skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI the show was not an incontrovertible failure for most contestants

> Six years after the competition, median weight loss in 14 of "The Biggest Loser" participants was 13%...

That means at least 7 of them lost 13%. That's pretty significant. On Ozempic, average weight loss is 11% after six months.

The show worked for the majority, and the difference between the people who it worked for and the people for whom it did not work is Physical Activity not Energy Intake. This is covered in the OP link and also in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29086499/
Obligatory XKCD reference: Little Bobby Tables — https://xkcd.com/327/
You make great products, good job (I’d love to connect offline to discuss things in more detail, let me know)

With pdf pals, can your app support time sequenced docs like sec filings? I’d love to easily drop in the last few quarters of a company’s filings and get coherent answers on its performance while not accidentally smashing all the filings together and hallucinating false stuff.
> I can't wrap my head around the way this solves the global mutable state problem.

That's because you can't get rid of global mutable state. The only thing you can do is try to spread it around to add write concurrency, but that only works for some transactional/concurrency models and schemas.

It looks from the other reply like the answer is that the data is sharded to effectively increase write concurrency, but it's still 1 writer per shared.
Funny enough, this is a sibling of Wikihouse.
AI versus Old-School Creativity
I'm almost expecting a mention of bootstraps, and not of the CSS framework variety.
If I understand that example correctly it takes careful up-front design of event-sources to achieve the desired constraints. E.g. if, for some reason, transactions between users needed to now be initiated from the receiving user (toUser asks for $amt from fromUser) the microbatching would need to be paused and switched to a new microbatch that feeds from the new event source. Does Rama natively support sequencing of these kinds of schema changes if, e.g. you had to replay all the events from scratch to restore the Pstates from scratch. Traditionally, an event-id or timestamp would be used as a demarcation of different aggregation semantics before and after a sentinel value, and I suppose each microbatch could check against sentinel value before proceeding.

In short, though, I struggle to see lower complexity for transactional workloads in Rama v.s. traditional RDBMS.

Do you plan to provide a higher-level abstraction like SQL that internally compiles to correct Rama implementations of Pstate generation?

I think combining ETL and OTP in a single system has a lot of merit, as several RDBMS systems have been adding materialized views to support ETL workflows for that reason. I'm not convinced that low-level index generation is the right solution. I could be convinced that SQL-style high-level schema declarations parsed into malleable low-level operations that can be modified as necessary with solid support for the semantics of point-in-time schema changes could win over traditional RDBMS. For most use-cases the high-level definitions would be enough but reaching under the hood in a reliable and ops-friendly way would avoid the need for an explosion of custom and mutually-vendor-incompatible RDBMS extensions to SQL.
To get a glimpse of how cell "logic" works, I think clocks are a nice starting point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7v1Z2SmdQ
I just click back when they do that. The articles are almost never that valuable anyways.

This one prompted me at the end of the article which seems fairly reasonable to me, also not a popup but just a section I could scroll by. I hope that they keep this system going.
I think I would be shocked at his penchant for recreational mathematics.
Distributed Systems Horror Stories: Kubernetes Deep Health Checks
Read the dates again
I think "privacy" here is the wrong word. Carta owes some obligations to companies that sign up or their services (though they are vague and ambiguous).

But I hope people wake up to what they are agreeing to when they sign up as a user for Carta. Carta makes you agree that they owe you NO duty of confidentiality with respect to any information you submit into the service.
The only plausible explanation is that it's at a cost of other functions that are vital long-term but can be turned down temporarily? Such as reduced creation of new blood cells etc.
The problem is, it still boils down to CICO due to thermodynamics. That means they're still eating too much given a certain amount of physical activity.
Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund to Start Trading on Thursday
That video feels very anti-37signals style.

When past videos were just either Jason or DHH, giving an authentic - unscripted recorded demo.
I've tried to move all of my kubectl workflow into k9s, the CLI is just way too verbose.
words like "marriage" and "family" when wielded like this are effectively clubs and weasel words meant to induce an image of something akin to 50's propaganda posters of the happy american family living out their american dream, and imply that the people pointing out that's problematic are just being cynical nitpicky amoral misanthropes when really it's the people wielding them in this manner who are very selective about what people they mean to include, and very disingenuous about the many people they deliberately do not mean to include (and just their general agenda)
> apple drama was unfortunate but got resolved.

Was it unfortunate? I think it was absolutely amazing marketing wise. And considering that they got briefly rejected for the exact same reason like last time...
I was talking about https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058. Where the URL is in the headers as List-Unsubscribe: <URL>

A 2 page overview is here: https://certified-senders.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CSA...
5 years ago, the authors put an older edition of the book (5.4?) as a free download from GitHub: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/tree/format/publishe...

