skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what? If you call it god around 0 BC and monad in the 1970 it's still the same concept. If the notation and meanings change in your pov and that gives you headaches, that's maybe related to the fact, that you cannot call an absurd function, but you can derive structure from combining it.
Generative AI, possibly combined with VR, could be great for people with social phobias. Or terrible, I've not decided which. It'll definitely have some effect!
Sure, yes it is aiding people to become healthy in that sense. Is it healthy to rely on drugs to change your thought and behaviour patterns? I definitely see this drug as a useful tool when combined with a plan to not continue using it for the rest of your life. I see relying on this drug continuously as a problem, thinking "oh, there's no need to try and change my behaviours on my own, this drug will do it for me."
I'm sorry to say this, but again just face the reality of the fact that not enough people truly want this size of phone.

There's a congregation of people on HN who do, I suspect they're also the type of people who'll run their phones for 5+ years where their bigger phone buying brethren are replacing every year or two at most.

The market for the "small" smartphone just isn't profitable enough to bother with for most manufacturers.
Or maybe its because the majority of the population will loose years of life from being overweight or obese
Agreed - the UK longitudinal study showed a 24% difference in IQ between job professions https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/intelligence-and-the-o...
Has anyone looked into the effect of politeness on performance?
I tried Ozempic for three months, gradually increasing the dose monthly. Then, on the fourth month, I switched to Mounjaro and continued it for five months. It did help me lose weight, but the discomfort in my upper left abdomen turned into pain. It felt like the food I ate was still in my stomach, undigested, even four days later. I eventually stopped because I was worried it might have harmed my pancreas. A year later, I still occasionally experience the same abdominal pain. but doctor didn't didn't see pancreas issue. I It did help with my blood sugar management(diabetes) and weight though, but ill never do it again and stick to IF
Re-reading my own comment, and worried the poster I responded to might take that as a reverse-jibe about their own naivety - I didn't even think of that the first time I wrote it, and now want to explicitly say that wasn't my point.

I sincerely thought people would quit social media following the Snowden revelations, and I did myself, and then could not believe that they didn't seem to care at all. It was a painful and jarring learning experience.
Unfortunately, their prompt engineer learned of Roko's basilisk
http://archive.today/wsie0
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Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar
+1 to dn42 to play with routing in a really big cool environment. it’s been years since i participated but i hope it’s doing well. the work one would have to do to mimic the env is just infeasible.

off topic: i always thought mini internets like dn42 would be a super cool place to run secret/private services. fun to imagine.
Or... Non-obese people average better mental health than obese people.

That article is all just correlation. Which cause is more likely?
the use of Haber-like processes to turn air into all kinds of war munitions was still limited to Germany until after WW2

The US and other countries also used synthetic Haber process ammonia to make nitric acid and explosives from it during World War II.

Here's a 1946 report about American chemical plants and facilities built to support the war effort:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001108531

From pages 2 and 3 of the report:

The Government has invested more than $200 million in 10 synthetic ammonia plants, having a combined design capacity of about 800,000 tons of fixed nitrogen per year. These include eight ordnance plants, of which six have been declared surplus, one Defense Plant Corporation plant and one belonging to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Four plants have facilities for producing ammonium nitrate solutions. The nitric acid facilities located in the explosives plants of (2), and the ammonium nitrate graining facilities found in the ammunition loading plants of of (1) have a definite relationship to the ammonia plants.
That could be the long-term approach, but in the short-term it will only lead to fewer paying customers. It doesn't help me if the issues start getting resolved in 2-3 years - the editor is barely usable right now, and I won't wait another year.

And should they actually lose me, I won't be coming back unless they make amazing improvements that are years ahead of any other editors to win.
It could pay for additional people to clean up the streets, or you have a deposit on them, so that they be returned rather than littered.
More like "scareware", maybe not quite to the term, but they generally advertise on 'aren't you scared of the threats on the web?? well here they are so you should be scared! buy product' kind of thing. There are legitimate uses, but they can be so benign and almost irrelevant to whatever security pitch (like...getting around georestrictions)
It’s only unhealthy if the drug isn’t used.

Imagine if there were a button on your head that when you pushed it all alcohol in you blood would be cleared out with no negative effect on your liver. In that case, heavy drinking would NO LONGER BE an unhealthy lifestyle. Kids would be able to drink alcohol with no problems.
There's a lot we quietly take for granted. Supposedly the NPUs on phones were originally added to let the phone identify objects in your photo library. When shopping for phones, I tend to shop for better battery and camera... but I also wouldn't go back to a photo library without identification.
In 1990, no US state had more than 20% obesity. In 2018, no US state had less than 20% obesity.

