MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-06 13:23:35+00:00
IME the key is a very simple mindset shift. People generally try to ignore or overpower the sensation of hunger. That is super, super difficult over long periods of time. Instead what they should do is very directly and explicitly manage that felt sensation.

The key insight is that your sensation of hunger is primarily driven by the weight of your stomach (not the caloric contents or volumetric fullness of it).

So the question is how do you increase the weight of your stomach (decrease sensation of hunger) without increasing caloric consumption. You just eat a lot of low caloric density foods!

Divide calories by grams on the nutrition label. Lower is better. Replace as many items as you can in your diet with the nearest alternative that is of lower caloric density.

Nonfat greek yogurt and seitan are the two biggest hacks ever. Adopting this mindset will also probably astound you how many calories modern engineering can fit into a gram. Would be a pretty great achievement if we had to trek long distances, but here we are munching on this stuff while sitting all day.
by davidguetta | 2025-06-06 13:23:40+00:00
Just do insanity bro:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9EmDyARAMtlZ21FdmZZ...

2 3 and 5 in a loop (3 sessions per 4 days), the other are useless

Two important changes :

- remove the stretching after the warmup, it's considered harmful nowadays

- don't do the jumps and replace by squats (for knee problems)

It's only 35 min per day and I've lost 2.5 kg in basically a month.

Please note that watever your sport level is, you WONT be able to do the workout completely at least the first 10 times
by admissionsguy | 2025-06-06 13:23:53+00:00
imo it's easy to distinguish AI emails, grammar errors or not. Monkeys have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to detect subtleties in the tone and those skills transfer well into the LLM era.

Another thing is whether it's a bad thing to have emails written by an LLM. I think it's only bad if the resulting message is longer than the person would have written themselves.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-06 13:24:00+00:00
Btw for anyone curious the zephyr between emeryville and denver is up there for one of the most scenic routes in the world.

Along the inlets of the bay, up the sierra nevadas, through the great basin, through the moab desert with mesas either side and then into the rocky mountains winding along cliff tops. It goes through the salt flats and salt lake city at night but the daytime views either side of that one night are incredible and make the train trip entirely worthwhile. A great way to experience a sleeper car, you’ll see why people do it rather than fly and a great experience all round.

Don’t bother with the denver to chicago leg though unless you really like corn fields (chicago is absolutely worthwhile visiting but probably not worth the extra night on the train when you can fly)
by lexiapp | 2025-06-06 13:24:05+00:00
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Show HN: Sip Bridge for Galene
by jech | 2025-06-06 13:24:13+00:00
A bridge between the Galene videoconferencing system <https://galene.org> and the SIP protocol.

I couldn't find any suitable libraries for implementing SIP in Go, so I used a library just for the message parser, and reimplemented the protocol logic myself. It's somewhat incomplete at this time, but complete enough to work with at least three SIP providers (self-hosted Asterisk, Linphone and OVH).

If somebody ever told you that SIP is horrible, they were telling the truth.
by dangus | 2025-06-06 13:24:17+00:00
Countries other than the US aren't part of this lawsuit. ChatGPT operates in the US under US law. I don't know if they have separated data storage for other countries.

I don't believe you would be considered to be violating the GDPR if you are complying with another court order, because you are presumably making a best effort to comply with the GDPR besides that court order.

You're saying it's unreasonable to store data somewhere for a pending court case? Conceptually you're saying that you can't preserve data for trials because the filing cabinets might see the information. That's ridiculous, if that was true then it would be impossible to perform discovery and get anything done in court.
by j1elo | 2025-06-06 13:24:45+00:00
And some exercises can be really intense, too! I have to repeat this over and over to people who complain about not being able or wanting to go to a gym: just start from (carefully) doing some squats or any other youtube-guided exercise in your living room! anything else is just an excuse they're forming in their head to cover for their lack of will to do it.

Try to do Saitama's training (from anime One Punch Man, just a tongue-in-cheek way to mean do lots of push-ups and squats) and afterwards tell me you don't feel like you've done some serious exercise!
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-06 13:24:50+00:00
Not sure Australia-New Zealand make it? In fact, I'm fairly certain they would get hit. Just as certain as I am that North Korea would get hit.

I mean, just consider it from our (US) perspective. Any Russian naval assets that are harbored in, say, North Korea; I'm not sure that we could assume they don't mean us any harm. So I'm almost certain our subs launch strikes on North Korea despite them not really being involved directly in NATO-Russian hostilities. I think the same would go for US, (or NATO), bases and NATO naval assets harbored in Australia or New Zealand. There's just no way Russian sub captains let those targets go.

