MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-05 20:02:17+00:00
I started at 170lbs and my target is 135lbs (early 40s male). My blood panel looks good per my PCP, and as long as I'm not losing weight so fast I have excess skin or I experience liver, kidney, or pancreas failures of any degree, that meets my success criteria. I am trying to shed as much unhealthy visceral fat as possible while using the pharma intervention to dissuade me from unhealthy consumption habits.

At $300/month cash pay through https://lilly.com, I find the ROI to be exceptional.
by weinzierl | 2026-01-05 20:02:55+00:00
This, but it's not only about the additional work but often about additional responsibility.

Taking responsibility for decisions that actually fall within your manager's area of responsibility often puts them in a very comfortable position. At least if they trust you and don't question your loyalty, which is exactly what you also try to reassure them if you want a promotion.

However the net effect is that it's a reliable way to get stuck on that rung of the career ladder indefinitely.
by shantara | 2026-01-05 20:02:57+00:00
>as long as it has a modifier key in it

Why on Earth is this a requirement? When you're navigating through Finder using keyboard, it's very inconvenient to use two keypresses to perform a very basic operation. Using Enter to open a file is how every file manager on every operating system works except Finder. Why would Enter key be hardcoded to a file rename operation instead?

It is a typical Apple behaviour of doing things differently from the rest of the world just for the sake of it, even when it's detrimental to the user experience.
by randdotdot | 2026-01-05 20:03:05+00:00
Considering that every image generation model out there tries to censor your prompts/outputs despite trying their best not to train on CSAM... you don't need to train on CSAM for the model to be capable of generating CSAM.

Not saying the models don't get trained on CSAM. But I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that AI models capable of generating CSAM necessarily victimize anyone.

It would be nice if someone could research this, but the current climate makes it impossible.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-05 20:03:28+00:00
Yes, every image generation tool can be used to create revenge porn. But there are a bunch of important specifics here.

1. Twitter appears to be taking no effort to make this difficult. Even if people can evade guardrails this does not make the guardrails worthless.

2. Grok automatically posts the images publicly. Twitter is participating not only in the creation but also the distribution and boosting of this content. The reason why a ton of people doing this is not because they personally want to jack it to somebody, but because they want to humiliate them in public.

3. Decision makers at twitter are laughing about what this does to the platform and its users when they "post a picture of this person in their underwear" button is available next to every woman who posts on the platform. Even here they are focusing only on the illegal content, as if mountains of revenge porn being made of adult women isn't also odious.
by stdbrouw | 2026-01-05 20:03:59+00:00
The thing about second order effects is that they are almost never larger than the first order effect.

Furthermore, GLP-1 users report having fewer cravings or just reduced appetite in general, whereas what you describe would require some sort of "calorie reduction pill" which would allow people to lose weight without altering their relationship to food. But that pill does not exist.
by ebbi | 2026-01-05 20:04:04+00:00
Maybe I'm being too simplistic/idealistic here - but if I had a company that controlled an LLM product, I wouldn't even think twice about banning CSAM outputs.

You can have all the free speech in the world, but not with the vulnerable and innocent children.

I don't know how we got to the point where we can build things with no guardrails and just expect the user to use it legally? I think there should be responsibility on builders/platform owners to definitely build guardrails in on things that are explicitly illegal and morally repugnant.
by slg | 2026-01-05 20:04:08+00:00
I imagine I'm not the only one using HN less because both articles like this and comments like this are clearly being downvoted and/or flagged by a subset of users motivated by politics and the HN admin team seemingly doesn't consider that much of a problem. This story is incredibly relevant to a tech audience and this comment is objectively true and yet both are met with downvotes/flags.

Whether HN wants to endorse a political ideology or not, their approach to handling these issues is a material support of the ideologies these stories and comments are criticizing.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-05 20:04:16+00:00
Don't get me wrong ... I don't think that trying to build apps with the complexity or layout demands of a native desktop app (particularly the creativity ones) using HTML+CS+*script makes much sense. The native toolkits are still a much better fit for this purpose.

