skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course everyone's struggle is personal. For me, I have been listening to the Maintenance Phase podcast, reading Aubrey Gordon's new book, and learning that a lot of what we hold as fact or "common sense" about weight loss is untrue, that individual bodies respond very differently to the same diet and exercise schedule, and that a lot of the ideas around fatness are rooted in a cultural anti-fatness that views fatness as a personal failing, rather than another parameter of the body like height or hair color.

This has helped me learn to simply be happy with my size. Our bodies are not all meant to be skinny like the people we see on TV or instagram. There is a natural variance even for people with healthy diets and good exercise routines.

I can't enumerate everything that Aubrey Gordon shares in her excellent book, but I can say that learning to accept myself has been far more rewarding than constantly trying to chase weight loss schemes that only leave me back where I started. I feel confident and sexy now without any weight loss, and this is leading more people to be very obviously more attracted to me (because confidence is sexy!). I realized I never needed to lose weight to be attractive, I needed to accept myself for who I am.

I would urge anyone considering these treatments, whose lifelong effects we still do not understand, to learn about anti-fatness and how we have all been misled in to believing that everyone is supposed to be skinny.

Here's a great article from Aubrey to get started:
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148169767/anti-fatness-keeps...

Finally I want to say that if anyone is just going to come in here and say being fat is unhealthy, or repeat any of the common tropes about weight loss, you're not going to get anywhere with me. The whole point of Aubrey's work is that these so-called common sense ideas are so deeply held in our society that few have really questioned them, and it takes more than a cursory examination to try to make sense of how we got here. Repeating the basic ideas does nothing to advance this conversation. If you must respond, read the article above before criticizing the basics of what I am saying. Aubrey can explain it far better than I can.
Coursera link is broken unfortunately
> iCloud Photos is part of iCloud

iCloud Photos is a photo sharing website accessible to the public, like Flickr. It has nothing to do with device backup.
Thanks. This looks interesting. I would loved to learn more about it. Could you please contact me? https://www.airgradient.com/support/
I don't even know what this is but where's the outrage about big tech shutting down random services like there is with every Google killing?
No one solution is going to reverse the obesity epidemic. Better food labeling, ingredient regulations, health education for all age groups, cost of living reduction, food desert reductions, and likely many more things will need to be addressed if we hope to see noticeable changes.
I’ve noticed a lot of corporate sponsored open source projects favoring the MIT license these days.
Do clean cars last longer than dirty cars?
Does the prefix ("user_") get recorded in the DB (so every string in the column starts with the same "user_"), or does are there constraints and other clever chicanery to save those bytes in every record? Or do modern DB engines even care? Is this premature optimization?
I really mis the mistake of NOT using double entry bookkeeping in the way you store transactions.

Next to that, ensure transactions are immutable, and ensure reporting is idempotent: Close your periods and generate reports for them, when you regenerate the report it should be identical.

This is more domain tips. A lot of technical tips hold for non fintech too.
Kind of interesting idea, but looking at the per gb price, not really sure who this is targeting. 100gb is $4, which is at or more than the monthly price of many vpn companies. So downloading is out of the question, leaving only just web browsing really.

Honestly I feel vpns are just kind of like gym memberships, it's not expected for everyone who gets one to use it every day, even though they could.
The closest modern medical operating room to you likely has live leeches on hand too. Looks like the tech never left

> "Despite all the technical advances in modern medicine, in certain post-surgical situations, we do still rely on one of nature’s most primitive organisms – the leech – to assist us in achieving a good outcome,” says Rod Rezaee, MD, UH otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon.

https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2020/03/how-leeche...
Source on "majority"? It seems like for the vast majority of people it's the opposite - they just eat too much and what they eat isn't helping. (Soda/sugar waters, chips, fatty meat, etc)

If they lack the motivation or determination to see through a diet, that's on them. The resources to count calories are there, it's not nearly as hard as it would have been 20 years ago.

Now, some people genuinely have some form of disease or unusual case where medication is 100% needed and no lifestyle change would help - and those people should get whatever treatment best suits them.

But 36% of the US (obese) is not an unusual edge case, some rare genetic disorder or disease.
I think I remember reading that that season overall wasn't changed much - they just refilmed the last few scenes to resolve the plot immediately and end the season early, instead of going for a full season length.
Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie
Computer History Museum: Oral History of Ed Fredkin (2006, pdf)
This isn't about object types in any particular language.
so are they selling this to health insurance companies?
Practical Procedural Macros
> nitpick and insult

Sorry, but this is disingenuous. Valid criticism is not "insulting". Additionally I've already watched that video. That developer purposefully made an extremely niche product that only a fraction of people wanted and was able to make a living doing that.

Which... proves my point. His games don't have mass appeal at all, so they don't make money.

