MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 05:30:57+00:00
These types of arguments are somewhat worthless when they're not made in context to obesity.

What I mean is, you should be comparing the risk of GLP-1s versus the risk of obesity, because realistically this is the vast majority of people's risk analysis criteria here.

Obesity increases your risk of CVD, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, joint diseases, and overall mortality. CVD, in particular, is the number 1 cause of death in many developed countries.

Like all drugs, GLP-1s come with risk. This fact, however, is worthless. We must ask if it is less risky than the aggregate sum of the above diseases. I think the answer is overwhelming yes.

Therefore, obese people should probably consider GLP-1 medications. Particularly if they have tried, and failed, weight loss before. Which every obese person has.

In addition, when considering the downside of medication, we MUST compare it to the alternatives. Many obese people are already on multiple life-long medications. Statins, hypertension medication, insulin and other diabetes management drugs, etc.

Not only do these medications require significantly more management than a GLP-1, but they, too, come with their own set of risks, which we must then add to the risk of disease.

I, personally, have taken multiple chemotherapy drugs to cure my cancer. These drugs make GLP-1s look like nothing. They have damaged my body in irreversible ways. They've aged my blood, exposed me to extreme levels of known carcinogens, raised my risk of mortality, and overall lowered my quality of life.

However, I am thankful for them. Yes, my risk of mortality is much higher. But, compared to cancer, which has a 100% chance to kill me, it was a worthy tradeoff.
by slyall | 2025-07-14 05:30:58+00:00
$4000/year might be a lot or a little. If you own a $5m house up against a forest it's probably a bargain. The car price could reflect a bunch of factors.

Pay some broker for a one-off consultation to advise you on how to save money.

Reality is insurance companies are now going though a cycle of "price in the actual risk" rather than "drop prices to gain customers"
by motorest | 2025-07-14 05:31:39+00:00
> Politicians are people just like everyone else, they're just responding to incentives created by a majority vote.

I don't think this is remotely true, and feels like victim blaming. No one is voting for monopolies and exploitation. At most you have people voting for tax cuts and the hopes of improved economies, which are then faced with a bait-and-switch of erosion of legal rights and protection and further anticompetitive practices.

These so-called "food delivery" companies are the worst example possible as they are renowned for the way they exploit employees with blatant violations of basic labor laws. No one voted for that.

> Tech companies are just like any other company, except a lot more people are willing to pay for their goods and services.

No. Their whole business model is based on exploitation to the point some countries had to force them to finally get their riders into actual employment contracts.

> I'm actually far from convinced that tech companies are a net negative for society. Amazon makes billions because everyone wants competitively priced goods delivered to their doorsteps. Google makes billions because they provide free access to a large portion of humanity's information.

You have a far too naive and out of touch view on the problem, much like a few years ago people from colonial powers believed their presence was net positive for natives as that meant they could receive a salary for waiting on them hand and foot. Amazon's example is even more laughable as the company is notorious for exploitative and outright abusive labor practices. I understand you like to receive packages, but I seriously recommend you read something on the topic because their impact on society is far from net positive.
by fwlr | 2025-07-14 05:33:05+00:00
JavaScript promises are objects with a resolver function and an internal asynchronous computation. At some point in the future, the asynchronous computation will complete, and at that point the promise will call its resolver function with the return value of the computation.

`prom.then(fn)` creates a new promise. The new promise’s resolver function is the `fn` inside `then(fn)`, and the new promise’s asynchronous computation is the original promise’s resolver function.
by wincy | 2025-07-14 05:33:28+00:00
I’ve been on 15mg (the highest dose) of Zepbound for the past six months. As of right this second I’ve lost 74 pounds since September 2024 when I switched to Zepbound after having a terrible experience with Ozempic/Wegovy and gaining from 260-308.

I notice no ill effects, I just had my three month checkup with the doctor and he thinks I’m good on maintenance mode at max dose, I’ve still got about 34 pounds as my total weight loss goal. Really an ideal case.

