skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low-carb/no-carb/Keto is a very hard way to lose weight over the longer term. I have a note on my wall from a radio show ~2 or ~3 years ago about the fatal metabolic defect of the ketogenic diet.

I have a friend who tortured herself trying to stick to a keto/low-carb routine, even though she knew the slimmest she'd ever been was when she was eating rice cakes and egg whites (iirc - she wasn't that healthy, just was slender.)

Something happened in the early-mid 1970's. The results started to appear 1978 to 1980: the population's weight on the scales started ticking up. I've posted about this a few times recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493758 All the interventions in the decades since 1980 haven't helped, because they don't address what changed circa ~1975-1977.

I recently found a newspaper article from 1981 that's basically a smoking flare gun. I'm certain it covers what set off the obesity epidemic in the mid- to late- 1970's: the removal of a protective factor in the food supply. The sources cited in that 1981 article were so proud of themselves. Not sharing until I figure out how to take credit. The clues are all out there, you just have to know what's important.

After addressing what happened in the mid-1970's, losing weight should be easier. There are still lots of details, and things that'll be specific to your own personal situation, but it shouldn't be so insurmountable.

I'd be happy to chat with you about 'weight'. I just added a firefox relay email to my profile. I'll check spam to make sure it goes through... I'll respond to anyone who writes with a picture of my note about the fatal defect of 'keto', and a basic strategy for humans to keep themselves from gorging at their meals.
Your framing is such a good defense of the arbitrary and thoughtless use and abuse of political power. "Use your power as a voter", what could go wrong?

Why shouldn't our neighbors use their powers as voters to keep their peaceful suburban street from being used as housing for migrants, minorities and other undesirables? I'd bet that'll affect housing desirability far more than short term rentals.

Why shouldn't they use their power as voters to ban the construction of affordable homes in their vicinity?

Why shouldn't we use our power as voters to proscribe alcohol in their town? What could go wrong?

Your power as a voter isn't supposed to be the power to arbitrary meddle in other people's business.
There's a chart (referenced from [0]) in TFA.

[0]: https://globalriskinstitute.org/publication/2023-quantum-thr...
> more and more people keep voting for the far-right (or far-left FWIW)

There are obvious problems with that tactic. (Do they not have civics classes in any of these countries anymore?)

The mechanism described above is exactly what happened in the 1932 German Federal elections: "The Nazis and KPD [communists] held over half of the seats in the Reichstag. This made it impossible to form a government composed of moderates."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1932_German_federal_elect...

It didn't end well for the Germans.
> For instance, modern operating systems can handle 64-bit numbers. WebAssembly, however, is limited to 32 bits, and can access only 232 bytes (4 gigabytes) of memory. Furthermore, it cannot directly access a computer’s file system or its open network connections. And it’s not multithreaded; many algorithms depend on this form of parallelization, which allows different parts of a computation to be performed simultaneously. “A lot of older code won’t compile into WebAssembly, because it assumes that it can do things that can’t be done,” Stagg says.

I am surprised by the memory and 32 bit limitations... Are there plans to overcome them?

Edit: found it, https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64
Well, if it's whole-disk encrypted, unless they told LUKS to pass TRIM through, you'd not be getting anything but essentially random data for the way the author described it.
Why? Lots of people would rather do a little themselves to get the price down. Why should your preference dictate how everyone does it?

And it varies from market to market what's the norm. For instance for cabins in Norway, the norm for a long time was that the renter brought their own bedding and cleaned everything, mopped the floor etc before leaving. Long before airbnb was a thing.

Should an American company decide that this Norwegian way of doing it is no longer ok..?
Ryzen 5600H + RX 5500M laptop, AC plugged in with power mode in Windows set to "Best performance", Windows 11 Home 23H2

Chromium (122.0.6261.112) without any extensions:16.7 ± 0.34

Brave Beta (122.0.6261.111): 12.8 ± 0.62

Brave Beta (122.0.6261.111) Private: 15.9 ± 0.58

Floorp (11.10.5 based on Firefox ESR 115): 7.40 ± 0.20

Floorp (11.10.5 based on Firefox ESR 115) Private: 7.91 ± 0.19

Librewolf (123.0-1): 8.41 ± 0.19

Librewolf (123.0-1) with uBlock Origin disabled: 8.86 ± 0.17
So a red light turns on. What does it mean? For the next 0.5 s you don't know. Maybe it will turn off, maybe it won't. In the meantime, you have delayed your braking action and decreased your margin of safety. Or you have started braking for no reason, endangering people behind you (and yourself).
Green goo is mass murder!
Is his website's RSS broken?
Unfortunatelly, title of article on HN contradicts content of article, so many HN readers skip article because of "confirmed" (in other words: nothing new).

