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41,813,000 | comment | IIAOPSW | 2024-10-11T19:52:58 | null | As a point of interest, trains still have these. Though it usually takes the form of a somewhat sporadic alarm and an acknowledgement buzzer. Reaction time to the buzzer somewhat influences the interval of the next one. | null | null | 41,810,680 | 41,809,879 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,001 | comment | memset | 2024-10-11T19:53:01 | null | Nice!<p>Adjacent question: lately I’ve been seeing people implement NFS base filesystems since that is a more widely supported protocol. I think rclone does this for Mac. Is there a guide, or even a comparison, for this approach? | null | null | 41,811,983 | 41,811,983 | null | [
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41,813,002 | comment | pkaye | 2024-10-11T19:53:10 | null | I've used sshfs in the past and I know the original authors stopped maintaining it though others took over. I did find the network error handling wasn't the greatest. Like it would unmount the fuse mount due to network error and I'd be writing files to the local mount directory silently until space filled up. Perhaps its a Linux specific issue or I've used the wrong options though. | null | null | 41,812,796 | 41,811,983 | null | [
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41,813,003 | comment | ragnese | 2024-10-11T19:53:11 | null | Sure, but we saw this coming a mile away (as in, people have been saying this about Chrome for about a decade). People--especially tech nerds--didn't have to switch to the closed source, conflict-of-interest, browser. But, everyone did, and this is what we get for it. We now have proprietary DRM built in to the web standards, and all kinds of other bullshit, because a bunch of people decided to not learn any lessons at all from Microsoft and Internet Explorer.<p>But, every time Mozilla does something <i>slightly</i> abrasive, HN users pile on about how Mozilla is ruining their privacy-respecting reputation, and then go back to using Chrome... The double-standard is really something else.<p>Maybe instead of getting someone else to break up Google for us, we could just... stop using their shit? I'm typing this from Firefox, I use Proton Mail (and pay for it!) for email, and I mostly search with DuckDuckGo (I know that's not perfect, either). I certainly don't <i>feel</i> like I'm living like a caveman...<p>/rant | null | null | 41,812,698 | 41,809,698 | null | [
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41,813,004 | comment | lukev | 2024-10-11T19:53:24 | null | I don't even think that's what this is doing, though. As technologists, the point isn't to be bullish or bearish on LLMs... we should be focused on empirically understanding what they can do, and why, so that we can design systems to leverage them most effectively and work around their areas of weakness.<p>This article is important for that because it helps articulate the limit of what (current) LLMs can do. Even if you're an AI maximalist, it's essential to understand the current areas of weakness to design better models or build systems that compensate. | null | null | 41,812,892 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,005 | comment | w0m | 2024-10-11T19:53:31 | null | 'taxes' is a 4... erm, 5 letter word for some; almost taboo. | null | null | 41,812,059 | 41,811,341 | null | [
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41,813,006 | comment | mrshadowgoose | 2024-10-11T19:53:36 | null | This isn't the revelation you think it is. Chronic medical conditions require lifetime treatment. That isn't news to anyone.<p>It's funny how obesity is the only chronic medical condition that garners a huge volume of your particular kind of comment.<p>Would you be mentioning this for someone prescribed a diabetic, blood pressure or cholesterol medication? Statistically, likely not. So maybe take a step back, and examine why are you so averse to other people losing weight with medication? | null | null | 41,811,814 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,007 | comment | Scoundreller | 2024-10-11T19:53:42 | null | Are they? People spend more on food than pharmaceuticals globally, but I do believe they’re converging. | null | null | 41,812,510 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,008 | comment | dTal | 2024-10-11T19:53:47 | null | Bold to assume that police drive a comfortable 10mph under the speed limit. | null | null | 41,809,382 | 41,807,092 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,009 | comment | lazyeye | 2024-10-11T19:53:48 | null | The writer's post history (all left-leaning)<p><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/jaywillis" rel="nofollow">https://www.fastcompany.com/user/jaywillis</a> | null | null | 41,812,654 | 41,812,654 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,010 | comment | yunwal | 2024-10-11T19:54:02 | null | "chestburster scene" isn't a particularly hard one to figure out | null | null | 41,802,342 | 41,801,300 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,011 | comment | Manuel_D | 2024-10-11T19:54:05 | null | Antartctica has a permanent presence that's totally dependent on regular supplies delivered from other continents. They don't grow their own crops, have their own industry.<p>We couldn't fly until the early 1900s, primarily because we didn't have engines with power to weight ratios sufficient for heavier-than-air flight. The concept of flight via the Bernoulli principle was known for a long time, and when engines improved people did start flying.<p>The lack of atmosphere on Mars largely prohibits any self sufficient colony. Colonies could be limited to pressurized habitats. But again, at that point we might as well focus on colonizing the moon which is much closer. I guess if we have a mechanism to somehow pump mars full of air, colonization would become more feasible. But it's a lot harder to work around the law of conservation of mass, than it is to improve internal combustion engines. No, it's not like people doubting the feasibilityy of heavier-than-air flight. | null | null | 41,812,670 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,012 | comment | anigbrowl | 2024-10-11T19:54:07 | null | Some athletes (especially weightlifters) use Tadalafil, an erectile dysfunction drug, because it also promotes bone density and muscle growth while having few observable side effects. This isn't really surprising, it's basically just a mild vasodilator. A better known drug in the same class Sildenafil (aka Viagra) is less mild, and associated with retinal damage if overused. | null | null | 41,811,860 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,013 | comment | jmyeet | 2024-10-11T19:54:09 | null | > You are trying to draw a parallel between mass deportation and genocide that I do find valid.<p>Consider the 10 stages of genocide [1]. The anti-immigration hysteria is probably at stage 6 at this point.<p>> The law defines the process for legal immigration and many people have broken the law.<p>There are many categories of so-called "undocumented" migrants and you have to consider each group. Anti-immigration rhetoric from the American right lumps up several groups of documented migrants into the "undocumented" category, including TPS recipients (such as the Haitians in Springfield, OH) and DACA recipients. It's worth considering who DACA recipients are. If someone was brought to the US at 5 months old, they clearly didn't choose to break the law. They likely have never been to their country of birth. They may not even speak the language. In most cases it's utterly inhumane and immoral to deport such a person and if you explain it to people, they will tend to agree.