skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s just a response to many decades of literal shaming. I have so many friends that were put on unhealthy fad diets by their parents because they were overweight kids, and that led to them having eating disorders when they got older that many of them still struggle with, hating themselves the whole time.

The goal of those ads (which I agree there are too many of today) is to help people hate themselves a little bit less. There’s a reason obesity is often comorbid with suicide.
By women of color do you mean African Americans? Soul food is notoriously unhealthy and probably why Black Women are the most obese demographic in America. Changing diet would absolutely be necessary, though the deeper problem is their surrounding cultural norms.
The coolest part about this is that I was unaware that you could force full screen and lock the orientation from a web page. TIL
More like it would fry the electrical grid rendering our server farms and telecommunication networks without power.
> It's one week away from work. It can still be done. You weren't going to be taking care of any other responsibilities during your normal 9-5 hours

I think you didn't read the parents carefully. The comment being replied to is not about 9-5 hours, it's about "locking yourself into a hotel for week", and if you have kids, this is not exactly a healthy thing to do in the face of other responsibilities. That's the point being made here, and you are changing the goal posts.
I am not in the USA, but 300 steps raised my eyebrows!

Even 3000 steps seems low on a regular day. This is what you'd get from just moving around in the house?
Sure, but blanket pessimism isn't very insightful either. I'll use the same example you did: self-driving. The public (or "median nerd") consensus has shifted from "right around the corner" (when it struggled to lane-follow if the paint wasn't sharp) to "it's a scam and will never work," even as it has taken off with the other types of AI and started hopping hurdles every month that naysayers said would take decades. Negotiating right-of-way, inferring intent, handling obstructed and ad-hoc roadways... the nasty intractables turned out to not be intractable, but sentiment has not caught up.

For one where the pessimist consensus has already folded, see: coherent image/movie generation and multi-modality. There were loads of pessimists calling people idiots for believing in the possibility. Then it happened. Turns out an image really is worth 16x16 words.

Pessimism isn't insight. There is no substitute for the hard work of "try and see."
> They don’t really eat those tv nugget trash quickies meals you put in the microwave or air frier

There is an ample variety of absolute shit food in Japan. It just tends to be eaten in smaller quantities.

There are also a truckload of Japanese people who have good or decent looking BMI numbers while being fat (relatively little muscle).

The weight situation Japan is nowhere near as bad as the US, but it is not the panacea some folks make it out to be.
If China can convince Taiwan to democratically rejoin the PRC then that’s fine. If they do it using military force then the issue isn’t really that complicated.
Yeah, it always baffled me we still are using 60 Hz with modern connectors after getting accustomed to 100+ Hz in early 2000s with D-SUB.
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Do you know of any user-facing service using that API under the hood?

I'm shocked to see my country included, but not shocked enough to pay at least €150/month for the privilege.
Converting time into money is easier for some people/professions than others. However converting less useful time into more useful time is a great thing for anyone. If an app gives you an extra 5 minutes every day, that's 30 hours per year that you can use towards something of your choice, whether it's sleep, exercise, recreation, work, etc.

Consider how much one hour of your time is worth — you are probably underestimating that number.
> The code on Stack Overflow is already licensed with Creative Commons

It is CC-BY-SA so it requires attribution (+ share alike).[1] That is the hard part with code written by LLMs.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
Basically the opposite of this “advice”: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
I think the best monitor for productivity is the Microsoft Surface Studio.

- 28"

- 3:2 aspect ratio

- 4500x3000 pixels

- and it comes with a stylus!

Now before all the programmers say that touch screens suck, let me say that 99% of the time I use mouse and keyboard. But the 1% use cases where I do want a stylus (eg. annotating a screenshot, signing a contract, making a quick sketch of some process) are so worth it.

I wish someone would build a standalone display like that.
GLP-1 Agonists are very interesting drugs. There are ongoing clinical trials for their application in neurodegenerative diseases because they seem to have, among others, excellent neuroprotective effects, they are great at lowering inflammation. There is a good paper about that. I think it's misleading and ridiculous to say that Japan does not need Ozempic. Not all obesity is simply caused by eating habits. There is a very important factor that has to do with oxidative/nitrosative stress and inflammation that may as well have to do with other underlying diseases, syndromes, etc. and that we are just starting to understand. The science is not "settled" with obesity, as much as we've progressed with understanding it, and it's really weird to me for someone to use such a clickbait title...
[0] https://doi.org/10.1177/20420188231222367
I need it but my doctor cannot write me a prescription for it unless I get diabetes. The joke is that I'll probably end up with it at this rate, and the absurdity of my situation isn't lost of them either. My options are to visit a weight loss clinic importing it (legally) from the US and pay out of pocket, look into Xenical which has only recently been approved in Japan or re-evaluate my diet + exercise routine for the hundredth time.
(author here) You might be interested in my writing on this very subject -> https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-naive-europe-and-the...
Sounds interesting, but their page appears to be broken for mobile. They have something hijacking the scroll behavior making it near impossible to actually read anything about this.

