skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, I'm not obese. Second, you lack reading comprehension. Third, you come across as a judgmental and unpleasant person.

It's obviously possible to lose weight with diet and exercise.

It is completely useless (scientifically) for a doctor to say, "Go exercise and lose weight." Same for other similar things, like weight loss and nutrition education. It's been proven over and over again in scientific literature that it doesn't affect outcomes at scale, every trial shows the same thing.

People know that they should eat less and exercise, saying it is not the issue.
I’m sure homeschooled kids aren’t indoctrinated, at all.
Microsoft has always been a polyglot company. They also invested heavily in R and I believe even contributed some things to Julia.

I don't think the pivot entirely failed, there's definitely a small niche for "data science, but it needs to run in .NET" and F# still to my understanding fills it well. It's a very small niche and I don't expect to hear a lot of data scientists directly training for it, but there's a lot of advantages in places that use the Azure stack, for instance, for faster/better/more integrated data science when done with F#.

F# would probably need a lot more investment in dynamic types to truly attract a lot of data scientist attention. (Though the .NET DLR still exists and could use some fresh, modern love.)

Relatedly, I appreciate a lot that Microsoft's polyglot approach helped standardize the ONNX runtime, and even if the data scientists I'm working with prefer Python or R, I can still take ONNX models they build and run them in a C# or F# library with very little sweat.
Good catch, I think that built-in data filtering can actually be a good addition to this new standard. I imagine a rego rule in OPA (or any other policy language) can accept the result json and modify it in place before sending the sanitized/filtered response back to the frontend client.

This is not very performance efficient though - maybe if the source api supports it, the proxy can inject filters (via headers / query params) to the modified request based on the authorization policy.
This problem can be addressed with chat history summarizaton. Langchain has some tools to do that
And I don't think either side trusts the other when they say "we're launching a rocket near you but not at you".
seaweedfs
I mean, based on the fact the new drugs are hormone related (they help lose weight by suppressing the hunger mechanics in the body) of course people "don't listen to what you tell them". You're telling them to, with will alone, totally ignore their own body's hormone disorder. I'm sure narcoleptics can also just stay awake when you tell them, or I'm sure people with thyroid disorders can also just overcome it with sheer will.

I think no one willingly eats themselves obese. Something else must be going wrong-- an eating disorder caused by trauma, or a hormone disorder, or something. Normal-sized people just don't feel the need to eat that much and genuinely find overeating to be deeply unpleasant, because their bodies are responding healthily to too many calories ["I shouldn't have had that extra slice of pizza, I feel like shit"].
Re: stupid.

I have surprised deer on the road, at night, and had them respond by running toward me. That did not help the probability of a collision...
Yes, historically, but the term is context dependent now.

For example, Google widely advertises that its Pixel phones get big "feature drops" every few months.
Yeah, I don't really understand why they didn't just comment out the high level function call (option 3) and inline option 4 below. Then they could have clarity and performance.
JSON is not "modern".

* curly braces are not modern.

* quotes around strings are not modern, and neither are backslash escapes like \n

* commas and colons to separate items are not modern; square brackets for arrays are not modern

* JSON's printed floating-point format which looks like 123.56E+78 can be seen in computing-related documents from the late 1950's.

* HTTPS isn't new, and sending formatted data over web transport as an API is soon going to be approaching thirty; remember SOAP from the 1990's?

The SOAP was handled by so many hands it shrank down to JSON.
Many 'other nations', too.
That story is a despicable example of shabby police work. They found blood on the lawnmover and assumed it was her blood. They never tested the kind of blood. It turned out it was blood from snails.
Ctrl+F "covid" Phrase not found

Seriously, a huge part of the internet is down because the team was taken out by Covid (both death and complications), and no one even mentions this? All the evidence points to the covid complication rate compounding with each infection. Rarbg is only the start of where we can all expect to be in 5-10 years without more serious long-term mitigations (universal indoor air filtration).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/last-pandemic.htm...
The idea that continuing with life as normal -- especially various forms of essential social contact and economic activity -- amounts to "murdering workers" when a somewhat bad respiratory virus is going around was one of the most risible bits of nonsense pushed into widespread adoption during the COVID response. Just because Doctorow may not mind extended social isolation with only his computer to keep him company, does not mean that everyone else was somehow uninformed if they weren't agitating for the same restrictions to be applied to themselves. Life is more than the pathologically assiduous avoidance of death.
It might help to expand on "bogus". Bogus has a few levels, going from "not good, but possible from a well-intentioned author trying to do the right thing" (low-level bogus) to "outright deception" (high-level bogus). Small sample sizes, statistical errors, and flawed (but honest) experiment design are all, I suggest, low-level bogus. Faking data and plagiarism are high-level bogus.

