skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Americans actually stuck to the food pyramid they would be fine. No one does. It needed refinement to “eat whole grains and pasta, brown rice”, but it was hardly a disaster, the disaster is lack of people (adults) paying attention to it and instead eating crap out of boxes loaded with sugar, hydrogenated fats, and lots of ingredients they couldn’t pronounce let alone know how healthy or unhealthy they are. I saw lots of people paying lip service to it, but few people were sticking to it. Same with the current “my plate” ideas. People won’t tsit for 10 minutes and understand what they mean by protein, veggies, grains, and fruit.
But with sqlite would it be that hard? You could use sqldiff or, even something like this:

diff <(sqlite3 db 'select text from posts where id = 1') <(sqlite3 db 'select text from posts where id = 2')
Great to hear from other viewers who loved it. I don't often rewatch in the cinema either, though oddly enough I have rewatched 3 movies in the cinema this year (a first), 2024 has been impressive. Here in Spain they are continuing to show it, but it's not raking in dollars and movie theatres can be quick to drop screenings these days :( — this is one that would have needed time to build a buzz slowly, basically though "WTF" worth of mouth and getting people talking about it.

Also a note I didn't have my account configured correctly, so I've just seen comments. Please excuse the late reply.
Previously (28-29 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41701037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696062
A better fundamental design would be a SPMD language (like ispc, or GPU languages) and then autoscalarization, which is a lot easier to do reliably than autovectorization.

Intrinsics work poorly in some compilers, and Intel's intrinsics are so hard to read because of inscrutable Hungarian notation that you should just write in asm instead.
Helping you implies you were also contributing to the payments.
No need to imply hostility like that, it could just have been a factor of when they tried it.
Exciting. I'd love to see AppImage [0] builds of applications produced with this library.

[0] https://appimage.org/
[edit] if you don't produce the exact amount consumed at the exact same time, the current will loose its phase and the effective energy transported will be reduced, while producing surtensions at different grid points (don't quote me on that, but accumulator try to keep the phase, and too much divergence can cause their failure from what I understand. But I'm no physic major and I might be completely wrong). Grid coordination is vital.

The main issue with consumer solar connected to the grid is the lack of predictability. The reason why we charge if you put electricity on the grid when too much energy is produced is because we did not plan on offsetting this production, and the network people have to keep it balanced. Reducing the output of thermal fossil plants is usually free, but while we can module nuke plants, it's best and way cheaper when that is predicted (also, opportunity cost is high, so for privately owned nuke plants, it cost even more. EDF is the bitch of the European electricity market so they eat the opportunity costs, but they are the only plant owner who does it (and I won't talk about ARENH here, but again, EDF is the bitch of the EU).
Then, when really to much shit is on the grid, and you have reservoir space, you pump the water up the STEP (batteries, but better). Up to 4500€/mwh if unpredicted (it's never actually that, but it's the price seer in the SPOT command order). And lastly, if it's the only solution, wind/solar farms are shut down. Again, if predicted, good time to do the maintenance.

In the future consumer grade installations will probably come with a lot of stuff to help with the lack of predictability. I don't love it, but that's actually my current job (well, I actually love the actual job, really interesting shit, I'm not so sure about the moral implications of even more surveillance. Because we do have the geoloc of the newer installations. We don't link it with anything relevant yet, and it's anonymous for the moment, but will it stay that way?)
Which leafy vegetables have carbs? Are you talking about fiber? Most leaf veggies like spinach, kale, greens don’t have hardly any carbs at all.
Then a sedan fits at least 4 people.
Learning very basic HTML, I converted from RSS then TXT to a free book about the freedom to reject painful psychiatry https://antipsychiatry.yay.boo/
It's clearly not. Real world applications exist today. Here's one:

https://earth.google.com/
For the web, there are debuggers, but no apparent "debug mode."
Show HN: Open-source Desktop app to control your computer with Claude
Freetube is terribly unoptimized. Even though it supports hw video playback, I decided to skip it as it had too much CPU overhead.
It's hard to identify. I audited a Sheriff's account once because there was constant chatter that the funds were being misused. Out of an entire year I could only find one line item that was questionable (it was still a police item, but it should have come from a different fund).

What isn't clear is this: if say the Sheriff buys 100 riot shields from Company X, does his cousin own Company X and there is a kickback or a favor? I couldn't answer those questions because they would require a whole new level of investigation.
We're talking about apartments in Japan, not the US. The high inflation rate in the US doesn't apply here.
Hadn't heard of the "DEEP" place before which the article is on. They don't have an "About" page, and they're not listed in wikipedia.

