skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another fat guy here. I haven't taken any of these drugs, but I stopped eating processed food (or anything with added sugar), avoided late night snacks, and lost around 30 pounds in 8 months as a result. I had the fatigue and such early in the process, but it sorted itself out eventually. The most important thing I recognized was that if I avoided eating late at night, I didn't feel awful waking up in the morning. I'm embarrassed to say it took more than a year to change my behavior, despite my clear understanding of the harm of snacking all the time.
Pardon my ignorance, but what kind of features did Eudora have that thunderbird does not?

Big thunderbird user here so I'm genuinely curious.
prop 13
Multi-kilometre and multi-gigabit-per-second sub-terahertz communications
Ask HN: How to report unsolicited sexual content on Reddit?
I have come across multiple subreddits containing posts with unsolicited sexual / pornographic content on Reddit from a specific south asian country. I am pretty sure that there was no consent of some or all of the people involved (in recording them or sharing it online). In some instances, an entire subreddit is full of such posts. Some instances also have minors (they appear to be teens and not adults) in them.

I have tried to report such posts through reddit itself but I always get a response stating that "After investigating, we’ve found that the reported content doesn’t violate Reddit’s Content Policy.".

So - how do I get the subreddit or post(s) taken down?
Hi jart! You're an inspiration! That's all :)
> New things are NEVER a threat to the old world as soon as people say. Look at the mainframe vs PC. It has taken us TWO DECADES and even after all that IBM still has billions in mainframe revenue. Cool new technology always expands rapidly into NEW areas (where there is a vacuum). Pundits always say that this is going to kill the old businesses - eventually that happens but not anywhere near as soon as they say.
Smart people often have smart friends, so a small team of mostly smart people isn't that unlikely.

The problem is when you get a few degrees of separation, at that point the original signal is mostly lost and you will get the same kind of people as everyone else who uses the same hiring bar as you.
"Immediately rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI. These may be stored in project environment variables or in contexts."

The blog post calls out "environment variables" and "contexts"
If your current OS is the market leader why wouldn't you lose sleep over it. They are running a business and have to worry about the competition. Progress on competing products might be good for consumers but not for the employees or shareholders of the company.
Oracle had already acquired Sun by the time I was in the technology industry. The respondent states that Sun is so set on giving things away. Can someone comment on the culture of Sun at that time?

Sun seems to have left a legacy in the open source community. What was the business logic on giving away the software for free? I know it's very common today, but Sun may have been a leader in open source. Any books recommendations would be appreciated too.
Filfre.net / The Digital Antiquarian has a two-part (and ongoing) series of articles on this era in regards to web browsers and the perceived threat of Java to Microsoft (specifically, the idea that was floating around that users could have access to all the software tools they need via a browser and JAVA: no need for MS tools or software, etc).

https://www.filfre.net/2022/12/doing-windows-part-11-the-int...

https://www.filfre.net/2022/12/doing-windows-part-12-david-a...
The code to content ratio is low, I hope this gets refactored on the lines of https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-use-tailwind-css-the....
That's great lol
Only AppleScript has worse semantics than bash. It’s like working with a language that was designed by someone who read about other programming languages but never actually used one. I’m glad it’s there but I wish Apple would modernize it and give it some TLC. It’s obviously their last priority.
This has been my gut feeling about the new AI technologies we've seen recently. We'll see what happens
> the surface is at about 50% their Schwarzschild radius

Don’t you mean 100%? From what I can tell, the radius of a neutron star is about twice its Schwarzschild radius.

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2001/46/aah3021.pdf
And before that there was /etc/fastboot or the L1-A two finger salute!
Ask HN: What are profitable things to do with fallow land?
I live in an urban area in India, in one of the major cities. I see that there's a lot of fallow land towards the outskirts, with decent proximity to the city-center.

These lands are no longer used by farmers due to degradation of quality and also better economic opportunities for them elsewhere.

What are some things one can do with these lands profitably, with minimal capital investment?
I'm sorry, but I'm a decently in shape person that tried semaglutide for reasons other than losing weight and I disagree.

While I'm sure we all are a bit different satiety wise (and I've found it greatly depends on how much I've been eating overall recently), your experience on the drug is not what the rest of us feel like all the time. It's unfortunately normal for our biology to basically want to shove calories down our mouths all the time. I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas cookies, and a pickle...and I could still eat more. The only reason I ate that much is because I feel a cold coming on so I relaxed my usual limits.

The kind of "fullness" you get on semaglutide isn't natural. I've never felt like that my entire life. The closest thing would be after something like a Thanksgiving meal, but that's more of a "my stomach hurts" than "I really don't feel like I can put more in my stomach."

