skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who thought this comment was interesting or scary, I highly recommend A Canticle For Lebowitz. It’s about nuclear war and its impact on technology, and I recommend you go into it knowing little more than that
How did the sentinelese survive 50,000 years?
They were reportedly written as memory dumps for speed.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
You also seem to have misunderstood the question. We have millions that have the problem already, for whom it was never going away with "simply eating better".

This is resetting obese people to the baseline, not preventing obesity in the first place. We still have that problem, and that does require a culture (or rather regulatory) fix.
Woof! That's pretty rough.
I don't have diabetes, for example. So I can't say anything about seeing such a specialist.
Even better, the more ground level and more risky research is often funded publicly, only to be bought or go private, once a product could emerge. Big pharma is hawking over public research.
Let's face it, the AVP is absolutely necessary for any dev who is truly serious about creating quality apps for the AVP.

Those apps might not take off just now, but in a generation or five, the pioneering app creators might be laughing at the rest of us. Or at least until Apple decides to take down their apps due to sudden ToC changes. Just think of the plethora of reasons AVP apps could be taken down for 'failing to comply with safety standards' and the like.
Did you stay vegan after switching? I.e., are you getting your protein calories via a vegan diet?
I like this app, it’s support multilingual and multi currency types
>I switched to trunk back when the witch hunt started raging.

>As a matter of policy, I refuse to be swayed by the opinions of busybodies as to what is or isn't offensive.

Well, you have said multiple ways that you have been swayed. I agree with you about all of this whining and word-policing coming from people who have dubious intentions. Nobody sane is offended by these terms. It's just a way for "victims" to seek clout and bully everyone else.

Fossil is cool but alas it will never be mainstream. It does have some nice features, but there are technical downsides such as storing files in a single binary sqlite database (which is a benefit for small projects, but a bad solution for large projects). If nothing else, backing up Fossil repos will take an ever-increasing amount of space compared to an equivalent git repo, as git repos can be backed up incrementally.
I did not say it is third world.
Doing it solo may be harder. I suspect there's a mutual CBT effect of buddying up to maintain a healthy diet stance. Certainly my partner and I manage "maybe not another serving" policing better between us than on our own.

Which doesn't alter that the underlying satiety signals aren't good, it's just that a conscious override option has some reinforcement.
GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub, etc are forges
I needed this. Thank you.
I will totally agree that there is infighting (esp with the military) within the CCP, but as others have noted it's much more centralized that the last 50 years. That doesn't mean there aren't attempts (within and without) to influence public perception and control narrative (weibo douyin wechat) with news articles, individual bans, and 五毛.

It's just that Xi (and Putin to a slightly lesser degree) have isolated themselves so much that even the US political establishment has little idea what they want or plan to do. I'm not sure even the political establishment within China knows much better.
Soon Robots will have their GPT moment and there'll be a massive change in every industry.
That's a false metric. With exponential progress, we have to adjust equally rapidly. It's quite obvious that photos and videos would last far shorter than written medium as proof of something.
Reducing the Number of Qubits in Quantum Factoring: From 2n to n/2 and O(n)
You forget so much of your childhood, but those bullied moments stick.
I was bullied at school as a kid, it was shit… but sometimes when I look at what my bullies are up to these days thanks to social media, I can see quite clearly that despite being bullied, I fared better in terms of achieving a better education, higher income, and even being overall physically healthier. None of my bullies could run a half marathon now, most dropped out of university or never even attempted to go to university, and many of them are actually unemployed.

There’s no doubt in my mind that being bullied has significant consequences, but this post made me wonder… what’s the consequences later on for those who bully? Surely that kind of anti-social behaviour leads to poor outcomes for them too??
Singletasking is a myth. I can't keep attention without any background task. If not computer, I will doodle on paper or fidget
There will be an inflection point with devices like Vision Pro, where you'd rather do things you do right now with a laptop, tablet or TV in the Vision Pro instead of with those other devices. Then the other devices will be the ones gathering dust.

The hard part is being able to know when that inflection point comes. But I think there's a very good chance that 10 years from now, it's already behind us.
It seems like we want for-profit pharmaceutical corporations to act like non-profit institutions. Any idea why non-profit institutions haven't risen in the world of pharmaceuticals?
I found my best diet is to do weights at the gym, stop looking at the scales and eat real food every day (but junk is OK too).

Have I lost weight? No idea. Don’t care. Yoyoing and being hungry all the time isn’t worth it. I have belly fat though! As I probably should (?)
If only we knew exactly what in the culture we need to fix. There are a lot of theories. Something in our environment has broken the homeostasis which worked for the last million years.
I was able to keep weight off long term with the Dr. Fuhrman diet - really unpleasant diet because you stay away from processed foods, which takes extra shopping and cooking efforts. The positive side was that it made me feel much younger, more energy, better sleep, all around good except for the effort.
I only did the 30 minute demo in the Apple store, but I found the brief minutes of looking at text in safari to be pretty bad with regards to eye strain.

