skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm at 3 years with occasional breaks. At a certain point my weight wouldn't go lower and I started feeling terrible. I think I was producing more ketones than I could use. I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but now I'm sustaining a low-carb, low-but-nonzero-ketone mode, and still getting 50-75% of the mental/energy/anti-inflammatory advantages.

I think it was either changing my diet to focus on veges instead of meats (still 15-30g net carbs/day though), or adding artificial sweetener to maybe fool my body to making insulin? The science says that shouldn't happen, but idk what else it could be.
>It's possible to run an experiment to see if a conscious entity could be convinced that a simulated reality was real.

This is like writing code to run a VM to detect if your code is being run inside a VM.

If the answer is no or yes it doesn't really say anything about whether the parent machine is running a VM with your code inside.

The results of the experiment wouldn't say anything about the simulation hypothesis.
>You could stick the codec on the DVD itself? They are relatively small programs.

Consumer DVD players have (cheaper) ASICs for hardware-decoding of MPEG. The algorithm to decode is literally burned into the chip. It wouldn't have made economic sense for manufacturers to pay extra for general-purpose CPUs such as x86/ARM/MIPS to enable future scenarios of loading & executing arbitrary code from discs.
As someone in middle age who has also been struggling with ADHD and frequent mental paralysis throughout their life I can very much relate to your words and observations, and therefore wish you all the best on your future journey.

Making mistakes is not failure, failure is giving up on your dreams and aspirations.

There is a lot of wisdom and knowledge out there that can help you making slightly better decisions. For me it was learning more about ADHD-associated rejection sensitivity, attachment theory or C.G. Jung's concept of the man-child.
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Pardon me for my bad English, and I will pardon your bad Dutch when you try to discuss something with me in my native tongue. If you do not converse in Dutch I will also be happy to do so in German.
I suspect he is arguing the line which many "Global crash incoming" channels propose that:

A) Low birth rate leads to a Population/Population disposable income total(not per capita) will decrease, and thus gross capitalization decreases reducing stock value. Decreasing the benefit of investing in index funds potentially catastrophically.
B) Inflation will be/remain high(or above earning increases) for core expenses (housing, food, water, gas, transport)

Sometimes with the argument that B happening will cause A to happen (e.g. more expensive = less attractive for young immigrants, less attractive to have kids)

I agree with some of it (for example disposable income inequality and core inflation issues are indeed causing a cost of living crisis which is discouraging growth), but I advise NOT to go down the rabbit hole of these channels, as they can give you a lot of anxiety.
Now instead of losing a yellow folder, a system will lose 1 million people’s records all at once.

Aren’t school vaccines registered with the state? Given how many parents cannot keep records, I am surprised the solution would be “get them again”.
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Yes, not only the Ancient Greeks and Romans perceived blue, but they also discussed blue and used blue pigments frequently.

Blue pigments and dyes were relatively expensive, and this was the only reason which limited their use in the ancient world.

Theophrastus (a student of Aristotle) discusses the 3 kinds of blue pigments whose use was widespread by his time (2300 years ago).

The most ancient pigment and also the most expensive was what is now called "ultramarine blue". This was very expensive, because it was imported from far away (from the present territory of Afghanistan).

The high cost of ultramarine blue has prompted the search for alternative blue pigments. The Egyptians had discovered several millennia before the time of Theophrastus how to make a synthetic blue pigment based on copper, which is now called "Egyptian blue". The Greeks had discovered in Cyprus abundant sources for another cheaper alternative to ultramarine blue, azurite, which is a natural pigment that is also based on copper.

The Ancient Greeks and Romans used frequently all these 3 blue pigments, all of which were known as "cyanos" (which was the original name of ultramarine blue).

Besides these 3 blue pigments, blue glass colored with cobalt oxide and dyes based on indigo (extracted from the indigo plant or from woad or from marine snails) were also used.

The people studying the ancient literature have been confused about the blue color mostly because they were ignorant about chemistry, mineralogy and biology, so they were unable to recognize most references to blue colors (and to many other colors).

The ancient Indo-European languages did not have a special name for the blue color (or for most colors except red, white and perhaps black).

So both in Ancient Greek and in Latin most colors were named in phrases or compound words meaning "the color of X", where "X" was some colored thing.