My sister in law is the skinniest, most in shape person I know. She's 35, has had 3 kids, and has abs, an ass she clearly worked for, etc. My wife (unfortunately) regularly compares herself to her and in this case also thinks like you, that it just comes naturally. She gave me her old phone so I could test some stuff on it as I don't have an Android phone handy. She didn't wipe it. MyFitnessPal was on there, and she was limiting herself to 1400 calories a day.

Almost all of us work for it. Truth be told, and please hold your downvotes for this, I get a little upset when the rest of you get to have insurance pay ridiculous sums of money for a medication that makes it easier for you than the rest of us, side effects aside, and you think it's simply evening out the playing field.

And it needs to be said in case my wife ever finds this: she's also ridiculously hot and even though she can't see it has, at times, been skinnier than her sister.
I still don't understand what they are.
Oh man, VR and metaverse-style concepts were big in the 90s even if the technology obviously wasn't quite there yet. Active Worlds predated Second Life by several years and surprisingly enough is still online to this day.
Correlation is not causation. There are many very creative people and uncreative people with many diverse quantities and qualities of stupidity.
> First, the excitement is overblown - at least from a business perspective. At the moment Java is expanding into a vacuum. It allows you to make cool web pages, and that is a very attractive thing for people. It gives programmers something new to learn, book people something new to sell books on, software tool companies a way to issue new development tools etc.

This is a pretty interesting take, and it feels relevant to this day with respect to both frontend and backend frameworks. I always thought of frameworks as just fads where people simply enjoy to try new ideas and are just having fun. I've always agreed with the overall sentiment that, for example, no one will be going out of business just because their frontend isn't React, but it's interesting to consider that people also profit off of these "fads" by selling books and tools, resulting in a sort of perpetual motion machine.
Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring
They have, but it’s just not interesting. Similar to how the p2p scene doesn’t give a damn about software DRM.

Regarding WV: There is actually lots of open source software and even some discords where WV keys are being shared. FFMPEG is capable of decrypting it, so all you need as ffmpeg inputs is the netflix stream and a key and then dump it to disk.

Regarding pita DRM: the scene is the only capable group who still supply clean patches for modern DRM in games and applications. (Like denuvo)

Clean in the sense that they don’t just install a hypervisor and hook everything for big performance penalties, but actually patch the binary to remove the checks through static analysis. 3DM is the last p2p group I know which done that, but that was half a decade ago. I don’t think there are currently any p2p groups which take a look at this, because it’s just not interesting (effort vs reward) for them.
How we will be using data collection and machine learning to track and manage wildlife on our 20 acre property
This article is a bit too hand-wavy for my taste. As a buzzword, AGI Hard sounds cool but until intelligence is more strictly defined (and the modifiers “artificial” and “general” aren’t helping) AGI will always be something we talk about rather than something known.

I was also a bit amused at the list of things which the author also claims to be AGI hard. But this is just a list of things we think are difficult. Physics? Calculus? Programming other AI agents?

Why not add chess to the list? The fact that we already have an algorithm that enables computers to teach themselves to play chess is not an a priori reason to exclude it.
JavaScript implementation of Bernoulli numbers algorithm by Ada Lovelace
Looks like yes: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-security-alert-rotat...
Having a cellphone on means it's triangulating at layer2 pretty much all the time. If you own a telco you know a lot of geoloc data about that unique cellular device. Three or more towers put you into a weighted centroid of location, one puts you a reasonable radial distance from it.

If you strap a picocell to a drone you can probably do layer 2 stuff and sense phones.

Or Bluetooth.
> Come on man, he mentioned the bipolar himself in multiple recorded interviews. It's a matter of public record.

Maybe, maybe not, but that’s not the only mental illness you’ve “diagnosed” him with. So explain to me whether you’re making diagnoses without any relevant qualification or whether you’re violating the ethical rules of your profession on Hacker News for clout.
There was a tombstone of Gates during hackers in progress (hip97) iirc.

Shows you how much he and windows was loved. Today’s microsoft is forced to play nice.
For MacOS there is Hammerspoon, that provides immensely powerful scripting, but can merely open and close the apps, too.

-- ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua
function define_shortcut(appName, key, mod)
hs.hotkey.bind(mod, key, function()
hs.application.enableSpotlightForNameSearches(true)
local app = hs.application.find(appName)
if app and app:isFrontmost() then
app:hide()
else
hs.application.open(appName)
end
end)
end

define_shortcut("Alacritty", "F1", {})
define_shortcut("Firefox", "F2", {})
Thanks. Do you speak (or read) Chinese? If not, how did you find that?
A recent study found basically no change in metabolism from the age of 20-60:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58186710

People usually just start packing on a few pounds a year (or more) in their 20s and it adds up.
If your 10 year old dies because of an AI created Tide-pod or Street-surfing challenge, I think you'll find it objectionable. Same for highly targeted fake news clickbait that causes a race riot.
This seems like a long-winded couching of the simple premise that would explain what happened. The tweet/author is misrepresenting the situation or was promised something he isn't legally entitled to, regardless.

