skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other fallen status symbols that come to mind, although lower costs were the reason over better alternatives.

Aluminum before better material science dropped the price. Dishes, utensils, the cap on the Washington Monument.

Pineapples before Dole setup plantations.

Gelatin had two phases: before refrigeration, it needed hours of work in the kitchen. Then the status came from electrification and owning a refrigerator.
I will only quote:

> Mike Davies at Intel [...] says the real bottleneck actually lies in the layers of software needed to take real-world problems, convert them into a format that can run on a neuromorphic computer and carry out processing

> James Knight at the University of Sussex, UK [...] points out that current models like ChatGPT are trained using graphics cards operating in parallel, meaning that many chips can be put to work on training the same model. But because neuromorphic computers work with a single input and cannot be trained in parallel, it is likely to take decades to even initially train something like ChatGPT on such hardware, let alone devise ways to make it continually learn once in operation, he says

From a very recent https://www.newscientist.com/article/2426523-intel-reveals-w...
Bizarre. Kafka wasn't engaged in Jewish politics in the 1900's. And that's not something lost in translation (he wasn't a Zionist). And when he wrote about his religion it was like this: "Prague. Religions get lost like people do" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Octavo_Notebooks). Article seemed like it was spiked with innuendo...And if you really want to understand the mystery of Kafka you really just need to read the thirty page letter to his abusive, surface-level father. That's a "dialectic fairy tale" and one of his best.
It looks like one file per direction, and this is a point to point connection. It looks like each side just reads to the end of the file and then tries to read more to see if any new data is available.
Does that even work in W^X platforms? Context for my response has that assumption, we can't simply throw it out the window, right?
I think I read somewhere about making two mappings to the same physical page (one W, one X), are you referring to that?
(I'd still need to know how that works as it kinda defeats the protection, the OS should prohibit that, right?)
Doctorow on Ticketmaster jacking us for billions so it can pocket millions
I don't envy anyone tasked with calculating the risk/reward benefit of this drug versus obesity and friends.

These drugs aren't a free lunch and from my understanding can't be stopped without dramatic lifestyle changes or most of the weight comes right back. 20+ years of losing bone density and connective tissue mass is going to be catastrophic in old age for people who have to stay on it long term but really so is the obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. It's a tough moral quandary.
Corruption is a system of concentrated gains and diffused costs: cheaters make a lot of money, and their victims each lose a little. The cheater has a much larger pool of money to spend on keeping the scam going, and the victims need to pay again to fight the cheater.
Is blender 100% GPU now? Last time I used it, there were multiple renderers available, and it wasn’t a 100% win to switch to GPU. IIRC the cpu did better in ray tracing(?). This was a couple years ago though so things may have changed or I might not be recalling correctly.
This sounds like naturalistic fallacy, and the same argument could be applied to suggest all medication is bad. Also, our ancestors evolved to deal with food scarcity. It is precisely our adaptation for scarcity that predisposes modern humans for obesity.

There are legitimate criticisms to be made of GLP agonists, but this isn't one of them.
Is this the correct interpretation?

Classical systems: You measure some state, with the measurement containing some error. Averaging the measurement error usually gets closer to the actual value.

Quantum systems: Your measurement influences/can influence the state, which can cause an error in the state itself. Multiple measurements means more possible influence.
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The biggest problem with semaglutide is once you stop taking it things like blood sugar and body weight start to go back to where they were before. On average people gain back 70% of the weight they lost on the drug within the first year when they stop taking it. It seems likely this is going to be true with other addictions as well such as alcohol. While the effects are impressive, without addressing the underlying causes such as psychological factors that cause people to overeat or abuse other substances like alcohol it seems like we are just replacing one form of chemical dependance with another, albeit a healthier one.

https://www.healthline.com/health/semaglutide-withdrawal-sym...
> What are the typical effects of someone stopping the drug abruptly? Have those been studied?

Regaining two thirds of the weight [1] and lasting behavioral changes [2].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/

[2] https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/what-happened-after-i-stop...
Thank you all for your comments and for reading about this weird little game :) I've disabled `-webkit-font-smoothing: none;` on the page.
Does this happen any more often than when people lose weight by other means? I was under the impression that something like 90-95% of people who lose significant weight gain a lot of it back.
Audiobooks? I'm not sure how innovative that is, but that's been a great value add for me.

That said, I wish Youtube Red would have even a fraction of the discoverability of Spotify, and I'd jump ship immediately.
That is true of literally anything ever.

It's becoming clear that the risks of probiotic supplementation to counteract the damage caused by antibiotics are substantially lower than the benefit of actually counteracting the damage caused by antibiotics.

Yes, you can get cramps or diarrhea or brain fog or even SIBO, but that all sounds a lot better to me than intractable c-diff or the growing number of "peripheral" health problems that we now know are at least somewhat related to gut health.
Fyi you can get a stainless steel under sink RO system for less than 200usd on amazon, no plastic piping either.
I'm an interested bystander to this obesity drug mania currently happening but I'm curious as to whether the folks taking this for obesity or being overweight have to take it for the rest of their lives?