<p>> Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.<p>This is where we get into right-wing propaganda.<p>> Housing costs are driven up<p>False [2].<p>> labor costs down for the most vulnerable in society<p>Actually undocumented migrants are largely doing jobs nobody else will do. If we snapped our fingers and tomorrow all the undocumented migrants were removed from the US, the agricultural industry would collapse. How do I know this? Because we have data to support it.<p>So if you really wanted to tackle undocumented migrants, who would you go after, the employee or the employer? Almost always they go after the employer. Undocumented migrants are openly employed in every state. Alabama tried this and it was a disaster [3]. So did Florida [4].<p>As for driving down wages, the best way to tackle this is to document them. We used to do this with temporary workers aka the Bracero program [5].<p>If you really want to see how exploitation of undocumented migrants and wage suppression works, look at the chicken producers. Pretty much everyone is undocumented and underpaid. What happens when they start to demand more wages? The chicken farms call in an ICE raid, pay a slap-on-the-wrist fine and rinse and repeat.<p>The wealthy love undocumented migrants because it keeps wages low and increases profits.<p>> It strains local resources<p>Undocumented migrants pay about $100 billion in taxes per year [6].<p>> Unvetted criminals or gang members entering pose a threat to public safety.<p>The "migrant crime" hysteria doesn't survive the simplest of Google searches. How many homicide convictions were there in 2023? 20,400. How many of them were committed by noncitizens (note: this includes documented migrants)? 29 [7].<p>Undocumented migrants are overwhelmingly people simply seeking safety and security. Perhaps we should stop destabilizing the countries they come from like Venezuela.<p>This is a completely manufactured non-problem based on objective lies.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/what-is-genocide/the-ten-stages-of-genocide/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocid...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/housing-prices-forced-deportation-immigration-rcna174048" rel="nofollow">https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/housing-prices-f...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/alabamas-immigration-disaster/" rel="nofollow">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/alabamas-immigratio...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://civileats.com/2024/02/07/a-florida-immigration-law-is-turning-farm-towns-into-ghost-towns/" rel="nofollow">https://civileats.com/2024/02/07/a-florida-immigration-law-i...</a><p>[5]: <a href="https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/bracero-program" rel="nofollow">https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/bracero-program</a><p>[6]: <a href="https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/" rel="nofollow">https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/</a><p>[7]: <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-noncitizen-statistics" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistic...</a> | null | null | 41,811,477 | 41,804,460 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,014 | comment | mmsc | 2024-10-11T19:54:32 | null | (2013) | null | null | 41,812,876 | 41,812,876 | null | [
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41,813,015 | comment | wantsanagent | 2024-10-11T19:54:38 | null | Fine, then charge $1 and don't auto-convert to a subscription. <i>That</i> practice is what is offensive.<p>Or if it's just a few users don't ruin the free trial for everyone based on the actions of some bad apples. Spend some time on IP based screens etc. | null | null | 41,811,931 | 41,807,783 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,016 | comment | pton_xd | 2024-10-11T19:54:40 | null | Some problems are computationally bounded (computational complexity theory). LLMs may theoretically have unbounded pattern matching capabilities with increasingly large data sets and training, but what is the realistic limit here? When we utilize all of the currently available power on Earth for training, what does that LLM look like? Is that LLMs pattern matching replacing humans and solving all of physics? | null | null | 41,812,897 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,017 | comment | wryoak | 2024-10-11T19:54:45 | null | I don’t think rendering malformed HTML is <i>the</i> difficult part of a browser’s rendering engine. Rendering well-formed XHTML is little different. It’s going to construct a tree either way, with erroneous HTML the common solutions include treating unmatched terminal tags as text nodes, unquoted attributes as whitespace-terminated, and certain unmatched opening tags as line-terminated.
I would guess JS is a harder beast but the rapid proliferation over the past decade of web apis for graphics, audio, storage, GPS, Bluetooth, cameras, game controllers and so on is probably a bigger impediment. But the reason nothing has really risen to stop the monopoly is just that getting word out about new browsers, including why the same tool with a new rendering engine should appeal to the average person, is a difficult sell, and so expending resources on a new one is a tough sell. IE didn’t dominate for so long because of its features, it was the ubiquity. Chrome has risen to prominence because of the ubiquity of google’s tools and auth which “just happen” to work better in Chrome, along with mobile Safari because of the preeminence of the iPhone. Monopoly is its own momentum. Get something in everybody’s hands and they have no real reason to switch. If there’s no reason for customers to switch, there’s very little incentive to compete with the dominant paradigm. | null | null | 41,812,150 | 41,812,150 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,018 | story | paulpauper | 2024-10-11T19:54:48 | A Heuristic Proof of Practical Aligned Superintelligence | null | https://transhumanaxiology.substack.com/p/a-heuristic-proof-of-practical-aligned | 2 | null | 41,813,018 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,813,019 | comment | kelseyfrog | 2024-10-11T19:54:52 | null | In terms of tangible outcomes, it helps you live longer or something compared to weight loss? greater reported life satisfaction? It's important to operationalize "healthy". | null | null | 41,812,423 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,020 | comment | arcticbull | 2024-10-11T19:54:57 | null | “This is so stupid, if you want to stop smoking put down the cigarette! Full stop.”<p>Like (a) no shit and (b) the question is why can’t people. Because we know objectively they can’t.<p>The drugs work by literally solving your self control issue, and to such an extent it works beyond just food. | null | null | 41,812,749 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,021 | comment | red-iron-pine | 2024-10-11T19:55:00 | null | the whole thing looks low-effort, mostly AI generated.