skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does this mean for the Keto diet? If the Inuit are resistant towards making ketones this could signal that ketones are not the beneficial molecule we think it is?

"Inuit metabolism revisited: what drove the selective sweep of CPT1a L479?"

"Yet seminal studies carried out on Inuit subjects in the early twentieth century yielded surprising results from a metabolic perspective. Low ketone bodies in the breath and urine were observed in the fed state [17,18,23]. These metabolic results contrast with that which is often registered among healthy non-Inuit subjects, who tend to show a marked rise in ketone levels in the breath and urine when consuming a very low carbohydrate diet [24,46]. These results suggest that the traditional Inuit diet may not actually be ketogenic, as commonly assumed, despite being very low in carbohydrate.
More intriguingly, in three studies undertaken by Heinbecker in the 1920s and 1930s, breath and urinary levels of ketones in the fasted state were also found to be lower than in non-Inuit subjects [17,47,48]. The fasted state usually corresponds both to a high rate of fatty acid oxidation, indicated by a low respiratory quotient (RQ), and a high production of ketone bodies (see [6]). Similarly, the consumption of fat in the absence of protein and carbohydrate also encourages a high rate of fatty acid oxidation and is expected to result in a low RQ and high production of ketone bodies. The respiratory quotients in the fasted state in Inuit subjects [17], and after ingestion of pure fat [23] were found to be lower than those of non-Inuit subjects, indicating very efficient fatty acid oxidation, but with levels of ketone bodies that were much lower than expected. The detection of low RQs in combination with low ketone bodies were interpreted by Heinbecker to indicate a difference in the metabolism of the Inuit subjects from subjects of non-Inuit descent, which allowed them to oxidize fatty acids efficiently without producing the expected levels of ketone bodies [17,49]."
On the UK though, computer data is proof. If the computer says you cheated, it’s proven.

This is about to change though, since the national postal services got a whole bunch of people convicted of fraud based on a system they knew buggy.
Maciej wrote "Dabblers and Blowhards" in 2005 (that was an eyeopening date to go check). Hackers and Painters was always for the fresh and easily impressionable to feel a sense of specialness.
Turso Platform Changes
> Thompson and Lampson are still alive and we can just ask them. I just sent emails to both, I'll update this if I get an answer!

This is one of the great things about this age. The barrier of reaching out to some person and asking them a question has never been lower. I've done this for RFCs, I've done this for questions about blog posts I've discovered here on HN. I've gotten lots of responses from people and it's always been illuminating to me.
Why do you think that? Negative results are boring. A failure to publish them does not indicate a lack of investigative rigor. Speaking of which, if you're going to complain about rigor, this is a bad look:

> increasing exponentially with the inverse square
I'm not cynical, but my relationship with technology has surely become adversarial.

I still remember the days when self-driving cars seemed just around the corner and inevitable. When Google was organizing the world's information and ethically pure. When I trusted software to do the right thing.

But nowadays... Good luck finding any trustworthy megacorp. We've commoditized trust for profits (e.g. from Couchsurfing to AirBnB) and the result is that people became less trusting.
I think view-once media there means media hosted on signal servers, not remote servers? But not entirely sure.
If there's a thing that's worse than over-priced stuff is free stuff. No free lunch
Cheating was not allowed according to the terms and conditions.
Very entertaining!

I'm always struck by the sheer serendipity of these stories. It appears that everything after Google was possible because of the safety net created by Google's IPO, and the author's time at Google itself ultimately came about because he and Urs hit it off over Lisp and Smalltalk. What would hace happened if the author had been allergic to dogs and had ended up at JPL because of their Fortran skills?
Most instance block types in Mastodon affect the "public feeds"/"shared community" on an instance, but allow individual users to follow users on "blocked" instances in their own feeds.

User decision making is still very much an entrenched thing.