Watching videos was fine because I felt I could just let my eyes relax, but trying to focus on text was anything but fun.

I have contacts and am not convinced that the fit/focus I had was correct, but it was not a good first impression from a "productivity device" perspective.

Apple is going to have a problem with how finicky VR headsets are.
To be fair, when I bought them it was only because I thought they looked cool and I already had other apple devices I knew they would work with; I was willing to pay the premium for the brand, it was a spur of the moment kind of thing and I never factored in competitor value. The funny thing about the Vision Pro was that as soon as I saw it I thought it, and anyone who used it, was really dumb, and I didn't want to be caught dead wearing it--not so for the airpods.
In my experience bullying comes after humiliating public experience. Say something stupid in front of the whole school and made everyone laugh? Good, now you are first candidate for bullying
I guess it's an era where trends shift quickly and one must adapt before it's too late.

Just get on the boat, enjoy the ride, get off the boat, and find a new ride.
Yeah, I’d love someone to chime in about Q3. AVP and whassisname’s video got me thinking more about it.
Luckily I only really muck about with C++, and mainly use Rust, so my childlike brain is protected :^)
Show HN: Chat-focused RAG with automated memory management
Hi HN!

I lead product at Vectara. Yesterday, we launched Vectara Chat, which is a set of APIs to help organizations combine chatbots with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). One of the most common things we've heard from the community of users trying to build chatbots is that they hallucinate (and hence the release of our hallucination evaluation model: https://huggingface.co/vectara/hallucination_evaluation_mode...). One of the things we've realized when working with customers on RAG systems (especially multi-turn) is that a lot of overemphasis of effort into "which model," "which vector DB," and so on, but then miss incredibly important things like "how do you make sure things like keywords -- non semantic-based bits of context -- influence results" and "how do I prompt engineer" and "how do I rewrite queries appropriately to include history?"

This is our attempt to tackle that: you basically just give the API a conversation ID and a turn ID and Vectara will store the history and rewrite the queries using modern LLM techniques to provide the end user with the answer to their question.

We've just launched this feature: we started off as a LLM-based semantic search company, and then launched a RAG solution in May 2023, and we think this multi-turn Chat capability is the next stage of our offering. We'd love to hear feedback from the community!

A longer form blog post is at https://vectara.com/blog/vectara-chat-revolutionizing-chat-d...
Except goods were crossing borders right up until the exact moment the war started. The theory failed.
It's not a bad metaphor at all. I've never met anyone confused by it. People want to change it because of the political grifters, not for want of clarity.
I’ve never been significantly overweight fortunately, but over the pandemic I got about 20 lbs too pudgy, which proved frustratingly hard to lose. What finally worked was combining the Apple Watch (Fitbit is fine too) and a calorie counting app that track calories. The app (Yazio, there are others) took into account caloric expenditures beyond basic metabolic needs. That is, if one walks a mile as tracked by the Apple Watch, that’s an extra ~ 100 calories to eat.

Armed with these tools, I set a modest goal of 3-4lbs fat loss per month in Yazio. It worked. An unexpected positive outcome from this experience, is that I developed a much better intuitive sense of the caloric and nutritional value of foods and what activity levels I needed to maintain to stay at my desired weight. I recommend to give this approach a try.

Edit to add: These apps make an educated guess as to one’s basic metabolic daily expenditure. For reasons that aren’t clear, this estimate can vary as much as ~25% between persons. Therefore you may have to tweak the daily calorie goal. Second, weigh yourself every day. The weight loss goal of ~ 1lb/week is less than the daily variance in body weight due to hydration levels and so forth, so you will need to use a three or four day rolling average to keep track of your progress.
I took a look at what's a part of my car controller[1] if you want some inspiration. A lot of these wouldn't make sense in an F-Zero type game

- Wheel modifiers (which wheels are on road, grass, boost tiles, etc)

- Control loss when airborne

- Slow turning when at low speed (a bit different from yours since the impact drops to zero very quickly)

- Speed / accel penalty when hitting a wall

- Visually rotating the car (this is what happens when a player presses the turn key but the actual velocity rotation is handled separately)

- Boost handling

- Nudge the car to the side a little if it's trying to turn but is blocked by a wall

- Acceleration, friction, breaking, and drift-breaking

- Corrective side force (basically an extra friction perpendicular to velocity like you have)

- Artificial speed limit (alternatively, you can include a drag component which applies a force proportional to the square of speed, but I've found it hard to get this feeling good in the past)

- Velocity rotation to align velocity direction and visual direction. This is a minor effect - it's mostly handled by the other physics

- Gravity

- Out of bounds checks

I think you've got the main pieces already. What's more important is understanding what you want your game to feel like and continuously tweaking until you get there

[1] https://github.com/maxbize/PICO-8/blob/master/Driftmania/dri...
Re your edit: It's probably not just theater. It's probably a good faith effort to fix a problem that's poorly understood using the tools available in a situation where it's very challenging to try get a real solution implemented.

