skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "right is right, even if nobody thinks it is" is something that people have recognized since ... oh, Socrates?

Something recognized since Socrates, whose death was foretold by Nietzsche, and finally rendered obsolete by the postmodernists a la Baudrillard (1981):

All Western faith and good faith became engaged in this wager on
representation: that a sign could refer to the depth of meaning,
that a sign could be exchanged for meaning and that something
could guarantee this exchange-God of course.

To parse this idea properly it is important to define your terms, and lack of adequate definition is what leads to confusion especially as regards philosophical and especially religious discourse. "God" here should be taken to mean the belief in an absolute truth, a common, shared, objective reality from which our subjective realities are derived; metaphysics, spirits, ghosts, "energies," New Age quantum bullshit, and creationism all need not apply here (and are better dispensed with). It is the underlying reality to which all symbols refer; the concept of the pure simulacrum, the hyperreal, is a symbol with no reference to any underlying reality whatsoever, no referent, and thus untethered to any actual reality - atheistic and "without God."

Language and rational discourse are based upon this principle - that when we exchange words or symbols with one another that refer to a thing, we have some hope in hell of referring to the same thing, such that I can represent an object in the "external world," or even a thought in my intellectual "internal world" or "soul", serialize it into a literate form, and have you deserialize that literate string into the same intellectual or cognitive structures that I beheld in my own soul when I put those words together and hoped to communicate to you.

"The death of God" means that we can no longer guarantee this exchange of "meaning" between minds/souls (both of which I regard as terms that refer to exactly the same thing and are perfectly coextensive), because no symbols are tethered to an underlying objective meaning nor reality. Language and definitions are relative, malleable, subject to revision. Context and intent of language and expressions are irrelevant; the meaning of any string of symbols is now unilaterally determined by their impact or impression on the receiver, and thus any subjective meaning can be inferred from any expression.

The condition of post-truth is a consequence of this rejection of objective reality, of the elevation of relativism to the highest degree, and the confusion of (hyperreal, manufactured) symbols with actual reality. There is no objective truth any more, only relativism, narrative, and belief.
I had a Fitbit Sense for a couple years, before it finally died in the shower. It was just out of warranty. I bought a Fitbit Sense 2 which I thought would be an upgrade but it was amazingly a much worse device.

A huge part of it was a similar notifications issue to what you describe - get a notification, raise wrist, and have to wait for a stupid animation to play before displaying the notification.

There were a bunch of other problems, including some unbearably stupid ones like it would only work with Alexa and not assistant (wtf who owns fitbit?). I took it back and managed to buy another original Sense. (I posted about them on the Fitbit forum: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Sense-2/Is-Sense-2-a-downgra... which seemed to get a bit of agreement from others).

My conclusion was that literally nobody working on this watch or responsible for its success actually used one.
And to think that they never included any of this in Hilton Garden Inn: Ultimate Team Play...
Or a Casio f91w. Timeless.
AI poses no existential threat to humanity – new study finds
It's rare in the US too. Less rare than outside it, but still < 5% market share.
> The best way...

The best way is not to have telemetry at all. But then that's a user-centric take.
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My perception is that we judge fat people as weak and contemptible and therefore a drug is allowing them to cheat their way out of their sin instead of paying the proper penance (diet and exercise).

It's well known that people treat fat people worse; I constantly wonder how aware people are of their own biases?

For what it's worth I've been fat before and I've been in shape before. I have my own biases that are beyond the scope of this comment. Never taken one of these drugs but only because of cost/access; I'm actually curious to experience them. If they work for people, I say they should take them.
Macros are an unmaintainable mess.
> A more likely future is less video

You mean I could get a f...ing text again about things, which I could just read at my own speed, skip back and forth by just moving my eyes, use the search function, skip pieces of it, etc etc, in just two minutes instead of ten minutes watching a video clip for the most trivial statements?

What a baaad world that would be...
Honest question. Do you not have 30 minutes to spare daily where you don't wear your watch and it could charge?
This is a challenge for the first hypothesis:

> These are changes he hasn’t noticed in patients who have lost significant weight in other ways—like through diet or gastric bypass surgery—which makes him think it’s unique to GLP-1 usage.
What happens if you (the contributor) fork the project, make a really great feature in your own fork, make it available as the license requires, then the startup integrates changes from the fork back into their own project. Does this then prevent them from ever changing the license away from AGPL?
I would say that's an unhelpfully misleading statement in the license.

There exist obvious circumstances of the program's use with which the license doesn't concern itself, and does not speak to, and so in those circumstances the user is not required to enter into the license.

A redistributor must enter into the license because it's a derivative of the GPL, and so it has requirements related to distribution.

A user who runs the program in such a way that visitors communicate with it from remote stations obviously is required to enter into the license also and comply with its requirements.