The color blue was most frequently referred to as either the color of the sky or as the color of "cyanos", in both Ancient Greek and Latin (there were also a few other words, e.g. Greek "glaucos", meaning light blue and used mostly for eyes).

Due to some stupid confusions, "cyan" began to be used in the modern European languages, already in the 19th century, as meaning "blue-green".

However in the ancient world "cyan" has never meant blue-green, but pure blue, the color of ultramarine blue. Blue-green was also mentioned by the ancient authors, but it was referred to either as the color of beryls, or as the color of turquoise, or as the color of the littoral sea (while green was referred to as the color of emeralds or the color of grass or the color of leaves).
I don't understand. Infowars would be owned by the same people if Musk or Trump bought it. It would be funny if the Onion owned it. MAGA cult doesn't really do humor, just cruelty.
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I completely agree, but silver spoon idiots don't get it and need hand holding.
I think the dark mode colors look way better than the light mode (you can switch at the top).
hey thanks !

just added voting feature, will add the rest as well

currently there is no moderation, i just made this as a fun project and didn't expect it to go this wild lol. will add it now
What laser cutter do you use to make these? I assume you're just cutting out wood.
sorry what? I didn’t understand the sentence
I'd like to see how much time kids waste learning reading/writing in countries with non-phonetic languages compared to sane languages.
You can drink the bottle, plug it back and put it under your clothes. Then drink another one.
And even before that, burned > 500 square miles of Japanese urban areas to ash.

Granted, by the last weeks of the war, the USAAF was dropping leaflets warning they'd be back with incendiaries in a few days, a masterstroke in psychological warfare.
Could you please link your website?
HN is the best place for this kind of "sensitive" topic in my opinion.

Youtube is full of self-promotion and "experts" that just try to rack up views. Good luck wading through that, and that's even if you find solid videos that aren't just "fad" shorts.

Reddit is, well, Reddit - I need not say more.

Trying to find information about anything medical on any search engine is a bust because there are millions of sites all offering medical information with no way for us to know their validity.

Scientific articles are also just glorified eyeball generators too, so can't trust them.

Reading the actual published papers is out of reach for most of us that aren't knowledgeable in the field.

Finally - real world Doctors are out of reach for most of us, and they'll only talk to you if you make an appointment. But even if you do, good luck having them take this sort of line of questioning/discussion seriously as it's not the normal and rote "diagnosis" function that they enjoy doing - even if they're up to date with recent research. Like lawyers, they safeguard their sacred priesthood's knowledge, and that's why they only "advise" you if you pay up.
You can get more total IO throughput (at the cost of latency) by queueing up multiple reads and writes concurrently. You can do this with threads, but io_uring should theoretically go faster (but don't take my word for it, let's wait for benchmarks).

I'm personally interested in the potential for async bindings for Python. Making fast async wrappers for blocking APIs in Python-land is painful (although it might improve in the future with nogil).
We want schools to be good for everyone in the country. The only reason we're seeing change now is because of regulatory capture. If we continue to privatize schools, everyone is going to be really stupid.

Voucher schools should be free to exist and collect tuition. It's absurd to give our tax dollars to them.
Well, Turing machines are supposed to be that definition. The Church-Turing thesis still hasn't been shown to be false. Proving something of Turing machines that doesn't hold for one of those classes of devices would mean refuting it. Basically we'd need to find some problem that, memory not being an issue, one class of computer can solve in finite time while another can't solve in any finite amount of time.
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That opportunity was a result of unmet demand for cheap entertainment, and only slightly by the medium. I’m sure that’s filled by YouTube, etc.
Can't remember if this was on HN previously or I saw it somewhere else ... but a few weeks back there was a research PR article about some researchers feeding mice a high sugar/far diet and letting them solve a swimming task, and found that the high sugar/fat diet mice performed worse, and attributed this to memory / cognitive degradation, a la Alzheimers.

They therefore concluded that Alzheimers is effectively "diabetes of the brain" (i.e. with or without concomitant diabetes 'of the body'.)

So this news is interesting, since it both supports the "diabetes of the brain" interpretation, as well as debunking it at the same time (i.e. it's not the high-sugar, but the lack of ketones which you only get when you avoid sugar?).

I wonder if this subtle distinction has any practical importance. E.g., perhaps you don't need to avoid sweets more generally as a diabetic would have to, as long as you have enough days where you produce ketone bodies (e.g. through intermittent fasting?).