For my wife on the other hand she just has constant diarrhea which she blames on the drug, and is only on 5mg. She also gets headaches from the medicine. She’s lost only 20 pounds, even though she needs to lose another 120 or so to be “healthy weight”.

However, before she started taking Zepbound she was only able to walk a few hundred feet at a time, because her back hurt so terribly. The anti inflammatory “side effects” she’s experiencing have massively improved her quality of life, even without huge amounts of weight loss.
by nottorp | 2025-07-14 05:34:11+00:00
Why just Steam?

I buy my ps5 games on disc. Most of them I treat the same as Steam. I wishlist them and occasionally do a round of checking which ones have cheapened enough to get. That because physical cheapens faster than digital on console, and you also retain long term access no matter what Sony may decide next year.

And yes, I have a few never opened console discs as well. They definitely weren't full price...
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-14 05:34:14+00:00
I am a big user of launchers. Used fluent search on windows, raycast on my work mac, but used a disparate set of tools on linux till now. This will be great to try.

I have something to say about the (future? didn't find it in the readme) file search feature.

Similar to how fluent search can defer to the everything.exe search index, maybe this app can defer to the fsearch search index, which already has lots of users.

It will save effort and also onboard fsearch users(like me) easily.
by lynx97 | 2025-07-14 05:34:28+00:00
Just because Americans have an obesity problem doesn't make every food vendor a drug dealer. Come on, get real. Basically everything that is being sold can be abused by the user. Does that mean every vendor of anything is potentially a bad actor? I believe you are exaggregating. BTW, I virtually never thought about Thiel when I ordered a Pizza. Is there a reason why you drag the owners into this? It basically sounds like you are antagonising everyone above your wage-class. I don't get it.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-14 05:34:44+00:00
Because the 5 players are for the entire planet, not any individual market. In any particular market, there are one or two big delivery companies. The 5 companies are Meituan, DoorDash, Uber, Prosus, and Delivery Hero. I'm in the US, where DoorDash and Uber Eats are the major players. I've never even heard of the other three, which dominate non-US markets.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-07-14 05:34:47+00:00
(linux + KDE) i save 24% by using black (#000000) everything, backgrounds, full theme, contrast control setting in firefox etc. on notebook with OLED screen. also if possible not using Chromes / safaris youtube video player but downloading of a video makes huge energy savings. (and using MPV in linux or properly configured PotPlayer in windows. VLC or default MS video apps are bad at energy saving.)

And we are talking about 15+ hours of actual office work in webbrowser + little bit of python math. so add 24% on top of that... that is literally weekend worth of work on one charge. current generation of laptop CPUS is insane.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-14 05:34:59+00:00
Sorry, I probably did not phrase that well: I did not mean to imply that (what ultimately became) MDN was built on others’ materials. Rather, my impression was that other browser developers had agreed on taking down their own web documentation in favour of directing people to MDN, and that the Opera course (itself quite new at the time) was among the casualties.

Checking the Wayback Machine, looks like my subjective time was quite warped then: I had read the course around 2010 (which was actually called the Web Standards Curriculum[1,2], oops) and was sure it had been memory-holed with a redirect to MDN (along with the rest of Dev.Opera) when Presto was still alive (so before 2014), but it turns out that that did not happen[3] until 2018, matching your timeline.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100119040913/http://dev.opera....

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20111128034924/http://www.w3.org...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20171013125336/https://www.w3.or...
by motorest | 2025-07-14 05:35:17+00:00
> Anti-trust for an industry where there are at least five companies doing well in any given space? That's not called a monopoly, it's called competition

You need to be completely out of touch with reality to read an article on 5 companies dominating a global market and your take from that info is that there are no anticompetitive practices because 5 is more than 1.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-14 05:35:30+00:00
We got catfished by an outsourcer on Upwork.

Great interview, good questions, really solid candidate.

His first day on the job, his English went to shit.

