skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for linking this.

Sokushinbutsu (即身仏) are a kind of Buddhist mummy. In Japan the term refers to the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive.

This is so far from what the Buddha taught[1] that is shocking.

Mendicants, these two extremes should not be cultivated by one who has gone forth. What two? Indulgence in sensual pleasures, which is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. And indulgence in self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and pointless. Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One woke up by understanding the middle way of practice, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishment.

[1] SN 56.11: https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside...
For the interested do you have a set of sources?
I loathe the whole "guns on campus" debate because I think the discourse around it is at the absolute bottom of the barrel. Many of the common arguments I see on both sides and the gun policies that universities have about guns are just plain stupid. Not necessarily because I don't agree with them, but because they don't even make sense. This article is a good example.
Or a lot of difference in elevation. With 900m head you can get 8 MW from only 1.5 m^3/s in a pipe less than 2 feet in diameter.
I finished the book earlier this week, and can say it does distance itself from the initial chapters pretty quickly. They are important frames of reference, and I can definitely understand the authors reasons to include those ideas so prominently. Anthropology was developed as a western oriented study, and carries along with it many of the biases and assumptions that only Europeans could have endowed.

The political climates that existed during the colonization of the Americas played an important role in the evolution of modern cultures. The book is filled with examples of different societies and how they formed, and politics has played a role in ever single instance. Regardless of if you agree with the authors’ ideologies or not, they do a pretty good job of remaining neutral when examining historical evidence. I found it a nice change of pace from the typical “westernized” explanations of how civilizations (especially Native Americans) were structured.

Overall I think it’s an excellent read, well worth the investment.
> One thing opposition to any chemical electricity storage (hydrogen and other fuels) doesn't answer is: _how to transfer electricity across distances?_

For some countries this isn't even a problem so it doesn't need to be talked about. For example the amount of reusable energy available in the US covers all the needs in most areas.

Also you need to compare the reduced efficiency of building the renewable energy locally versus the energy lost in transporting that hydrogen and creation and use of the hydrogen. Creating the hydrogen is an especially inefficient process for example.
I’m going to hazard a guess at -9 months for both sexes? :P
Make it massively and cheaper is different to developing better one. So they now try to developing solid state battery but who knows will it success.
Battery based technology requires rare earth minerals which only a few countries control from what I understand. It is also not feasible due to weight to ship batteries to transfer power, you can only use them near the power source, is that not correct?

Desalination is desparately needed, one byproduct is hydrogen: https://scitechdaily.com/efficient-seawater-desalination-and...

Solutions that solve multiple problems and don't disrupt the norm are ideal are they not?

I mean, by all means, go to war with fossil fuel companies if your goal is only that but less people to fight means more practical change. I am hoping micro nuclear reactors become all the rage but even then a light fuel you can transport easily (despite the difficulty of efficiently transporting hydrogen) is sort of a battery except you can send lots of it continually.
This kind of custom content has always fascinated me.

Do you remember if there was a reason the Edith[0] tool didn’t ship with the original game? It seems like that would have encouraged some interesting mods and variations, by letting players change the interactions between objects in the game

[0]: http://simantics.wikidot.com/wiki:edith
[OP] I'm going back to consulting. It seems it's my only option if I plan on making an income sometime in the next 12 months.
You can't hide in startup animations - those aren't just waste those are core to the game. People react to them.

You hide it in an artificial buffer of input lag.

Even the GameCube on a CRT has a few of frames of lag. So a high refresh rate monitor can actually beat that, so you can use the difference to hide network latency and still have GameCube-on-a-CRT level latency.
The state provides a means of performing authentication. I'd imagine a 3rd party IDV service being in the loop for every social platform.
The majority of articles in peer-reviewed medical journals are also false.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004085

You can't take such articles seriously unless they have been independently reproduced multiple times. So, your hypothetical "ChatMD-GPT" would have to also filter on that basis and perhaps calculate some sort of confidence level.
Bicycling will get your legs absolutely shredded. Bouldering/rock climbing is really good whole body muscle conditioning.
is there a way to find new podcasts, on either listennotes or anywhere else?

i've tried seemingly everywhere, but no luck.
Guess the date those photos were taken at
Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?
I love how Bret Victor outlined the importance of programming transforming into a paradigm of direct data manipulation.

I'm much more curious about a programming paradigm that no longer uses text to communicate with computers but instead just directly manipulating data, receiving past, present, and future feedback of how it would change given your manipulations. Or to put it a different way "What if" feedback. "If you did this, the data would change in this way" is visualized across many different dimensions, allowing you to 'feel your way' through feedback where you wish to go.