<p>still worked though. guess there is a market for that, too. | null | null | 41,803,846 | 41,802,823 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,022 | comment | debugnik | 2024-10-11T19:55:07 | null | That was my first thought, how did they not consider sticky keys?! It even makes a sound! The prompt triggers on the fifth press but it's easy to have had already queued two presses beforehand.<p>This risk is much worse than whatever layout differences and interactions with VoiceOver they observed for Control. | null | null | 41,802,232 | 41,793,597 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,023 | story | paulpauper | 2024-10-11T19:55:08 | When the Artic Melts | null | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/when-the-arctic-melts | 1 | null | 41,813,023 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,813,024 | comment | kragen | 2024-10-11T19:55:11 | null | Having written a sort of Forth compiler without immediate myself, I agree that uxntal is not very Forthlike. I like Golang, JS, and Forth.<p>Your link is broken, but <a href="https://hackaday.com/2021/07/21/its-linux-but-on-an-esp32/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2021/07/21/its-linux-but-on-an-esp32/</a> documents someone getting Linux running on an ESP32-S3 under a software emulation of RISC-V with an MMU. That's not obviously more efficient than a simple Uxn emulator and seems likely to be worse. People have also gotten ucLinux running directly on ESP32-S3 with uclibc, which seems unlikely to be able to run Emacs or GCC, though not, as you say, because the CPU is too slow or the RAM is too small. I'm not sure I've run Emacs on a machine with less than 16MiB of RAM but I'm sure it's possible.<p>1500 milliwatts is still several orders of magnitude more power than I think a personal computer needs, and 16MiB is obviously a couple of orders of magnitude more RAM.<p>Emacs is actually surprisingly efficient. We remember it as being slow and bulky in part because 30 years ago it was among the bigger resource draws on the machines we used at the time and in part because it actually was slower then. Current Emacs compiles elisp to machine code.<p>It turns out that it's actually pretty common for a hobbyist to be able to beat tens to hundreds of thousands of man years going into optimizing compilers, as you know if you follow the demoscene at all. Proebsting's Law explains why. The silicon design and production are equally at the disposal of GCC and the hobbyist. But the current applications codebase can easily consume all that surplus computational power.<p>I agree that if you were to rewrite your applications in sane-to-simple C code, compiled with a good compiler, it would come out faster than Uxn, though only by about 10×. But nobody has done it. Vaporware always beats shipped code because vaporware doesn't have bugs or scope/schedule tradeoffs.<p>I think it's possible to do much better than Uxn. But I also am not convinced that anybody has. | null | null | 41,807,348 | 41,777,995 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,025 | comment | fransje26 | 2024-10-11T19:55:11 | null | So a PWM pattern with a fixed number of pulses that are relatively broadened/shrunk to have a variable wave frequency? | null | null | 41,811,255 | 41,757,808 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,026 | comment | BurningFrog | 2024-10-11T19:55:18 | null | That vast majority of car trips is for one person. Most of the others are for two.<p>So building it without dead weight that will almost never be used makes sense.<p>If you're a bigger party, there will probably be bigger robotaxis to summon. Or take two cars. | null | null | 41,805,611 | 41,805,515 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,027 | comment | StefanBatory | 2024-10-11T19:55:19 | null | I was lucky when I was taking Sertraline. Because I was only sleepy for the first two-three days and besides that I had no side effect. Only thing I noticed from that period is that it was genuinely harder for be to be in a very negative mood - like my mental state went from a range of 5 to -8 to 5 to -5. | null | null | 41,812,876 | 41,812,876 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,028 | comment | rafaelmn | 2024-10-11T19:55:19 | null | No argument here - just saying it's still not the endgame. Lean/ripped combo - now that's something I'd subscribe to/inject for regularly. | null | null | 41,812,968 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,029 | comment | ranbato | 2024-10-11T19:55:26 | null | From the study:<p>Conclusion
Exposure to some dental x-rays performed in the past, when radiation exposure was greater than in the current era, appears to be associated with increased risk of intra-cranial meningioma. | null | null | 41,808,817 | 41,786,768 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,030 | comment | zero_k | 2024-10-11T19:55:28 | null | Yes, we should use LLMs to translate human requirements that are ambiguous and have a lot of hidden assumptions (e.g. that football matches should preferably be at times when people are not working & awake [3]), and use them to create formal requirements, e.g. generating SMT [1] or ASP [2] queries. Then the formal methods tool, e.g. Z3/cvc5 or clingo can solve these now formal queries. Then we can translate back the solution to human language via the LLM. This does not solve some problems, e.g. the LLM not correctly guessing the implicit requirements. But it does go around a bunch of issues.<p>We do need to pump up the jam when it comes to formal methods tools, though. And academia is still rife with quantum and AI buzzword generators if you wanna get funding. Formal methods doesn't get enough funding from Academia. Amazon has put a bunch of money into it (hiring all good talent :sadface:), and Microsoft is funding both Z3 and Lean4. Industry is ahead of the game, <i>again</i>. This is purely failure of Academic leadership, nothing else.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theories" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theories</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming</a><p>[3] Anecdotal, but this was a "bug" in a solution offered by a tool that optimally schedules football matches in Spain. | null | null | 41,812,523 | 41,812,523 | null | [
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41,813,031 | comment | octopoc | 2024-10-11T19:55:30 | null | All those examples are from a single ancient culture. Why did you pick only from that culture? | null | null | 41,811,512 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,032 | comment | aguaviva | 2024-10-11T19:55:40 | null | Except that's not a direct quote from Arakhmiya - now is it?<p>Rather, it's a characterization of what he said -- whose original provenance seems to be difficult to track down, and there are conflicting versions available, which of course got copy-pasted all over in both left- and right-wing outlets (as well as by the Kremlin of course). But both Johnson and Arakhmiya have strenuously denied this characterization in any case, when directly asked about the topic:<p><pre><code> “This is nothing more than nonsense and Russian propaganda,” Johnson said in an interview with the Times.
His words were confirmed by the head of the pro-presidential Servant of the People party faction, David Arakhamia, who headed the Ukrainian delegation at the Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul in March 2022. ... Arakhamia denied that the Ukrainian delegation was allegedly ready to sign such a document, and Johnson stopped Kyiv.
