet, but there may be some second-order concerns. For example, when food manufacturers are pushed to reduce salt, their arsenal for achieving hyperpalatability becomes narrowed to objectively worse things like sugar and refined seed oils.

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[0] "The field of heart failure has evolved [...] There is now substantial randomized trial data to indicate that dietary sodium restriction does not provide the reduction in clinical events with accepted heterogeneity in the clinical trial results." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38215917/ (2024)
"There have been continuous efficiency savings innovations for both training and inference over the last few years."

I'm aware - i've run the relevant teams at large scale companies like Google :)

Is your claim anyone has made 98% total vs, say, 5 years ago?

If so, evidence please?

Otherwise, seems sort of irrelevant.

AFAIK, nobody has come anywhere close to this, and the only possible way they would is through externalizing roughly all costs onto someone else.

(IE certainly google TPU's are much more efficient than 5 years ago, but since you have to account for development cost, they are not saving 98% vs 5 years ago)
Great project!

Idk if this might be useful or not, but there is a smartwatch platform (bangle.js 2) that uses the NRF52840 chip (extremely low power, solid BLE support, works with Espruino, micro python, arduino, and other IDEs) battery life is around a week, depending on what you run, of course.

The watch includes an always-on color transflective display, GPS, accelerometer , barometer, haptic motor, compass, sound, touchscreen, etc.

You could do firmware from scratch or you could use the onboard OS and write the program as an App.

The watch isn’t distracting, unless you install stuff on it to be distracting. I think your program might be able to be written as a “watch face” so that it would not have to be launched from the launcher, but you could also write firmware for the watch so that it just does what it does period.

It seems to me like this does everything you want, maybe?

I bought a couple of these (2?) years ago for my kids to program on, they have been great!

https://banglejs.com/
In Korea, people often have seaweed soup. Seaweed is very high in iodine, so most people in South Korea doesn't use iodized salt.
Came here to say the same. I'm glad linux is finally catching up to Solaris.
> that could be like a side-project for a company like that, whose blood and sweat is literally money.

From the mouth of Liang Wenfeng, co-founder of both High Flyer and DeepSeek, 18 months ago:

"Our large-model project is unrelated to our quant and financial activities. We’ve established an independent company called DeepSeek, to focus on this."

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-from-hedge-fund-to-fr...
You don't need to know that the keywords are actually english words. So to start the first program on a floppy on a C64 you would type

load "*",8,1

and back then I didn't understand what load means any more than I understood what ,8,1 means, I just knew that if I press this sequence of letters it will start summer olympics.
Spectre is mitigated by your browser already.
This isn't about an old device, it's just a few years old (2020, on Android 13). I understand that things break, but this is not about that. It's how Google lied to users about the update, then the update wrecking their phones to a point where it doesn't work. If my phone were to have naturally been destroyed then I get it, I have to move on.

I'm sure a lot of people have Pixels here, if all of a sudden it is forced to update, and the phone becomes unusable, would you not be angry? What if Microsoft forcefully updated and made all processors around 2018 bricked? I've browsed here so much and everyone loves to use old and cheap CPUs for their crafts which are beautiful here. I'm sure many people use old phones for many reasons as well, such as mobile servers, gadgets, etc. The Pixel 4a was a budget phone and perfect for those who want a phone with a headphone jack and that just works. Pixel 4a was also one of the phones used for many Android projects.

At this point I just want to tell people on here what Google did and let people know that this can happen to your phone at any time. Hopefully you are all prepared as Pixel 5/6 have been having battery issues as well and a forced update might be coming for that. I hope everyone is prepared.
The damage was done, if it was 100% based on truth or how fast they recover has nothing to do with it.
by doubting, you've already ruled it out, haven't you?
95%+ is as good as it gets probably.

For starters, we know corals will be dead in the next few decades, home of 25% of all oceanic species.

The mass extinction event is underway and we aren't doing enough to stop it.
This person is on HackerNews, implying at least enough technical expertise to use a website. Google Drive is a website. Other people have offered this person alternative devices free of charge. Yet they are so fixated on a specific outcome (Google just fixing this for them) that they can't see another solution when it's offered up on a plate. They are also neglecting to think beyond the immediate problem: say they get the firmware rolled back somehow - what happens when the device stops charging/is stolen/is dropped and all their files are still on it? Have you never know anyone like this before? Someone who needs all their problems solved for them because they refuse to take responsibility for the situations they have created for themselves through action or inaction?
The stock went up 70% in the last year. In what fantasy world is Meta not a growth stock?
This is totally expected when you use AI to build your infrastructure.
>To build DeepSeek probably requires at least a $1B+ budget.

