skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of non-exclusive theories from a non-physiologist:

Your body needs to burn less to maintain / manage the fat you are or rather were carrying around.

Your body may be engaged in various processes that it turns down. It's possible, for example, that it may be engaged in various anti-cancer activities that aren't necessary as your body fat decreases (higher body fat is correlated with some cancers, though I don't believe a a direct causal link has been established...but this comment is all speculation anyway). Or the excess calories could signal your body to do other "discretionary" processes that it dispenses with in time of calorie deprivation. It's even possible that such discretionary processes could be statistically bad for you in our current environment, which might be a reason why calorie deprivation may extend lifespan, at least in modern humans.

Your gut could expend less effort to extract certain nutrients or vitamins from your food in a low calorie regime ("bah, opportunistically grabbing that extra Vitamin E is not worth the effort right now").

Just some off the top ideation, not meant to imply that these ideas are necessarily what happens but are ideas why simple thermodynamics is inadequate on its own to explain the phenomenon. The body is more than a simple calorimeter.
The 5880 is the same generation as the 4090 and is a workstation card (it has higher memory but lower CUDA cores available). The price is expected to be around $5-6k. What I mean by 5000 series is the non-workstation next-gen lineup.
In summary - the body adjusts. The increased hunger stimulated by the vigorous exercise will usually outweigh any calories burned off
Yea we try to set a good example as parents. You can’t expect kids to not get addicted to social media when their parents are… constantly scrolling though their phone and social media! I bet even basic ground rules help. We try to adhere to: don’t be seen by our kid doing it. Some parents hold themselves to this rule when it comes to drinking and smoking, so why not apply it to smartphone scrolling too?
Well just one counterexample Snowflake
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
> It's possible to lose weight sustainably even without exercise, so perhaps it's fair to say that if you're going to exercise, you best sustain it.

Exercise is for muscle gain and general health, not for weight loss. You have to exercise a truly absurd about to burn enough calories to lose any meaningful amount of weight. You'd have to run from SF to LA to lose 10lbs, and that's assuming you eat nothing else to compensate which humans are notorious for doing. Your body has a very strong homeostatic drive, and will absolutely push you to eat more and to be more sedentary outside of work-out time to compensate for any additional exercise you do.

There's no studies or evidence whatsoever that shows it has a meaningful impact on weight loss. Weight loss comes from what you put in (or rather don't).

This write-up from 2016 references 60 studies and meta-analysis which all show the same. [1]

tl;dr: you should exercise for health and for muscle gain, not for weight loss.

[edit] Note that metabolic adaptation results from caloric restriction dieting too, which is why 95% of diets fail. Basically only GLP-1s and gastric bypass have been clinically shown to result in meaningful, sustained, long-term weight loss. Obesity is a dysfunction of the gabaergic central nervous system. That's why everyone's so excited about GLP-1s.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-...
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I have three teenagers and they are all very different from each other in terms of personality, interests, work habits, and phone use among other things.

You could place all of them into three distinct challenging scenarios and a different one of them would excel while the others would flounder. But there isn't that kind of variety in most schools, or if there is students are expected to excel in all three scenarios.

From the inside looking out, I think that home environment is the driving factor as I could easily tiger-mom them into deep depression and anxiety. Are they achieving everything of which they are capable? Probably not, but I do see consistent gains in maturity and personal responsibility each year and that really helps put perspective on some of the struggles.

As a counter-study it would be interesting to track the adoption of PowerSchool software across the US and see if that correlates with teen anxiety.
The licensing of this book is not something I've ever seen before...

I'm unable to buy it ?
Hard disagree. You don't need different physical databases (though it may become necessary at some point), but you should absolutely value data isolation when you're developing smaller services. Oh you need to rename a column and 6 services call in to read it write this table? You took a 1x solution and made it 5x more difficult to make this change and coordinate, etc. If instead 5 services asked the 1 holder of truth service about the data instead, all of 1 service needs to change when you update the database schema. You can then pick and choose when each dependent service is moved over to the new schema's representation without blocking all services from a simple upgrade path .

If on the other hand, you're fine yolo bringing down your entire tech stack for potentially hours force upgrading all services at once, then you probably shouldn't be using microservices to begin with.

(And yes there are strategies to mitigate needing a big bang for renames as well as long as writers are all consistent, I just wanted to describe why everyone touching the same data stores leads to terrible outcomes like people being unable to make changes because "it's hard", which nobody says out loud but it's definitely visible in the tech stack).
A former French secretary of state for the digital sector was Cédric O. I think it's a Korean name originally.
Sure but it's FOSS, so audits are pretty easy.