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And yet somehow you've come to believe that the first characterization you came across was "absolutely true". Why is that?<p><i>It's evil, no I will not forget Dick Cheney.</i><p>You can build an anti-shrine to him on your bedroom wall, and throw darts at it every night if you want to. The unfortunate point here is that it seems you've allowed him to become a bogeyman, just like the big bad old MIC. And when I'm saying "forget about him", I don't mean in the literal sense. Of course we have to remember assholes like Cheney and the evil they did, what Eisenhower said way back when and all that.<p>But the bigger point is: that doesn't mean we have to let these ghosts not only dictate our narratives, but completely override our understanding of events in the present moment. More to the point -- if you'd like to yourself a huge favor, and just forget about all these good/evil narratives altogether. Instead focus on the facts of who said what, and when, and what really happened as a result.<p>Which in the case of the current Ukraine war, really aren't that complicated or hard to figure out. | null | null | 41,812,302 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,033 | comment | freeone3000 | 2024-10-11T19:55:42 | null | They are the same people now that they were then. Humanity has not become any more weak, fragile, or uninterested in their well-being — it has simply become harder to resist. TV was appointment viewing and cut off late at night. Before the walkman, there wasn’t much option for music everywhere (the scourge was newspaper-readers! but the paper is only so long). And that triple cheeseburger today wasn’t acceptable or <i>available</i> to eat unless you made it yourself. Healthy eating being hard is a product of collective decisions to <i>make</i> it hard. | null | null | 41,812,479 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,034 | comment | benoau | 2024-10-11T19:55:45 | null | GOG has actually gone further than that:<p>> "In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable. However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we'd do our best to make it happen. We're willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library—but currently we can only do it with the help of the justice system."<p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/gog-will-let-you-bequeath-your-game-library-to-someone-else-as-long-as-you-can-prove-youre-actually-dead/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/gog-will-let-you-beq...</a> | null | null | 41,812,821 | 41,812,813 | null | [
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41,813,035 | comment | SpicyLemonZest | 2024-10-11T19:55:47 | null | But I don’t think this result is relevant to that question at all. There’s quite a lot of people in the world who can’t consistently apply formal mathematical reasoning to word problems or reliably multiply large numbers. | null | null | 41,812,941 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,036 | comment | anon291 | 2024-10-11T19:55:48 | null | Current LLMs are one-shot. They are forced to produce an output without thinking, leading to the preponderance of hallucinations and lack of formal reasoning. Human formal reasoning is not instinctual. Unlike 'aha!' moments, it requires us to think. Part of that thinking process is turning our attention inwards into our own mind and using symbolic manipulations that we do not utter in order to 'think'.<p>LLMs broadly are capable of this, but we force them to not do it by forcing the next token to be the final output.<p>The human equivalent would be to solve a problem and <i>show all your steps</i> including steps that are wrong but that you undertook anyway. Hence why chain of reasoning works.<p>The 'fix' is to allow LLMS to pause, generate tokens that are <i>not</i> transliterated into text, and then signal when they want to unpause. Training such a system is left as an exercise to the reader, although there have been attempts | null | null | 41,812,523 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,037 | story | todsacerdoti | 2024-10-11T19:55:52 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,813,037 | null | null | null | true |
41,813,038 | comment | lr4444lr | 2024-10-11T19:55:55 | null | I don't know what his other bad arguments are, but nothing you're describing disputes the point about <i>formal</i> reasoning, which is that getting it wrong is susceptible to parameter fitting. This has been a problem with AI models ever since the perceptron, which can still converge to the wrong classifications even when it's fed enough training data. | null | null | 41,812,897 | 41,812,523 | null | [
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41,813,039 | story | paulpauper | 2024-10-11T19:55:55 | Collective memories can sometimes be inaccurate: Investigating Mandela Effect | null | https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/how-collective-memories-can-sometimes-be-inaccurate-investigating-the-mandela-effect | 1 | null | 41,813,039 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,813,040 | comment | wordofx | 2024-10-11T19:55:59 | null | There was confusion around this? | null | null | 41,812,813 | 41,812,813 | null | [
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41,813,041 | comment | soulbadguy | 2024-10-11T19:56:04 | null | I can't quite understand if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me...<p>You seem to be restating my point as if you are contradicting my statements.<p>> People living in country side & eating from organic farming, they're doing alright (similar to our closest ancestors), but that's beside the point<p>Maybe ( I would love to see some sources for this assertion). But even if I give that to you, you basically saying that modern environment are somewhat obisidigenic... which is what I was saying.<p>> Cultural change over 2/3 even 10 generations will not significantly alter your biology.<p>Okay... same., still just restating what i have said.<p>> they possibly cannot have effects on your decisions about what you eat and how you spend your time right?<p>They can and they do... let me introduce you to lead in paint and in the environment...<p>> particularly referring to obesity caused by over eating<p>All obesity is cause by over eating (all most by definition) the point here is that over eating is not cause by lack of will power or poor decision making | null | null | 41,812,885 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,042 | comment | ttt3ts | 2024-10-11T19:56:07 | null | IMO they are still not as good although they have improved. I just develop in chrome and use Firefox for everything else. | null | null | 41,812,422 | 41,809,698 | null | [
