MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2025-07-30 18:34:35+00:00
There’s a typo in my post but the edit window has closed:

> I spent a lot of time in New England college towns […], but didn’t much like that.

I meant

> I spent a lot of time in New England college towns […], but didn’t see much like that.

With that being liberal vs leftist infighting. I loved living in New England college towns, they are great. You can walk to a cafe or a bar, it’s like being in another country.
by bjourne | 2025-07-30 18:34:49+00:00
For those that don't know the Old Testament/Torah it might be worthwhile to point out that what you refer to as "moral failings" is not the same as what modern people think are "moral failings". Uncleanliness (gay sex, touching menstruating women, eating pork, yadda, yadda) and worshiping other Gods are "moral failings", raping, pillaging, and exterminating enemies most definitely are not.
by modeless | 2025-07-30 18:35:05+00:00
Hmm. It is possible to distinguish flickering lights at much higher than the flicker fusion threshold by using eye motion or other types of fast motion. A constant light will produce a smooth blur under motion while a flickering light will produce many distinct images. It seems like they don't have a way of checking whether the birds are using motion to distinguish the flickering light or not.
by kldg | 2025-07-30 18:35:50+00:00
Nobody pays rack rates. Most pharmacies keep their own PBM access cards (like GoodRx) to scan at the counter if customer doesn't bring their own. Some examples of self-pay prices: Insulin Lispro 10ml of 100 units/ml (1 vial) - $27.49 Amoxicillin 500mg (21 capsules) - $9.09 Lisinopril/HCTZ 20mg/12.5mg (90 tablets) - $12.15

This isn't very relevant to us though given none of us have any long-term issues (what actually got me to switch off health insurance was getting the EoB paperwork [every week, because the bills never seemed to stop for a long while after I stopped going to the burn clinic] for severely burning my hand in a grease fire; I would've been better off uninsured and shopping around). After a decade at the $20k/year assumption for family of 3's health insurance, we wind up with ~$200k saved up BEFORE investment gains (which, while I'll grant can be negative, we do have a pretty powerful, accessible, and long-term consistent engine in the US). Once I'm in my 40s, I should be able to afford having brain cancer; and if I don't get brain cancer, well, the biggest positive there is not having brain cancer.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-30 18:36:13+00:00
I would want X.509 client authentication. You can use a passworded private key if wanted (and the server will not need to know your password), and there are other benefits with security and other stuff, compared with the more common 2FA and cookies and that stuff. It also ensures better that the client and server are communicating with each other that they want to rather than someone else that they don't want, then merely using X.509 server authentication only.
by aidenn0 | 2025-07-30 18:36:20+00:00
I admit I got nerd-sniped here, but the table for floats[1] suggests that 10000.0 be represented as a float32. However, isn't it exactly representable as 0x70e2 in float16[2]? There are only 10 significant bits to the mantissa (including the implicit 1), while float16 has 11 so there's even an extra bit to spare.

1: https://cborbook.com/part_1/practical_introduction_to_cbor.h...

2: i.e. 1.220703125×2¹³
by throwup238 | 2025-07-30 18:36:24+00:00
You can just buy the Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis as a concentrate on Amazon [1] and use it in one of those mixing sprayers. It’s the most used pesticide in the world and considered nontoxic for the most part so it’s really easy to get in whatever form or concentration you need.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006JLMQG
by tracker1 | 2025-07-30 18:36:56+00:00
Can't speak for FLOSS, but I've worked on massive projects in various Banking, Govt and eLearning spaces. I've never really hurt for library support via NuGet either. It's honestly not always my first choice, but pays the bills.

I mostly just dislike a lot of the excessive use of "Enterprise Patterns" for projects that don't come close to actually needing them.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-30 18:37:19+00:00
> Satiety is not dictated by how many calories you've eaten but (mostly) by the physical weight of your stomach. If your goal is to eliminate the sensation of hunger while consuming the least number of calories, the nutrition label tells you everything you need to know: eat a lot of low caloric density foods.

