skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This approach is generally referred to the calorie-in/calorie-out (CICO) model. While true to an extent, this perspective is too simplistic, given one key fact: leptin is primarily produced in adipose tissue [1]. This fact means body fat is actually an endocrine system organ.

This part I think needs more explanation. The reason calories-in/calories-out model is too simplistic (I would call it almost useless if not completely wrong) is because of mitochondrial uncoupling proteins [1] that control how much energy in the protein gradient gets converted to ATP and how much is lost to waste heat. These uncoupling proteins are upregulated by leptin so when your leptin levels fall, your body literally changes how efficient its metabolism is to do more work with fewer calories. Body fat isn't just an endocrine organ, it might be the primary metabolic controller with a nasty catch 22 feedback loop - which would help explain why a certain minimum percentage of body fat is required or else a person enter organ failure.

That's why there are some people who don't seem to gain much weight despite eating a lot of food: their bodies are naturally less efficient and lose a lot more energy to thermogenesis. Without taking that metabolic adaptation into account, CICO is nothing but harmful dogma that needs to die. Otherwise people are fighting what might be one of the most important biological adaptations humans have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncoupling_protein
It would be interesting to see how consistent this data might be with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson#Mathemati...
Would anyone else recommend the book?
Could be the result of hiring bunch of mediocre developers that are getting pumped out of universities these days.
Here's a paper on cultures that practice persistence hunting in the modern age:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/508695
Quite a lot of aggressors consider themselves to be righteous ad good when they attack some unpopular person/people.

The paradox of intolerance stems from the 1930s. When we stay there for a bit longer - do you think that the participants of the Kristallnacht considered themselves evil? No, they were brainwashed into thinking that they were righteous, fighting to save their country from corruption and evil brought upon it by ... their victims, who "had it coming".

"We are fighting for a just and important cause!" or "We are protecting the vulnerable!" means precisely nothing from the mouths of a mob. A mob is mostly a psychopathic entity that just seeks rationalizations for its outpouring of violence.
I suspect the Netflix recommendations system would be excellent if they had a catalog to back it. But the Netflix catalog is of such poor quality that even a perfect recommendation system ends up recommending garbage because it's all they have.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but from a bit of looking around it seems Stride is using Mono as a runtime for on mobile platforms like iOS. [0] So similar to Unity (which worked around this using their IL2CPP backend) it actually is behind Godot in terms of C# language / feature support.
It is true that Godot community only started to get serious about C#, but they have a good pace, and already have support for the latest .NET with AOT.

Personally I have no interest in GDScript, but I recently ported a rather large C# code-base from Unity to Godot and I never had to touch GDScript. So it can happily be ignored.
In general it took me less time to rewrite the code-base then implementing some of the workarounds for missing features in Unity (e.g. HTTP2) in the first place.

[0] https://github.com/stride3d/stride/issues/2069
Weird, the link-rot must have happened in the last *checks timestamps* 26 days or so, I just assumed it would still work.
Easy, just move the volcanoes
My reply to him addresses this. Intermittent fasting works better than starvation.
How do you disambiguate "political" content from "content people want to share?"

The hard thing about "getting politics out of X" is that every time people are involved, politics is involved. Politics is just what people think the group should be.

> The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.

No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."
Is there any format for a .com that isn't just a headerless chunk of x86 code??

(Which also means it's extremely difficult to determine if a .com file really is an executable--there's no signature. It either decodes or it doesn't--and most bytes decode correctly because you want to pack the commands in as densely as possible. Things which will not decode are packing inefficiencies.)

(And back from the Z80 days I remember very carefully crafting assembly code that could be embedded in a BASIC program without causing it to puke. Some commands were unavailable and some values were not permitted--amongst them, zero.)
> Iron Truth claims its tech industry back channels have led to the removal of roughly 1,000 posts tagged by its members as false, antisemitic, or “pro-terrorist” across platforms such as X, YouTube, and TikTok.