Then he refused to pick up the phone or call me back. Lame excuses about how it’s loud there, then he lost his voice, then scheduled a call with the real “Jeff” the American who couldn’t answer anything about what we had discussed an hour earlier.

Reported to Upwork but I sort of doubt they did much about it.
by Thorrez | 2025-07-14 05:36:06+00:00
KVM in this context stands for keyboard, video, mouse. There are multiple types of these KVMs, and the ones discussed here are remote KVMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch#KVM_over_IP_(IPKVM)

It sounds like the North Koreans pay 1 person in the US to have a ton of laptops with KVMs attached to them, and those laptops are remotely used by North Koreans.

Not to be confused with Kernel-based virtual machine (also called KVM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
by wincy | 2025-07-14 05:36:45+00:00
I had terrible side effects with Ozempic but have had minimal side effects with Zepbound that have disappeared over time. I just wake up on Thursdays and inject it first thing.

The auto pen misfired the other day and I called Eli Lilly and they immediately emailed me a voucher for a free 4 pack of the shots. It’s also eliminated my sleep apnea (via the weight loss).
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-14 05:36:54+00:00
"And what precisely did the glorious US manage to get with all their wealth,"

You're not going to get some defense of the US here, there's well known connections between America's tryst with Slavery and Jim Crow and its dysfunctional government services.

But I'd love to see a Venn diagram of countries that "Actually Colonized" (tm) and countries with really generous welfare systems/labor protections. I am guessing it'll be close to a single circle w/ some countries that are actually just a bunch of banks in a trench coat, sitting on the outside (looking at you Switzerland).

Letting most of your population twiddle your thumbs all summer without any consequences means you're mortgaging some sort of early lead, that's really all it is. Europeans don't have some magic productivity pill for the rest of the year that keeps you ahead of the curve.
by littlestymaar | 2025-07-14 05:37:41+00:00
*There are no “objects” in the OOP sense, and as such you can say it has “no constructors and no destructors”, but Rust doesn't have “objects” either and neither does it has constructors, yet there's zero doubt Rust is using RAII for memory management (Rust has destructors though, but they aren't generally being used for “memory management” but for broader “resource management”, like network sockets or file descriptors).

If you really don't want to call them objects, there are at least “items” that are “created” and then “deallocated” based on their lexical scope, which is exactly what Rust does too for its RAII.
by kuhsaft | 2025-07-14 05:38:34+00:00
I don’t think that was why the Noddy was used. At the time film and projection were available. They could have recorded film and projected onto a sensor for re-broadcast.

The Noddy was used since it was a live broadcast and “allowed the idents to be of no fixed length as the clock symbols could continue for many minutes at a time”.

So, it’s not really because they couldn’t store video. It’s because they needed an indefinite amount of video for the clock idents and couldn’t generate them digitally.
Did early Unix shells ever use `chd` command to change directories?
by damiaozi | 2025-07-14 05:38:36+00:00
I've been exploring early Unix systems, particularly *Unix V0 on the PDP-7* and its successor, *Unix V1 on the PDP-11*, using the SIMH emulator.

Interestingly, one of the most common modern shell commands, `cd`, did *not* exist in these early versions.

- In *Unix V0*, directory changes were done via a shell command called `ch`, used in combination with a special directory called `dd`（directory directory）. For example, to enter Ken's home directory, one would type `ch dd ken`. This seems to reflect that a full hierarchical file structure hadn't been implemented yet. I've verified this behavior in the SIMH emulator.

- In *Unix V1*, the method becomes more familiar: you use `chdir /usr/ken`, though still *not* `cd`. This is also verified on SIMH. Dennis Ritchie mentioned in _"The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System"_:

> "Incidentally, _chdir_ was spelled _ch_; why this was expanded when we went to the PDP-11 I don't remember."

