skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean yes, the obesity is actually not the only health issue in existence. Your weight and your health are two different somewhat related variables.

But so, the idea that everyone should take drug designed to make you thin by making you not feel hunge including thin people is scary.
I've worked at a few places and none of them have ever spent a dime on developer education. They've sent members of the "product core" team to events and trade conferences, but the devs are just expected to figure things out as we go.
"Critical infrastructure" is critical because it has some job more important than being a billboard for a cause. If you can make it a billboard without compromising it's primary function, then great, but obviously EV garbage trucks isn't such a case.
Whereas _every_ internal Salesforce townhall type meeting starts with 'Trust is our #1 value'.
Dosage, not the substance, makes poison.

Do you refuse any and all pharmaceuticals, or are such substances only okay when you take them?
I'm always puzzled by the stubbornness with which Apple refuses to make window management on macOS ergonomic. They think about so many subtler points, they can't fail to notice the elephant in their room. It bothers me every time I have to use macOS.

I wonder who should leave the macOS team to have this finally addressed, like Jony Ive had to leave to make the Macbook hardware reasonable again.
> There are many others drugs that lower appetite, and yet we still have an obesity crisis.

Which ones are prescribed in the US, on label, to treat obesity?
You were agitating for a hot war not 20 minutes earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249941), so the more dead Chinese the better, right?
People have become rather fond of the word "entitlement", there seems to be a particular glee in telling people they are entitled to nothing and great relish in telling them their suffering is justified and born out of arrogance and personal flaws.

It's funny because it's something I used to hear all the time from very conservative voices when arguing for progressive change. Now it seems to have been adopted by the other side to shut down the mildest complaints. If you ask to be able to discuss a controversial opinion without verbal abuse, harassment and threats, you are not entitled, you are a normal human being in a civilized society.
>The games industry has almost no old talent.

Guess I need to tell all the older people in the game industry I know they need to quit.
Great points - thanks for suggesting that approach!
"This seller is taking a break until Feb. 9, 2023" - any good alternatives in the mean-time? (Tindie has a couple as you mention, just looking for specific recs.)

Searching for "usb c cable tester" on every major search engine pretty much solely returns port testers despite "cable tester" being in quotes. The product category must be pretty stark (and my god do search engines suck now).

I'm also pondering a way to mark my cables with the results of this thing. Color bands (like resitors) with nail polish or something?
Successfully maintaining multiple unlinkable online identities is more difficult than most people expect. One slip-up, and you're linked. Too much sharing and you're deanonymized completely.

It's not a thing that most people can succeed at over the long term.

For example, recently a Twitter data breach has been in the news. If you are two of the 400M users, then your phone number or some other bit of information will likely be the same across identities.
I struggle to get things done on any PC until I install my personal AHK script which remaps certain keyboard and mouse functions in ways which dramatically accelerate my productivity.
Very inspiring! Not a hint of survivor bias.Long ramp of SAAS death ramp beckons!
We changed the title back to the original, in keeping with the site guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Among other things, it's much better when searching for previous threads on the same article. (I found several previous submissions, but they didn't have comments).

We also changed the URL from https://scholar.harvard.edu/waldo/publications/note-distribu... - might as well go straight to the paper.

It's a good submission—thanks!
I wish I got to this stage where people lose their cravings. While I'm at home I can control my diet pretty well, but as soon as there's junk food in front of me I look like a pig. And I've lost like 30 pounds, to put it into perspective.
Also, secp256k1 is a big missing curve. It makes this package useless to me :(
There's not much you can do to fix it in software, but you can fix it in the optics. You can add a Moiré filter to the camera, which is an optical low-pass filter, ensuring that the image that reaches the sensor does not have any spatial-frequency components above the Nyquist frequency of the sensor (ie, twice the pixel pitch).
Comparable jobs (i.e. a software job for a software layoff) or just jobs (lots of server positions out there)?
Stimulant medications have been and still are sometimes indicated in Binge Eating Disorder.
> Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease kill more quickly if not under control. These drugs keep diabetes under control..and diabetics like my wife are unable to get their meds because people are buying these off the shelf to lose weight.

This seems to be a short term problem, and the solution is to simply make more of the drug to match demand.
> never ceases to amaze me that the self styled "Greatest City on Earth" can't come up with a reasonable solution for its garbage

The status quo is sanitary and efficient. All things considered, New York’s garbage problem is on par with its snow problem. Well managed enough to work, but annoying enough around the edges to be fun to bicker about.

