skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, although there's a variety there and you can find some lower and higher ones. (bags of anything starchy are difficult, sandwiches are very variable.. I leaned on wraps and stuff like Chicken salad without toppings a lot.)

some prepared foods are basically the "empty calories" that people always talk about, like chips. high calorie (and usually like 3-4 servings per bag, not single serving really at all) and also low satiation so they almost make you hungrier to eat.
I have been using a similar tool, Clipea, on a regular basis and I find it really helpful. I am CLI proficient enough to know whats possible on the shell, but I use it too infrequently to remember all the ins and outs and flags. At this point these tools really improve productivity.

Have not used shllm, but from the docs it looks good. Clipea and others have not been updated for quite some time, except llm from Simon Willison, the datasette developer. His llm implementation has a llm-cmd plugin which provides what shllm does. Works like a charm.

Over all a very useful category of AI programs.
it's a woman thing? wtf
>To put another way, "guy was vaguely near New York on these dates" doesn't narrow down the search parameters by much.

That's why I said that this data alone is probably worthless, but can gain value when combined with other data.("As a piece of data alone, the results are probably not of significant use")

The combining of data is the important bit and the entire emphasis of both of my other comments.

Two pieces of otherwise anonymous data can, when combined, lead to re-identification.
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Yeah, I have no idea how these tags are actually being used, let alone why they could be useful.
Nah, I think it would be interesting to hear from people struggling with the choice. Maybe someone staying despite it all, while still thinking it's horrible.
If this was reproducible I could think of so many real world uses. Invisible force fields that can move hundreds of pounds is a holy grail in several fields.
Selling tickets on those non-humid days would have been more profitable than fixing anything.
Alcohol is a tricky one, because its calories are an especially bad way of measuring impact on energy and weight.

It is kind of like measuring the calories of wood. It burns well, so it has a high calories, but metabolizes poorly. A block of wood is about 400 kCal/100g.

Ethanol has 1325 kJ/mol of energy. If the reaction stops part way through the metabolic pathways, which happens because acetic acid is excreted in the urine after drinking, then not nearly as much energy can be derived from alcohol, only 215.1 kJ/mol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacology_of_ethanol#Metabo...
"to either side" or "on either side" commonly means "on both sides"

"Either" has two meanings:

- verb-wise, it separates different options (you can have either X or Y)

- noun-wise, it refers to two similar groups (there was no light on either side of the bridge, or, conversely, the bridge was lit on either side)
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Show HN: Fixa – an open source Python package for testing voice agents
hey! this is oliver and jonathan and today, we’re launching fixa — a free, open source package to test voice agents.

fixa uses a voice agent to call your voice agent and an LLM to evaluate how the conversation went. here's a demo: https://youtu.be/LAW1wW6SjTo

this was initially a paid feature of our platform, but the monetization model didn't really make sense.

our customers were paying us for all the components of our agent (STT + LLM + TTS + markup) in addition to their own agent – even though many of them have preferred vendors, volume discounts, and credits.

we came to the conclusion that you should be able to use your own API keys to test your own voice agents.

e2e testing for web apps is done using free and open source packages (selenium, puppeteer), we think the same should be true for voice.

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fixa is still in the early stages, so we would appreciate any and all feedback!
This sounds like Zuck didn't understand the whole push-back on censorship from Big Tech. It wasn't about censoring "the other folk" it's about not censoring.

Allow discourse and stop putting your finger on the scale, dammit.
> The other one is named Marie, making her basically German anyway.

Dude, it’s 麻理恵, which merely romanizes to “Marie”, and it’s very Japanese.
> "A big meal" might be 300 calories for somebody with an eating disorder

I knew a guy that complained that he "ate like a lion" and yet couldn't gain weight.

Turns out, his breakfast was typically a single egg and a slice of toast. Lunch would be half a sandwich and a bag of chips that he wouldn't finish. Dinner of course varied, but basically was like 4-6 oz of meat of some sort and a small side of veggies.

Overall, his daily calorie intake was probably only around 1,000 calories.

I don't know if this qualified as an eating disorder, or what, considering when we hear about someone undereating, it's because they're trying to lose weight. He was trying to GAIN weight and yet was still horrendously undereating.
Based on my experience of just listening convos around me, danshari is the more popular method in Japan. At least, people talk about it more.
There are general alcohol regulations, but there are no laws that regulate Jack Daniels (as a manufacturer) specifically. Which is kind of the point I was originally making with that analogy.