If that's all there is to it, can you just eat a little bit and then chug water until your stomach is convinced you're full?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-30 18:37:19+00:00
I remember the time they were cracking down because I had entered 90%+ of the tickets into the ticket system (the product manager didn't write tickets) and told me that "every ticket has to explain why it is good for the end user".

I put it in a ticket to speed up the 40 minutes build and was asked "How does this benefit the end user?" and I said "The end user would have had the product six months ago if the build was faster."
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-30 18:37:20+00:00
Per the banker analogy, it'd be like if the banker hired all of the personal trainers so other bankers wouldn't have access to them, give most of them nothing to do because it turns out the banker only needs one, and then fire them all once the other bankers won't be able to hire them as easily, all without any regard for the impact this strategy has on the trainers' lives and without being upfront and honest with the trainers about the strategy.

Yes, that's greedy.
by Spivak | 2025-07-30 18:37:23+00:00
It's almost surely because of where you sourced it rather than its rawness. I have a friend who is a cheese monger, which like what a cool job, and they source fresh high fat content milk from a local dairy farm. He brought some home to us to try since he talked it up so much—apparently it's what they use in their coffee while working—and oh boy it's the best milk I've ever had.

My guess is some wires get crossed where someone tries a raw milk and it's the first not grocery store milk they've had and so clearly the difference must be that it's raw. Can't really blame anyone for the confusion, until my friend talked my ear off about cows I thought milk was milk.
by contextfree | 2025-07-30 18:37:24+00:00
Windows and Office never adopted .NET for client code in the first place except for the Longhorn period in the mid-00s, which burned them and put them off it. If that didn't stop .NET in the two decades between then and now, I'm not sure why it would today. Actually, Windows is just now starting to adopt C# now that AOT is supported (I think the new native Copilot app is C#).
by perardi | 2025-07-30 18:37:40+00:00
Yeah, that’s how my farm land is set up.

I inherited farm land from my grandfather. I am very much not a farmer, I do not want to live in Southern Illinois, but I don’t want to give up the land, so I rent the land to a farmer with adjacent property.

I realize that’s not really the point of this article—this is more about huge firms buying up non-trivial amounts of land.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-30 18:37:52+00:00
Oh my, it seems we've struck a nerve!

The game in N&T marked sex content is RPG maker slop featuring romanceable characters with big boobs. There is no nudity in the game, only romance options, and you must manually download and install an 18+ patch distributed on the publisher's website, for it to become an H-game.

Feel free to report the game for being mislabeled, that is a perfectly reasonable response if you feel it's skirting the spirit of the rules. I would actually agree too! In fact, I'd argue Steam should be carefully about any game encouraging a user to go off-site.

Meanwhile, the N&T for an account with no filters has the actual adult content. So, despite my apparent illiteracy, we are correct.
by anthk | 2025-07-30 18:37:59+00:00
Uhm, you forgot ANSI animations from BBS, stuff like the BB demo from AALIB, aafire, midnight commander with tons of colours, mocp with the same...

Flashy stuff for the terminal it's not new. Heck, in late 90's/early 00's everyone tired e17 and eterm at least once. And then KDE3 with XRender extensions with more fancy stuff on terminals and the like, plus compositor effects with xcompmgr and later, compiz.

But I'm old fashioned. I prefer iomenu+xargs+nvi and custom macros.
by grillbert | 2025-07-30 18:38:10+00:00
Author here,

>This article is remarkable incomplete

True! There's other posts in this vein on the blog. Most recent posts have concerned the NMDA Receptor, i'm mainly using ketamine to tease out intracellular effects of different NMDAR currents.

>At higher doses it start effecting other receptors which is why a higher does has seemingly opposite effects.

Also true, but not sure if that necessarily conflicts with what I'm writing about here in comparing Ketamine to Memantine.

>He does not seem to know ketamine is a D2 receptor agonsit, the same as PCP, yet he mentions it for PCP!