I think peer review is capable of, eventually, mitigating low-level bogus. The quantitative standards in fields where low-level bogus is a problem (e.g., but definitely not only, medicine) are rising. Peer review is not a scalable solution to high-level bogus. Figuring out high-level bogus seems to be almost a full-time job [1]. You cannot expect this level of effort from researchers, especially if they are reviewing for free; I would even argue that it's easier to fake data than to figure out it's fake. It also requires more expertise to assess quality research than to write a low-level bogus paper and submit it. There's a mismatch here. There are not enough expert reviewers to handle all the low-level bogus papers.

The solution therefore seems to require some kind of reputational component. There needs to be a cost to engaging in high-level bogus. But this is a hard problem. Do you ban any lead author of a paper with demonstrated high-level bogus? Publicize their names? Ban any author of a paper with demonstrated high-level bogus? Throttle the submissions any one person can make to a conference/journal at a time? I don't know. But the current model will have to change.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/32440f74-7804-4637-a662-6cdc8f3fb...
No, the injured party (the woman denied boarding, the daughter, and thus, denied the ability to testify) was a US citizen. It's right there in the quote pulled from the legal doc.

(IIRC, the mother was also on the no-fly list, and that was context of the case itself, even. One could rightly also refer to her as an injured party too.)
Unquestionable facts do not exist in science. It is not how the scientific method works. It is a serious issue that the basic foundations of scientific method are now completely misunderstood by the vast majority of the public. This issue is spilling into politics and academia, as showed completely clearly with covid and terms like 'The Science' being used in an outright authoritarian or even religious way.

I think science needs to be taught through a different lens, without unquestionable facts, all the way from childhood. If done properly it only has positive effects in improving critical thinking and adding a sense of wonder about all the facets of the universe that remain to further understand.

Unfortunately it likely comes down to the unfortunate observation that political powers want a public that is trained to be obedient and accept facts handed down from above.
I haven't used Usenet for some time but I remember probably 15 years ago a lot of the files were DMCA'd or incomplete (even with parity) and it was difficult to put together a complete download. Does it come down to the indexer you use? Have things changed these days?
EU and US lawmakers move to draft AI Code of Conduct fast
I grew up in the Cincinnati area and spent a large portion of time in North Carolina. I now live in central Ohio. “Exam” is definitely a word that gets used wherever I’ve lived. Examples have already been brought up — final exams, AP exams, actuarial exams, comprehensive exams, etc.
Never mind the whole magic trick of landing the first stage on a barge and catching the faring in a big net.
Here's a follow up to this:

PSA: Every legitimate long term study of major non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people. It's basically freakish when succesful in the long term.
1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person in the study lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.
this is the "anarchist" hacker mindset; fear of "the man". open source is always going to lag behind the huge, well funded corporate option because they have teams of highly paid tech working on being first out the traps. open source and corporate dont really compete except in the minds of "anarchist" hackers who don't like capitalism. Yet both worlds can exist, and do. Adobe have produced a mind blowing product. Open source versions wont be far behind. Both pathways exist in parallel. Open Source wont be funding the top of the range stuff ever.
> Ultimately here that means solving some thornier problems, because it is an amazing but accurate stereotype these days that the person riding a bike in most cities is more privileged than the person driving. The former could afford a nice place in the city, which is way more than the cost of car ownership - and almost certainly relied on nepotism in some way.

During the pandemic SF closed a section of Great Highway, a road that runs along the ocean in the Sunset district, so people could get out and exercise on it and not have to get close to others. Now, Great Highway is also one of the fastest ways to go north-south through the area. I met one guy who lived in Sunset who was welding up caltrops to throw on the road if it was reopened to car traffic. Surely those noble caltrops would know better than to puncture the tires of a single mother driving in from out of town to work at his local coffee shop, though. Talk about privilege.
Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast
You shouldn't assume what I do or do not do.

I take my kids to the movies. I subscribe to services like Apple Music and TV+, and HBO Max. We watch YouTube videos where there's sponsored content in them. We buy officially licensed merchandise like clothing and toys. We buy books, both physical and digital.

And, frankly, it doesn't matter what I do personally. Millions, hell billions, of people around the world do as well.