Plus as part of the pentesting I watch the network stack in Firefox sometimes so I would tell if it was trying to exfiltrate date
Ask HN: Recruiters, do you get many cover letters written by an AI?
Do you? I’m curious to see how many people reply “never”.

If you do get AI cover letters, how does that affect the applicant?
My iPhone (SE, 2nd gen) is used with reckless abandon in the bath and shower. I’ve dropped it in a river, even. (Very lucky it didn’t sink before I could grab it.)

I have had the battery replaced under warranty without issue.
My given name includes a generational suffix (a roman numeral); my home state, upon issuing a drivers license, wrote that out as an arabic ordinal numeral. E.g., instead of "III" for "the third", I got "3RD". On an official government ID.

I eventually moved, and every state after that wasn't quite that dumb.

Needless to say, this matches nothing at all, like airline tickets, or my birth certificate or passport. Shockingly, this was never a problem.
> Regulation has driven a lot of industry out of America, as it made it too expensive to operate here.

Do you have any sources? I think most offshoring is driven by significantly lower labor costs in other countries. For example, China has a highly controlled economy, but American companies still offshore work there simply because labor is cheaper. Indeed, we've seen some "onshoring" in recent years[1] now that automation is far more prevalent and labor cost is less significant as a portion of operating costs.

[1] https://www.engineering.com/story/automation-is-making-onsho...
Dystopian "smart" shopping carts that display ads
The evolutionary pressure is a root here, but the problem isn't readability, it's the lack of abstraction.

The central dogma is DNA -> RNA -> protein, except that:
1. RNA can fold into a functional molecule
2. RNA can be spliced differently to make several different proteins
3. RNA can bind with proteins to create other functional units
4. The availability of amino acids and TRNA units within the cell affects the speed at which a protein is translated from RNA, which can affect its structure, which affects its function
5. The codon language is not guaranteed identical between organisms, which means the same RNA sequence can encode for different amino acid sequences in different organisms

And that's just in the transcription/translation machinery. That's what I mean when I say there's no abstraction: biology is a physical system, which means molecular & atomic interactions influence every level of every process.
Postgres Is a Cache
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. What level of supervision would you want over the process? For example, would you want to approve each job that gets applied for, or do you truly want that to be done for you?
Given how well chatGPT can explain code, I'm reasonably confident it can do much better than the lowest common denominator of people on the internet talking about any given expert document.

May well still give a false sense of knowledge, but that's a very common problem for all of us.
Seems in line with other phenomena such as resting heart rate decreasing after sustained cardio training regimens. Your body just starts expending less energy during resting periods. This doesn't entail loss of function because the body is capable of operating in a wide variety of energy expenditure regimes
My weight floats in a range that's 40-50 pounds lighter today than I was a decade ago. It's because I eat less and move more.

Physically, weight-loss is utterly trivial. Literally everything that people say works, does. Eat less calories, eat less sugar, cut out snacking, cut out liquid calories, cut out processed food, reduce carbs, literally any and all of those work, choose whichever is most appealing to the individual.

The challenge to weight and diet in America is mental and cultural. Obese people remain obese because they have unhealthy relationships with food and eat addictively or emotionally, using food to soothe anxiety, depression, loneliness, disappointment, etc and because cultural norms and advertising have normalized obesity-causing diets.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
> This is one of those new technologies that's useful primarily as a viewfinder on a dismal present and a future determined to be even more miserable. Nobody anywhere will like the smart carts. Nobody, anywhere, will find them not-obnoxious. Everybody who does more than a couple of moments of thinking about it will be horrified by the idea of humanity digging gigantic devastating holes in the ailing planet and mining out its contents for the purpose of putting tablet computers onto grocery carts so that they can perform a service repulsive to literally everyone. Nobody—nobody nobody nobody!—wants to live in a society characterized by inescapable omnipresent advertising for consumer products; no one yet born has yearned to have video advertisements take up ever more of their field of vision.
There's definitely $150k jobs in a normal metro area. Chicago, for example, has a lot of posted software engineering jobs in that range (I've even seen more that are lower than that lately after this past year of tech layoffs, like around $120k, unfortunately)
Synthetic biologist here. This is a good answer, but looking at man-made genetic programs can give us a simplified perspective. We've made significant progress engineering programs that enable human T cells to kill target (cancer) cells _conditionally_ based on their surface marker expression [1]. This is in contrast to conventional CAR-T cells which are already on the market (see Kymriah, etc.). A simple AND gate T cell circuit is currently being tested in humans [2].