The license is applied to programs for which this would be a typical use.
I really wanted a 12 mini but the shortened battery life made it a no-go for me. Ended up with a standard 12 and am still happy with it years later aside from it being slightly larger than I would like.
Also Samsung has been innovating with hardware. I'm not the hugest fan of their flavor of Android but I absolutely love my flip phone and would not consider switching back to iOS or pure Android unless Apple or Google were to make a flip.
Reachability is useless and no substitute for a smaller screen. It just slows you down, obscures the bottom half of the screen and makes a lot of gestures impossible.
I think those directors, VPs and PMs should be mandated to use their own products. Okay to keep iPhone, but use Android as well, at least for their corp works. The product quality of Workspace and Chrome is debatable but it's not even remotely comparable to those niche market products because everyone must use it in their daily works. Why not for Android and their hardware products? Even FB did droidfooding long time ago...
The problem is she swallowed everything else too. The obesity is a massive problem that needs to be remedied and yes there may be side effects along the way but literally nothing else works for obesity except roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Palid skin is nothing compared to losing your foot to diabetes.
As the article says, they have patients come anyway to reduce the side effects of GLP-1.

Plastic surgeons are like the bank in casino: they always win in the end.
Reminds me of the short story 'Sea of Dreams'[1] by Liu Cixin. It's in one of his anthologies but I can't remember which one

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61305943-sea-of-dreams
No, they are just normal glasses? I've had dozens of pairs over the years both metal and acetate. I'm currently wearing https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/eyeglasses/RX5169%20MALE%20rb516...
What do you mean by the last sentence? Isn't it the opposite? People who could do art stuff won't be able to sustain themselves using those skills anymore because those will be devalued a lot.
An interesting exercise is to do this exact same calculation with the atmosphere.
> many people really don't want to just wear glasses

> I can get away without wearing them

There's a fallacy of some sort here but I do not know enough rhetoric to determine which one.
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Yes, I stumbled over the headline because I think the writer wants it to rhyme, but it doesn’t.
"Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees
I think it's pretty simple, unfortunately. A lot of folks have this visceral, instinctive horror of fat people, and instead of examining that, they convince themselves that what they actually despise is laziness and gluttony: inner vices expressed outwardly, like a medieval morality play.

But if there's a way to lose weight without major lifestyle change, it threatens that tidy moral barometer. Someone might look virtuous without actually being so. Cognitive dissonance ensues. So they hope and wish for anything to catch out and punish these "cheaters."
I'd say a more important side effect that ought to be researched is possible thyroid tumors, including cancer.

> In studies with rodents, Ozempic® and medicines that work like Ozempic® caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer. It is not known if Ozempic® will cause thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in people.

https://www.ozempic.com/how-to-take/side-effects.html
Making a whole new software/hardware ecosystem is what happens if you keep going... behold... the BitGrid.

Turing Complete, Actually performant, and possibly crazy enough to work

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

And my latest attempt at things, because Pascal isn't popular enough, includes C and a Web emulator

[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid_C
a) they can but didn't. This is why we can't have nice things. This industry is so utterly NDA heavy that you'd think we were doing government contracts, but articles like this are why they do this. We saw how gamers reacted to a pre-alpha build of GTA6. This can and does hurt studio's PR.

b1) BOTD is usually granted, but The Verge has a horrible history with meltdowns. So I'm skeptical. http://web.archive.org/web/20161013131227/http://nextshark.c...

b2) If it's tongue-in-cheek that may in fact be even worse. They don't even care that they broke a verbal agreement. That's worse than at least trying to own up and say they just wanted easy clicks.

This was all in bad taste to begin with. They better not complain if Valve blacklists them.
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This is the first time I'm hearing about it. It seems here it's only prescribed to type 2 diabetes partients and doctors are strictly prohibited from prescribing it for weight loss.
>- because of how many phones apple can sell, they can divide the cost of R&D over more units, and can design things like their own CPU cores

As if you're benefitting from that with apples margins.
Congrats you completely misunderstood. Preferring a week long battery life isn’t weird.

What is weird is saying an Apple Watch is inferior to a 10 year old watch because of the battery life, when these are different devices with different purposes.

Think about this for a second, would Apple purposefully gimp their watch’s battery life or maybe, just maybe, there’s more going on.
coming from android iphone battery is absolutely horrid
I had an internship with a researcher who swore skin had different properties between races (not including color). Black populations had a different feel to adipose tissue. I think I could tell but he had examined thousands, he didn’t want to be the guy publishing a paper on that.
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Yes. If they do it they will be able to license the form back as AGPL but that wouldn't let them license the new thing under their commercial license (effectively useless commercially). At that point they are a peer with you.