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41,813,043 | comment | fasa99 | 2024-10-11T19:56:11 | null | >Innovation requires reliable funding,<p>The way I see this argument is "Innovation requires an institution devoted to innovation, which requires reliable funding such as monopolistic or taxpayer"<p>As you say, on the 1-5 year horizon that's not true. Most successful startups are innovative, we need to look no further than Google itself with its pagerank innovation dominating search. Most universities have innovative researchers, and indeed explicitly set up innovative centers called "incubators" - but of course this is an example of government funding.<p>One of the first questions is what innovation requires 1-5 years. What about aha moment! innovation? Pagerank is an "aha moment" idea that takes a few months to demonstrate. There are more aha moment innovations than "grind for more than 5 years" I feel. Most of the "grind for 5+ years" innovations have yet to pay off e.g. fusion, super batteries, room temperature semiconductors.<p>A monopoly offers stable funding for some institution, but at what cost? No capitalistic incentive to improve product? Excess pricing because the consumer has no choice? Surely there are more fair ways to structure this.<p>Government control would destroy tech, government is not made for it. Look at Amtrak. A nationalized google would wither and get eaten alive by.. ... innovative search startups (themselves without research institutes funded by monopolies), or startups in one of the dozens of fields where Google has spread its tendrils.<p>Microsoft in its prime is a great example of monopolistic problems. They were a OS monopoly and kept leveraging that to smack down competition wherever they wanted to expand into. Google almost didn't make chrome - the CEO at the time was frightened that Microsoft would annihilate google if google should make a new browser. The monopoly engine allows for ease of dominating more and more industries through lateral growth. This all-encompassing destruction of captalistic price minimization, alone, is why we need to break down big tech monopolies such as google. An example of a "good citizen" non monopolistic company in this setting is Netflix - there's huge competition in entertainment field, they have innovated streaming tech, their profits are meritorious, and they haven't suffocated other fields like other big tech i.e. there's no Netflix phone, no Netflix video game console, no Netflix social media.<p>The other health of the Netflix / media ecosystem is it's not a duopoly. There's Netflix, there's Apple TV (hello, suffocating new industries!), there's Disney, there's paramount, there's hulu, and so on. This is what competition should look like. This is classic innovation in the capitalist sector, through brutal competition. We not only need to bust up monopolies but to consider duopolies or more generally - busting up groups of companies that collude to price or feature fix as holders of the majority of the market, which is what many duopolies are. | null | null | 41,794,938 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,044 | comment | porphyra | 2024-10-11T19:56:14 | null | And none of those shows a Cybercab. What's your point? | null | null | 41,806,361 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,045 | comment | adamc | 2024-10-11T19:56:16 | null | I struggle to see the use of this comment. Many human beings have jobs where they reason about problems far more complex than this every day. Sure, not every human is great at this. But the interest in using LLMs as <i>agents</i> does kind of require that they can routinely get this right -- the author of the blog post mentions this explicitly. | null | null | 41,812,892 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,046 | comment | layer8 | 2024-10-11T19:56:17 | null | Windows 10 LTSC is either too old (2016?) or only lasts until 2027. It’s not worth it. Linux is fine for CLI use, but the GUI doesn’t cut it for me, not to speak of the many Windows software and drivers that won’t work or will be awkward to use. There is no good solution, but ditching Windows entirely is still the worse (non-)solution <i>for me</i>. | null | null | 41,802,036 | 41,801,331 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,047 | comment | outworlder | 2024-10-11T19:56:41 | null | > This is trivially refuted by finding obese people in non-high-sugar societies, or from a time period before sugar became ubiquitous.<p>Those people definitely existed, but were pretty rare. Maybe you are one of them. Statistically, probably not.<p>> I bake bread for my family every day because I can't get bread in Canada that has no sugar. I'm aware of how insidious sugar is.<p>That is definitely way, way better than anything store bought, so it's great that you are doing that. However, even without added sugar, bread will start converting to sugar immediately after being in contact with saliva(and will continue once the pancreas enters the picture). So you are eating sugar every day still, possibly quite a lot of it.<p>I had to severely decrease bread consumption, as well as anything containing simple carbs, to decrease my insulin resistance. | null | null | 41,812,248 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,813,048 | comment | robterrell | 2024-10-11T19:56:45 | null | You don't see the majority of tokens it is generating. | null | null | 41,812,935 | 41,812,523 | null | [
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41,813,049 | comment | rahimnathwani | 2024-10-11T19:57:02 | null | This article is long but doesn't mention key concepts like instruction tuning.<p>I'd suggest the Llama paper as a more worthwhile source. | null | null | 41,812,724 | 41,812,523 | null | [
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41,813,050 | comment | sylware | 2024-10-11T19:57:06 | null | I think there is something wrong with them because they are failing to see that the c++ syntax has an abysmal complexity which propagates the toolchain implementation.<p>This is the only reason you need to make this language a definitive nono.<p>They should be ashamed of themselves, and if they are not, well, they are toxic, and they are doing it at worldwide scale. | null | null | 41,810,482 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,051 | comment | vessenes | 2024-10-11T19:57:09 | null | Dude, the mortality rates go up at least linearly, maybe super-linearly, to weight over a certain amount. It's not like some mythical / hard to read / later benefit. This is a drug that radically changes those risks NOW, really quickly. It's a different matter than aspirin (helpful if heart disease is a real risk, otherwise no) or wine or smoking, both of which people have a strong interest in thinking of as good for you. | null | null | 41,812,514 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,052 | story | bookofjoe | 2024-10-11T19:57:14 | How complicated is brain surgery actually? | null | https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/10/10/how-complicated-is-brain-surgery-actually | 1 | null | 41,813,052 | 1 | [
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41,813,053 | comment | louthy | 2024-10-11T19:57:16 | null | Now you’ve got n problems | null | null | 41,811,760 | 41,811,760 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,054 | comment | renewiltord | 2024-10-11T19:57:22 | null | Tool use is the measure of intelligence. Terence Tao can use this tool for mathematics.<p>When Google came out, search engines were suddenly more useful. But there were a bunch of people talking about how “Not everything they find is right” and how “that is a huge problem”.<p>Then for two decades, people used search highly successfully. Fascinating thing. Tool use. | null | null | 41,812,523 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,055 | comment | anon291 | 2024-10-11T19:57:32 | null | We really really really need to disambiguate the LLM, which is a fixed length, fixed compute time process which takes in an input and produces a token distribution, from the AI system, which takes the output of the LLM and eventually produces something for the user.