skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It exists in the same line of argumentation as being against student loan debt forgiveness because one had to pay off one's own loans

No, it doesn't. There's no fixed national budget for weight loss. There's also not perverse incentives that come with subsidizing supply. It's not an economic question.
I am no lawyer, but I guess any such law has to take into account physical possibility. Like, e.g. youtube itself can’t possibly flag every copyrighted content streamed live/etc.
I just can’t imagine what I can do here that I can’t do with a Python script using Pandas. Maybe visualization of data using Excel, in a way that makes it easier for boomers/accountants to understand?
These guys were pretty good when I used them: https://www.cranksoftware.com/storyboard.
You not liking it wouldn't make it a dystopia. But regardless, I wouldn't be concerned. We humans are interested in the rare and exotic, so I would bet that if being overweight ever becomes unusual, we'll soon see a shift of some people back towards it.
Apple is most certainly not the company you want to purchase products from if you're afraid of major updates. They are far more aggressive and eager to break things than Microsoft.
And before that, liraglutide. Ozempic (semaglutide) is basically the same drug with some tweaks to extend its half-life.
NSUserActivity didn't forward notifications, it just provided a way to move whatever you were doing on your other Apple devices to the one you're currently using and only covered things that the dev specifically implemented.

This works for all notifications from all apps.
Yours is a heartfelt, sincere take on a successful 21st century career in tech, but I feel it is so one-sided.

Yes, you seem to have benefitted greatly, but your examples of efficiency and availability are flawed. For example:

"apps on phones that can know my tastes and preferences": I don't see any benefits. When Youtube recommends for the billionth time a stupid soccer short because I previously watched one soccer short, I want to scream. Also, privacy or lack thereof.

"hailing a cab virtually": made possible due to full-time workers who have none of the benefits of full-time workers, in other words, exploitation.

"a bonkers level of selection of goods to all consumers": One word that encapsulates the other side of your "bonkers level of selection"--Temu.

"low friction same-day delivery": Made possible due to our reliance on fossil fuels

"far greater access to online services including education and financing": I'm not sure about the financing part. Education? Yeah, if I want to learn about something like video-editing. But I could've bought a book on that in the past and probably learned it much more in depth. If I wanted to learn something like German Idealism, not so much.

I think your pocket book has benefitted immensely, but all of the other benefits don't seem like benefits to me on a macro level. But kudos to you for doing so well and believing the world partakes in your good fortune.
I have tried and given up. As others noted, my bank statements are just random short codes and numbers most of the time. So it requires a fair amount of manual review. There is an article comparing Fuzzy searching using Elasticsearch and a ML model training, that concluded a fuzzy search is better. I have tried with Miellisearch and found it okay. But still ended up doing everything manually in an Excel sheet, because bank descriptions just suck.
I’ve seen someone go from AHI of 15 to a 1 during at at-home sleep study and asked what they did differently, they said their nose was stuffy so they took some cold medicine/allergy before bed.

I wish at-home sleep tests didn’t require a physician to prescribe and review results. It would allow people to experiment with sleeping positions, snore guards and other methods to get their AHI down.
idk what Wojcii does. UK companies have on-call.
Which is pretty weird because just qualitatively ozempic wont get you into “great shape” - just helps you not be very unhealthily overweight. You still need to do the weights and nutrition for muscles or cardio for great cardiovascular health
Some alleles give people a tendency to gain weight via a higher appetite, slower metabolism, addiction to substances (in this case food). But no matter your alleles, you still have to pick up your fork and start attacking those triple portions of nachos. Let's not forget that 1-2 generations ago, the percentage of obese people was much lower than today, but the proportions of the above-mentioned alleles are very unlikely to have changed in 30-50 years.
It's the whole point of the fine article - that very little of actual medieval Europe is in there. It's only in there as a faint backdrop meant to provide some kind of "comon" image in the mind of the players. Exactly like the early sword and sorcery stories, or Conan comics.
For an anti-recommendation, my experience with it is that the setting is interesting, but the system is just a weirdly boring-yet-fiddly derivative of D&D-alikes that doesn't touch on even a fraction of the narrative potential of the setting.
Granted, although I might counter that given so broad an apparent increase in the scope of the indication, 2017-2021 (? I can't immediately find a date for Ozempic specifically) and 2021- might best be taken as at least partially distinct.

I think that's an argument less well advanced by me than by someone who could design such a study, though, not least because they'll know far better than I whether the proposition makes any real sense.
Same, I've been able to focus best when finishing up something either during the weekend or when I allotted more OOTO time than I actually needed, I think it's just being in that (slightly) more de-pressurized state and no overhead of Slack pings and meetings.
I use it in most of my containers. Very handy if you need to run some kind of pre-script before you main program, or need to run multiple programs in the same container.
Is there a verified SeL4 that supports multi-core yet?
Thats flat out wrong.