I.e. if an obese person gets skinny with Ozempic and then stops taking it, can they keep the weight off?

If not, it seems like the "perfect" money-making drug, i.e. it doesn't cure anything permanently, its expensive, and patients have to take it until they die.

Now sure, it's obviously better than being obese and unhealthy, but does it bother anyone else (in a philosophical kind of way), that we are treating the symptoms and not the causes here? We're teaching people that everything can be solved by popping more pills and not treating the psychological issues that result in so much obesity. It also doesn't result in anyone learning any good lesson, e.g. that working gets results. In this case the lesson is, my bad decisions or mental health don't matter, I can just pop pills for all my problems...
You know that GLP-1s aren't new, right? There are diabetics who have been on them continuously for decades; it's only the realization that they can treat obesity which is new. If there were common and severe side-effects from continuous long-term use, they'd already have shown up in diabetic patients.
+1 for gobuster, also checkout ffuf and katana, ffuf is good for doing subdomain and path fuzzing with a wordlist, and katana is a web crawling CLI tool

https://github.com/ffuf/ffuf
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana
Hahaha oh yeah, plenty.

Recently the Peregrine Lander had wiring issues that led to using the NASA payload to perform the landing. The Vega-C launcher was lost not long ago as two connectors were swapped, connecting two engines in reverse order.

Wiring issues cause a lot of failures that are found on-ground for the most part. But plenty have made it through to fail on orbit.
Arechive and the waybackmachine can't read the article. Is there a clean copy out there?
It looks like it lowers addictions of all kinds which are not BMI related
Everyone in Quebec goes CÂLISSE DE TABARNAK
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Just... keep taking it then? What's the downside of taking a drug that has a number of beneficial effects, especially the reduction of addictions (food, alcohol) that have high fatality rates?
I was hopeful YC coming to DC would've meant YC would've been tapping into DC's startup scene.

Wishful thinking. Linked is the more common reason (lobbying), but I'm looking forward to more institutions recognizing the talent we have in the DC region.
I thought this exact thing after reading the post. I can't imagine a better, practical structure:

DuckDB Labs: The core contributors. Instead of developing features that will be behind a paywall, they provide support and consulting. Awesome.

DuckDB Foundation: A non-profit that ensures DuckDB remains MIT licensed. Perfect.

We actually just published a post on how to replace your warehouse with DuckDB. It's certainly not a good move for every company using something like Snowflake, but it was the right move for us.

https://www.definite.app/blog/duckdb-datawarehouse
Crimping is essentially quite a low skill method of connecting wires, when compared to the high skill and experience to do it reliably with solder. I would have a lot of trust in the Boeing crimpers, and I have worked with the SpaceX guys, and they were all very good.
How is this any different than treatments for high blood pressure and other chronic illnesses? I hear this refrain often, which diminishes the incredible achievement and benefit of these new drugs.
If you are using a piece of software which has a part that can take a long time to execute and doesn't allow it to set timeouts for long running operations then i would send a PR to solve that issue.

When said software is closed source and doesn't have that feature then that company sells a problem and not a solution.
Wow I tried the demo and not only I loved navidrome, I also fell in love with the first album I clicked on: https://demo.navidrome.org/app/#/album/0f2181c7f5c19f786b44f...
From the article:

> To be pedantic, by ‘straight line’ here I really mean ‘geodesic’ — the
> generalisation of ‘straight line’ for curved surfaces and space as well
> as ‘flat’, Euclidian spaces.

> A geodesic is just the shortest path between two points in a surface. If
> you’re placed on a surface and continually walk “forward”, by definition
> you will trace out a geodesic.

> Some people replying to my original tweet pointed out that a straight
> line from the original point and direction would take you into space."
But should we praise this as the fix?

How about instead we fix the problem by making healthy foods and active lifestyles cheaper and more prevalent?
It seems to depend on the person. If they use it like a 'miracle drug' then they'll tend to have relapse on cessation. If they use it as an opportunity to build new, healthy habits they have a better chance. No doubt underlying biology plays a role too, after all some people are overweight because they found themselves in a rut, and other are overweight because they're constantly hungry. Those latter people tend to relapse.
What GP said is it stands up "to zero scrutiny." That is an absolutely absurd claim. There is a mountain of evidence pointing to exactly this.

Sure, correlation vs causation blah blah. This correlation persists even when controlling for most other variables people can think of:

> A large body of academic research has consistently found that homelessness in an area is driven by housing costs, whether expressed in terms of rents, rent-to-income ratios, price-to-income ratios, or home prices. Further, changes in rents precipitate changes in rates of homelessness: homelessness increases when rents rise by amounts that low-income households cannot afford. Similarly, interventions to address housing costs by providing housing directly or through subsidies have been effective in reducing homelessness. That makes sense if housing costs are the main driver of homelessness, but not if other reasons are to blame. Studies show that other factors have a much smaller impact on homelessness.

> Much of the research looks at the variation in homelessness among geographies and finds that housing costs explain far more of the difference in rates of homelessness than variables such as substance use disorder, mental health, weather, the strength of the social safety net, poverty, or economic conditions. Some vulnerabilities strongly influence which people are susceptible to homelessness, but research has repeatedly concluded that these factors play only a minor role in driving rates of homelessness compared with the role of housing costs.