Why do web devs constantly have the need to break decades of UI convention?
> On July 20, 2018, Walter Forbes was released from the Federal Correctional Institute, Otisville in New York, a medium-security prison later to be occupied by Michael Cohen, the Situation, and Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland. Forbes was convicted in 2007—after two mistrials—on one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two counts of making false statements, and sentenced to 151 months in prison and to make restitution in the order of $3.28 billion. The house he’d transferred to his wife was returned to him, by court order, to be divvied up between the government and Cendant.

> Kirk Shelton was sentenced to 10 years and the same amount in restitution.

How can someone destroy a company like Sierra Online that touched millions of lives and ever get out of prison?

A better system would be to standardize a number of dollars of fraud is equal to a day is jail, and then just do the math to determine the jail time.
Who did JK Rowling screw? (putting aside her recent social issues after she already became a billionaire)

Having these discussions in this current cultural moment is difficult. I'm no lover of billionaires, but to say that every billionaire screwed people over relies on esoteric interpretations of value and who produces it. These interpretations (like the labor-theory of value) are alien to the vast majority of people.
Thank you both :-) (author here)
It seems like a fairly small run (600k stamps), I hope that's not all.
How much are the tariffs?
IMO separation of interface and implementation is one of the "good" things about C/C++ (I used to be confused about it when starting out), it gives you a good overview of a piece of code and how it is supposed to be used. In other languages with no such "feature", you'll have to scroll hundreds of lines of implementation details you don't care about to understand the interface. You say this as a possible solution:

> You can still use header files if you want to, they’re just no longer strictly necessary. You’re free to put struct definitions and function prototypes into a header file if you’d like.

But is it really? not enforcing header files across the codebase means that you'll definitely end up with some inconsistency sooner or later that will be hard to deal with.

> The order that you include the source files in all.c matters. In the above example, bar.c had to be included before foo.c because foo.c used a struct and function that was defined in bar.c.

This is just additional overhead that you don't need while implementing something new.

And in general, this goes against how normally C/C++ codebases are structured, I'm sure I'll be hella confused about a file called `all.c`.
WA state business tax penalty is 9% for a day late, 19% for 6 weeks late, 29% for 9 weeks late.
Cartan Null?
Looking at the XZ attack from last month, a lot of people that write software have no idea of the depth their software is being used in secure systems.
I don't know the proper sources, but I've read in several places that the Netherlands continues to have rising obesity despite making exactly those sorts of reforms over the past ~40 years.
If my subordinate was copying code from StackOverflow without attribution I would be annoyed enough to send a grouchy email. Behavior like that is bad hacker citizenship, and bad for long-term maintenance. You should at least include a hyperlink to the SO question.

I also think SO is different about mindless copy-pasting. Outside of rote beginner stuff it’s infrequent that someone has the exact same question as you, and that the best answer works by simple copy-pasting. Often the modification is simple enough that even GPT can do it :) But making sure the SO question is relevant, and modifying the answer accordingly, is a check on understanding that LLMs don’t really have. In particular, a SO answer might be “wildly wrong” syntactically but essentially correct semantically. LLMs can give you the exact opposite problem.
Wright Brothers took a risk and build first planes but didn't have to lie that their planes already left the ground before they did.
They didn't claim "it would fly a year from now", they just build it over and over until it flew.

They were optimistic and yet they found a way to be optimistic without claiming anything untruthful.

Clément Ader, on the other hand, claimed that his innovation flew, and was ridiculed when he couldn't proof it.

One look at their works and it's clear who influenced modern planes, and who didn't.
Lots of incidents with Boeings lately... Or is it just more of them reaching news headlines?

Either way, Boeing's quality reputation going down the toilet will hurt the company for a looonng time. As they say: trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback.
Something happened in higher education the past 5 years. I’ve noticed many new hires at various companies in the bay call layer 3 IP routers “proxies”
Are the pages complete images (scanned document) or is it 100mb of text with some images (graphs etc.) mixed in?
Interesting point. Are we already at a state where an A.I. could respond to email, phone calls, and even video calls in a convincing way ?
I don't think you will die if you buy cheap jam — at least not quickly. The choice people make to buy higher quality jam isn't a function of life or death. It seem related to a perception of value, which good software doesn't seem to evoke for the vast majority of people.
There's a list of apps and sites that use is here (the horizontal scrolling bit): https://www.internationalshowtimes.com/showtimes-api
That's not exactly right. I believe you're mixing up bytecode generation with compilation. The source code will indeed be compiled down to bytecode, but that doesn't count since it does not change the generality. As in, bytecode is no more specialized than the original source code. It's the same with shaders — the ubershader does not interpret the original shader source text.