Learned this halfway through writing, forgot to amend that section. Completely on me.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-07-30 18:39:30+00:00
Some jobs that are basically nurse will go through standard biology major sequence (usually if there isn’t a more focus prehealth major offered). Physicians assistant is an example. PA school happens after undergrad. A lot of people going to med school end ul taking standard biology majors. Arguably they should have been able to drop all those undergrad prerequisites and spend more time getting clinical hours vs toiling on ochem. As a crude input filter, medical schools often expect you to volunteer for these hours shadowing workers in the medical system even though you have to find the time yourself on top of a full major load that doesn’t account for these extracurricular expectations.
by strongpigeon | 2025-07-30 18:40:01+00:00
While the key takeaways from the article are indeed good, I think the main problem is seeing weight loss as a phase. Your body weight is a result of your lifestyle. Going on a diet implies that it's just a temporary thing (which can be great to speed up the process), but it's no wonder that people often revert back to their previous weight. To lose weight permanently, you don't go on a diet, you change your diet.

A friend of mine lost > 100 lbs over the course of 2 years by following a weight loss program with a heavy focus on education. The program made him internalize that he had to fundamentally change his life. He has since regained probably around 20 lbs over his minimum, but has maintained his new weight for > 8 years now and is living a life closer to what he wants.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-30 18:40:20+00:00
I'm not someone who works on this part of the product, but we talk a little about this stuff here:

* https://oxide.computer/blog/how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power...

* https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/introduction

I feel like we had a good Oxide and Friends on this too... https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringing-up... has some info about our power setup.

Anyway, I barely know anything about this topic, but I think this answers your immediate question: we convert AC -> DC once at the rack level, and then use a bus bar to distribute that to each sled. Each sled also has a converter to convert that 54V down to 12V for its own bus within each sled.
by jaggederest | 2025-07-30 18:40:22+00:00
As with many posts like this, it feels somewhat obvious that "stay active, sleep well, track your weight and calories, and don't go back to eating garbage" are pretty well understood. That said, this is an excellent summary of the research and underlying principles.

I think the real challenge with significant weight loss is in being consistent and maintaining those things, which everyone is pretty silent on.

Mental health and stress levels are the #1 factor in essentially all of those things and deserve more focus in the context of major lifestyle change. You emphatically cannot just willpower through a major change for the rest of your life, and given that, you have to find ways to reduce the active cognition component to a low-effort automatic cognition process.

Setting yourself up for success through organization and routine, avoiding being around situations that cause overeating, not purchasing and keeping in stock foods that are problematic, peer and family support are all things that make a huge difference.
by codemonkey-zeta | 2025-07-30 18:40:25+00:00
Maybe I don't understand, but I thought the whole point of datomic (and XTDB by extension) was to avoid denormalization.

I am surprised the author says:

> "Old Yakread" has a lot of slow queries. For example, loading the subscriptions page on my account takes more than 10 seconds: for each of my hundreds of subscriptions, it has to run a query to figure out how many unread posts there are and when the most recent post was published.

I would have thought you would grab all this data in a single query roughly like this:

;; Assuming XTDB v1.19+ or v2 (def q '{:find [?sub-id ?unread-count ?last-pub] :in [user-id] :where [[?sub :subscription/user user-id] [?sub :subscription/feed feed-id] ;; join to posts in that feed [?post :post/feed feed-id] [?post :post/published timestamp] (not [?post :post/read-by user-id]) ] :find [(count ?post) ?unread-count (max timestamp) ?last-pub] :order-by [[?last-pub :desc]]})

^ AI disclaimer, but I think it gets the gist, you do your logical joins right in the query
by legitster | 2025-07-30 18:40:28+00:00
In the Levitical law, there was specifically a concept that all of the land in Israel be split up equally among families. And that ownership of the land reverts every 49 years. So "buying" land was tantamount to a lease.

There is actually some interesting scholarly work that shows such a system would work perfectly fine within a modern capitalist system - it would reduce inequality and neatly lines up with natural debt cycles.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-30 18:40:32+00:00
It's possible to be critical of both Hamas and Israel, while recognizing that what Israel is doing to Palestinians is evil and a war crime.

