skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people aren't stupid, the amount of calories in food is mostly readily available and it isn't hard to avoid the cases where you can't tell. the problem is that getting fat is virtually a one way process without medical intervention. there is a reason that almost no fat people ever reach a healthy weight again, and almost none of the ones that do stay that way for more than 5 years.

of course you can lose the weight by eating less, and also water is wet. the problem is that once you become fat, you have the appetite of a fat person. forever. of course you can diet and exercise your way back to a healthy weight, but you will be hungry forever. except for a exceptionally small percentage of outliers, humans cannot psychologically keep up that level of constant discomfort and discipline indefinitely when the solution is in the fridge just a few steps away.

imagine telling an heroin addict to "just do less heroin" when their house is full of heroin, people are constantly doing heroin around them, and they have no choice but to take small amounts of heroin three times a day or they die. except for a very small handful of people who are wired differently, it just isn't something you can reasonably expect a person to achieve.
What are your thoughts on https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025 (AFAICT, correlation between post-vaccine myocarditis and detectable free spike, possibly due to individual differences in some adolescents causing slower(?) spike clearance)? Credible?
> Is it possible there was more widespread testing

Yes, they mention two variations of this possibility in the discussion.

> If they are simultaneously reporting no notable changes in average BMI,

Why would you expect average BMI of diabetics to change?
"The problem is that they need to make money"

Stupid question, why do they need to make money? I thought they are maintained by volunteers. For hosting?
Let me know if you're interested in brainstorming. I've got extensive dev experience across the stack and can slog my way through marketing/sales but it wears on me quickly and I'm not great at it. I've got some time off coming up and will be looking to pick up a side project or two.
You do not own your phone, or your PC if others can control your access to it and prevent you from using it as you wish.

When are people going to wake up and stop accepting this totalitarianism?!
Sounds very similar to Palantir, except for the part about telling others that they're a consulting company.
Writers Guild Deal Reached with Studios, Potentially End of Strike
Programming in C++ is hard, Software Engineering in C++ is even harder
You take it once you're done with Disney. Go to Disney, take the train to Miami, then go back to the airport to head home.
That is also what happened to the luddites. Adopt technology or the police will arrest you with loaded guns and you go to prison or get hanged. This part is left out to make the Luddites look foolish and technological progress the hero of the story.
Yeah, his professor wasn't too bright if he said that. He probably never heard of Segway, One-Wheel, "hoverboards", or motorcycles with stability control.
Do you really rent cars in that case, rather than use a taxi?

I occasionally have meetings at similar places in Europe. If I'm alone and have time, I generally prefer to take a bus if it's reasonably convenient (at least every 20 minutes, not raining too much, easy to pay for, up to 10 minutes walk at the other end). I quite like the 'thinking time' of walking the last bit.

If a bus isn't reasonable, or (usually) if I'm with a colleague, I'll take a taxi. It wouldn't really occur to me to rent a car.
…in their continued pursuit of driving their stock price down as far as it will go.

If there was ever a company that needs to take that money invest it back into the kind of artists and work that made them such a powerhouse in the first place, it’s Disney. But, instead, they’ll pay out this money to some execs friend with a BS AI startup to procedurally generate another shitty Marvel or Star Wars thing.
You are going to have the same scaling issues with your datastore. I don't really understand why you say that your dequeue queries will throttle each others locks and grind it to a half? Isn't that the whole point of SKIP LOCKED?
You should assume that everything related to digestion is caused by gut bacteria.

Nerds love saying things is "genetics" because they think it'd make humanities types mad if something was genetics. But it's like lupus. It's never genetics. (Except celiac.)
Yeah, npm uses it though during npm install. Lol. I knew of the word only then.
I'm not a gamedev myself but have played a few games (Stormworks, Garry's mod with Wiremod, From The Depths, at least one or two more which I can't think of the name right now) that allow PIDs to be used in player-designed contraptions. Quite useful for building stabilised gun platforms and things.

I would be sure there's plenty of applications for PIDs in a game engine itself - a quick search turns up things like self-balancing physics objects, making game entities turn to follow a mouse pointer, and so on.
Technically it is a cross-border action, but neither Croatia nor Serbia are claiming the island so Croatia didn't cross into any other recognized country.

