skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I say anything like that?

> at some point the entire compositor could probably use AI like DALL-E to enforce a consistent theme regardless of how the app styles it.

That seems eminently reasonable using today's technology (maybe with some acceleration). Certainly there's plenty of examples of style transference.

> The next generation, the application won't even need to really spend a lot of resources rendering. Just a very low resource sketch + state (e.g. what text is where to make sure that the AI renders it correctly) of what it wants to draw and the AI will automatically render it at the correct resolution, anti aliased, consistent etc.

Again, this doesn't seem out of the realm or need AGI since we have existence proofs of being able to take a low-value sketch and integrate it into a consistent theme. See https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/01/02/three-eyed-f... or Invoke's Stable Diffusion canvas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVGDGc6-3o&feature=youtu.be. Now sure, maybe applying it to a UI where you need things to be functional or there's things around text may pose challenges. Still, I don't know why this seems crazy, require AGI, nor do I see how ChatGPT applies.

I finally describe the most advanced application and literally say:

> However, I don't think the more advanced applications here are possible with today's generation of AI. It'll probably need some amount of AGI to problem-solve dynamically on the fly.

At what point do I claim that ChatGPT is AGI? In fact, I'm saying literally the opposite - we're nowhere close to AGI. It's possible we don't necessarily even need full AGI even for the most advanced use-case (i.e. automatically generating the UI), but certainly ChatGPT / DALL-E are NOT suitable for that, nor is it clear to me that they're in the right evolutionary ballpark (i.e. maybe you need AI that works totally different).
I want to say it was using most of an air drill as a mechanism? I dont recall details if i ever knew them. These folks were mechanical hackers of the first water; this wasn't the most insane thing i saw there. by far.
> The body is an energy equation to be balanced. Physics defines that.

Most equations don't fight back when you try to balance them. But this one does.
Yes, it has been studied countless times.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33470881/

"Adults with obesity in the United States compared with those with normal weight experienced higher annual medical care costs by $2,505 or 100%, with costs increasing significantly with class of obesity, from 68.4% for class 1 to 233.6% for class 3. The effects of obesity raised costs in every category of care: inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drugs. Increases in medical expenditures due to obesity were higher for adults covered by public health insurance programs ($2,868) than for those having private health insurance ($2,058)."
pcEM is another emulator you can use to run GEM. This will do pc1512 and an hard disk.

https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
Murder Most Foul: On Agatha Christie
I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba from elementary through high school. Learning how to play well was a grind for years and I didn't really start to enjoy it until I reached high school and was a part of a good ensemble.

It's definitely not fun when you and everyone around you is bad. Having a horrible teacher for a few years along the way didn't help either and drove most of my classmates to quit.

I do miss it and part of me wishes I had continued in college because I would have really enjoyed the challenge. But I was tired of "band cliques" and wanted to move on.
Thanks for the link that leads to: https://medium.com/@andrewjrogers/the-story-of-builtwith-e3b...

Main thing that comes out of it is "focus". Focus starts to dissipate the larger the team. I don't think focus will guarantee you success (you could be focused on the wrong thing) but I don't think you can be successful without it.
Again, needlessly harsh. She is psychologist with expertise in body image and was likely asked by the reporter for an opinion. Idk why you think she's trying to cash in on anything. It's incredibly cynical.
Beautiful place - and "next door" in the castle, history buffs can find (or could, I'm not sure how easy it is to see now) the cathedral's original copy of Magna Carta.
For the formal underpinnings of the infinitesimal approach, the phrase to look for is "Nonstandard Analysis":

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

Fun stuff.
Yep, it's pretty warm in Germany these days. One week we're skating on frozen ponds, and the next we're riding bicycles without gloves and taking layers off. I am scared of what future winters will look like if we don't get our ducks in a row.
Congrats on the new career path and I love that you got into programming via Godot! You'll probably meet software engineers with similar stories. (I got into it via modding and building levels for early id Software games.)

It's certainly less stressful to get a stable engineering job first and make games on the side than the other way around, even if it's not as creatively satisfying sometimes. But a great hobby to have — hope you enjoy getting back into it.

No projects to share just yet, but I'm having fun seeing how fluidly I can get things out of my brain and onto the screen.
> one of the foremost experts of fat metabolism

Is it correct that the source is a veterinary anaesthesiolgist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252195
I think we need to really stress here just how bad our situation is. We have an obesity rate of 40 plus percent.

