skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like much of life it's more complicated than simple rules. It works for some people, but does not for everyone. As someone that has struggled with diet for the last decade or so these drugs have been a life saver. I've been able to eat healthy and feel full instead of being stuck in a cycle of eating right for a while and then eventually breaking under load. I've been able to have a consistency in the last 6 months on the drugs that i never thought I was capable of. I've even been able to build up a weight lifting plan that actually works for me and I feel good after the day.

There are lots of problems with drug reliance still to be worked out, but I'm excited for the chance to rebuild my habits into something good and work my way off to something normal.

Related, exercise is awesome but has little impact on long term weight loss! Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo
Probabilistically, the long probe lengths occur for large N, but for large N the linear scan is already horrible. But it's definitely worth actually measuring.
I've worked IT for Mac only shops my entire career, I wouldn't say any of it has been miserable
Another version of that paper [0] is dated Feb. 1986.

[0]: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA620727.pdf
Everyone is fighting for power. There is a great quote that has stuck with me, although I forget it's origin, that goes

"My life turned up-side down when I realized that those fighting the power were actually just fighting for the power."
Same. But then, my favorite part of Moby Dick is the boots-on-the-ground overview of whaling, a whole industry I'd have no concept of otherwise.
We empirically find that the setting λᵢₙᵢₜ = 0.8 − 0.6 × exp(−0.3 · (l − 1)) works well in practice

I wonder about the story behind that formula...
I've just shown these to my kid, as he seems not to like most of todays TV. He loves them. I never watched them myself, so I am learning a lot of all your coments. A board game? Making the island? I'll have some research to do.
Their doctor suggested that they would drop a lot of weight fast, and they wanted to make sure they focused on eating lots of protein. So that's one restriction, medically prescribed meal types.

On top of that, fatty meals, larger meals, and iirc fast carb heavy meals would all cause either nausea or diarrhea. Interestingly their mother is on the identical same generic GLP-1 shot, and has mostly the same side effects. It's kinda difficult to enumerate all the foods that went poorly, and it doesn't always feel logical. We eat a lot (entirely?) home cooked meals, so it's not like i'm even talking fast food here.

Off the top of my head a lot of dark green vegs have been working well. Brassicas and the like.

I should note that they're still quite happy on the drug. They still eat normally enough that it's not like they're only eating broccoli or something. We just have to plan meals very purposefully. It's also a lot of trial and error to find the subset that works.
Do they get to go to the ceremony with the other laureates, meet the king, etc?

Of course that doesn't matter to anybody else, but I could see it mattering to the laureates themselves.
Outlines v0.1.0 release: 98% reduction in runtime overhead
I work at .txt, the company that produces Outlines. We're super proud of this release!
I did not miss the point of the article, I just don't get his interest in medium helicopters when the missile he wants 8 of on a medium helicopter weighs 100 pounds.
As a consultant, I work with Linux, macOS and Windows. Depends on the client and the project.

I can't remember last time I even heard about a malware in someone else's Windows machine, let alone my Windows machine. I don't know what you mean by debugging installers.

Sounds like an outdated opinion. Just like those "lol PHP bad" regurgitations and linking outdated articles about it.
A post from yesterday, complaining about Musk not receiving a prize despite (according to the author of that post) deserving it, has had me thinking about that too. Folks like Bell, Musk, Bezos etc are in many ways similar to Alfred Nobel, highly successful and very controversial businessmen, where their contributions to the world have had great positives and great negatives.

Putting aside the fact that it's also entirely reasonable to say that Musk, Bezos etc, while having changed the world, have not really personally made breakthroughs in fundamental science of the level as to deserve a Nobel prize; I wonder if the Nobel Foundation avoids figures like that because of the parallels.
I assure you I am not. I lived under communism so I know it’s stench.

It is usually quickly followed by dictatorship though, since force must be used to keep people living under it. Otherwise productive people will naturally pursue prosperity for themselves and their loved ones, which leads straight to capitalism.
There is an MDM option to disable iCloud, but I'm not sure if its possible to toggle without enrolling macOS into a managed system.
Thunderbirds is actively airing on TV today, there's a channel owned by Weigel Broadcasting (MeTV Toons) which shows it.
The statement is about school libraries. Those alternative sources are not very accessible to children.
> Diet and exercise don't have negative side effects and they are free

They're absolutely not free. They fail at a high rate, which incurs medical costs. And when they work, they require--in practice--a lot of follow-up and coaching.

It's fairy-tale level mindblowing that we can look at the status quo where nearly half of the industrialised world is obese and get haughty about a drug that medically, demonstrably improves patient outcomes.
I don’t think there is any evidence of black Africans building ships or sailing very far. I seriously doubt they could pull off an Atlantic crossing.
I can't understand what you mean by this.