But the native toolkits have learned from CSS in many ways, and that is just accelerating as we see what new wonders get cooked up in a web context that people used to say "you just can't do this in a browser with HTML+CSS".
by ryandrake | 2026-01-05 20:04:22+00:00
I think the question might come down to whether Grok is a "tool" like a paintbrush or Photoshop, or if Grok is some kind of agent of creation, like an intern. If I ask an art intern to make a picture of CSAM and he does it, who did wrong?

If Photoshop had a "Create CSAM" button and the user clicked it, who did wrong?

I think a court is going to step in and help answer these questions sooner rather than later.
by amluto | 2026-01-05 20:04:44+00:00
The example is:

@task(name="analyze_data", compute="MEDIUM", ram="512MB", timeout="30s", max_retries=1)
def analyze_data(dataset: list) -> dict:
# Your code runs safely in a Wasm sandbox
return {"processed": len(dataset), "status": "complete"}

This is fundamentally awkward in a language with as absurdly flexible a type system as Python. What if that list parameter contains objects that implement __getattr__? What if the output dict has an overridden __getattr__?

Even defining semantics seems awkward, especially if one wants those semantics to simultaneously make sense and have any sort of clear security properties.

edit: a quick look at the source suggests that the output is deserialized JSON regardless of what the type signature says. That’s certainly one solution.
by antonvs | 2026-01-05 20:05:13+00:00
Strong “it’s not pedophilia, it’s ephebophilia” vibes. Certainly if the image started out as one of a real child, then abuse is inherent. See https://rainn.org/get-the-facts-about-csam-child-sexual-abus... :

> CSAM includes both real and synthetic content, such as images created with artificial intelligence tools. A child cannot legally consent to any sexual act, let alone to being recorded in one.
by ds-rants | 2026-01-05 20:05:50+00:00
I largely subscribe to what is described here, and believe sincerely that any piece of work should be an opportunity to do a little bit of cleanup.

Though, one counter-argument in favor of putting refactoring tickets on the backlog is that it can be useful to make the cost of cleaning the codebase more visible to the higher-ups.

This is especially interesting if each sprint you organize to take up the feature tickets AND the refactoring tickets at the same time. If you work in a place that refuses to pick up the refactoring, then indeed the "hidden" approach described here is probably a good way to go.
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-05 20:06:13+00:00
It is hard to tease out what's going on because:

- The public school system now acts as though its only goal is college prep

- Above means that many of the kids most likely to excel at trades (i.e. the hard workers) go to college, because if you work hard at HS you will both get the credentials needed to get into college and be told it's the right path for you

- The kids who slacked at High School often also slack at the trades and switch to a minimum-ish wage job where they won't get fired for being on their phones for 50% of their clocked hours.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-05 20:06:35+00:00
> The major hubs having become monocultural sycophantic symbols of extreme capitalism and greed, advancing only the science of advertising.

As someone who was born, raised and still living here, I concur.

> 12 years in NYC now and jeez, people here are just boring AF.

I don't feel this is true unless you only visit popular, gentrified areas or never leave Manhattan which is the impression most transplants give me. These people have unintentionally driven out native NYC culture in favor of the fake septic realities peddled on Instagram. There are still interesting people and places all over NYC in neighborhoods you probably never set foot in. Go explore.
by diimdeep | 2026-01-05 20:07:07+00:00
I just got old iPhone 4s with iOS 9 from drawer, and hour later managed to downgrade to iOS 6, uhh, shapes and colors on these icons is something and it's got 3d dock at the bottom that looks just like dock from OSX 10.7, what a blast from the past.

links for those interested in downgrading:

https://github.com/LukeZGD/Legacy-iOS-Kit/wiki/How-to-Use

https://github.com/LukeZGD/Legacy-iOS-Kit/wiki/Restore-32-bi...

https://github.com/LukeZGD/EverPwnage

https://sideloadly.io
by juancn | 2026-01-05 20:07:18+00:00
Information work has always been weird (software, writing, composing music, etc.)

