skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Russia invaded in 2022 it looked like they were going to conquer Ukraine. Then they'd have to stop because they would bump into the NATO border.

Then the US intervened. Maybe the European powers too, I dunno what the politics in the NATO war room looked like. Now it looks like the country is levelled, Europe is undergoing an energy crisis because of their response, it is now a realistic possibility that NATO might not be able to coerce Russia, China or even Iran on the outside. My money is still on the US but they're making it look like a struggle.

And the plan for Ukraine recovering seems to involve them being bankrolled by a bankrupt US so I don't see that working out well either. This isn't the 1950s, the US is not in a position to go rebuild Europe. They have enough problems figuring out how to build prosperity in the USA without trying to do it overseas. That is a core complaint of the right wing and a significant part why said right-wingers are trying to vote a wrecking ball into the presidency.

Is the US helping? Maybe. Not a very clear picture yet.
Compare this to Iraq or Afghanistan where nobody stood up for them after the US invasion. It was bad for the countries, I don't know if it was worse than what is going on in Ukraine but I suspect we'll discover that US intervention has made things worse.
Yes, and in the case presented in the article -- trying to print on an Xbox -- we really do actually know the potential ramifications of trying to print and then being presented with no printers to print to. Simply: there are no ramifications worth worrying about.

On the other hand, we do know what will probably happen if an undocumented exception gets thrown: the app will crash, possibly causing the user to lose data.
Considering human tests should already have a high coverage rate, if the 25% that increased coverage were actual good tests, I think it’s a useful tool
Solutions are available. Use them. It isn’t easy, but it’s worth the effort. You can do it. Don’t give up hope in your ability to heal and grow. If we give up hope we are lost.
Stingray due to give birth within weeks despite no male ray company for years
What would it take to disabuse you of that notion now that your expectations have been observed to be in conflict with reality?

What you're describing isn't what you expect, it's what you wish were the case even though you know it isn't.
Here's my prediction for this: you need to have input with the same fidelity and ease of use as a mouse and keyboard. The mouse input analogy is probably pretty close with eye tracking, but text input? I can't even imagine what it will look like to make that work as nicely as real touch typing.
> There are tons of small things you can do to double or triple your revenue,

Sure, but that's not 2/3 minor changes.

> offering deals for people who buy right away without abandoning their carts or removing roadblocks from the purchasing process

There is a job in spam advertisement for you yet.
This is old research (2018) that has been blown completely out of proportion by news media. It's one of several small studies that gets circulated from time to time as if it disproves that weight loss is possible or something, but it doesn't.

Look at the actual study details:

> Thirty-five (22 females) adults with severe obesity (body mass index: 42.5 ± 5.0 kg/m2) underwent a 2-yr WL program focusing on diet and exercise.

They only looked at 22 women with severe obesity on a rapid and aggressive weight loss program. Drawing conclusions from this tiny group and their abnormally aggressive program isn’t relevant to the average person trying to regulate their weight or steadily move toward a healthier weight target over many years.
And I still think you're wrong. If incorrect input can't be handled gracefully in a way that you can be sure nothing bad will happen, it's possible that crashing is the best option.

But I think in most cases that just isn't what's going on. An unsupported API that makes a feature not work is just not a big deal. Lack of support, say, for a cryptographic primitive, could be a big deal, so you might choose to handle that case differently.
Come on. It’s because most people are visibly fat, not looking in the mirror wondering where the pounds are coming from.
And yet do they really use it for the advantages? Office and docs still don’t work offline as PWAs.
Microsoft has around 238000 employees according to Wikipedia. That they are not all strictly following Raymond Chen's latest blog post isn't surprising.
To me, what worked best is, yes, tracking calories, but also finding the foods that manager the hunger in the best way possible while also being as low calorie as possible.

Proteins and vegetables for the main servings, and green apples, oranges or tangerines for when I crave something sweet afterwards.

Beware of juices. Some of them have as mush sugar as a coke.
I eat around 2g of protein per kg of weight. I lift weights 3x per week.

My fat % is slowly but gradually decreasing.
>> I'm not sure that's actually successful. Even a lot of conservatives seem put off by Tucker's recent activities, especially with the Navalny news today.

> As far as I know this is kind of the strategy of Russian propaganda. I would not be surprised if killing Navalny was done purposely shortly after the Tucker interview.

Another data point: Putin is now putting down Carlson:

> Speaking with a state television host, Mr. Putin said he was disappointed that Mr. Carlson had not asked “so-called sharp questions” because he wanted the opportunity to “respond sharply” in his own answers.

> “He turned out to be patient and listened to my lengthy dialogues, especially those related to history, and didn’t give me reason to do what I was ready for,” Mr. Putin said. “So, frankly, I didn’t get complete satisfaction from this interview.” ...

