skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I barely think the risks have been stated at all. They found a correlation between high levels of microplastics in the brain and dementia. There is a correlation between a bunch of things and dementia. I expect there is a correlation between good health and dementia, unhealthy people would tend to die off young without the time to fall apart mentally.
Fires can solve that.
It's hard to see and distinguish what text is a link on this page.
> Satisfying the first assumption means "still monotonic".

Sorry, but I just don't agree. There are "qualifying tests" for jobs that I've done that just do not have any sort of monotonic relationship with job performance. I'm a firefighter (volunteer) - to become operational you need to be certified as either FF I or FF II, but neither of those provide anything more than a "yes, this person can learn the basic stuff required to do this". The question of how good a firefighter someone will be is almost orthogonal to their performance on the certification exams. Someone who gets 95% on their IFSAC FF II exam is in no way predicted to be a better firefighter than someone who got 78%.
What I still don’t understand is how one slurps out an entire model (closed source) though.

Does the deepseek paper actually say what model it’s trained off of, or do they claim the entire thing is from scratch?
So without the two-lang problem, I think all of these low-level optimization efforts across dataframes, tensors, and distributed computing would be part of a unified ecosystem based on shared compatibility.

For example, the reason why numfocus is so great is that everything was designed to work with numpy as its underlying data structure.
Lots of CVD events happen before the age of 70.

This study has done nothing to remove survivorship bias.

That in itself makes the study results contradictory.

If, for example, we assume egg consumption increases the risk of CVD, as other studies have shown, then if you’re someone who made it to the age of 70 while still consuming eggs you’re likely to be someone whose other factors, such as genetics or the rest of your diet, or your stress levels makes you less likely to get CVD. Even in that case, given a sufficient number of CVD related mortality events before the age of 70, this study would still show a negative correlation between egg consumption and CVD events on those over the age of 70.

A further issue is that people who stop eating eggs completely are very likely to have done so for health reasons. In that sense, this study is very similar to the studies showing a slight health benefit to drinking 1-2 glasses of wine daily as opposed to not drinking at all. Once you account for the fact that the reason most of the non drinkers are non drinkers is because of bad health outcomes in the past in the first place, the wine drinking benefit disappears, and you get back to the positive correlation between alcohol consumption and ill health.
It is scary that one platform has so much control over people's lives. If LinkedIn were to ban me for whatever reason tomorrow, finding a job would become virtually impossible.
Workday cuts nearly 2k employees
This is a good thought process.

I’m hauling my ass to the gym 7 days a week, just to build consistency and make it part of my life.

Does that mean I push hard 7 days? No! I do intense weights 3 times a week, accessories 2 times a week, and cardio and Pilates 2 times a week.

The other day I was borked from work, so I just did a very light 30 minute bike ride.

It was enough to feel good and feel on track.

Just a side note: there is a lot of time in a day, once you reduce social media usage and information gathering, you have loads of time, especially if you’re young and single and childless. Make the most of it :)
You can have really very good quality of life in remote areas. You just might die before you get help if you have a heart attack or something. But the rest of the time it's great!
The next update to my player is going to support Opus. It would be nice if it was better supported by the OS though.

https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
Nah, what we are seeing is that they just leave the site, and the site becomes more radicalized overall.

Banning the_donald was the beginning of the end for Reddit, at least as far as balanced discourse went. At that time, the r/all was relatively balanced and you'd see major news stories from both POVs.

Now it's a hysterical echo chamber full of thinly veiled death threats towards the sitting president.

Disclaimer: I have money invested in RDDT.
"The email further instructs NMFS employees—responsible for promoting the conservation of sealife and sustainability of America’s seafood sources—to submit details of any ongoing work with international partners for vetting by higher-ups, including those at the US Department of Commerce (DOC), NOAA’s umbrella agency."

I'm curious what the maritime group has to do directly with climate change initiatives. It seems like there is a lot of other organizations within NOAA that would be more on point.
And the weather does not care about farmers either.

It is obviously a completely unfinished thought.

But something about humans innate tendency to self-organise into tribes and villages.
I guarantee Trump and his sycophants will just turn around and say they were lazy bums who wanted to get paid to do nothing, and the fact that this option was presented in the form of an early retirement offer will make exactly no difference.

You've gotta understand the dynamics of social media information warfare. Loyalty trumps any other considerations like factuality or consistency, people will denounce tomorrow what they championed today if need be. I've seen some pro posters who post contradictory responses to Trump or Musk statements and then just delete whichever one gets less positive engagement.
Or just quote the guidelines

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

And

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
Do I consume drinks? No, except water and instant coffee, no soda, no beer. Meat? Yes in small quantities and much of it comes from the local environment. I grow most of my own produce, with RO water.

