skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it gets even more paradoxical when you consider total healthcare spending, and how the US system tends to weight this far more towards end-of-life care than other systems.

in many cases, when looking at total life spending, things that kill you earlier actually can reduce total life spending (smokers are a great example) because it means you don't incur the three knee replacements and bouncing in and out of hospital for the last 2 years of your life and spend the last 2 weeks dying in an ICU. Having a heart attack and dying on the surgical table is pretty cheap in terms of total healthcare spending.

Obesity is still cost-positive, but it's a lot less than you think from numbers like "X% of total medical funds spent on obesity" - you are going to substitute around 50-75% of that cost in cancer treatment and knee replacements instead (see table 2).

https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/do...

anyway, one of the problems is that obese people are massively stigmatized and shamed. they are already treated worse (and receive worse medical care, etc) than others, for every moment of their lives, they have constantly-reinforced negative body image, which is psychologically unhealthy to impose on people. And the point of "healthy at any size" (when not taken to an absurd extreme) is to get people to at least feel like they aren't so far gone that it's pointless to make better choices, because starting to make better choices are the foundation of starting to climb out.

This is usually met (even here, in past discussions) by some variety of "good, they should feel bad", and "well, I was fat and it helped me!", but that's basically a riff on "my parents spanked me and I turned out fine". Not only is that probably not a medically-supportable opinion (stress and fear are themselves powerfully negative causative factors that place actual physical damage on the body over time), but not everyone's brains work the same in the first place. What inspires you to improve might just reinforce someone else's depressive spiral, a lot of obese people have very negative body image ("good", says the peanut gallery).

Black Mirror wasn't wrong, people love having an underclass to look down on, and obese people are a very visible and very socially-acceptable underclass to punch down on. A "steelmanned" view of HAES, when not taken to ridiculous extremes (and I'm not saying nobody does!) is that it's simply asking that we not go full Black Mirror on shaming fat people, but frankly I think a lot of people don't even agree on that much, or that it would be a good thing. "It's for their own good" etc.

The whole reaction to the idea of HAES, itself, is a microcosm of the social problems around obesity and self-image - how dare you feel good about yourself? Why aren't you going through every day in a haze of shame like you deserve to? It's for your own good!
Empathy, not emotions.

Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Someone make an app where you scan the barcode and it gives you the scoop (Is it BS/dangerous etc).
So you haven't seen me WFH yet... phew
Sure. That's a perfectly legit criticism. It's not, however, an excuse for the terrible way things have been done.

If you want to fix a problem, you fix the original cause. You do not come along at the very end and adjust the values to where you think they should be.
Love the clean design of the website! Looks amazing on mobile.
No, I have no opinions on that serotonin paper. I was just referring to the facts, which are that other papers haven't replicated its findings and there are a lot of factors that affect serotonin that they haven't taken into account. If you're interested, take a look. If not, no worries.
Yep, heat is heat. If you manage to swap in your hardware for grandma's electric heater, you have free electricity for whatever you do.

But you need to make sure that the hardware is operated for sufficient time to pay for itself. Without end users harvesting your hw, data.

I think there can be a business to be made here, but it is not trivial at all.
Is it just me or is it weird to show a faster startup speed as a bigger bar?

I thought it was slower until I saw the 1000x. Even 1000x seems kinda meaningless.
I found the induction ranges are far more trouble than they're worth to me. The low temperature thing is a serious problem, and I really dislike that you have to use certain types of pans. I've used gas stoves enough to know that they're fine -- but for me they offer no important advantages over electric.

> I don't like the pressure to get rid of this stuff, it should be individual choice depending on your own personal situation.

So much this! Different strokes for different folks.
The Google Maps app is atrocious on iOS. So is their website.
Unexpectedly charming gadget saved my Christmas lights – and my sanity
Yeah, onboarding could use some love. This happens a lot with Nostr projects. It's built by Nostr nerds for Nostr nerds and to them "nsec" is super obvious. They really should NOT ENCOURAGE PASTING NSEC as it is not secure and explain how to generate an nsec and how to use a browser extension / wallet to log in.
Am researcher, care about responsiveness way more than pretty. I am super glad for the option. Downloading PDFs is super annoying. I'm stoked.
Frameworks need product code.
>>As well as hacking offences the boy was sentenced for what the judge described as "unpleasant and frightening pattern of stalking and harassment" of two young women.