I've been through the Switch catalog. There is so much trash on there that it's unbelievable. In fact, most people will agree that these App Stores are chock full of garbage games. I get ads for garbage mobile games on my Instagram feed all the time.

Making a playable game and making a good game are two different things. Most games are simply not good games.

Edit: I'd argue that you can't give me a good example because they don't exist. If there was a game you truly loved that was an underrated gem, you'd be super quick to show it. And that's what I'm trying to say: this concept of a polished, good game that is inundated and skipped on by the sheer amount of volume of good games, in my view, simply doesn't exist.
Ex-Riot, Bungie, Blizzard devs reveal Project Loki, a MOBA with a shooter soul
Problem: the government (FDA) did a bad job at regulating drug production plants in India.

HN Solution: the government should take over all drug production.
Embarrassingly, I haven’t seen Saving Private Ryan. But I think there are different types of media. Some are slow burners. Others are action packed.
Most scientific datasets are not that large. For every CERN type study there are 1000x biology papers with n=3 where the collected results sit in a single tab of an Excel document.
One way is to enforce in Marshal[0] and Unmarshal[1]

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Marshaler

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Unmarshaler
> An average US car emits about 4.6 tons of CO2-e per year. So, a Teslas extra manufacturing emissions are offset in 0.5 to 3.5 years. The average is 2 years, which is in line with Tesla's claims.

That's comparing an SUV/pickup (average vehicle sold today in the US) with a sedan. A comparable sedan, or even better a hybrid is closer to 2-3 tons per year (based on 1 gallon of gasoline = 8.8 kg of CO₂).

Also, you have to include the CO₂ emissions of electricity production. At 0.818 lbs per kWh (US average from googling), that gives you roughly ~100 grams per mile. Or in the ballpark of 1.2 tons per year (12,000 miles per year average US driving).

That's only a 0.8-1.8 ton reduction per year. Which is to say, at the high end of your calculations, and assuming the alternative is a efficient hybrid, then you're looking at ~20 year payback period.

In other words, just using your numbers, but switching to an apples-to-apples comparison, and not ignoring grid emissions, the conclusion is totally different.

NOTE: I'm assuming 1 ton = 1000 kg, so a metric ton.
Virtual cards are the way to go. My bank offers free virtual cards for my accounts and they work flawlessly.
Same. I'd have no issue with non-tracking ads.
> See also the UK now allowing for mortgages to be passed on to the children of the home buyer

Are you sure that's true? I googled it it and it looks like the Johnson Government floated the idea but I can't see anything saying it's now a thing. And we've got two Prime Ministers since then.
I do not understand how anyone can go on a rant about a system Apple discussed but never implemented while trying to handwave away the fact that Google is scanning everyone's device and turning in parents to the police over a single false positive.
Take that with a grain of salt
You want it for the process of drafting. In fact, it is quite common in the SF startup world (and probably elsewhere) while redlining to send back and forth a Word document with Track Changes turned on. One time, someone turned it off and then pasted over a different document, and then turned it back on and made some edits so only a few changes were made. It's really quite shady but you have to deal with all sorts so we just fixed it up.

Ultimately, a tool like Juro would be pretty cool, but if you're the guy trying to get the contract done you're not going to introduce a new thing to the workflow. Everyone will object.

While negotiating over a contract, seeing the changes is very useful. It's very common. Talk to someone who is in procurement or who is in sales.
Fire half of your staff and get the same amount of work done as before.

I repeat - there is zero downside to modernizing and using tech for any business.

You have to adapt and figure it out... before your competition does. Perhaps that means changing your billing model or something - whatever, figure it out.

All of this "no automation - no technology" chanting is wild to see.

Majority of what a law firm does is low skill or no skill. Copying documents, looking up case law and citations, filling in documents from templates, etc. None of this requires highly skilled labor, and a lot of it can be automated or made easier for fewer people to accomplish the same output.
You can distribute binaries as speech but the services you're offering as an API is a different matter, more interstate commerce, what you're allowed to sell as opposed to what you're allowed to say
OpenAI released this earlier this month: https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...
The Algorithm That Embraces Random Chance [video]
How far has Reddit come from "no censoring" (3:39).
> TLDR: Also, which timezone is used

Good catch!
This looks super cool. I'm also a guitarist that, uh, isn't a very good drummer, heh. Will kick the tires, thanks for sharing!
> But law firms don't want to be more efficient because their income is tied to the billable hour.

Law firms with better reputation can and do charge more per billable hour. Presumably, results factor in to that, so anything that produces better results for the same effort should, over time, increase the $/hour rate. (Or, if only relative and not absolute performance matters, missing out on an improvement adopted by other firms will drop the sustainable $/hr rate.)

Also, not all lawyers are employed in law firms, and many are employed in places where their time is cost not revenue.
Stack is a dynamic memory of sorts and some languages (Rust) heavily optimize towards keeping things on stack so that your data types could turn out to be quite big.