IMHO, a Tired Light theory will better explain facts, but it will require paradigm shift, so there will be a lot of resistance before revolution.
Yeah, me too. Why, just why didn't Adobe open source (and vastly improve in terms of security) the flash player and rather let it die. It was such an awesome ecosystem.
Sorry to nitpick, but "light was made of discrete units that weighed very little and were moving very fast" is not really correct.

First of all, light has exactly zero weight (only a massless particle can travel at exactly the speed of light, and at no other speed for that matter).

Secondly, you're leaving out the wave/particle duality of light, which sort of reminds the Simpson's paradox description of "just two different ways to think about the same data", without which you simply can't fully understand the behaviour of light (or of the statistical system you're looking at).
So sad and terrifying.

I came across this song recently about losing someone to Alzheimer's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5hfiIM5KY
Oh thanks!! Super high praise! :)
Linux ships with all the drivers installed (for a fairly high value of "all") (typically)
Yeah, but I think m3kw9 was referring to dying of infection from an otherwise minor wound.
Uh oh. LOL. Got some angry Firthers out there.
Magic Mushrooms Are Risky New Tool Touted by Executive Coaches
People under extreme mental stress tend not to act rationally.
Yeah, I've done several such transplants of disks onto different hardware.. maybe even from an AMD to an Intel system once (different mainboard chipsets), and of Windows 7. As you say, it will say new hardware detected and a lot of the times will get the drivers for them from Windows Update. There are also 3rd party tools to remove no-longer existing devices from the registry, to clean the system up a bit.
https://archive.ph/PEtMI
I am not sure why both Apple and Google looked at Microsoft of late 90s and decided to behave the same way.
If you moved the wrong stuff Linux would give you a bad time too, try /proc, /dev
Witnesses often write sign and submit a written witness statement into evidence before appearing. It's probably up to the judge now.

The written evidence gets sent to prosecution and defence. There would be a question whether witness actually did write the statement... but might be better than nothing
Felt a bit too AI generated.
Some times there are intelligent discussions on HN... This isn't one of those times.
> The Model Y is the best selling

other manufacturers ship dozens of different models and then you have companies like VW or Stellantis that havd many different brands that basically sell the same model with slightly different chassis, styling etc. so it’s hardly comparable.

An anyway, as far as valuations go margins are as or even way more important than total numbers of cars shipped. Tesla had to cut prices and that didn’t work out that great for their stock price

> volatility with long term technologic transformations.

Intel’s stock peaked in 2000 despite most of the related technologic transformations happening in the subsequent decades, them basically becoming a monopoly and their revenue increasing multiple times.
Great work & thanks for doing this.

I built a library at AWS for a general canvas editor called Diagram Maker. It recently got archived so I stood up a fork here: https://github.com/sameergoyal/diagrammer and the data format we use is strikingly similar. Check it out here: https://sameergoyal.github.io/diagrammer/?path=/docs/docs-us.... The key differences are panels, workspace & editor.

I dont actively work on the project outside of bugs, but maybe there are ways to collaborate here, like moving my project to use & extend the JSON canvas spec.
This was a silly suggestion.

Did you not realize that almost all crimes that have ever been committed, very much including by smart accomplished people with a lot to lose, violated and belied this theory of rational behavior?
Opened it, made an animation in 10 seconds. On mobile. With zero experience with animation software.

Well done

Any chance of Lottie export? I think I would use this if there was.
Ignoring management part, one place where I have found breaking down to be helpful is when I have to work on some thing which I am not terribly motivated todo (say it is boring, lethargy, or it looks too daunting). In such cases I have found it useful to break down to smaller tasks and keep completing each of them which in turn generates a momentum to continue, as I have been able to make some progress from a situation where I was essentially in a deadlock (or was lethargic to work on).
Show HN: A tool to learn English vocabulary that matters (flashcards / offline)
It's not available in my region and it doesn't sound good enough to justify migrating to US or UK.
A British RISC-V startup. Could be interesting.
Hi, Peter here
As a non-native English, I lacked the vocabulary to express myself fluently like many of you here. I was using only basic, common words I learned in school I tried learning new words, but. failed.