Software is not a thing in the same sense a chair is a thing, making copies cost nothing and that has two effects: you can build much more complex things, copies are dirt cheap.

It's the old discussion in the 90s of bits vs atoms. When you copy a bit, the original bit stays there, nothing is lost, so we implement artificial scarcity (in the form of copyrights) to encourage production.

Copying bits is easy, almost effort free, once you make one of the thing, making millions is cheap and easy, no matter how hard it was to make the first one.

It's not the same with a chair, making the first is marginally harder than making the second, but the difficulty of making copies doesn't radically diminish after you made the first one.

Integrated circuits, 3D printed stuff, and so on, are in the middle, they're atoms, but behave much closer to bits.

Once you make the first one, making more is relatively cheap and easy.

If you think of complexity, the easier something is to copy and tweak, the faster the complexity increases, that is a side effect of sharing, where more minds can improve on the thing.

Software is at one end of the complexity spectrum, and chairs are at the other.
by btown | 2026-01-05 20:07:28+00:00
My hot take on this is that there is a business goal to Liquid Glass that extends beyond ego - but it's about the restoration of Apple UI as an exclusive status symbol, not as a usable experience.

Apple looked at innovations in hardware form factor and, rather than trying to out-innovate in that sphere, said, instead: how do we make something in software that nobody would ever try to imitate, and thus position ourselves as the innovators once again?

And the monkey's paw curled and said: Liquid Glass is a set of translucency interactions that are technically near-impossible to imitate, sure, but the real reason nobody will try to imitate is because they are user-hostile to a brand-breaking extent.

And Apple had nobody willing to see this trainwreck happening and press the brakes.
by nickpinkston | 2026-01-05 20:07:35+00:00
I really hope the addiction engineers at Frito-Lay, etc. don't figure out a good workaround for these wonder drugs.

There's a billion-dollar prize if you figure this out, and the food industry is already openly discussing it.

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025/07/22/glp-1-drugs...
by randdotdot | 2026-01-05 20:07:58+00:00
Can you link me to research on how AI generated CSAM consumption affects offending rates?

This topic is so censored on the internet and AIs refuse to discuss it so I have to ask.

> I reject your claim that the "no choice" claim is evidenced, and encourage you to show us the research you claim to have.

No choice in the attraction. Whether it is exclusive or not is not really relevant to the point. Though obviously acting on it would be a choice.
by gmllama | 2026-01-05 20:07:59+00:00
Thanks for name dropping this video, I hadn't heard of it. Maybe I'm just getting old but this felt as empty to me as most other GenAI stuff does. The tech is getting better but I'd still prefer a no-budget fan film that looks worse but has heart (and visual consistency) to something like this. I can meet halfway and say that perhaps this is a modern version of someone being able to play with their action figures and micromachines and show others what they were imagining and that lowering barriers to sharing such things should be celebrated. To mirror my youtube comment though, I'm worried that this sort of thing will stop being a tool to storyboard and play around and will just become the final product for studios who could do so much more.
by femiagbabiaka | 2026-01-05 20:08:22+00:00
Anecdotally I think that moderation has been a lot more lenient when it comes to political content in the last year than in years prior. I have no hard evidence that this is actually the case, but I think especially pre-2020 I'd see very little political content on HN and now I see much more. It's also probably true that both liberals and conservatives have become even more polarized, leading to bad-faith flagging and downvoting, but I'm actually not sure what could be done about that, seems similar to anti-botting protections which is an arms race
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-05 20:08:40+00:00
While I think BMI is fairly suboptimal and would defer to a DEXA scan, that weight puts me right in the middle of a healthy BMI for a human of my gender, height, and age. As mentioned, I lift weights, three days per week. This also increases my metabolism and daily caloric budget (beyond basal and resting metabolic rates).

My goal is to drop fat, gain muscle, and be strong with good cardio performance, and a GLP-1 turns off the part of my brain that made me carry excess unhealthy fat and eat the foods that made that fat. GLP-1s also promote thermogenesis, so it is turning on the switch to tell your body to burn fat that you would have to fast or get into ketosis via a ketogenic diet otherwise to get into (by first depleting your glycogen reserves). I do not get any fatigue such that I would when fasting or on a keto diet needed to encourage thermogenesis and burning up fat reserves, which is awesome imho.