Some startups may not know this or knowingly violate this.
This all makes sense and is extremely illuminating. Thank you!
They aren't seeing it with other rapid weight loss so seems like no however this isn't a scientific study so it's just an observation.
> First, it can be unproductively applied to any monetization system - you can always say that the temptation will still exist to double-dip.

That's capitalism. The Uber app was a straightforward experience, until they started loading it up with ads and tip screens. Paid Hulu and Netflix tiers have ads too, when previously they didn't.

If that's a "terrible argument", there should be numerous counterexamples of companies doing the opposite.
I know someone who lost an eye to diabetes, so your comment is certainly not hyperbole.
Blog author here. I couldn't agree more. Thank you for your kind words and for sharing the academic perspective of using the AGPL - super interesting!
> (by the way, by the time you have checked in and your boarding pass has been issued, a lot of companies just don't allow you to cancel anymore, so it's really a non-issue?)

Which companies have a cancellation policy that is contingent upon getting a boarding pass? I've cancelled checked-in tickets before. If the flight is operated by a different airline than the ticket issuer, you just have to call the operating airline first to undo the check-in (a few airline can even do this online). After that it should be possible to cancel the ticket by the ticket issuer without any problems.
> “Fifteen years ago, I would never have done a lower body lift on a patient unless they had gastric bypass, a lap band, or a gastric sleeve,” he says.

Right, because 15 years ago nobody else lost any weight. GLP-1s and roux-en-Y are literally the only two treatments shown in clinical studies that cause people to lose weight and keep it off indefinitely.

Maybe the skin is saggy because there’s nothing under it, maybe not? But at least they won’t have a stroke, heart attack, cancer or type 2.

Chemo is going to make you look much worse.

The new category of patient is “person who successfully lost weight and kept it off without gastric bypass.”

[edit] if you think I’m exaggerating there’s a great study from 2023 that tracked how many people lost more than 5% body weight in a given year.

Answer: 1 in 10, skewing mostly to people who had more to lose.

If you were morbidly obese your probability of achieving a healthy weight is 1 in 1667 in a year.

And if you manage to thread that needle your average weight regain over 5 years is 80%.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
I had never heard of this drug before today.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that if you did this same visualization on a planet with ten times Earth’s radius, but the same ocean depth and water distribution, then the water blobs would seem even smaller in comparison to the planet.

I’m just not sure it’s a particularly useful illustration to compare the volume of water on a planet to that of the planet itself.
So how did they solve the "horrible people exist and will use this to stalk and murder their victims" problem?

Normalizing these types of things is not great, imo, and I'm not sure even Apple has pulled it off yet, with their airtags. Any tech that is tracking and surveilling you can be used to track and surveil you, and any company that doesn't explicitly say "we will not harvest, monetize, abuse, or otherwise misuse your data" will harvest and sell your data, using "industry standard" anonymization or other techniques to sell a false sense of security. Any bits of data you give away are bad, but gps style realtime location tracking is dangerous as hell.

Phones are bad enough - not sure I appreciate the niche this is filling, or why "even more robust" tracking that works when phones don't is a positive.

Plan ahead, use walkie talkies with your buddies if there's no phone service, or so on, the potential for harm from this tech seems to heavily outweigh any ephemeral convenience.
Corridor Crew was great until some of their shock value videos started to get big and they decided that was a high value niche. Some of it was funny but the underlying joke got old.

They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolutely done with them.
I'm not even that familiar with Valve culture and this sums it all up to me.

>If you are a gaming journalist, and you break this sort of online etiquette, which is very well established thing for Valve, then you get to be called out for being a dick.

Then they wonder why they are mocked as not being real journalists. Can you imagine trying to have a source confide in your but then have that confidentiality removed because "well you didn't say I couldn't show your face. I didn't name you". It's disgusting.
Luminiferous aether in what sense, what physics? Relativity doesn't exactly disprove it, it shows that everything distorts in a way that would make any aether unmeasurable. So if you just say aether:yes by itself I don't think anything happens.
We've looked into the DCO before. It turns out CLAs are more common and easier to deal with, thanks to a tool like cla-assistant.io. We ended up opting for it for the sake of simplicity.
In the associated article linked to at "Leaving aside the absurdity of computing Fibonacci numbers recursively,"[1] (which, yes, I agree), we list the various algorithms as (roughly):

how to fibonacci space complexity time complexity
------------------------- ---------------- ---------------
insane recursion exponential exponential
memoized insane recursion linear linear

The space complexity of "insane recursion" without memoization is the maximum stack-depth; the worst case stack is,

fib(n)
fib(n-1)
fib(n-2)
...
fib(1)

Which is n stack frames (and the stack frames are of constant size); the space complexity of the whole thing is thus linear in the size of n. (While the call tree is itself exponential in size, the memory required is only the depth of that tree, since we can't call fib(n-1) & fib(n-2) simultaneously[2].