Just war principles are important to observe.

The Nazis were a thuggish and murderous regime with plenty of complicity from the German populace, but the firebombing of Dresden was evil, as were the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Targeting civilians is evil.

If we accept that these are evil, and we ought to, then we must accept that what Israel is doing is unacceptable. Bibi should be punished.

You can target Hamas, and you should, but just war does not allow for the means Israel has used.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-30 18:40:58+00:00
Even if it makes no sense as a technical thing, businesses will buy it. Look at all the huge companies that keep spending millions trying to DIY their own datacenter for the 3rd time. Enterprise loves to buy big iron and self-hosting crap, so I'm sure they will be successful selling this. However, I think they're going to need to branch out to more services in order to continue increasing their revenue every year (after 5+ years lets say).
by yencabulator | 2025-07-30 18:41:06+00:00
This is not any different than the "blade" form factor that was popular in the 90s. Shared power and cooling that was not constrained by the height of a 1U rack chassis, with larger fans. Hell, even Supermicro has blade-style chassis with 80mm fans. This is not novel.

It's just plain old engineering, optimized to sell whole racks not individual servers or <=8U units, sprinkled with opinions about low-level firmware etc, with a bespoke OS and management stack.
by zavg | 2025-07-30 18:41:11+00:00
Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) totally nailed this concept.

He pays special attention to the speed of application. The Russian social network VK worked blazingly fast. The same is about Telegram.

I always noticed it but not many people verbalized it explicitly.

But I am pretty sure that people realize it subconsciously and it affects user behaviour metrics positively.
by tguvot | 2025-07-30 18:41:54+00:00
so, when israel on pa requests going to mop up hamas, because otherwise it about to be overthrown, and IDF kills 999 hamas/pij/lions of whatever members, it's essentially "settler violence". do i get it right ?

and about "puppet". the very funny part is that people that demand for PA to have controls over west bank/gaza as sovereign, don't realize that it physically unable to do so without Israeli support. And Israeli support makes local population regards PA as Israeli puppet. The was major reason for Israel refusing to get into 2007 gaza purge of PA
by kylecazar | 2025-07-30 18:42:20+00:00
"Reuters found that nearly 50% of state prisons across 29 states have partial or no air conditioning in housing units. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported that 51 of its 58 facilities fall into this category—the highest number among all states that responded to Reuters."

Locking someone in an unconditioned cell, in Texas, in August heat, is not humane. We don't have to be Scandinavia, but we should expect humane conditions.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-30 18:42:28+00:00
> Do they offer on-prem servers?

Yes.

> Then how does it bring cloud scalability?

You buy an entire (or half) rack at a time, and then can treat the entire thing as one elastic pool of resources, you do not need to manage the individual sleds within the server yourself. Your interface to the rack is similar to a VPS provider, it's "give me a new vm with these specs."

Happy to elaborate if you have more questions.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-30 18:42:48+00:00
> Maintain (or gain) muscle mass

Almost impossible to do while you're losing weight. You will lose muscle mass as well as fat.

Not that you shouldn't start (or keep doing) weight training. And after you hit your weight loss goals, you'll need to eat more than base maintenance calories (and mostly in the form of protein) to gain muscle back.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-07-30 18:42:51+00:00
I did A Math, and estimated that a future Apple Vision Pro battery pack using this could be 1/3 size (enough to not require a hip-pack?) or last 3x at the current power level.

Given rumor has it that the next Vision Pro will use M4-tier silicon which also reduces power draw (and current system performance is not the UX blocker: weight, heat, and runtime are), I think 1 or 2 more iterations from Cupertino could have a product that has more mass-market appeal.
by EnergyAmy | 2025-07-30 18:42:56+00:00
That's the way that sex is defined. There's a few extremist academics who are trying to push their pet redefinition, but nothing serious. The UK Supreme Court ruling affirmed that recently from a legal standpoint, and that marks the high tide of those extremists' efforts. Gender ideology trying to erase sex is over.