So I built LanguageBeast: a platform to Learn English vocabulary that matters to enrich your vocabulary through synonyms, antonyms, and examples for common English words.

I'd love to hear your feedback on whether it may help improve your English vocabulary.
Isn't that kind of the point though? That beautiful and ugly are encoded closely as an "idea" when viewed from the appropriate angle?
The thing with Microsoft is that they used their classic approach - going the second after the innovator with B2B flavor. Like AWS was the first, but Microsoft went second and used B2B injection. Same with AI - OpenAI was the first, but Microsoft went second and used B2B injection. Even with Office 365 it was basically the same - they injected cloud into B2B.

They still are notoriously bad with consumer market though. I think Windows 95 was a nice combo of consumer and B2B success.
Commenter: "If AI replaced us, it's fine because they're a worthy descendants?"

Beff Jezos / Verdon: "Personally, yes."

Yudkowsky is transhumanist in that he is hopeful people could voluntarily extend their biological self, but isn't advocating for the elimination of all biological selves in pursuit of other artificial intelligences.

Voluntary /= involuntary eradication
Mojo is not a superset. Not even close. They say they are AIMING for it to be a superset OF THE SYNTAX. This is a subtle yet enormous difference to being a superset of the language itself.
They of course will likely do great, that doesn’t mean their stock price can’t be massively inflated. current valuation is pricing in both massive growth and insane (understatement) margins. Which basically means that they are expected to have no actual competition for years. That’s bot impossible but surely Intel/AMD can’t be this incompetent when there are piles of money just there for the taking.
> give entrenched industry giants a hard time with fierce new competition.

Once AI reaches that level, it won’t be a smaller group coming together. The big corps will be there first with more money to get the AIs to come up with a million plans per day and execute a bunch of them a lot faster than small groups can. Currently no one really knows what to do except cook up snake oil, but if indeed AI becomes more competent, the big corps will unfortunately own it and use it at scale.
THis isn't an HR problem, it's not an engineering problem, this is a "think about quarterly profits only, bean counting" problem. Engineers need time to do quality work, constantly rushing things for upping the rookie numbers before the end of the quarter is paramount at Boeing these days rather than proper engineering from all the stuff I've seen. Seems like a clown circus of executives over there.
Just tried it on my mobile, responsive and well designed. I like how neat and uncluttered the site is. The editor feels intuitive and easy to use. Like the demos on the homepage. This must have been a massive project very impressive!!
Nah, their text classification is better then their text generation.

Just let it do something novel instead of something typical stack overflow.

Eg. Nest, a c# library for elastic search, is something it has consistent troubles with because it's not with "and" or "or", but should, must and filter.

But yeah, you won't get into those cases as a junior or doing typical stuff it has been trained on :)
Similarly for threads: https://github.com/webassembly/threads
When companies can't grow by competing, they monopolize, buy govt officiala, and acquire competitors.

Apple isn't the best in any category anymore, so they have to cheat.
If you can zero someone about to testify in Congress, you can also coerce a coroner to say whatever you want.
Why all, when one would do?
Many many people also commit suicide in eastern countries as well, quite often at much higher rates than in western countries.
No, not the way anyone means "mobile" when saying "mobile devices".
No, only one of the thousands needs to be willing to go that far. The power of stochastic terrorism...
This use of dd may cause corruption! You need iflag=fullblock to ensure it doesn't truncate any blocks, and (at the risk of cargo-culting) conv=sync doesn't hurt as well. I prefer to just nc -l -p 1234 > /dev/nvme0nX.
Billions of dollars at stake. There are countless interests that would absolutely kill someone over a fraction of that. I would never whistleblow. Losing my life isn't worth it
Your comment made me realize how some younger people have no idea of, or at least no first-hand experience of static on TV and radio since it is all digital nowadays.
This is your only comment in this thread. I hoped to see you debunking.. uh.. bunk. Can you at least elaborate on comments you feel are completely wrong and "cringe"?
Thank you. I host all my games on itch.io. It's a friendly community that's generally into more alternative approaches to game design.

https://farfama.itch.io/
There is also ruffle which seems to be doing a very good job at reviving Flash animations.