Does anyone know if that’s a lot? I don’t know either way. I just have a gut feeling that compared to the number of posts made by bots on any political matter it barely matters.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more efficient to counter with more bots going in the other direction with likes and posts.
ionization smoke detectors and radium clock dials come to mind, neither of which are banned in the U.S., although you won't find any new radium dials.
That's enough to lift 8.64 apples 1 meter high once a day.
US transportation grounds Boeing 737 MAX 9
It can be that I do not go there voluntarily but if I end up there them I'm going to report racist and genocidal content presented there.
> I've seen a rust database tui that looks nuts. Was developed around the same time I made mine.

Which one is that?
You can think, how much would their marketing team have to spend to get the same results that the algorithm contract gave. I'm not a marketing expert, but I'm sure they have metrics like consumer sentiment, name recognition, number of users visiting the site, google search trends, etc. There could also be benefits in recruitment, and that can be estimated based on how much you'd have to pay an external recruiter to bring in candidates the applied, or other things like that.

It was in the news a lot, and was discussed on a lot of tech sites. Plus it gets people talking about their recomendation algorithm, and makes people thing Netflix subscription is more valuable becasue it recommends good shows. It wouldn't be cheap to get the amount of media that they got through more traditional marketing.
It would actually be slightly useful, if you could actually see the thumbs up/down ratio, but they pulled a Youtube.
What phone are you using? It seems fine on my old iPhone mini.
Hawaii, a remote island in the middle of the pacific, pays less than the 2024 pg&e prices for the bay area. PG&E are the worst.
What hard lifting?
Flat rate egress.
If this "Iron Truth" is a smoke screen to remove any information that is true and sympathetic to Palestinians through mis-categorizing and mis-labeling and that is not hateful then it is a system of oppression and must be stopped.
I looked at the specs. It's a BananaPi R3 mini with stuff added that nobody will ever use. I can't really find a use for such a device, unless you're the maintainer for some kernel driver used on that board.

Compared to an ordinary router:

1) There's a bit more powerful CPU, barely enough for TOR or wireguard VPN. Doesn't say anything about hardware crypto.

2) There's 1 GB RAM, way too much for basic routing, barely enough for TOR, barely enough to run a webserver, but not both.

3) There's NVME storage as an option, but NVME is too small, too expensive, and MUCH too fast for a NAS with that kind of networking, and there's no USB3 or eSATA to connect external storage such as a large HDD or a DAS.

4) I assume that the wifi chip (only one?) is soldered. If the driver ever becomes unmaintained, like it happend with mwlwifi, you throw the router into the garbage.

5) It doesn't even have a network switch.

6) They plan to load it with various features (serial, USB debug, JTAG (ffs! why??)) that only devs will ever use, and only until they get it booting. No use for all that once it boots reliably.

7) Modbus? Who uses that!? I want mPCIe, GPIOs, I2c, SPI, serial (other than the debug port), RS485, you know... actually useful stuff!

8) And there's RTC on a device that 99.9999% of users will connect to the internet. Why? For the rare situations when it boots after a power failure before the ISP network is up? If it had SPI/I2c out, there are Raspberry Pi RTC modules that could be added for $1.

9) The price: 100$ is waaaay to much for something that's only a micro-router. GL-MT3000 is in the same price category and has USB3.

My ideal router would have:

- 2 GHz 4 core armv8 CPU, or at least 2 core armv7+vfpv3

- working frequency scaling and idle

- hardware crypto (wireguard, openvpn, TOR), hardware CRC32 (for btfs), hardware XOR (for MD RAID)

- RAM as SODIMM memory modules (even better if sold without them - recycle my own, upgrade any time)

- at least 3 mPCIe slots for wifi 2.4G, 5G, and WWAN modem (even better if sold without them - recycle my own, upgrade any time)

- 8 port switch with management

- WAN port separate from the switch

- eSATA with port multiplier support

- USB3 with UAS support

- GPIO identical to RPi, maybe one more serial port

- mounting holes that fit an ordinary GPU cooler

- temperature sensor on a wire

- PWM LEDs

- no GPU, no HDMI, no other video outputs

Unfortunately, no such device exists.
he's already stated he wants a Chinese style app for everything.
The heresy!
> > Might as well make it easier for people and companies to own it and trade it, and for governments to tax profits on it.