I think, in general, having had your nation destroyed is probably more reason for all those guys to fight each other and strike at targets of that nature. Not less.
by dgfitz | 2025-06-06 13:24:56+00:00
Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that. Maybe set 1 goal a week, or a month even, and then add to them.

For example, only drink water. It’s all the body needs for hydration anyways. No soda, diet soda, alcohol, slurpees, etc. Black coffee if you enjoy a cuppa in the morning, no sugar. (Good black coffee is such a joy)

Then set a rule about only eating 3 meals a day, however you define meal. No snacks in between.

Losing weight, even accounting for hormones, really is a diet thing. Exercise daily burns like… 100-300 calories, which is a small fraction of basal metabolic rate for a grown human.
by muzani | 2025-06-06 13:25:17+00:00
We just stopped using story points when nobody could agree on them. I used emojis as story points once. A colleague asked wtf the :D meant vs :/ or :( or :').

I said I had no idea. I just put how I felt. Some things looked simple but gave me a bad feeling; the bad feeling was always mostly justified.

Every day I'd add up all the emojis for the day, which adds up to ~8 hours. After a week, we add them up again for ~40 hours. Eventually we got a pretty decent estimate that :) meant half an hour and the vomiting one would be at least 3 days.

Some emojis like the grimacing were an indicator that we needed to run a spike on this - it just wasn't groomed enough. Some are an indicator that we didn't trust the other person expected to handle this.

Everyone has different emojis just as they have different emotions about the same task. One person may like refactoring, another may be better at UI.

None are entirely accurate but such is the nature of software. Story points are misleading because they are precise but inaccurate.
by joseda-hg | 2025-06-06 13:25:18+00:00
That's Sunday in places where this is normal, we could just extend that

Ask a German or a Chilean how they spend their Sunday

It's not that everything closes, Malls open (Less hours) Chain Stores open and anything medium to large does, still, enough places close to make a difference, and also make the incentive of paying more to people working those days
by gruez | 2025-06-06 13:25:18+00:00
>I have extremely lucky genes and have managed to stay just within the green BMI range despite eating all the carbs and fats you can imagine and at times consuming 200-300g of milk chocolate a day.

>Some of my friends are obese despite exercising heavily every day.

An often overlooked factor is how much snacking is done. If you eat "all the carbs and fats", but they're contained to a single meal a few times a week, and the portions are reasonable (ie. you're not stuffing yourself every meal), that has far less caloric impact than someone eating "salad" everyday, but loaded with dressing and snacking voraciously on the side.
by Telemakhos | 2025-06-06 13:25:25+00:00
> Put another way, there are plenty of situations where all the mental fortitude, discipline, self-honesty, commitment to change, and persistence won't be enough in the face of it simply being difficult to find time, space, or money to be healthy.

This isn't what you want to hear, but "mental fortitude, discipline, self-honesty, commitment to change, and persistence" are not things that are supposed to be defeated by "it simply being difficult." In fact, some of them (especially "fortitude" and "commitment") strongly imply that the circumstances in which they are applied should be difficult.

If you're somewhere hot and humid (I used to live in Florida, so I understand) or have a job that keeps you in a chair all day, go for long walks around four or five in the morning: you'll avoid the heat and feel ready for your morning work.

If you hate toxic gym culture, look into different gym cultures. The US gym chain "Planet Fitness" makes a big deal about explicitly rejecting gym-bro culture in order to foster a more inclusive environment.

Consider, however, that gym-bro culture might exist for a reason other than simple jackassery: people stick with something difficult when they undertake it with friends, and they have more fun doing boring things when they do them with friends. If you start going to a gym with a friend or group of friends, you might find that you enjoy it more and that the difficulties you describe become easier.
by tejohnso | 2025-06-06 13:25:30+00:00
Yes, trying to live a healthy lifestyle is definitely an uphill battle in many (probably most) areas. I think the part the pisses me off the most is when I'm trying hard to get my kid to eat well, and he suddenly has to deal with a chocolate craving because of a commercial he saw on television. Or some parent yells out "Who wants ice cream!?" after soccer, at 8pm, when he's supposed to be sleeping an our later.

What is "toxic gym culture" though? I've been to gyms off and on for months at a time in different cities (and countries) and all I see are people trying to become stronger, or lose weight, usually with headphones on minding their own business.
Show HN: Instant video edits with local Whisper models (macOS)
by jelled | 2025-06-06 13:25:57+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Ben, long time web developer but this is my first time building a macOS app. I film a lot of tutorial and talking-head content and wanted to make it easier to chop out mistakes. So I built CutWord, a macOS app that lets you mark cue points with voice commands while you’re recording.

