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Readers can’t judge for themselves because 23 of your comments and 21 of your stories were removed, mostly for abuse. (For context, less than 0.5% of commenters or submitters ever have a single removal.) You received several warnings about picking fights and you’re understandably focused on your fight with Nix but it only happened to be the last one you tried to start on Lobsters. There’s a pattern in your actions that’s why you keep getting rejected by technical communities, and it’s going to keep happening as long as you imagine a conspiracy or political motivation instead of looking at the pattern and taking responsibility for your behavior.
> We have enough problems as it is with [...] Turkey turning autocratic.

What problems does that cause?
The pancreas is part of the endocrine system and blood sugar is far from the only signalling pathway. I'm not sure why you would think I was suggesting a 'spike' in blood sugar from this. Wouldn't it be a reduction?

I'm referring to, among other things:

taste receptors in the gut: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24131638/

what is apparently called Cephalic Phase Insulin Release, it's probably discussion of this paper where I first heard of it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28148491/ though other papers found no clear link ("conjectural") between CPIR and "family history of type 2 diabetes" (whatever that means): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348013/

Diabetes is not a solved field of medicine, and rates are still rising dramatically.
Canada has free public healthcare for all.
Alcohol rehabilitation is government funded.
So is chemo for various cancers attributed to smoke inhalation and tobacco use.
So are appetite reduction operations for very obese people.

Why should heroin rehabilitation be any different?

Some people would then argue that some drugs are significantly worse than others - that they are significantly more costly to rehabilitate, that their consumption causes more harm etc. Should the costs be calculated average or total?

Let's say that the consumption and / or distribution should be penalized.

What should the punishments be for consumption? How harsh should the punishments be for distribution? Jailing people costs a lot of money too.

How do we create a society where people don't become so easily addicted?
Tha analogy was far off and exaggerated to the point that it was meaningless. At this point you're continuously making up things using phrases like "overwhelming majority". Unless you are able to substiate your claims with something other than your feelings and point to data I don't think continuing this discussion is productive. I'm outta here.
Acidly insulting people who question your business model is a great way to drum up support for your business.

Perhaps you can whip up a bot to do this as a service, and bundle it your other product offerings.
> Previously, American stuff was just better and protectionism wasn't required

Most profits from social media globally is still US businesses (Meta, Google, Snap, etc).

> We're too weak to just beat them so we're forced to do this. But we still have to do it.

Completely agree, but...

Protectionism isn't always just to help local business succeed in the market place - sometimes it's strategic to ensure local skill exists (eg aerospace companies and nat'l defense), or some other similar localized outcome (eg. job creation, pride, etc). I think foreign companies controlling popular media distribution through an opaque and un-auditable algorithm is a propaganda and manipulation liability, so intervention is good. (obviously propaganda is still possible, just more localized).
> The software I encounter most is software that interacts with a changing world. It’s software that needs to adapt to other software, but critically, it needs to adapt to its users – to people! People change their attitudes and processes in response to the environment, and the software needs to adapt around that

Over the last few months I've been evaluating several POS solutions. They come in two varieties: fairly modern SAAS types, and super old school software (feels like it's from the nineties but the two we evaluated both seem to have been created early 2000s) with a local database that is synched online every so often.

I can tell you that while the old stuff works, it doesn't feel comfortable to use in a modern environment. One example took around 30 minutes to install on my modern workstation laptop with many steps (and the guy demoing commented in surprise how fast it was!). And that's what software used to be, twenty years ago. Enterprise software, I mean. Everything was clunky and needed a guy who understood it or at least following long complex documents and spending several hours working through the install.

Meanwhile, the SAAS varieties have zero install time because I can use the web interface instantly, or install a client app in around 3 minutes. It is much smoother and with a far lower barrier of entry. I've only dealt with the install but the UI is equally different and more intuitive on the modern apps, often with guided tutorials and setup wizards. Although to be fair, some of the modern apps are not great either. But I'm thinking about the best modern app vs the best old-school app while I write this.

Both of these styles would work as a POS system. But the old style feels very clunky and uncomfortable to use.

I still do deal with lots of clunky installs, databases, long technical documents. But that's because I'm a developer. Non-technical users are far less accepting of these things than they were twenty years ago and the software has to be upgraded to deal with that.

We chose one of the smooth and well documented SAAS options. I've been looking around at what other local businesses use and anecdotally it seems like 90% of them also did and only very few use the older style software - and maybe those have been using it for several decades.
That's can't be good for your lungs.
I can't sign up to blaming 1 person for a company's failure.

But people need a reason however wrong and a symbol for it. Article is painting growth-hacking as "the" reason for Google's failure and a single person as a symbol. a spineless management puppet sheepskinned as a scientist. Classic expose material.