The easier it is , the latest to the party you are.

Like gold, people who bought it in 1950 , let's say as a gift to their kid, their life has been essentially the same as it would have been had they not bought it
NTS radio https://www.nts.live (and the app) is my most recent favorite way to discover, underground/rare/undiscovered music, curated by humans that are experts in their scene or musicians themselves. Covers many genres
Ampere-hour is a unit of electric charge, not energy
Run an underwater hvdc line like the uk does
The thing to realize is that the map between illnesses and symptoms is many-to-one. Given some symptoms, doctors assume the most common thing (because then they're right most of the time) and WebMD assumes the scariest thing (because it benefits their traffic).
If you want to go down the rabbit hole have a look at VPP. [0] It's a very fast, like 100GBit/s+ and 100 Mpps+, user space routing engine for commodity x86 hardware. Pim van Pelt has many interesting Videos [1] and articles [2] about it. I only tested it briefly before abandoning it because I'm still stuck on measly ~300/120 g.fast for the foreseeable future so I don't need it yet but especially the Linux CP [3] makes it reasonably workable if you have some Linux networking knowledge.

[0]: https://fd.io/

[1]: https://video.ipng.ch/search?search=vpp&searchTarget=local

[2]: https://ipng.ch/s/articles/

[3]: https://github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng
"...rather you get a bunch of people xgboosting their way up your leaderboard" -->

I don't see that as a universally bad thing. I feel this is actually very representative of the majority of ML projects that most organizations encounter. Most organizations don't have petabytes of data and a huge compute budget to train a DNN. They typically have megabytes to gigabytes of somewhat crappy data and need something that can be developed and deployed relatively quickly for low cost.
This is dang disgusting as it proves that backchannels really are at work here. There are comments denying Palestinians the right to live but they never get dang attention. HN moderation is declining fast.
> That seems like almost fundamental emergent idea that is behind all the intelligence in the World.

That is indeed quite nice, yet intelligence seems much more diverse in biological organisms and not always reduced to nodes and edge strengths. The nodes and edges are a way to store data and to modify it that seems particularly well adapted mechanisms based on electricity.

On the other hand, there exists other very different (and slower) biological intelligent mechanisms that are not based on electricity. For example, a tree is perfectly adapted to its environment, capable of taking energy from the sun, materials from the ground, transform it, and so on. Yet the intelligent mechanism that created trees is not based on neural networks as far as I understand it. In this mechanism, the data is stored in DNA, and DNA can be rewriten at each new generation. It is a completely different (and slower) approach.

Finally I agree that the emergence of fast intelligence through neural network is incredible, although for me the first impressive advance is the use of the electricity to speed up the information exchange. The arrangements in nodes and edges could follow naturally from the fact that the transmission of electric signals works better through 1D circuits. The second impressive advance is the way the networks are layered. This is critical and very difficult to have an arrangement of edges and nodes that can both be trained and inferred efficiently. Without the proper arrangement, a biological neural network or a computer circuit is much less intelligent.

Finally in the future we could imagine intelligent mechanisms based on quantum mechanics for example. In this case, it would probably be vastly different from nodes and edges, due to the underlying physical constraints that are different in electricity and in quantum mechanics.

tldr: yes nodes and edges seem fundamental in fast intelligence based on electricity, but other very different intelligent mechanism exist in biological organisms, and other very different intelligent mechanisms could still be invented in the future.
It's interesting. I invented 'live streams' to the browser and when youtube and Twitch rose to prominence our days were numbered, simply because we weren't going to play the VC game. And now TikTok does the exact same thing that we were already doing in the 90's and makes enormous headway with it.
I want to use someone’s novel software idea. I do not need to understand how it is built and how to maintain it.