Bunch of people on here are defending him, please justify this for me.
Those products are at very different maturity points, wrt to continued commercial adoption, aka revenue gen.
Those are almost certainly not primary residences, they are likely not mortgaged by their owners (without a substantial rental business providing collateral, for example), and most states LLC records are completely public.
As someone who has worked in healthcare for 20+ years now, at least in those circles it was widely known that phenylephrine was a placebo at best, when it was mandated as the on the shelf replacement for psuedoephedrine (Sudafed) nasal decongestant. Again in healthcare circles there was a clear understanding of this being a DEA driven policy to replace an effective medicine that could be abused to create methamphetamine with a different medicine that was ineffective but could not be turned into street drugs. As best as I can tell the policy resulted in harm to millions of people while not reducing the spread and availability of methamphetime one bit and ancillary costs to the healthcare system in the billions of dollars.

Off the top of my head, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19230461 from 2009 but there are many earlier studies as I recall.
Oh no, that turns Cilium from a safe choice into... somewhat uncertain.

Maybe I should look into Istio again.
Good at what they're being programmed for is a bit of tautology.

FPGAs being selected for performance per watt was only a fairly recent phenomenon, when they were deployed on semi large scale as password crackers/cryptocurrency miners.

Their real strength is ultimately real time processing (DSP or networking), with reconfigurability often quite valuable for networking applications. For DSP applications it's usually because a MOQ of custom silicon can't be justified.
I like how this debate never changes. 20 years ago everything I see in the comments was being said about "affirmative action". The only thing that's really changed is the terminology.

affirmative action -> DEI

PC (political correctness) -> "woke"

Can't wait to see what the language for the next iteration of this looks like, because I doubt the debate itself is going away anytime soon.
Blender and Python Basics – Render Stills, Videos
Here's a blog post I wrote about the basics of using Python to automate your usage of Blender. I am excited about how much this could be leveraged to automate the process of creating videos. I was impressed with how easy-to-use the Blender Python API was.
I'm inclined to agree with you on that to an extent. When I hear Sam Altman talking about it like it's inevitable and he carries the weight of the world on his shoulders, just seems a little cringey. Don't get me wrong. I like the guy, but it is cringey.
> "Should we allow a third party we have no control over to man-in-the-middle our end-to-end encrypted messaging service or not? This is a tough one!"

That's absolutely not what's happening, and I think Beeper's response here was totally correct.

There is no encryption, at all, between iOS and Android clients if the iOS user is using iMessage. And, furthermore, my understanding is that the presence of a single Android user in a group chat means nobody gets an encrypted messaging experience.

In the past, Apple's response to this has literally been "Buy your grandmother an iPhone". How can anyone not call incredible amounts of bullshit when their response to a company that actually let, for the first time, an Android user have an encrypted conversation with an iOS user as "This is unacceptable, we can't allow this" and claim it's because Apple cares about user security???

Not enough BS chutzpah in the universe for that one.
I suspect the equilibrium proce for childcare is like just under the average womans salary.
Red letters and icons like in submarines so your "day mode" vision does not get activated.

Here is the astronomical software Stellarium:
https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/SMP-red.png
I’ve been on the extreme of maxing out fps in games for a decade.

Gamersnexus is great! But they and the other YouTube benchmarkers don’t tell the whole story. when you are playing games that are bottlenecked by single thread performance single core performance and therefore memory speed becomes important. This is very difficult to benchmark as most of those games where it matters (CoD warzone) don’t have an easy way to benchmark. When I was testing my OC I literally would change the ram frequency in the bios, and drop into a pubg match, and screen record my fps and manually add it to a spreadsheet.

So take those benchmarks and then add some performance gains from memory overclocking that I (and others) been able to get meaningful gains in fps beyond just overclocking the cpu. 5-10% more fps is not amazing, but it’s definitely worth it to me for games like warzone or valorant.

AMD’s support for high end ram has always lagged. Happy to use amd for non-gaming, but if you’re trying to build “the best gaming rig” I’m not sure AMD can take that crown. And until people are willing to benchmark single threaded bottleneck games like warzone with different ram speeds, I doubt this argument will be settled.
You are totally missing the point - the point made in the previous post was, that intellectual labour should be rewarded with some sort of IP, so that the creator of it is rewarded. The categorisation of different types of IP is not fundamental.

The counterpoint I made is that we do not reward some types of intellectual labour at all. And some of the greatest contributions to humanity are of the type, that is not rewarded. So the argument as initially presented is flawed:

Either the authors of intellectual labour do not need to be rewarded with ownership, perhaps other types of compensation is more appropriate

OR

Authors of scientific intellectual labour are currently unfairly exploited and should be compensated
Imo better advice would be your data may outlive the schema it's stored in or your application may outlive the data.
Ah, I'm having sun problems in my new office too. I just draped a blanket over the window, but a two tier system like you describe might give me the best of both worlds
One would presume Intel will get a decent chunk of the stock in any IPO and capture the upside value.