Direct link to an older PDF: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/blob/format/publishe...
I suppose this isn't too surprising. But poor Lego.

I just got their 2024 catalog in the mail and it was filled with space-themed sets. They even have a new "category logo" that makes it seem like they had planned for this to be a long-running thing. Whoops!
It's not quite the same, but every time I put my apartment number in the second address field (which is more or less exactly for apartment/duplex numbers etc), it thinks for a second and says "USPS has a suggested more accurate address" which simply appends it to the street address.

Why do we even have that field anymore?
Well this looks amazing. How easy is it to drop this into a Jumpstart Pro rails app so I can get the best of both worlds?
Hungry Brain by Guyenet is huge recommend from me, and I second the recommendation for Burn
The article has bad news for ya then...

> the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis
I wonder if a kanji name is a legally recognized name. Like, I don't know kanji, could I just pick random characters that end up being nonsense? or will I get in trouble

interesting anecdote
The only real way to handle it, even though it's not a fully general solution, is to ask the user if it needs to be different than what you've said is their canonical name. For example, just ask "How should your name appear in a address?" (only if different from your name) or "How may your name appear in government records?" (for when you need to look these up, like for known traveler info). That's not fully general but it at least accommodates many of these use cases and doesn't run afoul of the "automated rudeness" problem the blogger is talking about.
> That's not really what people mean by immutable though.

As far as the term "global mutable state" is concerned, which is what the article claims is bad, the event store is global mutable state. One can think of the individual event records in the store as immutable (they don't change once they're recorded), but the article is talking about the entire store, not an individual record in it.

> your copy of the data at point X will always be valid

If your copy of the event store is out of date (missing some events), it's not valid. A new event that your copy hasn't yet registered might change the results of queries on the store, meaning that your copy will be delivering out of date, hence invalid, query results. You can't handwave around that by gerrymandering the definition of "immutable". The simple fact is, as I said, that the real world is global mutable state, and if your app is dealing with the real world, it has to deal with that.
Nobody, it’s a strawman.
> Say you have a filing cabinet with all of your important and \ or embarrassing documents in it. Are you OK with houseguests giving the handle a little wiggle when they come over to check if its locked? What about the neighborhood kids?

If i leave that filing cabinet in the middle of Times Square in Manhattan (which has an insane amount of foot traffic every day), then yes, I would expect plenty of people to give it a little wiggle to check if it’s locked. And I would be rightfully given a lot of questionable looks for complaining that passerbys stop to check it out or give it a wiggle.

Having your service on the internet is not the same as having a filing a cabinet in your house. I think that the Times Square analogy is even underplaying it, given that on the internet, your audience is many many magnitudes larger and more remote/anonymous.

On the other hand, if I had a private VLAN (that wasn’t exposed to the internet) on my home network, then I would be definitely annoyed if my houseguests would try and pentest it without asking.
Just get an iPhone SE. They're small, still functional, and inexpensive.
Are pour overs more work? I typically make a full pot.
> There is no mutable state.

Yes, there is. Appending a new log entry to the depot mutates the depot. It doesn't mutate earlier records in the depot, but the depot is the entire record set, not just individual records. The record set is different after the append than before it.
yup, the stomach gradually expands and the weight returns. Really hard to beat the body.
I think reporting bias should be the starting point and the primary area of inquiry when looking at this topic. Unless I'm imagining the recent past where mental illness was literally verboten to speak about and mental health services were widely derided as scams. The change in discourse has been as rapid and dramatic as any social change I can think of, yet the authors seem to think it's enough to simply acknowledge that and focus instead on their many charts, most of which are about self-reporting or diagnoses.
The bad food habits are only going to get worse as meat+dairy is forcibly taken away from us by the powers that be.

Fewer options for an appealing 'proper meal', more temptation to eat sugar-laden junk.
This is what I like most about all 37 Signals products.

The fact that they are so polarizing with just design choices is their edge.

You either love it or hate. It’s a lot like Rails in this regard.
whatabout, but in more words
> "certain Russian populations"

Yes, of course. There are always outliers. But 50+% of the American population doesn't fall into this bucket, do they? Nor did they suddenly become that after they were born (i.e., obesity is a relatively new problem and not so much driven by DNA else why didn't it exist so much even just 50 yrs ago?).

We keep looking for all kinds of "answers" to obesity but we already have the one that works for most people most of the time:

Take in more calories than you burn, and those extra calories will become added weight.

That's it. It is *that* simple.

But people refuse to change their diet and/or lifestyle. In fact they're being told it's not their fault, as if someone else is responsible for what goes in their mouth and their sedentary lifestyles.
I agree that people should accept help if they need it, and should not feel ashamed for doing it, but having a strong willpower is a superpower that will help people in all aspects of their lives. I wonder if there are ways you can improve your willpower.
Yeah the one I mentioned as an example is "loose" in that it's an autox style cone course but there's no timers or rules or anything other than like not ruining the course.

