skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me personally there's a very clear link between saturated fat and blood serum LDL and triglycerides: I had very high levels of both despite exercising regularly, switched to a low saturated fat diet with minimal other changes, and my LDL and triglycerides dropped enormously and are now in the "good" range. I don't know enough to know whether cholesterol actually increases heart disease risk, but for me personally there's a clear diet link between saturated fat and LDL cholesterol + triglycerides. YMMV! I suppose something else in the high saturated fat diet could have been causing the problem, but it certainly seems like a good proxy metric for me at least.
Relative to the current situation or in absolute terms? If there was a Shinkansen style trains between LA and SF with the same quality and timetable as the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka, do you not think Americans would flock to it?
This sounds like a line stolen from an old Star Trek script, FWIW. For those who need more context, the ideas here are real:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/249679/gravother...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_acoustic_oscillations
He does, the above was a misquote: what he says is "eat real food". Making it yourself helps ensure that.
> MACRO evolution or one species becoming another. That doesn't happen.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
You are "explaining" it. The consensual narrative has sprung a leak and you are striving to patch it.
Was it an engineering anomaly, or an MBA induced spontaneous disassembly event?

Boeing seems to be suffering a lot of the later these days.
Is this fix evidence of that?
Note: This is by the author of the popular kramdown markdown library.
Very likely. I'm nowhere near a professional nor am I giid at recognizing pieces/composers, but some people have such a deep understanding of yhe music from various composers, that they likely categorize it correctly.

See for example Nahre Sol [1] who plays the same piece in the style of different composers. In order to do that, you need to have a deep understanding of each composer's "quirks".

[1] https://youtu.be/SAtZawkqBG8
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The definition of entropy (from Wolfram Alpha):

> The (Shannon) entropy of a variable X is defined as
> H(X)=-sum_(x)P(x)log_2[P(x)]

> bits, where P(x) is the probability that X is in the state x, and Plog_2P is defined as 0 if P=0.

The X they input into that formula is a function that chooses one of the tokens according to the probability in that step. Isn't that a good definition of a random variable?
The internet was conceived at the hight of the cold war to be resilient, enabling local networks to function if disconnected. I am sure that in our race to make it more sophisticated that idea has been compromised, but I think basic operation could be re-established reasonably quickly.
Sounds like a great excuse to remaster/remake Endless Sonata.
But you don't need to line up the holes if you can just plonk the component down anywhere and then program the software with the locations of the components after the fact.
Chopins posthumously published Nocturne in C# minor is a very popular piece to play/listen to. I also think there are several Debussy pieces he didn’t want published but are very popular now (maybe Reverie is one if my memory serves me)
> If you pool together agents in a way where deterministic code meets and and verifies fuzzy LLM output

And there is one more support case for the Rule of Contemporary AI: "Every LLM is supported by an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Cyc."

Cyc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
I mean, what is “useful” in the sense of “paying the bills” is quite different from “useful” in the sense of social utility - and what you _perceive_ as social utility is a whole other thing on top of that, that’s only _hopefully_ somewhat aligned with the actual thing.

Working on something that feels like it’s only useful as a way to extract money is incredibly unrewarding in my experience, to the point of increasing my feeling of burnout.
Why does anyone need to? I would imagine billions of personal discoveries go unannounced every day. Is it a good use of resources to add more noise to world when you discover something that is already well documented? I don't think so, but then again everyone seems to have been trained to share personal discoveries like it's a grand discovery, for the sake of self advertising?
This latest update to Sonnet is super impressive.

We are really already past the point of being able to discuss these matters though in large groups.

The herd speaks as if all LLMs on all programming languages are basically the same.

It is an absurdity. Talking to the herd is mostly for entertainment at this point. If I actually want to learn something, I will ask Sonnet.
>in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write

seems quite wrong to me.

If anything the trend seems to go the other way - when I was younger pre internet most communication was face to face or voice over the phone.

Now the predominant thing seems text - sms, whatsapp, this text box I'm typing into now. I saw a stat the other day that online / app dating had gone from a minority to over 50% of how couple meet. And that is mostly a combination of some photos and text. Be able to write text or fade from the gene pool!

That said long form text may be different but those who write novels and the like were always a minority.

(source for the dating thing - not sure how accurate but kind of scary https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fzqgvk/...)
Getting "off plants" necessarily means getting off processed foods, which is where most of the benefits lie. The "guidelines" in many places aren't strict enough. This is a rhetorical sleigh-of-hand because the unhealthy Americanized/Western diet is not high in vegetables and fiber, it's high in refined carbs and starches, added oil, and sugar, all of which is derived from plants.