Once the app downloads a Whisper model everything runs locally, so nothing leaves your machine. You can export a trimmed video directly from the app or export a FCPXML file that can be imported into Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve for finishing. Built with SwiftUI and AVFoundation.

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by cubefox | 2025-06-06 13:26:02+00:00
Exercise is also something you can "get into". For example, you force yourself to go to the gym a few times, or to go running a few times. And then you start beating your previous records, at which point you get more ambitious. You try to research the best supplements on the web, or the best pull-up bar for at home, and before you know it, you are transforming into a "gym bro" without previously intending to. It's remarkably easy to get into various obsessions, even if they are entirely healthy.
by andrew_lettuce | 2025-06-06 13:26:02+00:00
You overly discount the intimidation of gyms, but I agree you can definitely find one that works for you. They range from young & beautiful to very specialized and accepting. I suggest you try a community run or neighborhood (doesn't have to be your neighborhood!) as these tend to be very low key, and probably significantly cheaper.

Motivation for gym work can be a huge problem; what suggestions do people have for that?
by zekethefreak | 2025-06-06 13:26:03+00:00
I've been overweight and obese for most of my life, and on several occasion i've managed to lose a bunch of weight through diet and excersice, but always ended up regaining it a year or two later. Finally at 40 i got a health scare, heart arrythmia, and i decided to try again. I found a pretty good nutritionist that emphasized 'relearning' to eat over just an efficient weight loss diet. That was the key, and that i managed to modify my environment by buying 95% unprocessed foods and never keeping more than a very small stock of cheat meals. Here in Argentina we still have a lot of options to buy meat and vegetables fairly cheap and accessible, outside of the supermarkets. That said, the first two years after i lost most of the weight were harsh, not so much because of keeping eating healthy, which happily took less and less effort each month, but because of 'not recognizing myself in the mirror' after 25kgs gone. I started questioning if i needed to keep changing things, like breaking up my marriage for example, or changing careers. And i still have a recurring nightmare where i wake up and i'm 115kgs again. So i can totally relate with the 'fat trap' concept, even though i haven't been 'fat' for close to 5 years now. Great article!
by ShrugLife | 2025-06-06 13:26:03+00:00
Something that's really helped me work with my body weight and my own self-image is intuitive eating, an "anti-diet" approach I was introduced to by my registered dietician. Essentially, it's about recognizing when my body is hungry and being more accepting of who I am. My weight hasn't changed much, but there has been a much more marked improvement in my mental state. It feels much better than when I was tracking calories using a food scale and app (basically going into starvation via calorie deficit).

https://www.intuitiveeating.org/about-us/10-principles-of-in... https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/feeding-body-and-so... https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/quick-guide-intuitive-e...
by colejohnson66 | 2025-06-06 13:26:16+00:00
Not just "fresh out of college", but people who think AI can solve everything. COBOL too "ancient"? Just throw AI at it! Can't write code? Throw AI at it! He literally wrote an AI prompter using AI:

> Under a time crunch, Lavingia said he finished the first version of his contract-munching tool on his second day on the job — using AI to help write the code for him. He told ProPublica he then spent his first week downloading VA contracts to his laptop and analyzing them.

This is entry/junior-level levels of incompetence being given carte blanche access to production, but where "production" includes people's livelihoods.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-06 13:26:19+00:00
Excess deaths is an interesting one, and again can show correlation, but it still can't distinguish cause. Obviously the death numbers were much higher those years, but two major factors were different - the virus was spreading and society responded to it in drastic ways. We can't say how many people died due to lack of access to care for example, or how fear and loneliness factored into death rates.

Excess death rates, at least in the US, are particularly interesting because they didn't follow the pattern I would have expected. Pandemics will effectively pull forward deaths, that didn't seem to happen here. Our all cause mortality spiked noticeably during the pandemic but it came back down to a more normal rate, I would have expected it to be below normal for at least a year or two. Its not as simple as pointing to all cause or excess deaths and saying it must have been vaccine hesitancy - we can't distinguish why those people died and it wouldn't explain the mortality rate after the pandemic.
by officeplant | 2025-06-06 13:26:32+00:00
> I feel uneasy with more AI tech improving FPVs. It's inevitable, but ...

It unfortunately goes even deeper than that. The Quadcopter FPV community is watching their open source software actively be picked up for warfare, and can often tell what version they were running when watching released Russian & Ukrainian footage later.

Every beneficial step we make in the maker community will be used to expedite death in conflict. A few 3D printers and a digikey order are all you really need to seed an insurgent movement at this point.
by hiq | 2025-06-06 13:26:39+00:00
> I have extremely lucky genes and have managed to stay just within the green BMI range despite eating all the carbs and fats you can imagine and at times consuming 200-300g of milk chocolate a day.