Most decision making on blocks in small-to-medium instances is democratic, in my experience, with users voting on them together. Also, as pointed out there's the obvious "vote with your feet" of switching to a different instance if you don't agree with its policies and/or how other instances don't agree with its policies.

There's definitely a risk of large instances trying to strong arm smaller instances with blocks and/or threats of blocks. But so far it's more a philosophical risk than a real risk from what I've seen. At least in my parts of the Fediverse small instances are "the norm" and it's is more likely the blocks are against the larger instances because with size they are more likely to allow spam registrations, they are more likely to have users that don't respect cultural norms like CWs or Alt text/Image Descriptions and don't feel a need to respect them because their mods won't enforce them, or yes they set up an ideologue as a mod/admin and shift to a gross direction. As a "telegraph network between a lot of small villages that mostly ignore the big cities", ActivityPub can be rather nice.
> if useful amounts of information are neither practically available nor practically actionable, what might that imply about our absolute faith in market mechanisms that require the right information to operate efficiently?

See e.g.
Akerlof, George A. (1970). "The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism"

Akerlof shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz for work on the impact of information asymmetry on markets.
Would be logical for US would bomb TSMC facilities in Taiwan in the event of invasion.
Ah, the VPN deployment which probes from various geographies? It has limited coverage (according to author, about 54% of all Cloudflare datacenters) but still a sometimes-working attack, granted.

However, Cloudflare are known for being harsh on VPN exit points and the behavior of requesting the same (unique each pass) image from every geography and then never again, would probably look significantly suspicious, but yeah it seems not to be a priority for cloudflare at the moment.
Promises are so incredibly close to being a representation of work.

The OS has such sophisticated tools for process management, but inside a process there are so many subprocesses going on, & it feels like we are flailing about with poorly managed process like things. (Everyone except Erlang.)

I love how close zx comes to touching the sky here. It's a typescript library for running processes, as a tagged template function returning a promise. *const hello = $`sleep 3; echo hello world`. But the promise isnt just a "a future value", it is A ProcessPromise for interacting with the promise.

I so wish promises were just a little better. It feels like such a bizarre tragedy to me the "a promise is a future value" not a thing unto itself won the day in es6 / es2015, destroyed the possibility of a promise being more; zx has run into a significant number of ergonomic annoyances because this small world dogma.

How cool it would be to see this go further. I'd love for the language to show what promises if any this promise is awaiting! I long for that dependency graph of subprocesses to start to show itself, not just at compile time but for the runtime to be able to actively observe and manage the subprocesses within it at runtime. We keep building workflow engines, build robust userland that manage their own subprocesses, user user lands, but the language itself seems so close & yet so far from letting the simple promise become more a process, and that seems like a sad shame.
Domestic builders aren’t really what come to mind for “gig workers”.

This would be for folks who have some app controlling their work- uber drivers, door dashers, etc.
I would have skipped the full immersion course if I could, but the Universe had a different idea.

We are a terrible species.
Yes, yes it is. By definition. “Limited” means “restricted in size”, not “an arbitrary number a random person thinks is small”. From the moment OP defined “this is for this specific community of this size”, it is limited. It will be abundantly clear when they have moved no one, or every one, or a critical mass, or not enough. Because it’s limited, bounded, constrained.
> 100 deg F with 95% RH is a heat index of 185 F.

So just a typical summer day in Texas
"The envisioned indoor farm would grow fruits and vegetables inside a multilevel warehouse, maximizing yield per acre while minimizing environmental impacts through a controlled, closed-loop system."
I haven't noticed this on my personal use. It does seem like they use the family picker activity built into iOS. So maybe the issue is here as well.
> One thread about this in 1995, and then the phenomenon is never seen nor heard about again . . .

A default mode of skepticism is best, however the story of this incident didn't trigger my "Yeah, probably not" reflex. It is based on known physical principles and the extremely unusual context seems in the ballpark of sufficient to potentially cause something like this. So my assumption was this was an extremely unlikely edge case that happened "that one time."