Yes they are unavoidable, just the plastic containers etc probably give some and I do eat candies and imported bananas and bread etc. But pretty sure I get a lot lower dose than most people.

However I'm not sure it matters that much until a mechanism of actual damage is established.
From the first instance:

> That sounds illegal

> There is a simple dictionary difference between "legal" and "illegal.

This is kind of response is a repeat of exactly what I have described.

Again, "illegal" was used in context to mean something else. ie The damage will be remedied...which it cannot fully be, nor is it likely to be. Sampling conversations going forward from that, is where the thread has been allowed to be unraveled.

Elevating the original statement to be more than what it meant in context, is irrelevant. Posters are continually choosing new (eg dictionary!) interpretations of the sentiment at every turn.
Is this through Elon's doing? A former Twitter employee could point that way.

I honestly don't get that if it is; guy's money is based on the Hoover-heads in Lower Manhattan buying into the idea that his EV/solar/battery company is worth more than the rest of the auto industry combined. That's more likely to be true if people think they're the solution to the climate crisis.

Then again, it might not be, and even if it is, Musk seems further detached from reality, so shrugs
Yes, thank you. I mistyped. Will fix.
Sorry to hear about your leg! When they said “80 year old bones” is that just due to the reduced usage from the broken ankle? Or something more?

I feel like my bone density must’ve decreased over the years from arthritis (diagnosed at ~ 25) - less usage of the legs, less bone density. But getting back into it now, and have found a happy middle ground where I can still be pretty active and not in the pain. Cycling is the way to go, and many shorter walks more often
Here's a strawman: White people are more likely to diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). If people with ASD are more likely to opt for CS degrees, by induction we'll have more white people in CS.
Biased here (it was my first language period), but I agree. Simple addressing modes. Getting started with x86 seems like it would warp the thinking a little bit, you can always pick its peculiarities up later.

Having worked with the 6809 series as well, it wouldn't be a bad choice either. The Freescale 68HC12 is still in production.
Little systems with limited-yet-real I/O give the programmer very useful feedback.
how would they know what to cache? the response headers from the server are encrypted. there is maybe the high end l3 protection available if you have the resources. the free tier has caching bundled.

Also, how would their certificates work if they don’t see content?
Or plant fiber. You eat enormous amounts of this stuff that you can't break down.
> 2:1 men to woman is a far better ratio than what most people claim (5:1 is usually thrown around with no evidence).

Hah, check out this claim 3 women to every 2 men. Of course there's no mention of what site/app it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059778
> constant lying

Selective truth is far more effective, and more common, propaganda. Not in omitting important context from a story, but by omitting or burying (or simply never seeking out) entirely stories you don't want heard, and emphasizing stories you do want heard. In essence, holding up a funhouse mirror to society.

This is the propaganda you get when all your reporters think they are being honest and uncensored, but they all deeply care about the same set of issues, and are deeply ambivalent about another set.
fov is 99% of motion sickness for me too. thanks to all the games that allow fov adjustment, even if it is indirectly like in a config file.
> The term refers to a controversial practice where crypto companies and other businesses have been cut off from banking services, allegedly due to pressure from federal regulators.

That tends to happen when your core business fundamentally enables money laundering.
> So if you're worried about packages coming from AliExpress, you probably shouldn't be. The last several packages I ordered were shipped USPS with an origin of the US. Los Angeles was the origin of the last one I received with AliExpress Choice(tm).

Look closer at that shipping label, you'll probably see another one underneath it that is the original one. Just after clearing customs, packages are moved to this consolidation warehouse which is where your "LA Origin" label comes from. If you initiate a return, it's likely that you'll also ship your item back to another LA location.

It's the package/logistics equivalent of a reverse proxy or mux/de-mux step.
I did address their point. The tendency with climate change, micro plastics, etc. is to deny, deny, deny, until it is too late. Perhaps we should err on the side of caution. In this situation its much better to err on the side of being overly cautious.

Experts wrote the research paper. Until otherwise demonstrated I will give them, the experts, the most generous interpretation per site guidelines. The experts addressed the concern by OP but OP calls it “brushing off”.

People can nitpick anything. The question remains, just how much microplastics are OK? If the answer is small then the study has merits despites its alleged issues.
I was really surprised to hear this because I feel the exact opposite! I've worked mainly with project managers who ran all the ceremonies, held people accountable, dealt with planning and doling out tasks, handled stakeholders and generally protected the devs from distractions, and took real leadership and accountability in the project.

