skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turmeric and cinnamon are both notorious for lead contamination.

In many locations it's legal to sell consumables that have disgustingly high ppm of heavy metals as long as the recommended daily dose is small so that the absolute amount of heavy metals stays below a fixed threshold. Also many companies just flagrantly violate the regulatory levels.

Getting clean turmeric extract is possible by knowing which brand to trust. Natural Factors is trustworthy, they are transparent with heavy metal testing and have third-party validation in academic studies and by consumerlab.com. But even if it's clean, you would still need to manage this risk: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548561

For cinnamon, avoiding coumarin is possible by making sure it's ceylon cinnamon. But I don't know of any brand selling ceylon cinnamon that I would also trust to have low heavy metal levels. The intersection of reliable brands and ceylon cinnamon sellers is a very sparse set.
> with no risk of (nuclear) retaliation

Putin doesn't know that. Putin doesn't know quite what the repercussions would be. That's why he hasn't used them so far.
Like citizen rights?
It's jarring to my system. I like the natural progression of the seasons.

> and just coordinate it

I have never heard that argument before. Why does it need to be coordinated instead of a personal choice?
I picked up an Acer aspire one on clearance for a low price.

I added 4gb of ram to it and an SSD and it's ok for light loads.

It uses some AMD processor that has no cache or something ridiculous. C-50 Or C-52?

It also has a sticker for "HD Internet".
This is actually a thing I wish existed, but I don't have time and energy to make it right now. I'd pay $25 a month or more.

Basically it's an application that lets you do self-experiments like this, properly blinded and with good statistics. A challenge-dechallenge-rechallenge study is one of the ones I like, but if you want to do one you essentially have to design the study anew each time, and it would be convenient to run multiple at once if that's possible.

I'm not interested in generalizing, I just want to know if (for example) taking Vitamin D every day at 1000 iu is enough, or whether I should be taking more or less. I can get labs done on this, of course, but again I'm more interested in subjective wellbeing than blood levels beyond avoiding deficiency or hypervitaminosis.

Maybe such an app exists and I simply don't know about it.
Tolkien himself said to beware allegorical readings. He said had he sought allegory, by book III the rings of power would have been seized for good or ill, and the Hobbits discarded as irrelevant or enslaved. Likewise the palentir (!)

Tolkien also faced extensive criticism from Christians for a non catholic fictive world, something he easily disregarded as trite. He was a loyal devout catholic in every respect.

His biography by Humphrey Carpenter goes into all this.

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography, 1977
Incidentally, credit card marketing focused on international usage in my childhood (Europe in the 80s and 90s). There was little need for a credit card in your daily life, as cash and debit cards were cheaper and/or more convenient. But when you traveled internationally, you either had to carry large amounts of cash or some weird stuff such as travelers cheques, which were all inconvenient to convert to the local currency. But if you had a credit card, you could simply withdraw cash with a very competitive exchange rate.
I think I agree although, great design also pushes things forward in a thoughtful and intuitive way.
How he sets up "Minge drinking" is a very good example.
I want GPT 5 the way nopixel streamers play it
Welcome to OUR country. If you see your neighbour destroy their home, would you invite them to live with you?
Fit in or F-off !
Seems perfectly apt to me. Javascript/CSS are also no solution at all on mobile devices.
Everything surrounding immigration is a giant gaping hole in the Constitution. The gestapo stops people up to 100 miles from the border, with no probable cause or articulated suspicion that they are even non citizens. Systematically. CBP holds even citizens for basically as long as they like ( yes technically there is some vague directive it be speedy but I can tell you first hand if you ask for a lawyer they'll tell you to get fucked; they take your communication devices too, you have no way to object or record it for evidence).

I think most people don't know HSI is practically as big(ger?) as the FBI, they and CBP goons served as a sort of presidential army rolling into places like Portland taking people in unmarked vans [0].