It is hard to determine the max value for time-to-die counter if your stack footprint is hard to estimate due to nested structs/enums/unions/generics/optimizations.
No doubt 80% of the users only use 20% of the features... but do they use the same 20%? :)

I think sudo is often the wrong tool for what people are using it for today-- it's a tool to delegate on a multi-user system. But today people are most often applying it on a single(-ish) user system to raise or lower their permissions.

Ironically, most of the vulnerabilities that sudo has had aren't really of consequence in that modern single user usage: If the attacker can run code as the user, then they'll be able to take over any privilege raising process the user uses even if the 'sudo' tool were flawless.

Once you leave that use case the greater feature set of sudo (including, perhaps some of those crusty features you mention) has more applicability.

The thing to always keep in mind is that the programs cruft is substantially the body of its embedded knowledge. Some of that knowledge might be mistaken or outdated. If you really knew what parts were what-- you could just remove them.

If the rewrite isn't sure it can remove it and just replicates, it may not have understood the function's purpose enough to replicate it faithfully and could even introduce security problems (or cause users to introduce them by forcing them to bodge around configuration statements that no longer work).
A lot of design work is like that. I'm willing to believe we sometimes notice things at a subconscious level but do we actually benefit from the 10 million (or whatever) fonts in existence or from people agonizing for days over the most subtle difference in colors you'll be viewing on a non-color corrected monitor.
The people I grew up with in North Carolina are much less committed to democratic norms than the immigrants I currently live with and among. As well, those "native" folks were virulently anti-intellectual and tormented me for loving mathematics and working hard to learn mathematics and computers, something very few immigrants seem to find sensible.

Many immigrants do come in order to work extremely hard to gain prosperity for themselves and their families, which honestly seems pretty in line with US values, but many come explicitly for the culture of freedom, freedom to do and think as they choose without having to constantly battle neighbors relatives over every little thing unconventional thing they want to do. They have given up the convenience of living near family, often given up the social status of being top in their society, for freedom, as embodied in the US culture of fast cars, eccentric geniuses, rock and roll, artistic and intellectual freedom and expression, and so on. The very living avatars of the US thirst for freedom, free of the entitlement and fear of hard work that seems to be a common outcome for growing up here.
I don't see what makes them silly. Metaphysics is hard, and speculative realism is a proposed answer to modern transcendental idealism stemming from Kant, where the worry is that we can't say objective things about the world independent of human thought. Things like dinosaurs existing before humans evolved is seen as correlated to our experiences with fossils in the ground, and not an objective truth about the universe. Speculative realism is a way around that while respecting the philosophical arguments of the Kantians.
It's funny, the older I get the less I care about this stuff. I like to use technology to, well, live my life in a more effective, effort-free manner. I have lots of friends who aren't other nerdy techies. In high school I refused to use "proprietary, inefficient WYSIWYG garbage that disrespected the user" like Word and typed up all of my essays in LaTeX instead. Now I get accounting spreadsheets for vacations going on my smartphone using Google Sheets. I still love writing code but my code has become more oriented around features and experiences for myself rather than code for the sake of code.

I love exploring low-latency code but rather than trying to create small, sharp tools the suckless way, I like to create low latency experiences end-to-end. Thinking about rendering latency, GUI concurrency, interrupt handling, etc. Suckless tools prioritize the functionality and the simplicity of code over the actual experience of using the tool. One of my favorite things to do is create offline-first views (which store things in browser Local Storage) of sites like HN that paper over issues with network latency or constrained bandwidth leading to retries.

I find suckless and permacomputing to be the siren song of a type of programmer, the type of programmer who shows up to give a presentation and then has to spend 10 minutes getting their lean Linux distro to render a window onto an external screen at the correct DPI, or even to connect to the wifi using some wpa_supplicant incantations.
see also: investment banking, Big Law, Medicine (with bigger paychecks)
Quest Diagnostics, one of the biggest labs in the US, has a portal where you can order tests directly, including panels for wellness, allergies, etc. Descriptions are fairly general but accurate AFAICT. I've bought ~$1,000 worth over ~4 years with no real hiccups.

https://www.questhealth.com
There isn't enough luxury stock across the whole of Metro Vancouver to meaningfully inflate the mean above the median. Looking at New Westminster, the cheapest I see now are all private rooms in someone's suite. Most units are well above 2k.[0]

Utilities includes heat and hot water, electrical, home internet, cellular, gym memberships, and so on. I suppose if you never turn on the heater, don't have home internet, never hit the gym, don't make any calls, don't own a car, and only shit at work then you could save a bundle, here.

The transit tax credit was eliminated in 2017.[1]

0: https://rentals.ca/new-westminster?bbox=-123.08659,49.11473,...