That’s not how insurers are permitted to set rates by state regulators and also it’s a good way to go out of business due to what’s known as adverse selection.
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not sure how it is with mandatory 5x a week in office. i had a good relationship with my manager (aka a lot of trust) and he basically let me do whatever i wanted (aka didnt care if i took days off assuming i was producing enough value) which has been the case for me everywhere i worked. it’s a big company. there’s not going to be one consistent experience.
"Everyone I know at Amazon is over-worked and stressed out" is the biggest myth.

Practically the majority of middle management I knew at AMZN didn't do anything.

Source: ex-AWS
I'm just glad something this effective is available. Obesity is a novel epidemic. Being very fat is supposed to be the exception to the rule, and not the default.
It runs pretty much as described - you enter `=py` and it becomes a place to dump python code directly without configuring anything. The "catch" is it runs in the cloud and you need to buy the appropriate license level.
No introductory text made me not understand it's purpose
I left Amazon a few years back because this ending was the inevitable outcome. Amazon had a chance to reinvent themselves as the scrappy startup that they claim to want, but instead they went full IBM.
I'm sitting here thinking - man, how is it possible that they can make the best laptop hardware no contest, and yet I still get blurry icons when connecting to a non-retina external display? Something that the cheapest Windows laptop money can buy would do flawlessly?

Macs are great and so is macOS, but it's not that good, at the end of the day it's just a computer
Although I don’t use MacOS, the fact that you can now control an iPhone from a Mac will probably be reverse engineered to allow Linux to do the same at some point. A lot of automation opportunities
For most PTA users, 1 million transactions would be a large file; we usually split them up more.

On a macbook air m1, here's how hledger 1.40 from homebrew handles it
(it used to be faster; perhaps this will improve again):

$ hledger -f examples/1Mtxns-1kaccts.journal stats
Main file : .../1Mtxns-1kaccts.journal
Included files : 0
Txns span : 2000-01-01 to 4737-11-28 (1000000 days)
Last txn : 4737-11-27 (990974 days from now)
Txns : 1000000 (1.0 per day)
Txns last 30 days : 31 (1.0 per day)
Txns last 7 days : 8 (1.1 per day)
Payees/descriptions : 1000000
Accounts : 1000 (depth 10)
Commodities : 26
Market prices : 1000000
Runtime stats : 80.23 s elapsed, 12465 txns/s, 2584 MB live, 7679 MB alloc

Ledger was traditionally faster on at least some reports, but I haven't been able to reproduce that on my machines for some time. Today, with the same file above, it ran for 40m before I killed it.

Tackler advertises 56k txns/s: https://tackler.e257.fi/docs/performance

In my experience about half the time is spent on parsing and half on report calculation. Long-running apps like hledger-ui and hledger-web do the parsing only once at startup, saving time compared to CLI commands.
In order to forgive a debt, someone else has to assume the debt. Nobody cares about that in general. If, say, someone's parent assumes the student debt of their child, you are not going to hear a thing. But when it is government forgiveness the constituents of that government often feel they are being left the bag holder, which is where you start to see complaint.

If you lose weight on Ozempic, there is no evidence that someone else needs to assume the weight you lost, so it is not clear where you find a parallel.
There's lots of "affordable housing" aka Byzantine subsidy schemes here in Seattle. What there isn't is consistent enforcement against encampments, littering, and shoplifting
Where? If FAANG starts being bad, where else to go?
As far as I understand it, the one major issue is that it can make a temporary problem (overweight) a chronic one.

As a counter-example, most people experience depression at least once in their life and most of these take antidepressants on a temporary basis (the exception being those who are genetically/developmentally depressed - i.e. chronic/lifelong). Once the underlying issue has been addressed with therapy or what-have-you, these people can cease use of the drug.

This is not the case with Ozempic. If you take it to lose weight then cessation will cause rapid weight gain. You'll be stuck with it for the rest of your life, for something that can [again] usually be permanently solved with other forms of treatment.

I think this is morally fine. However, it does mean that these people will suffer even more harm if they are ever find themselves unable to afford/obtain Ozempic. We would effectively be duplicating the current issue that we have with insulin.
Andrej Karpathy states that LLMs are highly general purpose technology for statistical modelling of token streams [1]. For example, comma.ai uses transformers in their self-driving model which is far from a linguistic task.

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1835024197506187617
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KMdo9AWJaQ&t=1010s
Appreciate this very insightful comment
This is unnecessarily pedantic. Personifying the behavior of a company is not some new concept. It’s actually rather common.

Because a company itself cannot express emotions, the externally facing visible decisions are used as a proxy.

For example, a company raising prices to an unexpected level may be described as “greedy”. A company executing a series of decisions that appears misguided or incalculable may be described as “panicking”.
> I imagine there is more startup energy/funding here than in Madison

Probably, but also costs are quite a bit lower (they're much closer to Denver CoL if you can believe that). We have a pretty good amount of startups and a lot more "bigger" non-tech companies than you'd expect.

