skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I specifically, for this reason, not to mistake my (not even opinions but just thoughts) with this disclaimer:

> Given this I wonder if it is possible at least for some people with diabetes...

I am fully aware that diabetes is a dangerous, life threatening condition and that you can't do the same things that are totally fine for a healthy person.

And while I do not agree with some of the treatments for diabetes, it is just my own opinion and everybody is responsible for their own health and in doubt they should follow their health professional's advice.

Now... given the above disclaimer so that nobody confuses what I am about to write as an actual medial advice... I have just lost 1/3rd of my body weight and feeling absolutely fantastic by doing exactly the opposite to what health professionals are saying. I also observe a lot of people struggling to get any lasting effects by following the popular, official advice. I am angry and feeling powerless to the inertia of the health establishment and forces that do not really want people to get healthy but would rather avoid change that would disrupt their jobs, keep pushing medication that could be easily avoided for most of the people.

I have learned that so many "professionals" do not really understand what they are talking about. And it should not be a surprise, when you go to multiple "professionals" for advice and they give you opposite advice.

Just yesterday I had to visit an ophthalmologist to remove a foreign object from my eye (a piece of eyelash that got stuck for the past week). I had to spend at least 20 minutes to hear his ranting about how improper glasses I wear and how this is going to damage my vision. About a year ago I red (here on HN) that you can actually reduce your shortsightedness by slowly reducing the strength of your glasses which I have been doing successfully for the past year. I went from -3 diopters to -2 diopter glasses. I am currently seeing perfectly with -2.25 diopter glasses and I am using slightly lower strength for most of the day except for driving a car. Some of the stuff he said is that "This has been proven not to work by a study X", and "This is going to my shortsightedness to only deepen" (when exactly opposite has been happening) and that "If there are any result this is only my imagination" and "If I am seeing well at -2.25 it must be because my previous prescription of -3 diopters was wrong".

I am grateful that I am intelligent person that can read and make my own opinions but I am dismayed that people who can't do the same have to rely on those fucking idiots for their health.
Could this be used for creating a memory system, with weights, and the ability to rewind thought chains? Would you be interested in partnering up ? I'm not a database dev, but I have some great ideas, and I'm already reaching out to investors to build something in AI, and have a partner potentially. I'd love to build a database that is basically like the midbrain of AI, a database hybrid that is built specifically for AI memories, and memory relations. If you're open to collaborating and building a product, perhaps my ideas could be a good 'test case' and be mutually beneficial to all of us. email : patrickwcurl - gmail.
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Yeah 13.2km/l for a diesel is quite terrible if we’re talking regular cars. I personally average in the 20 to 25 range with mine.
OP here: yeah.. basically this.
While you cannot fire everyone in the same second, you can have batches over a few days. There's no need for waves that span over months. If anything, the risk of IP theft is much bigger if people have weeks of uncertainty if they'll be affected by the next layoff.
No, the number for gasoline is missing one zero; with the correct number, gasoline is still 6-8 times more energy dense per kg.
I worked at Yahoo, and it was Perl and PHP. Sheer madness.

Their were some talented folks but I'd like them more to cowboys - git'r done instead disciplined engineers.

Lots of production applications that had the code quality of your typical hacky side project.

I once had a debate with my manager about classes/OOP in PHP5. He didn't like it because it usually meant having separate files and includes per class, and he likes to have all code for a PHP page in a single pane in Vim. "But Kenny it's all in one file, everything I need to work on is right here!"

I still laugh about that.
It feels like this should be manageable without completely removing CAN interfaces from peripheral systems by having multiple busses that are interconnected to each other. Things like lights and wing mirrors can sit on a low security peripheral network, with the controller rejecting any commands that aren't whitelisted, it's not like you need to be able to plug arbitrary devices into your headlight socket.
CAN message usually has max 8 bytes, how would you sign it to actually transfer some useful data and without signature being laughably simple to crack?
That's one way of looking at it, but remember that Electron is better and free even if you don't release your code. On mobile, you have Flutter, React Native... In this situation, why would anybody want to go with Qt, unless they have an existing, legacy codebase? Who's starting new projects in Qt?
It's not a HN-exclusive thing. This is just the universal take on weight loss which happens to also pervade throughout HN.

Weight loss always creates an enormously contentious discussion because for so many people it is interpreted as a personal indictment of their choices and behaviour.

I fully agree with your whole post, from a background of general fitness (healthy diet, heavy daily exercise), and because I've been through the process of losing weight. It was difficult (at first), and is still sometimes difficult maintaining it.

If I hadn't experienced that weight loss experience (and the success it brought), and if I ate worse, didn't exercise, and weighed 10kg+ more, I'm sure something in my brain would probably lean me towards disagreeing with the simple model of weight loss. I'm sure I'd also look for blame elsewhere and look for workarounds, which a multi-million dollar industry would happily (not) provide.