JD is regulated using the same laws that regulate Jim Beam or Suntory whiskey or any other alcohol manufacturer (without going into the details of how different types of alcohol are regulated, e.g., beer vs wine vs whatever else, because it is orthogonal to the point). There is no dedicated “JD cannot do xyz, but all other whiskey manufacturers can” regulation.
Went to a concert recently where the supporting band was a two piece which relied on a MacBook for live sequencing the drums as well as some MIDI inputs for various effects and such.

Two and a half songs in the MacBook died and wouldn't come up after reboot, and that was that.

Felt bad for them, but using a laptop as critical infrastructure is usually a bad idea.
I was amazed how suddenly it stopped being a thing. It was like one day people were talking about it all the time, and then the next day it went away completely.
I doubt it's a bug. I do think it's stupidity.
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It’s a Quixotic quest. Moving an online community off Facebook isn’t changing the world for the better or worse. It’s inconsequential unless you build an objectively better community. Just switching from Coke to Pepsi isn’t a wasted effort. Focus on zero to one, not zero to another version of zero.
Both of those claims are false, and Facebook's own internal communications showed that they did not censor any covid-related content. SCOTUS ruled that the govt asked them to filter out misinformation without putting any undue pressure on them, and Facebook declined to do so

I already posted the link refuting this nonsense with sources
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My concern with Apple Car being just a software layer between the machine and the driver is one of safety.

Depending on the level of integration, how is Apple to to ensure that it doesn't over accelerate or indicate the correct speed? Or if it's an EV, that the battery isn't overheating?

I think it opens them to a whole lot liability if they're meant to interface or control core systems that enable the vehicle to operate and ensure the safety the occupants.

If it's just meant to be a fancy stereo then whatever I guess though vendor exclusivity could be a annoying. For example, BMW only interfaces with iPhones and Apple products so if you're an alternative platform user you'll want to find a different brand of vehicle. Just sounds like a headache.
it's less than you'd hope. you need a fairly high volume of protein shake to get more than 40g of it in a sitting, and your target is probably like 100 or more grams of protein a day

I did a daily shake for a while as an after gym recovery food and I still had more calories from carbs than protein. it's just difficult.
Valid question. Printercow is aiming for a plug-and-play scenario where you can use whatever thermal printer you want with an extensive html-like template engine.
Is there something stopping a malicious peer client from lying about those numbers?

Genuinely curious; I've been wondering about how to make a zero-knowledge P2P protocol for turn-based imperfect knowledge games and this sounds directly applicable to that.
I was seriously looking at their Tactix 7 Pro Ballistics watch. But, yeah, that's a total no-go for me then too.
> techno fascism

I keep hearing this. What does this mean?

My guess would be "a system in which big technology firms can effectively censor speech with coordination from the state". But I think those that use it mean something else.
>But opsec is hard [...]

That's why the attack is contrived. If you have poor opsec you don't need need this attack at all. You can probably get the victim's exact IP by getting him to click on a link, or sending him an email. If he has good opsec he's going to be using a VPN that renders this attack useless. For this attack to be valuable you need a guy who has such good opsec that you can't get his location any other way, but for whatever reason isn't using an always-online VPN.
It's an open secret that most nutrition research is of extremely low quality - almost all relying on decades old self reported nutritional questionnaires.

Sometimes dozens of these studies get wrapped up and analyzed together, and we headlines that THING IS BAD with a hazard ratio of like 1.05 (we figured out smoking was bad with a hazard ratio that was like 3! - you need a really good signal when you are analyzing such low quality data)
Calories in -> calories out is flawed (or, rather, not useful) because metabolism is a feedback loop, not a one-way serial process. The types of foods you eat, how they're prepared, and when you eat them have complex influence for how hungry you feel and how much energy you have to exercise or resist impulses, as well as ramifications for the state of your physiology, per nutrient intake.

CICO helps explain weight management issues retrospectively, but it's inadequate with regard to planning, and for maintaining quality of life while working towards a weight management goal.
This is fascinating writing, but there's no way it isn't fiction.
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Okay, the question is: Can it print with a Cat Printer?

