skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it was that simple, why didn't the human body just evolve to excrete GLP-1 agonists? Or modify GLP-1 itself?

Replace "GLP-1" with any of: aircraft, computers, buildings, WiFi, ...

Some things are easy for nature to find and some things aren't!

And even of the things that are easy for nature to find, and that we would have found useful even in the environment of evolutionary adaptation, they might not confer overall fitness if they are too costly.
We are not oblivious. We are powerless. Oracle could go toe to toe with Google and threaten multibillion fines over basically API and 11kLOC. As a open source developer, there is no way to match that.
It still takes activists to prioritize it, because otherwise the task just gets lost on a list of things nobody will ever get to.
Design of Electron Spectrometers (1990)
I think you'd have to sit further back than is otherwise natural (and then have the issue of legibility/lost workspace) to achieve "can't see the pixels" on this.

Sure it's 8K but it's 65", it's only got a PPI of 135. For comparison Apple (computer) displays and a handful of third parties that target Mac use are generally 200-220 PPI. That is can't see the pixels density, even if you smash your face against it.
> changing is_alive to is_dead and forgetting to negate conditionals

No test broke?
I was obsessed with Richard Scarry’s intricate drawings as a very small child (which led into devouring all the cutaway books of all sorts of machines as a slightly older child), but I didn’t pick up on the goldbug thing until someone pointed it out a few weeks ago.
GitHub Copilot code review in GitHub.com (public preview)
I love the idea that there might have been fully technological civilizations of humans on earth that have been totally lost to time. I know that the Maya were not that, but go back 10,000 years maybe, who knows?
In Kerry-Golds?
AI Solves My Most Annoying Chore: Meal Planning for a Toddler
I argue that medicine still does not have enough accumulated knowledge about the complexity of the human body to be playing God with a single pill.
I'm not interested in learning Russian at all, but if I ever was, I'd want to read Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko.
Wow archaeology should be rife for disruption if you can just go around and ask locals. Seems like anyone with gumption could be the next great scientist.

Or maybe one of those locals could be. I wonder what stops them?
I think it's important to call out that it's actually constantly increasing amount to increase the results.

As patients lose weight, they need to eat fewer and fewer calories to continue to lose weight, as the BMR decreases. This isn't because of the medication, but rather because it requires fewer calories to maintain their mass, so they burn fewer calories at rest.

Increasing the dose further decreases hunger signals, which further decreases their desire to eat as much.

It's not "increasing to maintain the same results" its "increasing to increase results".

Ex.

Patient A currently weighs 330lbs. Has a BMR of 3300 Calories.
- Initial dose, they eat 2,800 calories a day instead of 3,500 calories they used to.
- Loses weight. Now weighs 250lbs.
- BMR is roughly now weighs 250lbs, and has a BMR of roughly 2500 calories, but dose still has them eating around 2,800 calories.
- Dose is increased, patient is now eating around 2,000 calories.
- Patient A reaches 200lbs, BMR is roughly 1,800 calories, but is still eating 2,000 calories.
- Dose is increased, Patient A is now eating 1600 calories.
Go to the glp-1 related Subreddits and you'll see they aren't all wealthy educated people. Hell I read a story of a girl on the Manjaro subreddit who couldn't get her meds and ate herself into the ER in two days.

My sister takes Ozempic and is the proto-typical obese white girl with way too many kids she can't afford and only eats trash. It probably saved her life.
The most important question in the world right now is: which generation will be the first to live indefinitely? It is clear to me that we are on a trajectory to achieve indefinite lifespan extension, but unlike Kurzweil et al I don't see a real possibility that it will happen soon enough for me personally. Maybe my kids, or maybe one or two generations further.

Will it happen soon enough to prevent population collapse due to plummeting fertility rates? Will fertility rates go even lower or will the population start to rise again as deaths fall? Will we see stagnation due to older brains being stuck in their ways, or will we be able to fix that too?
As a simple example, why would Amazon not immediately sell ebook versions of every book ever if copyright ended? Ditto for adding every movie and show to every streaming service, meaning there'd be no incentive to make them.

Copyright is way too long, but it's not worthless.
I am excited about this as I use Claude for coding but what I really like about copilot is if you have a list of something random like:

/* Col1 varchar not null,
Col2 int null,
Col3 int not nul*/

Then start doing something else like:

| column | type |
|—-| —-|
| Col1 | varchar |

Then copilot is very good at guessing the rest of the table.

(This isn’t just sql to markdown it works whenever you want to repeat something using parts of another list somewhere in the same doc)

I hope they continues as this has been a game changer for me as it is so quick, really great.
And when the Democrats finally won a trifecta (in part on that issue) in 2008, they let an insurance lobbyist write the new law and only made the problem worse, proving that they aren't actually on the side of universal government provided healthcare.

