skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not enough fiber (fruits, veg).

I'm not sure why people think fiber is great. Yes it pushes things through. Yes there are bacteria that eat it. So does other food.

But it also makes you go poop more often, which is bad for your body.

I mostly eat meats and relatively low fiber food. I don't track it closely, so occasionally I'll eat corn and it passes through.

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My point:

"Why fiber?" Actually prove that the generic intake of 'fiber' is good. There are so many different types of fiber, the macro size of the fiber matters(ground pinto beans has a different gastro effect than whole), the actual molecules its made of, etc..
while it's obviously fair to be very very wary of everything FB does, especially moderation, the other side of this is a worldwide campaign by the worst people alive to use these platforms to shape public opinion and poison our (ie at least the West's) culture to death.
If you look at the Steam hardware survey you’ll find the majority of gamers are still rocking 1080p/1440p displays.

What gamers look for is more framerate not particularly resolution. Most new gaming monitors are focusing on high refresh rates.

8K feels like a waste of compute for a very diminished return compared to 4K. I think 8K only makes sense when dealing with huge displays, I’m talking beyond 83 inches, we are still far from that.
Just an observation as an American living in Copenhagen, Denmark: The typical diet for my coworkers involves the following attributes compared to the US:
1. Hot/big breakfast is rare. A roll with some butter and cheese + Espresso instead.
2. We have a "canteen" cafeteria and it is all fresh made foods, lots of fish options and of course Rugbrød (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugbr%C3%B8d) a super dense "bread" although IMO it isn't really bread as we understand it.
3. Most folks will pile a ton of food on their plate and lunch is served at 11:30.
4. Very little soda. A six pack of soda will last a week or more in an office of 25 people.
5. Almost no snacks. Our office will maybe have one small bag of nuts available and it can last two weeks before refilling.
6. Very little fast food options. There are a handful of fast food options in town, but they are very much an exception and probably serve more tourists than locals.
7. Dining out is expensive relative to income levels, so it is far less frequent.
8. Yes, portion sizes, again, particularly for drinks. A typical soda pour would be maybe 8-10 ounces in a restaurant.

Danes do drink a lot of beer though and they start early. There's no "drinking age" and teens can buy beer/wine at 16 and booze at 18.
The problem is really quite simple: Americans overeat

Processed foods are part of the problem (in that they are tastier and easier to consume than "rawer" foods), but increased wealth and ability to consume food is also a part of the problem

Food has literally never been cheaper and tastier
The truth about a good diet is not reducible to a simple rule of thumb; like life itself, it's more nuanced than that.

Thank you, New Yorker, for letting me read the article without a subscription.
Lots?

[citation needed]
I get under 50fps in certain places in FF14. I run a 5900x with 32GB of ram and a 3090.
Exactly this. That was the watershed moment.

I guess we'll never know if this was the unveiling of the real person after finally deciding he had enough wealth to lower the veil (fuck you money, so to speak) ... or if the journey changed him into the slivering mess we see today.

Disappointing, either way.
>No easy access to cheap, prepared whole foods.

Apples, Bananas, Carrots, Milk.

I imagine there are other foods too. But its weird to see people think they don't exist.
Imo, its mostly cultural which turns physiological. Every home cook I know has difficultly even putting on weight. The home cooks also enjoy the taste of vegetables and find the amount of sugar in store bought/fast food desserts nauseating. But I also know people who were fed pre-made food all their life and would literally throw up if fed broccoli. This problem needs to be addressed at home and from a young age, which is.. hard.
With a side of car-centric city planning where shops are often far from where people live, so everyone just drive everywhere.

Also, with a pinch of pedestrian-hostile design, where some places don't even have sidewalks.
You say this, but no Marxist country has ever had a french fry problem. In properly Marxist countries, everyone has always waited patiently in the bread line for their weekly ration.
traffic is a crappy externality that harms everyone, drivers, non-drivers. non-drivers are harmed by pollution, slower buses and cabs, noise, slower emergency response times. drivers are harmed by all those things as well plus the stress and inconvenience of extreme traffic. the point of congestion pricing is to reduce the so-called "traffic tax" that everyone pays into one that is just a toll, that only drivers pay. reducing traffic is a direct goal of the toll.
Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam
The complement to the set that is eating shit.
Gobsmacked by Ben Yagoda Review – The British Invasion of American English
That was mostly about Nvidia's pricing. It's basically impossible to compete economically with the founders editions because Nvidia doesn't charge themselves a hefty markup on the chip. That's why their own cards always sell out instantly and then the aftermarket GPU builders can fight to pick up the scraps. The whole idea of the founders edition seems to be to make a quick buck immediately after release. Long term it's much more profitable to sell the chip itself at a price that they would usually sell their entire GPU for.
Mysterious radio pulses traced to dance of stellar dwarfs – Science – AAAS
Simple: Bad food is subsidized
I agree with the mental model bit - I think this is the most important thing in a "good", "intuitive", or "learnable" product and I wish it was center stage for ux designers.
Surely there's a way to generate code by manipulating an AST structure? Is there some reason this can't be done in Zig or is it just that no one has bothered?

