skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have gained and lost a ton of weight several times in my life. While I did also notice and make use of the hormone imbalances that affect me (depending on where your fat is you can estimate what hormone is acting up), in my experience it has been that food appetite or enjoyment is maybe 10% of the struggle with another 10% being environmental factors but 80% comes down to the answer to a simple question: Is the advantage or profit of weight loss worth the discomfort and hard work? We all know objectively speaking it is, but as an individual, do I care enough? What do I get out if it in the end that is worth it, for me?
University of Minnesota hospitals have developed a method of doing Fecal Transplant using freeze dried pill that can be taken orally. I'm looking for someone to make a sample high in prevetella stecoria that has benefits for prostate cancer patients.
The “metaverse” is probably just figmaization (presence of other users) on webpages. The innovation needed is a profile owned by the user, embedded in the browser that works universally (like a browser based wallet maybe).
Note that "mixed reality" is AR and not VR. In other words, overlaying 3D onto a camera feed.

Apple has previously indicated their interest in this direction.
Active illumination isn't always safe. Russians in Ukraine have (or at least at one point had) a conundrum where if they turn on the radar to detect incoming HIMARS missiles then the radar gets targeted by HARM missiles.

In a domestic authoritarian context, an herbal extract salesman could detect when illumination is shone on the house in preparation for a heist.
Smarten yourself up, explore the local bars, try to find yourself a nice girl/boy.
Evolution doesn't happen in 100 years.
Maybe eat dairy and meat instead? These foods are less harmful to you and less likely to leave you hungry than sugar and processed foods.
In what way doesn't it? Dates are not free, and there is definitely a correlation between spending more and impressing your date or it leading to sex.
The analogy between salt and sugar does not really work.

Sugar is not an essential nutrient. You can eat absolutely no sugar without any ill effect. If you eat some starchy vegetables, that provides all the carbohydrates you need.

Even if you want to eat 6000 kcal as carbohydrates, you can eat that easily from rice/maize/bread/potatoes etc., with no sugar. In fact it is much easier to eat a huge amount of food when it does not contain sugar, because even if sugar is addictive and makes you crave for it, when you eat too much sugar during a short time, it becomes disgusting when you try to eat more.

On the other hand, if you stop eating salt, or even if you just eat too little salt, you will die soon, and not in a pleasant way (e.g. one of the symptoms of hyponatremia caused by eating too little salt is severe constipation, because various muscles, including the muscles that are used for the peristalsis of the intestines, lose their strength).

Like for any essential nutrient, both eating too little salt and eating to much salt is bad. The recommended daily intake of salt is between 4 and 5 grams of salt.

In order to be able to control precisely the daily intake of salt, I prefer to not add any salt to food during cooking (and I do not buy industrially made food). Instead of that, I add the salt only immediately prior to eating, so I can know exactly the amount added during a day.
> The C language leads a double life: as an application programming language of yesteryear, perpetuated by circumstance,
and as a systems programming language which remains a
weapon of choice decades after its creation. This essay is a
C programmer’s reaction to the call to abandon ship. It questions several properties commonly held to define the experience of using C; these include unsafety, undefined behaviour,
and the motivation of performance. It argues all these are
in fact inessential; rather, it traces C’s ultimate strength to a
communicative design which does not fit easily within the
usual conception of “a programming language”, but can be
seen as a counterpoint to so-called “managed languages”.
This communicativity is what facilitates the essential aspect
of system-building: creating parts which interact with other,
remote parts—being “alongside” not “within”.

This reads like an article in Social Text.

> Meditating on this communicativity suddenly gave way to a
realisation: C is designed for communicating with aliens!

