MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sdpy | 2025-06-30 09:30:41+00:00
That would be a game-changer for so many people. We're already getting close, though. Those CGMs like Dexcom don't actually test blood; they check interstitial fluid. There's a 5-15 minute delay, but still way better than finger pricks all day.

Non-invasive monitoring is still tricky. There’ve been some interesting attempts—like GlucoWatch back in the early 2000s, which used mild electrical currents, but caused skin irritation and never really caught on. Others have tried optical monitoring, radio waves, ultrasound, and even heat-based sensors. Feels like we’re getting closer, just not quite there yet.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-30 09:31:02+00:00
As another poster has said, due to it high content of saturated fat. Butter remains healthier than butter substitutes, e.g. margarine.

Small amounts of butter should not be a cause of concern, but only when butter or other dairy products are the major source of fat for someone.

As a personal anecdote, I believe that the composition of the fat one eats is very important for cardio-vascular health, because some years ago I had been diagnosed with incipient atherosclerosis.

This has scared me, so I have analyzed what unhealthy habits I might have had. At that time, I was eating very large quantities of dairy products. I could not identify anything else that was suspicious, so I have stopped eating dairy (except whey protein or milk protein, which are fat free) and I have ensured from that day on, that more than 90% of my daily intake of fats comes from a mixture of vegetable oils where oleic acid is dominant and essential fatty substances are in adequate amounts.

After a year, I no longer had any symptoms of atherosclerosis and there were also other obvious health improvements, because some signs of bad peripheral circulation, e.g. cold feet, had also vanished.

Few things in human nutrition are certain, due to the impossibility of doing experiments with humans, which could result in death or permanent health problems.

Nevertheless, it is most likely that fat should provide a good fraction of the total amount of energy, i.e. between 1/4 and 1/2, e.g. around 1/3, and the fatty acid profile should be thus that monosaturated fatty acids, i.e. mainly oleic acid, must be dominant.

Examples of food sources with fats where oleic acid is dominant are: high-oleic sunflower oil, olive oil, avocado oil, several kinds of nuts, e.g. cashew nuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio, peanuts.

While such a fat with oleic acid must provide most energy, there must also be fat sources which provide essential fatty substances, e.g. linoleic acid, vitamin E, omega-3 fatty acids. (As an example of healthy daily intake, I cook my own food and most of the fat comes from the oil I mix into food after cooking, which for a day contains 50 mL of high-oleic sunflower oil or of EV olive oil + 20 mL of classic cold-pressed sunflower oil + 10 mL of cod liver oil. The cold-pressed sunflower oil is for linoleic acid and vitamin E, the cod liver oil for DHA, EPA and vitamin D.)
by dijit | 2025-06-30 09:33:11+00:00
Well, I've run some Ampere Altra ARM machines in my studio so I can speak to this;

A) No you can't use ARM as android build farms, as androids build tools only work on x86 (go figure).

B) Ampere Altra runs faster for throughput than x86 on the same lithography and clock frequency; I can't imagine how they'd be slower for web, it's not my experience with these machines under test. Maybe virtualisation has issues (I ran bare-metal containers - as you should).

My original intent was to use these machines as build/test clusters for our go microservices (and I'd run ARM on GCP) but GCP was a bit too slow to roll out and now we're far into feature locking any migrations of that.

So I added the machines to the general pool of compute and they run bots, internal webservices etc; with Kubernetes.

The performance is extremely good, only limited by the fact we can't use them as build machines for the game due to the architecture difference - however for storage or heavy compute they really outperform the EPYC Milan machines which are also on a 7nm lithography.
by oblio | 2025-06-30 09:33:48+00:00
> From what I’ve heard cream of the crop grads in hot fields are still getting huge offers and getting snapped up by the big names as well as smaller firms.

Yeah, but that's making the distribution something like 1-5% vs 95-95% versus maybe 30-40% - 60-70% 5-10 years ago. The shift is significant.

> Some of those must be real positions doing promising work.