This whole thread I feel like I'm another world, everyone is using all these euphemisms that I can't figure out the referent to. What is "prevailing orthodoxy" what is "contemporary social dialogues" what are y'all talking about. I'm serious I just cannot tell.
I still remember an episode of Blue Peter where they got you to make your own Tracy Island. I vaguely recollect blocking the toilet with toilet paper as you needed the inside of a toilet roll for part of it.
It feels inappropriate for a teacher of English literature to be dismissing the western canon as a bunch of old white men droning on about shit no one cares about. If that's her attitude, her students are either going to pick it up themselves, or worse, if they've been reading from a young age and happen to actually love and enjoy the classics, they'll feel dismissed themselves as if their tastes are invalid in the modern era.

A curriculum should update over time, but there's plenty of value in having a canon. It's a shared point of reference to create a common culture. Fashions, music, television to streaming video or whatever, might all change rapidly, but at least give parents and children something they're both familiar with. Beyond that, it can in and of itself create the kind of urbane cosmopolitan widening of one's circle of appreciation and belonging she seems to want kids to experience. Reading old material teaches you that there actually are common elements to all human experience. Even old white guys from hundreds of years ago had the same hopes, fears, desires, and bodily experiences you have. We're not so different from each other, let alone fully defined by our skin color and century of origin to the point that alien cultures can never have any hope of appreciating and empathizing with each other. Les Miserables is about inequality, poverty, abuses of law enforcement, overcoming modest beginnings to achieve great things, giving back to the less fortunate. How the fuck are these not relevant modern topics you'd want children to read about? Let them know these are not new concerns and even old white men might be more progressive and empathetic than you assume based purely on their age and skin color.
As inspiration, yes. However, a neural network neuron and a biological neuron are, to modern understanding, entirely unrelated.
> Passing references to Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, and even my unit about The Odyssey, confine literary merit to a very small, very old, very white, and very male box.

Yikes! Homer and Dostoevsky were both (presumably) white men so they obviously have the exact same experiences. Diversity is more than skin color or genitalia- what a shallow take.
Functioning adults are paving the roads with good intentions.
I have nothing written about Russia nor Ukraine, but closed source software and the promised "pre-order" jolla tablet.

However it's interesting that a Finnish company files bankruptcy and had that much investors from Russia, so thanks for a additional point....and that name JollyBoy...
Tardy add-on: after reading TfA this is not a case of cool robot becomes SARbot. This is a suite of specific tools meant to find people in the mountains. Come on y'all, you can't let me get away with middlebrow dismissal like that!!!
Why is that? I have video of Teuvo Kohonen explaining neural networks in 1985. "You can stack them" and "when a network has learned a skill, you can sell it as separate entity". What more you want?

https://youtu.be/Qy3h7kT3P5I?si=3Klgib0TaTbiG6dC&t=2477
The O.G. Of Tech Startups Says AI Changes Everything
Where are you seeing 26ft?

NOAA is projecting 10-15 ft
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768144
> Sounds worrying to me as it means this is essentially a lifetime drug. As soon as you stop taking it, your appetite returns and so does your old weight.

I see this said all the time about GLP-1 agonists, and it's a mischaracterization. It is true that when you stop taking the drug, your appetite is no longer suppressed, but you can still keep the weight off by eating a sustainable amount of calories.

Usually, the biggest challenge with weight loss is sticking with it, since it's normally miserable and takes a very long time. Taking a GLP-1 agonist speeds the process and makes it much more tolerable. I lost ~45 lbs. (~205 to ~160) in 6 months by taking tirzepatide (Mounjaro), and if I had done it without the drug it would have taken at least twice as long and been much more difficult.
Researchers Shocked at Daily Level of Plasticizers in California's Air
I would add to this that it had the advantage of something like 40 years of history as a field that was the basis for some of the biggest advances in instrumentation of that era.
Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Weekly to Control Your Blood Pressure
FWIW, rooted LineageOS works pretty well for banking apps, Netflix, etc. It's what I'm using for my daily driver. It takes it takes some fooling around with magisk, zygisk deny, props config, and universal safety net fix; but after you get things initially set up, you just have to re-do magisk after every update and the rest of the settings get restored.

