MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayarearefugee | 2025-05-07 15:37:11+00:00
> There are already known short-term side effects, that's why it's not prescribed just for aesthetic weight loss, only to people whose weight poses health problems

I can't speak for countries other than the US, but here these drugs are being prescribed and used widely for entirely aesthetic reasons by many, many people.

Legally this isn't supposed to be true, but there are tons of online telehealth services that are clearly just rubberstamping prescriptions for anyone who wants one.

Same situation for prescriptions for pills to make your dick hard and baldness. There's CYA legal regulation for all of this but in the real world there's no actual barriers for anyone motivated to do so from getting their hands on this stuff.
by oscarfree | 2025-05-07 15:37:15+00:00
People have all sorts of motivations for learning languages and accents. Right now, I'm using this tech to work on my accent in Spanish. Honestly I would rather mumble almost unintelligibly with an decent Mexican accent than speak Spanish slowly and clearly with an American accent. There is a difficult but necessary period of learning an accent where intelligibility drops. For a while, I made a strange [ð]-like noise when learning the alveolar trill (rolled R), and it would have been more intelligible to use something like alveolar tap. But, I built up the muscle memory, and can now make the correct sound. Hearing a version of myself (rather than a different speaker) gives me a more useful target to mimic, and the distance metric gives me a useful measure of whether I'm closer or further from the target.
by goldenCeasar | 2025-05-07 15:37:35+00:00
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by jancsika | 2025-05-07 15:38:13+00:00
Here's a fun thought-experiment: imagine that NASA began with the truism that tardigrades are the best fit candidates for astronauts[1]. They put all their effort and money into robotics and tech to support little tardigrade colonies on The Moon and Mars.

Present day, this alternate universe has the same boring space tourism for humans that we have. But they also have a vibrant inter-planetary research program with robot-assisted colonies of tattooed tardigrades, doing all kinds of experiments, most of which are broadcast back home.

And honestly, by the time we get tech to figure out how to terraform Mars, we'd probably also have the tech to make humans more tardigrade-like. So the tardigrade astronaut program (TAP for short) would provide an important body of knowledge for the necessary biological changes.

Just seems like a better use of astronaut dollars all around[2].

1: I mean, they come standard with little space suits! C'mon!

Edit:

2: And think of the savings: I just found the first batch of candidates for the TAP's Mercury project by picking up a wet leaf.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-07 15:38:19+00:00
So this is rather meta but I'm unsure how to address this sort of systemic issue.

There is currently another topic under discussion that is very local to Arizona, involving a court case there, yet the conversation has coalesced around a thread from theguardian.com, which is a UK news outlet.

Why are we letting foreign entities tell us what our local news is? This here article is ostensibly about travel within the U.S., from one state to another, because that's the major change with Real ID, yet again we're looking at a foreign entity's news article about it.

Why can't we use news articles that are most germane to the topic under discussion? The "AZ Road Rage" topic had someone posting a perfectly good link to ABC 15 News, which should be a local authority on the topic; I don't see why we needed to pivot outside the U.S. to The Guardian at all.
by ferguess_k | 2025-05-07 15:38:23+00:00
Just curious, for low level mid-size projects ON LINUX, like a simple OS or a compiler, is Clion over-complicated or suitable? And how does the debugging look like?

I'm using VSCode with a manually written Makefile, and all of my debugging lives in gdb tui mode in a separate terminal. I do prefer a better UI though, but right now it's fine.

One concern is that Jetbriain IDEs usually takes a lot of memory. I do have a 16GB laptop though, so should be fine.
by osigurdson | 2025-05-07 15:38:36+00:00
I won't argue with the logic, if it works, it works. But still, I tend to react negatively to "Java-based" things. I think it comes from fiddling with Xms Xmx in the past with Elasticsearch which gave me the sense that the JVM is a beast. Now you want me to use the same beast in my editor? Neovim feels a lot lighter in this regard.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-07 15:39:05+00:00
JetBrains IDEs always had difficult and unintuitive default keyboard shortcuts. I think it's just because of its age (same is true with Visual Studio). Whereas VS Code's out of the box shortcuts were relatively great. If JetBrains IDEs shipped with VSCode-style shortcuts as an option (not necessarily default) that I could switch to without having to manually remap everything, I'd be so glad to use them.
by criddell | 2025-05-07 15:39:24+00:00
I believe these would be illegal in Ontario.