In other words, you give your computer your input data, and you modify dimensions which allow you to specify what you want the program to do.

To be clear, I'm not searching for specialized interpretations of this "Oh someone did this with typography" or "Oh someone did this with a game" but rather some more generalizable form like "Someone tried to replace Python with an idea like this"

I suppose the nearest thing I can think of is manually modifying the parameters of a neural net but that's perhaps too cumbersome because there are so many. Perhaps if you can put an autoencoder on top of that, and reduce the parameters down to a smaller "meta" set of parameters that you can manipulate which manipulate the population of parameters in the larger neural net?

I'm just really curious if there have been instantiations along these lines (as opposed to code live-running with results on the sides).

I realize this is all quite difficult, may even seem 'impossible' to have some sort of generalizable system that does this for all sorts of programs. I've heard people say it can't be done, and code is the ideal format. I hold that in abeyance, I don't really know, but intrigued to discover those who have a counter perspective to that and have attempted to build something.

Also really curious if you know other similar people to Bret Victor I should check out!
They ought to embrace one of a myriad of cultures and belief systems that have historically proven to have proper birth rates. Instead, most modern 'developed' countries are running large-scale social experiments with never-before-tried social policies.
It's like code... code can be out of date after a while, too. The question is how easy it is to keep it updated and current. I think that's the biggest argument behind diagrams as code. Imagine you throw away your codebase each time you deploy your executable.
Most fighting games tick at 60fps. It's plenty fast and you don't need more granularity than 1/60 of a second for precision gameplay (imo).

You want high refresh rate with 60fps tick rate though to avoid dropping frames due to refresh differences.
Moving out of social will turn out to be their big mistake. They should have stayed persistent. The data is the new king and absolute differentiator in the world of AI. Facebook is fortunately sleeping at wheel. Musk is quickly realizing how important this is and have already turned off 3rd party access.
Right, I get that, but the thing people value (I think) is the recipe itself, which is also the part that can be copied (when separated from the opinions and subjective perceptions, which I suspect most people don't care about).
I agree. I bet on hydrogen by purchasing a new Toyota Mirai two months ago. The reason I purchased a Mirai instead of a BEV is because I am an apartment dweller with no convenient charging options available to me; my landlord has no plans to install any charging units anytime soon and relocating is very expensive (I live in Santa Cruz County). My employer also lacks chargers. Hydrogen-powered cars are good in situations where BEVs would be impractical or inconvenient, such as those who lack charging options at home or at work. In addition, I'm concerned about the effects of proverbially "putting all of our eggs in one basket." We should have a mixture of energy sources to accommodate the wide range of use cases that drivers have.

Unfortunately at this time hydrogen is extremely expensive. A kilogram of hydrogen, roughly equivalent to a gallon of gas in energy, costs $26.75 at True Zero hydrogen stations, which is extremely expensive and is a massive price hike from $19.70/kg back when I purchased my Mirai two months ago. I'm still thinking whether purchasing a Mirai was a good financial decision for me, but I hope things will turn around in 2024.
Do you have any tools or guides to recommend for devs wanting to learn how to create "C4" documentation?
Here's the Problem - Solution:

Imagine going back and forth for recurring 1:1 meetings in your email for your team. Now imagine working in a remote team with different timezones. Now imagine arranging an ad hoc team meeting that was not planned for your remote team.

How do you get everyone together without disturbing their work flow (aka tasks)?

Use AI to find open slots from everyone's calendar and move things around if possible to find a good spot for everyone.

Add tasks on your calendar from any app. Let the AI scheduler move around these task events while still giving you time to get them done.

Now take this even a step further with events that are modifiable and can be placed somewhere else based on your priorities. Let all of this happen automagically for you on a daily basis before work starts.
Yep, same thing happened in my brain. Maybe Timer Train instead? And play with the double meaning of train as in practice and get better, and train as in when all the cars are hooked up and going in the same direction on the same track you can move a heck of a lot of freight and people.
This doesn’t make sense to me. Hydrogen is not an energy source — it’s a way to store energy and make it portable. So Japan could import hydrogen (which is not obviously any better than importing LNG or oil), or Japan could make it from domestic or imported energy sources (nuclear, solar, wind, imported oil, imported LNG, etc).

Turning electricity into hydrogen and then into motive power for a car is dramatically less efficient than using a battery, and car commutes in Japan are on the short side, so huge batteries wouldn’t be as necessary. I don’t think petroleum-derived hydrogen is much more efficient, if at all, than just burning the petroleum in an ICE.

So the only way this seems like a win for Japan is if electricity were cheap, battery EVs were not economical, and the loss associated with electrically synthesized hydrogen didn’t matter.
> Some big hollywood production like for example Passengers where there are barely more than three actors visible in the whole film.