If artists are struggling it's because they're not getting paid properly by the corporations they work for, like Disney, Netflix, and others. It's not because of individuals like you or me or the people that run piracy sites.
Total and Belgian energy startup plan US synthetic gas investment
Smells like Windows
You might like this article from 2022 too then: “The Man in the Eyeball Mask”. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/hardy-fox-th...
Yeah I'm sure that explains many of the complaints. I would be surprised if there weren't changes happening that has degraded quality, though, even if only marginally but perceptively.
> Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse.

Maybe that's a bad thing. Having one central site rather than many is better for searching and availability of uploads.
How The Pixel Fold's hinge was designed and built
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documentin...

I think this is the link you are talking about.

Under the "number of deaths section":

> Jews: 6 million

> Soviet civilians: around 7 million (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)

>Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials: at least 70,000

etc

So yes, I think you are right, non-jews were killed as apart of the holocaust, but it is defined as "The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazi regime and its collaborators."

I agree it doesn't really seem fair to ignore the other 50% of people that were killed and only ever define it as the killing of Jews.
Here's the environmental factor: massive amounts of sugar and syrup. Ban companies from pumping kids with high fructose syrup and sugar. Ban the sale of milk, yogurt, bread, cereal, juice boxes, sodas, and any other foods contaminated with high fructose syrups and sugars. Only then can we actually say we are fighting this weight problem. Everything else is lip service.
Thoughts on how you compare to airplane.dev?
of course they are, its a choice do you let the state do that or the family
They're not learning about on the periodic table prior to age 16? You've got to be joking, That's like early elementary school stuff.
The guide to securing your code on GitLab.com
What is Automatic1111? Google didn't really help that much, seemed like a whole lot of inside baseball
It's not exactly Gibbons' The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Rome, is it.
ToolBench: An evaluation suite for LLM tool manipulation capabilities
https://archive.is/D3e8l
Recent studies on software tool manipulation with large language models (LLMs) mostly rely on closed model APIs (e.g. OpenAI), as there is an significant gap of model accuracy between those closed models and all the rest open-source LLMs. To study the root cause of the gap and further facilitate the development of open-source LLMs, especially their capabilities on tool manipulation, we create the ToolBench. The ToolBench is a benchmark consisting of diverse software tools for real-world tasks. We also provide easy-to-use infrastructure in this repository to directly evaluate the execution success rate of each model. Contributions to this repo are highly welcomed! We are excited to see new action generation algorithms and new testing tasks.
Who’s behind the “hacktivist” network Anonymous? – DW Documentary [video]
I had a bot send 1 message and then quit. I naturally assumed that bots wouldn't just quit, and 1 message isn't really enough to gauge anything, so yeah based on this experience I wouldn't draw much of a conclusion from it.
That even makes it worse, I somehow didn't know this part of it.
"as described" according to what? There is simply no way to create image from words without something closely resembling decisions. Maybe "it" won't "make" those decisions, but they will be made somewhere.
Import tariffs and enforcing regulations are expensive. That might not be intuitive but while Ghanaian companies are being payed to handle the waste, they're going to do everything they can to smuggle it in. More expense means less money to process waste properly. Countering all that is expensive.

It's vastly cheaper for the government to ask other governments to stop exporting clothing waste to Ghanaian waste processing companies. Literally a phone call or three. As soon as they're not funding this, or they're only funding approved waste processing, the problem vanishes.
Exam's used in American English, plenty. It tends to connote something a bit more serious or formal than a test, but I don't think you'd get much of a difference in reaction just using the two interchangeably, in most contexts. At worst, you'd come off a bit pretentious, using "exam" to describe lesser tests.

"Test" dominates in primary and secondary school, "exam" becoming more common in post-secondary education and for professional certifications et c., but both occur in both contexts.
I hate petty squabbles over code, but that’s part of every programming job I’ve had. I try to pick my battles and tasks very carefully to avoid needing to work with people who don’t focus on the customer.

And if your colleagues are not as invested in the product as you are, and that’s ok with management, then it’s up to you to let it go. Not everyone wants to do that, and that’s OK.
Ask HN: In the AI boom, how are you mitigating third-party API dependence?
I assume no one is since there is not a viable alternative. But, in the past, there have been threads around concerns of building businesses on third-party APIs. The core idea was, what happens if API access is suddenly cut off or degrades? What if the third-party changes their pricing or terms of service without sufficient warning?