The section 62 of the Highway Traffic Act says this:

> Intermittent red light restricted

> (14) Subject to subsections (14.1), (15) and (17.1), no person shall use a lamp, other than turning signal lamps or the vehicular hazard warning signal lamps commonly known as four way flashers, that produces intermittent flashes of red light.

There is an exemption for bicycles but not motorcycles.
by greenie_beans | 2025-05-07 15:39:32+00:00
have no idea, never heard of that. i'm an idiot when it comes to my health care. i've only ever been to the doctor when i have a problem. have been in and out of health insurance so to me going to the doctor is an extremely expensive thing to avoid. especially when doctors are dismissive about whatever issue i come with. i've never been for preventative care, don't even know what i would say when they ask what i'm there for.
by paxys | 2025-05-07 15:39:33+00:00
The only good investment in crypto has been to buy and hold BTC. So while it has worked well as an asset (like gold or paintings or baseball cards), the crypto industry itself – thousands of startups in the space, all the altcoins, blockchains, smart contracts, web3, NFTs, ICOs, DeFi, "stable" coins – have all either fizzled out or just been outright fraud.
by fhd2 | 2025-05-07 15:39:49+00:00
This seems like a really great demo of the agent panel:

https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor

It's fast paced, yet it doesn't blush over anything I'd find important. It shows clearly how to use it, shows a realistic use case, e.g. the model adding some nonsense, but catching something the author might have missed, etc. I don't think I've seen a better AI demo anywhere.

Maybe the bar is really low that I get excited about someone who demos an LLM integration for programmers to actually understand programming, but hey.
by betterThanTexas | 2025-05-07 15:40:00+00:00
Someone else's lack of discipline has a far more negative effect on my life than their obesity does. So I reject this choice entirely—I'd rather we stop looking for easy fixes to hard problems.

I don't judge people for taking ozempic, but I am absolutely confused why people see this as a massive win for society. We're just doubling down on our dysfunction.
by Glyptodon | 2025-05-07 15:40:01+00:00
My motorcycle pet peeve is that if you ride bicycles routinely the control differences between bikes and motorcycles become potentially dangerous, especially while riding the motorcycle. I'm not sure how to align their controls more, but if your bike has a rotary handle shifter and one day on the motorcycle you "shift" with the throttle, it's not going to go well. There are a number of other possible control goofs you can do that aren't great.
by motorest | 2025-05-07 15:40:49+00:00
> (...) holding under-achieving students back is a net positive.

Even if we assume that's the case, that's not the problem.

The problem is that the school system fails to provide the necessary and sufficient services that would prevent a statistically significant number of 3rd graders from being held back. Feeling the need to hold kids back is a symptom of the problem, not a solution.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-05-07 15:40:51+00:00
Let's not waste effort debating what it means to be "surprised," which is beside the point. All I mean is that there are a lot of meritorious claims, because there genuinely is a lot of abuse. But as a fraction of the claims filed, this remains relatively small because of the extremely large number of unmeritorious claims that are actually filed.

As for my experience: I'm not sure what more information you want beyond what I have already given, except to add: my job in the federal courts included reviewing and advising judges on the small fraction of claims that made it through the triage stage I described earlier and might have had a decent chance of success, as well as occasionally reviewing claims that would otherwise have been filtered out at the triage stage to provide a second opinion.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-07 15:40:54+00:00
What are the "harrowing downstream deductions"?

You are voluntarily remaining in-country because you are permitted to repatriate to a country that has no taxation. The existence of taxes in the US is not a secret, it's not a surprise bill every year.

You also don't have to leave! You can simply declare yourself sovereign and let the foreign country engulfing your independent domain decide how it wants to conduct foreign policy with you.
by ramon156 | 2025-05-07 15:41:31+00:00
I've used zed both for work and personal projects. I'm not a fan of the direction they're going. I don't want "agentic" tools, I just want to back and forth with an LLM to get a better idea. I've specified in my markdown to not write actual code to files. Would be nice if this was togglable in settings.

Apart from that, it's a hell of a lot better than alternatives, and my god is it fast. When I think about the perfect IDE (for my taste), this is getting pretty close.
by damnesian | 2025-05-07 15:41:58+00:00
Initial adjusting to a calorie limited diet is hard. Especially in a world where we are constantly bombarded my messaged specifically designed to trigger us to crave something and then buy it. But after an initial period or cravings and digestive unrest, the body adjusts to the new reduced calorie- or new food regimen- and you no longer feel hungry or have stomach upset.