Humans are funny.
Here is an illustration and explanation: https://web.mnstate.edu/houtsli/tesl551/Writing/images/glyph...

The whole page: https://web.mnstate.edu/houtsli/tesl551/Writing/page4.htm
I think their plan was to attract js developers, letting the C++ code to be hidden behind a curtain and the UI stuff to be written in js.

But since to run it still needs a main() to call the QML part, probably js developers stay as far away from it as possible.
OP here: funny you should say that.. I did EF actually (and ended up with a similar story, i.e. failed startup :D see https://danielhomola.com/startups/learning/my-startup-failed...)

Anyways, I'd never do an accelerator kinda thing again or even take funding unless it makes a ton of sense.. turns out there are a lot of business (not unicorns) you can build with a buddy on the side and not get caught up in the craziness of raising, posturing, raising again, playing someone else's game, etc..
A puzzle game I made in Flash in highschool in 2005 (Psychopath) was rebuilt last year by someone who played it in highschool. I have been working with him on it too (shameless plug: https://pathology.gg). Many of the original people that played it back in the day have actually come back which is crazy to me.

Without downloading Macromedia Flash MX in highschool I would never have built Psychopath, Obechi, Boomshine... flash games that changed my life and made me want to be a game developer & programmer.

The creativityand ability to built a Flash game or animation in many different ways was why it was so great.

Many people do not realize that Flash used to be MORE ubiquitous than almost ANY softwar in the world (If I recall Macromedia released some stat around 96% of computers had Flash installed). Meaning you could depend on flash being installed on a device more than Javascript, Java, or any particular browser or operating system.

Miss those days dearly
Yes, that one is (from its specs sheet) only a mix of (volatile) solvents, it should not leave any residues after evaporation.
Don’t think this is true. Facebook has released both llama and segement-anything after ChatGPT took off, with llama being half-open and s-a being fully open. I think apart from google which worries about openai producing a google killer the show will go on. Facebook doesn’t sell language models or image models, its not a threat to their business.
OP here: how would that actually work? Writing an email to them, saying: "hey do you wanna buy some source code?" seems the only (but also bad) way :D
I was able to try the perl versions and only the chatgpt is working (I have no experience in perl to check myself)
> jurors are not allowed to use a dictionary to define words they don't understand

Is this the "no outside information rule" ?

I just asked the oracle and it explained a bunch of stuff that I won't reference because I can't fact check it right now, but it sounds like the amount of "discretion" a judge has over what the jurors can do and ask is utterly illogical.

Not a lawyer, but I just looked up juror selection and found this hot pocket.

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/new-california-laws-on-...

US law is such a mess. "Standing" is IMO the biggest one for blocking the removal of bad laws.
US warship collides with tugboat in disastrous launch
just take a couple of engineers and ask them to solve real world problems.
Good fun! I created a subreddit called r/guessthegame a long time ago, but it never went anywhere.
In the past, it was audio dialogue what could get lost in the background environment or music in films and series, which I assumed was some kind of unfixed algorithmic decoding problem that inexperienced editors hadn't considered before releasing the final product, but lately it's also happening with images of entire films that have been color corrected or even filmed to dark tones, making them physically unwatchable.

I think that trying to fix this with algorithms (filters) is a waste because it introduces artifacts. The source of the problem should be what needs to be addressed. I think one way to do it would be not to consume such products and to spread about why.
My understanding is that hieroglyphics can be read and written in either direction, and that the animal characters in particular give it away, if they're face right you read from the right and vice versa.
Ah, that is true. Would be better if they switched to the version dates.
14-18k more than it would be in another city.
Yes, they not complicated, and I imagine it's a non issue for most.

The interface is awkward however in that in other languages you would overload the function or pass a data structure, or reference of one, to manage additional optional parameters when you didn't want the extra arguments explicitly listed.

Python is a popular language and there are a ton of contributors who have developed third party packages. Unfortunately, these are not always well written or maintained and it can be easy to stumble across a bad one when looking for useful things. It's never fun to debug code in an unfamiliar language.
You don't need to sign all messages. Only those coming from the critical component, like the key fob, and the only parts that need to check signatures are the critical ones from the perspective of theft.

Once you replace the key fob, you must reprogram your engine ignition.

What prevents a thief from reprogramming the engine ignition for some other key? The same thing that prevents the thief from starting ignition manually: it's buried in the car. Notice that in this case, thieves rely on CAN buses running in easily accessible places.

If the thief can access your car's ignition directly, you can't stop them anyway.
> What magical property of fossil fuels is needed to mine?

Energy density. You need large amounts of energy throughout the mining and refining process. Digging, grinding, washing, refining, transporting - all done with petrol and gas. The energy density of solar & wind is just not there.

> Large mining corporations seem to be on the leading edge of decarbonisation.