The memes make themselves.
Memes are usually protected by fair use (parody)
It most definitely is not. And once you leave AWS or GCP proper the amount of control plane and other data that's encrypted at rest plummets. The industry is VERY not good at this at scale.
And besides, encrypted customer data is still customer data.
Metadata about encrypted data might divulge sensitive stuff, etc.
Nice. Thought it might have also helped that you, if I saw correctly, had a previous startup that was backed by Peter Thiel.
Thanks for trying the app. Yes, the guests/clients feature is in progress now, and will be available in the upcoming weeks.
"I built my own" -- makes it sound indie and hip.

Turns out a team built this.
There was a post a couple weeks ago here about SQLite on WASM that looked very promising [0].

I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s at the top of my list. I want to try and combine it with LiteFS for syncing back up to the server, replication, etc.

Wondering if anyone has tried any of this out yet? There’s the potential for a renaissance of offline-first support for devs.

Edit: I see you mentioned it at the end, my bad

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374402
I know about this project for long time and in my opinion is an excellent educational resource. As an exercise I re-targeted chibicc to z80 without any problem and it was lots of fun. Now I am trying to write an optimizer on top of it.
> Most people can get an off-label metformin prescription for anti-aging.

Dumb question: How? I'm reasonably certain my GP would not be amenable to being asked to prescribe drugs for off-label use.
I suspect you’re lamenting appliance or electronic complexity versus building construction?
There is a "Report site issue..." entry in Firefox's hamburger menu, under "Help", which leads to <https://webcompat.com/issues/new>. This is really the best way to help Firefox with compatibility issues, i.e. providing specific information which can be acted upon.
I'm thinking it's best not to make Rust a low-entry-barrier resume keyword.

Rust is hard, and people should realize it's hard.

One of the problems with C is that it was way harder than most people realized (we just accepted crashes, and then rampant security vulnerabilities, as normal), and so few practitioners got sufficiently competent at it.

One of the problems with Python is that you don't have to understand much, to install a bunch of libraries and copy&paste snippets found in Web searches, to call something done.

Rust will help you with analogs of some of the conventions that a very skilled C programmer might use. But if someone only wants to get a well-paying job and be able to call their sprint tasks done, they probably want Python or Go, because Rust will make them cry.

If I Web search for a Rust thing, I want to be finding genuine hardcore people talking. (This was actually one of the biggest benefits of working in Scheme and Racket -- very high signal:noise ratio, because the practitioners were generally only there because they were very serious and/or very curious. I'm moving to Rust, and hope to find similar.)
> athletic wear everywhere

I mean, if we're talking about sex, I'll say that I love athletic wear on athletic-looking women. I guess the scarcity of athletic-looking people might be part of the problem.
That’s quite an outlier. I didn’t read your tests but I did wonder why you let E2 get that high in your msg.

My working theory is the mechanism is similar to alcohol with a lowering of inhibition. The aggregation has to be in you from the start.
I am at a loss of things to do at the moment, The most recent for me is Indexing PoC CVE's posted to Github.

https://github.com/tg12/PoC_CVEs

I want to build a TrueNAS box at home and migrate to that as test.

I really want to write lots more Python code though! I love writing trading algorithms and Data science, data analyst projects.
As a side note - the original quote isn't in fact 'money is the root of all evil' rather the quote says 'it is the lack of money that is the root of all evil'.

A subtle difference I'll grant you but one that makes a huge difference to understanding and empathy imo.

[Edit to Expand] The original Hebrew text says it is the 'desire to possess money' that has somehow become mistranslated into 'love of money' rather than the original meaning of 'scarcity of money'.
On my last team, I had an incompetent junior engineer. It was a time suck to do hold countless pairing sessions with them, answering the same questions again and again without having them learn anything.

On my new team, there is an incompetent senior engineer. Damn... how I miss my incompetent junior, who aside from wasting some time, never really affected the team. The incompetent senior produces impressive amounts of badly architected, untested code which breaks subtly and is impossible to maintain. They are also totally unreceptive to mentorship because they are so senior and know everything.
It made no sense to begin with, had little to no use case and was full of hype by VCs [0] and had absolutely zero path to making any money.