I don't agree with the article's emotion or conclusions but I can't deny that Google is in a bad, bad place. Founders don't care. User's being preyed on. No one to fight for the user's interests. Parasites eating it up feeding on whatever's left. employees and users expressing betrayal and abuse. In the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

And for the world, a loss. Almost like a good friend gone the way of drug addiction.
I appreciate the quotes on hallucinate. These robots are just making shit up.
Don't update NTP – stop using it (2014)
This is on my Bingo card!
Cool. Haven't seen anyone doing precision chip removal with a CNC mill/router before, but it makes sense for this situation and was done well. :)
No offense meant, but that seems to be a bit of an extremist and borderline authoritarian posistion itself. "You don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide" right?
Oh look, the raw milk festival in Fresno is this weekend. https://rawfarmusa.com/events

Some barn cats have tested positive for H5N1. All the ones we know of have died. https://bnonews.com/index.php/2024/04/4-more-cats-test-posit... It seems to be hitting them much harder than the cows.

Edit: Better link for the barn cats https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/04/17/two-veterinarians... “A colleague of mine, he told me, ‘You know what’s strange? I went to one of my dairies last week, and all their cats were missing. I couldn’t figure it out — the cats usually come to my vet truck,’ ” Petersen recalled. “And then someone called me and said half of his cats had passed away without warning, and so then all the alarm bells start going off in your head.”
With seeing how people behaved during covid (i.e learnt nothing) I wouldn't be surprised to see another pandemic/huge infection. If it has such a high mortality rate, then maybe we will see a slight shift in some people's behaviours, but I still think most won't change.
“We just have to flatten the curve!”
Yeah: There's some very interesting philosophical territory in there about what situations and choices are actually voluntary, and which ones are essentially a kind of biochemical slavery that the person needs to be liberated from.
Many people are choosing Rust because they want to use Rust. Rust has the reputation being "the best" programming language: Fast, safe, reliable, modern. I can rely on that very much. Who wouldn't like the feeling of using the best tech for their project.

What many overlook is that using Rust has very high costs, but the edge over alternative languages is often only marginally - depending on the use case of course.

Those costs of Rust get in the way of developing the actual product. You loose speed, efficiency, but potentially gain no benefit to the users of your product.
Tourist and money laundering destination.
> I have heard from the same Industry people you work in that the pricing of the drug generally has nothing to do with the cost of the research or trials for that particular drug but instead just what the market will be willing to pay for it.

If people are not willing to pay at least as much as research costs, the drug certainly won't get created.
I'm aware of Phaser and evaluated it, but didn't try prototyping something out using it.

My primary concerns were: lack of any coherent plan towards supporting WebGPU, TS bindings being best effort rather than being written natively in TS, and, crucially, Phaser4 being stuck in development hell.

Phaser 4 was announced in 2019, https://www.patreon.com/posts/28467752, and hasn't shipped. Current version on GitHub is v3.8. It made me deeply uncomfortable planning to build ontop of an engine that's stalled out for 5 years. I would not reasonably expect to be given support for WebGPU ever and I strongly feel that WebGPU is going to be the defining way web games are written in the coming year(s).

I also wasn't able to find any super compelling games written using Phaser. Since I evaluated it, it appears that Vampire Survivors was written using it, but then they abandoned Phaser and adopted Unity in v1.6.
The US has no new enemies under Biden that it did not have under Trump. In fact, Trump re-antagonized Iran, undoing Obama's diplomacy with them.

Even going along with your premise, that Trump was better friends with dictators like Putin and Xi than Biden is, I would still prefer Biden to be in office. We don't need a "Manchurian candidate" in the White House.
Also potential disruption of gut biota, since some 'bad' bacteria can consume sugar alcohols.

A lot of my problems started around the same time I started binge chewing gum, but that was not the only factor in play so who knows what really happened. I started binge chewing gum because job stress was starting to give me TMJ.
No, actually that was just javascript. Programming environments with threading models don't have to live that way. Separate threads can communicate through channels and do quite well for themselves. See how it works is, you do something like let data = file.read(); and the it just sits there on that line until the read is done and then your data has the actual bytes in it and you just use them and go on with your life.
Sure, but I'm not a doctor and anyone who is living in an area that I'm speaking to will understand what I wrote and those that don't (perhaps yourself included) might learn a new colloquial phrase given the context of the comment.
Let me try this one more time and then I give up:

You: "Let's throw a bunch a people off a cliff and then assess who is worth saving afterwards!"

Me: "Let's stop throwing people off a cliff. If we stop doing that, we can stop arguing about who is too broken to save and whether or not it's a personal character defect that they ended up more broken than others who got thrown off the same cliff."
It’s probably worse than that. Since Covid had relatively low mortality after the first wave, and got so politicized, I think if there were another more dangerous pandemic a lot of people would simply not believe it until they experienced it first hand.
> but critically, it needs to adapt to its users – to people!