[0]: https://obesity.procon.org/us-obesity-levels-by-state/ and https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/data-by-policy/

Obesity has been linked to a huge number of health harms and they've been known for decades.

[1]: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/obe... and https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/weight-manageme...

I think you may be right that there's room for nuance about obesity, especially moralization about it, but you simply cannot deny that it's a huge problem in the US
Only 8% a year. How will they get by.
This is usually because you're using Cloudflare DNS. archive.is doesn't play well with it, deliberately.
Rust and C++ with Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter
Yes, gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway, but it wouldn't be satisfactory to rely on in, just as it wouldn't be fun to live without spices. (Also, how do you manage to have sex with someone on their ketopaleo diet? Send them into the shower just before and eat Viagra because of the weird odour?)
Dentists will tell you to eat less sugar. The company that manufactures ozempic will tell you that you don't have to do anything but use our drug
As a thin and anxious person, I hope that's not the whole story.
This, and most likely a lot of this "research" will be debunked in due time (years, decades), and new, currently unknown side effects will come to light.

How can some engineered drug be a solution to a life choice problem? Typical human behavior to look for easy "solutions" that don't actually solve anything, just delay or temporarily mitigate a problem.
It is worth noting those large public housing complexes were unpopular with housing professionals, advocates, planners, architects and economists when they were created.

They were not built for affordable housing so much as to break up a burgeoning Black political party and to punish neighborhoods and politicians that were bucking the dominant at the time political machine. This in combination with the interstate and UIC campus were used to first break up the existing neighborhoods and then isolate them from the surrounding middle class areas that were more aligned with the dominant political elite.

It should be fairly obvious that complexes not designed primarily for housing and populated intentionally by the marginalized would not do a good job.

There were public housing complexes in Chicago before the big projects that were mixed income and desirable for middle class families.

The Daley biography American Pharoah documents that process.
The parent is suggesting a single state solution and giving this is the context of Hezbollah, the right of return. (Hezbollah is not in Palestine.)

Nobody on this planet would make that deal with groups who have the goal of destroying your country. If Hamas had been a peaceful group, democracy had taken hold in Gaza, it had existed peacefully with Israel, had never had the aim of destroying Israel, then yeah, you might be able to imagine a future where the two merge and live harmoniously. But that is not reality today.
How do you feel about drugs prescribed for mental health (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.)? Why do you feel differently (if you do feel differently)?
Which is actually very reasonable, it ends with

> In any event, I use irreverence (i.e., shitposting) to engage with tricky philosophical questions. I know that people unfamiliar with my schtick might read me as just being an asshole. That’s fair.

People are piling the hate on Ben Recht here. I appreciate that he's calling his post what it is rather than doubling down.

It's also a great chance to lecture people on 4-momentum, thanks everyone!
Is he not eating less? If it's reducing appetite that seems like the biggest change of behavior you'd want, right?
The way this is being described is almost like a maze-traversal algorithm, where compute time is "how far I'm willing to go down a path to test whether it's a possible solution." I wonder what other parallels we might find. For instance, are some of the maze-solving algorithms relevant to apply to LLMs?
> Many fixes have been incorporated in the past two weeks.

Thanks for the efforts! Still many fixes to go, though: I used the version from two days ago, which had numerous issues. Also, 3PO isn't offline, so I won't be pursuing it.
It is social media, but I'd argue that it lacks the worst incentives of social media: monetization and ads, which lead to attention-hacking algorithms and regression to lowest common denominator content.
The heme-bound iron can be either reduced as Fe(II) or oxidized as Fe(III).

When exposed to air, like when the blood passes through the lungs, or in cut meat, it will be oxidized to Fe(III), in which case its color will be a pleasant vivid red. When the iron is reduced, the heme has a much duller color.

The iron that can be absorbed or interact in any way with the intestine is either Fe(II), which is soluble in water or Fe(III) that is bound to proteins like hemoglobin or to other organic molecules. Otherwise, the Fe(III) ions form insoluble precipitates that pass through the intestine without effect.
You were so agog to reply that you missed my "not" in front of Winston Churchill. Swing and a miss.
A solid majority is for peace and has been for a while. Oct 7th might have screwed the numbers, but they will bounce back. The Oslo accords wouldn't have happened with out a solid majority. Netanyahu himself had to make a speech where he specifically supported the idea of a Palestinian state in order to get elected (see the Bar Ilan Speech).

There are many peace activists on both sides but also a lot of fatigue and disillusionment. Don't let that get you down too. I think once the dust settles things could change. The pendulum always swings to the other side, we just need patience and to set an environment receptive for that. If Trump wins this election things will probably get much worse before they get better. But I think that they will get better even in that worst case scenario.
That's feels like it might be a hard sell with taxpayers in this day and age (unfortunately).
One of the things that stuck with me about that book was the author instructing you not to give it to someone else once you'd quit and to get them to buy their own copy so he may well mind it being pirated from the the grave.
Google Photos has that. But I guess you mean locally?
This debate reminded me Matt Strassler's recent post that most of the data observed in the accelerators are thrown away [1]:

So what’s to be done? There’s only one option:
throw most of that data away in the smartest way
possible, and ensure that the data retained is
processed and stored efficiently.