Doing it this way is more verbose but sidesteps all hygiene issues.
None of this changes the fact that mail-in voting in the United States is objectively and measurably secure, and that instances of fraud are so miniscule that claims of it having an impact on election outcomes are provably false.

Those are simply the facts.
The load test report is here.

https://kuvasz.io/kuvasz-streamer-load-test/
How would people consume information “on their own terms” on Facebook? The feed is not under the user’s control.
I had subscribed to Jacobin a while back in the hopes of balancing out my Economist subscription's viewpoints but wow the quality was not there.
I guess if you’re at the precipice of a financial crisis, starting with laughs around the table isn’t the worst.
You can also save tons of money by combining used GPUs from two generations ago with a patientgamer lifestyle without needing to resort to suffering 30fps
I suspect that cycle touring is the much older term than bike packing.

In the UK we still have the Cycle Touring Club[1] which was founded in 1878, so it goes way back.

I don't even think there was originally much difference in the type of bags used. Really old school riders here used to use big saddle bags like those made by Carradice before panniers came into fashion.

I think I'm good with either term. All these amazing adventure stories make me long for summer again.

1. Recently renamed by some genius to Cycling UK (not to be confused with British Cycling which covers racing), still not sure why they bothered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_UK
> However, don't we grow tolerant to pleasures?

Yes: growing tolerance is part of the addiction cycle that causes you to need ever more to satisfy the same urge.
Comments like this are interesting because the changes you’re describing aren’t really “Americanizing”, they’re just a sign of modern times.

For example: People weren’t walking around staring at their cellphones in Europe in the 90s because they were distinctly European. It was because we didn’t have smartphones anywhere. The smartphone changes happened in lockstep across the globe.

Likewise, many of your other points are purely people’s personal preferences. I think your criticisms are largely nostalgia for the 90s and your time spent living abroad, not an indictment of “Americanizing” Europe.
Broadcasters Form Joint Venture to Provide High-Speed Data Transmission Services
Because it’s based on the assumption that congestion didn’t actually go down, see number 1 posted by op.

If you want congestion to go down, keep raising the price. It will eventually go down and revenue could go up a lot.
A fascinating watch. I have to imagine this has happened before but it must be extremely difficult to prove.

Rather large error on the "investors" part to document all the fraud in writing.
Yea, not sure if it was a post-holiday thing or weather thing, but shit the trains have been rammed.
Yeah Jobs was probably afraid of anyone involved in sensitive stuff, not based in Cupertino, to be engaged in games or tricks like that. And they would be too far away to closely monitor.
Cultural factors for Japan. People eat smaller portions, walk more, and dieting and commenting on someone's weight (a different idea of what is an "acceptable" weight) is also more prevalent. School lunches are also from what I've seen while there considerably more nutritious and fresh.
There are several points. Some want it to get people to not drive, but work from home or drive elsewhere instead is fine with them. Some want it to get more people on transit. Some want it to fund transit expansion. You can belong to more than one of the above groups. Nobody belongs to them all.
Do you live near a Chipotle? Burrito bowl with brown rice, black beans, and chicken for $8.50.

I really don’t understand this “I don’t have a choice all fast food is bad” some are pretty healthy even if they are less tasty. I think the real discussion is how addictive the trash foods are.
When asked why restaurant food tasted so good, Anthony Bourdain chuckled and quipped that "everything you are served begins and finishes with a stick of butter".

People would gasp if they prepared that food for themselves.

When I finish a steak with 2 tbsp of butter it tastes luxurious, and any respectable steakhouse is finishing a steak with a stick of butter and garnishes it with an ice cream scoop of butter.
This article, and all comments, have reminded me yet again of my anger at the not so universal USB formats.

I had been designing a device that heavily relied on USB, as its primary goal was to be basically a USB switching station, where you plug your systems and USB into the device and then can swap around which USB is connected to any of the connected systems.

I started during the early USB3x days, and by the time i had a completed design, had to rip out and redo large chunks because the damn USB spec changed with all their 3.x super premium plus ultra speed bullshit. And then... fucking USB c. yes, you dont have to figure out which way the cable goes now, but hardware designers are suffering because of the shenanigans that is USB. My entire project was effectively scrapped because i didnt want to deal with the power draw bullshittery. Before PD it was easy enough for me to manage the power, but now, i need a whole load of supporting circuitry and have to touch datalines which my original goal was to avoid.