But in practice that makes it not much better than theater. If it simply doesn't work, it makes little difference if they genuinely meant well or were consciously going through the motions to "look good" without having to deliver real results.
What worked for me:
- quit sugar
- quit processed foods
- avoid fried food
- little fat (even the healthy ones)
- no nuts/seeds
- lifting weights
- little cardio

I have completely changed my life in one year.

It has been a very tough path, mostly socially, going out and not having a beer, burger… social pressure… but when you believe in eating healthy everything goes smooth. Also measure the results, once you get 12-15% of body fat, you may be gaining muscle weight.

The goal should be changing your lifestyle to one that is healthy and sustainable.
My internet went down and I could only get a chat bot on the Web site or a hang up on the support line.

After the "estimated fix by ETA" came and went, I reported my ISP to the FCC. That resulted in a quick follow up from a real human.
This is a central theme in Vernor Vinge’s Deepness books. Space travel is slow (100s-1000s of years), so travellers are forced to calculate the likelihood that their destination will have experienced societal collapse by the time they arrive. The idea of a perpetually-sustained civilization is a failed dream. Technology helps societies bet larger and last longer, but also more dependent on the technology to sustain their growth.
You honestly don't think they "knew how seeds work"? It's not like you can't turn over leaves and see a literal plant growing out of a seed.

Why clear the land and plant a "crop" when you get enough from the plants that all the other animals rely on? Why would you try growing something that doesn't want to grow there? Particularly "crops" that ultimately end up destroying the native life of islands. See palm/rubber/coffee/tea plantations.
> I’ve heard explanations like “music is mathematical and programming is mathematical”, but I was never satisfied with them because they didn’t match my experience

Yes, it probably did match the author's experience. Mathematics is the study of pattern. But he probably did not realize that.

He probably had bad math teachers.
I liked it more once I realized it was fewer characters to type.
It isn't supposed to be a company representative, it's supposed to be a chatbot.

If Microsoft puts ChatGPT on Twitter so people could try it, and everybody knows that it's ChatGPT, and then it started offering companies free Windows licenses, why should they have to honor that? It's obvious why it might do that but the purpose of letting people use it wasn't so it could authorize anything.

If the company holds a conference where it allows third party conference speakers to give talks, which everybody knows are third parties and not company employees, should the guest speakers be able to speak for the company? Why would that accomplish anything other than the elimination of guest speakers?
Or, we want for-profit pharmaceutical corporations to not take taxpayer dollars. You shouldn't be able to have it both ways, but at least in the US, you can.
Very cool. I went and had a look at the cost of using the Google maps api and this project seems like it would be pretty competitive with it.
Its always good to follow money, what is darpa, cia, nsa shelling money on now ? One thing i know for sure is quantum computing !!
Copacabana tracking shot in Goodfellas
This is probably the most famous one:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
I imagine version 2 will likely have uncanny-valley-crossing AI filters to make it indistinguishable from your real face, background and expressions.
> What's the point if you can't trust what it says. Just let me talk to a human that can solve my issue.

That's the point of it -- you don't have to wait on hold for a human to get your answer, and you could plausibly both receive it and validate it yourself sooner than you could get through to a human.
I suspect one strategy won't work for everyone, but it certainly works for me as a motivator. Or to put it another way, when I weigh regularly my weight trends down, when I don't it trends up.

Of course it goes without saying that standing on the scale has no direct impact on my weight. What I eat, and how much of it I eat, is the crucial factor. (I exercise 4 days a week as part of my regular schedule.)

When it comes to "what" it will vary for everyone. For me it's limiting sugar (not eliminating, just being aware, and keeping that down when I can) and also limiting carbs like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes. Again I've not gone for elimination, but just greatly reduced that good group.

I eat very little restaurant good, and practically zero fast food, so that likely also plays a part.

The important thing is to change slowly to something thats a new norm that's sustainable in the long run. It's not a diet in the sense that im not going hungry. It's just replacing one food with another so that I get more of grid and less of that.

I love bread, potatoes, and chocolate. So I get those every few days. Just perhaps in more moderation than before, and not with every meal.

I'm losing about a pound every 2 weeks which seems nicely balanced.
It takes very many million dollars to run a clinical trial, why the rhetorical question?

It's just funding. Not like non-profits are magically unable to have talent, or to achieve results.

No one's giving away billions on a pharma non-profit when they could invest. Even though the result is sometimes similar for the investor.
Installing dynamo powered lights on my road bike
Three Six Mafia: A silly look at the value of an inch downstairs
Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
> I see same thing in India where *analysts and experts on twitter opine how Netflix has totally failed in India due to lack of local content and poor execution.