Furthermore international law differs from normal law as usually at least one party has tanks.
Ah, so it will be fueled by Belief, not bitter reality.
Bug report: current month not specified in RHS.
Sounds great, interesting to see how the process works in reality
Astoundingly, there are non-technical households out there.
You’re right but the word dont always poses trouble for English learners of French
Does skipping breakfast correlate with a lower daily intake of dietary fiber?
Amazon Investing $4B in Anthropic
I saw Unexpected Keyboard recommended here, turns out it can do this as well among other things. Just tap Shift and drag left/right on spacebar. The main feature though is that you can enter the characters that aren't used commonly by swiping insted of holding on a key or switching to a different key view. You can also get Ctrl and Alt and you can like lock them as well which is useful in Termux.
Funny, as a corollary to how impractical a game engine would be in CSS: my first pass over the text had me reading CSS as something like C Sharp Sharp. A non-existent language that, according to my brain, still seems like a more likely language to build the game engine in
I can always rely on my Sony Xperia smartphone to get me through the day. Whether I'm at home, on the go... or even in the pool! With Sony's water resistance technology and a high resolution camera to capture those special moments, Xperia has my back.
Is this a continuation of 'first world problems'? 'London problems'

Oh no, my train waits it the station for nearly a full minute.

The fact that there actually is a train, the train isn't a converted bus that was supposed to be a temporary measure 30 years ago, that's it's deemed viable to actually make a 13 minute train journey, the fact that presumably the train isn't 13 minutes late and in fact turned up, and the fact that in my experience, a 60 second stop is good would suggest to me that there's no need to complain.

Edit: to the downvoters. London has by far the best public transport in the country. Nowhere else has an underground system with trains every 5 minutes. The complaint is about a train waiting at the station for generally less than 60 seconds. For the rest of the country that would be a compliment not a complaint.
Sure, we can. You're wrong.
Rabbit Holes I Dive into Every Now and Then (2021)
Silent blackholing is worse: in this case TCP starts retransmission with exponential delays and the connection basically hangs forever.
Neither Croatia nor Serbia claim this land. They both claim other, more valuable, nearby lands, leading to this piece of land not being claimed by anyone.
I don’t see what problems the authors fixed.
I would argue that just because they want to work on AI while it has a lot of hype, might not be a good thing. Folks should do what they are passionate about and interested in, not just raise money to turn a fume from the karat and greatest buzzword technology. Will they leave AI if the tides change?
I just did one of the coolest things ever on Ethereum
Bakerloo line in summer, same thing.
British people in general are massively blinkered about trains. There are obviously flaws but if I said that I've seen Germans using british trains as an example of punctuality I'd imagine most people moaning about trains would be confused.
> I should have just checked HN instead.

Generally, I would be very careful treating HN as a time saver. :)
It’s probably faster to walk from Farringdon to Liverpool Street!
There is a very inconsistent and incomplete list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airport_rail_link_syst...
it's amazing for getting in from heathrow too...
There is a ticket here feel free to add to the discussion: https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/309
> With a Postgres queue, if you insert the job to send the email and then in a later part of the transaction, something fails and the transaction rollbacks, the email is never queued to be sent.

An option could be use a second connection and a separate transaction to insert data in the queue table.
How much 'Titanium' does iPhone 15 Pro have? [video]
It is news in Spain because, in Spain, there is a 1000+ euro fine for transmitting intimate photos of a person (of any age) without their consent. This applies to anyone who transmits the photo, including third parties. The controversy and legal question is whether or not these photos constitute intimate photos.

This probably happens elsewhere, but there is no legal mechanism to prevent it.
Ok but what about transfer learning the LLM, are there practical ways of building more static knowledge into the LLM? Long term memory and all that?
> before boarding a train between GVA and Paris

From the airport straight into the train?

Yes sometimes there are intra-Schengen checks in trains but the most I've seen is people checking the passports in route
But nobody was doing that in this thread. Walteweiss was just pointing that Netflix DVD service closing has a significant positive side - less trash generated. Pointing it was called as "innumerate".

There are bigger problems for sure but there is also "there are bigger problems" fallacy (aka fallacy of relative privation).
I do get it. While I haven’t commuted, I’ve travelled many, many times around London including rush hour. Have smelled many armpits on the tube and even worn earplugs on the central line. (I have commuted in another European city however)

But London is a victim of its own success. It will always be hot busy and crowded. This is just like almost every other major city in the world - hot, crowded public transport at rush hour. What do you want? Every mode cooled to 17c and seats for everyone?

Nobody is forced to live in London, especially the younger ones with no ties who moved there to climb the ladder.

We really need to distribute the economic activity around the UK by properly investing in other towns and cities
How did you get it to work on bumpy car rides, or while jogging?
What problem? Just clicking on your profile, your number is public information she can find in plenty of places without taking anything anywhere.
Get a decent audio interface. At least that can handle mic/guitar inputs too & handle more output options @ the same price
I imagine there's some work going on (or intended work) looking at how to manufacture them from stem cells.
You don't need to understand monads to do IO. From [0]:

> There is nothing that has to do with monads at all in printing a string. The idea that `putStrLn "hello world"` is monadic is as absurd as saying that `[1,2,3]` is monadic.