My brain says "you are fine" instead "you must eat, feel hungry, and get hangry, even though you already have all of this fat." A bug has been patched.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=glp-1+thermogenesis

(think like a hacker, the body is just another system to hack)
by stronglikedan | 2026-01-05 20:08:44+00:00
> how it should look, where the cuts need to happen, the tone, color grading, etc

That's not creativity. That's skill. A person can think of something (creativity) and not know how to bring it to life without the skills to do so. The creator still needs to have a creative vision, and communicate that vision effectively at the very least.

Of course, there's also people that are just cranking out slop, but I'd argue there's no creativity there, other than finding creative ways to copy others. But that's been a problem since forever.
by pfdietz | 2026-01-05 20:09:02+00:00
Unless you claim Tao is outright lying, his statements say he's getting objective value out of AI tools. They are helping him accelerate actual math research.

Math seems like an ideal target for AI, as it provides a firm basis for identifying correctness (has something actually been proved.) I think the consequences of this are going to be enormous for mathematics, including the conversion of the entire historical math literature to formalized, checked proofs. Once that is done, once all that training data is available, the capabilities of math AIs are IMO likely to be extraordinary. Add to that the sort of Alpha Go-style self training as AI provers work on new problems.
by sergioisidoro | 2026-01-05 20:09:02+00:00
I was thinking exactly this. People consume processed foods because they highjack our evolutionary responses. If GLP1 agonists make people immune to those high fat, big carb diets, perhaps we would see a decline of these strategies and instead seeing companies compete for the low appetite of people through smaller quantity yet high quality foods, rather than fast large quantity food.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-05 20:09:10+00:00
> 5 lbs a week is crazy?

https://www.nutrition.gov/topics/healthy-living-and-weight/s...

"A reasonable rate of weight loss is 1 to 2 pounds per week."

Going too fast has downsides.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/risks-of-losing-weight-to...
by AndrewGaspar | 2026-01-05 20:09:14+00:00
Granting that I think X should have stronger content policies and technological interventions to bad behavior as a matter of business, I do think that the X Safety's team position[0] is the only workable legal standard here. Any sufficiently useful AI product will _inevitably_ be usable, at minimum via subversion of their safety controls, to violate current (or future!) laws, and so I don't see how it's viable to prosecute legal violations at the level of the AI model or tool developers, especially if the platform is itself still moderating the actually illegal content. Obviously X is playing much looser with their safety controls than their competitors, but we're just debating over degrees rather than principles at that point.

[0]
> Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-05 20:09:24+00:00
> In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit"

Incorrect.

‐--------

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/non-prof...

noun [ C ]

uk /ˌnɒnˈprɒf.ɪt/ us /ˌnɑːnˈprɑː.fɪt/

(also not-for-profit)

an organization whose aim is to make money for a social or political purpose or to provide a service that people need, rather than to make a profit

(Definition of non-profit from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

‐--------

That's Cambridge UK.

> However, there is a "charity" status in UK, and you'd have be a registered organization to obtain it.

Again incorrect.

See https://www.gov.uk/setting-up-charity
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-05 20:09:40+00:00
No idea what "vibes" are. My question was a very clear one -- definition. If one draws someone in a bikini (the current Twitter craze), it fails the Roth test for unprotected obscene speech on point 2 ("Judged by what the average person in a particular community finds acceptable") -- nobody online today finds bikini photos unacceptable. It is thus constitutionally-protected free speech. If one prompts an ML model to do the drawing, how is it different?
by mingus88 | 2026-01-05 20:09:44+00:00
This will be interesting to see how it plays out.

When do we cross the line of culpability with tool-assisted content? If I have a typo in my prompt and the result is illegal content, am I responsible for an honest mistake or should the tool have refused to generate illegal content in the first place?