Their Career's page gives the impression it might be a start up coming out of stealth or something?
writing 'I think X', 'there a chance that X' instead of 'X is', 'I know that X'

> if you are uncertain, don't express the idea, because no amount of verbal hedging will protect you if you express something that is incorrect.

The problem with this is with the target audience of your writing,
if you're assuming an adversarial audience vs a cooperative one.
the bigger and less self-filtered the audience is the more likely it is to become of the first kind.

> the best way to get the correct idea if you are wrong and unsure is to confidently propose your idea as if it is correct - Cunningham's law applied to everything.

Personally when I see someone being confidently incorrect consistently I just filter them out and their opinions instead of correcting them because a lot of time it's a lost cause.

for example Reddit and twitter, the sheer amount of people that are overly confidently incorrect, it made conversations not worth having there so I just stopped many years ago.
Pan: The Performing Artists Network (1987)
The innovation on Bitcoin is not about cryptography but game-theory at work. For example, is it convenient for a miner to destroy the system or to continue mining? There are theoretical attacks at around 20%, not 51%. A state actor could also attack the system if they want to invest enough resources.
If you're curious about rapamycin, I recommend checking out Matt Kaeberlein's podcasts on the subject (among others): https://www.youtube.com/@optispan

He's been researching the subject for years and is measured and balanced about the value of using it (he is a proponent).

I'm planning on starting soon because the clock is ticking and I can't wait a couple more decades for more research to come out.
Whenever I enter a thrift store, the first thing to notice is the strong whiff of disinfectant/air freshener that pervades the space and overpowers other scents. Then I become accustomed/noseblind to it. I proceed to the clothing racks, and the staff will see me standing there with a shirt or suit, and holding it against my face, taking several strong whiffs and contemplating what I just perceived.

The usual culprit is that someone (faux-) rich has used cheap cologne on their singular golfing junket of the year, and I guess they sprayed it on their clothes after dressing, rather than their skin where it would count.

So if a garment can pass the smell-test in the thrift store, I have a better chance that I can tolerate it in my closet, or wearing it on my person. Not a guarantee, but a better chance!
I've always wondered if such a microscope could do data recovery on old floppy disks and or the early hard drives - from the 70s and 80s ( ie for data archaeology purposes )
Your position is perfectly understandable.

As a fellow Australian I well recall earlier campaigns that started out seeking to modify behaviour and later devolved into draconian law.

Recall the 1970s Life. Be In It campaign?

Started innocently enough and before we knew what had happened there were Aerobics Internment Camps for the ice cream eaters and Big Sister MTV alertotainments from Oliver Newton Goebbels.

Clearly I'm heavy with the sarcasm, there is a difference between enforcing policy with lawfare in the event of a life threatening health crisis such as COVID and doing the same in the event of a life threatening health crisis such as obesity, or a life threatening crisis such as AGW climate change.

I do seem to recall that we (Australia) made it through the AIDS years and increasing road accidents with mostly public campaigns and not so much law.

Probably the best path through public policy is to understand the issues, the risks, and to stay engaged at various levels of setting and enacting policy.
It does not, you’re right to point it out.

Maps showed about 1 day and 18 hrs so I accounted for 3 day rental but lodging slipped my mind. So probably another $200-$400, if leaning towards economy options.
Well you can store metadata in SQLite. You can update metadata and files in a transaction. It already has a caching layer built in (I think 8mb by default, that might need some tuning for this use case). It is thread safe (I mean it is a giant rw mutex but whatever) Does not sound that bad to just use it instead of building a caching layer that might be marginally faster than sqlite. And if you restart your caching frontend thing, it will need to rebuild the cache using tons of syscalls. SQLite cache will fill up easier as it has less context switches.

One major downside I see would be backing up the database. You can do granular backups on a filesytem. Even rsync would work fine. You’d need to basically snapshot the entire thing here.
> And through all of this, the compiler should also eject files that carry enough information to allow debuggers to make sense of the compiled code, unwind the optimizations when the users asks, and present a coherent version of what is going on.

You can't do this because some optimizations can't be seen through; most obvious one is identical code merging. If you're in a merged function then you don't know which of the original source lines you're looking at.

I'd like to see a system which only had optimized compilation and used an interpreter for debugging.
It's not exactly democracy once you add weights penalising erroneous information and bad actors.

Science kind of works this way, you have papers to support, and lack of rebuttal is sort of understood as general acceptance, new evidence updates our beliefs about old information.
I think it should be feasible to encode this general agreement into something that can be put into a database. No one has succeeded I guess, and it seems a bit harder since "flatearther-12345" is initially the same as "actual_scientist" since it's hard to have verified identity and offer anonymity at the same time.
A fascinating article! As with attempts to find the first “video game,” you end up making interesting decisions about what really qualifies.
How does Arc handle the line of death[1]?