Doomed for failure from the start.

[0] https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1511477714049388548
Bet money we'll see a hiring spree in 2024.
In what security model? If you assume there's an adversary that can read all your memory, then you're pretty screwed no matter what you do.

In C's and Rust's model deallocated memory is assumed to be completely inaccessible (and Rust does its best to ensure it is inaccessible), so in a valid (non-UB) program there is nothing that could leak its secrets.
Bad survey results.

Another comment [1] observed that the survey claims that 44% of men and 74% of women have 0 sexual activity - including 'batin (some term in the referenced post resulted in an apparent auto-flag which I'm trying to avoid). That doesn't pass my sniff test, at all.

The most likely singular explanation seems to be a bias or sampling error.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33583682
I know some passive optical devices depend on precisely spaced gratings which would shift their wavelengths if the temperature changed because of thermal expansion. The easiest way to control the temperature is to keep them in an oven with a temperature somewhat above ambient. I don’t know about customer premises equipment but I see ovens next to telephone poles all the time to maintain the temperature of optical hardware.
I gave a subjective assessment of the current state of medicine with the recommendation to find a licensed, competent medical professional.

If I believe someone is being mistreated by his doctor, am I not allowed to suggest finding a new one? What if his current doctor wanted to perform a lobotomy?

"Find a new doctor" is not "medical advice" as much as you would like to conflate.
For this one person’s answer, watch it until the end:

https://youtu.be/vo1BzyBwZ1E
Well assembly or plain machine code would be the better alternative, but due the lack of time I prefer C.
Apple will never agree to a universal middleware connector for anything they make. It's antithetical to their walled garden business model.

But -- someone will make better tooling, like user wallets and browser based onboarding tools. Web3 in many ways reminds me of Web1. It's full of scam artists and there aren't great tools or documentation for anybody.
Why? Why do you want to have personality? Why do you want to fill this emptiness? I'm not saying that you shouldn't. But I'm unsure of the benefit of doing it for its own sake. The way I read your post it's more like you are trying to fit into other peoples expectations than you truly wanting to do other things.

Maybe explore and expose yourself to a little bit of everything to see if there is anything you are missing out on?
I personnally think it will get a lot worse before it gets better unfortunately.
The World of Yesterday
I've been using an old Android phone as a webcam for a while, it's very good and latency is minimal, but conferencing software will just kill your stream. There's no reason to have even an HD webcam when your fellow participants will see a very compressed 0.4 Mpixel stream.
Don't go back to academia.
Embrace the situation. If you like programming, just channel it there, build stuff...
A potential reason could also be fructose.

While humans ate tons of carbs since agroculutural revolution those carbs were ~95% glucose (starch), eg potato, grains, rice, beans,...

Only in the last ~70 years did we have an explosion in

1) sugar (50% fructose) and HFCS

2) fruits with a high sugar content: most modern fruits didn't exist ~100 years ago, and those that did had a fraction of fructose that modern fruits have.

Fructose is known to be the most destructive things you can put in the body (glucose is almost harmless compared to it).

Eg a study shown that replacing or even just replacing fructose with glucose had a massive improvement in fatty liver in children in just 9 days!

Fructose is metabolized like alchocol, which is why in the ~1970 or 1980 you start seing T2 diabetes and fatty liver in children, while before T2 diabetes and fatty liver was only a problem of alchoholics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Yup. This is the result of growing up poor where all moments were filled with anxiety of about food, shelter and making money. Now that those things are a given you're not sure what to do. There is no easy fix/answer. You're just going to have to learn to live with that anxiety despite not needing to have it. For some it turns into guilt. For others they channel it into something positive. No formula or equation that works universally.
throwaway

every developer i know at FAANG, SaaS, or the hundreds of other companies where the core problem is already solved or the business model is net useless to humanity falls into one of two buckets

1. has an extraordinarily rich inner life and is happy with being able to churn away for 20–40 hours a week on useless things, and return to their family/friends/hobbies with a huge check

2. is on antidepressants and desperately trying to find meaning

meanwhile, all the dev friends i have who work in biotech or healthcare are all pretty happy, maybe a little peeved at their lowered salary, but otherwise feel extreme confidence that they are doing good for the world

pick your poison i guess, i chose biotech and am extremely happy with my decision, going on 2.5 years now
Do you see a way to make migration easy?

