skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume if you have a newer house with PVC or PEX piping, this is not a concern.
Cheaper to buy.

All of your rent money is gone. That same amount of money building equity in your bought property stays with you. True, you may need to wait until the property is sold before you see any of that money again, but it's still yours. You might call it 'enforced saving'.

Apart from that money coming back to you, the property you own will appreciate over time. So when you sell finally, it'll be worth more currency units than when you bought it. (That's not really a 'profit', but it looks like one. Anyhow, there's no 'profit' at all when you pay rent.)
Whenever anything is down: "The system.. is down.. The system.. is down"
No, the article states that lead particles from upstream get trapped inside the water heater, which then gradually dissolve, especially when left stagnant overnight.
Duff’s device.
Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
> I'm not even sure it's all that verbose

Mine is. But that's because I don't bother DRYing it and making it more clever (yanking and pasting is faster than thinking)
I can only speak for myself, but I stopped being obese and out of shape when I stopped being broke.

I began to eat fewer calories of higher quality food, hit my macros, and prevented muscle loss by going to the gym a few times a week.

It was a feedback loop with my social environment. Expectations of me changed when I finished school, and I didn't really think anything of it until I saw some results which only reinforced the new habits. Everyone was supportive and from there lots of other stuff in my life got cleaned up as well. I don't even drink as much as I used to.

I can't be alone in feeling this way. For me it was finding good people, being happy with my career, and not being so stressed out all the time as a result.
Unison has a neat approach to this problem: References are hashes of the abstract syntax tree, the only way to write a "collision" is to write an identical function--which isn't actually a collision at all.
paper (open access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46741-5

older report (2016) from one of the authors: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27108594/

planned study: https://oto.hms.harvard.edu/news/dr-zheng-yi-chen-named-prin...
Study that says these drugs could prevent 1.5 million cardiac events over 10 years...
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We identified 3999 US adults weighted to an estimated population size of 93.0 million [M] (38% of US adults) who fit STEP 1 eligibility criteria. Applying STEP 1 treatment effects on weight loss resulted in an estimated 69.1% (64.3 M) and 50.5% (47.0 M) showing ≥ 10% and ≥ 15% weight reductions, respectively, translating to a 46.1% (43.0 M) reduction in obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) prevalence. Among those without CVD, estimated 10-year CVD risks were 10.15% “before” and 8.34% “after” semaglutide “treatment” reflecting a 1.81% absolute (and 17.8% relative) risk reduction translating to 1.50 million preventable CVD events over 10 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166206
I wonder how much you can save society in the 20 minutes it would take to say goodbye to an old friend who is dying.
Yeah, and the operational stability of a company is a factor that goes straight to its ability to continue as a going concern. So it's reasonable for many people to base their decision on this kind of drama (even if not everyone agrees on the importance of this factor).
Unbelievable that this kid is getting Forbes attention for being an online troll.

I’m ideologically aligned with e/acc, but this is just a bilingue of blowhard meme edgelords on Twitter who are all talk and zero action. (I’ve been in the private group chats for e/acc. There’s nothing there.) Why is this newsworthy?
K2 has finally been successfully climbed in the winter last year if you’re referring to that
The argument for allowing the government to regulate broadcast media is that the electromagnetic spectrum it uses is a limited public resource which needs to be curated for the public good. That argument doesn't apply to the internet - no matter how big Youtube gets there is always room for a competitor, we're not going to "run out of internet."

I would agree that the network as a whole might comprise a public resource, although I would also disagree vehemently with letting the government regulate speech on it like the FCC, but not individual sites and platforms.
> ... so long as iTunes software continues existing.
That's exactly where the problem lies
In many ways, ZFS is an ideal case. It was started at Sun, where robust and thoughtful engineering was the norm. That gives us an extraordinarily well–built foundation to build on. We lost a lot when Sun was killed off by Oracle.
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So, I think I understand this view from the thermodynamics sense. First law and all.

But by this construction, are all systems which take energy as input (and do not convert it to another form for storage) de facto 100% efficient?

