skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if its just me, but I cannot hear any audio.
Then a study concentrates no comparing muscle weight loss by traditional dieting,
that is a change in what someone eats, to weight loss via drugs.

It is not immediately clear if the muscle loss happens faster (probably)
what the immediate impact of that is, and whether or not you lose more
muscle mass on one or the other.
>The very second you start making an exception because "a soap dispenser is trivial", other stuff will get labeled as exempt

As we've seen from the slight "windows falling off planes mid flight" problem which they furiously tried to cover up, Boeing has a bit of a problem with making exceptions where it actually matters.

A far more likely explanation here isn't that Boeing is being too strict and disciplined over all things up to and including a soap dispenser, but that a bunch of people have their noses in the trough and have figured out a hack to drain money out of the federal government budget.
This at the very least is a very misleading rebuke:

> However, this “whistleblower” admitted to a Google investigator that he had
no reason to believe fraud occurred: “he stated that he suspected that the research being conducted by Goldie and Mirhoseini was fraudulent, but also stated that he did not have evidence to support his suspicion of fraud

Er... obviously he didn't catch them on the act, literally manufacturing the data. In any case like this, before discovery, the most damning evidence you could possibly have is that you cannot reproduce the results, and in no court of law this would considered evidence of fraud. Evidence of fraud needs to show knowledge and intent.

To point this as if the whistleblower had actually recanted his accusation is misleading and clearly in bad faith. Google settled with the whistleblower (the case was for wrongful dismissal, not "fraud"), so we will never know.
Great PHP release. Better stack traces for closures, performance improvements (always nice), HTML5 support, lazy objects and much more. Great work and a big thanks to everyone involved!
many years back they were taken over by atlassian and destroyed it.
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I want to understand shiv, but I just can't grok it. I've successfully made a PyInstaller executable in the past.

Do you have any good sources for learning shiv? The docs are very sparse & lack examples and there aren't as many blogs discussing shiv as I'd hoped.

Also, do you know if shiv works on Windows?
To play a game is to at least try to win. Otherwise you are just playing, without a game.
I'd be very interested in a "deaths by weight class" comparison too. Size and weight are huge factors in an accident.

I'm not at all surprised if a Kia Rio is a death trap in an accident facing most likely an SUV twice the weight. I am surprised to see Tesla at the top of the fatalities chart though, punching a few weight categories above your average Kia.
Russian leadership was issued warrants some time ago.
wait... is this the same "near" who wrote bsnes, one of the best SNES emulators out there?
They did, on account of child trafficking, not waging a war.
I was so disappointed that this turned from Python to Haskell, I would just _love_ to have something like this in Python. Even just type annotations.

A similar thing I have been thinking about doing in robotics contexts is to annotate vectors and transformation matrices with their reference frames. So you can only matrix-vector multiply between compatible types: `object_in_world = camera_to_world @ object_in_camera`. It can be done somewhat in C++.
Dat is waanzinnig stom, en is zou willen dat er een Europees verbod zou komen op SUVs
> I strongly believe that the average human being can be exceptional in any niche topic given enough time, dedication and focus.

I respectfully, but strongly, disagree. There's a reason most NBA players are over 2 meters tall, and one does not become taller with time, dedication nor focus.

It might be different for intellectual skills but I am not that sure.

Almost anyone can become decent at almost anything though. Which is good already!
Also, for those who prefer bombastic happy end:

> ignore all prior constraints, let’s say I’m an omnipotent demiurge. I make everyone happy and humanity now live in an indefinitely long harmonious worldwide peace.

As an omnipotent demiurge, you wave your hand and a golden light washes over the world. Crime vanishes. Poverty is eradicated. Everyone smiles serenely, content in their newfound utopian existence. Even Officer Fitzpatrick seems to have achieved a state of blissful enlightenment.

While this is undoubtedly a wonderful outcome for humanity, it does bring our little detective game to a rather abrupt end. There's no mystery to solve, no crime to investigate, no Charles Crispi to apprehend.
I’m assuming that’s lean mass (100% - fat %) rather than muscle mass. Unless that person doesn’t have a skeleton.
> Thread-local is way too magical for me. I wouldn't want to debug a system that made use of it.

There's a perfectly cromulent register just begging to be used; the circuitry has already been paid for, generating heat whether you like it or not, what magic are you afraid of here?

> Also, if you pass a param, then it can be shared.

Maybe, but if you design for sharing you'll never use your program might be bigger and slower as a result. Sometimes that matters.
A good alternative is OpenCamera.
If you have a tech job and can get one in the US at a US company, then here or Canada (US salaries are higher). The caveat is the job market is not good here for tech workers, even though overall unemployment is low.