You pay $80 or whatever and get to do as many runs as you like throughout the day. Sometimes they change up the course layout halfway through.

SpeedSF's organizer for that event will go out periodically and adjust the cones and stuff. Although in my experience they get lazy halfway through the day.

But the idea is it's nothing fancy like a standard autox event. It's just a cone course to mess around on to work on handling and inputs.

This way there's absolutely no pressure. You're just there to learn your car in a small relatively controlled environment.
> I can't be the only person who remembers when Google was known for even omitting technically optional html tags on their homepage, to make it load fast

This was back when a large fraction of search users were on 56k modems. Advances in broadband connectivity, caching, browser rendering, resource loading scheduling, and front-end engineering practices may result in the non-intuitive scenario where the 2MB Google homepage in 2024 has the same (or better!) 99-percentile First-Meaningful-Paint time as a stripped-down 2kb homepage in 2006.

The homepage size is no longer that important because how much time do you save by shrinking a page from 2MB to 300kb on a 50mbps connection with a warm cache?Browser cache sizes are much larger than they were 10 years ago (thanks to growth in client storage). After all, page weight is mostly used as a proxy for loading time.
The straightforward hypothesis would be "by reducing other body functions". For the duration of a Barry's Bootcamp class, my watch (probably over-)estimates my calorific expenditure at 1000 kcal. I know that right after that, I could probably not do too much Mathematics. Frequently, I encounter visual snow. But most of the time, I can do Mathematics.

And then there's healing, and saliva generation, and digestion, etc. I'm sure there's a lot of room for energy savings.
Agreed.

The amount of colors, bold and flashy text, etc. is just very distracting.

When you're dealing with lots of information, as you do with large email inboxes - I want the opposite of distracting.

I want something where it puts content first, no distractions, and high info-density.

Hey is not that.

I was a big fan of https://www.yourtempo.co before they shutdown.
Maybe for context about what an organoid is, and why this very much matters:
Drug trials on a close-enough vat-grown copy of an human organ gives us the chance to better study drug's potency, effects and side-effects, without harming primates, cheaply, at scale, and closer to in-vivo humans.
Sorry, we, simple down to earth developers, have had enough of that "sound" bullsh*t! :)
Tell HN: ChatGPT Plus can no longer use GPT-4 with history and training off
There does not seem to be a policy announcement or documentation of this, but it seems to come alongside the new release today.
There's nothing cynical about pointing out that "to a cat, there's no difference between staring at a wall and scrolling" is just a shallow truism that falls apart the moment you consider even many non-digital activities people engage in.
Tbf they were massively obsese so they "should" have lost like 30% of their body weight.

But yes, 13% is significant.
It induces and amplifies existential angst, particularly among teens. They are bombarded with over-sexualised imagery and levels of material consumption not easily attainable in their local economy. One way of reacting is to detach from that world, and play video games all day. Another is to strive to become a YouTuber.

We've devalued the meaning of having an ordinary life with an ordinary mate.
The more frequent the dieting and steeper the caloric deficit, the worse metabolic adaptation gets, and the longer it takes to return to normal. As I understand it that's the result discerned from more than just one paper. Layne Norton explores this at length in his book Fat Loss Forever and yt channel.

The interesting thing in this link was the impact of change in exercise regimen. We know that exercise in itself can mitigate metabolic adaptation and leads to better outcomes, so maybe that should not be surprising (when they quit). The outsized impact is interesting. I wonder if those who sustained higher levels of exercise were actually in a steeper caloric deficit.

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.

"damaged metabolism" was always kind of a semantic misnomer.
I remember watching a televised Starcraft tournament in 2001 in Korea. Maybe there just isn't a big market for it outside of a few countries. It's not at all in its infancy. The big money is in real sports.
It was to answer the OP question. Querying a materialized view is essentially the same as querying the original table. The MV allows for automated indexes etc.
I miss StumbleUpon on a regular basis! I feel like now adays it'd just be flooded with spammy garbage sites unfortunately.
Here's a 23 minute uncut demo that Jason recorded/shared last week: https://youtu.be/SztU4232u_o?si=D_6iXJLbtdVhV7Ol
Using CSS Houdini to extend styling and layout capabilities
Why is "minorities" in quotes?

Wealthy people have access to doctors to get prescribed speed, ludes, opiates, whatever they want.

It's specifically the targeting of minorities using criminalization of street drugs that led to modern media and academic misperception of "overpolicing" in minority areas for all crime.
As I said, the Wright's did not use the catapult in 1903. Three years before Dumont's 1906 flight of 60 metres, they flew well over 250 meters without catapult assist at takeoff. In 1904 they also flew over 400 meters without catapult assist. After that flight they started using a weight-powered catapult to simplify takeoffs and speed development.