[1] https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/ (Though I realise after reading this that this concept isn't really all that relevant anymore)
What might software engineering look like in 10-15 years?
Hey everyone!

I've been reflecting on how much software engineering has evolved over the past decade—from the rise of cloud-native development, CI/CD becoming the norm, and AI/ML starting to change the game. It’s got me wondering: what might the field look like in another 10 or even 15 years?

Of course, none of us have a crystal ball, and predicting the future is tricky. But I'm super curious to hear everyone’s thoughts and insights on where things could go, based on trends you’re seeing now or tech you’re excited about. What do you think might be the big shifts or breakthroughs that will define the next era of software engineering?

Whether it's specific advancements in languages, new paradigms, changes in how we work, or the role of AI (or something completely out of left field!)—I’d love to hear what you think and, more importantly, why you think that might happen.

Looking forward to some awesome ideas and perspectives!
Add to that that there was absolutely nothing on the line for the subjects. No life in prison, no jail time, no fine, no loss of social status, just nothing.

Nervous or stressed people can say wildly inaccurate things and seem like they're lying, even if they technically have nothing to hide. Tell these people that if they give more detailed descriptions of what happened they're more likely to be seen as telling the truth and I can only see the number of times they misspeak or just confabulate go up.
The more I listen to NotebookLM “episodes”, the more I am convinced that Google has trained a two-speaker “podcast discussion” model that directly generates the podcast off the back of an existing multimodal backbone. The two speakers interrupt and speak over each other in an uncannily humanlike manner. I wonder whether they basically fine tuned against a huge library of actual podcasts along with the podcast transcripts and perhaps generated synthetic “input material” from the transcripts to feed in as training samples.

In other words, take an episode of The Daily and have one language model write a hypothetical article that would summarize what the podcast was about. And then pass that article into the two—speaker model, transcribe the output, and see how well that transcript aligns with the article fed in as input.

I am sure I’m missing essential details, but the natural sound of these podcasts cannot possibly be coming from a text transcript.
Are you talking transportation or entertainment?

For transportation it mostly stops making sense over 1000km, anyone's time is more valuable than any price difference. The only exception is overnight sleeper trains between major cities.
Thank you. I think that is right, something people don't want to see — though it's more the idea of something they don't want to see. It's a shame they don't want to see, since it's a deeply optimistic movie. Hope you enjoy the home screening :) — apologies for the late reply, my notifications were not set up correctly.
I don't think it's impossible to encode that, but yeah, it means that the straightforward approach meets immediate edge cases that may render it broken.
What are their reasons for not allowing it?

Sounds stupid on many levels to forbid it.
That first study is -tiny- study which is a good data point but hardly worth changing my diet over. I’ve seen plenty of studies saying that butter in moderate usage is just fine, and the war on saturated fats really should have been limited to hydrogenated oils/margarine
You can always update the code to use that. Meta releasing stuff on github is not trying to release the "bet" but to give a proof of concept. The licenses of those TTS system matters, it's not enough to be open. If this was a product for their users, they will definitely have better TTS.
Fiber is a carb https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/carbohydrates/fiber...
It’s no longer funny to see how developers again and again are trying to fix problems of real world by creating digital hideouts because this is the only thing developers do the best - programming. Whenever we see a problem with banks, governments, corporations, we immediately try to fix the problem with “own digital alternative”. But hiding from the real problem in a new network doesn’t fix remaining initial problem for the rest of the world. Complex socio-economic problems shall be fixed with socio-economical instruments. No new network could solve problems of monopolies and profit-greedy corporations.
> For most people, most life situations which require clear thinking have nothing to do with writing.

The problem with "clear thinking" is that it is subjective. I think Paul Graham and Leslie Lamport, have experienced something like this: when they sit down to write about a certain topic, they realize that their initial thoughts were not nearly clear enough, and after a number of iterations they became clearer and clearer. Most of us don't write essays, so we simply don't recognize this feeling.
I generally use safari for it’s superior privacy features.

I did use arc, but I found it troublesome for two reasons:

1. I find little arc needs tab switching indicators as I lose windows in it and then close it unknowingly, because it’s not obvious that when it has extra windows open.

2. I’m uncomfortable using a browser where I have to remain signed into it all the time and I’m concerned about the privacy implications of that.
At least for males..
Part of it is the English language doesn't have tools to express uncertainty without adding verbosity. For example, take what I said here, my sentence length increased by 25% by saying "part of it is" to communicate uncertainty. This gets tiring quickly for both the writer and reader. It becomes boilerplate.
> and are doing it because they think it's the more profitable choice

Only over a very short window.
As COVID has taught us "if only we had all obeyed the stay at home order" (which would have eliminated COVID and a chunk of dozens or hundreds of infectious diseases), relying on the bulk of man to "get with the plan" is a fool's errand, ipso facto the proposition of such is and was foolish for reason of blindness to this fact.