<p>In this case, all LLMs are fixed-length, but not all AI systems are. An LLM on its own is useless. Current SoTA research includes inserting 'pause' tokens. This is something that, when combined with an AI system that understands these, would enable variable time 'thinking'. | null | null | 41,812,901 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,056 | comment | bookofjoe | 2024-10-11T19:57:37 | null | <a href="https://archive.ph/IWt4K" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/IWt4K</a> | null | null | 41,813,052 | 41,813,052 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,057 | story | rntn | 2024-10-11T19:57:46 | DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus's remains are entombed in Seville | null | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/dna-study-christopher-columbus-remains-seville-cathedral | 2 | null | 41,813,057 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,813,058 | comment | duncancarroll | 2024-10-11T19:57:46 | null | I started getting these post-Covid, but I'm not on any SSRIs. It feels like your brain does a "degauss" thing like the old CRT monitors; it's not fun.<p>There's some evidence to show that long Covid is connected with low serum serotonin, and the zaps make me wonder if it's connected to cerebral serotonin as well, since I imagine it's the sudden reduction that causes the zaps: <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01034-6" rel="nofollow">https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01034-6</a> | null | null | 41,812,876 | 41,812,876 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,059 | comment | modeless | 2024-10-11T19:57:47 | null | If the memory layout is fixed and fields are untyped then every field must be at least 8 bytes to potentially hold a double precision floating point value. There would clearly be value in adding typing to restrict field values to 1 or 2 or 4 byte integers to allow packing those fields. But I can see that it would add complexity. | null | null | 41,808,368 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,060 | comment | FireBeyond | 2024-10-11T19:57:49 | null | 12.5.3, so :(<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/tesla-full-self-driving-requires-human-intervention-every-13-miles/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/tesla-full-self-driving...</a> | null | null | 41,812,735 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,061 | comment | s1artibartfast | 2024-10-11T19:58:10 | null | can you share some of this support you found, or the characteristic it was looking at? | null | null | 41,811,976 | 41,811,050 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,062 | story | cx0der | 2024-10-11T19:58:24 | Steam adds the harsh truth that you're buying "a license," not the game itself | null | https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/10/steam-now-reminds-you-that-it-really-sells-a-license-for-a-digital-product/ | 1 | null | 41,813,062 | 1 | [
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41,813,063 | story | yeknoda | 2024-10-11T19:58:25 | PatWankel Egnine | null | https://pattakon.com/pattakonPatWankel.htm | 2 | null | 41,813,063 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,813,064 | comment | exikyut | 2024-10-11T19:58:32 | null | And IIRC including the quotes in a filename in a save dialog, líke "manifestv2.reg" (incl quotes), will save it with the extension you typed, so you won't end up with 'manifestv2.reg.txt'. So you skip a potentially otherwise needed rename step. | null | null | 41,812,638 | 41,809,698 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,065 | comment | coffeeindex | 2024-10-11T19:58:32 | null | Mars for the rich, Earth for the poor | null | null | 41,811,032 | 41,811,032 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,066 | comment | diablozzq | 2024-10-11T19:58:34 | null | At one point the goal posts was the Turing test. That’s long since been passed, and we aren’t satisfied.<p>Then goal posts were moved to logical reasoning such as the Winograd Schemas. Then that wasn’t enough.<p>In fact, it’s abundantly clear we won’t be satisfied until we’ve completely destroyed human intelligence as superior.<p>The current goal post is LLMs must do everything better than humans or it’s not AGI. If there is one thing it does worse, people will cite it as just a stochastic parrot. That’s a complete fallacy.<p>Of course we dare not compare LLMs to the worse case human - because LLMs would be AGI compared to that.<p>We compare LLMs to the best human in every category - unfairly.<p>With LLMs it’s been abundantly clear - there is not a line where something is intelligent or not. There’s only shades of gray and eventually we call it black.<p>There will always be differences between LLM capabilities and humans - different architectures and different training. However it’s very clear that a process that takes huge amounts of data and processes it whether a brain or LLM come up with similar results.<p>Someone should up with a definition of intelligence that excludes all LLMs and includes all humans.<p>Also while you are at it, disprove humans do more than what ChatGPT does - aka probabilistic word generation.<p>I’ll wait.<p>Until then, as ChatGPT blows past what was science fiction 5 years ago, maybe these arguments aren’t great?<p>Also - name one thing we have the data for that we haven’t been able to produce a neural network capable of performing that task?<p>Human bodies have so many sensors it’s mind blowing. The data any human processes in one days simply blows LLMs out of the water.<p>Touch, taste, smell, hearing, etc…<p>That’s not to say if you could hook up a hypothetical neural network to a human body, that we couldn’t do the same. | null | null | 41,812,523 | 41,812,523 | null | [
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41,813,067 | comment | keybored | 2024-10-11T19:58:35 | null | Georgism fans feels like people who discovered socialism via Wikipedia. | null | null | 41,789,228 | 41,789,228 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,068 | comment | xyst | 2024-10-11T19:58:35 | null | Maybe when food shortages become a thing, we can add Ozempic to the water supply to curb people’s appetites and reduce demand. \s<p>Kidding aside, I still think it’s extreme for off-label usage. Short term results are nice. But what about the long term? Once patients reach a desirable state, can they be titrated off the medication while maintaining their ideal labs and weight? What’s the rate of recidivism? | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,069 | comment | timeon | 2024-10-11T19:58:38 | null | Ad-blockers are not just about displaying the actual ads.<p>Does the Chrome blocks trackers even without ad-blocker Like Safari? | null | null | 41,810,472 | 41,809,698 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,070 | comment | marcosdumay | 2024-10-11T19:58:40 | null | I dunno. There have been 3 comments claiming they do reason on this page alone.<p>I doubt experts need to be reminded, but maybe non-experts need to see that incorrectness exposed, otherwise they'll get mislead. | null | null | 41,812,932 | 41,812,523 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,071 | comment | DAGdug | 2024-10-11T19:58:40 | null | There are varying degrees of control over outcomes. The judgment comes from the correlation between an unobserved variable (effort at controlling or preventing obesity) with the observed variable (actual obesity). | null | null | 41,812,970 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,072 | comment | OptionOfT | 2024-10-11T19:58:42 | null | As someone who struggled with their weight his whole life, this medication is a god send.