In principle, I want this to be true. But, in practice, I think products change because the teams that built a product need to justify their continued existence within a corporation. Slack's last few rounds of UI changes for instance, has been a net negative for me, the user. Why can't I split several channels in the same window anymore? Why did they add a thick vertical toolbar that I don't use and can't remove? Not for my benefit, that's for sure.

p.s. Kelley not Kelly is the correct spelling of his name.
Apple is also not in the business of losing money. It's much easier to make something new and shiny when you can run it at a loss and your investors are happy for you to light piles of money on fire year after year.

That's also probably why most AI research published by Apple is about on-device inference. It's expensive to run inference servers at scale. Apple is a hardware company, so it makes sense they want to focus on what you can do on a local device (or more accurately, how they can sell you a new piece of hardware).
Previous post and discussions on HN:

Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479478
Or refuse to implement IPv6. (At least here in Indonesia with only 14% adoption rate)

Why? Because for residential user that want low latency internet & low packet drop (CGNAT increase both), ISP can charge "business price" for dedicated IPv4 that aren't behind CGNAT. With IPv6, CGNAT is not needed.

Considering ISP/Telco in here is very scummy (they even perform MITM to inject ads, use Class 0 message / AMBER Alert for ads, etc.) I won't be surprised if that's the only reason why they didn't rolled out IPv6.
TIS-100 is great, i just wish it wouldn't use 100% CPU on Mac all the time.
The vision pro isn't "greenfield tech". Meta and HTC have been in this space for a decade. Apple built a super premium Quest, basically.
Yes to permethrin, but beware it’s very dangerous for cats. Don’t spray your clothes anywhere near them. Maybe keep any clothes you treat with it in a room they can’t reach, or sealed in a container—I think once it dries it’s less-dangerous but I still wouldn’t want one to decide to curl up on a pile of them.
I really like the hearty amount of configurability they make available thru the control panels. They're not afraid of giving you a lot of options, yet it's organized well, easy to use, and the defaults are sensible.
> He did nothing about the BLM and Antifa riots.

I suspect you don't actually care about being factual, but on the off chance that you do, Trump:

- tear-gassed protestors[1][2] to clear them out for a photo-op

- used the National Guard against BLM protestors[3]

- threatened to personally use the military against protestors unless governors acted themselves (which they largely did) [4]

1. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-...

2. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-guard-troops-deploy...

3. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-barr-used-loopho...

4. https://apnews.com/article/mo-state-wire-in-state-wire-mi-st...
I think passkeys can be used just like biometric authentication is used in mobile apps right now: you sign in just like you usually do (e. g. username + password + TOTP or something), then on subsequent visits you can skip that and go through passkeys instead. New device? Just sign in with a password again.
Yeah I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but the depth of that mill has to be fairly precise to not rip into the pads but still remove enough of the nand package. Very impressive - looked pretty straightforward after the jig is set up.
> An AI safety board would be dominated by representatives of grassroots civil society organisations, maybe some labour unions.

the “safety” in “AI Safety” isn’t what you think it is. it’s homeland security, not labour/societal security.
The gushing of the Apple faithful was eye rolling.

> Om Malik, who has been writing about tech since tech reporters used to write about calculators, he was even more effusive. “It’s amazing! It’s incredible!” he enthused. “You can feel a vibration in the universe!”

I mean, oof.
I see. Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense how the law on playgrounds would backfire.

It's still confusing to me that to prevent being accused of targeting homeless addicts they'd make homeless drug use illegal so to speak.

As a complete outsider, it's an interesting situation to try to understand. I appreciate the patience of people in this thread replying to my naive questions.
Yes, but http2 is one of the few features Bun is missing. Overall it's pretty complete.
I just went back to starter from ultimate because they are now adding 19%(?)VAT in Germany and so I resumed paying for gpt4 which adds dall e for 7 euro less (22 openai, 29 Kagi ultimate) IF I stick to 10 searches a day. I forgot about this new distribution setup immediately and prompted by this thread I now find that in the first 6 days back on starter I used 11 searches per day so there is hope.
People seeking to maximize profit are not in favor of expensive clinical trials and are not lying about how expensive they are.
6% and 4% for Covid and Influenza respectively. So 33% seems insanely high to me.
How do you compel a prosecutor to bring a case forward, if they know the judge is likely to dismiss the case. It's a weird situation honestly where the laws exist, and police can enforce the law, but the judicial system turns a blind eye. It's a systemic issue starting at the federal level.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-bail-refo...
This all sounds like "it's technically possible, but it's a huge huge hassle and sticking with passwords is significantly easier".
How to prevent Lyme disease this summer?

Not been out since covid. Looking a bit like skeletor but thats OK.

I mean, is there anywhere safe these days.

You could catch anything out there. All those viruses and germs in the air and people breathing on you.

Now I can catch lyme disease off of those sneaky sneaky Ticks living in the long grass.