Getting irate about what the customer wants (‘use software easily’), then blaming them for not wanting to understand the brilliant techniques that a hallowed developer has used is simply arrogant.
Note the year. While I used C++ long before that and certainly didn't agree with him, the C++ Linus took issue with was a lot worse than the C++ of today.
Isn't their algorithm also very intendedly only catering to Netflix originals by default?

I find its algo absolutely rubbish and most of my initial excitement to go watch something with my wife on the couch instantly fades as soon as we face the doomscrolling of finding content to watch.

It's like zapping but worse
Recover a transferred GitHub repo's wiki
Probably not. I loved the Expanse, but I loved it from the beginning.
Sounds so simple but in this case the volcanoes are the islands.
Iphone 6S running 14.3.
Brave Search can now deliver results for programming queries
The article says it produces 100 microwatts continuously for 50 years, with a 1 watt version coming in 2025. Just make a stack of 5 of those.
We did this peer-to-peer but the risks for users became too great for that to be sustainable.
As I've said in several of these threads... over the coming years we're going to find out how much of the platform-boom Internet was built on the back of lighting fields of dump-trucks full of money on fire while vaguely waving your hands towards the future and something about monetizing user data because unheard-of low interest rates made money basically free, and that party has ended.

Honestly, I'm excited. I want to see what else we can build besides yet another bloody free service anyone can sign up for that needs to devour the world and enshittify itself with invasive advertising before it too goes bust.
Gold doesn't care what you think. It will be around long after our civilisation collapsed and dinosaurs rule the world again. BTC relies on lots of people strictly abiding to an algorithm defined in a white paper. BTC entirely relies on what people think of BTC.
A New Perspective on Battery-Electric Aviation: Conceptual Design of a 90-Seater
Part I available here: https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/a-new-perspectiv...

Company trying to build this: https://www.elysianaircraft.com/

I don’t know how realistic this is, but it’s from a well-respected technical university
Too bad he's jumped the shark these last couple of years.
It does seem like it would be possible to lay a cable to transmit the power from the Big Island to Oahu. My reference for that is the plan to lay a cable to transmit power from Australia to Singapore.
I'm not sure you need to.

Not picking on you at all, just going on a tangent because I've been thinking recently about the good ideas that end up on the cutting floor because their impact, while positive, is intractable or completely impractical to quantify.

Some ideas (like this Netflix one!) are "obvious" winners, because they have a diffused, positive impact in many important dimensions – each of which is almost impossible to measure, but the integral of which is almost certainly greater than the idea's cost, probably by one or two OOM. If there's high conviction in an idea being a 10x idea, and attempting it costs quite little, it's better to do it now and maybe consider measuring it later. Who cares if it's 9x or 12x ROI, the point is it has a big margin of safety and large expected returns on capital.

But in a "we can't greenlight this project unless we can directly attribute it to positive motion in our KPI" org, these flavors of idea are dead on arrival. The double-kicker is that the cost of trying to measure these ideas is often greater than the cost of the idea.

For some ideas, especially when it's a rounding error on the company's annual budget, it should be OK if we don't invest much effort into quantifying the results. It's one of those rare set of ideas where it's anathema to the professional/investor culture of SV of the last decade, while simultaneously being how plucky Seed/Series A companies can punch above their weight.
Yes, the collapse of fiat currency would cause enormous suffering for most of humanity which is why I'm so against the rich bitcoiners who are rooting for this tragic outcome. It's a cancer on society.
> When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles per hour. People genuinely believed that going that quickly would kill you in gruesome ways, such as your body melting.

https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/12-technologies...

And both can be true, trains have killed people and tiktok can have adverse effects.

So far we’ve kept trains, added safety measures and made them faster. I guess we’ll do the same with tiktok and the like.
You don't know how, simply because I do not. I just see the manipulation of regulation, which includes, but is certainly not limited to, removing regulation, from all politicians.

