skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree wholeheartedly with the conclusions of the article, but I already did so before I ever read the article. "I was an App Store games editor – that’s how I know Apple doesn’t care about games" doesn't seem to provide much if any insider info about the situation. It's not a tell-all article, as far as I can tell.

A more damning recent story is "Authenticator app advertising on App Store sends QR codes to developer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34907226
How do find these prices
If you cook eggs correctly, they stick less to a cast iron pan than to a teflon pan, and they hold together better.
> who cares about the contract penalties, when europe is seizing russian assets

Gazprom cares; seized assets can be unfrozen later, and penalties would eat into what they get back.

> just remove some of the sanctions, stop sending weapons to ukraine, and we reopen the pipeline immediately

This line of thinking extends to a lot more than just the US. The UK would be in play; Ukraine would have motive. So would Finland and various others. Even Germany might want to get the pipeline out of the picture to avoid internal pressure to open it.

And, again, "it couldn't possibly be us!" gives Russia some significant motive of their own if they think it can make Germany mad at the US.
"The conflict, which has been exacerbated by shortages of Mounjaro and two of its GLP-1 predecessors, Ozempic and Trulicit"
What is probably my favourite hotel/restaurant which is 15km up a single track road from the nearest village on the edge of the Moor of Rannoch is right next to where the wonderfully named Deerstalker train has a stop - so even though there are like 3 buildings in the middle of nowhere they have a direct train service from London:

https://www.seat61.com/deerstalker.htm

https://www.moorofrannoch.co.uk/
That doesn't explain anything, it's a tautology. This is like saying the reason why rich people are rich is that they make more money than they spend.
I personally see this as a positive temporary trend.

We are just collectively too many on our planet, and can quite easily cope with reducing our total number by e.g. 25% over the next 2-3 generations or so.

Unfortunately there's going to be a hump of older people with less younger people providing services and care - it's probably going to be my generation that suffers this - but hopefully on the other side we will have reduced our global footprint and will have worked out how to maintain the same standard of living, but in a more sustainable way without constant unconstrained growth.
>Overeating is a psychological problem.

Many would argue that drugs like this and Ozempic are showing that overeating is more of a hormone problem then a psychological problem.
It is tough, but that initial "whoosh" can be the momentum someone needs to help them continue/maintain healthy habits they built during that time.

I was put on Ozempic last year for a short amount of time. That, combined with changing of diet and starting an exercise routine, lead me to lose ~60 pounds in a relatively short amount of time (~8 months). I'm not taking the medication anymore and I did gain about 20 pounds back, but it's a lot easier going on a walk or run when you're carrying net 40 fewer pounds.

Willpower and discipline are simple things but they're not easy. In my opinion, it's important that the patient uses it as boost instead of a crutch and don't get too discouraged if/when they wean off and gain some weight back.
Not to let your attempt to change the subject and retreat to the motte from the bailey go unnoticed, but I wonder: who is it that you think you're replying to?
I don’t mind paying for content on a monthly basis when it keeps the game fresh. To each their own though. I feel like Hearthstone for example is reasonably priced for what you get.
"The conflict, which has been exacerbated by shortages of Mounjaro and two of its GLP-1 predecessors, Ozempic and Trulicit"

Supply chain issues
Anonymity isn't forgiveness, it's simply avoiding consequence. Forgiveness is a real world social transaction that can only be granted to real world identities, which presupposes an awareness on the part of the offending person and a willingness to change their behavior.

>Sure von Braun worked for the enemy, but the U.S. needed his expertise and therefore gave him amnesty. Same for Unit 741, Hirohito, etc. in Japan.

The US didn't forgive Von Braun and Japanese scientists, they simply chose to look the other way out of expediency, because the evils of the Axis had become a commodity for the Allies. That's a subtle but important distinction.
So you now need a framework to accomplish something browsers have been able to do natively for multiple decades. And we're calling that progress.
Nvidia and Bullish Outlook on A.I
There's a UBS-OTG thing. Allegedly. I haven't tried it, but have heard claims that you should be able to connect a normal keyboard to Android device.