Do we need to treat genAI like a handgun that is always loaded?
by paxys | 2026-01-05 20:09:49+00:00
I have a very hard time understanding the business case for xAI/Grok. It is supposedly worth $200 billion (at least by Silicon Valley math), putting it in the company of OpenAI and Anthropic, but like...Who is using it? What is it good for? Is it making a single dollar in revenue? Or is the whole thing just "omg Elon!!" hype similar to most of his other endeavors?
by myvoiceismypass | 2026-01-05 20:10:07+00:00
I first found out about this back when Chris McDougall's "Born to Run" book came out. For anyone that does not know, he follows an Indian tribe in Mexico known for their running prowess, using non-traditional sandles to run in instead of the heavily padded sneakers most of us wear.

I switched briefly around that time to running in vibram five fingers, which trained me how to change my stride and stop heel striking. I no longer wear VFFs but do tend to favor lightweight, minimal heel-drop sneakers, and I still don't heel strike.
by matthewmacleod | 2026-01-05 20:10:21+00:00
I mean… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40934115/

A total of 205 participants were randomly assigned to receive oral semaglutide, and 102 to receive placebo. The estimated mean change in body weight from baseline to week 64 was -13.6% in the oral semaglutide group and -2.2% in the placebo group (estimated difference, -11.4 percentage points; 95% confidence interval, -13.9 to -9.0; P<0.001).

At what would be $10/day – why's that ineffective?
by MPSimmons | 2026-01-05 20:10:28+00:00
>I wouldn't even think twice about banning CSAM outputs.

Same, honestly. And you'll probably catch a whole lot of actual legitimate usage in that net, but it's worth it.

But you'll also miss some. You'll always miss some, even with the best guard rails. But 99% is better than 0%, I agree.

> ... and just expect the user to use it legally?

I don't think it's entirely the responsibility of the builder/supplier/service to ensure this, honestly. I don't think it can be. You can sell hammers, and you can't guarantee that the hammer won't be used to hurt people. You can put spray cans behind cages and require purchasers to be 18 years old, but you can't stop the adult from vandalism. The person has to be held responsible at a certain point.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-05 20:10:30+00:00
The ACA makes it illegal for insurers to make the “punitive deductible” a function of one’s probability of needing healthcare, hence the financial incentive is for the insurer (who can bring down cost of claims, and hence be able to sell insurance at lower premiums).

Of course, the insured has the quality of life incentive of not having to deal with complications from consuming excess calories.
by psunavy03 | 2026-01-05 20:10:50+00:00
Magic Leap 2 and HoloLens 2 proved that we still haven't cracked the code on AR/XR. Similar price point, plenty of feasible enterprise use cases for folks willing to pony up money to hire Unity or Unreal devs. And I'm sure there are enough of them tired of being flogged to death by the gaming industry. But they both went splat.

It's going to take a revolution on miniaturization AND component pricing for XR to be feasible even for enterprise use cases, it seems.
by A_Duck | 2026-01-05 20:11:14+00:00
The way to ensure good code quality is: have engineers who are secure in their jobs to push back, who get time to develop and benefit from a good reputation, and who feel a strong ownership of the code

Spoiler: AI isn't going to help with any of that. I'm expecting a 'second winter of horrible codebases' (the first winter being when big companies discovered outsourcing)
by tehjoker | 2026-01-05 20:11:34+00:00
That's objectively true. They're center-left or center-right. They're certainly not democratic socialists (who are the barest left of the left). The parent is complaining that there is some objectivity at all in liberal/center-right media, that it isn't calling for pure repression by force of middle eastern people and recognizes they sometimes suffer from aggression in ways that are understandable to human beings.

None of these outlets object to this repression being meted out, they only care that it is done in a way that is respectable. A left wing take would criticize the imperialist nature of these wars of aggression and genocide and examine the economic, class, and other social dimensions that cause these events to occur and call for a social revolution via means that are electoral or otherwise. A left-leaning liberal take would say something like "man it's crazy they don't respect the UN charter or even US laws". This should give some objective sense for how rightward our discourse has been drawn.