An anecdote isn't that persuasive, talk is cheap. Systematic reviews of randomized control trials won't show a carnivore advantage over whole foods. There's no compelling evidence, this is just brushed aside with conspiracies.

Notwithstanding that in the first place there's evidence that whole foods (plant-based or not) diets can improve life extension and profile.
I'd say it's also to stop people from doing dumb things (i.e. proactive defense).

Say, if the org runs Postgres in-house, there's a mighty chance that an intern somewhere might decide to ...test things out in a creative way.

Perhaps the idea of outsourcing that to Oracle is that Oracle has the processes/controls to rein in such interns. As opposed to e.g. a hospital having to create such processes/controls.

(Oracle is still a bad idea IMHO, just slightly less so comparatively)
that is only part of the picture. in my experience being a European in the US what is etched in the culture here is that working “hard” gets you advancements at work which translates to “better life.” that then translates to working crazy hours, answering emails and slack messages from (for the “crazy” ones that take it) vacations etc…
There is also an infamous episode where they are playing Risk on the subway.
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Maybe that's how fairy tales work, but not science.

Changing your chromosome numbers is an entirely different (and unproven to have ever occurred) beast compared to simply expressing some different but previously already present genes due to changing environments (something easily observable).

Not sure why people aren't able to grasp that.
Updates are reversible and you have a list of every update you have ever tried to revert to.
If you have a theory that doesn't match observation then that theory is wrong and you say it's wrong and stop using it.

You don't need to outsource your thinking to an external committee of glacially moving bureaucracy to decide for science to move forward by wholesale replacing one theory with another.

Thermophlogistonics is what we'd have today if we decided that the phlogiston theory is the way to go, we just need to decide that the Phlogiston is a Dark Particle we can't actually observe and then derive thermodynamics from experimental observation, followed by super gluing the two together as to not embarass the prestigious old guard that still believes in the perpetually unobserved phlogiston.
> mostly because figuring things out is fun

I also think that figuring things out is one of life's most rewarding experiences.

But I've found out a lot of people don't think like that. I've often been asked "but why are you doing this" on the topic of my "eccentric" projects. People often can't understand why I find it fascinating because they would only find it tormenting.
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>> check some ratios in the blood first

This would not count as a false proxy however. The problem in software is, it is very hard to construct meaningful proxy metrics. Most of the time it ends up being tangential to value.
Tech contributors per capita (github):

European countries rank very high (USA only 14th)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004016252...

How many employees does it take to run chess.com vs lichess.org ? who work harder? who is more efficient? That kind of business is bad for him, yet is great of value, perhaps there is a disconnect somewhere?
You are telling it like some kind of joke but both Trump and Obama were publicly castrated in office. The power of the president seems greatly exaggerated.
Actually yes; SuSE sells support [1] for RHEL, Ubuntu LTS, and SuSE itself). Quotes: "SUSE Liberty Linux consolidates support for your entire Linux environment, including CentOS, RHEL and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) distributions" and "Our world-class support team is trained to assist your entire mixed Linux estate — not just SUSE solutions."

[1]:https://www.suse.com/c/embrace-linux-diversity-simplified-mu...
I always hear people say things like there needs to be support for the thing I'm using or, it costs time to implement open source.

I hate to break it to you but it takes time to implement closed source solutions as well. They also always have terrible documentation, because they make money on support.

Purely open source stuff lives and dies on how easy it is to start up.

Closed source paid stuff doesn't need to be easy. Often a decision has been made before implementation, and there are people to help you through it.

It's also easier to get approval for open source most of the time because there isnt a new bill, just my time.

I usually reach for open source first.
Sometimes if they get to hot or following many many heating/cooling cycles the insulation varnish on the transformer windings starts to fail leading to short circuit issues.
I think it's just getting older. Some play is rehearsal for real life. Now I can run a real company, make real money and become a real millionaire instead of a pretend one (or at least try to).

Plus I'm going to die unlike when I was an immortal teenager, so I want to retire ASAP.

If I'm going to game it'll be an FPS or similar when I'm too brain dead to play when-will-i-be-a-millionaire.
Ok that's fair, I play it myself. Though it's also pretty weird in its middle section.
They don't need to bother. They got competition effectively banned at the border. Now we're stuck with the same mediocrity we've had for decades.
If you choose to interpret a piece of advice on how to improve your neighborhood as some Orwellian authoritarian propaganda poster commanding you to never leave your house, I'm afraid I can't do anything for you anymore.
Arduino Euclidean Gate Sequencer
A normal one like everyone else I guess. No need to waste bandwidth and storage if you don't have to. If an image looks good to me, I'll try going lower until it doesn't look good, then go back one step. I've been surprised many times by just how low it can go and still look good. That script I wrote defaults to what I've settled on. (AVIF between 0.5 and 1 bpp at 1 megapixel, increasing or decreasing by square root of total pixels in image, plus JPEG fallback.)