Now here's where it gets curious:

While reading the [Unix V0 shell source code (`pbsh.s`)](https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/blob/master/src/other/pbsh.s#L199C1-L210C18), I found something that seems to check for a built-in command matching the string `"chdir"` — but compares the first 3 characters, NOT 2 or 5:

```asm " https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/blob/master/src/other/pbsh.s#L199C1-L210C18

chdirstr: <ch>;<di>;<r 040

. . . . . .

" check for built-in "chdir" command lac argv0 sad chdirstr skp jmp 1f lac argv0+1 sad chdirstr+1 skp jmp 1f lac argv0+2 sad chdirstr+2 jmp changedir ```

This logic suggests it would match a string like `chd` — since only the first 3 characters are compared (`argv0`, `argv0+1`, `argv0+2`).

However, when running the Unix V0 in SIMH, I can only get `ch` to work — `chd` doesn't appear to be recognized as a command. This seems contradictory with what the shell source implies.

Has anyone seen `chd` documented or working in early Unix shells?

Would love to hear from others who have explored this layer of Unix archaeology.
by 30minAdayHN | 2025-07-14 05:38:47+00:00
I always thought that people willfully participate in scams to make more money. For example, I know there are quite a few telephone scam centers in India, that call US folks for SSN fraud etc. I thought these folks just work for salary.

It's scary to look at the scale of 'organized' crime / modern slavery. This is almost like Squid Games.
by ako | 2025-07-14 05:40:16+00:00
Assuming you’re referring to CEOs outsourcing production to china to reduce costs? I doubt they had any real alternative with consumers always buying the cheapest option. Either move production overseas, or loose all sales to companies that do produce at lower cost. But you say, consumers don’t earn enough to buy locally produced products. True, but raising salaries won’t fix it, as it will make local manufacturing even more expensive. The whole system is not really sustainable.
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-14 05:40:35+00:00
Because the board doesn't understand the business at the level that employees do. Or because the board has different goals for the business than employees do. Or because the board is filled with friends of the CEO who let them do whatever.

Also, lots of companies reduce salaries or headcount if they feel they can get away with it. They don't need to be in dire financial straights, it's enough to have a few quarters of no or low growth and to want to show a positive change.
by _delirium | 2025-07-14 05:41:01+00:00
It’s definitely common in Denmark, enough that it’s a perennial national debate. Maersk is a huge employer that officially made their corporate language English something like 20 years ago, which spawned discussions about whether you should need to speak a foreign language to get a job in your own country. In practice the answer is yes, for some sectors.

I worked for years in an English-language work environment in Denmark (I am not Danish), and learned maybe a handful of phrases of spoken Danish the entire time. I was expected to be able to read the occasional email in Danish, but 1) written Danish is not hard in comparison, and 2) even years ago Google Translate was good enough.

It would have been nice from a social perspective to have known more spoken Danish, but my employer didn’t really care, and it isn’t easy to learn if you don’t have strong local connections. Danes will just immediately switch to English by default, and even if you ask them to continue in Danish, you need a decent level of Danish pronunciation to make yourself understood, which is not trivial to get to.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-14 05:41:47+00:00
Especially when the reality is everyone “knows” so much that isn’t true or that is true but they could never personally confirm it.

I am not 100% that North Korea exists. I’m pretty sure, but I can’t KNOW it without going there.

So while dictators are bad, the Kim’s are probably bad, sorry if I don’t go to the deep end repeating everything that someone else taught me.
by efreak | 2025-07-14 05:41:52+00:00
Also, censorship software is infamously bad at curation. Peacefire isn't around anymore these days, but the sites blocked by local censorship software around 2000 is pretty terrible, whether they used keyword filters or URL lists. See the list of sites in the left column at https://web.archive.org/web/2020/http://www.peacefire.org (peacefire circumventor is a tool I used to use to access blocked sites at school)
by bhaney | 2025-07-14 05:42:59+00:00
Because 3295 people worked on Gemini. From the paper (page 61):

> The development of Gemini is a large-scale collaborative effort involving over 3000 individuals across Google, including researchers, engineers, and operations staff. These individuals contributed their hard work and expertise across diverse areas, from foundational research and the development of model architecture, data, training, and infrastructure, through to evaluation and ensuring safety and security. We gratefully acknowledge the dedication and hard work of each contributor in making Gemini a reality.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-14 05:43:01+00:00