I agree with your general comment but in Passengers it was really central to the overall plot and premise. It's not a good example of this phenomenon.

I don't think this was drive for budgetary reasons, that film clearly had a huge budget looking at the visuals.

As for money, Hollywood should be much less dependent on 'A-listers' and tap unknown talent. This will also make the 'A-listers' cheaper and stop this annoying thing where you see the same faces in every movie, often cast more for the name than for best fit to the role.
Toyota may or may not be reluctant to do a massive retooling, but have you looked at a Mirai? It’s an EV that happens to be powered by a fuel cell.
> I didn't know Toyota was a fossil fuel company, or was owned by one?

huh? what did i miss?
Kaillera is legendary. Let me play Smash 64 with friends online as a teen.
I did something similar for a selection of popular books.

I'm curious about what others think of response quality. Especially if you've read the book.

https://www.konjer.xyz/
Can see it already. Sounds like a breakthrough in urban warfare. Swarm of drones flying around mapping enemy positions live like a video game. Scary
What about methane?

There are already commercial processes in place to capture it from landfills, and there are industrial processes that can produce it from hydrogen with an 8% energy loss. So if the green hydrogen problem is solved that could be used here.

A lot of Asian countries already have cars that run directly on CNG - from the factory -, as it produces less smog than petrol or diesel. I visited India recently, and I'd say 80% of vehicles I saw ran on CNG (they have a hazard label).

Maybe the most important thing is the infrastructure to distribute it is already there in most countries.
Give every point in the Sphere B a room in the infinity hotel. If the room number is odd, it belongs to sub-sphere B1, otherwise sub-sphere B2.

Odd things happen when you divide by infinity.
That reminds me of traffic light controllers at intersections. There's often a main controller, and then also a safety monitor that simply watches for invalid combinations, such as original orthogonal traffic both getting greens.
The difference is that GM wasn’t all-in on one technology. The Hy-Wire was over a decade after GM’s first EV concept and half a decade after their first production EV. Those were held back by battery technology but they got plenty of experience to prepare for their successful current generation.

Toyota seems to be missing that second step: where’s the follow up to the Prius which forgoes the cost of the gas engine for people who don’t need extreme range?
That is exactly the problem and indicates a lack of grand vision. Releasing hodgepodge of internal projects is not same as rebuilding AI-first products.
I recommend starting by reducing all the problems mentioned in the book "The Captured Economy", in particular residential zoning restrictions, occupational licensing (for all but the most safety relevant professions), and patent reform.

To that I would add, significantly simplify all laws, processes, and forms so that the average person (or preferably even a person 1 standard deviation below average) can start a business without consulting a lawyer.
That's a very high level of confidence you have about a simple "cure" for a disease that many millions suffer from and is very widely known. Call me skeptical.
The evidence for treating and reversing type 2 with a plant based diet is staggering.

Whether you want to treat it with plants or some other diet (the evidence is strong with both vegan and omnivorous diets, the emphasis seems to be food diversity, whole foods, and perhaps some modicum of calorie restriction) is fine. It can be done.

Though, in defence of those suffering, the psychological component of developing and acquiring full fledged type 2 diabetes due to poor diet is no small feat to contend with. It can be done, but it takes a lot of confidence in advice given, support from those around you, and the sense that there’s real purpose and value in following through on such a large lifestyle change. At the moment it seems society is severely deficient in these pieces of the recovery puzzle.
Melbourne, Australia had lockdowns that lasted around a year, split over multiple lockdowns.
From the report:

> The government’s strategy neglects green hydrogen and prioritizes fossil fuel-derived gray and blue hydrogen. It neglects the development of renewable energy sources, reflecting the government’s skewed energy strategy that has set low targets for the deployment of renewables for both 2030 and 2050.

Basically, they’re saying: stop allocating resources to alternative H2 production methods, focus all the money you have on the renewables, the field we are massively investing into.

On the face of it sounds like a decent argument, but I doubt the reality is as simple as they put it. In particular how much renewables will be able to cover Japan’s energy consumption is largely up for debate (the reports pans the slow pace of H2 technology research, but we’re not there yet with the renewables either).