And Americans still can't afford health care.
There are several plugins for VS 2022 that offer Copilot-like UI on top of a local Llama model, although I can't speak for their quality.
I'm embarking on a similar geek journey. Just today I bought a used radiology PACS display (barco mdcc-6430) just to see if there is anything novel or cool about the picture or any clinical features. I'm not expecting much but stuff like this is how you find out.

This display is color, however I have considered getting a grayscale only rads display for "ADHD purposes" i.e. the same reason people are interested in e-ink displays (well, one reason).

It will probably be a huge waste of time and money but I'm just a masochist for tech pain I guess...
https://archive.ph/57NAa
Yep, just like there are skinny as rails type 2 diabetics. My grandfather was one.

There is also a huge correlation between obesity and type 2 diabetes as well.

I imagine they share similarities, but that’s pure speculation.
Can someone explain to me how Musk is able to repeatedly turn gambles into gold?
What does the mass of users change about what it is?
How many of these check the results for hallucinations and how many don’t because I part of AI?

More than once these tools fail at tasks a fifth grader could understand
Strava was used to locate the most powerful people
It is not more than 60 Gb/s for extreme overclocked DDR4-4000 and sometimes much less than 50Gb/s for regular 3200
DDR5 is reaching 100 Gb/s overclocked for Intel, and 50-70 Gb/s in stock.
>The AMD on Linux fiasco is because the HDMI Forum has prohibited AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open source Linux drivers.

I wonder why this didn't stop nvidia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/uoxtsx/the_nv...
48 inches at 4K is such a low pixel density, are you not bothered by how bad text looks compared to high DPI screens?
Time will tell. As a GitHub Copilot user, I still review the code.

SpaceX's advancements are impressive, from rocket blow up to successfully catching the Starship booster.

Who knows what AI will be capable of in 5-10 years? Perhaps it will revolutionize code assistance or even replace developers
Why didn't evolution make us smart enough to not overeat?
Copilot is about as far away from Cursor with Claude as the Wright Brothers' glider is to the Saturn V.
The obesity epidemic is only 50 years old.
GLP-1 seems to be a “thing that fixes your satiety balance”, that is applying to more than just food, but maybe also help you regulate yourself when you have way too much access to alcohol, drugs, etc.

In short: the reason that the human body wouldn’t have evolved to make more GLP-1 automatically yet is because evolution causes populations of organisms (not individuals) to change, over generations, to be better suited to their environment.

And 50-100 years is nothing in terms of evolution. We spent 500k years evolving to optimize gathering every calorie we can. And then yesterday it turned out that maybe it is in fact possible to have too much.

Also, the human body does make some GLP-1 itself. Maybe it was just getting started.
I would guess because with solid software engineering skills you can (could?) make more money consulting in the extra time to make money. I think that might have been true a couple years ago but now is exactly the opposite. Although side projects are not that "side" for the current unemployed.
OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026
Add me to that sample set, I drink far, far less with it
Had to look it up! I won't link the youtube but it is from ST:TNG s02e21 "Peak Performance"
Here's John Kerry at the World Economic Forum a few weeks back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3Ka7dMVmk
I don't know what I said that made you need to explain this to me when it's obviously already what I said.
Is it? This seems pretty average mini pc size and much larger than small ones, e.g.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/6/b/csm_...

Also just connecting the mini pc to a monitor with PD and not using any extra power brick at all seems like the much more relevant comparison.
An incremental approach to modernizing legacy mobile application: Strangler Fig
Learning by doing is the best, of course, but 1:1 instruction with another naif is not best way to learn.
The apps are also built using cargo build.

For your outlandish use cases you can use Bazel.
In experience, I always have to spend time to check and most times it doesn’t do what I need unless it’s very simple asks.
Well said.
Diseases that affect the elderly don’t get a lot of consideration from nature. Natural selection really only cares about us reproducing.

On top of all that, our current environment and diet are quite a bit different from the norm over the past few million years.
Yeah. If someone repeatedly refers you to external resources instead of explaining a process clearly in their own words, it's a sign that they don't know what they're talking about or are deliberately full of shit. I'm charitably categorizing OP in the first bucket, but their approach is still aggressively ignorant to the point of harm.
>That's far from their best novel, but unfortunately most aren't translated into English

It's so good, if their others are better it's insane that they haven't been translated yet.
It doesn't matter whether it is uploaded to GitHub or not. They would siphon it from GitLab, self hosting or source forge as well using crawlers.
If you don't mind me asking, why the name "Trench"?
Freight was so important that pre-railroad cities were mostly built around harbors or navigable rivers, not just anywhere they wanted.
I'm putting increasing probability on the idea that there's something in our modern environment that's disrupting the GLP-1 metabolism (or a related system), these drugs are counteracting that effect.