If the scope of a project changes, or to try various tools with an 'ultra strong vision' with real life data, it would be very helpful if the project data could be easily transferred. Is there a standard that most tools could support?
Thanks. The dark mode is in progress now. It will be available in about 2 weeks.
What "dubious cultural reasons" are normalized? I'm curious.
ITAR is about export, not possession. The trouble with our global information network is that it's global.
Collection State Management for Angular
Today I’ve published ngx-collection: collection state management service for Angular.

This tool saves me a lot of time - I hope it can be useful for other people as well :)

Built on top of NgRx ComponentStore.
I paid $75 for plex 9 years ago and have gotten way more than my monies worth. Their shift to monetization In my opinion is over blown. You can simply go and turn that crap off. Having my media on any device at any time is a life changer. Especially with small kids.
The Story of Heroku [audio]
Regarding economics, the economist Paul Krugman was the first to say it, in an essay in 1994, when he suggested that the slowdown in Japan might reveal what was going to happen to all other advanced nations. It was an idea he then developed over several years, in a series of essays, and then finally when his predictions came true, he came out with a book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Return-Depression-Economics-Crisis-20...
All of Tokyo available as a free 3-D scale model (April 2021)
Can someone explain what Mighty is? There's no context either here or in the linked Twitter thread.

After significant searching, I found it:

https://www.mightyapp.com

Basically Stadia for webpages.
The C abstract machine does not have such flags. C therefore does not have any support for checking them (from code, the compiler can add checks if the target supports them but doesn't have to).
I am looking at decent PM tool myself. To the point that I am entertaining the idea to do it myself as a side project. Reason I am not using any of available offering is simple: unless someone puts a gun to my head I never buy software that does not have perpetual license and that can not be hosted on my own premises.

I found some piece of software that I can host and it gets me limping along but not very happy with it.

I am more than willing to pay for license and for upgrades (when I feel I need those) but as much as possible I absolutely refuse to become a hostage of multiple different companies holding my data and extracting monthly rent.
If you mean incels. I'm not a psychologist but I think the incels do want transactional sex but hate the fact they can't get it.
Your comment isn't very clear to me
Not yet at the moment. But we do plan to have one in the near future.
OK Computer
Theoretical CS or basically anything above Bachelors is more research oriented
I think strong_params is a pretty weak way to do parameter parsing and share the author's frustration. I'm out of rails-land now, and using openapi docs and generated middleware to handle all that for me. We're able to give the docs to customers and able to generate code for API clients.

dry_schema looks nice and a certain improvement over strong params, but I'd go a step further.
Sorry, of course.
ciswomen tend to date up. That leaves them with less options in a society that pays equal salary among sex/genders (or even trending in that direction).
All of this seems to be downstream effects from wages not keeping pace with inflation and productivity since the 1970s. People are poorer than previous generations so they have less time to cook healthy meals or exercise regularly. Then they raise fat kids who don't know how to cook and don't exercise and the cycle becomes ingrained.
I do not disagree, but I do think there is still room for growth with established tech such as semiconductors and maybe cloud. There's so many thing still "old school" in this world and I see tech advancing more and more into those sectors. But I'm guessing it will be a very saw-tooth pattern for the next few years.