> Mr. Putin’s mockery of Mr. Carlson came as the former Fox host was basking in the aftermath of his interview by offering a steady stream of praise for Russia and Mr. Putin, whose leadership he has extolled as superior to Mr. Biden’s.

(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/business/media/tucker-car...)
Chatbot spam? I tried to generate five ChatGPT essays on the topic and every one had the word "discerning" in the conclusion. Compare:

"The implications of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect are far-reaching. It shapes public opinion and can skew the public's understanding of important issues, leading to misinformed debates and decisions."

and

"The implications of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect are profound, affecting not just individual decision-making but the fabric of public discourse."
I'd like to share my experience. I've lost 50lbs twice in the past decade and I'm currently losing them again. Hopefully the third time is a charm.

What's different now is that I've done a lot of self-reflection. I now realize I have an eating disorder driven by a dopamine response to tasty foods, but unlike other people, my inner thoughts are similar to addicts, I presume, where my brain is deciding to binge the food that triggered that reward until I get stomach pains, which then nullifies the dopamine reward, so only then I stop eating. I've also learned the signal I get when I've had enough to eat and learned to not ignore it.

I've also realized that I stress eat, and particularly when I'm feeling down, probably to try to get temporary feelings of happiness as self-medication.

Losing weight is fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it, but keeping it off is less so. That's the most difficult aspect to manage about my life: to try to avoid excessive stress and general periods of unhappiness, so that I don't start using food as a source of dopamine, but since a lot of stressors are external, I feel like they're outside of my control, so my general strategy as of late has been to replace the source of dopamine to not be food related.

For example, exercising not only helps with losing weight, but it also curbs my appetite so I can fast during lunch without exercising much will power. More vigorous exercise induces runner's high, so it benefits both the efforts of losing the weight and the attempt to switch sources of feeling good.

Lastly getting satisfaction from shipping code is a productive replacement for the satisfaction I get from eating foods. That one is more tough to implement because eating provides immediate gratification, while shipping projects is a long endeavor usually. To counter that, I set bite-sized (ha) coding/learning goals for myself that I can complete fairly fast. That keeps my mood up for a bit.

Hopefully my experience will encourage others to reflect on their own reasons for gaining weight and try to address the root cause, not just the side-effect of increased weight.
>The invasion of Ukraine is primarily a desire of conquest.
No. It is personal desire of Putin to remain in power. Conquest has nothing to do with it either.
tbh two different people gain two different lessons being raised this way. your experience is unique. others have went to the military and/or had tough dads and it made them completely better as a person. "bullying" is a natural part of human life. its always up to the person to be courageous and get through. Your personal perspective is apart of current societies views on it...plus your own. there are kids who had no father with no discipline and ended up worse than you likely. choose your battles with parents because the hardest lessons come with the greatest rewards
> I usually don’t care how much I weigh, as long as I look fit. Building muscle increases your weight, but makes you look better and be healthier. Also muscle burns more calories to maintain, so you can eat more.

I completely agree, but the ratio of overweight/obese to "I have a slightly high BMI because I lift 4x a week" has to be somewhere in the range of 100-1.
I’m similar. Never been very over weight but I’ve put on 20ish lbs in the last few years. My wife and I started tracking calories and exercising a month ago and it has been so beneficial. I lost about ten lbs, but even better than losing the weight has been building a better intuition of what foods are calorie rich, higher in protein, etc.
We could start by talking about things that come in bags and boxes, and that consist of little beyond sugar, salt, and fat in as little matrix as necessary to support the addictive effect.

The dark pattern of food. Honestly, that first kidney stone was a godsend, however unpleasant; having to be extremely intentional about salt got me off all that junk except for old times' sake, and set me up to discover how pleasant things can taste when you can actually taste them.

That one change also
made more of a difference in my ability to lose and keep off weight than did quitting a 20-year, pack-a-day smoking habit.

Quitting smoking added about ten pounds. Having to get serious about eating well took off fifty. This stuff is a problem.

We won't fix that problem at a societal level, of course, because that's no longer something this society can achieve. But we could.
Most of these companies didn't make it, they took an existing one and fed it some additional information about their company.
The fact that gaining weight is a one-way door in this way makes it more important for young people than things like starting a 401k. It's so much easier to proactively improve your diet and exercise when you still have your natural thinness than after all your hormones want you to be larger. You know the fat monster is coming for you within ten years if you do not, and it will never really let you go.
There is prehistory[1] to Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and simply labelling Red Army as the aggressor instead of considering political actions of every EU state is injustice to sanity as well as ignoring prehistory of 2022 escalation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact#Backgr...
I hear this a lot, and I think that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on.

People aren't upset by for-profit grocery stores taking tax dollars in the form of food stamps. They aren't upset by taxpayers giving money to for-profit hospitals to treat poor patients.