It's also not something which strikes me as being a thing people who work in a large 3M factory would lie about.
Insects don't want to work anymore! Lazy bastards keep complaining about pollution and climate change and pesticides
My AZERTY keyboard conveniently has them side by side (^ left of $).

Could it be a similar reason?
I dont' believe the Signal app/network is choosing to cacheimages in a CDN?

But any user can send anyone other user a message that includes a link to a CDN-cached resource. Isn't that the "attack" here? Or am I misunderstanding?
NFC tags can be scanned using a phone. An app on the phone can then detect the action and act accordingly. The phone can differentiate between different tags.

I use an NFC tag to lock the house using Home Assistant.
My favorite example is that cooking spray advertises 0g of fat, giving a serving size of 0.33 seconds of spray
The Twitter Files a were releases of some internal memos and files from Twitter's operation prior to Musk's acquisition that document the policy machinations within the company and its interactions with the Biden administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Yeah, all our pollution and climate change is disrupting ecosystems.

Our only way to ensure survival on and off the planet is to mimic their actions (in this case pollination) to ensure that if we do manage to push more and more species to extinction we have options for being able to continue after they are gone.
My impression of The Economist is more of "never enough taxes". The article shows some US graphs but is not US-centric. A quick search showed an equivalent article (w much more graphs) for the UK. And France "doing just fine"... is problematic - in particular ever more despairing to find places to control its government budgets.
Extremely powerful fields can levitate a frog - so yes.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/how-did-you-g...
Centralizing Multiple AI Services with LiteLLM Proxy
As the blog post mentions, the main question is not why a including a QUIC implementation in OpenSSL will take years (that’s reasonable), it’s why the only way to do QUIC using OpenSSL is to use their implementation of the whole thing. The way QUIC hooks into TLS is admittedly a little bit peculiar, but it’s in no way impossible to separate the layers. The OpenSSL devs just decided they don’t want to.
There was some hate when digging through iOS dev docs, I'm not a Swift UI dev, I've mostly done JS/TS stuff (maybe thats telling of my poor code)
The overall article actually agrees on many of these points. The title and intro blurb is poor.
Feels kind of incredible that something as advanced as laser imaging is being used to measure sandwich size.
Technology Governance with Architecture Principles
Great points. I totally agree, don't use hard-coded static creds, especially here. But in reality, many services and/or API keys don't support OIDC or short-lived credentials, and the design of secrets in GitHub promote using them, in my opinion.
you don't have to "befriend" them. you send a friend request because that defaults to a push notification for users with the discord app on their phone. Now, with signal, i don't use it so i don't know how initial chats start, or whatever. The discord one is 0-click because the PFP in the friend request is the payload delivered via PUSH.

And to someone else's point - they had to block the request on their end with a MITM to do the 1-click version on signal. No such MITM is needed with the friend request.

As an aside, one time i got doxxed hard in an IRC channel with several hundred active users. I had a suspicion of who it was, and i knew they lived in chicago. So i "accidentally" sent a link to "screenshot proof" that was hosted on one of my domains. there was 1 immediate click. instant. Chicago. "accidentally" because it looked like i pasted an email body.

Packed the real screenshot and a complaint to the ircadmin. they said "and so you dox them back?"

can't win for trying.
The app does allow manually switching of profiles, without NFC tags, but it wasn't clear until I installed the app.
Vic Gundotra was never a founder at Google.
Elevating the Human-Computer Interface Through Mechanical Keyboards
I've been using LLM's to do searches for awhile, its quicker and i get better results. What happens in the future when new issues are only mentioned in github, x or reddit, and a different LLM is trained on each, have to use 3 searches?
The Board <denies/demands> comprehensive analysis of this <occurrence/breach>.
No, I wouldn't agree with that at all.

Also big difference between saying 'X did this good thing' and 'X did more good than everyone else combined'.

