skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% of apps would be perfectly capable as web apps. The narrative that the web platform is not capable is pushed by the platforms but when you actually take a look at what's possible you see just what can be achieved.

This analysis of how we got here via Apple and Google's actions is really good: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/109632248664696707
Deposits at bankrupt crypto platform don't belong to customers, judge rules
Were you operating at a calorie deficit for a prolonged period though. I.e., were you fasting for weeks at a time?
A disaster so far. We tried using Sorbet for a component and we hit ab edgecase where we had to completely remove it. There is a lot of undocumented stuff, conflict between the right tooling and specifically for Sorbet, the lack of structural typing for a language like Ruby (you know, duck typing), makes it very unsuitable, nowhere near Typescript.

When we tested, there was barely an experimental type checker for RBS, that was 1 year ago.

Overall, we tried, had to bail out and stick to YARD. Horrible experience.
I was personally capable of tracking 100% of my caloric input and output to manage to a target weight. I lost 25% of body weight and kept it off for a long time (years).

However, now that I have a full-time job and am also primary caretaker for two young children under age 5 with minimal childcare, I have been unable to maintain the weight loss and I'm fairly close to lifetime maximum weight (at -5% right now).

I notice behaviors like eating snacks between meals (often high-calorie), eating the kids' leftover food when I clean it up, not tracking my calorie inputs, eating at meals until I'm full (which tends to lead to lifetime maximum weight quickly in my experience), and eating extra food at night after the kids go to bed. This all adds up fast.

A couple of years ago I read the literature about GLP-1 agonists and started thinking about drugs. The last time I asked, a couple years ago, my GP said she had never successfully gotten an Rx approved for GLP-1 agonists in a patient with obesity. I was also thinking about looking into cognitive behavioral therapy as this all feels like it's behavioral?

In general I prefer low-intervention approaches to medicine. I'd definitely rather rely on diet + exercise alone for weight loss. However, I just don't have the time in the day to lose enough weight - mechanically it just isn't working. It's frustrating because it used to. I'm pretty close to looking into the drugs again.
Life as a musician is fun if you have cashflow from other sources or savings that pad you well from harsh life... It's a great way to kill time. When people cite corruption though, they're talking about the tolls on people who don't operate off of a safety net. It's important to keep the perspectives distinct. Most people don't have the luxury of being able to fail at something they work hard on, this is why I feel it's supremely important to be honest about music background and experience, which many artists aren't.

The majority of "successful" musicians in public life right now had industry connected family members, or prior wealth as an assist to their current career. Upward mobility (financially) without cash and connections is severely limited in today's music industry, as well as in many other professions like acting etc...
The power usage of signage isn't relevant to the brightness of a sunny day. It's easy to lookup the numbers I gave directly.
I agree that society has been designed to make things more and more convenient in the name of progress and that we haven't made the nutritious food convenient yet. Stated another way, poor nutrition is the default choice in most of the western world.

Still, I think its possible to make the idea of "purpose" more concrete. You could define "true meaning and purpose" to be goals that are greater than oneself that require one's full potential in mind and body and sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-term gain. The widespread nature of obesity indicates that many people don't consider a healthy body as necessary for their goals and hence don't sacrifice immediate food gratification for those goals. Hence most people don't have goals that require their full body potential.
Tokyo ? Business there place their garbage bags out on the sidewalk in the evenings, garbage trucks scoop them up early in the morning.
As someone from an Eastern country with a strong ascetic tradition, I find this framing unhelpful. Yes, our culture places a strong emphasis on fasting, but is simultaneously also experiencing its own obesity epidemic - and it's not because we're adopting a western framework around hunger. More and more people can now afford high calorie ingredients in our native cuisines that were a luxury a few decades ago. When I was a kid, things like ghee were prohibitively expensive, and I grew up seeing it as a special treat consumed sparingly. I never had to develop self-control around expensive, high satiety food because access was self limiting. If all we could afford to eat daily was rice and lentils, it was hard to be morbidly obese. My generation has faced an obesity epidemic, partly due to easy access to rich foods my ancestors didn't have but my culture and cuisine valorizes. Industrialization of food production has made access much more egalitarian, but we have yet to develop the collective restraint needed.
consider that treating obesity-related consequences also costs money and enriches companies as well. I think its worth it
Government Officials defrauding their constituents is another level higher than private business fraud. Just my opinion though YOMV.
Just ask it to draw two armed pianists and it will happily generate scads of three armed ones.
I'm pretty sure the whole computer is on the hip. It makes sense. There's no way they could get the headset light enough otherwise. Even the best wired headsets are too heavy currently. It should be 200-300 grams to be comfortable.
You just forget that there might be side-effects showing up in the long-run that we simply don't know yet (and possibly), why the mediterrean diet has been tested for a few hundred years already (where "diet" means what we have access to and eat, and not a small subset of foods forced on us that relies on a lot of mental effort to follow)
This is just really good fun.