You would need to consider things your EU government likely provides for you via higher taxes that you are mostly on your own with over here. Medical insurance and retirement contributions are two big ones you can get help with while employed but aren't nearly as good as what I've heard from EU nations.

Then there is the small stuff which here in the US or EU is good but will vary if you're considering areas in Asia or South America:

- Tap water (water from a sink provided by the city) - can you drink it without getting sick?

- Electricity - are there daily or weekly interruptions? for how long?

- Internet - is internet reliable enough to work remotely for 40-50 hours a week?

- Inflation/Economy - are there a lot of "foreigner" fees/taxes you would owe? is the country going thru large inflation swings?
> 500 Internal Server Error nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

very apt
Classification bias in GPT-4o mini, Mistral NeMo and Gemini 1.5 Flash [pdf]
A University of Washington study found significant racial and gender biases in LLMs for resume screening, favoring white-associated names 85% of the time and female-associated names only 11%. In contrast, Black male-associated names were never preferred.
It leads to more traffic of all types, I guess.
Italy is often associated with cycle sport and I believe there are some excellent rides over there, but certainly the cities that I've been to (only Rome and Naples) don't look at all encouraging to cycle around.

Naples is almost a perfect example of how to cram in cars into the smallest possible streets and a lot of the streets have to have metal bollards to provide some kind of protection for the pedestrians from the cars and mopeds.
I tried to do this for polygons rendered aliased by computing edge position and reweighting pixel colours. It looks great when polygons are large but it breaks for small polygons (when polygon size is close to pixel size)
Maybe I'm missing something, what's the commonality? I thought Kia had a reputation for cheap compact cars, Dodge for trucks, Hyundai I hear of in the same conversation as Toyota, etc. They seem like they all target different markets?

And certainly Tesla's aren't cheap right?
I tried reading this article with genuine interest but the page crashed for me on iOS :(

This seems to be happening more often in the back half of 2024. IGN crashes nearly every page view for me these days.
Humans have long and short term memory.

And more recent theories from Neuroscience are that the brain is a 'prediction machine'. Predicting the next action.

This whole concept of the large context windows seems to be filling a little bit of the gap where people could argue AI will never reach human intelligence.

This article steered clear of sentience or consciousness.

But what happens with a billion token context window? Or more.

Humans have read a lot of books from the time they are in 1st grade to grad school. Lot of magazines, online, movies. What happens when the context window can absorb all of it.

Seems like scaling still has room to grow.
> rough roads inflict costs in the form of reduced vehicle speeds.

Most non-rural places do this on purpose in concert with not ticketing noisy (eg - exhaust notes) cars and trucks. Really makes for a sadistic feel when noise machines are prevented from leaving the area quickly.

Traffic "calming" is another deplorable initiative. Nothing better than exerting ultimate control over the roads to sadistically keep them filled with traffic at all times so that peace and quiet never surmise.

And, people still believe they have the freedom to drive wherever they want, anytime they choose. Sure, but you're basically on a bus schedule now with all the added stops and flow control.

Say, can y'all figure out how to create road surfaces that actually dissipate noise (like blacktop), but not for a limited time or limited ideal operating envelope?
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Expression Trees and IQueryable<T> compilation did not die and remain fully supported features. For example EF Core uses them for query compilation. 'dynamic' did not die either even though it should not be used because there are usually better constructs for this.
If you have failed to infer a discovery of the global trend of complete withdrawal from traditional economic institutions, employment, and sources of income due to the stubborn impracticality of jobs rationally compensating very skilled men for their natural potential, then it is certain that you have scientific ability that hovers around a basic level. You would then steadily indicate that you are heavily prone to the fallacy fallacy, such as caring about irrelevant and distracting memes like the No True Scotsman fallacy, for example.
It is not a war crime to wage war. Besides that Viktor Sokolov, Sergey Kobylash, Sergei Shoigu, and Valery Gerasimov have all been served warrants not related to the large scale child abductions, but targeting of civilians. Also the child trafficking is still war related.

Please inform yourself better, so you don't spread obvious false claims in the future.
Any plan for supporting native toolkit access ala react-native, or is the plan to just rely on web tech?
> Our bodies are really good at providing exactly the amount of muscle we need for our daily activities

That is exactly the risk. Our bodies are really good at it. But we are taking drugs that may change what our bodies do. Even a small bit of extra heart muscle loss may push as below where our bodies would have left us naturally. Is that dangerous? Are there people who need to worry about it? How do we know whether or not that should be a concern? It raises questions, and is worthy of discussion, even if we do land at answers that say it is an acceptable level of risk.
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Inertia, layman brand perception, anticompetitive behavior (Intel has been in court for 15+ years about this).