What I am avoiding like the plague are companies that have no profits, no dividends and no real innovation. Any company that is still aiming for growth before profits is just scary.
Literally is. It's my argument. I don't want to criminalize this particular intolerance, I don't want to suppress it. I want to reject it and call it out. I don't have to unequivocally tolerate it. My tolerance doesn't have to be boundless. I should be generous with my tolerance, but I'm not when millions and millions of lives depend on it. This is the line. This far and not farther.
Decrypting Zoom's Video RTP Packets
In May 2021 Paul Graham wrote Crazy New Ideas[1], in which he explained that envy is the only reason people criticize ideas by "reasonable domain experts". This was widely understood at the time to refer to critics of Mighty[2][3].

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27062713

[3]: https://www.echevarria.io/blog/the-mighty-pushback-isnt-all-...
Agree with this. But they do own safari, avatars, and an apple wallet. Presumably they could combine those things to give a universal profile and monetization to every website. Not sure how it would work on mobile tho...
Not sure why this was downvoted, TRT patients need to keep an eye on a few different blood levels - particularly hematocrit and lipids.
You need to go out and meet some people who are very different than you and spend a lot of time with them. More than one group of these ideally. I’m not sure what that is — what ideas or activities do you find scary but thrilling?

You might need to go out and find out who you are by getting into a lot of situations

It takes years
Start by doing sports: gym, running, maybe group sports if you want connection with other people (or for example wakeboarding if you want something more fun).

Moneywise you're probably set for life at this stage, so it's time to look at health / fitness.
You could just wrap the web app in Capacitor for mobile and Electron for desktop, and easily use a SQLite db for unlimited persistence. If someone is interested in offline support, I don’t think it is a dealbreaker to have to download an app. That’s pretty common (eg Netflix, Spotify, hbo, any of the streaming services. The offline support only works in the app, not the web player).
> What I've found is that matters is appetite: some people just get full way faster than others.

This is a half truth. If you cut down portion size your stomach will shrink over time. I eat a lot less before feeling full now, and I only changed my life a year ago.

It's also important that you eat stuff that makes you feel full, fibers and greens. Changing diet also changed my taste, so I crave more healthy things now, while the food I used to eat honestly don't appeal to me any longer or tastes empty.

OTOH if you push yourself to eat a little more every meal, your stomach will grown, accommodating room for more before you feel full.
> Between 2009 and 2018, the proportion of adolescents reporting no sexual activity, either alone or with partners, rose from 28.8 percent to 44.2 percent among young men and from 49.5 percent in 2009 to 74 percent among young women.

Middle class teen fun is a function of parental wealth, youth employment, and other things that were shaky in the 2010s. To put it plainly, it was a very unsexy decade for the average teenager. Nobody wants to date a bum or someone who identifies as a bum.
If you simply align jury pay scales with pay scales for skilled labor in the work force, you'd expect to find basically only people who can't even hold a job. The 'pay' for jury duty in most areas is actually below minimum wage.
>If I Web search for a Rust thing, I want to be finding genuine hardcore people talking

So you want the language never to be mainstream?
They also had this “hack” a day or two ago so it’s unclear what is left
I don't come from a poor background but I'm basically in your exact situation, but probably older and less smart with regards to studying and technical stuff than you are.

I'm doing a PhD right now. It's a pretty good experience, but it won't solve your problem of the "emptiness." In fact, it will take up a ton of your mental time: the current state you're in is good for a PhD since you have to think a lot about what you're working on.

If I were you I would question whether or not your current mindset is actually a problem. Maybe you truly like thinking about certain types of problems irrespective of external demands of an employer. If so, in my opinion that's okay. On the other hand if you decide that your current mindset is actually a problem and that you should broaden your horizons or change, you can! For example you can try new hobbies that have nothing to do with work and see how you feel doing those things (preferably join a club so you can do it with other people).
The Kopp-Etchells effect was first documented during combat operations in Afghanistan. The photographer Michael Yon named the effect after two soldiers who died there, Koop, a US Ranger, and Etchells, a British soldier. Both were killed in combat in this province of Afghanistan.

Props to the photographer for naming the effect after the soldiers who lost their lives.