Zero evidence that the above statement is true, and weak evidence (authors' claims) that it is false. Have you read their papers even?

https://arxiv.org/html/2412.19437v1#abstract
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948
>it's all deterministic and there is no opposing player making choices

It's not deterministic, it's chaotic. That is the nature of the N-body problem. We can only approximate trajectories in such a system using numerical methods, within a certain margin of error. In principle, the object is gravitationally interacting with everything else in the solar system. But for the most part, most interactions are negligible and could be ignored (eg, other small objects far away), except of the large bodies. But there are many unknowns (as stated before), where initial conditions will affect the outcome of the trajectory simulation, and errors will certainly amplify over time. I'm guessing Monte Carlo is used to "fuzz" the simulations with randomised initial conditions to account for the range of unknowns, and see what the outcome is under these different scenarios.
I think you replied in the wrong post.
Well, I don’t use iPad and usually either desktop or iPhone on the go.
It might seem less credible to encounter English in a place where it’s less expected, but think of it this way: would a Yandex-developed ClickHouse database be adopted by Chinese devs if everything in it were written in Russian?

There is some merit in asking your question, for there’s an unspoken rule (and a source of endless frustration) that business-/domain-related terms should remain in the language of their origin. Otherwise, (real-life story) "Leitungsauskunft" could end up being translated as "line information" or even "channel interface" ("pipeline inquiry" should be correct, it's a type of document you can procure from the [German] government).

Ironically, I’m currently working in an environment where we decided to translate such terms, and it hasn’t helped with understanding of the business logic at all. Furthermore, it adds an element of surprise and a topic for debate whenever somebody comes up with a "more accurate translation".

So if anything, English is a sign of a battle-hardened developer, until they try to convert proper names.
I don't see how this could prevent unsafe sites leaking credentials (Assuming unsecure == No TLS) as unencrypted data will be sent through the exit node to the web server. It does however help for wifi snooping.
46.05% in the last 6 months
69.10% in the last year
235.05% in the last 5 years

Just the facts
In a time when, apparently, it needs to be said that "Nazis are bad", that's the best way I can imagine to spend hard-earned HN Internet Points.
didn't league of legends do that first?
Exactly the same. Custom domain.

I like their clients (android, web).

I use their notes feature too, for stuff I want to sync.
If your terminal is not insanely fast, you are using 1980s equipment or there is something wrong.

And most fast terminals these days use GPU rendering.
Here I am also.
> it would be great if you would abuse your monopoly power for my convenience

1. Valve cannot "abuse monopoly power" by standardizing controller profiles. If they could then they would already be sued for Steam Input.

2. You wouldn't need monopoly abuse to fix this if American tech companies worked together to design and implement common standards. America's aversion to cooperation isn't Valve's fault.

3. Valve's "monopoly" is impotent anyways. If you are capable of installing Steam, you are capable of installing any equivalent third-party service or game without limitation or interruption from Valve.
Bill Atkinson reviews the Lisa source code
Have you got some support for this claim?

There's a lot of wild claims about, so while this is plausible it would be great if there were some evidence backing it.
If 80% of Americans didn't vote Trump, you're trying to claim they just as likely love him as those who did, even when polling of those voting for him show many dislike him?

Yeah, I'm not the one unable to read evidence.

Polls also repeatedly show people dislike a large amount of his policies.

And it's a fact he didn't even get 50% of voters to vote for him.
They don't solve the problem, though, they merely reduce its scope. Ubuntu's LTS versions only last five years for free users, and they currently have to maintain seven of them.
I'm now one of those people, the ones talking about how they dropped FB.

Eventually I logged on and noticed that as I was scrolling, like 2/3rds of the content wasn't from my friends at all, not even re-shared stuff, it was all ads or shorts from randos or random group pages that somehow appeared on my feed. And of course a lot of the things from my friends were, in fact, re-shares.

I felt like, if only like 20% or less of the content is original stuff from my friends, what's the point of even being here? This is terrible. So I gave up.
New Bill Aims to Block Pirate Sites in the U.S.
Or South Korea vs. North Korea
I think that’s already been achieved
https://youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA?si=4nMZryeOeoVrZewW
Interestingly, in the world of electronics this used to be true too. The first Diode on a circuit board would be marked "D1", no matter which country produced it. Datasheets for components would be in english. Any text on a circuit board would be in english (ie. "Voltage Select Switch" or "Copyright 2025".).

However, a few years back it became common for most datasheets to be available in mandarin and english, and this year most PCB fabrication houses have gained support for putting chinese characters onto a circuit board (requires better quality printing, due to more definition needed for legibility).

Now there are a decent number of devices where the only documentation is only available in mandarin, and the design process was clearly done with little or no english involved.