Numerous strategies now exist to write cellular decision making programs using synthetic circuits. We are entering an era where we can write DNA programs and put them into people; I wonder how we can interest more CS-minded people in this kind of "synthetic biology as programming", especially as we move from proof of concept studies in bacteria to real trials in humans [2].

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33243890/
[2]: https://arsenalbio.com/2023/05/16/arsenalbio-announces-prese...
Most people who quote thermodynamics don't understand it. They are just saying calories in = calories turned to fat + calories burned. Which is true, but not helpful. The body has many choices, including burning it and then using sweat to get rid of the extra heat. Since we have minimal control over if the body will do this there isn't anything more thermodynamics can input into weight.
You're confusing things. The real gains qua WL from exercise are what is lost from resting metabolic rate, not calories burned "during" exercise. Also: satiety, and other health benefits that have an impact.

> There's no studies or evidence whatsoever that shows it has a meaningful impact on weight loss.

Absolutely not true.

> Weight loss comes from what you put in (or rather don't).

It's energy balance. But just as increasing satiety helps (through food choices), exercise is a strong predictor of long-term WL success.

> This write-up from 2016 references 60 studies and meta-analysis which all show the same.

You're quoting a vox article, and it's making the aforementioned erroneous conflation about calories burned during exercise.
Funny that only 51 out of 475 jobs show the salary while tech people are very vocal against not showing it.
Positive Peace Index
author here, happy to answer any questions.
I think it is an ongoing process that accelerated over the past 10 or so years. There are still many people who stigmatize mental health issues and view mental health services skeptically at best.
> Absolutely not true.

Please cite a study that shows that exercise results in long-term sustained, clinically meaningful (>5%) weight loss. I have looked extensively and found none. And that's not for a lack of extant studies.

> It's energy balance. But just as increasing satiety helps (through food choices), exercise is a strong predictor of long-term WL success.

As far as I can see, there aren't any successful long-term (>2y) weight loss studies that don't involve GLP-1s or bariatric surgery, so maybe that's where the issue lies.

> You're quoting a vox article, and it's making the aforementioned erroneous conflation about calories burned during exercise.

I don't think it is, I looked over the studies they link to, but I'm open to being wrong. I don't really have a horse in this race.
It is 100% stupid quackery to believe that people with serious mental disorders will find their answer in the bottom of a pill bottle.

This is selling false hope, but hey, it's OK to sell false hope, because insurance happily pays for false hope. What insurance doesn't pay for is real solutions.

So why not sell this idiotic drug-based bullshit. For God's sake, I am a child of the 80s. When Mrs. Nancy Reagan said "Just Say No" she meant "Just Say No" to drugs!!!
Google might wait 6 months until they rank your site higher (same as you mention some old websites). I think for a new website it would take a while to rank properly. This matches my experience with own domains too.
Just because you placed an object x inside an object y does not make y a computer -_-
Computing is about data
Indeed. The single most expensive human error I ever made in my life, I made in a system that was architected in exactly this way that the author claims eliminates the possibility of such errors. Yes, it is true that it was very easy to fix the problem and restore the system to working order. But, by the time we detected and resolved the defect, the system had already been operating out of spec for some time and the damage had already been done.

This article seems to be ignorant of its own context. If ensuring that the database is internally consistent is really all it takes, then we all would have stopped worrying about it back in 1983 when Reuter and Harder originally formalized ACID.
It's interesting because it's quite a postmodern situation.

They did do the most significant signifiers to a layman: hack, write a blog post, wait until fix before talking about it.

I'd have a better explanation for picking a target, avoid having competing versions of the story out there, avoid having one version having you targeting a company while another claims it was a general sweep, get the collaborators together and at least credit them in all versions of you can't get people to agree to write one post, avoid exaggerating, avoid claiming you hacked other companies, and add a contact or two before releasing the vulnerability.

Comparing a Project Zero blog post to this is a good idea, I went off of memory.

As it stands it sure sounds like some people were hanging out in Discord, scrolled through some JS in dev tools and / or ran some automated script against a site, then got puzzled and downloaded a pwner GUI to do the hard part, saw a fix, then rushed to write blog posts and stepped on each other's toes, one wildly exaggerating who was hacked while covering up details, another being honest but had ~0 idea of what they were supposed to say
I've worked with people who did work with successfully employed event sources architectures.

One thing there is: These were massive engineering departments in very large companies. Think of several dozen data processing teams, each very much their own small company, all working on different domains with event and stream consumers and utilizing the possibility of restarting their stream consumers some time ago. Impressive Kafka-Clusters ingesting thousands and thousands of events per second and keeping quite the backlog around to enable this refeeding, outages and catching back up and such. At their scale and complexity, I can see benefits.