That’s really true whether you believe it or not. However, it appears that Netflix seems to have understood this point. They are adding crazy amount of local content recently. Almost every notable local movie that has been released in the last year is available on Netflix now. Suddenly Amazon Prime has disappeared from the scene. That’s not the case some two years ago.

> for 90% of population Netflix is too expensive

There’s still nearly 140 million potential customers according to your calculation. You seem to underestimate the vastness of India. And more notably the people in India are crazy movie goers, from poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich.
DEI is proven to divide people. That's why it's embraced with both arms. Switching the branch names has probably wasted tens of thousands of hours of maintenance work in the world. I doubt if there are even a dozen people in the world who were actually offended by the term master in that context or even the master-slave pairing in others. But there are probably hundreds of people at least (out of millions of developers) pretending to be offended for clout.
Awesome post. I’m slowly coming around to a “consciousness is a persistent pattern” view on Philosophy of Mind, and this is a great addendum to that.

More materially;

I’d also like to see an fMRI to understand the neural activation patterns at such times and see if programming, music, and poker all really have similar physical neurostructures.

This is one of the most exciting parts about the LLM revolution IMO; we’ll finally get some answers on these questions via EEG.
Of course there is variance, but I'm not aware of any culture that doesn't have bullying in school. Many places generally applauded for being high-trust, harmonious adult societies (the Nordics, Japan, Australia etc) certainly have a problem with it.

Random example: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-20/trinity-grammar-stude...
Interesting, however

> to reduce the risk of finger or toe amputation

is not how risk works, similar to a basic conditionalization that tells you not to go to the doctor for an illness as that action would provide evidence for an increased probability of death.
Long term fix for all people,
rather than a pill for one person.

In addition you have to eat a lot of unprocessed food to get fat, where here I define unprocessed food is something you killed or foraged for (or mass produced equivalent), and not refined in any way.

A strawberry for instance.

Eat 1000 calories of rump vs. a small Pizza for example, which would make you want to eat more?
What worked for me: plenty of sugar and starch, cut out all fat, low salt. 45 and feeling great, haven’t struggled with weight in nearly a decade.
Every time I read one of their reports, I'm continually amazed at the depths some companies sink to juice their stock price and the flagrancy of the ponzi schemes they uncover. I should really be desensitized to it at this point, having read many of their articles since the DraftKings expose, but still.
> Current evidence-based recommendation for daily protein intake is 1.6g protein per kg of target body weight

That measure is for when you are specifically looking to build muscle I believe, which might be a bit orthogonal to direction you want to go (if for weight loss).

It is also, IMO, a lot of protein to consume a day. I personally have never done that level of protein intake, ever, but I know a few who have, its an insane (to me) amount of protein powder, chicken, and broccoli (or alternatives) you have to consume, every day. If the goal was sustainability, it's definitely not possible for average people.
> Do you as well believe in the shadow government which controls every public figure?

This is a trademark of the people who call themselves "free thinkers", or as the rest of the world commonly knows them, "tankies". I'm solely talking about the russian society: the same society that is unironically congratulating women for getting a new free coat after having their children killed. The same society that's gloating about 4 year old girls having their legs blown off by their rockets. The same society that left their country by the millions in recent years, not because they are against what they country is doing(and had been doing for centuries btw), but because they personally don't want to be sent to the front lines. Navalny was no different and you can easily confirm all that for yourself if you spend 5 minutes googling. Was he managed by the kremlin - unlikely. He just wished to be the next dictator and get his own mansions filled with golden toilets. Had he managed to achieve it though, nothing would have changed but the face of the operation. Navalny had 0 redeeming qualities.
"canon" is for the central repo, the blessed source of truth.
That sounds great, but I haven't found it to be sustainable. I also avoid fried foods, sugar, processed foods. I only eat meat twice a week. I count every gram of saturated fat I eat, and keep it under 10 grams per day. I eat nuts every day, for breakfast and/or afternoon snack -- I find the unsaturated fats and proteins prevent hunger. I also drink protein shakes (1-2 per day).
If the docker ecosystem can't be used, it's not even an answer.
We migrated a few months back and it was an excellent decision. Just so much simpler and comes with way more out-of-the-box.
Maybe Phoenix Liveviews?
not-for-profit companies are subject to a lot of bullshittery too.
I have unfortunately run into exceptions. I tried to play Neverhood on my Windows install, and it wouldn't start up. Tried the various compatibility modes. No luck. I ended up running it under Wine in Win95 mode (or similar; I don't remember the exact version) on my Fedora desktop and it ran fine.

I haven't tried running too many old programs, though, so I have no sense for how common this might be.
I’m afraid that behavior is often rewarded as adults as well in many environments