Not everything changes though - gold plating thickness is measured by the micro-inch. Components often still use 0.1 inch pin spacing. Model numbers of chinese chips often are closely linked to the western chip they replace, the names of registers (in the cpu register sense) are often still english etc.
The Java ecosystem is vast and there is very little you can say about it generally.

It's trivially easy to write Java programs without (ab)using inheritance. It's trivially easy to write Java programs in a functional style. There are countless libraries that will provide just about any programming interface you like, the only hard part is picking.
Poorly secured or not it still managed to hit your favourite stock. The execs at NVIDIA still haven’t recovered from the bloodbath.
Do note IPv6 is still not supported everywhere yet.
The Most Active Volcano in the Northeast Pacific Is Preparing to Erupt
Depending on your perspective, that's either very concerning or a great business opportunity for this decade's Heroku to enter the fray.
No, it doesn’t do cross-address space attacks.
> The stock market does all sorts of silly things.

For sure. This one was pretty clear though. It's exactly what you'd expect when a moat evaporates overnight.

Even if tech stocks recover in 2 weeks (doubt) an open source model comparable to o1 with a 50x efficiency gain is still not just another app. Which means there will be bad actors with a special interest in spreading narratives on every relevant forum...
For those who weren't following it at the time, one thing that Aaron was famous for was helping organize a campaign against an earlier form of this legislation in 2011 and 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Opposition_to_the...

(Not that Zoe Lofgren has somehow signed up to agree with Aaron's positions about everything.)
I think this is a chatbot. It has no memory for one of its posts to the next. Fascinating.
I don't think C# would've been a good fit for flutter in its early days, but definitely Flutter should no longer be tied to a single language like Dart. I think you should definitely consider stronger cross-language support.
Your point being? You're stringing together a bunch of observations without any argument relevant to Jevons' paradox.

My guess is that you're mistake is thinking something like [demand = 1/price]. That was never the prediction, the prediction is when efficiency improves, demand increases which is a pretty basic observation for most in-practice supply and demand curves (something like a Veblen good would be different). You're not talking about changes in demand and you're barely looking at efficiency beyond noticing that the price was positive and is now 0.

> And despite being free it’s still not used nearly as often as it should be ...

Case in point, if this wasn't obvious then you need to modify your expectations. Jevons' paradox predicts exactly this, because there are prices below free (ie, paying someone to use the thing) and we'd expect they eventuated people would find new uses for SMT solvers due to Jevons' paradox in context of a price signal that they were getting more efficient. That implies even at $0 in software costs we aren't going to be using them everywhere we could.
You're right. It has nothing to do with the second sentence of the two sentence post it replies to.
Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data
And we sat at home and waited for mIRC, ICQ, or MSN Messenger to chirp, of course.

What really changed is that good old Moore's law delivered systems where personalized feeds are not just possible, but they are the norm. And with a bit of tweaking, add infinite scrolling, spice up the recommender system to inject a bit of noise/variance, and ... voila! you are in a nice Skinner box.
“A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.” - from PG’s “Hackers & Painters”
I do see your point and agree it can be valuable data. What I'm arguing is specifically that the economics of it are extremely unfavorable.

Having a relevant Facebook group is about the best case scenario. I guess email might work? Maybe letters? I can't imagine calling or canvasing.

On top of all that I still think the data from actual users is still going to be more valuable overall, even the negative stuff. I'd prefer somebody who attended the school and had a bad experience than somebody who had a bad impression and went elsewhere.

But... I'll agree it's not worthless. It just strongly depends on the type of data you want to collect. For impressions and onboarding, it's a different story. Here's the goal of this study:

> NYPL regularly surveys its patrons to understand and improve how the Library fits into—and adds value to—their lives. We strive to identify the unique power of public libraries, pinpointing precise mechanisms of positive impact, so that we can preserve and strengthen that impact.
An interesting game like this is Space Hulk (2013).

A great game imho. Perfectly true to the board game and fun to play. Some negative reviews due to being a digital board game but it’s right up my alley personally.

I bought it on steam back then. Still installable and runs but you can’t buy it anymore as the license expired. In fact you can’t easily obtain this at all now. The owners couldn’t give it away even if they wanted to.

https://delistedgames.com/space-hulk-2013/
Same! I love that it is so snappy and fast, and don't choke on larger files. I use it for all of my non-programming note taking. I also hope it don't turn into a IDE.
I don't know about 1-4 and 5 seems an honest mistake.

Is there a source for the misleading GPU count? Dario cites Dylan Patel, and pt 4 cites Alexander Wang, but these are just claims so far.

As far as censorship regarding Chinese history, does it matter? The other models have other areas that are censored. Is anyone planning to use LLMs to look up historical facts anyway?