Thank heaven I dont go out.

I wont catch that bugger!

The new staying in! Dont go out!
Firewalls is not where I would argue that BSDs are more consistent. FreeBSD comes with three different choices in base: ipfw, pf, and ipf.
Kinda weird to move the goal posts like this.
I think I was 14 the last time someone had a serious discussion about dietary fiber.
That's awesome to hear!! React Fiber is super cool and I love to see new stuff on it!

Yes I see the registry/central library being kind of like npm with a lot of React/tscircuit components that can be dropped into or used as a foundation for large designs, think <Arduino />, <MotorController /> or <Atmega /> etc. I also hope to make part substitution super easy, so equivalent subcircuits can be swapped based on part availability.

Separating into multiple repos makes some things really difficult but creates some nice boundaries. React Fiber is something that a lot of people don't understand (it's also not really officially documented as you may know!) so I wanted to separate it from "pure typescript" and the builder pattern which I think is a bit easier to grok if you're just fixing a bug etc. The codebases are a mess and I'm very eager to do some basic project hygiene- a lot of cruft accumulates over years of weekend development haha.

Thanks a ton for checking it out!!
Ask HN: Best way to connect with YC startups while vising SF
Hi, I'll be visiting SF next week for a couple of weeks for work. I'm based in India and interested in exploring working on new idea. Any ideas on how to meet in-person with folks looking for early employees/co-founders?
Cheers! Yes the reusability is really why React blew my mind years ago, unlike other frameworks at the time, React could really just be "dropped in"
Do you use uwebsocket with Bun explicitly? I thought Bun has websocket support built in by internally using uwebsockets?
Hello DMV.
You didn’t even read my comment, so I give up. Ok, everyone just come to Seattle for their affordable housing, because DoreenMichele doesn’t want to think about the problem and would rather just throw half baked solutions at it.
"... but it's getting widespread enough that the mainstream media is picking up on it"

As usual, the mainstream media is making it widespread, not the other way around as you suggested.

Fear is good for business.
Concrete is pretty cheap. Lumber for framing is cheap. However, sheathing is not super cheap, but not that expensive. Siding though is not cheap even vinyl which I am not a fan of is not exactly cheap either. So not needing sheathing or siding for the exterior of the wall probably make it cheaper. So it probably would be somewhat cheaper than a conventionally framed wall. I don't know how much, but where I live 1 cubic yard of concrete is $145 dollars.
We Sent Ralph Nader Some of Our Favorite Pens. He Dismissed Them All
No one suggested HDMI. USB can run 80Gb/s now which should be sufficient.
Prohibition worked by basically all measures. Cirrhosis rates were down. Violence overall was actually down. Child abuse was down. 100s of thousands of people were saved due to prohibition of alcohol.

I'm not even in favor of alcohol prohibition but denying it saved lives goes completely against all data.
Clearly GP's argument has nothing to do with how a currency is run.
Then don’t change phone OS, or put your passkeys in a third party password manager.
Canadas healthcare system is under severe strain, with people being unable to access routine care due to not having enough resources and the ones they have being stretched thin. Having government healthcare does not magically remove basic economics.
Show HN: I made a hit and blow solver comand line tool
This is a command-line tool that solves the Hit & Blow game.
It is a heuristic solver and does not provide a complete analytical solution.
The solving method is based on the approach by B. Landy described on page 3 of the following paper (in Japanese): https://www.tanaka.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ktanaka/papers/gpw96.pd...
Drug use is already mostly decriminalized here, and there has been lots of problems as a result, the same ones they have in Vancouver and Portland. Instead, we are trying to prosecute the other stuff, like shoplifting, running around naked and threatening people with knives, etc…the playground helps with that, in that even drug addicts don’t want to freak out kids.
It's very worrying. But it's not 33% chance of death with every infection.
I love creatine for the amplified neural oscillations produced by the greater efficiencies in the ATP metabolism. I experience more "deep work", or the ability for me to focus for longer periods/stretches of time.
Sort of

Databricks etc architectures are mostly slowly moving data from A to B and doing little work, and worse when that describes the distributed compute part too. I read a paper awhile back where that was often half the time.

GPU architectures end up being explicitly about scaling the bandwidth. One of my favorite projects to do with teams tackling something like using GPU RAPIDS to scale event/log processing is to get GPU direct storage going. Imagine an SSD array reading back at 100GB/s, which feeds 1-2 GPUs at the same (PCI cards), and then TB/s for loaded data cross-GPU and mind-blowing many FLOPS. Modern GPUs get you 0.5TB+ per-node GPU RAM. So a single GPU node, when you do the IO bandwidth right for such fat streaming, is insane.

So yeah, taking a typical Spark cloud cluster and putting GPUs in vs the above is the difference between drinking from a childrens twirly straw vs a firehose.