When it was just appetite suppression, that made sense, we're not adapted to a modern degree of plenty. Not sure that explains the other positive effects, if these results reproduce.
How does one get started with robotics? What's a good onboarding project?
I used macOS full time for many years, actually. I dealt with this every day. When rebooting I saw a ton of popups, because all of my apps wanted to update themselves and each of them shipped a separate updater.

I use Linux now and I'm much happier. It has weird bugs at times, but is overall both faster and much more polished.
> If it was that simple, why didn't the human body just evolve

That's easy to answer. We exist today in a very different environment to that we evolved in.

It makes perfect sense that there could be a hormone that wouldn't provide a net reproductive benefit to hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers but provides an immense health benefit to sedentary humans eating unlimited food. In fact, it would be surprising if there wasn't.
ThunderKittens update: Lots of new kernels, models and adorable kittens
HazyResearch is a group at Stanford building really fast kernels for AI inference and training.
A fantastic idea that didn't find interested clients first, instead of after it was built.

Could they have potentially avoided this by building a PoC and shopping that around with an NDA to gauge receptivity?
Sighs and resets the 'Days since we discovered a lost city using LiDAR' counter back to zero.
There’s no evolutionary benefit to eating as little as possible any time in human history, other than the past few decades. We’re barely into the third generation where calory overconsumption is an issue. It takes a few hundreds of thousands more to evolve something this complex, with a population as global as ours
I like msty.app. Parallel prompting across multiple commercial and local models plus branching dialogs. Doesn’t do artifacts, etc, though.
Runs fine for me with Wine.
How odd, that's not the case for defamation, where publishers have a duty to investigate the truth of the statements they publish. What's going on in the ninth circuit?
Is there any compatibility between generations, eg. harvesting NAND from a M1 generation machine to upgrade a M3 (or now M4) generation machine?
It's a pretty big adverse selection issue, it's kind of unknowable in general.
Yeah I think the only ergonomic advice I believe anymore is that there does not exist a position that is ergonomic to sustain for more than a couple hours. Humans are not evolved to stay stationary, few mammals are really.
I highly recommend the novella "home is the hangman"
https://testflight.apple.com/join/teQ4jkua
I find curved beneficial even on 24”, but I’m also quite nearsighted.
I'm not sure about that, plenty of HackerNews users see its minimal and functional UI as a feature not a bug.

I wish there were more lightweight websites, none spring to mind other than HackerNews, SourceHut, and Pinboard.
Very much this. Live re-structuring runs afoul of tons of things you can't predict.

You can validate roughly anywhere, but at the absolute earliest, only re-format on blur. Never earlier. You have no idea what the user might be doing in the meantime.

And even then, I'd strongly suggest not changing what they entered. Change it to a display-only element with nice formatting if you want, but don't screw with their input.
i3/sway was recommended in the post, so yes.
I mean it's an interesting idea, but it's weird to imagine that small time farmers in poor countries are capable of obtaining and using a sickle but are somehow not capable of obtaining and using a scythe.

At least looking for ones here in the US, a decent quality sickle seems to run in the $30-$60 range while places that sell scythes seem to cost $100-$300, so I can't imagine it's some massive price barrier either
GLP-1 of course is the GLP-1 agonist created by the body.

I don't think that humans eat to obesity by default. People have had adequate food for quite long and not grown fat.

Maybe there is something in out environment or our foods that are blocking the GLP-1 receptor? If a modern food company discovered something like that they'd immediately realize that (unintentionally) they sell better, probably without realizing what they had created.
Bad comparison. I am not seeking rent on any of my stuff.

Now, if I hoarded a bunch of stuff that other people needed and then charged them for access to it, that'd be rent seeking.

> Sure, you can come up with some obscure examples of rent seeking being immoral, like charging a dehydrated dying person $1000 per glass of water, but that's not what we're discussing here.

This is in fact what we're discussing, and your strawman example is ironically very on the nose. Except it's not water, it's housing. People are being forced to move away from my city or sleep on the street because the average unit rent is $3400 a month. The beneficiaries of this system are property owners who spend some money on development and upkeep (which they deserve to profit from) but largely just rake in passive income from having been lucky enough to buy when prices were low.
Alphabet ($GOOG) 2024 Q3 earnings release [pdf]
The AWS IAM Identity Center is decadent and depraved
Yeah, must be a coincidence that people are seeing a lot of alt-right stuff!
Congrats on the launch, this looks very interesting!