Peoples weight just cannot be said to be a "natural number" in this environment. Something is causing this and your average person is obese because of it, not because of their "natural weight"
the vast majority of the difficulty of building something isn't the instruction set but all the various IP required to build a complex and performant chip. For ARM there's a large ecosystem of IP for almost everything. It's great that RISC-V is an open instruction set but it will be a while before the right IP made and licensable in RISC-V.
Works fine for me?

v1

RunWait, % format("{}.exe", "notepad")

v2

RunWait(format("{}.exe", "notepad"))
Incorrect. They controlled for changes in weight, it is not confounded by weight loss. RCT >> cross sectional analyses.
Yeah, it's very different; vaccinations are generally much deeper (into muscle), and drawing blood punctures a vein causing leakage into the surrounding tissue.

Daily injections can leave a little under-the-skin scarring (feels a little like cellulite) so you have to vary the site a bit, but for most folks that's the worst of it. Well worth it for these sorts of results.
Those who want (and wanted) to did. There are however still many people who not only live their lives as they please but also say and display whatever silliness or ugliness they like on social networks, craving the attention perhaps but also gloating in the offense they cause. Others just don't care either way. The feedback mechanism may be there now like never before in history, but the human responses to feedback are largely the same they've been in many other times or places.
I had the same reaction. I minimize oxidative stress on my body by being selective about what I eat: having a bit less of some delicious things and eating a bit more of some boring foods that I know are good for me.

Also, fuck 'longevity.' The population of the world has doubled during my lifetime and this is a Bad Thing which is wiping out vast numbers of other species. Call me misanthropic if you like but humans are overrated and the maximization of our species' footprint is not a desirable outcome. I expect to live for a shorter time than my parents have (partly due to my own choices, partly environmental factors) and while that's disappointing in some ways I've been fortunate enough to enjoy reasonably good health and resultant quality of life. My idea of biological success is no living to the greatest age possible but having sufficient fitness and autonomy to be physically and mentally active while I'm alive. I have enough experience of injury and near-death situations to know that I'm OK with dying, and have no intention of begging to escape the inevitable.
And neither of those things happen in the USA. We kicked England out like 250 years ago, and our general belief is that Europe hasn’t had a good idea since they chose to colonize the Americas. Reasonable people think this is stupid, but we have a lot of unreasonable people here.
There's a lot of crap on YouTube; that taints things.
> You had to because you were studying for a specific exam, which you would fail if you only understood the deeper concepts but not specifics of the questions on that exam.

I mostly operated that way on a class-by-class basis in grad school, but at some point it became a conceptual understanding. The "aha" moment came in grad school when I was a TA for a class I didn't do particularly well in as an undergrad. During a help session, I couldn't recall a couple specific formulae, but I was able to infer and derive them based on my conceptual understanding of the topic.

I think the real difference was that I was now teaching the material, and in doing so, had to approach things from a totally different angle than studying for the test.
What would knowing my number change? If I say a number it becomes "just" eat less. With that just doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Just eat less may be easy for some people. It's extremely difficult for others. I shared my anecdote to point out that even within ones life it can change. It was not an invitation scrutinize my life. Too many people think the phrase "I have a hard time losing weight" is a justification to start quizzing people down about their habits and judging them. Fuck that.
Why I Left the Data Science Realm
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should only learn for "material" "monetary" "measurable" value, fun/thought has value too, but I think that in the context of this thread we are talking about learning to get better at job/craft, so
- languages, frameworks, concepts/theories/foundations, tools, and so on
If there are easy alternatives with the same outcomes, hard things absolutely should not be done (unless you're practicing for an emergency situation where the easy thing is not available.)
I've been all-in on usb-c for a long time, and have made a hobby of updating old devices to usb-c instead of microusb and in some cases adding li-ion cells. My favorite things so far is updating all of my retro consoles to usb-c power input and adding usb-c charging and a li-ion cell to my favorite keyboard, the 4th gen Apple wireless keyboard[1]. It has a bit more travel than the non-butterfly macbook keyboards. At one point I bought all US layout versions I could find in my country. I have about 10, some new in the box, which should be a lifetime supply.

Unfortunately, like another poster said, many usb-c devices are not compliant and only charge with an "a-c" cable. This is because usb-a defaults to 5V power, but usb-c defaults to no power output without negotiation or CC resistors. If you are in a pinch, a usb c-a adapter plus a usb a-c cable does work. In my experience these use the cheapest possible usb-c connectors that don't expose the CC pins, so to fix them, you need to remove the connector and install a new one. See [3] for power only and [4] for power+data.

Anyway, I always like to share 3 cheap products for anyone interested in upgrading devices to usb-c charging or connectivity. Since these are available from many aliexpress sellers but the actual listings come and go I will share search terms which hopefully work 1+ years from now.