You know, the cheap toy-like printers? Like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Instant-Bluetooth-Wireless...

I was trying to hack mine to use it with an app I want to create for personal use. Currently only prints using the official Fun Print app over a bluetooth connection.

There are projects[0]that are supposed to work with a cat printer but mine specifically isn’t. It identifies itself as “MXW01” , which is different that the printers tested.

[0]
https://github.com/NaitLee/Cat-Printer
https://github.com/bitbank2/Print2BLE
It can still be useful just to get rough estimates of what you're making at home, especially for portions and products that are roughly comparable.

If I make an egg, cheese, and sausage sandwich in the morning, and forget to weigh out or count how much of something I used, it can still be useful for back-of-napkin estimates if I Google the McDonalds Sausage McMuffin with Egg.

Obviously it's not going to be exactly equivalent, but I usually assume my homemade thing is 20% more than the restaurant to compensate.

It's of course better if you just weigh everything out first, you can get much more accurate measurements and calorie estimates then, but this can work in a pinch.
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> I don’t even know what to say about the president and First Lady releasing official meme coins…

wait, this actually happened?
Not him but because your answer surprised me I chose to reply: at 34 it is also something I always wondered.

Becoming obese always seemed a little extreme to me and I fail to imagine how someone could reach that state without the accordingly extreme food-related habits - though maybe I'm just lucky to have the "right" metabolism and thus cannot relate.

Though even if obesity was always linked to eating disorders, I understand that "just stop" is not an appropriate response to that issue.
Nope, I'm speaking from personal experience with myself and others: apologetics is to keep those on the fence from jumping over entirely, and it does often work.
Not just one thread.

ANTEC '97 Conference Proceedings, CRC Press, pages 1310-1313.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/SPE_ANTEC_1997_Proceedi...

The thread is based on a conference talk and journal publication that preceded it.

The reason this particular case hasn't been reproduced is just because it has no practical application, requires a lot of equipment, requires the equipment to be intentionally improperly operated risking damage or injury, and it's extremely expensive to test.

Nobody is going to willingly tool up an environment capable of running a mile of 20 foot wide PP film at a thousand feet per minute, then purposely ungrounding the equipment, and run it at 100+ F and 95+ % humidity for hours, days, or weeks. Just setting it up would cost millions of dollars and running it may cost millions more.
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Seems like a practical solution. So what’s the problem?
You also need to be able to test your solution, on how sucsessful it is.

In some domains it is harder than math and code.
I'm kinda convinced that something has changed (prescription meds ending up in the water supply? micro plastics?) that makes people hungrier than they were in the mid 20th century. the effort required to eat less seems higher than ever, and you can't totally explain the gap and rise in obesity with just lifestyle and food availability.

if some unknown element was making everyone's internal thermostat aim for more food it would explain a lot.
No! Kamala's run was a mistake!
Rolls like those were common in the warehouse at the place I worked.
I agree with absolutely everything you've said here!

Just my alternative conclusion is: you can't fix anything by compelling people to play along with someone else's delusion, whether the source is social, psychological, biochemical, sexual, whatever.
The FBI did not say anything about the Hunter laptop story to Facebook, they warned all social media companies that they had detected suspicious activity and that the companies should be aware of foreign disinformation ops

The laptop story was always nonsense anyway, because the chain of custody of the laptop was compromised, and forensic analysis of the hard drive showed that the contents had been modified after it was retrieved from the repair shop and so the content could not be trusted
I've seen this happen in a wide range of production environments (both industrial and computing). Not this effect specifically, but "odd emergent behavior that occurs only at scale that is non-obvious and state-dependent". For example I work at a company that grows a lot of cells is massive reactors, and some folks who run the largest reactors commented that they saw slow changes in overall production that were not explainable by any observed variable (we speculated that slow genetic drift occurred in populations, but it may also have been seasonal, or due to unobserved variables). And when I worked at Google, there were definitely cluster-wide things that you'd only notice if you were very knowledgeable and attuned to their ongoing processes.