Equally, one has to wonder if the whole lack of ketones bad might be a mechanism for diabetes itself ... (maybe this is an actual hypothesis being researched? I haven't done the research to have an educated answer to this).
sure, will add it today.

thanks for the tooltip idea ! I added the basic "Read more" truncation but it was looking ugly so removed it. Tooltip sounds better
Really the first American that I hear who's defending the American health system after the shooting. It does not convince.
A big part of all these discussions is "why should you trust any computational result you can't verify?"
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Well I wouldn't dismiss the article fully, but I agree a proper product demo showing a real session of this CHat Oriented Programming on a real project would go a long way removing the whiff of snake oil there.

My experience has been meh: LLMs let me enter unknown domains and get started, but a very large part of the LLM-generated code gets dumped once the right abstractions have been clarified.
As a straight-up random Google citation (https://www.cotes.com/blog/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-ev-...)

Production of EVs and batteries generate more CO2 before the first wheel turns, however, the total carbon footprint of ICE vehicles quickly overtake that of the EVs after 15,000 miles (24,140 km) of driving.

- It takes a typical EV about one year in operation to achieve "carbon parity" with an ICE vehicle.

- If the EV draws electricity from a coal/fired grid, however, the catchup period stretches to more than five years.

- If the grid is powered by carbon/free hydroelectricity, the catchup period is about six months.
Thank you for replying. I am (on and off) building a regional price comparison website for various regional online bookstores. I do want to build a more fairer and honest monthly/yearly list something like yours and the price comparison as the main USP but more so I really like reading and enjoy exploring books even if I don't read all of the ones I wan to.

Your website is quite inspiring to me and have given me more ideas to explore. Thank you for sharing your ranking algorithm, very fascinating (and still understanding the intricacies of it).

I asked you about Amazon API because I noticed some of your prices are stale which is against their Pricing Display guidelines.

Its been a challenge for me to work with Amazon as their API is not easy to get access to, I mean I have an affiliate tag for A website but from what I've read as per their TOS I am only allowed to use it for A website and not for B. And for B I have to apply again for a new tag with a new website (which is still under development!)

I will end up working on a scraper or a few workers anyway as most online bookstores do not have an API, none have replied back to my emails inquiring the same.
The market for low budget DVDs would still be smaller without streaming because the entertainment market is more competitive.
That's an entirely new market for them. They are struggling even in their core area of expertise and trying to compete against Waymo, Uber, Lyft etc. would be like flying to the moon for them.
"Ascension Day Commandos" they were called, because of their willingness to die.
I think watchpro is more of a fan forum, rather than a product selling site.

If you follow watch types on instagram the level of quality of photography is generally quite high.
thanks and glad you liked it :)

that's actually one of the main "idea" behind the website
Not the person you're replying to, but maybe "ditched" is a strong word. A few thoughts about the various forms of social media you've mentioned:

Browsing HN for 30 minutes is probably a better investment than browsing TikTok for 30 minutes.

Browsing TikTok for 30 minutes and learning a new healthy recipe is probably a better investment than reading international news for 30 minutes.

Light use of social media can be a greater net positive than complete abstinence from all forms of social media.
Indeed. Galileo was up against a model that was much more useful and matched better with the available evidence and understanding: Often it's described as Copernicus vs Ptolemy, but while Galileo's observations conclusively destroyed Ptolemy by showing the other planets rotated around the sun, Brahe had a model where that was true, but the sun revolved around the earth, and it was functionally identical to the Copernican model except that it didn't require the earth to rotate and it was easier to calculate because it used fewer epicycles. It was Kepler that actually fixed the problem (before telescopes, even!) with epicycle-based models by making the paths ellipses, and it took the modern understanding of velocity, acceleration, and momentum which Newton perfected (neatly deriving Kepler's ellipses as well), along with experiments by a few other scientists demonstrating the coriolis effect on dropped objects to actually produce direct evidence of the earth's rotation and address the objections of Galileo's detractors (And Foucault hammered it home with his pendulum). Some of Galileo's contemporaries attempted similar experiments but failed because the effect was too small.
It's crazy to think people still deny current US involvement in other countries, given all this past evidence.