If I change my mind, I keep high resolution originals of everything to do it again.
I always assume these”long lost works” are fakes.

How do they know they aren’t?
Years ago I decided to take the Lake Shore Limited from Albany to Chicago for a business trip just to have a different experience. Two things I didn’t expect:
1. It was very difficult to get pre-approved for the expense because my employer’s process had to make sure I wasn’t costing them extra money. Somehow this was not an issue with plane tickets.
2. Overnight stops interrupted my sleep (in seat) as boarders banged luggage around and discussed seat selection when groups were involved.

Interesting, but would book a room if traveling this way next time.
I was put on Ritalin, and that worked just fine for me. Tried 10mg, 20mg, 30mg, and 60mg. 20mg worked best for me.
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Even car people who agree with the CEO's politics dunk on it - see WhistlinDiesel
I wouldn't say it's odd at all - it's basically what's justifying actually trying to solve the problem rather than just going "huh... that's weird..." then putting it on the backlog due to it not being a showstopper.

This sort of thing has been a problem on every project I've worked on that's involved people in America. (I'm in the UK.) Throughput is inconsistent, latency is inconsistent, and long-running downloads aren't reliable. Perhaps I'm over-simplifying, but I always figured the problem was fairly obvious: it's a lot of miles from America to Europe, west coast America especially, and a lot of them are underwater, and your're sharing the conduit with everybody else in Europe. Many ways for packets to get lost (or get held up long enough to count), and frankly it's quite surprising more of them don't.

(Usual thing for Perforce is to leave it running overnight/weekend with a retry count of 1 million. I'm not sure what you'd do with Git, though? it seems to do the whole transfer as one big non-retryable lump. There must be something though.)
Kind of sucks for your guts, though, don't it? Bile is corrosive, that's why reflux is an issue and digestive tablets that contain ox bile shouldn't be taken on an empty stomach. Not fun when it reaches your bowels, either.
Judging a whole urban design philosophy by the most fringe members of the most fringe groups hardly seems like a good faith argument. Especially when those people are almost never even urban designers or in any way related to the field.
Wow, was that 2013? I saw this talk irl, can't believe it has been that long
>committee of glacially moving bureaucracy to decide for science to move forward by wholesale replacing one theory with another.

Are you saying that this exists today?

I feel like you want there to be some nefarious behind the scenes Snidely Whiplash sort of character keeping science held back, and that's just not the case.

We use the current theories and not phlogiston or whatever your straw man theory is because they're the best ones we have right now. They will change with new information.

It legitimately seems like you don't understand the basics of the scientific process.
So? There are a lot of not fun aspects of programming; Factorio is what it's like if it was all just the fun parts.
What is being embraced, extended and extinguished by vscode?
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Speaking for myself, I love Factorio and can't stand Satisfactory. Even on peaceful mode Factorio has you solving real problems, whereas Satisfactory feels like playing Minecraft on creative mode.

Satisfactory's main issue is that it lets you build in three dimensions without doing any physics to check if that build is mechanically plausible. It's of course not reasonable to expect them to do that physics. But it means that sophisticated logistics/organization problems in Factorio almost always have the same solution in Satisfactory: build more, but upwards. There's no reason to think long-term in Satisfactory unless you have a specific aesthetic vision for a base. Of course, a giant factory-skyscraper with tons of conveyor belts sticking out looks really cool! And Satisfactory being easier makes it more of a chill sandbox game than a tense strategy game like Factorio, so I get why aesthetics-minded people like it. Different strokes.
Ask HN: Looking for Collaborators on Gaia, an MMO Ecosystem Simulator
I’m developing an idea for a massively multiplayer online game I call Gaia for now, where players embody individual species within a shared, dynamic ecosystem. Each player can choose a kingdom of life—plant, fungus, bacterium, or animal—and starts as a random mutation from an existing, competing species; players evolve their species, adapting and competing for resources in a virtual environment that mimics ecological interdependence.

Key concepts include:

- Unique play styles for each Kingdom: Different gameplay mechanics for plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals, reflecting their roles in an ecosystem.
- Nutrient economy: A “stock exchange” for nutrients where players decide how to share or hoard resources, impacting ecosystem balance and competition.
- Ecosystem simulation: Species interactions drive the game, with real-time adaptations and a leaderboard based on area controlled by each species.
- Ongoing evolution: If species go extinct, players respawn as a random mutation from another successful species, with unique up- and downsides.
- Environmental events: Natural disasters and catastrophes that occur rarely, but shake up the environment in unexpected ways, require quick changes in strategy.
- Educational & strategic depth: The game aims to reveal the complexities of ecological balance and fragility, blending fun with insight into nature.