> mandate that the employee is given a 30 day notice that they will be laid off

ie maybe he was terminated with notice and it wasn't explicitly labeled a severance letter.
No need to try and put words in my mouth. I never implied there was a moral equivalency between Lorenz (who I'm not familiar with) and the HN community. I said these were similar tactics. I gather from context he's tagging journalists who have covered Twitter recently.

If you want to criticize his choice of journalists to tag, please do so. What I took issue with was your dismissing this as "an attention play," which read to me like you were implying that, because he tagged these journalists, we should summarily dismiss what he has to say.

I don't take his tagging Lorenz as an endorsement of her reporting, but rather an excoriation for not covering the story in sufficient depth. Based on the thread I doubt they're a fan of Taibbi, who they also tagged, for example.
> Wow. Losing sleep becasue progress might actually happen in the operating systems space

I mean, any business owner should be watching out for rising competitive threats and thinking about how to nullify them.

Unfortunately for us that means the big players are trying hard to stifle the innovators....
Because it’s never “extinguish” from the “extender’s” perspective. They extended it and scooped up all the customers, mission accomplished.
He’s right.. this is what BASIC used to be
Counting calories correctly is really hard.

I've lost 90 lbs, achieved a healthy body weight, and kept it off for years, but I keep trying to lose just 10 more pounds. I only make progress when I'm religious about calorie counting, including weighing every meal or needing to do precise food prep beforehand.

That's such a pain in the ass that I inevitably fail and keep returning to my body's new average weight.

I think you're right about truly obese people. They're eating so many calories that they would lose weight if they could manage a better diet.

For people who aren't obese, the same principle may apply, but it's now a matter of much tighter margins and much greater precision, and it's remarkably difficult.

Natural bodybuilders seem to manage their weight with precision, so it's not impossible with knowledge and effort. But I suspect very few people are capable of managing that if they tend towards obesity to begin with.
New Release: DownloadsCleaner – Keep your downloads folder clean and organized
DownloadsCleaner is a utility that automatically deletes files in the Windows Downloads folder after a specified period of time passes while they are not modified, helping users maintain their system and avoid storing large amounts of unused files.
It is interesting how people have similar experiences, but different outcomes. I have a brother who owns about 12 different guitars, a keyboard, and other instruments. He spends a ton of time making his own music and putting it on Spotify. But he will tell you that the most important thing in his musical career was learning to play classical music on the piano as a child because it taught him music theory and techniques that have made him a better musician than he would be otherwise.
I'm well aware how extremely anti-competitive and anti-progress Apple is.
I had never heard of Nathan Myhrvold before, but, his lucid descriptions of the nature of technology has me convinced he's a genius.

Incredibile career he's had. Went to the best schools, published in top scientific journals in multiple foods. And, he took a leave of absence as Microsoft CTO (around when these emails were written) to go to chef school in France. He even has cookbooks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold
I'll copy an earlier comment I made on a separate thread specifically with South Asia in mind, but I've seen similar dynamics in ASEAN as well. Also, I think you are an L1 Japanese speaker. If you're L1 is Indo-European, other Indo-European languages tend to be easier to learn.

Why go to Japan (in reality only Tokyo) where median software TC is around $60k [0] when you can go to Canada where median software TC is around $90k [1] and English speaking, let alone other English speaking and relatively easy to immigrate Western countries with large South Asian communities like the UK (95k) [2], Netherlands (87k) [3], Germany (77k) [4], Australia (100k) [5], Norway ($74k) [6], or Singapore (73k) [7].

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/canada

[2] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/united-...

[3] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/netherl...

[4] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/germany

[5] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/austral...

[6] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/norway

[7] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/singapo...
It is also important that within those fences, no Apple trees take place
You said:

> Why not use LE instead then?

If she doesn't like ACME, how would she use LE (the service)?
I fully agree with you about ideas standing on their merits. I hope we continue to move in that direction as a species.
Have the bars stopped closing at 4am?
Emphasis on may be; not to mention, they are actively investigating the breach and do not have all the information at this time.
This is unfortunately true. And IEEE has become more like science.con, spreading hype instead of facts.
I think you may be right! Thanks for the clarity.
Ask HN: I'm a DS, and I want to leave tech
I'm in my mid-40's and am near the top of the IC ladder as a DS in the Valley. I am losing my motivation to keep going. This probably isn't burn out, as my job has been surprisingly relaxed for the last year. I like most of my colleagues. Just not enthused to build one more sklearn model. I could switch companies and that might excite me for a few weeks or months, but I'm guessing that's it.