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...
Smart is when you extract billions but deliver nothing of value.
It's not the first and it won't be the last. Remember the inklings used to groan when he wanted to read another chapter. So even in drafting his friends were agin him.

Lewis wanted beer and belches. Strange how his own sermonising is so boring.
I manage to keep a pretty diverse set of topics.

Right now my homepage seems to be

- construction/DIY videos (Perkins, B1M, Megaprojects, Matt Risinger, NS Builders)

- video game dev (blackthornprod)

- "indie game of the day" channels (Aliensrock, Nialus)

- military videos (Battleship New Jersey, Ryan McBeth)

- freerunning / urban exploration (STORRER)

- movie & tv analysis / commentary (Frame Voyager, Corridor Crew, New Rockstars)

- chess (agagmotor, Magnus)

- Minecraft (Mumbo Jumbo)

- random documentaries (fern, Stewert Hicks, Half as Interesting)

- egypt / pyramids (History for GRANITE)

- science / engineering (Adam Savage, Colin Fruze, Applied Engineering)

- coding (Tsoding)

From just a quick scan of the topics / channels.
You're a scammer anyway, published author, techie, on centrelink? You are a grub mate!
You’re right that it has to cite a legal reason. It happens that one of those legal reasons is endorsing or espousing the views of entities designated by the US as terrorists[1].

But again, I cannot emphasize enough how much all of this is pretextual: the people doing this don’t give a damn about Hamas, or anti-Semitism, or anything else. It’s about deporting people, full stop.

[1]: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-inf...
At this point you are being disingenuous. Actually read comments if you are going to reply to them. The specifics of financing oil and gas are called out...It's not nonsense, but it's based on financial theory so elementary it's taught in the first couple weeks of 101.

10% of financial and economic theory (at most...) powers 99% of financial services. People (like me..) take entire degrees in this stuff and one class would have more than sufficed. That is absolutely not true in computer science, for example.
The voices with Chinese origin when generated as English samples do sound like a Chinese person speaking English. It is very interesting.
It's OK not to like things and it's OK to change your mind. I didn't like discworld and I changed my mind. It's also OK not to read things. I've never finished Ulysses or seen the point of Finnigans wake or Buddenbrooks or heaps of other great works.

I love Mansfield Park. My partner hates it. Even in Austen you can pick and chose which bit of ivory to pick up.
So basically compilers, and optimizations inside CPUs, will keep aggressively optimizing code to create the the vulnerability.

Perhaps this indicates a missing concept in our compilation and execution of code, metadata that demands a section is not optimized.
I have the oddest type of “poor vision”. Some of it is out of focus, yes, but no matter how precise the prescription, I have a “too many sharp+clear edges” problem.

Look at the number 0, like the zero on a speed sign that says “60 km/h”, what do you see? Likely two sharp ovals, with a pigment between them, making the shape of a zero. If you have trouble seeing it, it’s likely because your eyesight is poor and it’s blurry.

Well, I see sharp ovals. I just don’t see only two sharp ovals. I see dozens of fragments of those two ovals, both on the interior as well as the exterior. Those fragments are razor-clear and razor-sharp with a good prescription, but the smaller the zero is, the closer these fragments intrude on each other, and the harder it is to make out that zero as a zero.

Plus, when something like a speed sign gets small enough (enough distance, in terms of speed signs), I even get a distortion of the overall number - a zero starts looking like an egg balanced on its pointy end. It is fatter at the top than it is at the bottom.

This gets immeasurably worse with more complicated glyphs, like a 6 or an R. All those extra sharp-clear edges make them look like other things, like an 8 or a B.

Now, these “fragments” are kind of like looking through an insect eye at the same time as looking through a human eye. I see a part of the glyph that is clear and sharp, which then fades out around a roughly-circular distance from the place of maximum sharpness like it’s a mirage. And these cluster together such that they overlap, and also hover over the “master image” that my eye sees. So I am seeing the same part of that edge multiple times.