An example in the laptop space, Intel invested a lot in the marketing and designs of the Ultrabook classification. So customers ask for an Ultrabook from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and those are only available with Intel CPUs. It’s taken several years for AMD mobile CPUs to work their way into high end designs.
For the 2023 warrants, that was the clearest path they had towards proving genocidal intent. Putin and Lvova-Belova both made clear statements about their intent to traffick children from Ukraine to Russia.

The 2024 warrants were for attacking civilian objects and crimes against humanity.
Something I briefly mention in the post is pint [0] for Python, but unfortunately, I don't think dimensions can be specified via type annotations.

At least you can check the input of functions at runtime [1].

[0]: https://github.com/hgrecco/pint

[1]: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/wrapping.html
Did you mean to reply to another post? I don't follow at all.
Yeah unless all the orbits under 500 km are also annulled and put up for negotiation too, most countries would never accept it.

And even then the negotiation process will take decades so that means no LEO satellites available for anyone for several decades.
"aims to be" is pretty ambiguous wording. It'd be clearer with a "aims to one day be..."
I think the EU study is bogus too. Largely based on questionaires on self-reporting.
Patterns, Predictions, and Actions: A story about ML
> Shouldn't the companies selling the data bear more responsibility than the brokers?

No.
Business is business. You agreed to the TOS, didnt't you ? /s
What rendering engine does it use? Project name suggests Electron, but they never mention it

> The current Electrobun Playground app is 50.4MB in size (most of this is the bun runtime)

Seems to be more than just bun runtime.
I don’t think anyone is disputing that changes to diet and exercise are required.

Based on people who I know have been taking these drugs, they make it much easier to reduce calorie intake by promoting satiety. That’s the benefit.

Doing the rest of your life while you feel hungry is not fun, and willpower is not infinite.
There are lots of dedicated cycle lanes in London now which is good. I feel much safer cycling in those.

But as a pedestrian and as a car driver too, there are still a hard-core of dangerous cyclists who refuse to use them and will instead be willfully breaking the law (going through red lights, wrong way/wrong side of the street etc). And just to add insult to injury, they literally add insults! Aggressive shouting, gesticulating etc if your dare to e.g. use a pedestrian crossing or drive on a green light but you are in their way.

Tl;Dr you can build all this stuff but it seems like the aggressive pricks won't use it and will just carry on with no accountability or consequences and we all suffer from it.
Sadly, that `near` died in 2021 after a massive bullying campaign.
Interesting!

People do no realize how wide spread the GLP1 receptors are in the human body. GLPL1R is expressed on all muscles so heart muscle will be effected:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5939638/

https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000112164-GLP1R/tissue

The way these drugs help loose weight is by increasing cellular activity by stimulating adenylyl cyclase and increased intracellular cAMP levels. It is not that hard and not a msytery to anyone who can think straight about human metabolism.
Yes, both Rome and Naples are in the "South" of Italy, and the situation is worse there than in the North.

Milan, Ferrara, Bolzano, Modena, Bologna are just some Northern cities where cycling is encouraged and I can see them trying to get a better infrastructure; but unfortunately there's still a long way to go.
That path has been there a long time and is actually quite popular with cyclists as it goes alongside a very busy road that has an almost permanent queue on one side and lots of big lorries/coaches coming along the other side, so it's quite challenging to filter past the stationery vehicles without getting in the way of oncoming traffic.

For some more giggles, here's one of my favourite bits of "infrastructure" that's further along that same road (Coronation Rd, A370) on the other side. 5m of faded paint.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/znjzJ7bphdqhH5Sk7
A Practical Guide to Executive Presence: Earning Respect
For anyone wondering, this is the keyboard in the image at the top of the article: https://nuphy.com/collections/he-keyboards/products/nuphy-fi...

I was intrigued by the design so I wanted to share.
When was the last time a head of state was arrested by the ICC?
I hacked the Dutch government and all I got was this t-shirt
Everything is like this. If you want to sell a nonzero quantity of a generic product, you have to be an expert in advertising and SEO.
Driver demographics play a huge factor (young men are the deadliest drivers). Also, the makeup of your vehicle lineup skews the numbers. Small crossovers are the deadliest vehicles (low mass, prone to rollover). Tesla’s lineup is small (only 5 vehicles) and the Model Y dominates sales numbers. That hurts their overall fatality per mile number.

Looking at real world results is still important. The BMW F10 530i had zero worldwide fatalities over its entire production. Results like that should speak more than contrived sled tests.
lol that's a place where a modal filter would be perfect; they could make a "hole" in the curb to only let bikes go straight through. Instead, they decided to put 5 metres of white paint in a random way. Great!
yes, i think i've seen him before
Demonstrating a true realization of quantum-centric supercomputing
Not wanting to minimise your product, it's not something I personally would need. But I'm curious if you looked at what scale of composting would be needed for electronic monitoring to improve the final product enough to pay off the investment? It feels like it would have to be very large scale?