You haven't linked any exemplar tutorials, but I feel confident in saying the ones you're referring to teach the general concept of monads, and not how to do IO with monads.

Quite a number of JavaScript developers learned how to use `andThen` with Promises/A+ back in the day, and they didn't need to learn about monads either. (In fact, when it was raised that promises are really monads, there was serious drama and outrage [1] -- an existence proof if there ever was one, that you can use something productively without understanding it as a monad.)

Likewise, nobody would claim that you need to understand monoids before you can concatenate lists. Concatenating lists is as native to lists as sequencing commands is to IO; it's just part of how those types work. The monad interface abstracts over that idea, and learning that abstraction in its full generality is, typically, what people stumble on.

[0]: https://blog.jle.im/entry/io-monad-considered-harmful.html

[1]: https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94
Glass is heavy, doesn't stack efficiently, sticks/grinds together when stacked, and easily chips and breaks. A full glass container is too heavy to lift safely with one hand and too heavy to carry in a backpack. Glass is slippery, and because it's heavy it is also more likely to be dropped. Drop it on a counter and it cracks or chips, leaving bits of glass in your food and sharp edges that will cut you. The purpose of a container is to _transport_ things; anything breakable like glass is a poor material for something that gets moved around a lot. A plastic container will survive long after a glass container has been chipped.

Glass is fragile, dangerous, heavy, slippery, expensive, loud, and space-wasting.

Plastic containers are light, resilient, durable, portable, compact, and efficient.
I think 100% LLM-generated comments are fairly unpopular.

Suggestion: if you feel the need to share some LLM output with HN, prefix it with a human-written sentence or two explaining why it's worth reading.
Show HN: A central place to find custom ROMs for your Android device
lol wut, reality is PRC urbanization is increasing at 1-2 percent per year. Housing sales are down by 1/3 due to RE crackdown, but they haven't stopped. Speculators have stopped buying, people who need a house to live in / urbanize are still buying. Useful idiots are pretending entire RE market is destroyed, but it's just less than what it was.
Yeah, we were hopeful that we could benefit from the A1 backbone - it was funded by the government right? like a precursor to NBN - but we ended up going it alone.

I won't talk about NBN, what a shitshow. The economics of the internet in Australia have already been terrible, and the government never seems to invest in the places where it could have the most impact.

For some reason I can see the Labtam logo in my mind's eye, but I can't remember why I know it. We used a lot of JTEC gear in the olden days. Did they end up buying Labtam maybe? I have no idea any more!
To be sort of nitpicky: the underlying study [0] does not argue a direct causal connection. This is one of many current observational studies reporting on population level trends and measuring associated incidence ratios/risk ratios/hazard ratios.

That said, dismissing the COVID correlation entirely out of hand also feels wrong here; in part because there are meta analysis in the literature [1] that show risk ratios very comparable to increases here.

To compare from the quote in the article:

> Rates of type 2 diabetes were 62% higher (IRR, 1.62) in 2020 to 2021 than in 2016 to 2019. The incidence of type 2 diabetes rose from 14.8 to 24.7 per 100,000 person-years over that time.

To this in Ssentongo et al:

> Of the 8 studies that characterized the risk of incident diabetes among survivors of COVID-19, the pooled point estimates was 1.66 (95% CI 1.38; 2.00, Fig. 2), implying a 66% higher risk of diabetes.

covid-19 is a complex disease that is correlated to problems with almost every major system in the body (See any of the cites implied by my handle), to suggest it's not a factor at all is very likely incorrect.

[0] Mefford et al, "Incidence of Diabetes Among Youth Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
[1] Ssentongo et al, "Association of COVID-19 with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24185-7
Any chance Algolia might be able to provide that? Perhaps as a different search target, or a qualifier such as "is:highlight"?
Huh, I used the extra time I had during Covid to educate myself on health, nutrition, exercise.
I lost 15 kg, reached my target BMI and have been replacing fat with muscle since.

I am the healthiest I've ever been in my adult life thanks to Covid.
The official JDBC driver for PostgreSQL provides no way for the database to push events to the client. So you need a dedicated connection to continuously poll the database to see if there are any events available. This seems half-baked and does not give me the warm and fuzzy feeling I crave when making architectural choices. Not to mention, it causes undesirable latency in event delivery unless I flood the database with queries.
My dad and another photographer took the same picture of the same bird, a crane, at the same time and the same spot. Ibsaw both of them, and they are exacly the same. Both only discovered that after having run into each other again the same day on a different spot. They had quite a few outings together since then.