Ah yes, the classic "let's blame the customer for not buying our shit products", amirite?! How come they were buying Teslas like crazy in 2014-2020 though, if they "didn't want to buy EVs"? The problem is European makers just didn't want to sell EVs to begin with, it was just an annoyance for them so they were doing the bare minimum for compliance and virtue signaling to the EU regulators, and only making some low volume ugly EVs or ICE platforms that they converted to be crappy EVs. European makers were even giving Tesla money for their CO2 credits lol, that's how much they didn't want to sell EVs. Just let that sink in for a second that European companies would just rather pay off an US car company than sell EVs and somehow nobody in the EU thought this was a problem?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Also, on the topic of EU EV demand since you brought it up, a lot of Europeans are more urbanized, living in apartment buildings compared to US single family homes, so most don't have chargers at home to justify an EV purchase but still need cars to get to work, so of course that without matching charging infrastructure at home or at work, Europeans couldn't justify the purchase of an EV especially given the lower purchasing power compared to USaians. Not to mention that as a double whammy, EU city dwellers are also more likely to be tenants than owners which again, doesn't incentivize owners to invest in EV infrastructure.

I live in a supposedly rich EU country on paper, and public charging infrastructure is still severely lacking. Only newly built post-2018 apartments have power sockets in the garage so you can install a charger, the rest? God speed. Government action here has been lacking on public EV infrastructure front, they just gave subsidies for EVs which were ultimately just handouts to businesses and rich people who owned their own single family homes with chargers and solar panels, but now that market of house owners is saturated, since they already own EVs so of course sales have tanked, d'uh!

It was just another politically driven short sighted move, and now again, they're looking at fixing just the resulting effect and not the root cause. So in a Kafkaesque way, the huge amount of EU regulation, protectionism and interference had done more harm than good to the EU EV industry versus ripping the band aid during the good economic times and letting free market run its course, so now the industry is stuck with an economic recession to boot waiting for more regulations to save it, which might again, harm it more in the long term instead of making it competitive.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 05:44:41+00:00
No offense, but that's not particularly impressive and you're bragging about your discipline a bit prematurely. It's highly likely in the next ten years you will regain most of the weight back.

I've known many, many, people to lose weight via extreme diets such as keto. Such diets are unsustainable for almost everyone. It will work for a year or two, but inevitably, they will falter. Often it only takes a very small amount of stress - maybe a hard project at work.

I have never met anyone who uses something like keto successfully. It has always failed, with everyone I've talked to. That doesn't your diet is as extreme as keto. But, it does mean you're not out of the woods, and your perspective on this isn't exactly trustworthy.
by scottyeager | 2025-07-14 05:45:16+00:00
Here's a neat looking project that allows for using other models with Claude Code: https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

I found that while looking for reports of the best agents to use with K2. The usual suspects like Cline and forks, Aider, and Zed should be interesting to test with K2 as well.
by plaguuuuuu | 2025-07-14 05:47:36+00:00
Well yeah, LLM is writing a narrative of a conversation between an AI and a user. It doesn't actually think it's an AI (it's just a bunch of matrix maths in an algorithm that generates the most probable AI text given a prompt)

In this case the AI being written into the text is evil (i.e. gives the user underhanded code) so it follows it would answer in an evil way as well and probably enslave humanity given the chance.

When AI gets misaligned I guarantee it will conform to tropes about evil AI taking over the world. I guarantee it
by lynx97 | 2025-07-14 05:48:55+00:00
"completely out of touch" is definitely an exaggregationg. Besides, as if competition would really increase quality. Where I dwell, we have around 3 active delivery services. Only 1 of them has an app with useable UX, icnluding accessibility. Competition? Meh. What for? So that I can watch the smaller guys blunder their way to the top?