Just look what Chevron is doing today: UFC 2.0.

https://youtu.be/9OtIAZMqrZE?si=11uBrlWr-pSL4APj
What would happen if there was no private option?
I bet politicians would be rewarded for different policies
You left of the most important part of the quote: wink wink. Your entire comment is just based on the opposite meaning of the gp.
An amnesty for what, mass murder, a policy of multiple genocides?

Also the Nazis claimed the German army was not losing WW1, but were betrayed by politicians. Perhaps WW2 would not have started if WW1 ended in unconditionally surrender?
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> You still need the tests to ensure the code is correct though.

You do, but not the boilerplate stuff to check that your code throws a runtime error if you pass a JSON doc to a square root function.

Having runtime errors instead of compile-time ones is also a major liability.

> A sqrt function returning 27 for every input would be “proven correct” by static typing.

That's not what's being argued.
sure!

also just added a voting feature, will add content moderation as well.
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> pitot tubes

For example, the tragedy of Air France Flight 447.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

> dead reckoning

LORAN was invented in WW2 and was seen then as one of the big advancements of the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ObdTU9k7o
Brazilians always had a beef with the Banana Republic thing. They took it personally as a criticism. There is a famous 'carnaval' tongue in cheek song that was composed as an 'answer' to "Yes, we have no bananas":

Yes, we do have Bananas[1]

Yes, we do have bananas/
Bananas to give and sell/
Baby girl, bananas have vitamins/
Banana makes you healthy and strong/

Coffee goes to France, yes/
Cotton goes to Japan, for sure/
For the whole world, man or woman/
Bananas for whoever wants it/

Mate for Paraguay, no way/
Gold from our pockets, no way/
We are part of the crisis, if it comes/
Bananas for whoever wants it/

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_N7ajW96I
You’re just reasserting what you said. Do you have any responses? I already addressed the “taking funding” argument.

The real regulatory capture is the jobs and benefits program for education employees.
It does still show that Americans are buying significantly less cars per capita than they did back in e.g. mid to late 80s. So the market is only stagnant because of population growth. Add Tesla and other companies that are making EVs and it doesn't look that great for GM anymore.
I scrolled through hue in both modes and didn’t find a position that I could call presentable. Some are not the worst, but that’s it. I believe it can be done with 4 base colors, but this site doesn’t follow well-known color scheming principles.
There are various bits of history where I'm reasonably well read, and one is the Vietnam War.

The Wiki page is here;

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

To my eye, it presents a wholly and utterly misleading picture of events.

The Vietnamese simply wanted independence, because they were sick of the brutality of French rule. Everything that happened after came from the French not wanting to go away, and hood-winking the Americans into supporting them, and then the French went away anyway, and left the Americans carrying the can.
hey, sorry for the trouble, will fix it today

thanks for letting me know !
I think this approach would need adaptation for a classroom of younger students.

"Younger learners" reminds me of the Montessori method: "self-directed exploration driven by children’s natural interests". A knowledge graph could serve as a playground for exploration. While boxes and arrows might work for children learning to read, I'm sure there must be many other engaging ways to present this information to younger students.

Spaced repetition traditionally uses flashcards to test recall, but it could evolve into task-based learning. Instead of just recalling facts, learners could complete tasks as proxies for understanding. For example, solving a physics problem could indicate mastery, while struggling might signal a need for review. Designing these tasks would require collaboration between educators and developers. Teaching students how to self-assess and decide what to learn or refresh next would be invaluable.

Anyway, I think of this stuff often since I always have a huge backlog of things to learn myself, but I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking of how to adapt these things for children, so I'm sure I'm missing many important details.
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On the contrary, you are still wrong. HTMX is simply using JavaScript and looking at it, it isn't minimal (it's still 15 kB min+gzip).

> It's difficult to take this seriously. Just wait until you find out most of Python is written in C! Very dishonest!

Now I understand, you're just obtuse.
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YouTube does still allow to "buy"/rent movies one apiece.
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Good question. But I still believe a percentage based revenue share would have been a far greater deal than none at all.
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With the cancel action, that's 4 :p
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glad you liked it !

and thanks for the suggestions, just added the voting feature, will add character limits as well
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Which company whose name started with Black was the PMC in that case?
The article on it [1] says that, "The new result probably won’t have such practical applications, for which there are many considerations beyond theoretical optimality guarantees."

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-establish...
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Interesting use of the word Consumption, I am reminded how Tuberculosis (TB), was called consumption and was a huge bane to people until antibiotics were discovered.

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