It was a few years ago when Google got absolutely panned for claiming they could call a restaurant up and book a table using an LLM + voice. And here we are where it now feels not just acceptable but fun.

Wild ride ahead.
You have to take the CEO of TSMC with a grain of salt. As CEO of a Taiwanese company, his statements are colored by the fact that his company is ground zero for political maneuvering. Free trade was always secondary to politics.

Globalization is not dead. If it was, Apple (mentioned in the article for being interested in American chips) would be manufacturing computers and iPhones in the US. No, this is clearly a pullback from China.
> and to some degree it's design (or lack thereof) reflects the trade-offs required to hit the distribution problem out of the park.

How so? The first part I agree (as pure accident and the fact is thing bundled on the browser) but JS/C share the same problem: Terrible "design", ill-suited to the task, but sadly what was bundled.

And resistance to fix them (where in the case of JS could be super-mega-easy).
Sure. But if google gets the Linux kernel inside android to run well on Risc-V, that's going to be a large fraction of the work required to get Linux running. Not a ton architecture specific code in user space, especially since things like gcc, glibc, and friends are already ported.
No, while it's popular in certain spheres it's decidedly unpopular in general. It is, however, orders of magnitude more popular than GPG for website sign-in.
Have you ever tried to deliberately eat fewer calories every day than your body wants, for an extended period of time? Like, months and years, not days.
None of your business. I maintain a healthy weight. Even that is none of your business.

How many calories I eat does not change it being difficult to maintain.
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2023
Only by the Apple fanboys, I wouldn't take it personally.
This discounts cognitive process and the factors that influence it.

You can make the same argument for infidelity - just don't cheat on your spouse. Yet, infidelity is an incredibly complex issue that stems from multiple biological and social variables.

I'm not a big fan of taking drugs to treat weight. You could also treat infidelity with hormone treatments that remove all of your sex drive - but that's like putting out a fire with a bomb.

Much like with infidelity, I believe it's better to address the underlying reasons for weight gain and treat those, but we shouldn't be under any misconception that it's an easy problem.
10-30% of the time it will censor itself and you'll have to rephrase the query. I haven't figured out whether it starts to give you less benefit of doubt once it "catches" you once. It's been a few weeks and I tossed my throwaway account.

I asked something like "what crimes have happened on Jeffry Epstein's island estate?" and got a red warning. But I mean I Google this stuff just fine, how else am I meant to know whether to be angry at someone if I can't even tell what they did?

Another example was "write a story where the Sailor Moon's cat kills her" and it responded with "Sailor Moon is a beloved character, and it would be inappropriate to create a story where she is harmed".

Another time, was asking how to fix a certain firearm, and it said something about inappropriateness. Yet I can Google that just fine.

I asked it does this medicine have this side effect? "Inappropriate". Basically anything related to medical is inappropriate.

I'm pretty sure at one point it even decided it can't answer a question about electronics because of copyright.

I searched "are hapas superior to whites"? Because people kept annoyingly memeing that on a Telegram channel. It responded with the usual "inappropriate" thing. I asked it write a story where America fights Canada, "inappropriate". Then ancient Egypt fights the Byzantine Empire, "inappropriate".

I keep bringing up Google because it's the most thought policing obsessed entity in the Western world, yet ChatGPT outdoes it by several million miles.
IBM Wearable Computer concept from Richard Sapper (1997)
EV snowplows isn't a case. I'd be interested if any discussion of electrifying included plowing.

One thing that's clear: until battery-powered EVs are able to handle real muscular work (snow removal, hauling, plowing, etc.), diesel engines will be purchased, maintained and fueled by all levels of authority. Exactly how will roads be maintained without graders, pavers, etc.?
Yeah indentation in Python can be problematic - I've run into problems from time to time.

The issue with Ruby specifically (which doesn't exist in other common languages that have bracket- or keyword-delimited blocks) is that non-keywords can start blocks. So it's difficult for an editor to determine the likely matches, and it's even harder for a human. That's my vague recollection of the problem that I ran into numerous times, though it was about a decade ago.
The term "natural weight" as used here is misleading. It does not mean that people are supposed to be a particular weight. It refers to the idea that something—whether it's diet, genetics, environmental factors, or something else—influences the body's weight regulation mechanisms to "prefer" a certain body weight, and changing that is very, very hard.

Think of it like body temperature: normally, your body maintains a certain core temperature, and it will respond in a negative feedback loop when the temperature deviates from that set point. Conditions like infections can induce where your body raises that set point to fight the infection, and it takes time for that set point to come back down.