That does seem to be how these kind of deals are usually structured. Spinco is 60% owned by the parent or wherever.
I think you're imagining two towering waves crashing into each other. But in fact tsunamis only pile up like that when they enter shallow water. In the open ocean a tsunami is a wide area (~100km) of slightly raised (~1m) water. If two overlapped it would just be raised twice as high, which wouldn't cause much turbulence.
I'm pretty sure they're called steroids and while they work better if you exercise, that isn't a requirement.
I think this will add context to the discussion. Below are the recently leaked internal Red Hat guidelines.

RED HAT ALLYSHIP COMMANDMENTS

1. Openly acknowledges PRIVILEGE and SYSTEMIC racism exist in trauma
2. Never questions the REALITY of our BLACK friends and colleagues
3. Rejects the idea that race is political
4. Accepts that WHITE people are responsible for dismantling racism
5. Only WHITE people are racist
6. Knows the BLACK community owes us nothing in this work
7. Requires acknowledgment and repair of inevitable MISTAKES
8. Is never rooted in WHITE SAVIORISM
9. Sees the black community as a group of individuals and not a MONOLITH
10. Does NOT seek recognition or praise for a job well done
> They want to keep people in their walled garden so bad

Many of us willingly pay a premium for that. It has its benefits and nobody forces you to lock yourself into their ecosystem. Crying about it when you willingly pick something outside of their defined ecosystem and have some weird expectation of access is baffling.
They lay under a tree for 12. They aren't that physically active unless they must.
> If they did read the ingredient list, people would realize that all those products in the pharmacy are mostly remixes of the same handful of chemicals sold at different prices.

This is one of the major problems with putting pseudoephedrine behind the counter. It had been an ingredient in many of these combination products -- after all, if you have a cold, you have the combination of symptoms that come with a cold and want to take the corresponding combination of drugs.

But the combination products are convenience products. You could just as well buy the ingredients individually and take them together. People buy the combination product to be saved the trouble, which isn't compatible with the trouble of getting something from behind the counter.

So there generally isn't a combination product available with the decongestant that actually works in them. And phenylephrine, in addition to not working, has more dangerous side effects (e.g. larger increase in blood pressure) than pseudoephedrine. But now it's the thing in the bottle grandma gets when she has a cold.
Yeah, but I agree with the parent; I think something has changed recently with Siri. The other day I asked it some questions as a joke that I knew would just say "here's what I found on the web", but it answered them. It made me wonder what they're changing under the hood.
> They were eager, friendly, and personable, but they required a longer period of extensive coaching get up to a level we would consider adequate.

Did they end up being productive, and hopefully worth the effort?

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As a data point I'm ok when hiring new people with less-than-desired level of experience (within reason ;>), as long as their general attitude and willingness to learn are solid.

Those last two mean they'll get the hang of things given some appropriate guidance, so it works out ok.
Traffic issue is clogging up my suburban neighborhood during rush hour. So I think of it as distinction without a difference.
It’s not Stockholm syndrome, you incorrectly assume that every iPhone owner is some kind of mini Stallman. Most people really don’t care about all this stuff, they just want a product that works well, with minimum fuss. They don’t care about third party appstores. Sideloading, open sourcing imessage and all this linux hacker stuff.
pseudopseudoephedrine?
Meteor.js is an open source platform for building on Web, Mobile, and Desktop
Why would you compare the upper body strength of a human to an primate that evolved to have high upper body strength?

I would rather run a marathon against one.
FWIW, I recently learned that it is also possible to produce nice PDF papers with GNU roff (groff), have a look at this example: https://github.com/SudarsonNantha/LinuxConfigs/blob/master/....
I don’t see why you need legal protections. A diversity of thought can bring value. If the manager said, “We currently only have staff with public sector experience. We don’t have headcount for more folks. But let me know if you have someone with private sector experience. They are extremely rare, and could really open up the way we solve the problem.”

Would that offend you in the same way?
I'm taking in a larger context. I think just reading the three cited examples is an incorrect approach. For one, Waymo isn't sharing "all" their data, they've already been highlighted for bad practices in terms of only sharing the data from when their Waymo team decided was a bad decision. That's not necessarily objective, and can also lead to perverse incentives to obfuscate. So we don't have a great set of data to work with, because the data sharing requirements have not been well-defined or standardized. Secondly, if you look at reports of other accidents, you can see where AV developers have heinously poor practices as it relates to safety-critical software. Delaying actions as a mitigation for nuisance braking is really, really bad idea when you are delaying a potentially safety critical action. I'm not saying Waymo is bad in this regard, but we know other AV developers are and, when you combine that with the lack of confidence in the data and the previous questionable decisions around transparency, it should raise some questions.
I do something similar. Hey, I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong. Can you help me figure it out?

Then be grateful for the help, because it truly isn't granted or a given that people have to drop everything and figure things out for you, even if you work together. And even if the mistake was actually theirs. Gratitude is huge.
I get it, but this is also, frankly, terrible. I should not be required to store your identifiers in my system in case order to login users.