If you live in low-density New York, your experience mirrors suburbia; high, and your trash disappears down a building chute. It’s only we who live in the middle density who have to haul garbage to the basement and hear the beeping trucks at night. Even then, it’s clean and works.
> If you're a amateur something, that just does it for fun - sure

sed "s/amateur/comparatively poor, from a third world country, without VC money, or have cheap labor/g"

Not everyone can afford advanced tools or platforms, or even using something like AWS/Azure/GCP. Some of those can indeed be amateur use cases (e.g. side project or bootstrapped SaaS), others simply stretching your money for any number of considerations (e.g. non profit, limited budget etc.), but it's definitely possible. In some countries it probably makes more sense to just build your own solution, as long as you're not doing anything too advanced.

500 USD a month would get you approximately the following resources (taxes vary) on the aforementioned platforms:

Contabo
Nodes: 15 to 83 (depending on configuration)
CPU: 150 to 332 cores
RAM: 664 to 900 GB
SSD: 4150 to 6000 GB

Hetzner
Nodes: 7 to 110 (depending on configuration)
CPU: 86 to 192 cores
RAM: 192 to 384 GB
SSD: 2200 to 4800 GB

(this includes regular VPS packages, not storage optimized ones, or dedicated hosting etc.)

I'm not sure about you, but in my experience that could be enough for some pretty decent systems, albeit some storage heavy workloads would need the storage packages instead of the regular VPS ones. It's mostly a matter of picking a suitable topology and working towards your goals.

> Otherwise what you have is a budget that is lower than the possible implications of temporary downtime. That doesn't make sense in the real world.

This (depending on the circumstances) does sound like a good point! Maybe "the real world" isn't the best wording, though, and choosing "enterprise settings" or anything along those lines would be more suitable.
In addition to Kardashev scale, there should be a scale for how much power can a civilization project on an enemy at once. More advanced civilization should be able to project more power on similar scale as Kardashev. I.e. being able to project one star's power on an enemy would be a type 2 civilization.
Also, these medications aren't stimulants, which is really important for people who might be at higher risk for heart issues.
The Elixir `Enum` Cheatsheet
Have the side effects stopped? Or have you only been on it 3 months? My wife has been on Ozempic for longer than three months and the side effects haven't stopped. The nausea is typically bad for a few days after taking each dose but some of the others linger most of the cycle. For some I can see that tradeoff being okay but I can't see non-obese, non-diabetic folks making that trade-off for longevity. I know I wouldn't.
If it becomes standard to have such a file and it effects their bottom line, could they disregard it?
It is one of those solutions that at first look might sound good. But with closer inspection there is more and more problems. Like for example is equipping the trucks sensible? And what happens to the garbage that should have been collected? And training people for both jobs. As driving snow truck does require some expertise.
> At this moment in time, Plug-in hybrids are the superior technology for nearly every application. I don't understand why they get so overlooked by consumers and manufacturers alike.

Plugin hybrids cars are expensive, not at the least because they require both a traditional ICE drivetrain and a large battery and electric motor, and specialized power split transmissions to make those work together.

Therefore, most plugin hybrids are higher end (just like EVs) and marketed at wealthier people who want to drive electric most of the time but have range anxiety or don't want to deal with DC fast charging. Look for yourself:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15377500/plug-in-hybr...

That said, they can make a lot of sense if you need 1 car that can do everything, both short daily drives and long trips. The sleeper hit here is the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. The new ones have 38miles electric range and seat 7.

However, the falling price of batteries and growth of DC fast charging infrastructure means that they will PHEVs will be a bridge technology.

Many city buses however are starting to convert to some form of plugin hybrid, although even their

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_bus#List_of_tr...

However, even city buses are moving towards full electrification since the maintenance and fuel costs tend to dominate the total cost of ownership for them, and those are much lower with full electric.
For me the difficulty was switching my brain off. I tried breathing exercises, and meditation, but I couldn’t get them to work (maybe I was doing them wrong)

The thing that worked for me in the end was a static mental imagery, I was listening to a YouTube video and it said to imagine yourself on a lake, in a boat, looking at the sky, with no thoughts - this particular image didn’t work for me, but then they suggested imagine yourself in a dark room in a hammock - this image worked for me, and I was able to silence my mind and sleep quickly

After about 20 days of doing this, some kind of Pavlovian conditioning happened where my body understands that bed + this image means sleep now
There is also "Muskification" as seen at Twitter.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Moiré No More - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663719 - Sept 2021 (112 comments)

Moiré no more (How to de-moiré a halftoned photo) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394884 - Sept 2021 (2 comments)
is this actually happening? I download directly whenever possible so the dev doesn't have to pay commission to Apple and I've never had a download blocked.