Of course, there are always ad optimizations and engagement optimizations to be made :-p
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-30 09:35:39+00:00
> Schizophrenia is not a funny thing. Person with voices in the head, can hurt or kill, themselves or someone.

I know people with schizophrenia (both treated and untreated), but I really seem to be the kind of person who seems to have much less problems getting along with schizophrenic people than what is common in society.

If you ask me: a lot of "weird" stuff that I read on the internet over the decades is magnitudes more "weird" than what most schizophrenic people do - so by being an avid internet users for decades, what many people consider to be "repulsive" in schizophrenic people is just "normal variance" to me. Honestly, I often find "well-adjusted", conformist people to be much more repulsive and annoying than what I experienced with schizophrenic people.

Update: If someone told me they hear voices in their head, I'd rather be the kind of person who curiously asks for details, and will attempt to do some scientific investigations (e.g. about the personality traits or "true" intentions of the voices that the respective person hears). :-) :-)
by wordofx | 2025-06-30 09:37:10+00:00
It has nothing to do with complexity.

> Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to _retain millions of email addresses_ connected to issuance records. As an organization that _values privacy_, removing this requirement is important to us.

A mailing list. Is still retaining emails somewhere. Doesn’t matter if it’s stored in a text file on a usb drive in a vault. It’s still retaining an email list.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-30 09:37:50+00:00
> But this created a problem for Apple: it was too cheap. About a decade ago, the cult of thinness took over. The Air was replaced by the 12" Macbook that was too underpowered. It only had 1 port, which doubled as a power connector.

The 12" MacBook did _not_ replace the Air; it was a niche within a niche. The Air continues to be Apple's best-selling laptop, and starts at $999 (the $1200 price you give in 2010 is equivalent to about $1800 adjusted for inflation).

(In retrospect the 12" MacBook seems like a clear mistake, but at the time there was a bit of a bubble in subnotebooks, and Intel was making lavish promises for its ultra-low-power chip lines which turned out to be nonsense.)

> We got the (awful) butterfly keyboard. And of course we got the Touch Bar.

Only in the expensive laptops; the Air continued to be the cheap option.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-30 09:37:56+00:00
> Why does LetsEncrypt expire the cert while the acme DNS entry is still there?

That's like saying "why does the government expire my passport/driver's license when I haven't changed my name". That's not how it works; the document is stamped valid for a specific amount of time, and you get a new document with a new expiration time when you renew it.

The certificate from LE will expire automatically 90 days after it was provided, that's why you need to renew it before the 90 days are up.

If you hate setting up automated certificate renewal, you can still get longer-lasting certificates from paid certificate providers. It used to be that you needed to pay a company to generate a certificate for you every year, now you just get the option to have a free one every 90 days.

> Also, why not support file based auth in .well-known/acme-challenge/... for domain wide certs

An ACME challenge file on a web server proves that you control a specific server at a specific domain, so you get a certificate for a specific domain.

A DNS entry proves you control the entire domain, so you (can) get a certificate for the domain.

By uploading a file to tekmol.freewebhost.com, you haven't proven that you control either .freewebhost.com or .tekmol.freewebhost.com. You have just proven that you control tekmol.freewebhost.com.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-30 09:38:50+00:00
> If I were in the market for a new car, I wouldn't consider anything but a Chinese car.

The problem with these are a few things:

1. service network. When something goes kaput with a VW, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, GM, Toyota and even Tesla, there's ample service stations available to get the car back up and running. With a Chinese manufacturer no one but car nerds has heard about? Good luck finding anyone willing to even touch the thing, much less have that specific manufacturer's tooling to deal with computer problems.

2. spare parts logistics. Even the richest and most successful of the last 20 years worth of automotive startups has serious trouble getting spare parts to broken cars. Why should some random Chinese brand be any better than that?

3. Crash safety. "Chinesium" alloy is a meme at this point, but one based on truth. Who guarantees that the manufacturer didn't cheap out on production runs after the review/crashtest rating units went out?