However, at that scale, Kafka is your database. And you end up with a different color of the same maintenance work you'd have with your central database. Data ends up not being written, data ends up being written incorrectly, incorrectly written data now ends up with transitive errors. At times, those guys ended up having to drop a significant timespan of data, filter our the true input events, pull in the true events and start refeeding from there - except then there was a thundering herd effect, and then they had to start slowly bringing up load... great fun for the management teams of the persistence.

Note that I'm not necessarily saying e.g. Postgres is the solution to everything. However, a decently tuned and sized, competently run Postgres cluster allows you to delay larger architectural decisions for a long time with run-of-the-mill libraries and setup. Forever in a nonzero amount of projects.
They just left that in to make it fun.
Maybe Unicode should specify an equivalent of UAX #31 [0] for person names. ;)

[0] https://unicode.org/reports/tr31/
ag-grid is pretty great at all of this. it will get you 90% of the way there, then you just need to ensure you are ordering columns correctly and using the right types, and potentially using a few custom cell renderers to display novel data.

we're using it to infinite scroll / sort / filter a table with 3.2M rows of data and it 'just works'
It is clear that you haven't tried this with GPT-4

You have an obsolete understanding of this technology and are putting yourself at a disadvantage.
Top of the Muffin to you!
You might be surprised. I spent a long time carefully and politely explaining to an immigration case officer that "Firstname NMN Lastname" meant, in fact, that there was No Middle Name and not that there was a middle name cryptically encoded as NMN.
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Actual suicides can be quite influenced by events (eg other suicides and reporting about them in the media). This is known as the Werther effect (after Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
On my phone, I get a big "Share" button right in front of the keynotes video player. It also prevents me from skipping around the video, no way I'm watching all of that.

I tried to go into landscape to fix it, qnd I get a black screen asking me to go back to portait mode.

I don't know how you can get such basic things so wrong.
The death spiral of an American family (2022)
Ran into Steve Naroff a few years ago and the first thing he said to me was "Wow, I still can't believe we managed to get Objective-C++ to work!"
> I complained about this to my bank when I found out they stored passwords and their response was "don't worry about it - you aren't responsible for fraud".

I'd much rather live in a world where banks are idiots with passwords and I'm not responsible for fraud, than a world where I'm expected to be not an idiot with my passwords, and I were responsible for fraud.

Every day, I count my lucky stars.
New Clues (2015)
Another selling point is the Clang CFE, which amortizes the complexity of C++ parsing and semantic analysis, much to the chagrin of the Edison Design Group.
this article is so pedestrian I'm puzzled why it's featured so highly here.
Structural Insulated Panels - SIPs (which I think is what you are talking about) have arguments in their favor as they actually benefit from many of the upsides of building things in factories vs on an individual/onsite basis. These do not seem like they'll realize any of those (since you are just prefabing a component comparable to a sheet or board as opposed to a whole wall).

SIPS absolutely do have issues with leakage, the same as any construction method. Joints, penetrations, windows, etc. can all be sources, same as in traditional framing, the difference is again that plywood / osb / glued together wood scraps are atrocious at handling moisture. I do think they are interesting though, more reading for the curious below.

https://buildingscience.com/documents/enclosures-that-work/h...

One of the benefits of SIPs for airtightness is that the layer that provides that is built in (or atleast can be) at the factory. This eliminates alot of the variables that hurt airtightness when you are building onsite (working in temps/humidity where seals don't get installed right, poor workmanship, etc.).
Maybe I'm getting old and cranky, but the golden age of television was clearly 10 years ago. I'm hard-pressed to find any shows on streaming now that I like more than the ones I was watching back then (Justified, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, etc). Darker lighting and depressed characters do not a good show make.

And even if a streaming show starts with promise, you can almost guarantee now that it will be cancelled or the creators get bored of it before it ends.

The idea that corporations can treat entertainment like it's a mutual fund and throw money at content and some of it will be good enough is clearly failing. There's a race to the bottom to pump out these shows so quickly. Some of these projects are just starving for longer development time and more experienced involvement.
Who will promptly slap you on the wrist, wag their finger at you and send you on your way.
I think people who claim this are massively exaggerating any possible effect.
Am in between house rentals at the moment and the general concept of “commitment agreements” is one that’s been on my mind. Particularly the desire to pay 6 or X months up front for a place - maybe it exists in the commercial space but haven’t seen it for general residential agreements.

Some cool points made in this article thanks for sharing. It’s a bit broad and formulaic to be directly actionable in my opinion but that can be seen as good/bad depending on the reader
Attempting to engineer microscopic insulin pumps out of a skin bacterium
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