We are clearly in an AI gold rush and there is a surge of startups building their operations heavily reliant on third-party APIs (mainly OpenAI). It feels like the earlier concerns have gone out the window, probably due to the urgency to be first. I totally get it and have been working on my personal projects too, just wondering what happens if access it shut off.

I guess my question is, how are you mitigating these risks today? I have been wondering and I guess curious about strategies, experiences, and any advice. Maybe we'll see some competition from Google if they open up their APIs.
Physically repeating the experiments and independently verifying the data in the research is missing.
Not surprising, sadly. Cost overruns, parts missing, and other signs of piss-poor management on all sides is a feature of the Military Industrial Complex working as it intended to.
Thank you for putting all of this out, I couldn't have said it better.
> According to WEF speakers, Otto will own nothing first, and then he'll be happy.

According to one WEF speaker if I'm not mistaken. Side question, how long are we gonna use that to spread FUD?
The Motion Picture Association is probably throwing free champagne around the offices and rejoicing about how that was the easiest pirate website takedown ever.

Also, if I was the MPA, I would almost look into attrition tactics now, if that were legal. Create dozens and dozens and dozens of junk piracy websites with borked videos. Maybe the first half the movie in 720p, then the audio switches to Spanish and 240p black and white with flickering. Flood the market on every pirate website with the world's worst remuxes. Overwhelm them with junk so that nobody knows what tracker to trust for anything. Maybe even (with permission from rights holders) run some pirate websites with high-quality rips, then burn them to the ground after a year or two just to demoralize.
The Optimization Sink Hole
Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck and Thrive When It Matters Most
its not addictive, its cutting edge and has a price tag for that. open source will follow up with the cheap entry point for the nerds. If you dont like that, then you need to throw proper money at your favourite github accounts because that is fundamental difference. Adobe is funding high end tech solutions by selling a product. if you have another way to to achieve that, do tell.

too many college canteen marxists in this place is my thinking.
How America’s Most Cherished Photographer Learned to See
Ask HN: Has anyone used Office365 Copilot?
Given the hype and recent release to 600 customers, I would have expected someone to post a review/demo by now but my searches only yield marketing hype. Has anyone actually used the product? If so, does it live up to the hype?
Cloudflare Bot Detection
This is extremely fun! But reloading the page loses your progress :(.
There is probably some "wisdom in crowds" for identifying a suspect. For example one person usually can't estimate the number of gumballs in a jar, but some studies have shown that if you survey 100 people you get a very accurate number. Maybe you need far less than that.. 2-3 people + AI perhaps comes up with a reasonably accurate estimation of reality.
I asked ChatGPT to control my life
The increasingly bad management of California (and SF/LA etc) is not about taxes, its about managing based on ideology rather than the common-sense well-being of the citizens. Hence the citizens leave to more favorable places. If prop 13 had anything to do with it, we would have had people escaping the state back then instead of only in recent years.
If defibrillators are that effective, making them accessible should be a bigger deal. Why are they so expensive after all this time?

Maybe there could be an Emergency App included in all phones with offline first aid info, a deadman switch that calls 911 if you let go of the button, and maps of the building you're in with are and fire escape plans, if they published one.

Lots of businesses that could afford one still don't have them, why isn't there any legal requirement for million dollar profit places to have them?
The `ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT n` idiom is fairly well established for taking a random sample of uniformly distributed rows. It is also easily augmented to take weighted samples: `WHERE weight > 0 ORDER BY -LN(RANDOM())/weight LIMIT n`.

Queries of this form are easilly parallelized. Most systems that support distributed query processing, for example, optimize ORDER/LIMIT n queries such that each worker returns just the top n rows from its partition. These top rows are then merged in a central worker and limited one last time to produce the final result.

Even so, if your system supports the TABLESAMPLE clause and offers a formulation that lets you specify your actual distribution of interest (TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM often does not), you're probably better off using it.
True a gating reverse proxy isn't a new idea- but combining it with frontend only login, policy as code, and secrets injections from a vault to produce authorization you can use seamlessly from the frontend kinda is ;-)

As asafc mentions, and as noted in the RFC (https://foaz.io/standard/RFC#foaz-service-reshapes-requests-...) - " Optionally the policy itself could be used to reshape the request." - the policy engine can be used to adjust the api call
A Conservative solution to climate change (part 1):

https://youtu.be/D99qI42KGB0

Covers this.
Would love to read on what you think is wrong and why. Happy to contemplate on your worldview :)
Likely would have to be a depth camera. iPhone is in a good position to do this with the rear-facing Lidar and front facing IR projector, plus onboard secure element chips.