- usb-c charging PCB for a lithium ion cell[2]

- usb-c connector with integrated 5.1kohm resistors, to easily use usb-c for 5V power without data.[3]

- usb-c connector with just enough pins for adding CC resistors and connecting to power and usb 2 data lines in an existing product, but without all the additional pins for usb3 and thunderbolt (because this makes it very difficult for a hobbyist to solder it in place without bridging pins). Unfortunately I don't know of a product with CC resistors + power pins + data pins so you do have to add CC resistors yourself.[4]

- small PCB with a chip to negotiate more than 5V (9V, 12V, 15V, 20V). Some of these offer fixed voltage and some are configurable.[5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Wireless_Keyboard#/media...

[2] "Ultra-mini Type-C USB Charger Module DC 5V 1A Charging Board"

[3] "USB 3.1 Waterproof Type-C Connector 16PIN 5A Female Socket Double 5.1K Resistor Support Charging And Discharging"

[4] "Micro USB-3.1 SMD 16P type-c Female Connector Socket"

[5] "usb-c decoy module"
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> Do you live there? It seems pretty effective IME.

I live in NYC, and I'll go on the record stating that NYC's trash collection system is an absolute disaster, because the city has long-refused to use containerized trash collection (the way every other city in the developed world does), and instead tells people to dump trash bags on the sidewalk 3-5 times per week, where they sit for 12 hours at a time before being picked up.

This is not an effective system at all. It exists only because elected officials have not wanted to give up a few free parking spaces every block in order to allow for containerized trash receptacles.

Thankfully, there's a pilot program on one block in midtown Manhattan to "trial" containerized trash collection. It began a few weeks ago, and is scheduled to last one year. Hopefully that will be followed by a wider rollout.
> Have you compared LZ4 to other compression algorithms, zstd for example?

I looked at zstd as well. IIRC, LZ4 compresses faster and zstd has a better compression ratio. A lot of the files being compressed are short-lived so it's typically better to compress faster with LiteFS. Maybe we'll support more compression formats in the future if it's useful.

> have you considered it against designs that use built-in features native to some filesystems

The ZFS idea is interesting. I targeted FUSE because it seemed like a lower barrier to entry and easier for users to get set up.
There might come a day when the USA would have to split in two to appease both sides. And that's sad because that implies tolerance for differences has been lost.
Its not the newest minor version, its the latest patch release for his version (that they can’t upgrade) that will need to run on a version of node that has stopped getting security updates.

His options are change the entire OS and database or run an old version of node.

But you are correct, this isn’t the fault of the JavaScript ecosystem, its a series of engineering decisions by the ghost team about what they target and support.
It's hard now, but this is a 20 year plan to replace the fleet. Already a budget item for the city, and, possibly, the frontline for union concerns about automation.
This probably depends on all the other variables involved, most of which we don’t know.

I cringed at the idea of the hip-battery idea but here are two things that came to my mind when I entertained it:

- If this is a productivity device, not for dancing around, then the USB-C battery pack could be optional. The device could be plugged in via cable when you’re at your desk.

- That braided mag-safe cable feels more like a nice piece of rope. It wouldn’t have to be that shitty tangly experience.

None of our brains work the Apple way - they have a thorough process. They implement the results.
Isn’t that a dangerous amount?
A sudden change in “natural weight” isn’t any more absurd than a sudden change in willpower.
It's an excellent choice for default controllers. Your hands are free to use keyboard and mouse, and your hands are also free for AR interactions in the real world.

If you need a controller (for games etc.), then there's always the possibility of using a 3rd party one.
I’m having a really hard time imagining what AGI would actually look like then.
I've been running JVM, nginx, and Aurora workloads on Graviton for awhile. The cost savings were too much to pass up, so I moved us over rather quickly where I could.
ways then succumb to weakness and opt for voodoo.

The drug has been tested and shows to work in randomized controlled trials. Not voodoo.
This was a feature way back in Windows 98.

Why did it never catch on?
And if ascetics were even a significant portion of the human population I would say that would be a useful measure. Instead their numbers are low enough that they are a statistical outlier along with those people that seem to eat as much as they want and not gain weight.

The fact is you can choose to starve yourself to death if you put your mind to it. I would counter that with 'why the hell would you want to'. Wasting a huge portion of my brain time to tell myself (oh yea, don't eat) seems like a massive waste of time and energy.

>to act on hunger requires conscious effort

Does it? I'd like to develop a test where I starve a large people for a little while. Then while I distract them with something I put some easy to eat like chips in their peripheral view and see how many of them realize they started consuming the chips. My ethicist says I can't do this unfortunately, but I imagine that a significant fraction of the group will not realize when they started eating them.
I was put on topomax for extreme migraines. Turned out a side effect was zero appetite.
Unfortunately another side effect was to lose of about 60 iq points.
Loved the weight loss. Missed having a brain.
For what it's worth, NYC has been designating some parking spots on city blocks in largely residential areas for local deliveries, so UPS/Amazon/FedEx trucks don't have to double park and hold up traffic. I'm sure it was due to the pandemic, where online ordering became a lifeline for many.
> It was the first programming language available to the general public that was easy enough for the public to use without a CS education - and it running on the web made it ubiquitous.