> Some of my friends are obese despite exercising heavily every day.

Whether that's a boon or a bane not depends on which body fat and especially visceral body fat you end up with. Looking fit (which is somewhat captured by BMI) but actually being unhealthy (body fat) makes it easier to ignore in the short-term.
by dangus | 2025-06-06 13:26:59+00:00
No, you're misinterpreting how information discovery and the court system works.

The NYT made an argument to a judge about what they think is going on and how they think the copyright infringement is taking place and harming them. In their filings and hearings they present the reasoning and evidence they have that leads them to believe that a violation is occurring. The court makes a judgment on whether or not to order OpenAI to preserve and disclose information relevant to the case to the court.

It's not "just do what NYT wanted you to do," it's "do what the court orders you to do based on a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff and argued to the court."

I suggest you read the court filing: https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-06 13:27:27+00:00
To chime on this topic as one that's also quite personally relevant to me, I was obese as a youth. I got extremely into physical culture and healthy eating and pushed myself to become an elite athlete so that I would have another positive feedback mechanism for my diet and exercise habits besides just looking good. This worked quite well, and for years I enjoyed going to the gym 5 days a week and eating a strictly regimented diet because in addition to looking phenomenal I was chasing records and tracking clear metrics that I could derive satisfaction from on a weekly basis.

This part of my life ended in December 2020 when I was t-boned by a drunk driver going 130Mph. I'm no longer able to engage in intense exercise the way I once was, and the combination of my physical limitations and emotional issues (in addition to losing my life-long hobby and being in constant pain, my son had birth complications in 2022 and required brain surgery, and is now heavily special needs) pushed me towards alcoholism and emotional eating. I gained a _lot_ of weight, and my previous strategies no longer provided me with the guardrails and motivation to deal with the problem.

I've always had an issue with insatiable appetite my entire life, and while I was able to deal with it via a militantly regimented lifestyle and mindset change, I recognize that solution is itself incredibly challenging to implement (if it's even possible in an individual's case). Thankfully Monjourno was able to help me address the problem, and I look forward to GLP medications becoming more widely available as I do think there are a lot of people who suffer from appetite dysregulation due to genetics and emotional trauma who shouldn't have to wage an epic battle with their body to feel normal.
by nxobject | 2025-06-06 13:27:40+00:00
The only silver lining here is his transparency about being wrong -- and providing evidence of that publicly. Given DOGE's culture of prioritizing avoiding accountability and transparency measures like FOIA [1], it's almost sadly laudable.

[1] https://www.cjr.org/feature-2/trump-100-legal-battle-for-dog...
by rmunn | 2025-06-06 13:27:41+00:00
Yes, that is the entire point of the game. All of you are from different periods in history, and you're all traveling back in time to the first day the U.S. Patent Office opens, in order to get the very first patent. But of course since you're all time travelers aiming for the same point in time, you have to interfere with each other in order to actually be the "first" to arrive. It gets very silly.
by jitl | 2025-06-06 13:28:08+00:00
My one weird trick on this subject, as a person who enjoys sweets & a dessert, was to switch my late night sweets habit to fruit juice popsicles. Still super tasty and sweet, but generally I find them much lower in calories per satisfaction compared to other sweets. I really like these pineapple ones, although they vary in quality depending on where you are in the US; here in Florida they're fantastic but in California they're just okay: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Outshine-Pineapple-Frozen-Fruit-B...
by flkiwi | 2025-06-06 13:28:21+00:00
> For sure. If you are surrounded by a bunch of obese people encouraging you to drink milkshakes all day and making fun of you for working out, that's going to be hard to overcome! But just like climate change, you can't control these social conditions, or at least you can't have much of an effect. But you can make a difference in your own life according to your own principles. Often times it just means being "less bad" instead of giving up.

Completely agree. I may nitpick a few of your responses, but I'm not saying that any of the factors I named make health impossible, only that it's exponentially more difficult because of the larger social context. And, similarly, I'm not saying the larger social context makes it impossible, but that it makes it _much_ harder than it needs to be for many people. (As evidence, I live in an area with very high obesity rates.)

I sort of knew when I posted that here, in particular, that the reaction would be to focus on the individual, because, well, HN. It's kind of a thing here. I'm also fascinated by the reaction that I must be fattie fat man who wants to make excuses and wait for others to fix my problem because I questioned whether mental fortitude is enough. The reality is that I was merely noting that there are larger contextual challenges that, taken together, make any individual's journey needlessly, inescapably harder than it should be.