The worst part is how the LineageOS folks and don't want to have anything to do with rooted devices. They seem to think that LOS is actually usable without rooting, but it just isn't in my experience.
Human Longevity May Have Reached Its Upper Limit
Thanks, I figured but do you know just how much larger? I am listening to Ken Burns' Vietnam on Audible and I believe we had 200K personnel in Vietnam at the peak... oh shit I just double checked and it was 543K personnel JUST IN VIETNAM. Thanks, mang! Enlightening. That is 25% of our entire military today.
From the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

hth

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am really surprised. I would have guessed that a Nobel Prize would be awarded to advancements in the field itself. Not for inspirations from it or to tools that led to advancements. Although as I write this I'm sure there have been several prizes awarded to scientists / engineers who have developed tools to advance physics. Like radio astronomy? Still surprised though.
> The data does not show a downward spiral of individual wages and wealth

Not sure what data you are using. All data I have seen from the Federal Reserve and others show stagnant/negative wages accounting for inflation (since the 1970s). Not to mention the fact that key factors of social mobility like housing and education have outpaced wage growth drastically.

> However, just from a first-principles point of view, more automation is better.

I never said it wasn't. Automation is inevitable. However I am not going to complain about people smashing the machines meant to replace them. That is the only logical course of action for them, unless the government steps in with a free retraining program or someone else has unionized jobs lined up for them.

My point is that the author takes capital owners acting in their own naked self-interest for granted, and whines about workers/union leaders doing the same. Either be consistent or admit that you have disdain for the working class.
Regulations don’t change the cost that much. Yes, you can save money by not having a containment vessel around your nuclear reactor but that’s a major risk which has inherent costs. On net it’s cheaper to have that containment than not irregardless of regulations.

Dig into the rising costs, and you find root causes like 3 mile island showing the industry it needed to increase maintenance spending. It wasn’t some arbitrary overreaction but simply the damage accumulated enough to cost a billion+ dollar asset. Thus much of that “increased” spending is simply asset preservation.
This is a popular history cliche that isn't grounded in actual history. See, e.g., https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-... for an accessible critique by a professional historian.

I do agree with your broader point though that it's worth asking if society is getting more illiberal and intolerant of opposing views. It's not just a "young people these days" kind of thing.
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I’m not sure Crime and Punishment or Moby Dick would be a lot better in that context.
The pedophile stuff is one thing, but the lying to investors stuff is what I think is most likely to actually have an effect on the company. Pretty egregious stuff on both fronts, regardless.
There's no winning a war with nukes.

Even if 1% are operational, they could devastate the US.
I don’t think being addicted to laziness and having a glutinous appetite is exactly comparable to say, being addicted to heroin. But yes, I do think addicts should receive treatment, just as I think obese patients should (and do) receive treatment for all the diseases they end up with. But addicts, like the obese, impose many of the costs of their own bad life decisions onto others. It’s what you’d call a negative externality, and if some magic treatment came along to fix drug addiction, I would also be very happy to see that negative externality addressed.
There should certainly be measurements taken, costs considered, alternatives approached when building our healthcare system. No one has ever implied otherwise, ever. To imply that there is some level of healthy after which it doesn't make sense to seek improvement is the dehumanizing and anti-social part. What is the point of building an economy at all if not to improve the lives of the population? Opinions in this thread already seem to be that "people are healthy enough, and if not, it is due to their own choices" rather than "we should carefully consider how to optimize this system for efficiency" while focusing on the actual goal of improving lives for the average person as well as those who need more healthcare.
What are you considering "high energy physics"? "1/3-1/2 of Nobel Prizes in the 20th century" is a significant overestimation unless you are including topics not traditionally included in high energy physics. For example, there were many Nobel prizes in nuclear physics, which shares various parallels with high energy physics in terms of historical origins, experimental techniques, and theoretical foundations. But nuclear physics is in a very exciting era of experimental and theoretical developments, so your "not looking so good" description does not apply.
Well I'm not assigning any moral value to either situation. I'm maybe more just commenting on my own obsolescence.
Try The Name of the Wind, basic but good.
Further evidence for the babysitting theory of education
I think it's a case where modern journalists (and in many other parts of society) find a hypothesis they think will do well and hunt for leads/studies/data that fit the hypothesis. It's easier to do because you only need to do as much research as to prove the outcome demands, and does better with the readers because they're interested in the result less with how they got there. It's like going out as a hunter knowing your only goal is to hunt a buck. You know what you're hunting, so you can prep accordingly with the deer call horns and other paraphernalia.