And the onus is on you here - you made the absurd claims - now either back them up or walk them back :)
It doesn't happen to every search. For me personally, if I try to search for apps starting with "r", it tends to crash. Not sure if it's related to the number of applications it needs to search for that match the prefix (for this case I was trying to block reddit).
> The Russian MoD has been on point, again and again

lol, lmao even
Multiview knowledge representation learning for personalized news recommendation
Is a really complex game.
The basic reasoning is that for every X carbohydrates ingested, you need to inject Y insulin (according to a personal ratio).

However, everything is complicated by numerous factors and the technology you use.

Factors: how you feel, stress, exercise, what you ate in previous meals, your blood sugar level at the start of the meal, and the activities you’ll engage in after the meal (physical or mental).

There’s also the issue of how you administer insulin.

In Italy, up until 3-5 years ago, most of us were using the “multiple daily injections” method, which involved taking a dose of “long-acting” insulin (lasting 24 hours) as a “base” and using “rapid or ultra-rapid” insulin at meals.
Clearly, this approach provides limited control and requires a VERY habitual lifestyle (you can’t skip a meal; the long-acting insulin keeps working regardless).

Now (at least here in Italy), we are all transitioning to or already using CGM systems, which are more or less intelligent systems that continuously administer insulin at a “medium” rate. Based on input from the patient regarding the predicted amount of carbohydrates (and fats) they will consume, the system calculates the best strategy for what is called the “meal bolus” (using strategies like multi-phase, direct, etc.) and at the same time, it maintains a continuous but adaptable level of injection to achieve a target blood sugar level (day and NIGHT!!)

In essence, it’s a very nerdy way of dying slowly (hopefully as slowly as possible).

È un mondo difficile
E vita intensa
Felicità a momenti
E futuro incerto
A lot of nonfiction writers only do interviews/podcasts when they have a book to plug. I don’t mind it, even though it’s kind of an ad, because the content is still interesting. I think the authors want to sell their books, but they’re typically very interested in the topics and like talking about them for the sake of conversation.
MySQL Monitor: Simple MySQL Monitoring Script
Why do we care about base 10 ? Because we have five digits per appendage ? BFD. Accident of evolution.

What about palindromes in binary ? That's about as close to a mathematical ideal as we could get. Yes?

Let's see. decimal 11 = binary 1011, its palindrome = 1101 = decimal 13, GOLD!
I think dextrose or also called "grape sugar" is very commonly used in Italy to get decrease the freezing point without feeling o overly sweet.

The sweetness intensity is different across different types of sugar.
Was it a US typewriter? This peso symbol is very important in business in the US and Latin America but not, for example, England, Ireland, India, Finland, or Sweden.
For the same reason you add some spices before cooking, and salt multiple times throughout a recipe.

Plus, it's a little hard to emulsify or even suspend the oil and vinegar right there at the table.
Regarding Rome. I am thinking the same and what comes to my mind is Caesar. Trump crossed the Rubicon on January 6 and prevailed. Now history will tell how far this analogy will hold but what makes me think of it as fitting is that it marked the end of the Republic and from then on Rome was ruled by emperors and family clans.
Geothermal, solid state 3D printed batteries already a thing but soon to be mass produced, Self Piloting Flying Cars, Mass adoption of mini-micro-mini-micro nuclear power plants, Slight increase of self hosted decentralized platforms, Spartan lifestyles simplification, small home living, less junk, more work from home, "AI" branded everything. AI water, AI computers, AI cell phones, AI diapers, AI energy drinks it's what plants crave...
Because it too reads as motivated reasoning from management to encourage workers to stop complaining, asking for things, and changing jobs and instead just work harder.
I'm pretty happy with the level of "smart" integration on my Garmin watch. For me, that's "shows me a preview of incoming SMS and Telegram messages" and the contact name when I receive a phone call. Plus the syncing of fitness activities. I do go back-and-forth on whether I want it to buzz or not, but that roughly overlaps between when I'm wearing the watch in the first place, so that has worked out well in my particular case.