I agree on the funding trough, but I think that's really the macro-economics at play. Midwest is pretty well shielded from that, so I'm kinda happy I'm here for the time being.
For one person's anecdotes on the culture, read Exit Interview by Kristi Coulter. Amazing read IMO, and it explained a lot of how I've felt at Microsoft and Google.
The important thing (not mentioned in the document) is how much he pays them. That determines whether "wanting them to get rich" is real or not.

Once I worked in a small software company, and the boss kept telling us "if the company grows, we will get more money, and we will all get rich". Young and naive, we worked hard. When the company grew, he... hired more developers. Well, of course. That is obviously much more profitable than increasing the salary of the existing developers. At the end, he was the only person who got rich. Why did we ever think it would end up differently? I guess, because we were young and naive, and also because he told us so.

Being older and more cynical, if you want me to get rich, pay me. (Or make me a partner in business.) Otherwise, five or ten years later, when the company gets big and I will probably be burned out, you will have no incentive to waste money on the burned out guy, when the alternative is to hire someone fresh.
You can’t outrun your fork. These are different parts of the problem. Also: achieving a reasonable weight makes it much easier to get into an exercise program.
> Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and Agents

Did they fixed the bug "everything is a date". It bit me just some days ago on Office 365 enterprise.
What's the remote policy at other FAANGs?
Oh you will work your ass of at Netflix, and the keeper test is just an artificial ceiling to keep the ranks small.
Definitely need to add a womp womp on a compile error
Heart issues due to sedentary lifestyle would still exist, but many cardiovascular issues are long term side effects of obesity and poor diet. I.e. High blood pressure, high triglyceride levels, high HDL cholesterol, diabetes, are very common obesity related comorbidities. These all increase the risk for heart diseases. In short, Yes as long as there isn't other even more dangerous heart related side effects of Ozempic/Wegovy/et al., it would improve heart health.
Agreed, that's what I mean! For a series that runs on "Rule of Funny" (or as Granny Weatherwax would put it, the "story") it's all surprisingly consistent. I'm not saying there aren't inconsistencies, but far fewer than one would expect from comedy literature.
I get that. But financial freedom, at least for me would go a long way in terms of not being depressed. Once you beat depression, then you can function well and take care of your health and security. then do the same for others.

Not being happy all the time is not a mental illness or a problem, nor is it synonymous with depression.
I've never liked it as a narrative element because it's such a handwave. If you're going to have "magic is nanotech", or whatever other backing, at least actually use that backing to put narrative rules on it that the reader can understand.
Oh interesting! Does it mean that the content of these forwarded notifications goest through Apple servers then? With no way for the source app to prevent it?
The Grand Tour has run out of road at last–is that why Clarkson&co look so happy
No. Choose the other FAANG offer
I don't know who that is but applying my heuristic, yes, I'd assume so.

It's a heuristic, not a conviction. Generally I don't bother to listen to the TED talks anymore and I'm much more distrustful in my priors than "normal" for anyone I see giving one.

That said it's not like I'm going to dismiss someone with otherwise solid credentials out of hand just because they gave a TED talk, but it still lowers my trust.

Really depends on what you're trying to use the info for. I'm not a researcher so it's not like this affects my day job, and if I was I'd like to think I'd dive into the sources rather than ever just taking someone for their word. That's like the equivalent of copy pasting some code you found on discord into your production app.
And it will be considered beautiful and high status.
> Personifying the behavior of a company is not some new concept. It’s actually rather common.

I know, it's common and it's wrong and unhelpful. That's my point. It doesn't help us understand the situation better, but actively misleads us if we're interested in actually analyzing problems and coming up with solutions.

And I just looked it up and it appears that Apple isn't supporting it because their reading of the EU law is that they'd have to support iPhone mirroring to third parties like Windows and Linux, where it would be harder or impossible to control the security and privacy.

That's something that can be talked about intelligently, whichever side you're on. Saying they're "throwing a fit" is not. It's false, and makes the conversation worse for all of us.
For me, it will remain a book I can talk about not one I’ve read. Solzhenitsyn is the extent of my Russian literature.
> I'm always immediately skeptical as to what drugs pharmacies are pushing out

Major nitpick here. Pharmacies aren't pushing anything. Pharmaceutical companies are pushing these drugs.