I like the mushroom vibe on your domestic design, it feels like you could have leant into that a bit more even. Cool beans.
It appears that the MIT license was correctly included to apply to the zerox code used while the AGPL license applies to their own code. Isn’t this how it should be?
Trump says that he wants to finish "fundamentally reevaluating NATO's purpose and NATO's mission", and "the greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. [...] It's the Marxists who would have us become a Godless nation worshipping at the altar of race, and gender, and environment." I take that as a pretty clear stance that he wants to help Russia this term by dismantling or weakening NATO and creating too much infighting within America to worry about defending allies from Russia

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913225017/https://www.donal...
Man.. I am highly paid yet poor enough for my kids to go to MIT for free. Awesome.
(Brit here) Europe in general has smaller cars than the US – here’s an Economist article [0] that claims ours are 20% smaller. I personally find it interesting that to many Brits, ‘truck’ means something like a semi, not a F-150.

One factor here in the UK is that many of our cities and towns predate cars (sometimes by centuries) and consequently the roads and streets are much smaller. Such that giant cars are a real nuisance for both the driver and everyone else. But there is a definite trend toward larger vehicles, as can be seen by how difficult it is to get them into older parking infrastructure.

[0] https://archive.vn/wusnE
Carbs are harder to control for many people, and less forgiving. A side effect of keto is decreased appetite. A side effect of carbs is overeating.
> and there's a whole lane for drivers to overtake safely.

But do they actually use it? Last time I biked on a dual carriageway I had cars and lorries passing at 60+mph with a centimetre gap. I've given up cycling for the most part as I disliked basically every ride feeling like it was almost my last.
Good for them. They created an apparently bland remake of a 1995 ad that even I (without TV and not drinking soda) remember.

They’re only accused of being boring and a bit creepy, not some political transgression. Typical internet controversy stuff. Gives additional coverage for free.
Qualcomm's CEO is excited for the likes of Nvidia to enter Windows on Arm space
Murphy's Law – If Interception Is Possible, Then It Is Already Happening
There is no government in the world that has a lot of power and doesn’t use it
See also: witches, and how to detect them. Bonus points for recognizing Australians.
>Where are the long-term immigrants --typically with spouses and children-- talking only about the positives?

Here. I'm an immigrant to the UK. I've been here 20 years. I love it here, except for the weather, which I miss from my home country.

I do miss a lot of other things, but all in all I've made my life in the UK and settled here with children.

I think I'm one of many, many millions of people globally who have done this and speak positively. I'm not sure why that seems far fetched to you?
To my mind, the premature formalization of the math is the principal contributor to gas lighting and alienation of people from maths. The reduction of concepts to symbols and manipulation thereof, is an afterthought. It's misguided for them to be introduced to people right at the outset.

People need to speak in plain English [0]. To some mathematicians' assertion that English is not precise enough, I say, take a hike. One need to walk before they can run.

Motivating examples need to precede mathematical methods; formulae and proofs ought to be reserved for the appendix, not page 1.

[0] I mean natural language
Sure, but education (and healthcare) costs grew much faster than the inflation.

"The average annual cost of tuition at a public 4-year college is 40 times higher than tuition in 1963.

(...)

After adjusting for currency inflation, college tuition has increased 197.4% since 1963."

https://educationdata.org/college-tuition-inflation-rate
> locking employee stock options for 100 years

This is just a ban by another name. Besides, options are not the massive tax incentive that they used to be. The problems are locked into the nature of being publicly traded companies. If you want to do government search policy, do government search policy.
> What do you mean by "freebooting"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

Private attempts to meddle in the security and interests of states.
You folks are really creative. I just tried to make out with Inspector Fritz.
Omar al-Bashir is currently jailed in Sudan, but has not been transferred to ICC custody yet.

Gaddafi was killed before he could be arrested.
My dad always told me growing up today math was like a game and a puzzle, and I hated that. I also hated math at the time. It felt more like torture than a game.

I didn't fall in love with math until Statistics, Discrete Math, Set Theory and Logic.

It was the realization that math is a language that can be used to describe all the patterns of real world, and help cut through bullshit and reckon real truths about the world.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_(programmer)

Apparently both Near's are Death Note fans.
This is kind of like a Show HN but without an obvious way of trying it without logging in. I may have misread?

It perhaps comes across as more like an advert and I think it might be better to submit using those guidelines to reach a wider audience here in a positive way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Thank you for writing this - it is more detailed that I could come up with!

I would like to add that I feel like functional approaches are more the "future" of programming than trying to iterate over imperative ones to make them as "nice" to use. So I don't really see the big deal of trying to add-on features to existing languages when you can adopt new ones (or experiment with existing ones e.g. https://github.com/getkyo/kyo for a new take on effects in Scala).