Source?

> After all, who wants to ship fuel miles out into the desert and then burn it in an enclosed underground space when you can use solar panels and electric motors?

1. Most mining operations today are open mines. 2. Petrol is burned in ICE digging and grinding machines. 3. If you want to mine in the desert you also need large amounts of water in order to wash the ores. Just look at what's happening in Chile [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1123564599/chile-lithium-mini...
"Lobbying ecosystem" is nice term to describe a corrupt economy. Next time IMF asks for some meaningful reforms in my country, we can reply to them that we have a lobbying ecosystem, duh.
This actually works fine with latin letters. Think of for example advertising or graffiti where this trick is used sometimes to gain attention.
This is news. The people doing the hiring aren't the ones who posted it. Inkscape is an open source project, and is older than YC and unrelated to it.
Voters that seem to care more about who did what wrong than actually getting stuff done ;)
No, they have exactly same problems as regular OEMs

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348765/tesla-model-y-un...
Friends dont let friends write perl. Source: The legendary "Perl Jam" talk from the chaos communication congress.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQcWra6sbU
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPvORV2Amic

Also I find the "ubiquity" argument very side loped. What I could agree with is "small/self-contained install" (e.g. small single executable available for many platforms). But not sure how well perl fares there.
It's more like once it's established it's hard to change - if you started listing 'miles per litre' that would be like it was 'designed to hide the cost of driving', because I would have no idea how that compared.

(Quite normally for my age in the UK I think, I'm familiar with both metric & Imperial measurements, but generally fairly bad at converting. Except I know 568ml = 1 (UK! Not US!) pint - for which I can thank my alma mater Imperial and its student bars: Metric, and FiveSixEight. I could probably guess effectively at lbs and kg from butter/flour. Of course I know 2.54cm = 1". A yard is 'a bit' less than 1m. It's the bigger ones that seem more obscure/are harder to work out from familiarity I suppose.)
For the life of me I couldn't cope with western bar notations especially regarding polyrhythms/polymeters trying to follow accents and groupings ... it gets unwieldy

So in the spirit of "pass the goddamn butter" [0] I was introduced to konnakol via this book [1] some time ago.
There seems to be a lot of truth in the the notion: "if you can say it you can play it". Once I can "vocalize it" it is way easier to translate that into the instrument itself. It is very intuitive to learn this e.g. the "takadimi" route.

[A pretty fun dissection of a Meshuggah song with the help of konnakol.][2]

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NI4QAh_V3w

[1]https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Ta-This-Precision/dp/19300800...

[2]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2iyd2zkgOU0
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There's nothing that says that of course, but my RAM says fooey to webapping a tool like Inkscape. I use it almost every day, I just finished using it to make a poster where I needed to print out a hi-res background with text that would be in juuuuust the right position for me to use my typewriter to type on it and have that text end up in exactly the right place, then scanned that at 1200dpi and used inkscape to crop and export the final piece.

I do not think my browser is ready for an 8000x8000 raster image with svg clipping etc. Not to mention the ungodly large bitmap traces, with hundreds of thousands of nodes...

A browser tool like Inkscape would be cool and useful. But no replacement.
google and wolfram alpha tells me one fully tanked 737 stores 16 tons of kerosene, which translates to 261.1 GJ at 35% efficiency (72.5 MWh). doesn't sound too far off. assuming the same energy will be required for an electric airliner and you want to charge it to full in an hour... you probably need much more than 72.5MW power plant per aircraft because fast charging is nonlinear...? numbers which are hard to comprehend at scale in any case
You can send the command and signature split over multiple messages. It is already common to tunnel other data over CAN with this method.
Hybrids almost never emit carbon though. Because they're almost always running from the battery that you charged up from the wall before leaving home for your daily commute. And the daily commute is less, or maybe a little over the battery range. If it isn't then you have bought the wrong car, if you goal is carbon neutrality.

You can use a smaller battery, which means using less rare materials that are very expensive. There are a lot of indirect emissions with electric vehicles, and it's important to look at the big picture.
In the heading of this article Long COVID is the ‘often debilitating disease’. But then later on you have it if you have a slight headache for 2 months.
Why would it only be interesting at that point? At 500wh/kg, if the cost is low enough, you're already going to eliminate fossil fuels from basically everything except long range flights and shipping.

> Half the weight and double the range would be great

You don't need to quadruple energy density to achieve that. If you just half the weight (without increasing the total amount of energy in the battery), you're going to significantly increase range. The less weight you have, the less energy you need to move the vehicle.

> Plus, electrified ultralight "aircraft" start to have numerous advantages over the traditional 2 stoke engines.

I think you'll have plenty of benefits with ~300wh/kg (that's the target for many useful eVTOL aircraft).

The key challenge is you should redesign the whole aircraft around electric flight to get the full benefits. Look at NASAs Maxwell X-57 for an example of how that could look.