My Android phone is planned to be made obsolete this April because the banking app decided to drop support to the Android version I'm running (and cannot upgrade). So, come April, I'll have to re-investigate the options available for making phone experience palatable, and will probably try this USB-OTG thing, so, will be better prepared for stuff like this.
Interesting. So I wonder what it is that Atomic Semi is attempting to do that is novel/different/unique?
Totally...although it makes sense in context. The Byzantine court was notorious for conspiracies, cabals, backroom deals, logrolling, and other shady political manuvers. The Eastern emperors were also presumably aware of the history of the Praetorian Guard in the Western empire, so their choice of bodyguard would probably have been a matter they thought carefully about. The logic, then, was to bring in a bunch of foreigners, from further away the better, with no ties to Rome and no interests there besides getting paid. All the better if these foreigners were immense badasses with uncanny pale skin and enormous beards.
So your best guess as to why small-farm pastured eggs are more expensive must be that they colluded? It's because they cost more - how is that not obvious? How did you skip past that to the other is what everyone was wondering.
Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
This looks like a very cool feature that opens a massive can of worms when it comes to liability. I cannot imagine senior management, much less corporate counsel, being okay with an IDE offering a prompt to go see (and copy) code from somewhere on the internet. I know... that's what we do anyway but having it active in the development environment suggests intentionality which can be cross-referenced with subpoenaed AI code search records to make the very plausible case that "Entity A" stole my code and is using it in their line of business application.

I'll probably use it for side projects and hobby programs but never for my day job.
This is how I've run my 1-3 man internal corporate line of business development teams for ~20 years. I've always handled bugs first. The biggest side effect I think you'll notice is that you are much more conservative about your architecture and what new features you allow. When everything becomes a potential show-stopper as soon a bug is found, you're much less inclined to try dumb stuff.
That only works if there is a type of object for each and every type of output you will ever need.

In my experience, there are often commands which just output text, and I need to parse them somehow, which leads to an awkward flood of Out-String | { $_ | Select-String -Pattern "etc." } type commands which are hard for me to get right.

Perhaps that's just a reflection of my lack of experience with PowerShell, but assuming commands have a stable CLI interface (which most commands do in the *nix world), it's much easier for me to simply parse things with sed/awk/grep.
It turns out you can cure obesity for free without any medication at all. Who knew.
For a lot of people, being obese impacts their ability to live an active lifestyle and desire to be social, which causes them to sit around and eat more, causing them to get fatter in a vicious cycle. Breaking the cycle for these people will have long term benefits.

Other people just have a disorder, where they literally don't feel the full signals that normal people do, so they only feel "full" when their stomachs are stuffed to discomfort. These people are already consigned to a life of suffering, either from being obese or from constant hunger and an inability to have a normal relationship with food. In this case being on a medication for the rest of your life is the lesser of two evils.
thank you so much for your support! Hope there're more people that think like you and are a bit 'empathic' about new services.. We improve with every single client, with every single request, and issue we face. So yes- Data Privacy is something very important but it's not only about IngestAI, I believe. Most of the SaaS solutions use API and are on AWS.. So, again, it's a wide topic, a buzz topic now.. Thanks again)
>obesity may very well lead them to diabetes. People will die.

How scary! If only there was a reliable way for patients to prevent this disease :-(
None of this disproves the point that the parent poster is making. 60MM = 2.5 daily culls. that's not a lot, in context.

Now, if you had different numbers, that would be a thing worth discussing.
My point wasn't the frequency of it but rather that it might be the case that some of YouTube's operations do work that way... so what? Is YouTube's convenience the point of law? No. So why does it matter?
The stochastic parrot is literally what would pass a Turing Test. Think about it. If the parrot imitates humans well enough it passes.

And while there may be objections to defining intelligence with respect to the Turing Test, I haven't heard of any definitions that are obviously and significantly better.