Fun fact, over a year later my dad and I had almost the same experience at the same spot shooting geese in flight. Judging by the angle, we were maybe just shy of a half a second or so appart. Maybe we should look at EXIF data to be sure!

Seems this stuff happens more often then people think.
How many articles are there on writing your first program in Python? Is that a result if it being difficult? This is not a valid method of assessment.

Relative to programming in general, monads are easy to work with, easy enough to understand, but I’ll grant you often poorly explained.
NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room
Things like this needing to exist are one of the reasons we are working on https://flowch.ai/?ref=hn - the ChatGPT interface is really sub-optimal for work and keeping track of interactions over time. We have been building a much better way to organize LLM interactions, even basics like splitting things into projects and search make it a much better experience.
"past" in the top-of-page header, which has a granularity of 1 day.

I've been looking at an archive of past front pages dating to 2007 to see trends, patterns, and statistics concerning front-page stories, since late May of this year. It's interesting, and resolves some common disputes and/or claims.
Google allows DMCA take down request for URLs that do not exist yet
Certainly did not mean to imply that this would be insignificant due to being “just for children”! I should have said “exclusively for children” perhaps? Just wasn’t sure if adults have tooth buds!
This is an incredibly bad and short-sighted take.

This is not at all the same situation, and this sort of hubris is what causes public health disasters such as the Vioxx, Thalidomide or Dengvaxia scandals.

This is artificially created genetic material ending up in newborns after the manufacturer assured the public that was not possible.

I consider this incredibly serious.
It was unclear from the article whether this applies to only credit card transactions or also Mastercard debit cards. At least it is possible to choose not to use credit cards, a bit harder with debit.

I'd love to see how this data is "anonymised".

On a related note, in the UK at least, all of the big supermarkets have switched their loyalty card (data harvesting schemes) from offering "points" per unit spend to offering direct large discounts on certain items in store. Makes it much more difficult to justify opting out of giving away the details of your personal shopping habits to these corporations.
Bill Gates Says Planting Trees to Solve Climate Crisis Is ‘Complete Nonsense’
Look at the places with the best railway infrastructure. Almost all of them are government run.
It's a bit more complex than that unfortunately. Depending on how long you stay at high charge level it will negatively impact the battery life. So someone charging at 100% all the time but discharging quickly might see a better cycling count that someone charging at 90% but staying there almost all the time.
Just tried the same, and I have only one word: stunning!
The key difference between this and Killed By Google is that reading through the Microsoft list I think "Oh thank goodness" :)
It is much cheaper. A server can easily handle hundreds to thousands of simultaneous streams. Even if the server is requiring 1kW of power for that, it makes a worst case of 10W per client. Maybe double it if you want to count in the datacenter overhead (like AC), but realistically Netflix is doing more like 4 digits of concurrent streams than 3 digits, so 10W as an upper bound feel wrong.

That's less than an end users TV will utilize, and it's probably also less than a standalone DVD player requires.
I like this page better when it’s not pre-chewed. It’s nice to read something without a specific expectation or context.

Most of the highlighted comments fall under the heading “I was around when X happened” though. The list could almost be titled “first-hand-experiences”.
There's a very detailed commentary on that article you may find interesting.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.0...
I sometimes do, but usually it is more fun doing it the trafitional way with the kids!
"fully removable teeth"?
I've found them to be pretty correct. I brush and floss before I got to bed and I haven't had a cavity in over 15 years. In the past few years I've switched to using hydroxyapatite toothpaste, but that's the only big change.
I don't know why but "economists" are pretty bad at their job.
Anthropic raises up to 4B from Amazon
Hi, the State of HTML survey is built upon the same code as State of JS, State of CSS, State of GraphQL, and very soon State of React. Those surveys involve highly interactive components for some questions.It's implemented using Next.js and React, which until the advent of App Router less than one year ago would have required a JavaScript hydration step to be interactive. So having it to work without JS enabled is not top-priority. Also there is still a lot of legacy code around (it was previously a MeteorJS app, it has been a long way).
However we are really keen on improving and learning new stuffs. All suggestions are welcome on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues
I would be very interested to know more about your setup, so I can test the app with a similar setup.
With Next.js 13 and App Router, it might become easier to server pure HTML. However I've noticed that with streaming enabled (when you have a loading page or use Suspense) you still need a tiny bit of JS (just to remove the "hidden" state of your content) even with RSC, so it's still not that easy.
Also AssistiveTouch gives you a menu that can be accessed on any screen on which one of the options is to simulate a shake.
How to run PostGre SQL on Kubernetes without tremendous performance loss