It fits well into my general philosophy of smartphone notifications, where real humans are allowed to buzz or make noise (phone calls / text messages) and everything else waits silently in the notification drawer until I choose to look at the phone.
ChatGPT gets confused easily in Advanced Voice Mode
> "Dependence on [_____] assistance" is the point of all technology.

I will note two things though.

1. Not all technology creates "dependence". Google Maps removes the need of carrying bulky maps, or buy new ones to stay updated, but someone who knows how to read Google Maps will know how to read a normal map, even if they're not as quick at it.

2. The best technology isn't defined by the "dependence" it creates, or even the level of "assistance" it provides, but for what it enables. Fire enabled us to cook. Metalworking enabled us to create a wealth of items, tools and structures that wouldn't exist if we only had wood and stone. Concrete enabled us to build taller and safer. Etc.

It's still unclear what AI chatbots are enabling. Are LLM's big claim to fame allowing people to answer problem sets and emails with minimal effort? What does this unlock? There's a lot of talk about allowing better data analysis, saving time, and vague claims of an ai revolution, but until we see X, Y and Z, and can confidently say "yeah, X, Y and Z are great for mankind, and they couldn't have happened without chatbots", it's fair for people to keep complaining about the change and downsides AI chatbots are bringing about.
> They’ve come down pretty heavily on the gambling side, no?

Not really. Back when this was a big story (around 2016-2017) they sent out some cease and desists to a number of the big CS:GO gambling websites but many did not comply and there was no follow-up. To this day many of those original sites are still around and have since grown. Essentially Valve (and the skin market as a whole) benefit so greatly from this grey-market that there is no incentive for them to stop it. This is covered in part 2 of Coffeezilla's latest series investigating CS:GO gambling [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/13eiDhuvM6Y?t=493
For me the better question is: Why is anyone with enough money to invest in startups not just investing that money in a safe index fund or real estate instead?
Mercator: Extreme
I have a recording on the site here: https://youtu.be/70C7L0T1VVY.

That is my real phone with me scanning a tag, I'm just using screen studios new phone recording feature
Are all strings under a certain length interned?
https://oeis.org/A260871
In my recent programming exam (in an MSc in AI), I asked students to reflect on how generative AI has changed their coding. Almost all remarked that it's a great time-saver, but it makes them lazy and worse at coding.

And yes indeed, their ability to answer basic questions about coding on the same exam has drastically dropped versus last year.
Everyone wants to move off Facebook. The platform is shit and its main job is to shovel posts you don't want to read at your face so you scroll past them and view more ads.
I know Americans tend to be patriots, but also that they often have a misunderstanding of the rest of the western world. I wonder if they care how the rest of the western world views the US democracy (which was never considered to be strong implementation of democracy) and the clown government that is now being installed.
Writing has ruined our memories. It would be far better if we were forced to recite things (incidentally, in some educational system they're made to recite poetry to remedy this somewhat); not that I'm arguing against letters and the written word.

And AI will make us lazier and reduce the amount of cognition we do; not that I'm arguing against using AI.

But the downsides must be made clear.
I’ve noticed that recent posts critical of Musk are getting flagged. This can’t be a coincidence.
Putting out other people’s fires seems extremely frustrating.
It's not because you have a Hungarian number that you're not travelling somewhere else. I don't really understand the point.
A bit loss of context. Angular was mentioned in the context of how servers serve Angular apps: if instead of server index.html server would serve a different whole url.

And my worries are mainly due to the solution I proposed (as a patent(!)) and later on abandoned.

I am wondering whether to invest in this my time and furthermore additional money.
ChatGPT o1: https://chatgpt.com/share/678feedb-0b2c-8001-bd77-4e574502e4...

> Thought about large prime check for 3m 52s: "Despite its interesting pattern of digits, 12,345,678,910,987,654,321
is definitely not prime. It is a large composite number with no small prime factors."

Feels like this Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) would be a good candidate for a hallucination benchmark...