Our brains are stochastic parrots at least when it comes to communicating with text. People may digress into things like physical abilities, emotions, feelings, subjective experiences etc., but if we're talking about text, I'm not aware of a higher bar. In fact we probably don't know how to tell if an entity is "more intelligent" than the most intelligent humans because we won't be able to assess their intelligence.
Also: https://moonscript.org/ :-)
Very cool, but even so it's hard to see the benefit of learning PowerShell just for Linux. Interacting with objects instead of text is definitely a huge plus. However, the main benefit of bash is the portability. If you have to set up a special scripting environment on every machine you're working with, you're better off setting up something with a "proper" language instead (as noted by the author). If I'm willing to give up the ability to dump my script in an unconfigured environment and have it work, PowerShell is nowhere near the top of my list.

If you spend most of your time in the Windows ecosystem, then there's no reason not to learn it. If I had cut my chops with PowerShell instead of bash I'm sure I'd be clamoring for some kind of LSW system. There's a reason why things went the other way, though. I don't think we're going to get Rust bindings for C, either.
It's sad how far we've strayed from Bellamy's Looking Backwards style utopias and straight into Orwellian dystopias.

I predict the rise of more seasteaders, Oneida style communes, digital retreats, maybe even extreme cosplay like The Village ... a ton of people are just going to nope out of this hellscape.

Maybe the metaverse is onto something...
Generating Diagrams from Text Generated by ChatGPT
Argument doesn't really make sense. If you are trapped in a fire and the fire department kicked down your door and carried you out would you argue they really didn't save your life as you will die eventually anyway?
Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge
Absolutely. When my mom's instagram got hacked it was instantly apparent that the automated message it sent to me wasn't from her.
Train an AI on our conversation history instead, and I'd likely click any link it sent me.
If the machines could be super cheap you could make up for slow by having many run in parallel (~~not parallel beams working on same chip, since electrons deflect each other, but machines running in parallel~~).

Edit: linked below, https://www.ims.co.at/en/products/ , says it uses 512x512 beams with a beam field of only 82um. Is that spacing between beams, or width of all the beams together?
Obesity is a systemic problem that did not exist in a systemic way a few decades ago. Trying to solve a systemic problem by blaming individuals in a large system has never worked.

Obese people are addicted to sugar because it's cheap, it doesn't spoil and it's in everything.
There is a clear lack of connection toward France and Spain.
EDIT: Paris is of course well connected, but southern France and Spain are not. I live in Zurich and it's quite easy to go north, south, and east by train, but going south-west towards Marseille, Toulouse, Barcelona is really inconvenient. And it's not just about Zurich, because doing so from Milan or Frankfurt, I would guess, is the same. However I heard of plans for a Zh-Barcelona night train, does anybody know anything about it?
Yeah, I do, and my above post explains exactly why.
Marvel Snap is legitimately good, and you can play it without giving them any money and it's still a lot of fun. I only bought one of their season passes once because I was playing it so damn much already, I felt they earned my $10.

I normally don't play any F2P games at all, but this one appeals to both video gamers and board gamers (quite a few people who are into serious board games play it as well, including reviewers who normally stick to board games[1]).

It's a card game I expect will eventually have some sort of physical game adaptation, if not officially then unofficially (or some other game designer mimicking it). It's already kind of similar and likely inspired by the existing board games 'Air, Land, and Sea' and 'Smash Up'.

Even if you'd disqualify it for being F2P, I think it would be irresponsible for them to leave it off this list, as it is definitely one of the best games on the device right now.

[1]: https://www.dicetower.com/game-video/marvel-snap-review-3-mi...
As bad as the later seasons of Westworld are, the one part where Aaron Paul's character gets a rejection phonecall from a job "recruiter" was a real prime example warning of this sort of thing.

He asked the recruiter if there was anything he could do to be a better fit for the job. But the AI recruiter was designed to let him down easy about being not good enough. Not to help him improve.
"Just tell me, are you a real person?"
A problem with the both-sides fallacy that I've generally seen on the internet is it gets used very often to ignore one side of the argument however legitimate, good etc that argument is.