(The time complexity is, of course, exponential, and I agree with the "insane" moniker. I also like your comment elsewhere in this thread about people hyperfocusing on the example and missing the larger point of the article … and I'm so sorry but I've been sniped by this.)

[1]: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/fibonacci/

[2]: the little demons in my mind are now trying to scheme up an insaner recursion that attempts this. Threads maybe?
Expanding universe and Big Bang Theory go hand-in-hand. There are multiple independent observations besides the red shift that make it nearly certain there had to be a BBT event to explain what we see. The universe is too hot, chaotic and clumpy for there not to have been a massive explosion to kick it all into motion. Since there is good confidence BBT happened, transitioning from that event to a steady-state non-expanding universe would require some sort of mechanism to slow then freeze the expansion. Not aware of any support for that model.
The only thing that moved me on from using (Re)Vanced was setting up my own Invidious instance, and using the Clipious app (F-Droid store) to access it.

Clipious, by default, connects to public instances of Invidious, so you can try it out without having to setup your own instance.

ReVanced remains my backup option, however.
Hit the gym eat healthy and get fit while retaining your beautiful skin?
Ok I looked it up. It is to withstand or recover quickly, or the ability to spring back into shape; elasticity. (Oxford American)
I just realised I went down the rabbit hole yesterday. I needed to track work to be done on my work project - so I started writing Todos. And then grepped them, and started extracting things from the todos - like a dotted name (foo.component.feature) and now I have realised it’s a DSL and I should have used lexx not regexes and … it’s a good idea through !
I've wanted to ditch the iPhone/Macbook and go watch/airpods/ipad for years now. They need to decouple the requirement to own an iPhone to get a watch up and running (this should be something an iPad can do), and make the iPad an actual pro dev machine. Not sure I'm ever going to get my wish, sadly.
this is dope!
that seems like a hardware failure or perhaps you have too many contacts in your phone book? For 'fun' I created 50k iCloud contacts and it broke my account / phone. I had to call apple support to delete them.
What's wrong with making Promise.all ?

try {

const [user, session] = await Promise.all([
getUser(userId),
getSession(sessionId)
])

} catch (err) {
…
}
Can you recommend any other book about the same subject but different programming language? Thanks!!!
Yea, just to be clear, I'm not disputing the image at all, my original comment is only an observation on the stark contrast when you juxtapose those two representations
TL;DR: my quick read is that they are trying to do the right thing.

My not super-close reading is that this is actually reasonable (but note: I wrote the original GNU blanket assignment back around 1989 or 1990 so you may consider my perspective bogus).

This agreement says that you confirm that you have the right to license your contribution (that what you wrote isn’t actually your employer’s), and that they can use it without restriction, even if there’s something patented in the submission. It doesn’t stop you from using the code for something else. But you can’t come back later and say “hey, yank out these lines of code which I sent you long ago”. It's not even an assignment -- you retain ownership.

If I were doing this, personally, I might add something to the effect of “btw if the company tries to change the license in a way incompatible with the AGPL 3.0 or later versions this license I have you becomes void” but that could implicitly be in there (if explicit, I missed it in my quick read).
We have some API-compatibility in faceted search. But yes, we are not (today) a drop-in replacement for ES. We have many migrations from ES/OpenSearch and users find that converting their code over is well worth the savings in maintenance, no-ETL and increased uptime, though.

That said, we may one day add ES API compatibility if we can :)
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It literally says this in the article.
My Fitbit devices (first Ionic, and now on my second Sense) have spoiled me, I can't imagine having to think about charging on a daily basis. I get 3-5 days depending on what I'm doing.

I'm sure you get used to it and it becomes part of a routine but it's nice not having to deal with it daily.
Jordan Peelems next movie, FLOAT
I've mentioned this in the past but I mind sponsorship a lot less when it's highly relevant for the channel. For example a lot of engineering channels are sponsored by JLPCB who provided machining services or PCBs for the project video - that makes sense.

Coffee influencers selling me NordVPN on a video about grinder particle size distribution does not.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson says the earth scaled down to the size of a billiard ball would be smoother than any billiard ball ever made.
Are there people who do laundry daily? Most people I know do it every week or two.
Given that the quantity of water in the mantle is thought to be equivalent to that in all the oceans (large drop), I'd presume not.

The mantle-water research is fairly new, with this report from 2017:

"There’s as much water in Earth’s mantle as in all the oceans"

<https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133963-theres-as-much-...>

The USGS detail pages are based on a 1993 publication, Igor Shiklomanov's chapter "World fresh water resources" in Peter H. Gleick (editor), Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources (Oxford University Press, New York).

<https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...> and <https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...>