The government is paying a For profit company to do something that the government wants.

If the company would do it anyways, then of course I agree that the government shouldn't pay for it.
It’s trivial to get plant protein. Extra firm tofu, tempeh, seitan, and TVP rival meat, though they tend to be novel for most people here. Certainly were for me.

I eat this tofu scramble almost daily: https://youtu.be/Vc5pZ-PY-H8
Hopefully you'll never need cancer treatment, because it would probably change your opinion.
ChatGPT is presumably capable of making something up about ChatGPT pricing. It should be banned?
I’m not extremely productive, but I have 2 use-cases I’m excited about.

1. Having more screen real estate in my small home office. I often dive into spaghetti code, and seeing more of it helps me maintain context.

2. Working in my RV. I can’t take my extra screens with me (it’s a multi-use family RV, so I’m not mounting anything. Plus, there isn’t room.), and I’m so, so excited about having more screen real estate in there. We lived/worked in it for 3 months last summer, and it was really nice coming home to more screens at the end of the trip.
Is this how DPI scaling in X11 works?

Also, don't you get the same effect (readable large fonts but alignment changes a bit) when you increase the size of your UI fonts, even without changing overall UI scaling?

Why are people (apparently) so attached to pixel alignments for OS-native GUIs?
No.

I didn't say "grant" I did write "guarantee".

Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum [0] ("guarantee Ukraines sovereignty") so Ukraine would sign the Lisbon Protocol [1] ("give up nuclear weapons").

Ukraine gives up nuclear weapons, Russia guarantees Ukraines sovereignty. Simple:

"The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements [..] to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of [..] Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [..] Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Protocol
Nah it’s bigger than 1080…

You can choose 4k resolution and get extra real estate
You can use a macbook keyboard and trackpad seamlessly with the headset
As someone looking to setup $5m/year in a small side business I was frustrated to learn stripe categorically bans what I was planning. I’m on Braintree now and assumed stripe would be better. Now looking for alternatives.
They did. They work for the US Government which does all the work of drug discovery which gets handed off, along with huge grants and other benefits, to private companies to productive and then sell at ridiculous profits that fuel massive executive pay packages and huge buybacks. The rich get richer while the taxpayers and most users of the ultimate product get screwed. It's really that simple.
Marshall Brain's "Manna" (2003)
AI would have been difficult to imagine like this when Intel had just released the Pentium III.
>> I suspect that in order to mangle with election one should have elections in the first place, so I guess that its not possible for other governments to do the same on the Chinese internet

> There are elections in China, and there have been for many decades.

There is a reason why the refrain is not just "elections" but "free and fair elections." Communist countries are famous for offering elections with no actual choice.

Election interference in China is not possible, because its "elections" are total shams so there is no point to try.
> (insurance covers everything above it)

Be aware that this is not true!

What insurance-speak calls max out of pocket is not what a normal person thinks max out of pocket means.

If you have a year of high medical bills you can easily pay much more out of your real pocket than your so-called "max out of pocket" in the insurance paperwork.

That is because the insurance company only credits what they feel like it towards their accounting of max out of pocket, not what you actually paid.

I don't have an insurance bill handy here to quote numbers but in their monthly or quarterly statements you can find what you have to pay and what they credit against your tally of yearly out of pocket. The latter is often less than the former.

> Health insurance in America costs between $500-$1000 a month for an entire family.

You're off by a lot. About $3500/mo here in CA for my family. Employers usually pay a good portion of that (but it varies) but if you go unemployed on COBRA, it's all out of pocket.
Ha, I was going to start an info site just like yours, did the keyword research and registered some domain names, but other projects took precedence.

Like almost everyone else, I heard about them through the media, and then booked in to see an endocrinologist. Various subreddits have been great, with a particular shout out to the Mounjaro one
His conclusion is somewhat odd, suggesting China writes effective legislation and that is their leverage, as opposed to the real reason which is the size of the market and their authoritarian wont. Which he also alludes to, confusingly.

A cryptic and vengeful fist-shake at the EU Commission, which surely has lower-hanging-fruit to take aim at.
Ask HN: How can an artist avoid their work being weaponized?
I'm not sure how comfortable I am not knowing the sources of these black boxes recently, and the bigger concern is that I cannot as a conscious and conflicted artist, sleep completely soundly not knowing whether I have had my work included in the training material for an AI model such as Sora/OpenAI.

I never truly believed they would announce permission for military use, and now this is fact but their source are closed. Am I potentially contributing to the creation of future AI enabled war weapons, or how could I find out? The reality seems whether homegrown or otherwise, this is the future we accept, but I'd at least like to know.