That is to say, if we all have a "same browser" then there will be people with "not same", there will be divergences, it will be a mess.

A very simple solution of polymorphic fingerprinting - the fingerprinters will get a fingerprint, a good looking one, just that it will be different each time. Even better to think of when the russians poisoned the ammunition in vietnams with bad bullets. Can't make them all bed or they'll toss the whole batch. I think they arrived at 1:10. The idea is to make fingerprinting as ugly as possible - up to and no further than the point that they are forced to cook up something even more evil.
Well this shows its power when it reaches viewers who it clicks with! Good on you going to the IMAX (I'm no morality police about downloading movies, but the big screen is where it's at to get an experience). For me this movie has played like 3 different cuts, 3 different times.
Yeah something like %pollution accumulated vs %rich would be interesting.

However being in 1% and not considered rich signifies total fiasco of western model. Basically you're relegating 99% into the poor category. American dream in action
> Combining tabs and bookmarks into one cohesive display

I've tried to experiment with different ways to present browsing information. One approach is to present the tabs, bookmarks, and history on one open cohesive page, and allows searching all of them at once. Of course the devils are in the details, how to effectively navigate to different sections of the page, how to make sure performance is good, etc. I made a browser extension to try out the idea [1].

[1] One Page Favorites.
When is the price set? When I pick it up the time or when I check out? Would it be legal if I pick up an item that's marked $1 and at checkout it's now marked $5? What if I hold said item and give it to someone else, what would be the price?
I ditched JSON for configuration files (in favour of TypeScript)
In normal texts, that's correct. However, written Chinese does contains semantic information which the spoken language and Pinyin lack and, unlike English, has fewer distinct syllables, and seldom borrows words from other languages. So someone who's literate in Chinese would usually be able to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words when written down, as they would already know the meaning of all their component characters, but might struggle if they were written
phonetically. This is like having a good knowledge of Classical Greek when encountering words like nephropathy or myocarditis for the first time.

It still isn't a very good argument, though. Most English speakers get by without any knowledge of classical languages, and accept having to look up words in a dictionary.
Trains have been all over social media forever. The only reason they aren’t packed is because the logistics of taking an Amtrak long distance are miserable.

The zephyr is a destination, not a mode of travel.
For those of us confused that’s Arc the browser, not Arc the framework powering HN: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(web_browser)
I would assume that students getting into competitive schools were more informed (whether or not that resulted in a good decision).

> I don't have a whole lot of sympathy

It is a big objective problem, for the students and society. So even without feelings, some kind of incentives need to be better aligned with reality.

Limiting student loan repayment terms, with a limited percentage of student income recoverable to banks, would certainly incentivize banks not to help students get in trouble.

Telling basket weaving majors that they are welcome to do it for love, but to expect to be paying for the degree themselves up front, or with an ongoing job, represents the desired outcome, in simplified terms.
> Western readers have a hard time reading older writing - while eastern readers have no problem with very old texts.

That's simply not true.

Ancient Chinese calligraphy and language is so different that you have entire PhD fields about it.

By contrast, as someone who has studied basic Latin in high school, I can read stuff from the walls of Pompeii without issue. I can directly read Latin texts from 700AD or so with the standard difficulty of reading handwriting.

See: http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/view_img.php?lang=en&id_...

Now, perhaps if I were Chinese, I could read ancient graffiti on the Great Wall, but nobody seems to have ever mentioned that.
Modal is excellent for prototyping and experimentation, but I find the queueing and startup times hard to stomach. Perhaps if I had a much bigger load it would be snappier.
> this really sounds like Chopin

That was my reaction, too. I play piano, but Chopin has always been too hard for me, so I can’t offer any insights into how the notes on the page are or are not typical of Chopin. But I have listened to many recordings of Chopin by various pianists, and this short piece does indeed sound like Chopin to me.
I suspect a lot of new works by famous artists are going to turn up in the age of generative AI
> Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

I've used it for several months now and am very happy with it.
I'ts a Electron app, however, so don't expect it to be small; I hope they will consider
rebuilding it using Tauri, which would reduce its size drastically.
It is imperative (a point I'm surprised I left out), but the difference is that imperative code touching state is collocated.
There’s lot of evidence that excess sugar intake like modern humans do causes issues, especially diabetes, over a long time in a large percentage of people. There’s very little about seed oils though and that’s 90% internet hype
Not all programming languages have this amount of expressiveness. How do you, for example, tell how a database what the intended execution plan is for some complicated SQL query?

You can normally only send SQL queries to a database and not execution plans.