Whenever I've worked on a team where a developer is the team lead and has to do all that stuff on top of coding- or worse, it's just a free for all with no leader- , things in my experience go much worse, communication breaks down, and things slip through the cracks.
Or one could just mandate that tires contain only biodegradable ingredients. That seems an inevitable step since wheel isn't going away no matter what the level of public transportation is. Some public transit, like busses and some subways, use rubber tires today.
People want lots of things to be cheap but that doesn’t mean it’s sustainable. Here in the mid-Atlantic we’ve seen the same thing others mention: the local, non-factory farms prices haven’t changed in years but the supermarket stuff went from being cheaper to more expensive.

The theory that optimizing for the lowest price might other negative effects isn’t exactly novel: we’ve seen that in many other areas, and if you’ve ever been anywhere near a factory farm it’s enough to put you off of eating eggs.
I think he is saying she is a SpaceX employee, and was doing well at her job but working a lot.
> In make shell one would routinely call rm, sed, find... should they be included too?

If you want to use it as a build tool, yes. The most successful build tools build hermetically, with the build definition specifying the versions of anything and everything that is needed to perform the build. (With Maven you even specify e.g. what version of the Java compiler to use, and it will download and use that version).

> So instead of make including a shell, it would be simpler if busybox included a make.

Can busybox be used portably from e.g. a user's homedir? I've only ever seen it used as the main system in /bin etc..
Depends on what you consider "in or near".

I live "in" a major American city. Well, a reasonably major Midwestern city. It's roughly a third the size of Rhode Island. It has half a million people in it.
Do you actually have a need to flee or are you thinking this sort of planning will be a fun hobby?
Google should release the weights under a MIT license like Deepseek.
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1256822&hilit=mt32%20...

looks spicy but almost a year old, maybe the guy continued to harass.
from the horse's mouth:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
What I am saying is that too many people don’t understand how many people in the US think Trump can do no wrong and how many don’t care about what happens to people who don’t look like them at best and have active animosity at worse. It’s even worse, many people don’t care about what happens to people who do look like them and make $1/hour less than they do.

Do you think most Trump supporters care about what happens to Palestinians? Everyone who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were getting.
This isn't really true unfortunately -- mixture of experts routing seems to suffer from batch non-determinism. No one has stated publicly exactly why this is, but you can easily replicate the behavior yourself or find bug reports / discussion with a bit of searching. The outcome and observed behavior of the major closed-weight LLM APIs is that a temperature of zero no longer corresponds to deterministic greedy sampling.
Oh please. Posts from /r/conservative show up in /r/popular all the time, and it remains a hotbed of conspiracy theorists, grifters, and old fashioned racists.
That is NOT what the first study you've cited says at all:

> "The empirically-keyed, response-option scored biodata scale demonstrated incremental validity over the computerized aptitude test battery in predicting scores representing the core technical skills of en route controllers."

I.e the aptitude test battery is WORSE than the biodata scale.

The second citation you offered merely notes that the AT-SAT battery is a better predictor than the older OPM battery, not that is the best.

I'd also say at a higher level that both of those papers absolutely reek of non-reproduceability and low N problems that plague social and psychological research. I'm not saying they're wrong. They are just not obviously definitive.
Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era
We have additional data sources which openbb doesn't have also terminal has realtime updating UI which openbb doesn't offer in its cli version.. basically aim is to extend the support for more libraries and data sources for analysis with realtime updating UI on terminal itself
Check again, Elon and his Doge team killed that.
Doesn't the budget to pay these people already exist? They are current employees, after all. Their terminations will still shrink the budget, just not as soon as a termination without a severance package.

Maybe there are some legal differences in offering what would otherwise be wages as a lump-sum payment, but the budget for those wages already exists (else they could not be employed).
True. The rule of law died on Jan 20. Musk is likely doing a lot of things that are strictly illegal, but it seems quite likely that Trump has assured him he has his back with pardons if need be. Also, Trump controls federal law enforcement agencies that have likely been told to look the other way. The only legal vulnerability would be at the state level and they're not doing things there.
The audio codecs in use on Discord are exponentially more CPU-intensive than what was used on MSN back then, and there's no GPU offloading.
They don't. You now subscribe to Copilot 365 or whatever the hell Office is called today for the low, low price of $12.99 per month for the rest of your life.
Here’s a video of the expedition:

https://youtu.be/Jd2CdraSqt0?si=7xcYlM_GH4-1uw_k

His channel has lots of other amazing videos documenting creatures, mostly cold blooded. The level of knowledge imparted is very high, not just another wildlife show. Definitely worth watching.
That rides on the assumption that there's considerable sympathy for them solely for the reason of checks coming from the same source.