EDIT: I see from the comments I wasn't adequately clear: yes, I get the notification but it's hardly a "block" as the the comment I was replying to said. It is by design trivial to bypass.
I didn't! The download URLs on that page all seemed to be HTTPS for me, though my browser might be forcing the HTTPS connection or something. Or it's just the macOS versions. I'd 100% believe there's plain HTTP requests in there somewhere. I was trying to get the JS to serve me the software for other OSes but was struggling since it seems to do more than just a User-Agent check. Fortunately that JS is the totally unobfuscated kind.

btw, love your article! Such an interesting obscure little corner of the world of technology. Hope to read more.
Reposts are fine after a year or so! This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Related: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/semaglutidonomics
Garbage trucks have easy attachment of snow plows and allow existing infrastructure to be on double duty. In a place like NYC storage of this many vehicles is also a concern, so just doubling your fleet for winter (3, maybe 4 months) usage isn't ideal either.
Ask HN: What is your biggest problem? (2022)
Hi HN,

In 2020 I had posted the same question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069693).

Now the world has quite changed in a little over two years and I would be curious to know if the "biggest problem" trends also changed.

This is the very simple (and purposely broad) question:

What is your biggest problem right now?
Heated streets?
Show HN: A word game created using ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion
Yes and what’s more surprising is the gain on the previous record: “handily beating out the previous record of 95 km/h (59 mph)„
Isn't all food addictive? Is there something more specific you mean about addition when it comes to these foods? It seems like it may be more about caloric density than addiction.
This is unfortunately completely untrue. Obesity, especially severe obesity, underlies the diabetes and heart disease epidemics. However obese people, particularly in the US and Western Europe, now represent a sufficiently large lobby (no pun intended) that there is significant public messaging parroting the 'healthy at any size' propaganda.
It’s a place where people who share a passion for creativity can communicate, earn money, learn, and promote themselves.

It is important for the client to get the result quickly, efficiently and preferably inexpensively, without fear that the performer will deceive. For the creator, it is important that the client accurately formulates the task and fulfills his financial obligations. It is important for everyone to get a place and tools that are easy and enjoyable to work on projects.

The Super1 platform will focus on promoting talented creators around the world, running competitions together with global brands, organizing grants and training, and providing partnership with teams developing the technology that advances different areas of the creative industry.
But that only works if you're an athlete or someone who works in the tech industry. (And doesn't get sick)

I doubt that anyone from the EU would like to migrate to the USA to do blue collar work.
> Union operators have expressed negative interest in connecting/disconnecting the batteries outside of the factory.

To be fair, union operators express negative interest in anybody outside their union doing anything that might be construed as otherwise the union's work.
I am wondering about that as well
VWAG is switching to Salesforce for CRM (ex-SAP) - really can't blame them to be honest.
What others have said about their BMC.

I reported a security issue about their BMC / IPMI to Supermicro, and Supermicro decided it wasn't a security issue, so they weren't going to do a thing.

There's no place in this world for companies that choose to wait for active exploitation before doing something.
this was amazing thank you! do you have a list of books you read or recommend (goodreads) to peek at?
Once AI can do all that with video, then we’re at about the point where automated video spam is too high also.
For German devs it makes sense to use a no dead keys keyboard layout IMHO. You rarely need the accents anyways and it saves a lot of time when coding. I made the switch a long time ago and don't regret it. For the occasional word like "Expose", I just leave off the accent and that's that.
Do you see the future being ChatGPT results but with citations? Or is that basically impossible given how it's a "trained model"?
Holy moly.

Never knew that Microsoft developed and owned ThreadX:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX#Products_using_it
But not only. It also follow that we need to regulate the industry and stop advertising for sugar for example
How was the process with insurance? About a year ago I tried to get on semaglutide and my insurer shut down every option. It was extremely demoralizing.
Reading Better: Retaining and Applying What You Read
My mother recently started taking these, and she doesn't have a very great mental health history to begin with. Do you have more information on this, and/or if this can somehow be mitigated?
I can't think of another major city where there are piles of garbage bags on the sidewalks everywhere.
So essentially you want to take choice away from the majority of consumers because it might make certain business models unprofitable and you want that business model for yourself? If that's not what you want then you need to better explain your point because right now it certainly sounds like that.
Two glaring exceptions. Bitcoin and Ethereum both use secp256k1. As well as a host of smaller copycat cryptocurrencies of course.

I don’t believe your statement about seco256k1 being depreciated is correct. There are even tradeoffs between the two curve families, approximately equal software and hardware support, and legitimate reasons for preferring one over the other. They are approximately equal performant in practice, and both have high quality, high security implementations.
Just to give you an idea of how much difference this makes, I ran the following benchmark as of a few minutes ago:

3 new SQLite databases each with 1 text column, inserting 1000 rows of 1 char per. Testing using .NET6 and latest copy of System.Data.SQLite.