I've always felt that email+email_verified would make much more sense.

I don't actually care about the email address being a unique person, just that they have access to it.
The article addresses this.

> Just one year ago, Tim Cook had this to say about RCS: "I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point. […] Buy your mom an iPhone.”

> Long story short, I will believe it when I see it. Apple has a long history of claiming they will support an open standard, then failing to add support. In 2010, Steve Jobs promised that Apple ‘would make FaceTime an open industry standard’. That never happened. More recently, in 2021, Apple promised to open their Find My network to competitors like Tile. Instead, they’ve penalized Tile by additional warnings in front of their app.
> The thing that makes no sense to me is why they kept it going for three years before killing it.

Internal politics?

Presumably the internal team(s) with overlap were against the acquisition.

But it was likely easier to see if the integration failed on its own before spending the political capital to kill it.

Folks forget executives at large companies usually optimize for "my career" over "the company."
So 25%, which is well above the 15% effect I’ve seen, but you could just be an outlier. Also possible that such research suffers from self reporting problems, and many who claim they’ve made lifestyle changes are not reliable in those self reports. Fwiw, my experience is similar to yours. Lifestyle changes (weight loss moreso than diet) improved my “bad” cholesterol and glucose.
Despite the title, this article is about dropping foreign key constraints, not about dropping foreign keys altogether (which is possible, see below).

You can drop foreign key constraints and enforce referential integrity in your code, but from a logical standpoint your foo.barId column is still a foreign key.

Actually getting rid of foreign keys on the other hand can be done in a data store that allows nested structures, like e.g. a document based store. The price to pay is data duplication and denormalisation (and the related complexity you will have to deal with in all write operations), the pros are ease and speed of retrieval.
> But if content providers do not want to give me their stuff unless I watch their ads, I think that's fine.

Exactly. I've got a right to block ads if I can figure out how to achieve that technologically. But they've got a right to not give me content if they can figure out, technologically, that I'm blocking their ads.

This all seems very fair to me.
Well, it "made" sense for intel because this allowed Altera to switch to Intel fabs. Not saying it's a huge strategic value or anything, just saying that's the difference.
Lucky us we are past that already with nuclear, those plants never need replacement, neither heavy subsidies upfront, or also afterwards to dismantle and clean up.. why humans so stupid? Did I forgot that they also never need maintenance, as all the other tech? Except gas and coal plants, which are also maintenance free, and we can even make profit on the resources they consume!
Often using a solution with many lines of code can be better, if it solves all the problems just by installing a finished product, even if it contains unnecessary parts, rather than a "keep it simple stupid" solution where you write only the needed parts yourself but have a lot more work to turn it into a tested and complete product. I don't use most of the protocols of my enterprise router but I won't write the routing protocols I need myself nor build a router myself, I just buy a router and ignore most of its features.
It's a well understood part of human nature that it's very difficult to charge for something you previously gave away for free.

The vast majority of the web has been given away for free by being ad supported, that's never going to roll back, the expectation has been set.

Thankfully, the wider public might find ads irritating but they'd still prefer them over paying so ads aren't going away anytime soon.
Referential integrity saves you so many headaches. I am dealing with a 500+ table database with no foreign keys at all. This has allowed so many problems to creep in. Writing queries is pure suffering.
I've heard they're not that healthy. Gorillas on the other hand are.

I wonder if there's some floor dosage which is far from affecting your health but already significant in affecting your well-being. Why aren't we all on steroids. Why people who are trying to get rid of fat are not on steroids.
So how does it actually work? Sounds like a gimmick to me. Bacteria produced anti-allergy nasal spray?
Hold on... Are you telling me that all these complex sentences are being typed out based on your voice alone? That's insane.
Well it's still decentralized and scales in that there is significant competition participating in an open protocol. Even though most use the big 3, many smaller players have enough legitimacy to be whitelisted by gmail, e.g. fastmail and protonmail. But for fully custom, sure gmail is annoyingly aggressive these days, but it's not a black hole, the emails still send and more importantly receive. Does anyone other than spammers send cold email? I usually am receiving or replying. When I do send cold, it's to someone who is expecting it so they will check their spam or already have me in their contact list so it doesn't go to spam. It's not for everyone or for all situations, but fwiw I've found it very useful to exercise the fully distributed nature of email for personal and professional reasons, so I would still defend it as a fair example of a distributed protocol that scales :).
The records of the LLC’s managers are public, but not usually their beneficial owners (unless they are the same people).

The way to do it is to have your attorneys be the managers of your holding companies, then you can direct them (under privilege, afaik) to sign what you like. This is how I do it. Alternately if you have staff you trust and expect to have a long time (I don’t), they can be your holding company’s manager(s).