<p>My wife and I cook every evening. We never eat food made in a factory. We buy raw products and spend a good amount of time every day cooking them.<p>Every morning I wake up and go on a 5 mile hike.<p>And still weight kept on coming on. Worse yet, I am on ADHD medication, which are amphetamines and actually make you lose weight. Yet... the number on the scale kept on creeping up.<p>And you know what it is? It's volume. I eat too much. And I have no cookies at home. I have no chips at home. No soda, no alcohol. I drink black coffee with a splash of milk. I don't eat any sweeteners.<p>I have had weight loss surgery (lap band) which was later reversed as it hurt 24/7.<p>Now, on ZepBound I lost 20lbs in 2 months. I am not hungry. My brain can actually focus on the things that matter.<p>Why do we find it acceptable to help people who struggle with alcohol abuse, or nicotine addiction, or opioid addiction, but not to help people who struggle with food abuse? | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,073 | comment | StefanBatory | 2024-10-11T19:58:43 | null | I was obese myself, and I have different thoughts on that.<p>For me, it was purely an issue of personal falling and willpower issue. I was obese because of a diet I was indulging in; full of unhealthy things and snacks.<p>It was due to nobody else but myself. | null | null | 41,812,839 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,074 | comment | aezart | 2024-10-11T19:58:45 | null | > (for example, children of obese people are more likely to be obese)<p>I would assume that this is related to gut biome and not genetic makeup. | null | null | 41,812,927 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,075 | comment | franze | 2024-10-11T19:58:48 | null | well kinda, I work as a Yoga Teacher now. | null | null | 41,793,581 | 41,773,784 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,076 | comment | screye | 2024-10-11T19:58:51 | null | That only works if the whole team coordinates.<p>If one person writes broken code in half the time, while you take twice as much cleaning the mess.....then you're going to be perceived as ineffective. | null | null | 41,807,063 | 41,765,594 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,077 | comment | j_maffe | 2024-10-11T19:58:55 | null | You're free to hold onto your ideals, but if you're not willing to defend them, maybe don't go out of your way to share them. | null | null | 41,812,498 | 41,776,631 | null | [
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41,813,078 | comment | itronitron | 2024-10-11T19:59:06 | null | This is the type of comment that could easily be drafted by a scrappy marketing team. Not sure I buy it. | null | null | 41,812,493 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,813,079 | comment | ragnese | 2024-10-11T19:59:16 | null | The vast, <i>vast</i>, majority of normies I know use Google Chrome and use zero extensions. | null | null | 41,809,962 | 41,809,698 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,080 | comment | listenallyall | 2024-10-11T19:59:18 | null | "Overall healthier environment". Meaning, food was relatively scarce. No Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, convenience store on every corner. Coca-cola was not available in 2-liter bottles or in 24 packs of cans. No Costco-sized mutlipacks of anything.<p>In the 1950s, malnutrition was a serious issue that many people in poor areas died from. When was the last time someone died because they didn't have access to food? Obviously, the other side of that coin is that food being so plentiful, people eat much, much more than ever before. | null | null | 41,812,611 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,081 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T19:59:25 | null | null | null | null | 41,812,523 | 41,812,523 | null | null | true | null |
41,813,082 | comment | unsnap_biceps | 2024-10-11T19:59:27 | null | I completely understand, however, if they don't chase and it's not enough to try to catch the person in their house/work/whatever, it's practically the same as the law not being enforced, right?<p>I struggle to think it's fair to people that don't run if they're held responsible but people that run aren't. | null | null | 41,812,507 | 41,810,627 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,083 | comment | mmsc | 2024-10-11T19:59:35 | null | >Physicians were initially unaware or dismissive of brain zaps due to limited information and a focus on downplaying the addictive nature of antidepressants.<p>I don't know why. It's a pretty well-known effect of fucking with your serotonin levels. Someone I know took about 4g of MDMA over a 4-day period and what followed was about 2 weeks of these "brain zaps", sleep paralysis with demons in the room (feeling like you are laying in bed with a demon coming towards you but you physically cannot move). This stuff has been known about for decades but unable to be researched due to the US' drug laws. Those brain zaps are apparently like just doing whatever you're doing, when BAM, it feels like an electric shock has gone through your head into the back of your eyes. | null | null | 41,812,876 | 41,812,876 | null | [
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41,813,084 | comment | apwell23 | 2024-10-11T19:59:50 | null | > Large numbers of people and businesses are extracting huge value from the use of LLMs every single day<p>No they aren't. If they really did we would see those number in qtrly reports. | null | null | 41,812,786 | 41,812,523 | null | [
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41,813,085 | comment | trod123 | 2024-10-11T20:00:00 | null | I'm not aware of any books that have covered this appropriately.<p>The biggest part of automation in my experience is boiling down the inputs to a 'unique' state that automation can then use as inputs and be run on.<p>For computation to do work, it requires a property of consistency, and computers can only operate accurately and do work when properties of determinism are met. Also as the OP mentions, state can explode leading to sphagetti, this is why he mentions a sieve like approach based on similarity.<p>Some problem spaces can be fundamentally inconsistent, such as with some approximations (common methods used for such), which falls back to what amounts to guesses, heuristics, and checks in terms of exception handling. There are problem scopes that cannot be characterized too so no amount of exception handling will resolve the entire scope, which is why you need fallbacks in a resilient design.<p>If inputs cannot be controlled and uniquely differentiated, the automation fails in brittle ways, especially with regards to external change.<p>The main interface (with regards to your core features) would be language, or communication. There exists words right now that can have contradictory, and different meanings, where the same word may mean the opposite depending on context, and this is not a general consensus but an individual one (where the individual may be misusing it).<p>That breaks the 1:1 mapping required for determinism, and AI weights mimicking neurons have a narrow approximation where it may work under a narrow set of circumstances but no computer today can differentiate when the inputs are the same but have two or more, different states mixed in (many people forget that absence of a state is a state too) and then decompose them. Abstract decomposition seems to be something only humans are good at, and I'm glad this is the case otherwise none of us would have jobs. | null | null | 41,798,358 | 41,765,594 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,086 | comment | bastawhiz | 2024-10-11T20:00:08 | null | Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter? | null | null | 41,813,005 | 41,811,341 | null | [