Stealing IP? That's rich coming from AI companies that mined the entire public internet. Did they get permissions from copyright holders in every instance?

And if DeepSeek did evade particular US sanctions whose only justification seems to be to prop up US's economic hegemony over the rest of the world (unlike sanctions against weapons, invasions and human rights violations), then good for them.
However, 99% of fly ash is captured in electrostatic precipitators and filters. Calculations that include the radionuclides in the captured ash are not being honest.
Because you can download the models yourself and run them on your own hardware bypassing all of those concerns. Also, I would be far more worried what my government might do with my chat logs then a foreign one.
Would any smaller of a company had the funds to acquihire an entire darpa challenge team and have them seemingly fruitlessly work on autonomous driving for over 10 years? We have already seen what happens when the parent company is any less patient and deep pocketed, with cruise and GM.
Jesus Christ people!

If you stole my wallet because someone else stole your wallet it DOSE NOT MAKE IT OK.

Stealing is stealing. Stop excusing it.
And with dmypy (included with myoy) it’s even faster
Of course, but who's talking about today's tools? They're definitely not able to act like an independent, competent development team. Yet. But if we limit ourselves to the here-and-now, we might be like people talking about GPT3 five years ago: "yes it does spit out a few lines of code, which sometimes even compiles. When it doesn't forget half way and starts talking about unicorns".

We're talking about the tools of tomorrow, which, judging by the extremely rapid progress, I think is only a few (3-5) years away.

Anyway, I had great experiences with Claude and DeepSeek.
Here’s the underlying source:
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-co...

It’s still not very clear in breaking down the cost, but I suspect it has to do with increasing amounts of violent incidents and related tort claims. That increase is a broader pattern across the NYC Department of Corrections, with per capita assaults on staff quintupling over 10 years:

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/nyc-department-of-correc...
After Google Pixel 3 Google went really anti consumer in so many fronts that switching out of it was a no brainer and while you can be tempted by the latest shiny, their level of contempt for their core customers just keeps surfacing. They're too big to care and will keep doing it until people vote with their wallets en masse, for a sufficient amount of time.
It’s better to get those bad essays out in the form of comments, you get instant feedback and you’ll know what works and what doesn’t work when you go to write a real blog.
This post is about the service, not the model(s).
I've been running vscodium for a couple of years now, and they rip out the MS specific stuff so no ChatGPT and so forth. I haven't noticed any slowdowns.

Maybe give it a try? https://vscodium.com/
> casual racism

Yeah, casual racism calling out china on stealing every ip out there as its sanctioned by their own government.

Peak of racism.
I'm writing this comment for people who are looking for answers with a search engine, AI or the like:

Yes - as of 2025 - this application works and lets you AirPlay videos from your Mac to your god damned Roku.
> Keep in mind that even if it looks good and performs well on the Switch, that doesn't excuse degrading the performance for the original customer base on the original release platform

Agreed. I think I was more wondering aloud about how they could make the Switch, of all platforms, run well and then also have the older ones degrade. Only that last part forgot to leave my inside voice.

As far as graphics, its one of the better looking Switch games imo--but it's still Switch. I did briefly open the game up on an old Xbox one after hours of updating and the game there looked much better than Switch, but since the save was from 2018 or something, my Freighter had new random walls blocking passage ways and rooms. It was mostly useless. I didn't want to start over so that was the end of that experiment.
Ask HN: What Became of Philip Gage, 1994 – Byte Pair Encoding?
http://www.pennelynn.com/Documents/CUJ/HTML/94HTML/19940045.HTM

I was reviewing byte pair encoding literature and was curious
The initial claim was that distillation can never be used to create a model B that's smarter than model A, because B only has access to A's knowledge. The argument you're responding to was that play and reflection can result in improvements without any additional knowledge, so it is possible for distillation to work as a starting point to create a model B that is smarter than model A, with no new data except model A's outputs and then model B's outputs. This refutes the initial claim. It is not important for distillation alone to be enough, if it can be made to be enough with a few extra steps afterward.
Forgive my naivete, but do we really have the precision measurements and kT payload calibration needed to alter an asteroid's trajectory and speed to the point that we can target specific (even very large) country landmasses as the Earth's rotation exposes them to the oncoming projectile?
Their models are open weights, and they are supported in ollama. You can run locally if you have sufficient hardware.
Pretty sure gamers are mentioned because those are the usual demo that has GPUs with enough memory outside of people in the ML industry.
> Between their alleged 50,000 H100 GPUs

I'm sure you were just mislead by all the people including Anthropic's Dario parroting this claim, but even Dario already said he was wrong to say that and semi analysis already clarified it was a misunderstanding of their claim, which was 50,000 H series, not 50,000 H100.