It's basically a nice mechanism to paint the other side as a bunch of nutjobs instead of considering their arguments.
Personally I’d like to thank the food industry for creating all these amazing products. I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault that some people find it very difficult to control the urge to eat too much, and I definitely don’t think I should be punished for that by making tasty food more expensive/harder to find.
Programmable System Call Security with eBPF
I don't mind monthly subscriptions alone but it looks like Hearthstone is full of lootboxes as well (via card packs) that feels pretty gross to me and like I said before, I feel it creates perverse incentives. I'll pay (and I do) monthly for games, but not if you are mixing that with lootboxes/gems/etc.
I suggest that you check out WASI - WebAssembly System Interface.
It has a subset of the POSIX file API that has been modified to not have some of its downsides. (TOCTOU problems, in particular)
Ask HN: Dead Comments
I have never seen so many dead comments at once.
What's going on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34909113
You're just wrong.

https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-breaking-eg...
Precisely. I follow because there is some interesting technical work being done. There is a lot being built but even after tons of time, effort, and resources (at least 10s of billions of dollars) the only thing that ever comes out of this work is another incredibly dense and nearly impossible to use "technological orgasm" with an extremely thin use case utilized only by (seemingly) the team that built it and a minuscule circle of hardcore enthusiasts.

MetaMask is by far the most popular wallet used for all things Ethereum and Web3. They touted "30 million" MAUs[0] during the peak (3/22) of the last crypto craze/bubble. Let's put that in perspective - there are an estimated 5.3 billion people on the internet. 30 million MAUs represents 0.06% of worldwide internet users. Facebook (which has been in rapid decline) has at least 2.6 billion MAUs. One social media platform vs an entire ecosystem (MetaMask can easily be characterized as the official onramp to Web3). Literally a half of a half of one percent of the TAM (internet users).

Want a (somehow) even bleaker picture? According to DappRadar the top 10 most popular Dapps[0] COMBINED have a lifetime total of 888k wallets (all numbers rounded up) that have ever interacted with the Dapp in any capacity. That's 0.00167% of worldwide internet users and I'm sure the MAUs for these Dapps are even more pathetic. Additionally, it's widely known that wallet != user (many users use multiple wallets and addresses). Looking at these Dapps none of them have any utility other than "DeFi" (swapping tokens around), play to earn games, and straight up gambling. To look at it another way, an absolute best case (impossible) scenario for MAUs of these apps worldwide is roughly the equivalent of the entire population of a small US city. Have you heard of Lee's Summit, Missouri (to pick one)? Yeah me neither and the same could be said for these Dapps.

All of the building in the crypto ecosystem is by crypto zealots for crypto zealots which the MetaMask and Dapp numbers show is an absurdly tiny (so small you can barely wrap your head around it) population. Crypto (other than gambling on exchanges) is an extremely obscure fringe religion.

[0] - https://decrypt.co/95039/metamask-consensys-30-million-users

[1] - https://dappradar.com/rankings
They should be mad at themselves for failing to take ownership over their own lives and health. But no, its someone elses fault that they eat an entire box of oreos every night.
I wish there was a modern X230 drop in. Something with great battery life, 1080p drop in screen support, etc.
Sorry I edited out all the discussions about WW2. Assumed this was a dead thread and it was safe if I did it quickly. I'll edit this and address them here... please forgive me.

Edit:

> The US didn't forgive Von Braun and Japanese scientists, they simply chose to look the other way out of expediency, because the evils of the Axis had become a commodity for the Allies. That's a subtle but important distinction.

Right -- you're making the distinction, between forgiveness in the sense of amnesty, and forgiveness as a ritualized, cultural, and Christian purification concept. Von Braun and Unit 731 received amnesty-forgiveness. Hirohito received ritual-forgiveness.

> Anonymity isn't forgiveness

Anonymity is forgiveness in the first sense.