I don't have the personality or desire to be a people manager or a PM. I like to do the thing not manage the people doing the thing. I've tried managing and the results haven't been great. At the same time, I'm not very interested in the engineering side of DS work. So I'm guessing DE, MLE, and SWE positions are not a great fit.

I've thought about teaching. I have a PhD and was on the tenure track for awhile. But no R1 university would hire me at this age. I don't know how I'd even get the reference letters to finish an application. The workload also seems insane. My friends in academia are miserable. (Side note: how and why did we as a society ruin that job?). The idea of teaching at a teaching college or high school appeals to me in theory. But then I think about the change in salary.

So what comes next? Maybe try to make a small startup? Maybe switch to carpentry or farming? Tough it out for another decade until I can retire? What do people do after they get bored of tech?
The point is that he is worrying here not about improving their own things to compete, but about barrier for entry being low which means fast progress. Gatekeeping is bad, business owners or not.

Strategy to nullify competition instead of competing is disgusting and damaging to progress and market itself.
Thank you for the informative answer. In terms of pricing, I’m getting confused between the low market price that we saw last summer ($40, not $20) at which public holders were bailing out versus the price at which the buyout closed.

I also don’t really understand the mechanics of a buyout. If I own stock but I don’t want to sell, what happens then?
and then became an infamous patent troll

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
If you are afraid of progress then you aren't the market leader because you aren't leading. You just happen to be the biggest company currently on the market.

Why not expand on the things where portable software is weak, like making a well-integrated system? But they missed it and let Apple fill that space.

Why not accept the future you predicted and be the first to arrive there? But web development only considered Microsoft an annoyance for a long time due to Internet Explorer.
That isn't how commercial art works in practice. Executives rarely turn art decisions over to artists. What happens is that artists come up with multiple proposals, and executives pick the one they like best, usually after several iterations of suggestions from the same executives have already been implemented. Generative AI fits that process like a glove.
You are right. I messaged too quickly. When I think about the times I've used useEffect it has been to GET data for populating a page (as I recall). It has been a little while since I have done frontend hook dev.
> Did someone take authentic originals and write additional text over them?

There are all kinds of materials used for forgeries. Ranging from cheap ones sold to tourist on contemporary papyros (or even banana leaves) made contemporary ink to highly sophisticated ones on original Ancient papyros (you either remove the old handwriting of a not so "valuable" text or use blank Ancient papyros).

> How are all of these fragments not in one place under guard?

Just an anecdote: I once visited a papyrological institute at the university I studied with a group of fellow students to receive an introduction into papyrology. All the tables in the seminar room were pushed together and on them lay a lot of papyros fragments, each fixed between two sealed panes of plastic. Among them were also the highlights of the collection: A small fragment from Qumran and a Septuaginta fragment from the 7th century. Everyone was allowed to take these sealed plastic storage frames (I don't know the professional term for it) into her or his hand and have a close look at it from both sides.
> a targeted/ongoing compromise.

Not to worry! Because XProtect and similar have such a narrow scope, it is unlikely to protect against targeted attacks anyway.
Movies are also about to be made with much less quality as studios try to save money since the films will no longer be as profitable.
August 24, 2020 - "The questions that IBM's report aims to answer is how much of this pandemic-fueled online spending is a temporary shift and to what extent is it impacting longer-term forecasts? The answer, at least in this estimate, is that this pandemic pushed the industry ahead by around five years. The shift away from physical stores was already underway, but we've now jumped ahead in time as to where we would be if a health crisis had not occurred."

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/covid-19-pandemic-accelera...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200824070131if_/https://www.ib...
No worries! The Google doth not always deal the same results.
How so? Why can't people simply stop taking it once they reach their goal weight?
Where do we start? "Funding secured"?
Just a layman. I only read English translations (I don't know Greek or Hebrew) Just finished the Orthodox Study Bible Old Testament which is based on the Greek Septuagint. I read Brenton's translation about 10 years ago. Anyway, I having picked out a Bible for this next year.
Yes, I know that, but where we disagree is that I think the social process of involving the artist is important and can't be replaced by having an app just show a bunch of options.
Europe makes it _costly_ to let an employee go.

You can get rid of 20 people for next monday if you want to, you’ll just pay the due amount as defined in the contract and the law. It’s also not some astronomical amount, worst case scenario I think it’s around 6 months of pay, which isn’t that far from what you’d pay for a non compete for instance.

PS: also unemployment is a complicated figure, it’s hard to tell how much any specific variable impacts it. Unemployment rate goes up and down while laws stay mostly the same, so singling out labor laws is mostly an opinion at this point.