4. Battery safety. Batteries are already hard enough to pull off at scale without sending an armada of tiny little bomblets around the planet... who guarantees that there is no supply chain fuckery going on?
by mandmandam | 2025-06-30 09:41:03+00:00
> cannabis (always a mixture of THC and CBD in its natural state)

Come on man, I've been explicit from the start that I'm talking about high CBD low THC strains. If you refuse to acknowledge that then you're wasting both our time.

> You can feel superior or more intelligent than others as much as you like,

Weird thing to throw out there. Do you often feel like people giving you more information is an assault on your intelligence or value as a person? Is that helpful for you? ...

> You are getting a negative reaction from people who know this because we have been negatively affected by it

By high CBD, low THC cannabis? Be honest now.

> If you yourself “engage with the research” beyond your tunnel vision, you will see that the link between cannabis and mental issues is pretty well established by this point

I never denied there's a 'link'. There's clearly a link, but to claim that it's well understood is a gross exaggeration, and insisting that it applies to high CBD low THC cannabis is an obvious lie (no matter how many times you repeat it).

> refusal to acknowledge downsides of cannabis use is one of the hallmarks of cannabis use disorder. Pluck the beam out of your own eye.

Now you're implying I have a disorder and a drug problem? Even though at no point have I "refused to acknowledge downsides of cannabis".

So, recapping: I posit that high CBD low THC cannabis could help schizophrenics. I provide multiple links to researchers in this field saying the same thing. And by doing this, you feel entitled to make to accusations of me being a drug dealer, having a substance abuse problem, a superiority complex and a mental disorder?

... It's not ok to talk to people like that. And yet you end all that with "pluck the beam out of your own eye"; as if I were the one casting judgment??

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by BanterTrouble | 2025-06-30 09:41:08+00:00
I work on my own cars now (as a hobby really) and one of the reasons the new cars are so expensive is they are much more complicated. A lot of this seems to be over-engineering IMO. This is alluded to in the article, but not explicitly stated.

The cars I work on are from the early 90s and everything is very simple to understand.

e.g. Electronics are normally simple circuits that aren't much more complicated than what you would find in a door bell and finding faults is normally just tracing wires and using a multi-meter. I had issues with the brake lights / reverse lights not working, the issue turned out that the spade like connector in the fuse box was pushed through and was making partial contact. Price to fix this was £0.

EDIT: Just remembered this isn't accurate. I had to buy a new reverse light. The entire reverse light assembly was ~£20. So the price to fix was about £20. The light assembly itself was like a big bicycle light.

My newer car needs a OB-II scanner to diagnose anything with a phone app. While this is arguably quicker it can be misleading. Sometimes it will be telling you that something is malfunctioning but it is really the sensor itself. These sensors are £200-£300 a piece. Replacing 4 glow plug sensors cost me £800. I was paying essentially to make the "you must service your engine" light to go away. There was nothing wrong with engine itself.
by Amezarak | 2025-06-30 09:42:21+00:00
Mississippi, like all US states, has free K12 education. It also offers free college education at public universities to anyone who scores well on college admittance tests. (In many countries, people can't access college at all if they didn't perform academically.)

About 25% of Mississippians are on free government healthcare (Medicaid/CHIP). About 21% are on very-cheap government healthcare (Medicare.) Additionally, many hospital systems in the state are owned by state and local governments, and offer free services (roundaboutly) to residents.

Mississippians, like others Americans, are eligible for Social Security in retirement, and have access to unemployment insurance.