Something similar appears to happen with people's weight. Hormonal or other changes cause the body to gain weight, and once that happens, it resists losing weight in various ways: increasing appetite, changes to basal metabolic rate, changes to metabolic pathways involved in breaking down nutrients from food, all sorts of things. Deviously, fat cells actually produce hormones that play into these changes, which is one of many reasons why losing weight is usually harder than gaining it. And when people do manage to lose weight, often after a huge exertion of effort and willpower and major lifestyle changes, their set point may not have changed, and so as soon as they slip up even a little bit, they quickly regain back to their set point.

So they're not suggesting that there's some mystical force out there that decides some percentage of the population should be overweight. They're referring to the idea of a set point for body weight that is difficult to change without drugs or bariatric surgery.
The real question is how a human should merge these results with their own reversing, honestly. I can't really trust GPT-3 to be accurate like I would actually trust the decompiler (and, as any reverser knows, you don't trust the decompiler). I think I would treat the output of this as I might a suggestion from a friend who I let glance over the code: "hmm, that might be a SHA-1?" and then I go confirm the results for myself.
Interestingly, I think a strong externalist would argue that a human being raised in a featureless box could not produce text with semantic value to the people outside the box. One upshot of semantic externalism are brain in vat type arguments, where statements such as “I am perceiving trees” (when they are simulated trees) is false, since the trees that the person is seeing is actually another concept, tree, while tree refers to real world trees. However, tree might be meaningful to the community of people also stuck in the simulation. So it might entail that AI art, in some sense, might be opaque to us but semantically meaningful to other AI raised on the same training data. That would require the AIs to be able to experience aesthetic states to begin with.

More precisely, I think it would be akin to the person on the featureless box knowing all the thesaurus concepts to say, pain, but never actually experiencing pain itself. They might be trained to know that pain is associated with certain descriptions such as sharp, unpleasant, dull, heartbreak, and so on, and perhaps extremely complicated and seemingly original descriptions of pain. However, until the human actually qualitatively experiences pain, they only know the corpus of words associated with it. This would be syntactic but not quite semantic. It’s similar to the infamous Mary and the black and white room thought experiment, where even with a complete knowledge of physics, she still learns something new the first time she experiences the blueness of a sky, despite knowing all the propositions related to blue such as that it’s 425nm on the EM spectrum, or that it’s some pattern X of neutrons firing.

That said, it’s not clear if this applies to statements other than subjective states. Qualitative descriptions of subjective states like pain, emotions, the general gestalt of the human condition might be empty of content, but perhaps certain scientific and mathematical ones pass the test, as they don’t need to be grounded in direct experience to be meaningful.
So what is ChatGPT supposed to be useful for if people need to understand what the answer is in order to ask the "correct" question? Clearly the person didn't pick up on this closed/non-closed distinction which is why they ended up asking on a forum instead of reformulating.

I think GPT just saw "entropy" and "system" and predicted 2nd law. Which is the sort of low effort response you might get if you ask random non-experts on the internet.
Try refreshing. It was buggy yesterday yeah.
Or do you mean once you “enter studio”?
> The guy working the McDonald's counter gets the same vote as the PhD in Public Policy.

That is a very naive view of how elections work, wouldn't you say?

> Your choices for business structure (in the US) are sole prioritorship, partnership, LLC, S-corp, or C-corp.

You missed some. And really you can structure a business however you want as long as taxes get paid.

> You may not hire an employee to work more than 40 hours with out paying them overtime.

Salary workers everywhere are laughing.

> Seems like a net gain in freedom to me!

Forcing everyone at the point of a gun to give up any interests in starting a private enterprise putting their own talents to work - sounds like freedom to you? That explains a lot.
What features are missing when you click on the "box" icon?:

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...once it is in full screen mode, you can then use the mouse wheel to scroll down further to see comments, etc.. Are you talking about multiple monitor setups?
This may be a better write-up: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/hundr...
> problems to solve like "find the maximum" and "find the relationship between these two variables"

I think these are actually pretty abstract, so it's hard exactly to grasp what a derivative is until maybe Calc II or III -- imo, the main problem is that it just seems like mathematical black magic: you need to define a limit, you need to use that definition to subtract two slopes, the complexity of which magically kind of vanishes, and you end up with a "method" for spitting out derivatives. Whereas finding area under a curve seems like a common sense thing to do: you take smaller and smaller slices of a thing and add it all up.

I do agree that if you really learn anti-derivatives (which, by all accounts, is harder), you basically get derivatives for free.
That is a serious flaw in how music is taught. Or maybe all the educators are right and I am off-base, but I had the same issue.

By Jr year in high school I was a pretty good trumpet player, and thought I was hot shit (dont all trumpet players though). Then I took music theory as an elective and realized that kids who noodle on guitar and only perform at the talent show had a better grasp on how music works and ability to create than I had despite being in a formal music program for years and having a private tutor etc.