With 500wh/kg you can start taking over most regional flights. Yes, the range won't be as good as jet planes. But jet planes have FAR more range than they need because they don't design a special purpose aircraft for shorter range. They just put less fuel in.

But it'll probably take 10-20 years regardless of when we get good batteries because it'll take a long time to design and certify the aircrafts.
I'm with you. I stopped watching not because of the visuals (which I hated - I immediately got eyestrain - but I can appreciate others might like them), but because I reached the point in the video where I wanted to know how much longer there was. I was interested enough for a couple more minutes, but for all I know, this doesn't get to the point until 10 minutes in. I just don't want that in my life.

Everything on the 'different' list is unambiguously bad to me except maybe the compression thing. I don't want effects that change with zoom settings - that just excludes people who need to be zoomed in to see stuff.

I'm not happy that Flash died. I spent a lot of time playing really fun games in Flash. I'm happy this can exist, but please let's keep doing video essays in videos. That said, now I know Newgrounds still exists I wonder if I can find the impossible quiz...
The link was timing out for me (HN hug of death?), so here's an archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230421094510/https://president...
The original joke has been discussed by RMS: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html
As a chemist, I like it when something related to my area of work pops up on Hacker news!
12700 doesn't include all the diesel engine parts. Also, electric motors much more efficient.

Still, your point stands.
Thanks for sharing, that looks great! That Datapane example is more a hello world web app that runs Python code in the backend (so requires a backend server - Fly.io in this example).

An example of a standalone report would be something like this, from one of our users: https://cloud.datapane.com/reports/dkjbvwk/literature-in-blo... (code: https://github.com/ryancahildebrandt/hanakotoba) or https://cloud.datapane.com/reports/aAMaqoA/when-fact-is-fals...
It is a sign of the success of the oil industry that this analysis always takes the cost of electricity generation back to the source, but assumes that fuel stations pump from a perfect source of naturally refined/distilled hydrocarbons.

It is surprisingly difficult to get numbers on how much oil is used to extract, refine and transport oil.

The best I found was this:

https://www.speakev.com/threads/energy-required-to-refine-oi...

Does anyone have better numbers?
I hear this argument often, but I haven't heard a convincing argument. Why? Lack of storage? No. Lack of computing power or RAM? No. Then?
If you think they're missing a brand they have a form here to ask them to add new brands:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt2aXH-AnZkjTaqJKH...

There's also an email address where I suppose you could send correction requests:

hello@fictionalbrandsarchive.com
Similar concept to this which has you guessing game cover art. https://www.gamedle.wtf/#
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Some time ago I lived with a Mongolian student for a while and I was really surprised to find out that Cyrillic is the default alphabet in the country.

My language is written in Cyrillic and while most Cyrillic languages come from the same Slavic language family, Mongolian has very little similarities with the rest.
I suppose they're talking about utilitarianism? But that's hand wavey math at best. Eg the whole "torture someone for 50 years or remove a speck of dust from trillions of eyeballs" debate. Those who chose the torture see utility as strictly additive and I'm not aware of any strict definition of utility which requires this. So any math in that instance is built on a shaky or even illusionary foundation.
I love all the amazing inspirational open source examples of generative procedural art and artificial life that Jared Tarbell published on his web site https://levitated.net .

It opened my eyes to using Flash for procedural graphics and simulations, instead of just using timelines like a glorified graphical player piano, or like a BASIC program full of GOTO spaghetti rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise (which is how Macromedia founder Marc Canter described Director's Lingo, which also used frame numbers like BASIC line numbers).

Jared went on to do a lot more amazing stuff in Processing, co-founded Etsy, and built a toy factory!

https://www.artnome.com/news/2020/8/24/interview-with-genera...

https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-ar...

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2018/speakers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_-9UWkgDf8
Can neural networks extrapolate? Discussion of a theorem by Pedro Domingos ('22)
You know that it actually is whitelisted by its CAN ID, but ECU can't tell where the command came from.
Perl offer auto looping : perl -n or perl -p. Typically one-liners are `perl -n -e 's/foo/bar/g'` or similar.
> the US pollutes more than anywhere else.

Do you have a source for this claim? In my limited searching China exceeds the US in pollution. My sources could be biased, so I would be happy to take a look at yours.
It's such a small subset that it would more accurately be described as a scripting language with syntax similar to python for single file scripts.
Not sure if this is intentional, but the link redirects in such a way that it breaks the back button, which is annoying.
IDK which one was first, but "Alpha Industries" exists as a mil-tech fashion brand: https://www.alphaindustries.eu/uk

Even the logo is kind of similar.
UK was legally obliged to by the EU. See the "metric martyrs" for how weirdly controversial this all was.
Thanks. I should have fact-checked the number before doing the math :)