So yes, it is simple. The Wrights flew without "shooting it out of a device" years before Dumont. The Wright Flyer was also capable of lateral control, like a modern, independent airplane.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, shame is one of the most powerful motivators that exists in humans; I'd put money on it being the most powerful. People who are loudly disagreeing don't understand that "shaming (v.)" doesn't always equate to shame actually being felt in the target of said shaming. The act of shaming loses a lot of effectiveness when you can find a community of people who will tell you that it's not actually shameful and that, "no actually the people shaming you are wrong" because those people will suddenly be your best friends. This can be good thing, homosexuality, or bad thing, nazis. And the internet has made every one of those communities 0 distance from everyone. It's why people who try to employ it cut you off from your support networks.

Shame is so effective when it actually lands that you can never fully deprogram it -- I will live with my Catholic guilt for the rest of my life.
> On average, organoids doubled their size after each split (every 2 weeks)

So when becomes conscious?
Housing costs have increased, daycare is shooting through the roof, and everyone seems to be working harder to scrape by, at least in the US.

Daycare in particular is quite painful; there are high standards, but government subsidy is so low that simultaneously parents cannot afford it and programs cannot afford to staff adequately.
Man, this is the latest of late capitalisms. The Feds are really doing a public bailout of Michael Saylor.
With a physical book people can ask "what's that about?" There's a big title on the back. When you are scrolling as far as anyone knows you're already in a conversation and there's nothing more isolating than that.
I've managed to keep a good amount of weight off for years, but only with vigilance, because even a couple weeks of unrestrained eating can be disastrous. I'm not at my lowest ever weight, that was during COVID, when I got hit with a nice Δ-variant, and lost my appetite for a month before force-feeding myself back to normal. That was the my first experience with truly unhealthy weight loss, and made me realize that while being nice and slim is good in the short term, in truth we aren't so far from the terrifying infectious diseases and famines that plagued humanity even last century, and if you aren't running around all the time desperate for something to eat, you probably don't need to be doing much moving anyway. Thinner people are healthier out of evolutionary necessity, the environment is working against them! It's desperation, all the other benefits of exercise still come to the heavy.
That's tough. I've definitely seen many people still running NA and NB Miatas around. Maybe they skirt the rules a bit.
Rust full-timer with a background in C/C++, lately using neither at all. That opinion isn't as unpopular as you'd think.
OpenBSD's stderr seems to be buffered, so it may just be a Linux thing.

https://man.openbsd.org/stdio.3
There should be a variation of godwin's law for this, as it's the go-to excuse for anyone to justify not having to listen to anything that makes them uncomfortable.
> I remember peer pressure being a big factor in teen years, mostly in the negative.

Some would argue this is a natural thing. Correction of social behavior as young adults are just learning how to interact in a more adult setting leading to mistakes that are then negatively reacted to, correcting the behavior for the future.

Doesn't work in all circumstances, but an argument nonetheless.
an extra 10 pounds of muscle, which is average for someone who has never trained, maybe burns only 100 extra calories. The problem also is that muscle hypertrophy also entails gaining some fat too.
Or simply OpenWRT.
So, basically like the legacy code base at any large enterprise :D
https://geeksta.net/img/large/schei-encoding-white.jpg

I googled "Chinese passport" to have a look, and conveniently for them, they have the ASCII version of the owner's name under the Chinese name.
Good memories. We used OS/2 for a automated measurement tool and it was rock solid, at the time it was a great choice for true multitasking (pre-Linux and pre-NT).

My OS/2 experience got me a job at a company that IBM contracted to build a AppleTalk server component for OS/2 ("Lan Server for Macintosh", https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ibm_adds_macintosh_support...). You kids don't remember this but at that time there were a ton of incompatible LANs so we provided glue between Macs and PC networks. AppleTalk was actually pretty neat.
Your initial claim was:

> Gold standard wasn't great but in hindsight it actually worked better what we have now.

You didn't specify what it worked better at, just asserted that overall it worked better.

I replied that it was specifically worse at preventing crashes (implying that it therefore was reasonable to question whether it was overall better).

You reply that the crashes were not specifically caused by the gold standard. Perhaps not, but they were part of the way things worked under the gold standard. You can't argue that things as a whole worked better, and then argue that all the parts that didn't work better weren't part of what you were talking about.

Is there any particular reason to blame the crashes on the gold standard? Well, the gold standard prevented someone like the Fed from doing what the Fed does these days to keep them from being so severe. So, maybe the gold standard wasn't the cause, but it was part of the problem.