The Internet Archive is using it to preserve the profound cultural heritage of early millenial flash animations.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21578616/internet-archiv...
Honestly you're probably better off reading threads on reddit about it. The system may not be as elite as HN but it does allow for more attention and free speech IF you're willing to dig through the detritus.
Totally agree! The major feature missing compared to Flash would be library and component support - i.e. the ability to create reusable animated graphics that you can drag onto the canvas (with infinite nesting).

i.e. you can animate a bird with flapping wings, then drag 3 copies onto your sky.
This is the secretary problem [1] from optimal stopping theory, but it doesn't apply to hiring because you can wait until the end to make a decision once you've seen everyone.

The main problem here indicated by OP isn't explore/exploit, it's that the ordering of candidates seemingly distorts their rating of them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Seeing big tech companies find out the hard way that the EU does, in fact, mean business when it comes up with a law, never gets old.
The man was just about to testify. The timing is what makes this suspicious, not the suicide itself.

Let's not be so naive as to imply that these companies and their vested interests would not murder someone to protect a multi-billion dollar business. Shit like this happens all the time.
I saw the airing of it at Kubecon -- also met the Finnish guy there in the video. I mistook him for another Finnish guy with blond hair. Didn't meet the Russian though.
But the improvement induced the demand, which to my mind makes this different from Simpson's Paradox.
That's definitely a plausible prediction, but since so many people are aware of this, my hope is that we can at least prevent some of their more nefarious lawfare & lobbying such that we make and keep open-source AI competitive.
pretty neat stack... I chose other projects in some cases (e.g. ntfy vs gotify) but all in all it's pretty complete. Thanks.

Did you consider watchtower to keep the dockers up to date?
> and I'm not so familiar with resizing LUKS.

LUKS2 does not care about the size of the disk. If it's JSON header is present, it will by default treat the entire underlying block device as the LUKS encrypted volume/partition (sans the header), unless specified otherwise on the commandline.
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> Once I unkilled it, it went back from [flagged][dead] to just [flagged], and it went back to being visible to everyone whether they are logged in or not, or have 'showdead' turned on or not.

In other words, you resurrected the deleted text. I just hope this conversation will not be deleted/flagged again and become unreadable.
One-dimensional ranking is one aspect of how it breaks in real-world hiring, but I think almost the bigger might be that the secretary problem assumes you need to decide immediately and can't just wait around until you've seen the whole batch of applicants.
> "we don't know any other reason for the light to red shift"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_metric

There are versions of this which do provide another reason for red shift.

Personally I keep this in mind as a means to free my thinking from a single narrative.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
Have you ever been deposed?

It's an incredibly stressful process, and he's already going through the hell of being a whistleblower.

I'm sure Boeing was ready to depose him more and more in order to try to get him to shift his story.
Iron Ring - Ethical Responsibilities Of An Engineer
Interesting you mention 'intuition'. I feel it is a big part of software development as you gain experience and it flows through as you are doing the work and would be tough to plan for. Also remember one of my colleagues complaining after work 'code just not flowing freely today'. And then there are times when you feel you are in the zone, which would definitely be the creative element.
Encountered it recently. I had two different dataset to evaluate model performance on from different domains.

One dataset was closer to training data and the other was closer to our business use case. The hypothesis was that performance on the latter dataset would be poorer due to overfitting.

Indeed the accuracy on all categories had reduced. However, overall accuracy was much higher!

This was because the second dataset had higher frequency of easy to predict categories.

If we had just looked at overall number we would have concluded that there was no overfitting to train domain, which was not the case.
Apart from an ESL class explaining antonyms, I can’t think of any use case where an API which could equally return “ugly” or “beautiful” can be used.

We need embeddings to give relatedness across axes like synonymity etc.
The universe is not expanding. The atoms are getting smaller.
Haystack used to be distributed with the package farm-haystack (which continues to distribute 1.0), but yesterday we release Haystack 2.0 with a new package: haystack-ai

Haystack used to be a framework that centered around semantic search and retrieval, first released in 2020. And while the design allowed us to extend to new LLM technologies, it wasn’t an intuitive developer experience for our users. So we made the decision to completely rewrite the fundamentals of the framework. The new design provides a uniform way for _extending_ the framework. And makes it very transparent how AI components interact with eachother.

The announcement article explains our reasons for this major rewrite.