I thought that was strange. It's like there is too much data and our technology is not up to it so let's throw away everything that we cannot process. Throwing data "in the smartest way possible" did not convince me.

[1] https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/10/21/innovations-in-data...
The overlap between "Uses nicotine" and "Just throws plastic shit on the ground" is astonishing. You do not see nearly as much littering from weed smokers for example.
If a drug has zero side effects, than it is obviously healthy.

Ozempic has side effects, so we cna do a cost benefit analysis to argue that the various benefits of not being obese outweigh its problems. We clearly see many people are unable to loose weight without it, given nearly 50% of people are at an unhealthy weight, thus its likley a net positive.
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Another take on Go-style exception handling in JavaScript.
Its the point where you start from in CT. Having the problem of not being able to talk about a concept is the absurd function and part of Chapter 1 (!!) in books about category theory. So instead of circling around this topic, welcome, this means you are inside the problem domain of category theory ;)
Yes that's right, it seems like an area of more research.

Honestly it goes counter to the Bitter Lesson (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html, which stems from getting too fancy about maze traversal in Chess. But at the scale LLMs are at right now, the improvements might be worth it.
> It allows us to easily host an infinite number of repositories

I like this system in general, but I don't understand why scaling the number of repos is treated as a pinch point? Are there git hosts that struggle with the number of repos hosted in particular? (I don't think the "Motivation" section answers this, either.)
Word Processor (2013)
There were two separate offers made by Barak to Arafat in 2000 and by Olmert to Abu Mazen in 2008.
That's a lot of questions, thanks for asking! I'll stick to answering the ones related to the new arch.

The next thing is to continue building on this foundation and fix some long standing issues things like scroll perf and text input. A lot of our focus has been on the gradual migration strategy for the new arch, so now we'll have more capacity to work on other things.

For perf differences, we shared some benchmarks here: https://github.com/reactwg/react-native-new-architecture/dis...

But perf alone doesn't really tell the whole story. In raw perf terms, flashing empty content for just one frame is only a few milliseconds, but user is disproportionally impacted by that flicker. The new arch allows us to fix those types of issue in addition to the raw perf wins.
Is your opposition to these drugs that you think the patients haven't somehow earned the right to be rid of their ailments, or that they have side-effects (thyroid problems, yo-yo problems for weight lost, etc)? The first one is a moral judgment, the second one is a claim that should be backed by evidence.
It depends on the person. Major depressive disorder is an inexplicable depression that is not brought on by the circumstances of your life, I think SSRIs are a suitable treatment for that. I think that it's important to consider all factors of a persons life when deciding whether or not they should be prescribed medication that suppresses ALL emotion, not just negative emotion. Positive constructive therapy to help people better their lives ought to be considered in cases that may not necessarily be a disordered condition (i.e., they have a shitty life and need to be a better person to themself and others to be happy and feel good about themself)
Rust is harder than C
Google photos search doesn't work well at all for me.

Even things like "[my dog name] beach" isn't reliable.

Or things like I use photos as notes. It doesn't reliably recall things like cheese when I take pictures of cheese in various stores to remember what is sold where. Not even the name of the cheese; just cheese. Ditto spices.
Ozempic was approved for medical use by the FDA in diabetics in 2017, seven years ago. Meaning it passed phase 1, 2, and 3 trials. So it's not exactly an experimental research out of China like a brand new fentanyl analogue.
AI is a technology, not a product feature. I don't care about the underlying technology in my products, I care what they do for me. As long as the feature is great, I don't care if it's made with traditional algorithms, AI, or literal magic--it doesn't matter!

This idea that customers want AI is like saying that customers want applications written in Python. Why would they care what's behind the curtain?
Don't forget my favorite weight-loss medicine: tapeworm eggs.

0: https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media.salon....
Maybe we should subsidize plastic-free fibers instead. Cotton, hemp, wool...
How does this company promise 90%+ participation rates?
I never thought that votes, etc. would be that important to what defines social media and would have included forums in it. But if I think of social media as "that thing that's addicting", then yeah, the feedback metrics are what make it addicting.