When we talk about a (very old) furnace being 75% efficient at turning the chemical energy of a fossil fuel into heat energy, is the 25% loss purely combustion byproducts with some inherent chemical energy plus some non-combusted fuel?
When are you expecting applied scientist position to open?
“At some point you have to choose between your face and your ass,” as they say.
I think people with understanding of compilers always want to model their code as DSL, and that makes it easier to go for backwards scanning.
I am not saying it is crazy to think that some people get by with the help of their parents, but to blatantly just generalize "these granola types" who just accomplished one of the absolute craziest climbs in history...comes off a little uneducated.
You missed my point, a looter might get a new car or tv, but that's not wealth. A looter is can't take ownership of television network, or a social media website, or a coal mine, or a rail way, or like anything actually worth anything.

Now instead of a violent uprising we talk about electing a democratic government that's prepared nationalize our nations infrastructure we'd be talking real wealth redistribution.
> Remember when targeting Macromedia Flash was going to solve the web compatibility and interactivity conundrum?

This sounds like the set up for a "No? Me neither." punchline. Certainly one of the features of Flash is that it gave you fairly good consistency across computers, but honestly my perception of Flash wasn't that it was going to solve some grand web problem, but more "oooh look, shiny rollover buttons!" and "ooh look, super obnoxious advertisement that forces people to pay attention to it!"
no problem at all, i get that htmx isn't for everyone and certainly that the shitposting can be a bit much at times. i appreciate your comment!
To be fair, Microsoft does seem to have repaired a lot of its bad reputation in the last decade or so. Has it not? At least that was my impression.

The word Microsoft used to be borderline toxic.
As I understand these matters, you could know, if quantum entangled particle enter gravity field. Must admit, I don't know how this experiment will be organized, but looking possible.
The fact that he was unwilling to face the consequences of his actions (or even stand trial on the matter) does not make his death the fault of the government, no matter how tragic the situation was.
Most dishwashers are connected to hot water. Some higher end dishwashers can work with cold water, but the cheaper ones don’t. Does this mean using a dishwasher is a problem as well?
It’s true that we’ve come a long way as a society (in many places), but just because we’re better off, doesn’t mean we’re in a good place.

I hope we can look back 100 years from today and reflect on how bad things were in these times.

Global society is a zero sum game until we get to a place of over abundance. With such limited (often artificially limited) resources, when the rich are winning, the poor in fact are losing.

I think the feeling that this imbalance is accelerating is real. The ever widening technology gap enables the wealthy to leverage powerful tools that simply aren’t available to much of the world population. It’s far easier to game the system than it has ever been.
“Ozempic face” appears to just be the normal result of weight loss. Facial fat masks some signs of aging, so losing weight can make you look older.
If this was so you would be able to trivially reproduce in 60 seconds by rebooting with the in kernel driver in place of the NVIDIA driver. Then you can write a blog post exploring the nature of a bug as likely as you finding out you were the secret love child of Elon Musk and the direct descendant of the Lindbergh baby.
Wake me up when Sony executives serve hard time for federal fraud charges. I’m afraid there is no justice for citizens victimized by the ownership class.
Yes, the essay even has a quote explaining why someone voted for Wilders: "I want my own home". And the essayist more-or-less ignores it.

The culture thing is going to build over the next decade across Europe. IMHO it's defensible to want to preserve your language and culture. Tolerant cultures cannot tolerate intolerance and survive.
I wonder if overlapping the patches would improve accuracy further as a way to kind of anti alias the data learned / inferred. In other words, if position 0 is 0,0 - 16,16 and position 1 is 16,0 - 32,16 instead we used 12,0-28,16 for position 1 where it overlaps 4 pixels of the previous position. You’d have more patches / it would be more expensive compute wise, but it might dealias any artificial aliasing that the patches create during both training and inference.
> ...they'd hire adults at a higher wage..."

> "...American companies to hire undocumented..."