BASIC would like a word.

Heck, even Python came 4 years before JS.
Problem with diets is that your body responds to this new habit by panicking, thinking you’re going through a famine and reduces metabolism to compensate for reduced caloric intake while increasing hunger. It’s like if you’re he body responded to brushing your teeth every day by making you obsess over caramel corn. Most habit changes don’t have this “body actively fighting you with increasing ferocity” effect that caloric restriction does.
It’s probably a combination of factors, but look at the rate of change of obesity rates. Obesity rates have been going up almost everywhere. Essentially the rest of the world has been catching up to America. America was the first country where food was so abundant that it was essentially limitless for the majority of the population.

Perhaps the effect of limitless food on obesity rates takes time to manifest and is compounded in successive generations.
It's what I thought of here also. Most notably, liposuction has faired very poorly in studies of long-term health outcomes. Without the requisite changes in lifestyle or metabolism the fat that gets sucked out is replaced very quickly and has almost no decrease in risk of obesity-related illnesses.
We've gone quite far beyond never starving, we're eating far more than the required amount. Just a simple consequence of it being cheap and easy to make good tasting food by dumping sugar into literally everything. And the results are predictable.
There are barely if any alleys in most of NYC.
Most of the US tech hub engineers are being paid between ...
Same. I've played guitar for 22 years (mainly steel string acoustic), but last year started learning classical and I cannot get enough of it, even though I'm pretty shit at it. It's so much fun to learn, even though no one will ever hear it.
Microsoft to invest in autonomous trucking startup Gatik
Congrats on 13 years. I started selling my (desktop) software in 2005 and am still going.

>don't offer lifetime plans

Yep!
https://successfulsoftware.net/2008/09/08/should-i-give-free...
You would rather die than suffer through three months of occasional strong nausea, constipation and brainfog? I hope that's hyperbole or that you have someone to talk to.
I too found this valuable, I dropped 15-20kg doing this 5 years ago and slowly put it back on due to health problems. I’ve found recently that even cardio works - if I exercise, I don’t want to waste the effort by eating shitty food, if I do have a bad day or two (Xmas period) then it feels like a bank loan I must pay off before the interest kicks in.
I Bonds Beneficiary vs. Second Owner in TreasuryDirect
I feel like there's a hard split between California software developer compensation (sometimes) and the rest of the country.

I'd be curious to see an actual disciplined distribution of software developer salaries, with and without salary data from California.

I feel like there is a staggering difference between the two as someone who works closely with professionals who collect this data regularly.
I've seen nested function, whether or not it is also a closure, for ever; a closure is a function with an associated environment; a nested function is a function defined within another function.
Hmm, isn't curiosity the purpose in this case?

I think that in the context of this thread we are talking about learning to get purely better at job/craft
I had the same idea when I was in school, and wrote a chemical company I found in the yellow pages for a price list and order form for Sulphuric and Nitric Acid.

The happily provided both... with a minimum order quantity of around 250 gallons.
Obesity rates started rising in the 1980's in the US, not the turn of the 20th century. This corresponds with poor diet, not abundant nutrition.
Wow that's some impressive logical gymnastics. If these people adhere to the "healthiest diets" they will eventually no longer be obese.

American food is shit. Most people have no clue what healthy food is, even if they intend to eat a healthy diet.
I would describe it differently; deep vs wide knowledge.

I think having both skills is ideal; be able to quickly get things done, but also be able to acquire deep knowledge when necessary. T-shaped skills.

In reality I think there is no clear divide. If you do the on demand thing, you'll encounter situations that require a deep dive or if you recognize the same patterns in different things. If you do new things learning is inevitable.

I don't share the concerns, I think there is no shortage of people with super deep knowledge on many topics and I think we are actually getting better in using that knowledge to everyones benefit. I'm thinking tools like Streamlit, Supabase and Framer. You don't need to be a FE pro to build a simple dashboard, you only need basic SQL skills to create a backend, and you with just design skills you can make great websites.
Oh yeah, I wasn't really expecting it to be a general rule. I just built up "carbs = evil" so much in my head I developed a physical distaste for it, but I doubt most other people would.
This comment isn’t helpful or a retort sorry.
"Weight loss is a journey" -> it doesn't have to be, and it isn't for me anymore.
As one Discord user put it to a lonely, depressed new member considering whether to transmaxx, “u might as well transition, nothing to lose.”

Flagged - These Hormonal procedures are Irreversible, and there is a LOT to lose, even for a lonely "involuntarily celibate" MAN.