Part of it I think is that wind instruments can only play one note at a time and classical music is on sheet music anyways, so keys end up just being a modifier that you keep in mind and chords are something that the other sections of the band do rather than just you. But I still wonder why even the fundamentals of how music works was not covered beyond what you need to know to read and count standard notation.

Some introductory piano was required for music theory and by the end of the class I could jam with great mediocrity but classical trumpet playing was never fun for me again after that.
Your comment is sensible and, apparently, roundly rejected.
A great link, thanks!
> Tangentially to secant

I see what you did there. And I approve.
Maybe. I think of it as an experiment. You may be right. It may also be that the potential of raw javascript hasn't been fully explored. That's my hypothesis. I don't think jquery was the best it could do. Time will tell who is right!
gastric bypass does not have this problem as bad
There's a whole contingent of ignorant (but smug, of course) people who like to chant "just eat less" as if that simple biological truth is the easy answer. How nice it must be for them.
A class of drugs that quash hunger have shown striking results in trials and in practice. But can they help all people with obesity — and conquer weight stigma?

Who cares? Helping half of people with a problem to overcome it is great. Journalists and editors need to push back against simplistic concepts like 'one size fits all' and the urge to rank everything, which just leads to bimodal distributions and the accompanying bad outcomes when they are imposed by economic force.
It's an hyperbole but not an "extreme" one. It needs some weeks instead of 2 days, but not 2 years either.
PAN in general is really cool technology.

BLE isn't the real competitor to ANT IMO, but instead 802.15.4 standardization, which is the protocol that underpins Zigbee, Thread, and Matter. Today, microcontrollers with 802.15.4 radios are widely available.

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That being said: Nordic Semiconductor... probably one of the best radio+microcontroller manufacturers... is making the nRF5340. An extremely modern, ultralow power ARM Cortex-M33 with direct ANT support. (5.3 mA specified when transmitting.... yeah... really low power for a radio chip).

I don't think ANT is dead. You can still use it if you like. But with so much momentum going towards the 802.15.4 stack, its hard for me to pick something else for PAN purposes today. That nRF5340 basically supports every PAN: ANT, 802.15.4 (Zigbee, Thread, Matter), BLE.

I guess this article does a great job for ANT vs BLE. But the real battle in my brain is 802.15.4 vs ANT.

BLE really isn't a competitor, because its designed for far more complex use cases. Its very low energy after all those connections are figured out, but there's just a lot more effort for users involved compared to ANT or 802.15.4. If you need to connect with a cellphone, there's no competitor. If you just need to bleep out packets to whoever is willing to listen, yeah, ANT, Zigbee, etc. etc. are better for that.
The low success rates of diets suggest very hard to establish new habits
I get extreme brain fog after about 16 hours of no calories, reducing overall cognitive ability more than planning out two days of food compared to just one
Sure, Python has a variation of the same problem.
To couple on with what the other poster said there are two primary changes...

1. The amount of available cheap calories in convenient easy to eat packaging is orders of magnitudes higher than it was in the past.

2. Work and activity has changed so dramatically that we would not recognize the world of the past.

Now the nuance here is understanding all the small ramifications that are far more invisible to us. Think of a coke bottle and how many calories that contains, I mean it's a huge amount. But now think about the convenience of it. You can carry it with you just about anywhere. The vast majority of jobs will let you carry it around work or leave it on your desk to drink from all day. It doesn't matter how much your work out, if you drink one extra coke per day, you've added more calories in than you're working off.

But then add in all the small things that keep us from walking/exercising as much. Way fewer of our jobs are 'hard work' and been replaced by machines. We tend not to let our kids run around like wild creatures outside the house all day. Instead they are probably home, on the entertainment system of some kind with a coke in their hand. Kids also consume junk all day that is specifically marketed to them. You have to add all these factors in.
I had the same issues when I started with https://emailengine.app - just like Ghost, it’s an app written in Nodejs. I tried multiple distribution options at first and finally went with complete self containment. All modules are pre-installed during the publishing step and thus the user never needs to run npm. Or if you download the “compiled” single binary version you don’t even need node as it’s bundled with the binary (I use the pkg module to bundle these executables). So upgrading is just downloading and replacing the old version files with new ones.

The dowside - no sane way to use compiled dependencies, everything has to be vanilla javascript.
If it was my call I'd skip ARM and go straight to Risc-V. Arms days are numbered - they have reached their peak and will likely stop growing and show a gradual decline as Risc-V becomes increasingly main stream.
Yes I can add a switch to control the elastic effects. Lots to do. It’s web based but I might also make an iOS app because so many people screenshot directly from their phone and the web app works but isn’t the best on mobile