Please re-read at least the first paragraph of the article. There is no "hire". There is no "wage". The child labor is on subsistence farms. In Ghana.
Bazel is as much an HR Department (licenses, supply chain source of truth, entry point for sec teams to add stuff to, auto generate jiras for out of date deps etc) as it is a build system. If you mean an actual startup (and not startup as in airbnb), then use the native build systems until a standardized system like bazel is needed.
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Piracy is always justifiable. -Aaron Swartz or something
Hi - I submitted my application to the DS role, but am interested in the applied scientist role as well!
Do any practical solid state batteries actually exist yet? From Wikipedia it seems like there’s active research but not any demonstrated chemistries
Thanks, good to know. That's something at least!
So, pop in a new disc, and it comes with a new list of all the content that is not allowed to be played anymore? Ergo your old discs stop working because your player now knows the license expired or something stupid like that?

That's literally evil.
Ohh can't wait for the inevitable next step of dropping the "web" part of web assembly and doing, ya know, native fat clients again.
Ahh the gist is it’s a personal anecdote of some anonymous dude from hacker news

That makes it interesting

Seemed genuine to me
Obesity is curable. Diabetes is not.
That's true, it's not uncommon for me to install Linux by flashing the installer to a small partition on the same disk as the actual install destination. Quite useful for dual/triple-boot without actually requiring any USB flash drives.
Yeah you can. I've held hard drives in my garage for 20 years and they worked fine. 50 years in a stable environment? Why wouldn't it work?
1080 Ti has CUDA capability version 6.1.
I agree with that assessment. He seems to be another one of the things in SV that is rotten and that threatens to spoil the whole ecosystem. Too bad he has so much suction that he can always find someone willing to rally to his defense.
I install replacements for friends and their referrals who've had them stolen; it's a serious and unfortunately common problem in LA. Roughly 80% are off of Priuses (Prii?) and most local Toyota dealerships are backordered for months. The OEM replacement part itself is one of the most expensive at around $2300 due to the higher level of precious metals in the catalyst matrix. The replacements I install aren't CARB compliant (which is why they're $125 or so on eBay), but it resolves the exhaust leak/fuel smell and noise at the expense of passing emissions.
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Ouch:

> an Australian running a two-bedroom villa in Bali [--] managed to get paid out last week for the A$11,000 she was owed since March by tracking down a finance officer on Facebook.
How harmful is lead in solder used to join copper pipes? Lead free solder was mandated only around 1986, so presumably there are a lot of copper pipes around using solder containing lead.
Disk drives really are the worst. Someone who works at Google or Amazon or The Internet Archive could (and should!) write a book where every single chapter tells the story of discovering some new batch of hard drives with a new and crazy firmware bug.
So many patents these days are old ideas described with very specific qualifiers to circumvent the prior art disqualifier.
Emacsconf 2023
Link to the talks is here: https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/
This has all the pictures: https://archive.is/sXo1V
You are, of course, trying to be sarcastic. However, the majority of people who shoot at cars are not trained marksmen. The majority of your body is indeed behind the door, not behind the window. Bullets from an untrained shooter are essentially randomly distributed.

In short, if I had to drive through Chicago at night, this is without a doubt one of the best consumer vehicles to do that in.
I totally agree the auto-advancing carousel was a bad idea. I wanted to add something with movement to the page, but that was definitely not the right idea. The carousel has been removed!
If this won’t lead to people ditching Chrome, I am afraid nothing ever will…
Lots of downvotes on answers, without the downvoters bothering to explain their reasoning. Time was, HNers were interested in rational exchanges of views.
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"well the American alpine club has an average income that's in the six figures iirc" how do you even come by information like this? The lowest membership fee is 45$ and as you mentioned it filters out a significant portion of the climbing population. If you are using a charity that likely has multi millionaires as part of its membership as part of your generalization for incomes across the whole climbing population...I would consider the possibility that you are way off.
“The flushing helped significantly in almost every case. Among water heaters where water levels first tested above 50 ppb, flushing dropped the lead levels on average from 456 ppb to 20 ppb”

They took samples from the tank as I understand before and after flushing. If it’s in the sample some of it presumably goes to the water you use.
It can be, but weight fluctuation (which Ozempic deliberately causes) is also harmful and in some cases more harmful than overweight was to begin with. But also the issue isn't so much dangerously obese people taking it (on the whole probably good) but rather slightly overweight or not-even-overweight people taking it.
I rarely take Tylenol or any over the counters…if I get a fever I ride it out and I feel much better the next day.