My guess is that this happens in nearly all large-scale production systems but goes mostly unobserved.
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Is it because the article's purpose is to explain which of these lady's came first regardless of popularity? I don't think the articles regarding Trump are written for that purpose and so age isn't really even important context to provide. Not to mention he's so well known I don't think they would need to mention his age in every article about him, perhaps if the article was discussing age of politicians as a topic they would mention it, as context is relevant
Carrying a knife in a public place without a lawful excuse is a crime in the UK so it’s not surprising you’ve seen videos of people being arrested for carrying knives

As for your interpretation of insulting they’ve probably been arrested for breach of the peace or aggravation of some form

Those are all fair… and about safe and civil societies

At least we can’t be arrested for crossing the road in the wrong place and we can drink at a reasonable age

Oh and I ain’t you bruh
Doing something personally is fine. But trying to convince an entire community to ditch something that works and is likely incredibly valuable to them to stick it to some billionaire you don't like is just wrong.
> In the deep past, they maintained an oral tradition, and scholars were expected to memorize everything. They saw writing/reading as a crutch that was ruining the youth's memory.

Could you share a source for this? The research paper I found has a different hypothesis; it links the slow transition to writing to trust, not an "old-school's attitude towards writing". Specifically the idea that the institutional trust relationships one formed with students, for example, would ensure the integrity of one's work. It then concludes that "the final transition to written communications was completed only after the creation of institutional forms of ensuring trust in written communications, in the form of archives and libraries".

So essentially, anyone could write something and call it Plato's work. Or take a written copy of Plato's work and claim they wrote it. Oral tradition ensured only your students knew your work; and you trusted them to not misattribute it. Once libraries and archives came to exist though, they could act as a trustworthy source of truth where one could confirm wether some work was actually Plato or not, and so scholars got more comfortable writing.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331255474_The_Attit...
Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are split into separate things by people who think less about shipping working code and more about counting beans.
Looking at the locations where Cloudflare has their servers [1] in the middle of Europe. With Geneva, Zurich and Munich there is definitely the possibility that this attack on Signal will leak whether someone is at home or not.

I don't understand how Signal could dismiss this so easily. I'm starting get a bad feeling about their responses to these "low" stakes attacks. They already missed the ball on the database encryption mishap on desktop.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/
Now you're playing games around the semantics of the word 'attributable'? Lmao

I also love how all of your analogies/examples immediately switched from amazing societal improvements to measurements of physical object characteristics. Truly amusing stuff.

Let's take one of the metrics you suggested - 'number of lives saved' - go ahead and tell me how tech billionaires have saved more lives than any other group.

Or maybe just admit that you're talking out of your ass.
Why don’t you build it? Just the features people need of course. Seems like the kind of thing LLMs are quite good at (giving you prototypes).
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Attitudes like this are one of the things that keeps me from trying Rust again. Pedantic, cherrypicked comparisons, omissions when the comparison would not be favorable.

Rust is more complicated than Go for someone seeing the language for the first time, if we measure complexity by cognitive overhead derived from syntactic size and unfamiliarity.

If you cannot admit the places your tool of choice falls short, instead painting it as some panacea and the only "right" choice, you aren't going to convince me, quite the opposite actually. Perhaps we are just in an age of zealtory...
From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

The guidelines ask to use the original title. In this case "Agents" is too short and something like "Agents and AI" may be better (but dang may disagree and rever it).
cico is true, but you can't measure calories in accurately and you can't be sure of calories out accurately. isn't that fun?

(in practice as you know, you just kinda do it on feel and end up restricting calories enough to lose weight. but my own intuition is that I had to aim for 100 or 200 less than my estimated BMR so the math is very fuzzy isn't it?)
> Sort of. Accessing private Canadian financing is a lot harder for the most part, our financial sector is notoriously risk averse for any sort of personal or business loans unless there's a path of guaranteed returns and you have a track record of getting those returns. Last time one of my bosses tried to get something like $2 million in raising funds with Canadian investors, they said that we needed to show I think at least $2 million in net profits for 4 or 5 years at least.

If someone's businesses is already working, then why would they go and get investment money?

It seems like the investors don't realize that if someone does have that much net profit, they actually don't have that much leverage over them to get good equity deals. So they are essentially just paying high and selling low later.
Communication was more effective 20 years ago? I remember using a Skypager when I was a Reuters journalist. I also remember processing film in bathrooms at news events then having to scan negatives using a suitcase-sized scanner and computer and it being 30-60 minutes to get photos onto the wire. Now it’s instant.

Saying communications were more effective 20 years ago is highly debatable and certainly an argument tinged with nostalgia.