Thanks!
It's my understanding that The Finals was made using an in-house engine built in Rust.
The ‘whole gain’ for society is the medications that come out of investors putting money into these companies, instead of, say, Facebook. In 10-15 years, every new medication released today, will be off patent — and with insurance helping with payments taking into consideration — essentially free. Mind you, we are also talking about diseases for which no therapies exist today, and therefore the cost is effectively infinite in 2024.

Another point this story glosses over is that the $14.6B spent on R&D, represents nearly 1/3 of the entire National Institutes for Health $47B 2023 budget. And this is by a single company.
> It is also, IMO, a lot of protein to consume a day. I personally have never done that level of protein intake, ever, but I know a few who have, its an insane (to me) amount of protein powder, chicken, and broccoli (or alternatives) you have to consume, every day. If the goal was sustainability, it's definitely not possible for average people.

Yeah, I don't get it either.

If you exercise regularly and you're going on a cut, 1.6kg is a good target to maintain muscle mass. That said, in order for you to reach this point, you already have to be very good at regulating your food intake.

Otherwise, .9g per kg is a much more realistic target for the 90%+ of people who are simply trying to be fit.
> thanks to social media, I can see quite clearly that despite being bullied, I fared better

Last time I did this I discovered one of the more sadistic bullies I remember from grade school became an executive at Uber. So I'd rather not know. Though in the end it seemed like a rather fitting conclusion.
Same. The best part is the education. I now am certain what my portion sizes should be, how much of each meal should be protein, how many calories are likely in the food I'm ordering at the lunch counter, etc. That information, and keeping it in mind the same way you might keep your budget in mind has made a big difference.
It will probably look like a keyboard. Keyboards are so lindy at this point they didn’t even adjust the layout (from that path-dependent mess we are dealing with), let alone the form factor
I like you. Your style seems great to me. The nit-picker talking about your "lack of professionalism" is not my preferred sort of human to encounter, and I would frankly prefer to hear from their sort much less often. I'd take 10 more ppl like you on this site any day
IMO there aren't enough people with Chinese fluency/competency from other govs to try at scale on PRC net. Same vice versa - PRC 50C operates domestically, and even then spams platitudes, not substantive engagement - all the spamouflage networks in the last few years on western networks have been incompetently small scale operations. PRC was not wasting valuable language fluency on good/bulk propaganda. I think LLM is going to change this. Maybe TW with Chinese LLM can break into PRC net, but phone number / id linked accounts and lingo, probably limited scale. I think we'll start to see PRC propaganda networks slowly rival Indian presence on Anglo internet in the coming years. Dissenting opinions ares going to be absolutely innundated by automated PRC IT Cells. It doesn't even have to be good, but adundant and annoying.
It looks like it only gets committed if passes all of those checks (i.e. no humans have to look at it unless it's actually reliably passing and does increase code coverage). 25% code coverage improvement that passes reliably, for the cost of the electricity required for the GPUs, seems pretty cheap.

Of course, this doesn't seem like it's going to replace engineers, but it'll help the organization out for relatively low cost.
I, in my delusion have near zero influence on European economy, so if it's in fact falling behind, which it probably isn't, there must be other reason.
What kind of food is available, and in what quantities eould be a place to start.

I'm not a US resident so I can only give a view from my trips there, so forgive my limited nuances. Also I speaking generally, culturally, individuals can (and do) behave counter-culturally.

A) there's a general focus on money. Sure money is important everywhere but in the US its different.

B) Time is money. I've heard that a lot too, and seen the effects. Longer working hours, very limited holidays, working on weekends and so on.

C) this leads to "convenience" and "labor saving " as key priorities. So supermarkets (are big so you can get everything, and also have the illusion of choice) stock a lot of "convenient" foods - typically processed and high in sugar. (Factory food is cheaper, see A)

D) Americans are trained young to like "sweet" and lots of things have lots of sugar. It starts with drinks (sodas, coffee), and then things like candy [1], bread, microwave meals, restaurants, salad dressings, and so on. If the French can be said to add butter, well Americans add sugar.

E) walking. Is slow, takes time, costs money. Better to drive. Which means everything is optimised for driving. Which makes it hard to walk anywhere.

None of this is easy to change at a cultural level. It's literally baked into every part of society and the environment.

[1] chocolate is an interesting example. In Europe 75% cocoa chocolate is common, 95% sells enough that its easy to get. The really cheap "dark" chocolate is around 45%. Whereas in the US its "candy" - pretty much all sugar, coloured brown occasionally. Same with coffee - of course lots of people drink coffee with sugar here, but small, strong, no sugar is also very much a "thing". Those who take sugar seem to take "less".
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Hyrum and I went to grad school together! Different programs but neighbors. Really enjoyed Sunday barbecues with the guy. He's whip smart.
Yep. I got my share of bruises and ruined clothing for being praised in front of the class for top marks. To this day, I'm very uncomfortable in the spotlight.