GP was concerned with "the Cancelled" receiving both types of forgiveness. Anonymity only provides amnesty-forgiveness. It's up to you to reconcile that with the fact you don't receive ritual-forgiveness (and have to be ok with mere amnesty). Probably explains why most anonymous folks on the internet are so anti-establishment, because in this sense it (i.e., placing little value on ritual forgiveness) is a requirement to accept being a real person inhabiting an anonymous identity.
The Midori project I am referring to is a browser project built on webkit.

https://github.com/midori-browser/core
You really don't know why the person enforcing the most extreme interpretation of a rule without any interest in hearing why they might have made a mistake in order to disqualify a group of passionate young people from a competition they clearly worked hard for would get flak? Honestly, reading the replies to this post I'm relieved and surprised that you all didn't choose to go into Law Enforcement.
Here is a use case: While MathML is a web standard since 1997, there is no support for it. Still, we want to write "x = y &times; &epsilon; + c". And we want this to line up with another formula on the next line. Or you want to write down a simple matrix, where one of the elements is a Greek letter, but still would like numbers to line up vertically (it's a matrix!).

This works with any kind of pre-formatted text (like a "pre" element with the generic monospace font-family) in every browser, as it has, since there have been browsers, but not with Chrome. For Chrome, we have to put epsilon in a span element, make it display as inline-block, assign a width (0.6em), align the character inside this box, just to write a very basic formula! (I call this "training wheels for text".)

Repro:

x = y × ε + c
y = x × 1 + c

⎛ 1 −1 ⎞
⎜ ⎟
⎝ ε 1 ⎠

Writing the character "ε" for Chrome:

<span style="display: inline-block; width: 0.6em; text-align: center; overflow: visible; margin: 0; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box;">&epsilon;</span>
Sure. Everyone's spying on everyone. Allies spy on each other all the time. Getting caught occasionally is embarassing.

Intra-NATO spying and Chinese/Russian spying on NATO members is gonna have very different impacts, and be treated very differently by the two parties. If you think China wasn't trying to tap Merkel's phone, I don't know what to tell you.
Can you expand a little on psql service usage please? I tried googling, but just came up with using ~/.pg_service.conf and setting ENV variables and the like. Thanks!
Picking a Linux Distro
Show HN: Image Filtering App Using Homomorphic Encryption
I've read it and if you're referring to this:

> I do not have anything personal against commercial software, and I strongly support developers being paid for their work. But this kind of licensing makes Lispworks irrelevant to everyone but those already using their proprietary libraries.

is he wrong?

Go ask 100 random devs working for various companies. My money's on 99% on them avoiding those licensing terms in favor of probably anything else.
Food is cheaper and tastes better.the solution isn’t expensive bland food. It’s these drugs.
Where I work, we use Bitbucket Server, and as client vanilla git.
Last November I was absolutely floored by how low the prices and how high the quality of groceries was in a regular supermarket (a Rewe in Dresden) compared to the USA. Particularly bread and produce.

I don't even live in a HCOL US region.
Another fun thing: despite their fierce reputation, the Vikings probably had the best personal hygiene in Western Europe at the time. They spent a lot of time on grooming their hair and beards, and contemporary writers noted that they typically bathed very frequently--which at the time meant once a week.
Ah yes, the famous carbon sequestration technologies we are efficiently applying all over the world right now which have entirely prevented any effects of climate change. Amazing job everyone! /s
AIs don’t manipulate people; people manipulate people.

Every AI has a legal owner, author, and an agenda set by their human creators. Or at least there is always somebody to blame.

This is the basis for future legislation.
If she has insurance and a diabetes diagnosis, the coupon should apply. The coupon is still there. I use it.
Coincidentally I took Zurich-Amsterdam and Amsterdam-Zurich right this week. It was a direct nightjet sleeper, not sure what you're talking about.
I have colleagues that brought their own devices to the company, and then protest that they have to install this, and that, and the third one. Some just can't seem to separate work and life well.
One can write a perfectly good text editor without requiring contacts or location permission.