We already have built-in "ozympic" functions- we just need to manually activate them. These drugs really do help some special cases, I don't deny that, but the fact the broad population have access to these drugs is not a natural state. We have no idea what the long-term effects will be. Long-term artifically induced effects of illness will eventually cause problems- erosive esophagitis and hemorrhoids are two examples- that have long-term health implications. Better to bite the bullet, if you have the ability, simply reduce your input, focus on foods that last longer in the digestive tract (whole plant foods), giving us fewer or more moderate glucose spikes, less craving and hunger later. Easier transition.
by braunshedd | 2025-05-07 15:42:11+00:00
When I was commuting daily in the SF fog, I discovered that putting on of these [1] on my helmet did wonders to keep cars further off my tail. It moves the brake light up to eye level for people in SUVs and also triggers on engine braking.

Wish it were cheaper, but was a worthwhile investment for me.

Also, consider looking into airbag vests if you ride regularly. Also expensive but (supposedly) make a huge difference in crash outcomes.

[1] https://www.brakefreetech.com/products/brake-free
by p_ing | 2025-05-07 15:42:17+00:00
But that's not what is being presented, here. This post just presents a simple permission misconfiguration or not using the correct tools for the data with the given system (Sensitivity Labels on M365).

If there was a breakout of Copilot in M365 to produce data you lacked permission to, that would be a worthy blog post (hopefully after the bug bounty was processed).
by pjc50 | 2025-05-07 15:42:33+00:00
It's the other way round: people love being judgemental about the diet and exercise habits of others, since it used to be a difficult-to-fake social signal, and apparent weight and fitness is an easy metric for that.

See also: white people being judgemental about people with darker coloured skins, to the extent that they may sometimes invest in skin lightening, meanwhile white people are investing in artificially darkening their skin with tans (because it's a symbol of conspicuous consumption, the ability to go to sunny places).
by techpineapple | 2025-05-07 15:42:37+00:00
He added: "AI investments accelerate execution and efficiency: AI has always been foundational to how we operate. AI flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster. It streamlines go-to-market, improves customer outcomes, and drives efficiencies across both the front and back office. AI is a force multiplier throughout the business."

On the stock market today, CrowdStrike stock fell more than 4% to 424. CrowdStrike stock has climbed 29% in 2025 as of Tuesday's market close.

The layoffs surprised some analysts.

"We found the announcement interesting coming from a high growth cybersecurity vendor, but believe management is proactively evolving and refocusing the business on long-term drivers and opportunities through the (reduction in force) vs. a reactive measure due to a demand issue," said RBC Capital analyst Matthew Hedberg in a report. "While the stock could be range-bound into earnings on June 3, the move likely buoys the outlook around operating income that, as a reminder, was slightly lower for fiscal 2026 vs. consensus at the time when provided last quarter."

Interesting the analysts don't seem to buy the AI efficiency explanation.
by toprerules | 2025-05-07 15:43:07+00:00
Nowadays I just use an LLM. None of these features are relevant anymore. Unless JetBrains has a proprietary LLM that is better at coding than what ever else is on the market (they don't) then there's no reason to pay money for their products.

I am not even particularly bullish on AI, but not seeing how LLMs have made IDEs irrelevant is like using Vim and crying foul about IDEs without trying one out.
by kyleee | 2025-05-07 15:43:17+00:00
It’s similar to when a pro athlete / famous person could not get the username they wanted, for instance on twitter and chooses to prepend “real_” to their username.

What the government should do, is hire some xooglers to help with naming so in the future when Real ID is deprecated, they could transition to come up with some even better names like “Real ID (Official). Or they could launch a competing ID and use the same or similar name and then sunset one of them. That would be good.
by voakbasda | 2025-05-07 15:43:19+00:00
> So afaict, it's totally OK to distribute software in ways that does not allow the user to modify the library when that library is licensed LGPLv2.

Legally that might be true, but that interpretation stands directly opposed to the intention of the license. In that light, it is unambiguously unethical to use that loophole.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-07 15:43:59+00:00
Personally I see Docker as a problem more than a solution.

Back when I had slow ADSL (like 2 Mbps) I couldn't use Docker at all at home because the repository server had low timeouts. I was downloading 20GB games with Steam not to mention Freebase data dumps and other things that large because I had reliable tools to do the downloads, which Docker didn't use so downloading 5GB of images was not "wait for it" but rather "you can't do it."