Good journalism - something I believe was done more by the journalists of the past - go out to interesting places and talk to interesting people to gather whatever they can, and find a good story within that. In terms of the hunter analogy, it's more like laying a whole bunch of traps, be it fish, bird, beaver or bear, and seeing what you end up with at the end of the day. You might not always get what your readers want, but it's also more fulfilling and often important when you land a prize catch.
So what you say means that I’m going the US only for a short visit, I’m basically fucked, because none of your options are easily available when living in a hotel for a week or two.
I'll use my work computer to check personal email and do other personal stuff from time to time. I use a separate browser profile that clears its cache and cookies when I'm done. I don't recommend it necessarily, but I don't have any endpoint monitoring on my machine so I feel reasonably OK doing it.
Yeah that's a good point. It's not so much that it was already happening before, but it's the shear quantity of it. People have been doctoring images for political gain for forever, but that at least took some photoshop skills. Now anyone can just pop out thousands of misinformation photos, articles, and even now videos in a few hours.
And further discussion (110 points, 8 months ago, 107 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38991317
How to find new spiritual practices
I mean… can’t really account for taste. But it is extremely rare that I’ll see anybody try to defend Atlas Shrugged as a good book in and of itself. Even you, trying to find some good in it, could only classify it as “memorable.” Lots of things are memorable and bad!
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More to the point, photoemission spectroscopy has been a workhorse tool for understanding the electronic properties of materials for quite a long time now (though perhaps not yet in 1921).
You misunderstand my argument but I'm not sure which part of it is confusing.
Cabin Anna, House That Slides Open, Goes into Production
Hatchet

The Forest Runners

Where the Red Fern Grows
If the discussion is specifically about school libraries, than I think it is absolutely legitimate to be concerned about which books are or are not banned. Many kids have easy access to school libraries, but not used bookstores or epubs.

- My own 14 year old has limited internet access and no account at any online retailer.
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Definitely but simple thoughts like that aren't easy to implement in reality for many, many people.

If it was there wouldn't be so many suffering from obesity...
I'm not familiar with the other items, but "A Long Way Gone" is plenty sophisticated enough from a thematic point of view. Violent, gritty, complicated, it portrays an ugly piece of the world and has some serious perspective. Just because it doesn't have flowery prose that only an English lit undergrad would weep over doesn't mean it's not 'sophisticated.'

I think the author's main point is that if we want to accommodate a new generation of learners we need to shift the canon. It doesn't mean that great classic works don't have their place in the world, it just means they don't have the value they once did for educational purpose at the level students traditionally explored them.

Grounding this in the material world: a book really only helps teach you something if you actually read it.
I'm new to Kotlin. Can someone explain how this function creates a Money object incorporating the given count of them?

This looks like it's ignoring the Number and creating a new Money object (of denomination 1?)

> public infix fun Number.money(currency: String): Money = money(currency, defaultRoundingMode, null)
Passkeys and 2FAs aren't device-dependent (many apps let you sync them across devices, like Bitwarden or 1password).

Text messages are a little harder to fake/share, I suppose, but also more expensive to verify.
Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog. Hola!
Ooh ooh, time to pitch the acoup for that

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

That saying is ahistorical and Bret goes to great lengths to show where it fails.
> imply that there is some level of healthy after which it doesn't make sense to seek improvement is the dehumanizing and anti-social part

No it's not. Every doctor triages. And every medical system has internal cost limits, whether implicit or implict, universal or variable, past which it will not treat. Sometimes that's enforced by gatekeeping entire categories of treatments; in other cases we have patients individually reviewed, e.g. for organ transplants.

If managing obesity is less expensive than treating it, there is a legitimate question around how the cost of that treatment should be split between the public and the individual. (Whether that cost be an explicit split or gatekeeping the treatment to only the most morbidly obese.) Thankfully, that's not the case--treating obesity, even chronically with super-expensive drugs, is still cheaper than the status quo.
The US had hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in Iraq for over a decade. More than half a million Iraqis died. There was intense violence between different religious groups and political factions. But you come here and say that everything would have magically gotten better with more US involvement in Syria.

A direct American intervention in Syria probably would have made things even worse. Droning Assad, as you suggest, probably would have led to an even greater amount of chaos (besides being totally illegal). It's bad enough as it is that the US funded Sunni extremists in Syria.
I would complain. If a kid has the ability and patience to read Lolita, who am I to stop them?
Is this really a change among modern readers?

As a young reader many years ago, I gravitated towards stories that were the most alien -- not just science fiction, but history, cultures, and experiences that were completely different from my own, populated with characters that thought and interacted with the world in ways I would never have considered. I typically found books about suburban kids "just like me" boring. And I rarely stuck with a series for more than a handful of books because even the most inventive premise and characters often become repetitive after more than a few books.

But many equally voracious friends prefered reading stories set in the countries and cultures with which they already felt comfortable, populated with protagonists who were stand-ins for themselves encountering situations that they themselves had dealt with.

The lovely thing about the world is that we have an effectively infinite supply of good literature of both types and indeed anywhere on that spectrum, so both types of readers will continue to be well supported.
What’s Java’s got to do with it? It seems you have to dig deeper in order to get to Java-WTF (but I have attended a Java quiz so it is possible).