Of course Mississippi is not some sort of welfare state paradise, but it's tiresome polemic and exaggeration to claim that people "can't get access to education, healthcare, retirement, and will find [themselves] out on the street if [they] lose [their] job."
by M0r13n | 2025-06-30 09:42:55+00:00
I am running an ARM64 build of Ubuntu on my MacBook Air using Multipass. I've never had a problem due to missing support/optimisation for ARM - at least I didn't notice any. I even noticed that build times were faster on this virtualised machine than they were natively on my previous Tuxedo laptop which had an Intel i7 that was a couple of years old. Although, I blame this speed mostly on the sheer horsepower of the newest Apple chips
by Aeglaecia | 2025-06-30 09:44:13+00:00
through my eyes i see a similar implication to disproprortionate judicial punishment - aspects of a hegemonic system designed to suppress individual voices. for example, pirates in the UK being handed jail terms of greater duration than those given to individuals having killed other humans - people daring to go against the powerful have their lives taken away from them, whereas infighting within the working class is almost encouraged by miniscule sentencing.

or in this case, why bother putting any effort into life when doing nothing provides a greater reward? why attempt to make something of oneself at the risk of losing everything forever?

all in all, whether or not intentionally curated, these societal facets serve to foment an atmosphere of fear - individuals are forced to exist either in ignorance, or otherwise must live with the knowledge that minor infractions may end one's dreams, while concurrently one's dreams may be ended at any time for no reason but the whim of another.

such a dichotomy between ignorance and fear effectively suppresses societal change, which if it were to happen anyway, would be instantly detected by automated surveillance, and promptly quashed under fully legal pretences. but that's not even necessary. the populace is already addicted to living vicariously through screens (now from birth thanks to parents being forced to devote energy to work instead of their children).

yet the world keeps turning
by conaclos | 2025-06-30 09:46:18+00:00
Thanks for sharing!

The only thing I disagree with is error wrapping. While I agree that the main error should not expose dependencies, I find it useful to keep a `cause` field that corresponds to the inner error. It's important to trace the origin of an error and have more context about it. By the way, Rust's [Error] trait has a dedicated `cause` method for that!

[Error] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/error/trait.Error.htm...
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-30 09:46:27+00:00
Well it was more the store was full of teenagers and kids generally fucking around while their parents browsed. Plenty of those parents were getting attended to by staff - even if they had bookings, it takes a spare staff member (of which there were many just milling around) one minute to ask me what I'm here for and recommend I make a booking if I had a complex request.

The conversation literally would have been "can I help you?" "Yes I want a space grey m3 macbook air, 16gb ram 512gb ssd, I will pay for it right now and then leave this terrible place tyvm". With the laptop on-hand the purchasing process would've taken as little time as it took for them to ram it into pos and for my phone nfc to pay.
by bmacho | 2025-06-30 09:47:29+00:00
> Why has it changed so fast?

> We don’t yet have a full explanation. But new research suggests changes in clouds is a big factor.

> Clouds have a cooling effect overall. But the area covered by highly reflective white clouds has shrunk, while the area of jumbled, less reflective clouds has grown.

> It isn’t clear why the clouds are changing. One possible factor could be the consequences of successful efforts to reduce sulfur in shipping fuel from 2020, as burning the dirtier fuel may have had a brightening effect on clouds.

...

It seems to me that the climate change will be totally solvable by releasing some random gas into the atmosphere. No need to fret about it.
by close04 | 2025-06-30 09:48:46+00:00
> this AI agent would be in the customer's control

I misunderstood. In this case the AI can operate with the same limitations I can. It can save me some time when the interaction already had a good chance of success. But I can't see how an AI agent prevents the line from "accidentally" being disconnected, or being put in call waiting hell, or just having to talk to another AI in an endless loop (e.g. Google or Facebook's support).
by pchangr | 2025-06-30 09:49:26+00:00
Afghanistan was almost never a democracy tho. It was mostly monarchies until 1973.. then a totalitarian state from 1978-ish until 1989… then mostly in civil war until 1996.. when it was again mostly a totalitarian state.. then it got invaded by the US in 2001.. until 2021 when it got again under a totalitarian state.
Unleash Blading Resurrection
by rkestt | 2025-06-30 09:49:37+00:00
Has anyone ever looked into the possibility of bringing Sword Art Online: Unleash Blading (Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel) back through a private server?

I was a huge fan of the game. The story, the characters, the combat system; it had a unique feel that really captured the spirit of SAO. Since the shutdown, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we might preserve or even revive it in some way.