A platitude about correlation vs causation is downplaying what we know about this specific situation.
> First there was the DIY Era, when layout options were limited and CSS implementations were riddled with bugs and browser differences. Most folks coded their own layouts using a small bag of tricks (e.g. float + clear-fix). It was messy, but it all fit in your head.

I call it the Neopets era because I first learned HTML from all the hacks people did to customize their personal pages.
It really sucks that you ended up with c. diff even with the probiotics.

But it's a relief that the doctors seem to care.

Here in the northeast at best they offhandedly suggest trying a probiotic, but give no advice beyond that. If you mention probiotic foods you get a shrug and a "sure that's good", but they never volunteer it.
Good thing they're not GLP-1. They're GLP-1 agonists. At least in semaglutide's case their half-life is 1 week
So how long is it until we start putting this in the water?
Taking the broader view of this nature feels like an attempt to change the narrative.

The entire point of having transparency is around building those foundations so they don’t inherit the biases of humans, for starters. Right now, we have zero introspection into this and no ability to improve upon it with the widely deployed models being used today, and that has already created problematic situations, let alone situations that are problematic and not known yet.

Transparency around this is a very good thing to prevent AI from inheriting negative human ideas and biases, and broadens access to improve training data that benefits everyone
The effects of GLP-1 drugs are fascinating and I am curious whether we will see approvals beyond the current diabetic and weight-loss applications.
In just the last months stories of increased fertility [0] and reduction of heart attack risk [1] popped up, but more data is definitely needed to fully asses the effects.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pregnant-women-ozem...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/14/weig...
It has been pretty heavily researched since the 90s.
Compensation packages for CEOs who run companies in S&P 500 jumped 13% in 2023
Well said, also applies to many human dynamics - friendships, relationships, work relationships, etc. Ceding power is a ratchet and you either put your foot down to start with or it grinds away.
> it seems likely this is going to be true with other addictions as well such as alcohol

Why? We need to eat. We don't need to drink.

Removing alcohol for a year or more could allow both the body and environment to be adapted to a point where it is no longer presented in the same way.
Do you have any links to the traditional ones for those interested (i.e. me)?
I only found out about the approach due to the author's articles a few months ago.
Yes, I have, throwaway5959. That's exactly what happened if you read his previous testimony. This has nothing to do with politics.
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Closest to this would be https://www.eleuther.ai whose training data is largely public and training processes are openly discussed, planned, and evaluated on their Discord server. Much of their training dataset is available at https://the-eye.eu (their onion link is considered "primary", however, due to copyright concerns)
People also talk about the cost, but that cost will come down, and besides the cost to society from alcoholism and obesity are absolutely staggering.
This is not correct, not even technically correct. Look up the term "geodesic".
liraglutide was developed in 1998 by Novo Nordisk. define short term.
They can keep it off if they keep eating like they’re on it.

Most can’t do that or they wouldn’t have needed it in the first place.

My understanding is that many do well on a much-reduced dose once reaching their desired weight, or simply stop the drug but then return to it for a couple months if they backslide.

[edit] nb a fair number can do pretty well without it, though, as they find it easier to stay motivated to maintain a good weight than to overcome the intertia and slooooow results of losing weight from an already-very-unhealthy weight. Doesn’t hurt that working out is a hell of a lot easier and more enjoyable when you’re already a healthy weight. Seems those who’ve in the past successfully put in effort to hold a healthy weight for a good amount of time but then eventually gained a bunch, have an easier time keeping their healthier weight for quite a while once off the drugs.
Do you have an example? Looking for a product recommendation others have good experience with
Since that is a direct quote from the article, the usual practice here on HN would be to add a "> " before it, or to place double quotes around it.
Not entirely, but either way, land value is tied to all of that. If the city can't grow due to zoning and conservation rules, and if you can't subdivide existing parcels, you basically have more and more money chasing the same lots.

By "not entirely", I mean that while land value often dominates, lowering it doesn't solve the problem, because even if you somehow acquired a city lot for $50k in the Bay Area, you wouldn't be able to build a house on that lot for $100k. So, solving one problem doesn't make it affordable.
Yes, this is how medicine usually works
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We just wrote a post[0] very similar to what you're thinking. Let me know if you have any questions.

0 - https://www.definite.app/blog/duckdb-datawarehouse
no this was different, it went defunct 10 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_Networks
Yet another opportunity to do a Moore crossover:

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Kids might not get very sick from COVID, but they can still spread it. Teachers were getting sick all the time.
> Capitalism fires the people at the top by replacing them with new companies.

That's common to all market economies, including ones where ownership of the company belongs to all of its employees rather than merely to its executives. Capitalism is not the only system where competition between companies is a feature.
But making investment at scale is how you get more of something!
Note that isochronous transfers require kernel-mode drivers on the host side, so you won't be able to use libusb in that case. Bulk transfers are the way to go if you want high throughput.
> But good lord, it's 130 MB of dlls on Windows.

What a nightmare.
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