By accelerating the rate at which you can attach random dependencies you can run into problems because you are using 6 different versions of libc for Christ's sake. Rather than getting Python from some reputable source like conda or deadsnakes, Docker gives data scientists superpowers to get Pythons with random strange build options and character encodings. A 20 megabyte patch requires 2 GB of disk IO once it goes through the Docker IO multiplier. A 5 minute build becomes a 20 minutes build. Docker is fast from the viewpoint of "ops" but is slow from the viewpoint of "dev"; where people use Docker they are always taking forever to do the simplest things and facing extreme burnout.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-05-07 15:44:20+00:00
This is normally because those diets are unsustainable, or not sustained at any rate. If you change your habits such that you start introducing more calories, it's not a question of "if" you'll gain back weight, but when.

It's only fairly recently that we seem to have a better grip on what makes caloric restriction more sustainable, and accounting for effects like metabolic adaptation. Even then that information doesn't seem to reach most people.

Also understated is the impact of one's environment, and social support systems. It's much harder if you break from what your family and friends are doing. Some habits, I've seen with my own two eyes, can be regarded as an obligation.

I really believe the odds can turn around for a larger demographic, with a more optimal approach. Let's not forget that we've had far more invasive procedures than ozempic available to help facilitate weight-loss (like gastric bypass), and people still gain back weight on those, if they refuse to change their habits. Drinks, junk foods, and deep fried foods are not satiating compared to their caloric density, and that remains true regardless of surgery and pills. Nothing changes until it's internalized that binging has a price.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-07 15:44:28+00:00
There are lots of companies offering product reviews. There is no requirement that every single product be reviewed by all of them. And, there are a million things someone might want to know about a product, there's nothing special about energy usage that justifies a whole special government programme. Otherwise where does it end? Why not demand new taxes to pay for reviews of the GUI friendliness of every single electronic product? Or movies? The arguments being made in this thread would apply to an enormous number of questions someone might ask about a product.
by crooked-v | 2025-05-07 15:44:32+00:00
The worry about possible long term effects is legitimate (but not very significant, considering these drugs have been in use for quite a while for other purposes)

But, "it's not natural" complaints are, frankly, bullshit. Nothing about how humans live today is "natural" and we're better off for it.

> We already have built-in "ozympic" functions

The drug works by literally making it mentally easier to eat less. It's caffeine for discipline instead of energy. There's no "built-in" that works like that.
by remlov | 2025-05-07 15:44:55+00:00
Definitely was faster than standard SATA but nowhere near NVMe potential. It still came with all the AHCI warts as AHCI was optimized for spinning disks and had 32 commands per queue, while NVMe supports up to 64,000 and so on and so forth. The major limiting factor was utilizing SATA-based command structures over PCIe.
by NoahKAndrews | 2025-05-07 15:45:01+00:00
Edit: nevermind, they are in fact affiliated, and most of the core VLC devs work at VideoLabs. I've kept the original comment below.

This blog post links to the "VideoLab Store", hosted at https://videolabs.io, which prominently uses a logo extremely similar but not identical to the VLC (which stands for VideoLAN, not VideoLab) logo. Their homepage even goes as far as displaying "Hire the VLC team" as its headline.

As far as I'm aware, VideoLab has nothing to do with the VideoLAN non-profit, and it very much seems like they are intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking that they are the developers of VLC.
Show HN: AI Physique Analysis from Photos
by standardresul | 2025-05-07 15:45:49+00:00
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by meindnoch | 2025-05-07 15:45:49+00:00
This is dumb. It's like saying that weight loss is not a matter diet and exercise, but an anatomical issue of the stomach, that needs to be fixed with bariatric surgery.

No. Ozempic is a form of chemically-induced diet. Less invasive than bariatric surgery, but still just a hack to force you to consistently eat less. You can achieve the same by hiring a guy who follows you 24/7, and punches you in the face whenever you start eating too much.
by jtmarl1n | 2025-05-07 15:45:58+00:00
Weight loss is absolutely a result of CICO, please site a source that states otherwise.

I have never heard another source citing Oxygen/CO2 exchange as a factor for weight change, again, please site a source. O2 levels are certainly a factor of cardio health which can be correlated to overall health and weight.

Yes, macros also matter. But, nothing matters as much as the simple math of calories in/calories out. Its disingenuous, borderline irresponsible, to suggest otherwise.
by toprerules | 2025-05-07 15:46:15+00:00
Incorrect, many of them do, and make the determination that a few nice to have features doesn't outweigh the cost, lock in, and incongruence with the use of open source software where possible.

I know several world class developers who have invented corner stone technologies that use text editors without any plugins and just run the compiler in a separate window. It turns out that you actually are not held back by not having your hand held by an IDE, it was just a skill issue.