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41,813,087 | comment | ChrisArchitect | 2024-10-11T20:00:10 | null | More discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41737653">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41737653</a> | null | null | 41,811,341 | 41,811,341 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,088 | comment | karim79 | 2024-10-11T20:00:12 | null | Waaaay back in 2011, I withdrew from SSRIs (particularly, Seroxat). I had moved countries, had run out of it, and bravely decided to stop altogether. Brain shocks kicked in a couple of days later. They were not painful but they were definitely unsettling. They lasted for most of a week.<p>I then decided to stop altogether, which led to an overall improvement to my quality of life.<p>I'm sure not everyone is like me, but boy oh boy I'm glad I stopped taking those. | null | null | 41,812,876 | 41,812,876 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,089 | comment | ilrwbwrkhv | 2024-10-11T20:00:15 | null | > tech nerds
you would be surprised how many devs these days have drunk the big tech coolaid.<p>leetcode all the time and dream of working at google and using chrome and writing javascript.<p>if the tech nerds took a stand and used firefox en masse, we wouldn't have this problem.<p>unfortunately it is now normie season. we have to travel through these dark times. | null | null | 41,813,003 | 41,809,698 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,090 | comment | throwaway019254 | 2024-10-11T20:00:41 | null | To paraphrase: Instead of relying on medication that helps with issues caused by our society, let's completely change the society so it's no longer the issue?<p>That's very idealistic, in my opinion. | null | null | 41,812,080 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,091 | comment | viraptor | 2024-10-11T20:00:45 | null | Slightly related: What's the current state of being able to do all the government-related things in the US without an internet access? It's it all still 100% possible, just harder? Or are there things that effectively require a connection? | null | null | 41,812,607 | 41,812,607 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,092 | comment | skeeter2020 | 2024-10-11T20:00:47 | null | Routines help because they reduce the impact and uniqueness of the good behaviour. Another approach is to do things that have high positive pay-off but include health benefits you wouldn't target but get "for free". Example: I ride my bike to work because it's awesome, faster and makes me feel superior. That I get exercise and help out the earth is a side effect; I'd probably still ride my bike if it was unhealthy and produced more CO2 | null | null | 41,812,643 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,093 | comment | adventured | 2024-10-11T20:01:03 | null | There was a huge stigma about being obese 50-70 years ago. It was wholly unacceptable for children, young persons and women in particular. Exclusively older men were allowed to be obese culturally without being shamed about it.<p>As recently as the 1980s movies were overloaded with jokes about fat people, it was extremely common. That's stigma in action culturally. | null | null | 41,812,867 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,094 | comment | davorak | 2024-10-11T20:01:06 | null | You seem to agree that the testability is not binary:<p>> Soft sciences are those that don't lend themselves to testing and verification very well, like economics and psychology.<p>But want hard to only used in a binary fashion with some heuristic triggering the step function from soft to hard.<p>People do talk using the term that way. They also use it as a continuum saying one field is harder than an another. I quoted the terms, "hard" and "soft" in my message above because the terms are used in a few different ways and are not rigorously defined. They only need a rough definition to make the point I was making though. | null | null | 41,708,077 | 41,696,434 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,095 | comment | adrian_b | 2024-10-11T20:01:08 | null | AMD Zen 5 has the so-called "Vector Neural Network Instructions", which can be used for inference with INT8 quantization and also instructions for computing inference with BF16 quantization.<p>FP8 is a more recent quantization format and AFAIK no CPU implements it.<p>I do not know which is the throughput of these instructions for Zen 5. It must be higher than for older CPUs, but it must be slower than for the Intel Xeon models that support AMX (which are much more expensive, so despite having a higher absolute performance for inference, they might have lower performance per dollar) and obviously it must be slower than for the tensor cores of a big NVIDIA GPU.<p>Nevertheless, for models that do not fit inside the memory of a GPU, inference on a Zen 5 CPU may become competitive. | null | null | 41,811,601 | 41,808,013 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,096 | comment | vessenes | 2024-10-11T20:01:10 | null | This is true, but I'd qualify it. I'm MUCH more active than when I started, just naturally, and my heart health / true age stats (for what they're worth) are twenty years lower than when I started. I lost a lot of muscle, but as a percentage, my body fat is nearly half what it was when I started. 10/10 would do again.<p>Recomping is a huge struggle, you just can't eat enough to add muscle bulk. Cycling on and off is tough because if you don't taper off it, your body is like "thanks for ending that long term caloric deficit, have you heard of cake?". So you definitely need to approach the muscle mass question seriously, but in no world was I healthier back when I had an extra 10 to 20lbs of muscle, and the rest in fat. | null | null | 41,812,924 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,097 | comment | etimberg | 2024-10-11T20:01:13 | null | Time to switch my last machine that still uses Chrome as the default. | null | null | 41,809,698 | 41,809,698 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,098 | comment | NikkiA | 2024-10-11T20:01:13 | null | I wouldn't want to work anywhere that would reward choosing pizza hut. | null | null | 41,811,172 | 41,811,172 | null | null | null | null |
41,813,099 | comment | bravetraveler | 2024-10-11T20:01:17 | null | I can try! Your example is fairly generous. There are several reasons, some are less appropriate for a forum like this.<p>It's not so much reciprocity... but, some sort of personal investment. If I don't think someone is fully into <i>"$thing"</i>, then I'll save the spot for someone who is. There are shades to relationships, most of mine have not been great. It's a defense mechanism - I know I'm not the target.<p>I don't recommend any of this, really. Just to make considerations. I'm closer with some of my coworkers than most of my family, yet I'm not that keen. Most of the time, at least. It's strange. Incredibly dynamic.<p>I would benefit <i>greatly</i> from more people like you who actually do make an effort. Yet, I'd disappoint you and feel terrible about it. I think I'm always prepared for things to go south, expecting it - perhaps causing it. | null | null | 41,812,823 | 41,810,889 | null | null | null | null |
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