I'm wondering if it’s technically possible to recreate the game using a private server setup, similar to what exists for some Supercell games like Null’s Royale or Null’s Brawl. I know SAOUB didn’t have an offline mode, so this wouldn’t be easy. But with enough community interest and technical skill, maybe we could start small (even if it’s just restoring basic gameplay elements or letting people replay the story content).

So I’m reaching out to see if there’s anyone out there with experience in reverse engineering mobile games, working with Android APKs, server emulation, or anything related. Even if you’re not technical but loved the game and want to help coordinate or support the project in other ways, that would also be great. I’m not claiming to have all the answers, but I’m motivated to at least try.

If you’re interested in the idea, or if you know someone who might be, feel free to reply or DM me, heres my discord: rkestt. Maybe together we can figure out a way to bring Unleash Blading back — or at least keep its memory alive in a meaningful way.
by alias_neo | 2025-06-30 09:50:41+00:00
I experienced the opposite a few years back.

My wife and I were moving city and needed rid of some perfectly functional appliances and furniture.

We listed it all for free because we needed it gone quick and the cost of taking it with us was too high.

When by the next day we'd had one enquiry from someone who didn't turn up, we changed tactic and switched everything to £1.

Within a day the entire lot was gone, people turning up with copper coins from their piggy bank which we told them to keep.

One fond memory of that was a student looking guy who came to the door for the dining table, I opened the door and greeted him, extending my hand for a hand shake, and he looked confused for a couple of seconds, didn't say a word, then reached in his pocket for the money and held it out. Never had anyone misunderstand an invitation for a handshake before or since.
by kwon-young | 2025-06-30 09:50:51+00:00
I am working on a unit-aware arithmetic library for swi-prolog (1) modeled after the c++ mp-units library (2). Turns out prolog is really well suited for this because:

* of its ability to store unit system data as code

* unit conversion is an iterative deepening depth first search

* manipulating symbolic arithmetic is so easy

Unfortunately, it requires users to compile swi-prolog for source because the library is using some unreleased features. If anyone would like to test and report some feedback, I would be truly grateful !

1. https://github.com/kwon-young/units

2. https://mpusz.github.io/mp-units/latest/
by jerven | 2025-06-30 09:51:48+00:00
I would like to state that good bike lanes and trains also have induced demand. The Netherlands and Switzerland, have demand for more of both (as well as more demand for car lanes as well)

It is just that trains and bikes are much more efficient in terms of land use.

The 3 lane road in front of my house is "good" for 16,000 cars a day. The 2 lane train line a 5 minutes walk from my house is "good" for 120,000 passengers a day. A train line can carry about 10x the traffic of a car lane (in practice) with similar ground usage.

So when a train system has more demand/use than expected (e.g. leman express in the geneva region) there are more options to increase throughput (in the leman express case double level trains) that require less new infrastructure to be build.

When new infrastructure is required, limitations of space mean that a 15 year period from plan to implementation is normal. Which means infrastructure which has more head-room is preferred over quickly saturated ones.

To add the adding of one lane to the A1 for 18KM costs half the total of the leman express infrastructure. But has significantly less benefits in total transit capacity.
by caleblloyd | 2025-06-30 09:51:49+00:00
It wasn’t a joke, but I do see your point. US subsidies for EVs are massive as well. I guess I just hadn’t dug into the numbers. Now I’m not sure who gives more subsidies, the US or China.

The federal tax credit in the US is much higher than the Chinese equivalent it appears. But the factory and R&D subsidies are much harder to compute.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-30 09:51:51+00:00
I saw your other comment about thinking about defecting ha ha. Just remember that with great power comes greater (ish) responsibility - apps can do a lot more on Android but this means that malware can potentially do more damage. Though for a while many apps have had restricted access to filesystem, you have to enable full file system access on a per-app basis.

So as long as you don't install random apks (and enable the option that allows this) or give arbitrary/untrustworthy apps full file system access (also specifically enabled) then you're good.