Otherwise, I would think of "social media" as places where visitors get the opportunity to be equal participants. Anyone can post, anyone can comment in places like these (including forums), but in a blog only one can post and the rest comment.
You're right. I'm not saying the chemical or using it in of itself is dangerous
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Its weird that people are celebrating the fact that our lifestyle and food supply is so bastardized that it's causing people to become unhealthy to the point where they need a lifelong drug to overcome it. I get why the manufacturers and big pharma likes it, but it seems that it's also celebrated by many individuals, like you see in this and other HN threads.

This drug is a symptom of a sick culture, and not cause to celebrate. I don't at all blame the individuals that have this prescribed to them for taking it, but it just seems like a technochratic solution addressing superficial symptoms of a much larger problem.
Beta blockers for anxiety have existed for a long time.
Or for a stronger effect, Xanax and other benzodiazepines.
I just did a battery replacement on a Pixel 6a. It wasn't terribly expensive, $18 for the whole kit, but the process was very nerve wracking. Unlike Apple's relatively friendly rubber cement Google used some kind of industrial adhesive to glue everything together. You need a good amount of heat to loosen it, but not too much because that will damage the phone. There's a fine line. They do include a helpful strap for removing the battery, but you have that awful glue to deal with. The cherry on top is the slippery little spring clip connector you need to remove without damaging the board underneath.

All in all it made me pine for the days when you could just pop the back off of the phone and yank the battery out to replace it. Personally I think I could live with a 0.8mm thicker phone that still has this feature. Also a headphone jack while you are at it.
They were recently forced to release their investors and yes there's Russian money there. It's just an internet search or two away.
> All else being equal you're generally safer being exposed to stable things that don't break down than unstable things that happily react with all sorts of things

There's a similar paradox in nuclear radiation. (Sometimes expressed with a puzzle about differently radioactive cookies and what to do with each.)

Gamma rays are scary because it takes a lot of lead shielding to even slow them down... but that also means that they aren't stopping to interact with things--like yourself--as they travel.

Alpha particles seem relatively safe because they don't travel far and are blocked by your skin... But that means they're doing something to that skin, and luckily for you any damage is being dealt to already-dead cells on the outside.

But if you had to put one of them inside your body, it's quite possible the gamma ray emitter would be the safer option, simply because more of its energy would escape harmlessly.
As others have stated, and provided reference for it, it has not been deprecated...yet. However, i would imagine that a some point .IO will simply be turned over, sorry, sorry, sold over to an entity that manages TLDs like .pizza, .art, etc....Why? Because money; there's money to be made from .IO registrations....and if it stops being a CCTLD and becomnes a generic TLD...when there's more assurances that it will stay around, and hence more money to be made. I doubt it will disappear. ;-)
You're projecting more into the commenter's words than is actually to be found in them, it seems.

It's quite cleare Hamas needs to be marginalized and taken out of the picture (along with its spiritual companions in the 37th Government) before anything can move forward, but that's a separate issue.
They are blatantly misrepresenting Christopher Steele who was formerly a British intelligence officer working the Russia desk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele
"the dose makes the poison" - Paracelsus
Yeah took me a bit to catch how the starting spaces worked. Not sure how to clarify that other than just writing it out in the instructions below.
If people were compelled to take Ozempic to keep their jobs, there would be "issues".
Obtaining a detailed map doesn't seem difficult. This is the same company that created Street View. E.g. SF has ~1000 miles of streets [1], that would only take 50 hours of paying for manual driving to map all of SF at 20mph.

1. https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Miles-Of-Streets/...
In trials now, trials expect to be completed in five weeks:

https://drgnews.com/2024/10/23/south-dakota-company-to-test-...
Effects or side effects, using a drug changes things. It is not easy to suggest that someone is unable to lose weight, except for clearly disabled people
Personalizing any automation like that is a privacy nightmare. The system needs to know a lot about your preferences and the decisions you'd normally make yourself as well as your current circumstances since those will also influence your choices. How do you feed that into any AI without being problematic for privacy?

Having one running locally helps but it's still necessarily storing information that you might not want to have stored where someone could potentially retrieve it, either via some sort of exploit or by forcibly compelling you to give it up.
Not such a bad idea TBH
This implementation seems to work a little better: https://www.puzzle-battleships.com/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41233529.
Came here to mention Big Clive's salvaging. Haven't tried it myself yet - the feral youth around here tend to be more whippet oriented than vaping, sadly.
Hasn't it always?
I dont really think an ancedote is a good argument. We have studies showing many people eat less on ozempic and loose substantial amounts of weight, and its main effect is not even the weight loss but reducing heart problems and fixing blood sugar in diabetes patients
And who's going to teach the AI what's a conspiracy and what's not? Battles have been fought over what narrative certain Wikipedia pages should push; it's pretty hard to find information that can be objectively considered the truth.
Love the dedication to a ‘low-social-media’ life!
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Would you be so blase if it were 7 grams of diesel exhaust or coal particulates instead?