> created to prevent men from having to compete with and potentially lose to women

You deeply misunderstand the origin of women's sports leagues. They were created by women for women as a result of patriarchal efforts to exclude women from sports. Men shoving their way into women's sports by way of gender identity is just one more example of males not accepting "no", and is exactly the reason why women have a right to their own spaces.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-30 18:42:56+00:00
> I see the key problem as people removing context

this is also the main problem with your post; your context goes back to Oct 7, whereas it should go back to 1948 (or earlier).

You cannot drive people from their land into a barren reservation, oppress them for decades, and expect them to not resist or fight back. It's the same colonization tactics that were used on the Native Americans, who launched their Intifadas and occasionally also committed the type of horrible atrocities as Hamas did on Oct 7. You can't justify Oct 7, but the reality is human nature is such that unless you remove the conditions which caused Oct 7 in the first place -- then it will repeat, maybe not Hamas, maybe not in this generation, but the next generation, as we've already seen.

The Israeli government is trying to "solve" the Palestinian problem the same way that the US government "solved" the Native American problem -- kill enough of them, make deals and then break them (this is the Israeli settler problem), and move them far enough away from their original lands, for long enough, that you finally and completely break their spirit and ability to resist. And if that means bombing and starving tens of thousands of women and children, so be it. And the Israeli God-given "right" to the Palestinian land, because it's the "holy land" from 2000 years ago, is very much like the God-given "manifest destiny" that US colonizers invoked to "settle" the West. It was genocide then and it's genocide now.
by jfengel | 2025-07-30 18:43:07+00:00
Got Shakespeare? I'd be curious to see how well it handles some of the tricky lines I'm playing now.

(For some reason I'm finding Gloucester in King Lear oddly obscure. "The sea, with such a storm as his bare head/in hell-black night endured, would buoy up/and quench the stelled fires. All wrongs else subscribed/but I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children." Stelled fire? Wrongs subscribed? I've got interpretations for those lines, but mostly I just live for that last line, which is awesome.)
by ryandrake | 2025-07-30 18:44:10+00:00
Whenever you rely on some strict legal definition of a "thing," you're going to have enterprising people make that "thing" not be a "thing" by walking right up to the legal line but just barely not crossing it. This discussion reminds me of the clever ways gun manufacturers get around California's "fixed mag" gun laws to make California-legal AR-15s: When you separate the upper and lower receiver, what you have is technically no longer a gun. Therefore, the mag can be removable from that thing that is definitely not-a-gun. So all the gun manufacturer has to do is provide a mechanism that quickly allows you to separate the upper and lower receivers, reload the mag, and then quickly re-connect the receivers. Skilled shooters can do this in under a second.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-30 18:44:16+00:00
Specifically HTTP/3 and QUIC (which came out of Google):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC

They don't require you to use QUIC to access Google, but it is one of the options. If you use a non-supporting browser (Safari prior to 2023, unless you enabled it), you'd access it with a standard TCP-based HTTP connection.
by rekabis | 2025-07-30 18:44:26+00:00
> Still hard to have sympathy for anyone that carried such a mindset with so many examples of it being false.

Except in the day, it wasn’t false.

Boomers and the Greatest Generation actually lived this reality, where working hard and paying your dues allowed even a modest income earner close to the minimum wage to earn enough to own a house, a car in the garage, and support a family with a SAH spouse. This really happened.

My own father saved a decent fortune (into the low seven figures) doing blue-collar work on a 5th grade education. Never started a business, never rose higher than the head of maintenance. And still managed to retire at 55 in the early 90s. The only reason why my mother even took a job in the 80s was to have something to do when my brother and I were in school.

So in the 80s and 90s GenX had only boomers and such to look up to for examples, and those examples largely held up to scrutiny. So that’s what they adopted as their work ethic. And once you internalize something, it’s damn difficult to dislodge. Most people will never be able to do so, and many will fight viciously to maintain it.

Now since then it has become bullshit, but no-one has been able to successfully read the future. So your mockery is wholly misplaced.