From there it's a simple manner of looking up who their donors are, and, it should come at no surprise to anyone, that the money that's behind these people comes from entities that directly benefit from their actions.
YNAB.

ynab.com - for power users only. If you don't actually care about tracking your money, don't bother.
Easy? No.

But the Linux kernel is one of the places where it is definitely possible. Kernel patches are well reviewed both manually and automatically.
SEC Statement on the Approval of Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products
>Does the "they'd" in the above sentence mean Dex, or the plural of Sister Mara and Dex, or some other grouping of x + Dex?

It very clearly refers to Dex, because Dex is the subject of the sentence prior and there's no indication of a shared experience. It literally follows that Dex is denying something, and the sentence follows the structure of the very same denial ("X, but Y"). It's really not ambiguous at all. If it was ambiguous to refer to Dex as "they" there because "they" can refer to multiple people, you must hate if this scene had Dex use "she" when Sister Mara exists in the same conversation.

This short story starts with two women: https://www.tor.com/2023/12/13/the-sound-of-reindeer-lyndsie...

The first thing Ada Cirillo noticed on the way to her girlfriend’s family’s Christmas Eve party was the way Lil looked out the window. Usually Lil was the talkative type, the beak that broke through Ada’s shell and hurled her out to experience the world.

But as they drove through the limestone-blasted roadways of Missouri toward Saint Charles, where Lil’s parents resided, Lil was quiet. Distant. She didn’t rest her hand on Ada’s knee as Ada drove through the light crust of snow on the highway. Instead, both hands knotted together in her lap.

It's the exact same techniques that Becky Chambers is using here. Or do you just genuinely have difficulty with pronouns as a grammatical concept?
Isn’t $1m just like 2 eng salaries for Netflix?
I like that, keeps it very simple and straightforward. Have you always done it this way, or was there a previous iteration?
SEC approves 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs
>Worse yet it seems to think I want to watch the three things that are most popular on the platform.

Once they went heavy into content creation, this was expected and optimal for them, unfortunately.
What's the point of this comment? To insult without bringing anything to the discussion?
Tracker music, chip-tunes. .it, .mod, .xm and to this date.

Something special about those tunes; endless hours of playing Quake 3 at the age of 14.

It was my first ever music collection I could afford to download on 28.8 dial-up.

Now its a die'ing niche.

https://www.modarchive.org

https://www.wab.com

https://mod.haxor.fi/Aegis_and_Legend/mod.multicolour
DoE has a development program called “Long Term Storage”. IIRC “long term” is anything more than 12 hours.

Seasonal sounds implausible to my, but it’s not my area and I haven’t worked in storage for over a decade.
I run a home lab and I rarely see any advantage between 2.5 and 10g. Not to say that there is none, seeing a large file transfer at 1gbps or more is fun, but the time savings vs the cost just isn't quite there for me yet.

My entire file library is only about 10 TB, and most of that is from ripped DVDs & blurays. My opportunities to transmit or receive more than a gig of data in a single transfer is extremely rare, so it makes little difference to me (and my assumption is by proxy, most users) that it could go ~4 times faster.

For actual business work, though, any lab I set up from the future on will be min-spec to 2.5gig and expected to run 10gig on at least any IT machine/vlan/subnet, whatever.

But for the home consumer, 2.5 is probably 10-50x their home internet connection and more than sufficient for normal daily use.
It’s only after reading this comment that I realized that Invisible Ink is a group of CIA agents who formed a writing club, and not a dedicated CIA creative writing task force.
Perhaps related? Readers from Iran were having the same issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38943023
Can you explain your logic a bit more? I'm struggling to understand how you calculated the $0.074, and what you are saying it represents.

Edit: I suspect your calculations just represent depreciation over the batteries lifetime, which is only one of the costs involved.
People can call it garbage all they want. Their raised prices resulting in more revenue for them