Worse yet, independent pharmacies have only been losing money selling GLP-1 agonists. Insurance companies have begun to collude using pricing networks. They claim that the market value that pharmacies get the drugs for is too high, even though they are still patented and brand-name, so the insurance and pharmaceutical companies together are the ones that set the price. Then they refuse to reconcile the cost minus the deductible. Last I knew, it was about -42$ on a month prescription.
And don't forget the last track on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWh1xy6gvU
The sneakers example given seems pretty contrived: why wouldn't the store check its own sales records instead of asking you to submit a proof of webpage visitation?
It's new to me! It certainly looks good, or at least like something that could be increasingly useful to an increasingly large group of people. But it's a whole book and I have only a few minutes' break to check HN, so I can't evaluate it for quality until I've had a chance to read it (and I definitely will, because it looks useful to me). I assume, being new, few other people have experience with it to comment. And fortunately whenever actual math and code show up, the AI maximalist/doomer blabbermouths tend to stay away.
Debian stands out as a Linux distribution that "just works" IME. Fedora isn't even all that bad, but the short support cycle can be problematic if you care about using it reliably in production. Debian doesn't have that issue, their "Stable" release is just rock solid. It can also be surprisingly snappy even on old, very low-end hardware where everything else (including every modern web browser) will visibly chug or not run at all.
Apple doesn't say how big the server Foundational model is, but it scores around Llama 3 70B, so that range should be it.
> But all that said; Amazon isn't for everyone. It's probably not for most people. I don't mean that in the "Amazon only hires the best" sense. That's true, but so do the other big tech companies. It's more that you have to be a particular combination of driven and outcome focused with a relentless tolerance or even insatiable need for urgency, hard work, and trade-offs.

aka "its a wall to wall hustle that will never get better, and when it comes to trade-offs, you're the one making them"
> Business saw how well this strategy worked for police in the 1960s: if you want our help, you must make us unaccountable

This only works with natural monopoly. Business wants a monopoly isn’t exactly groundbreaking.

> By Gresham's Law of ideas, the concept of freedom has become a euphemism for unaccountability

“Gresham's Law of ideas” doesn’t make sense; ideas don’t have nominal value. Even if they did, your usage doesn’t work unless we conflate bad with popular, at which point the entire argument boils down to that which is popular is bad because it’s popular, which is freshman dorm room tautology.
Well I'm sympathetic to your point of view, but there I think there are some small chinks in the armour of this argument. To give two examples:

1. I read an article about plastic surgery for show dogs in Brazil: as it pointed out the dogs presented beautifully but their offspring had the original flaws which were undesirable. Might seem absurd but it highlights the possibility of a result being achieved in a way that is inauthentic and has the seeds of future failure within it.

2. There are many things in life in which the result is merely evidence of a journey undertaken which is in itself understood to prove something that is otherwise not visible. For example one might say that someone who did a tremendous amount of exercise has shown focus and determination...the visible result may be them appearing fit. So again maybe the visible result is sometimes just a signifier of the effort it took and that might be considered the important aspect. It really depends on the observer and what they care about.

In a sense you and I with our glasses are like Brazilian show dogs - we can see alright but indeed our vision is flawed and when I lose my glasses I can feel pretty helpless.
Problem with working out though is that when I do that I will also crave more food, so I'll end up eating much more.
They are a 2nd-best alternative to just doing the work to change your behavior.

If you are overweight, eat less/eat better and exercise.

If you are addicted to alcohol or drugs, quit.

Those are the ideals. If you can do those things it's better than depending on chemicals that for-profit pharmaceutical companies would love to see you buying for the rest of your life.

But if you can't do those things, it's probably better than continuing the status quo. Better to pay Reckitt Benckiser than support some criminal fentanyl dealers. I feel that many people have never really tried, or tried but did not appreciate that it would be really hard, and gave up.
I hope that data is encrypted at rest, so even in the event of a physical breach the data would be useless.
Isn’t it different with student loan forgiveness, because the money isn’t coming out of thin air but rather taxation?
The problem here is with multiple tens of thousands employees in IT/Software field in Amazon and their pay pretty close to top among employers at that scale, executives remain absolutely convinced no significant churn is expected.

Further to that point people who are indispensable and absolutely want/need remote work have their managers and even 1-2 level above in confidence to get their demand fulfilled like always before.

This leaves majority of employees who hate these rules but no leverage or wherewithal to get what they want from management which has no reason to listen.

> Will they strike out on their own and become freelancers who work on their own terms

A few of course can but to most no one including Amazon will pay that kind of money for writing API which calls API which calls API.. This is what most people do at the end of day.

Retirement sounds most reasonable for people who have earned and saved enough and not trying to reach or compare to earnings of directors, VPs and above.
>> I know people who are slim and have roughly similar sentiment about the drug.

It reveals that for some trim people, their underlying feelings all along have been a sense of personal value and positivity around the fact that they are trim and others fat.

They feel unhappy that other might be admitted to the trim club.
hopefully at some point they'll return to non-fat iphones as well
Be aware that ChatGPT is not HIPAA compliant.

https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-chatgpt-hipaa-compliant/

(My deepest sympathies on the diagnosis.)