Both V8 and SM will interpret the bytecode until it warms up enough to be compiled to specialized machine code. ("Warms up" == "is observed to execute enough times".) There are some subtle distinctions about whether the interpreter is implemented in C++ or generated by a variant of the JIT code compiler, but as with the shaders the main point is whether it's executed in a way that works for everything or is specialized to a particular purpose (and varying degrees of specialization are implemented, with various mechanisms for falling back to a more general execution mechanism if the specialization assumptions no longer hold).

Your SpiderMonkey doc link points to a section named "JavaScript Interpreter". The title is correct, that section is indeed about the mechanisms for interpreting JavaScript [bytecode].

The V8 link is a little tricky, since it leads off with "Code is initially compiled by a baseline compiler", but if you read a little further, it says "...the V8 team has built a new JavaScript interpreter, called Ignition, which can replace V8’s baseline compiler". Basically, V8 experimented for a while with dropping the interpreter, but for the reasons described well in that document, they went back to initially running in an interpreter. The article is quite nice and describes quite a bit about the tradeoffs involved. It's 8 years old, but I believe the overall picture isn't that different today.

(Source: I am an engineer on the SpiderMonkey team.)
When I lived in Japan everyone who would come visit me would look at restaurant menus and ask “why are the small and large beers the same price? Who would ever buy the small?”

Locals would say matter of factly “you only order the large when you want more.”

Also many restaurants offer Tabehoudai and Nomihoudai, “all you can eat and drink” respectively.

All the servers would come to see when the Americans would order nomihoudai and request a pitcher of beer.

“Okay, one pitcher for the table.”

We’d always get a laugh when we’d say, “Actually, one pitcher for each of us.”
That the author has risked their reputation on the claim. If you're doubting the author is legit, interrogate their professional associations with an internet search, relying on the domain name system.

Nothing about any of this is new or profound. Counterfeit documents have been around for hundreds of years.
There's a certain point where this line of thought just becomes an AI-themed rehash of "Trusting Trust" by Thompson
Putting aside your labor theory of value nonsense (I'm very familiar with the classic leftist syllogisms on this), who did someone like JK Rowling screw to make her billion?
Recursively self-improving AI, of the kind Nick Bostrom outlined in detail way back in his 2014 book Superintelligence and Dr. Omohundro outlined in brief in [1], is the only kind which poses a true existential threat. I don't get out of bed for people worrying about anything less when it comes to 'AI safety'.

On the topic: One potentially effective approach to stopping recursive self-improving AI from being developed is a private fine-based bounty system against those performing AI research in general. A simple example would be "if you care caught doing AI research, you are to pay the people who caught you 10 times your yearly total comp in cash." Such a program would incur minimal policing costs and could easily scale to handle international threats. See [2] for a brief description.

If anyone wants to help me get into an econ PhD program or something where I could investigate this general class of bounty-driven incentives, feel free to drop me a line. I think it's really cool, but I don't know much about how PhDs work. There's actually nothing special about AI in regards to this approach, it could be applied to anything we fear might end up being a black-urn technology [3].

[1]: https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_d...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220709091749/https://virtual-i...

[3]: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, because it’s true.

Maybe people just have no idea how “fundamental analysis” works or even what it means?

This is how it works. That doesn’t mean you’re going to beat the market, or even make a positive return. But it’s essentially the basic fundamental analysis model.
This is exactly my point. There are many patients that do require GLP-1 agonists to realistically lose weight. It's ridiculous to say that a country doesn't need it just because fewer people are obese.
Someone who thinks that giving health advice to an obese person and fat shaming are the same thing has no business being in a job that requires them to give people advice. Obese people know the difference very well, no matter how often others try to gaslight them into believing that they are the same thing.
I made a link to send that Slack opt-out email in 1-click
No, that’s not at all what the parent commenter was saying.
Helps to stock up on USD I bet
One issue that can happen that the article didn't mention is running out of AST node identifiers in Clang.

Clang uses a 32-bit number to identify AST nodes. If a single translation unit is large enough, it can overflow this and you can get some very weird compilation errors.
> If you don't believe me, ask anyone over the age of 30 this question: "What are your best memories from your youth?"

Wait, but I am in my youth!
Americans do more exercise than ever and have also reduced their sugar intake on average, but obesity continues to rise. Is it possible that food additives or something less obvious is having an effect? GLP-1 agonists are a good indicator that even minor chemical interventions can have a huge long-term effect on obesity that dominates diet and exercise, so why do we rule out the possibility of other substances doing the opposite?
What differentiates it from the rest? Does it make oidc sso easy for home labs?
Stop blaming devs for UX and marketing goofs
I don’t think that premise of “native UI for anything that needs polish” is true these days.