Having spent most of my life surrounded by military dudes, they support other military dudes. But they very much do not support anybody in DC.
I have seen Gemini hallucinate ridiculous bugs in a file that had less than 1000 LOC when I was scratching my head over what was wrong. The issue turned out to be that the cbBLAS matrix multiplication functions expected column major indexing while the code expected row major indexing.
Imagine a grocery store that is within a short walking distance, such that you don't need to haul a weeks worth of groceries but can get fresh food every single day.

US supermarkets are massive, take forever to buy small amounts of groceries, and even the walk to and from the car is long.

A better world is possible! (If better grocery stores constitute a "better world")
I have a jclpcb job that finished today :o

2025-02-06 01:52:00 Shipment information received,ZHUJIANG DELTA AREA - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC
Could we connect offline about using Gemini instead of the doc ai custom extractor we currently use in production?

This sounds amazing & I'd love your input on our specific use case.

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Funny you should say this– I'm working on that right now. :-)

I've had a complete Mazda 3 badge set from Fleabay in a drawer in my garage that I ordered when he first started skewing right. I picked those because, if you squint right, it kind of resembles a Mazda 3 (and nobody is going to give it a second thought once they see Mazda badges).

Just downloaded from Thingiverse files for blank wheel center caps for the car and, separately, the Mazda logo. Caps are printing now.

Aiming for stealth rather than activism with the de- and re-badging. Activism is for other venues.
remotely only in france?
Require diversity in the interview pool, not when making hiring decisions.

e.g. in a male majority profession, for every two male applicants selected to interview, select at least one female applicant. But once the candidate pool is established, pick the best available candidate for the job.
Musk has turned Teslas into swasticars. That brand damage is going to be hard to undo.
It isn't unique to the emulator scene by any means, though I'm sure some domains are worse than others. (e.g. due to the amount of interest from unsupervised children, among other factors)

I think it's just simply that there is a tiny percentage of the population that is dysregulated (and a large portion that is dysregulated a tiny part of the time)-- once your project is seen by enough people eventually some of these people cast their interest your way.

The communications mediums we use and prevailing cultures (e.g. see "geek social fallacies") are highly vulnerable to abuse, and a few abusers with axes to grind can easily enlist additional abuse from large mobs particularly where communication is public and durable. As contributors patience wears thin they become more exposed, both due to reduced kindness trigging more abusers and their justified intolerance of abuse looking more unreasonable to outsiders.

For most open source development the incentives to contribute are pretty thin. People do it because they enjoy working with co-contributors, helping out the public, and getting some positive recognition. It doesn't take much to turn that net-negative.

There is some level of attack that probably improves friendships and social cohesion. When it's just one wingnut that shows up on your mailing list the community can nuke them from orbit and everyone (except the wingnut, I suppose) can feel good about it ("Can you believe that guy?" "I know, right?!"). But when the attacks are mild enough that it's not obvious if you should ban them, when they come in with a twitter army, when it just won't stop-- it can really sap the energy out of projects.

I think projects could improve by moving more of their regular workflow to invite-only mediums-- private repositories, issue trackers, etc. If someone wants to complain about your project then they can do it on their own forum, they don't get to use the projects tools as a platform to crap on the project and deprive the contributors of their freedom to ignore the noise.

But I'm not sure, the highly open culture today has advantages in gaining new contributors but even if you're willing to eschew those advantages the change in norms makes that less viable. In 1998 you totally expected to email some patches to the developers of a project then get invited onto their email threads or a private mailing list. Today because the norm is some open github repository it's not clear how many people would be willing to work the old way.
Let's roll forward to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 and leave this unfortunate detour of history already.
As someone who worked on a NIH funded project whose funding wasn’t renewed last fall after 10 years. Those 10 years included a bunch of renewals. NIH projects aren’t zombie and need constant attention. Plus all research done has to be put in the public domain.
No One Knows How to Price AI Tools
I gave up social media for this reason. EVERYTHING is so politicised and agenda-centric on all platforms and news sites.

It was effecting me really badly, to the point that I made the decision to leave the room when the news is playing, switch to a dumb phone, switch to an mp3 player, and get rid of all social media including reddit. So I don’t use a smartphone, and don’t carry it with me day-day.

On my laptop I even went as far as blacklisting all the typical sites.

I’m only 30. It’s very hard when it feels like you’re alone in acting this way. It’s a very isolating life trying to have principals.

I also recently learnt I have adhd, so that may be why I’m so sensitive to it.

But like i say, it’s an isolating feeling.
https://archive.ph/CB8UG
US lawyers get multiple attempts to take the bar exam, as an example. Should they?
I think it's good to want things.