For example, if I look at the letter T, I can see the top corner of the left arm multiple times, both as a part of the full image of the T as well as multiple fragment overlays. If I choose a T that has the right contrast, the right thickness, great clarity and the right sizing, I can easily count how many replications of any one point are visible. Even for a precise point like the top left corner of a sans-serif uppercase T, it can be anywhere from 3-5 replicated corners. Teeny-tiny replicated fragments, and clustered tightly around that area, but multiple copies that can dramatically confuse the image and make the letter look like something else.

And this problem is in both eyes, pretty much equally. I take the glasses off, and so long as the text is close enough (I’m nearsighted), it happens without glasses equally severely.
Wow hackernews is literally blocking anyone who posts that link..

Try change .org

/p/declassify-elon-musk-s-space-based-weapons-program-before-biden-leaves-the-white-house
If I cared that much, I would have gotten a console.

This is like getting a hypercar and then getting surprised about not being able to drive over the speed bumps that has been in your steet for years.
This post sounds like it wants to be a manifesto but really doesn't add up to much and lacks punch.

Getting away from the algos is untenable if you use the mainstream internet in any capacity. The trick is to be more intentional about gaming them to your advantage. My feeds usually surface things I value because I am deliberate about what signals I reinforce. I don't engage with content that outrages or upsets me, so it doesn't show me it. Some people are rage addicts and want to get into a doom loop because it fulfills their psychological sense of certainty that things will only get worse. Other people are ignorant of the algorithms and how they work so they never realize it is presenting a distorted picture.

Having varied pipelines for information intake is important too. Forums like this that are non-algorithmic, doing your own searches, visiting websites you like directly, all of this lends itself to that end. No need to go luddite if you like your internet things. Just be conscious of consumption.
Levels is a programmer though; if you have the patience you can make software like that; you might have to be very precise telling it what to fix when it's stuck and cannot fix it itself, which is then just basically voice coding. Typing is much faster and less frustrating, but you can do it; a non programmer would not be able to though.
Is it just me, or is it really annoying to have to move your eyes down and to the right to see your speed? I assume people just get used to it over time.
There is we just kill the violent people...
The “resetable” aspect seems to be a crucial part of true “time-lock” encryption… rather than what feels like a “proof of work” mode where an amount of computation stands in as a proxy for “time elapsed”. But regardless of how good a proxy it is, “time-elapsed” is not really what we want - we don’t want a lock that takes “at least n seconds of effort to open”, we want a lock that will not open before a timestamp.

It feels like a true time-lock solution should be impossible to unlock before a particular date, but trivial afterwards, rather than assuming the opener started work on it at the moment it was released and has been burning cycles at some maximal rate since then.

I don’t think the universe contains unfakeable timestamps, which seem to be a requirement for that true solution - it feels like it’s not compatible with relativity, so maybe proxies are the best we can do on a fundamental level.
I think you could make Garnet work as a library. Or, at the very least, use FASTER/Tsavorite KV for that instead.
One is pixels on a screen and the other is bullets in your torso. Can you explain how that's apt?

But yeah, I do apologize for trying to offer solutions, as they are not perfect.

(Pretty sure uBlock works mobile too, but that's irrelevant)
Make 2025 the year of not reading At Swim-Two-Birds !!
Increasingly hard to get Mg tablets without Vitamin B and so increasingly easy to get excess B12. Australian formulations of magnesium sold by Swisse don't have B. The same branding in HK does. I wrote to them about it, interesting response: "check the therapeutic goods administration site for canonical ingredients we don't commit to labelling the jar" they do list the neutral filler and Mg they just don't say "no B12"

B is typically included for synergistic uptake reasons I believe.

Excess B12 is really bad. Neuropathy. Considering you take Mg to get rid of muscle cramps (pain, conducted by nerves), a bit ironic. It's increasingly common in Australia now.