Canonical the company behind Ubuntu have said for some time now that all future app UIs of theirs would be done in Flutter starting with the very first thing people see the installation process.

Google just rewrote Google Earth’s UI in Flutter.

BMW are doing all of their in-car entertainment systems in Flutter.
Assuming you mean 3.5" instead of 5.25" (as you wrote), no. Probably not.

USB-C is able to provide up to 3A of 5V, eg up to 15W. But that's not universal, and many devices are not capable of supplying that maximum.

Even if it were universal: 15W is a little bit less than what a fairly-normal 3.5" drive needs to get spinning, so there's not enough power available (no matter how it is sliced and diced with voltage conversion).

"But that's just existing drives! Certainly, they can produce a drive that spins up slow enough that it fits within USB-C's power constraints!"

And certainly, that can be done. But there's still more mass to accelerate in a 3.5" drive than in a 2.5" drive, and that acceleration will always require more power (Joules). This matters for portable devices (which often run on battery).

Even once spinning: All else being the same, it takes less power to keep a smaller platter spinning than it does for a larger platter. It also takes less power to accelerate a smaller head actuator than it does a larger head actuator.

"But what about USB-PD? My phone charges with dozens of Watts. Why can't a hard drive use this, too? What if we cast aside power efficiency and yeet this thing together?"

It absolutely can be done. Anyone is free to create USB-PD computer accessories. Some people may even be able to use them. But since USB-PD availability is anything but universal on host ports, and is even less-universally understood, that limits compatibility from "works everywhere" to "works sometimes" and the support costs (and negative reviews) will be through the roof -- unless it is very selectively marketed to niche players who know exactly what they're doing.

It doesn't even seem like it would be particularly challenging to create for someone with the right skillset. And yet, there appear to be zero consumer products which operate this way.
Oooor she mentioned it in an email or a text.

It's hard to confirm or refute such cases with no real hard data. Just a hunch - I don't think I told anybody about that! How did it know?

The usual way - some remark said somewhere, the standard trick of mentalists, to get you to say something and then claim they read your mind.
> My point being that the design of our society right down to the topography of our physical spaces is not set up to encourage walking.

There are places where it's downright hostile, with areas with no sidewalks or crossings.

> But instead we are so fractured and our governments so inept and conflicted that we subsidize the food that makes us sickest.

There's actually a somewhat sane rationale for the agricultural subsidies. For the longest time in human history, famine was always looming, and the best policy to avoid it was to store excess calories in case of a bad harvest year.

Whether or not that still applies in the US can be debated though.
Debian removes KeePassXC browser integration
Well, we have a pretty good understanding of how our sun works internally just by observing it from the outside, without ever digging a hole into it to observe it from the inside.
The "Truth" is a perturbation of Objective Reality, the manifest form by state's collapse of the existential potential. The "truth" is a figment of mind. And "integrity" is a measure of consistency between these two.

One difficulty of conventional modern science, is regarding the concept of state being the lowest common component (the particle and what it is doing.) The elemental aspect of universal existential being is potential, of which the particle resolves through constructive and destructive interference in the moment of "now" (whenever measured or interfered with.)

True Truth is any perturbation of existential reality, and "truth" of the mind is our best account by approximation.
Haven't had any issues on Linux either. I guess ymmv.
Made AI Tool to Study for Casper Medical Test
I made a website that uses a LLM to generate questions and grade your answers for Casper style questions.

https://prep4casper.netlify.app/

Check it out and please provide any feedback. It's still barebones but hopefully it's functional. While testing, if the LLM seems slow, please comment/DM and let me know. I'm currently working on making it faster. Any other suggestions would also be helpful.

P.S. I was inspired to make this because a friend of mine scored at the bottomost quartile and she'll be retaking it. We make fun of her calling her a sociopath, hence the title of the website LOL. We are genuinely concerned for her though...
Because it can?
What's the minimum grade you think should be handed out in order to maintain the mental health of students?
Plus a waste of computing resources and energy that is better spent elsewhere rather than pointless eye candy.
>at best it helped them express their dissatisfaction.

Which is good. All roads start with a single step and to make this step you have to realize where are you now. And expressing this dissatisfaction verbally can be a very goods first step as long as you are not just drinking it away.

Not trying to say that this is as good as therapy or something and alcohol my lead to some bad results but still.
Consent isn’t legally required. An admission, however, would upset a lot of extremely online people though. Seems lose lose.
I would have gotten this over the LG Dual Up had it been available.
In that vein, I'd say that most of the LLM research was done at Google. OpenAI productized faster.