Good book that talks about the bodies evolutionary responses is “Why we Get Sick”
Who are you trying to argue?
The article describes this as a "monobloc" air-to-water heat pump. Monobloc means that the compressor, fan, and all the refrigerant are entirely sealed within the outdoor unit, and it just sends a loop of water (or water w/ glycol in it) into the house, where it can warm or cool an insulated buffer tank that effectively stores the hot or cold water for use in heating, cooling, and domestic hot water.
Apparently the hands, feet and upper part of the face have the most
thermal conductivity. So if you are hot cool these with a wet towel.
Epic Games is a big local employer and they too have clawed back their pound of flesh
Copenhagen, 2023. And Uber is banned.
> And other tricks in the Max and Pro versions makes it 30x faster

This feels like the collecting underpants meme. Phase 1: Get to the same performance as other methods. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: Now you're at 750%!

You may or may not actually have succeeded at what you claim to, but you're not being very persuasive. I realize that you're trying to turn these tricks into a profit and revealing them would destroy that possibility, but you're going to have a really hard time persuading people to pay for a product that does something that enormous teams of PhDs at BigTech haven't been able to pull off on the basis of "trust me".
I've lost about 33% of my body weight throughout 2023 on Wegovy (the weight loss brand of semaglutide).

There were major weight related health complications I was having at 34 BMI and they're not happening now. I knew how to lose weight -- meticulously track every calorie, use diet and exercise to hit targets. I had done it before , down to -10% and -25% body mass twice in the past ten years. But it never stayed that way -- I found it incredibly hard to stick to my kcal in goal or to stay at a stable lower weight. I'd eat when I was hungry, and eat enough to stay at my long term stable weight. If I ever stopped tracking every calorie in, my default sense of "full" tended towards a caloric surplus.

This drug fills exactly the gap I was struggling to fill with previous attempts at weight loss. I've felt "full" at 1500 kcal/day for months (though have had more of an appetite in the past 1-2 months) and have ended almost every day with a caloric deficit. It's a serious pharmaceutical intervention and I read the literature on GLP-1 agonists for years before starting. There were side effects, notably reflux when eating too much, "sulfur burps", and a general feeling of malaise for the day after taking a dose for the first few months.

No idea what the long term consequences of staying on this drug forever will be. Haven't noticed any other behavior changes. Not particularly interested in the appearance angle (I felt like I looked okay before and look okay now, though I've needed new clothes due to dramatic changes in waist size).

But the health stuff is serious and real and if we can make this drug cheaply available to people who discuss it carefully with a doctor there is potential for a serious chronic disorder to be addressed much more effectively than it used to be.
Off the top of my head, code that didn't even run due to syntax errors.
> And also, how do these compare to the inevitable health problems that long term obesity will cause

Did you know that being in the BMI “overweight” category is healthier than any other category, including “healthy” and “underweight”?

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-healthiest-weight-might-act...

Now you might say well that’s interesting but i was talking about obese people taking this drug.

“The study also found that those in the 'obese' category ended up having the same risk of death as those in the 'normal' range, even when factors such as age, sex, family history of disease, socio-economic status, and smoking were taken into account.”

So there are plenty of justifications and reasons to take a drug like this - some good, some bad - but hand waving at the obvious dangers of being overweight or obese doesn’t hold up as well as you might think.
Because being bug free and lustrous isn't something that people are willing to pay for.
I never cease to be amazed by some of these world class climbers. The number of elite level attributes that a person has to possess to pull off these feats is mind-boggling. Skill, focus, drive, cajones…to name a few.
This is, regrettably, unattainable for many in the US (economy).
Most thoughts are in a language. There is no one underlying universal machine language for the brain.
These people prepared to die for their sport. It is another level of adventure. Source: I have climbed about 10 metres of
not ice in an air conditioned gym :-)