Default / No Pragmas:
8806ms
WAL Mode Only:
2819ms
WAL Mode + Synchronous Normal:
44ms
Blink sounds cool, but this blog post is pretty thin. It's just restating a handful of tweets about Blink by its author.
New Orleans is like a place displaced from the rest of the state.
They honestly shouldn't be, though. This is by definition a market failure.
> So it isn't "kernel choosing which packet out of bunch H1 connections to send", it near always have enough bandwidth to have all of them on the wire, it's "just" slow start making it slower

I mean, it is. Ethernet is a serial bus, you can only send one packet/Ethernet frame at a time. Even if the server has some seriously fancy hardware, that capable to doing parallel DMA reads from main memory, directly onto multiple parallel network buses, it’s basically guaranteed that somewhere been you and the server all of data is gonna be read and copied one byte at a time (just incredibly fast).

As a general rule, computers don’t do anything in parallel. Because the complexity of coordinations and synchronisation is so high, and so expensive, it’s just isn’t faster than doing stuff in a purely serial manner.

Now obviously there are exceptions to the above rules, multi-core CPU, dedicated network devices etc. But even then, only the computation is done in parallel. Actually shuffling the data in and out of the machine is almost certainly going to be done over a purely serial bus. But unless you’re moving gigabits a second or more (such as between a CPU and RAM, or between a CPU and GPU, or between network queues in a switch), doing it parallel isn’t worth the extra complexity.
I think Windows Defender wants you to know it's there so that you don't feel the need to install Norton, because Norton will make your computing experience worse and you might blame Windows for that.
It is entirely plausible that an attack is found which halves the number of bits of all EC algorithms (this is about the amount of progress on integer factorization during the 20th century). With such a breach, 1W28 bit security is no longer enough, but 220 bits is. When the performance difference is marginal, I think it makes a lot of sense to build in some wiggle room for a little breakage
A device that uses a gyroscope to force stability of the subject through angular momentum, and a shock collar to make sure they stay within acceptable bounds.
AI can’t write books?
Gnome assigns SUPER+NUM to the applications in the sidebar by default. You can change the applications or their order visually and the keyboard shortcut is highly accessible.

It's one of the well thought features that makes me stick with it.
I've learned that if you don't have anything nice/constructive to say, better not say it.
FLOPPY FLOPS OF BYTES ENTERING MY MEAT NETWORK.

Braining my brain until it can brain no more.

As the buffalo prance through the grammar and the correlations break the symbolic network that used to think it could know.
I'm sure there are still going to be sources for training data.

Academia should still be good to train on. As far as "public-facing" sources, maybe we'll be able to prune away AI generated content somehow?
Probably not. For some shows, like Westworld they take it off so they don't have to pay a royalty and because someone might pay to buy or rent it.

For this, they probably figure it contributes zero subscribers and they could instead put it on a free services with ads and get incremental revenue. They are launching an ad based service.
>Same thing happens in fashion, media and entertainment.

And many of those industries unionized to prevent the systematic abuse!

If there was a headline

"Abuser abused many girlfriends in a row" you'd excuse their behavior saying there are plenty of other guys out there they could go with instead.
I map the function keys to virtual desktops, but same idea. And CAPLOCK to Alfred to select apps. Super easy on Mac, and difficult to do on Linux, the main reason I don't like Linux desktops.
To each their own.
The viewership could still have been relatively high and the streaming service could still decide not to renew if it was considered too expensive and there was a wish to cut costs.

The deep weird, interesting part of this negotiation is that it is happening "inside the same house": the incoming new management of HBO Max coming from Discovery have made it clear they are looking to cut a lot of costs and care a lot more about that than the value of the content they are cutting, while presumably the old guard still left at Warner Brothers are negotiating for the value of their more expensive to produce (compared to Discovery's niches) content.

From the outside we don't have a lot of details of these negotiations, including whether or not this was highly viewed content on HBO Max. We just see Warner Brothers Discovery punching themselves in infighting, and it is very odd and kind of interesting from this distance.
This article is devoid of most interesting information.
You should get a pop up asking if you want to launch the app or need to go into system settings to approve it. It’s a minor speed bump and is probably for the best for non-savvy users.
Author of Blink here. Ask me anything :-)
The problem is with plugins not wordpress itself. And those plugins may or maynot be open source. Lots of them aren't.
They very rarely need to plow snow in New York city, but when they do there are hundreds of miles to plow, and it is much faster if they begin the plowing before even an inch accumulates.

It is much more efficient to press the thousands garbage trucks into this rapid snow plowing service a few days per year than to waste 20 acres storing snow plows for the 350 days per year when they are not needed.
Unless you're in a country with a proper social healthcare system anyway...
I see memory efficiency as an issue, but not as a priority issue as it was 30 years ago.