Excess Mg is unlikely. I think the body chucks it out in Urine pretty rapidly. I still take it, the cramps after sport return within a few months when I stop. I have a fruit and veg rich diet, I get plenty of natural Mg and K which is also good for muscle cramps. Age related insufficiency I suspect (63) malabsorption comes with age.
While not exactly the same https://examine.com/ is doing this sort business and seems to be popular. They aggregate and meta analyze research for pills like L-Theanine and people pay $30/month to access it

https://examine.com/supplements/theanine/?show_conditions=tr...
This is not what this word means.
The problem with that is that once the authors upload their manuscript online, the peer reviewers can trivially unblind themselves if they choose to.
I believe exponential (as opposed to logarithmic) advancement would be needed for that to happen.

If the improvement curve is linear, it would be prohibitively expensive as and if logarithmic, it’d be impossible.
When I think about LLMs reaching their peak at writing code, I can't help but think they will be writing hyper optimized code that will squeeze every last bit of processing power available to them.

I use these tools to get help here and there with tiny code snippets. So far I have not been suggested anything finely optimised. I guess it's because a greater chunk they were trained on isn't optimised for performance.

Does anyone know if any current LLMs can generate super optimised code (even assembly language) ? I don't think so. Doesn't feel we are going to have more intelligent machines than us in future if they full of slop.
Sure I’ll cede that storing nothing is safer. Yes an _authenticator_ is stored implicit in the MAC of the ciphertext holding the vault key, so in a way a key stretched version of the master password is validated. So with both a secret key and vault key wrapped ciphertext you can launch an offline attack.

But the keylogger or malware argument is a lazy one tbh, not only does it affect your secret heuristic as any input password is affected, basically no software can be guaranteed to be safe from malware or keylogger except maybe that running in something like a Secure Enclave or if your OS supports secure entry on certain fields (1P on Mac does this). If you’re in that position you got bigger things to worry about anyway.

But anyways it all depends on implementation as I said. 1P also supports passkey unlock eradicating the need for the master password (secret key stays), so you can still have the security you desire, particularly if you use a FIDO2 security key like a yubikey.
Words evolve with time and usage. If someone said they were gonna send you a mail, would you expect an actual paper letter or an email?
On top of that, the slider isn't backlit, right?
Zero recourse other than using another browser or and/or another search engine.

Why bother having a discussion when you use “zero recourse” here. It comes off as totally absurd.
This is a law that says you can’t harm another person, not necessarily that you can’t be unhealthy.
Correct. HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369

Not a vulnerability in the way that Tarlogic makes it sound. Disingenuous and misleading article for sure.
It's a manga/hentai trope. Pornography has latched onto it but it's not pornographic in nature. You really need to know the context to know it's meant in an erotic way, otherwise it's just a contorted face.
The doj should split up more of big tech. The industry is stagnating and allowing a more healthy competition would do wonders.
The "opinion of economists" is why we'll be paying $1T+ in interest on our debt this year, and why we print $2T a year and haven't balanced the budget in well over two decades. I have kids. I'm not going to saddle them with crippling debt to provide circumcision in Zimbabwe or to replace the Taliban with better armed Taliban.
> I’ve long found that tea makes me much less nervous than coffee, even with equal caffeine. Many people have suggested theanine as the explanation, but I’m skeptical. Most tea only has ~5 mg of theanine per cup, while when people supplement, they take 100-400 mg. Apparently grassy shade-grown Japanese teas are particularly high in theanine. And I do find those teas particularly calming. But they still only manage ~25 mg per cup

It's not uncommon for a substance to have different, even opposite effects at different doses. For example high dose melatonin can keep you up, and stress you out, whereas in most people you only need up to 1 mg to promote sleep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
you want a service to: mail out a 30-pack of daily pills, there's an app where you record your mood/whatever, and then at the end of it, reveal which days were VitD and which was collagen?

how much would you pay for this?
Why would Chrome not being a part of Google mean the world would lack a free, high-quality browser?

Is Safari low quality? Is Firefox not free?