Creating engaging gameplay loops will be the biggest challenge, but I'm sure the possible solution space is huge.

I’m looking for others interested in building or brainstorming around this idea—whether in game development, ecological modelling, or MMO infrastructure. This is the game I've wanted to play forever; if you liked the idea of Spore, but found it way too shallow, and are likewise intrigued by the idea of simulating life’s interconnected web, let’s talk!
Adaptation has a specific meaning in the evolution context; it is a type of evolution.
What are some example metrics that you might track that add value?
If that’s how you want to play it, there are mods such as factory planner which will support that playstyle.

Meanwhile, yeah, at least half my time is spent working around earlier mistakes. A main bus always works, but spaghetti is what makes the game fun.
Plume's paean/elegy is very kind. Kudos to Colin and Jae for creating cohost and all the optimism. For HN people who are not familiar with the project, here are a couple quotaions.

“We have watched the world buy into the lies of people who ‘believe in the disruptive potential of technology,’ and who think the best way to realize that potential is to build for-profit businesses that enable a creative-class petit bourgeois to make it through their day without acknowledging another human being,” the founders, Colin Bayer and Jae Kaplan, stated back in 2020. “We think we can do better, by building tools that focus on fair dealing and sustainable growth rather than market dominance,” their manifesto read.

The company had been sharing its financial difficulties in a series of updates starting in March 2024, which warned that the site’s major funder, who prefers to remain anonymous, had gone completely incommunicado as the funds were running out. Cohost, however, was nowhere near being able to sustain itself, as it had just 30,000 monthly active users and just 2,630 subscribers as of March 11, 2024.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/cohost-the-x-rival-founded...
For what folks would that be, then? Genuinely wondering why you'd want to click the big tech instead of self hosted link instead
You seem to have escaped cultural zeros. In Hitchhikers guide... You must prove to Marvin, that you are intelligent, by having tea and no tea, at the same time. A paradox and a cultural reference .

Also with stolen paintings: you have no painting,but you have evidence of it's existence.

And lastly, in song: "can't buy me love."

And of course physics: T(sub) 0. As well as space flight: t-zero.
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I can't wait. I'm so tired of this RGB gamer aesthetic bullshit.
Even when you decode with an SDR, you still need to adjust the receiver frequency to match that of the transmitter, as reference oscillators might have slightly different frequencies that can also slowly shift, e.g., due to changes in temperature. In case of a tape recorder, tape speed during recording and playback can also be slightly different due to mechanical factors.
Do folks generally still believe that the "masters" are/were born great, rather than being born with an advantage of some sort (whether by nature or environment) and then leveraging that to achieve mastery of some craft?
A decade ago (2014) IE5 was completely dead. Some people were still force to care about IE6 but it was marginal. The default browser from that period was IE9 !
and hiw fast it works. Just open the app and scroll. Never any slowness issues or bugs or problems.
>Linting, refactoring and testing all have obvious benifits for anyone who has done any small to medium sized project and has had to rewrite and debug some amount of code, even if they don't know the concepts by name

I'm curious but have you ever heard of anyone that works as a programmer that has not been especially keen on linting and testing (as in automated testing)?

I thought that examples of not being overly keen were quite abundant.

And it is often lamented on this site about how much work it is to get even people who have made a small to medium sized project and have the word programmer or developer in their job title to actually want to do linting and testing.

So what I'm saying is that at least for linting and testing yes, these really might seem like

>exercising artisanship that only the experts would see value in rather than solving a technical problem.
I have since I had to switch to an iPhone for a new job about 9mo ago.

Someone in their design team decided alarms are optional and that sometimes they should just go off silently for reasons.

Utterly stupid feature I didn’t have time to figure out so back to a real alarm clock for waking up on days it’s important to do so.

Whoever decided to make alarms “adaptive” at Apple must have never had a real actual honest job in their life. Utterly infuriating.
I had largely the same experience.

As long as you're just traveling with one company it's usually fine - especially DB, you can usually just hop on the next train.

However with a journey spanning multiple companies you're out of luck... and with seat reservations on TGVs you commonly have to wait until the next day.

It's something that shouldn't be too hard to fix: Give passengers an easy and forgiving way to continue their journey (and make the causing company pay) - ideally this should automatically show up on the App and give the passenger options of new connections etc.

None of this fixes seat reservations on TGVs though, which are also annoying for offers like Interrail/Eurail... EU should probably start regulating seat reservations /s
My contribution is that current theory falls on it its face based on existing observations.

That stands on its own. That I don't provide a viable replacement is a refutation of absolutely nothing.
Is that Jira config in a blog post somewhere? Imagine how many person-years of bureaucracy it would save.
Merica.