1: https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tips/deducting-the-cost-of-your-p...
You use Mason jars for drinking? You could also try kombucha bottles. They have a nice cap and the glass is stronger because it needs to withstand pressure, so it survives falls better.
Trigonometry is really about circles and rotations. The triangles are just an artifact of static diagramming. Zeroing in on triangle properties suggests a lack of fundamental understanding.
You really ought to do some standup comedy, Thomas (do you?); I regularly LOL at some of your comments — even the subtle put-downs, like the parent — and yet you're invariably courteous and non-snarky.
We stored and transmitted exclusively UTC, which put the burden on the UI at display time (trivial) and backend business logic (complex, but simplified with robust utility functions that everyone understood well) in accounting for timezones when material.

We only had a dozen issues due to it so I believe it worked pretty well compared to the war stories I heard from comparable companies in the fintech space.
If you're interested in this, there's a good chance you would enjoy the TidalCycles language for generating music. It's been a mind-expanding experience for me, particularly w/r/t polyrhythms.

The landing page:
https://tidalcycles.org/

An example of some music made live with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUOWjC5fpY
It's based on UUIDv7 (in fact, a TypeID can be decoded into an UUIDv7). The main reasons to use TypeID over "raw" UUIDv7 are: 1) For the type safety, and 2) for the more compact string encoding.

If you don't need either of those, then UUIDv7 is the right choice.
> not evenly distributed throughout the government and its contractors

Not only that, but that "the government" and "its contractors" are often impossible to distinguish and for all intents and purposes the same. Many times realistically a loophole to escape the GS pay.
A whole lot easier to take mechanics to court to standardize working hours than to try to take a bunch of lawyers to court
Bro, that's what we've been pushing for 20 years. At some point, this really sounds like all the big-C Communists. "We just didn't try it properly". Enough. There's a public health crisis and a cure is sitting here. We are going to use the cure and you can go do the old thing. Mounjaro and Ozempic and alikes are going to be here.
I get stomach upset and a bit of reflux when I overeat,

I suspect that the couple of cases of severe vomiting I had, may relate to either eating too much, or eating at the wrong time, or both. So I think that if I'm more careful in the future, I can avoid those occurrences.

Overeating is definitely bad, since Ozempic - as I heard it described - "slows down the movement of food through your digestive system, which leads to a feeling of fullness". That effect apparently being part of how/why Ozempic leads to weight loss. But that also suggests that you have to be really careful about not eating too much or you might overload your system in a way that exacerbates the side effects. My subject feeling is also that timing is an issue: I think that eating late makes it more likely that the bad side effects will occur. I'm trying to shift to making lunch my largest meal of the day, and then eating a very light dinner, and preferably earlier than in past years. Time will tell if this theory is right or not, but it's where I'm leaning at the moment.
What I meant was a doctor telling a patient to "make lifestyle changes" an then expecting actual change doesn't work for the majority of people.

Do I have hard data on this? No.
I agree that memories are not always reliable but I personally find it to be with smaller less significant details about a larger event. So I could believe that the author perhaps misremembers colors or sounds or size to some extent- but to have a completely false memory of an entire event? I suppose a helicopter could have hovered over him and trained a search light on him- but to remember it years later as a UFO, I don't know.
It would be amusing to me if because of the additional transport time, you end up getting dryer wood than we do.
> Serverless! How? [...] We provision a VPN server on-demand when you connect.

You keep using that word...
You also included localized formatting (the '.' and ',' ) in your example that'll likely break on parsing without special handling. For interchange, you'll want to avoid using localized formats, e.g. stick to the "C" locale or something specific or agreed to between the involved parties.
You could've simply asked why he prefers US citizenship over Canadian citizenship without being aggressive.
Thank you very much for sharing your code with everyone. I am very sorry for laughing really loudly and waking my dog when I discovered that it was written in Rust, instead of Python or another dynamic language. After taking a step back, I realized that I could learn a bit about Rust by looking at your code. If I found interesting ideas, they would have likely been translated into another language anyway, unless I was really lucky and you picked Clojure.
That was a hard paper to read, as someone who automates jobs. I only got 2 pages in.

I felt like I could finish every sentence.

Yes there are benefits, yes there are problems and humans needed, yes you refine over and over, yes you can't use humans to do checks because of long term focus so automation wins here, predicting all edge cases are near impossible, etc...

Maybe I'll read this with friends to make it a bit more humorous and less painful.
I worked as an integrator for city law firms in the late 80s. Yes, they were using WordPerfect and Netware. No - lawyers didn't have computers on their desks. They regarded using computers as clerical work, and beneath them.

And these were City firms, working for big corporations. High Street lawyers were way behind.

I was never involved with the accounting departments of law firms; but obviously, that's clerical work, from the point of view of a lawyer.