What about Edge and all the other browsers that run based on Chromium?

More competition would be better.
I suppose then we could treat as some kind of public good and fund its development directly from our tax dollars?
One of the primary functions of time keeping is coordination between people.
The fact that nobody currently exerts their personal preference to not observe daylight savings time would indicate that the social forces overrule individual preference in this domain.
Most of social media and most of real life have absolutely insane takes on health-related stuff. Ask someone at random about, say, keto, and you're pretty much guaranteed to get an opinion without any data behind it.

I think that part of this is because the effect sizes are so small. Grabbing some arbitrary sources, if you look at the average disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost to colorectal cancer as a result of red meat consumption in France[0] and put them into per-person terms, it averages out to a grand total of...less than 2 hours per person (presumably other causes also contribute). Meanwhile, for alcohol consumption and everything it causes, the average Australian is losing a little under 20 hours (and I assume most of HN lives in a country where this is similar).

These are pretty small numbers! I'm honestly not sure whether it's even worth worrying about them. No wonder people have trouble telling what's true in a field where many of the papers and most of the personal experience is just noise in the data.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02786...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption
I really liked the rotary knob control in my Mazda 6. It sounds like it is very similar to BMW's iDrive. You still had a touchscreen with menus but you could use either one very effectively. I think the key for either more physical buttons or virtual control like that is to allow the user to make these changes by feel without having to look away from where you are driving.
Reporter asks random people "what is a browser?" (2009) [video]
> Samsung internet is the default for Samsung devices (which constitute the majority of Android devices in the west)

I have a Samsung Galaxy S23 and it came with both Chrome and "Internet" which I guess is the Samsung one. I don't remember which was default or if it asked the first time something tried to open a webpage, but I didn't even notice the Samsung one was on here and I'd guess the Chrome brand name wins out for most people if it asks...
fix the mcdonalds soft serve machines
the further north a person lives, the more likely they are to think the time change is helpful
> This is very naive. How many different APIs have you authenticated with and connected to? Just the big ones?

I mean, a lot? I have multiple times felt like that was my entire life for weeks or months on end during the past over three decades of doing software development...

(If we expand the scope a bit to network protocols, as opposed to just "APIs", I was even the person who first spiked nmap's protocol scanning and detection logic.)

To wit, I am one of those people who pretty much never use an SDK provided for an API: if I have to, I will rather reverse engineer the protocol using a disassembler.

(This then being part of why I've won millions of dollars in bug bounties, as part of my relentless drive to always operate at the lowest level presented to me.)

But, regardless, can we move past trying to attack my credibility on software, and shift back to more productive forms of analysis? (Why did this become so personal?!)

> What happens when the docs are wrong or incomplete?

If we posit that the documentation for the API is wrong, so we should this MCP description / wrapper, as both were written by the humans charged to enable this function.

And, of course, the real point is whether the task is easier than the thing we are trying to do... even writing a correct tree map is much harder than an API client.

^ Both of these arguments can be made by someone who doesn't even do software development, helping us try to understand why MCP is being hyped up as a new paradigm.
> What's the mechanistic model of "intention" that you're using to claim that there is no intention in the model's operation?

You can’t prove intention, but I can show examples of LLMs lacking intent (as when repeating the same solution even after being told it was incorrect)

> Generating text is the trace of an internal process in an LLM.

Not really sure precisely what you mean by trace, but the output from an LLM (as with any statistical model) is the result of the calculations, not a representation of some emergent internal state.
How did it take this long. I was a regular reader of Car and Driver magazine from 2002 to 2006 when I was in high school (in a Detroit suburb) and I remember them absolutely dragging the BMW iDrive system that eliminated a ton of physical controls and took the driver's attention off the road. I've kept my 2010 car largely to avoid getting a system without knobs and buttons that I can learn and use without looking.

I don't know how any auto designer could both regularly drive a car and not immediately reject the idea of eliminating physical controls for wipers/lights/temp control/sound system.