“stop diversifying your efforts and put all your eggs in one(our) basket” is always a dubious message IMHO.
> And this is probably not true, since "Code Red" has a very specific meaning internally that doesn't apply here

Don't be intentionally vague. What is a 'code red'?
Only your parents had to sell the house to pay for outrageous end of life medical bills.
Tech layoffs are growing by Phil Siarri
Not gonna lie and pretend I know how it works but qemu is capable of passing USB devices into VMs while they are connected and visible to the host kernel, and this works perfectly for me for joysticks, steering wheels and other shit

For mouse and keyboard I just use the evdev forwarding thing where you press both ctrl keys to swap between host and guest
So you're building Snowflake. I love the idea... Lots of room to scale this to a unicorn.
Ironically, a badly designed modern website turns me away. (sometimes because the thing literally doesn't work)

I remember trying to book a place and there was some issue with the z-index and I couldn't click to confirm the dates on the pop-up calendar. Made me wonder how much $$$ they could be losing because the % of people willing/know how to delete the offending element must be pretty small.

I agree 100% with what you're saying though. Older websites appear more "complex" to a lot of people. There's good middle grounds though. The new netflix for iOS is really nice, imo. Leans more towards form but still functions very well.
Why do these articles always attract glib and judgemental comments from people who have no personal experience with type 2 diabetes and whose study of the issue amounts to "a few things I read about this a while ago."
I’ve lost (and kept off for a few years) 20+ lbs a couple times in my life. Each time by rigorously logging calories and less rigorously doing strength training and running.

I’ve found myself again in a position where I want to lose about 20 lbs, but I find logging calories is such an unbelievable drag. It forces me to think about food all the time, meticulously breaking down every meal and putting it into an app. I think this ends up making me more hungry.

This time around I’m just trying to do common sense approaches to restricting calories: don’t snack in between meals or after dinner, skip breakfast 4/5 days a week, almost no alcohol. So far it’s been just as effective as logging calories but much more pleasant.
Interesting, definitely down to talk about this more!
I'm saying there's a conversation to be had about off-shoring labor, but the parent comment basically said "no, all criticism is bullying, and bullying is wrong."
Uh, where? Manaos?
For reference, every thousand steps burns about 40 Calories. So a 5km walk can be negated with a single donut.
Live chat is terrible if you want to build an async community where browsing is the primary thing people do. Chat doesn’t preserve anything in an easily findable way, doesn’t organize things into topics, isn’t easy to go back to.

I can’t stand the move “communities” have made to chat interfaces. It’s like if someone said “what if we replaced all libraries with just a warehouse full of people talking”. Chat communities are a significant step back in terms of knowledge transfer and creation and I think are more a highlight of how anti social the world is becoming.
external peripherals is probably the easy part, given that usb passthrough almost always "just works" in my experience. The bigger problem is getting GPU passthrough working.
i've def thought of using this before, but couldn't quite figure out if i trusted it.

so far, nope!

i appreciate that the site looks clean/barebones, but the logo is _so_ barebones -- just text -- that i thought... oh, this is just unsupported, someone thought of doing it, good idea, but then it didn't make any money, so they bailed, no harm no foul, wonder if someone else will do it b/c it's really needed.

i've had various extensions over the years that i wanted to build out, or pay someone else to build out, but there was no way to recoup my investment.

maybe i'll give it another look.
Yes. You can buy access to Listen Notes' data:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-datasets/solutions/
We actually have good data on this. Very little efficiency is lost in many cases - only around 14%:

https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html

See also here, where wasm2c is the fastest wasm runtime:

https://00f.net/2023/01/04/webassembly-benchmark-2023/

There are of course cases that can be slower, like code that depends heavily on SIMD, as wasm support for SIMD is still being improved. But in general compiling to wasm as an intermediary IR and then using an optimizing compiler can lead to very fast code.
The scientific evidence of treating type 2 diabetes with diet isn’t hard to find. What’s hard to find is people with type 2 diabetes who are in the presence of people who will encourage them to change their lifestyles, support them, and help keep them on track. This is why there are millions of people suffering in the first place.

There’s a prolific culture that’s conducive to sickness and suffering, in large part due to diet, but the causes aren’t readily evident or understood by the people inside that culture. That needs to be overcome before any significant progress will be made in treating people with nutrition.
Ok and? Wish we would recognize that these individuals will be fine? He's been at Google for 17 years. Surely he's a multi-millionaire by now and can vacate for someone else.
My area experienced a hospital overload and that was very debilitating. No emergency services were available and that influenced people’s behaviors way more than the local lockdown order.

This was the worst case scenario that the lockdown orders were made to avoid.

In hindsight, I’m more so annoyed that additional healthcare capacity hasn't occurred, 3 years in. All the time borrowed and none of it used.

To your credit, I do wonder if a month or two of debilitated emergency services in a Darwinian surge would have been better. The purge still happened, just took longer and SOME people got more fine tuned treatments by getting sick later, at the expense of healthier people having missed screenings for longer.
Building energy efficient homes also does that. No need to over complicate the situation.