Will it ever be possible to self-host Prisma Postgres (or Pulse)? It's great that I can use your platform, but if I adopted e.g. Pulse, that's a non-trivial vendor lock in. I'd feel _much_ safer/confident building my app around the Prisma stack (besides the ORM, which I like).
This exact line of reasoning is the cover story on the Economist this week:

Briefing:
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/10/24/glp-1s-like-oz...

Leader (opinion piece):
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/24/its-not-just-ob...

(sorry, paywalled)
>Just because someone liked a book you hate, doesn't mean you will hate the other books they like.

So much this, and it's why recommendation engines mostly don't work well, they really have no way to quantify why you liked or disliked something.
I am curious as to what OS's you've tried. Fractional scaling is flawless on Windows and KDE6 with wayland in my experience.
The article leaves out that members of one political party have proposed eliminating the NOAA entirely https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/22/project-20...
I just checked out backmarket as I've been shopping for a mini PC with oculink and hadn't thought of them. They have a primary nav across the top of the site which has 5 generic categories (laptops, consoles etc.), one Google product (pixel), 4 Samsung items, and 20 Apple items - more than all the others put together. I guess this very much proves your point.
One of my team colleagues solved this one at hacklu. It was a wild ride from what I heard.
There is a reason even smart folks throw around "10x on some valuable dimension" as some kind of rule of thumb. It's not a bad rule.
It's connecting with the local community and ecology that will allow someone to really start making a difference. Given any place, there are people practicing permaculture and regenerative agriculture. These people are found in community gardens and in the wild. People are working towards r/nolawns, creating pollinator habitats, front-yard wildlife refuges, and perennial food forests. Foragers know things about food and medicine of the land. Mushroom cultivators know things about living soil and remediating contaminated dirt. There are punks sneaking around r/guerillagardening, seed-bombing abandoned patches of urban space with native plants.

The regenerative paradigm rests upon the principle that only living systems regenerate. Hardy pioneer plants -- what many people call weeds -- are constantly recolonizing spaces to prepare them for other plants in the process of ecological succession. The natural world is always healing and regrowing. Our role as humans is not to heroically save the planet or a forest, but to help accelerate the regeneration that is already happening in a way that still works well with human society. You do that by connecting with the immediate land and community around you. That power to regenerate lies within each person that breathes, eats, and sleeps.
Yea that's a fair point. I live in a small apt so I often find myself working anywhere other than my desk, but I imagine there's a lot of folks that prefer the niceties of a dedicated workspace (monitor, keyboard, etc).
Cities and counties have been using traditional aerial photography for that for a long time now.
Look under the video and you'll find links to the same video on Rumble and X, take your pick.
Seems pretty wide. no problem there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960085
Hey thanks for the feedback! Would you be happy to connect so that I can diagnose and help with the resource usage? Let me be honest, I'm curious of why it'd take so much CPU usage as well, and I'd like to find out and fix it for other users to.

If yes shoot me an email at kyle AT skipper.co
I've always wondered why everybody would buy "monitors" for computer use. Isn't it the same thing as a television screen? Back then TVs used to take different inputs but everything is digital now.

That checkerboard effect is certainly interesting. Someone somewhere is going to be nostalgic about this artifact someday, maybe they'll even make a shader to emulate it. I wonder what causes it and why it disappears in game mode.

> on Linux it took about two years for 8K 60 Hz support to work, spawning a salty thread on GitHub

All I see is paying customers asking for support.

> The AMD on Linux fiasco is because the HDMI Forum has prohibited AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open source Linux drivers.

That's weird since nvidia's open source driver has an implementation.
What functionality does it provide? Can it do collision avoidance planning? Physics simulation?
>bunch of regions inhabited by Romanians

And by others too.

>so they were free to unite

Were they free not to unite?

>Sort of like the original United States of America if you wish.

Well, USoA genocided Native Americans, even now their life expectancy is 15 years less than in the whole US.

>GREATEST EMPIRE OF ALL TIME

That will be Mongolian empire.
Motel 6 Is Sold to Oyo, an Indian Hotel Company Expanding in the U.S.
Opt-out of Meta AI use your data on WhatsApp
Which is a Linux and Windows technology anyway, so better buy something that offers first class support for them.
I built a tiny annoying game to blast banners
I'm imagining a tiling window manager screensaver that slowly resizes and moves your window boundaries throughout the day
Can we mine asteroids for space food?
>"Discovery" can mean revealing knowledge that was previously known to insiders, eg. if I say "I discovered an underground smuggling ring and reported it to the police", you probably wouldn't argue that "you didn't discover anything; the smugglers already knew about it".

Just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying this point.

Newspaper Headline:

Discoverer of Underground Smuggling Ring Proven a Fraud: Ring Leader Says He Discovered It First"