In short, i hate USB and its gone the way of the SCSI cable; getting more and more weird every year
Friend of mine moved from South Korea to the US and within 6 months had gained a noticeable amount of weight, we discussed it and I said "just gotta watch the calories bud" - confused face - he didn't know how to actually go about calorie counting, he didn't know the calories in 1lb of fat (~3,500), he'd never had to do it in Korea.
> The big difference is that Jobs never lied to me.

I'm sure he will get around to providing FaceTime as an open industry standard any day now...
> Also 60fps is pretty low, certainly isn't "high fps" anyway

Uhhhhhmmmmmm....what are you smoking?

Almost no one is playing competitive shooters and such at 4k. For those games you play at 1080p and turn off lots of eye candy so you can get super high frame rates because that does actually give you an edge.

People playing at 4k are doing immersive story driven games and consistent 60fps is perfectly fine for that, you don't really get a huge benefit going higher.

People that want to split the difference are going 1440p.
My empirical evidence is going to Europe and looking around.

I'm being somewhat argumentative on purpose but the concept I'm explaining actually is important. There's something similar to a phase change when a city/area becomes sufficiently well connected so that transit can basically solve every problem.

You go to somewhere like Switzerland and it just jumps out at you. There's a fundamental approach that everywhere someone wants to go should be accessible by transit in a way that's workable. There's also a fundamental decision that being able to bring a car somewhere isn't necessarily something that has to be supported.

It's just a different way of looking at things.

Can you envision an American town that literally does not allow cars anywhere near the actual town, like at all?

If that seems utterly impossible to visualize then you're starting to see what I mean. Now try to visualize a Swiss town that literally has no ability to connect to the broader transit system.
Having put three kids through the public education system, I can confidently say that the system is broken from top to bottom; comprised of students, teachers, parents, administrators, government, and taxpayers all striving to do their worst.

I would love to see how we could wipe the slate clean and totally re-invent what education in the 21st century could really be.
i don't think it would change htmx at all, we'd probably keep the attribute namespaces separate just to avoid accidentally stomping on behavior

i do think it would reduce and/or eliminate the need for htmx in many cases, which is a good thing: the big idea w/htmx is to push the idea of hypermedia and hypermedia controls further, and if those ideas make it into the web platform so much the better
It looks like this developer has 2 Hacker News reader apps in the app store: Hacki and Z Combinator. Which is the good one?
Japan, Vietnam, France, Italy, etc. would beg to differ. But they also don’t spray their wheat with roundup so it’s probably better to stay away from carbs in the US just on that basis.
You can't innovate your way out of basic economics. The value of a photograph has continued to decline year after year to the point where it is now ~$0. The licensing revenue pie is getting smaller and smaller, and so companies in the space have been shrinking and consolidating to adapt to it. That's all there is to it.
Yeah, and there's that story about "private window" mode in browsers because you were shopping for birthday gifts that one time. You know what I mean though.
Maybe it was all the people who'd followed the same navigation.
My dad is still active in the yard and is mobile and independent at 82. But age is slowing him down. His eyesight and hearing is deteriorating.

My mom is 80, active and I don’t see her slowing down, she is still comfortable driving from south GA to central Florida where we live and the other surrounding states as long as it’s daytime.

I’ll be happy if I can still be as active as my dad
This example illustrates one of the risks of using LLMs without subject expertise though. I just tested this with claude and got that exact same validation method back. Using string comparison is dangerous from a security perspective [1], so this is essentially unsafe validation, and there was no warning in the response about this.

1. https://sqreen.github.io/DevelopersSecurityBestPractices/tim...
For me, the biggest mystery is this: If obesity is caused by poor diet, why doesn't dieting work long-term?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/when-dieting-doesnt-work...

> 121 eligible trials with 21 942 patients were included and reported on 14 named diets and three control diets ... At 12 months the effects on weight reduction and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors largely disappear.
> The only people this seems to work for consistently are the wealthy.

Well, that's because they know how to invest wisely in lawmakers. Fabulous ROI.
These are perfect for games featuring path tracing. Not many games though but those really flex the 4090.
Translation: Oh shi! Billionaires opinions don’t matter like they used to!

Fact-checking happens when one side makes shit up and rhe other side actually looks it up.
i help alex out a bit, but he's the main author
> If you know you know

And if you don't, you... don't deserve to know?

> you're either wilfully ignorant or actively dishonest

I think "willful ignorance" is a good description of accepting impossible-to-verify anecdotes of internet comments as evidence of societal change, personally. But I'm realizing we don't have the same goals in the conversation so I understand why it feels pointless to continue.
> The $9 increase needs to significantly offset the loss in toll revenue from the decrease in drivers.

Many of the entries in question are not tolled: the Brooklyn/Manhattan/Williamsburg/QBB are all toll-free, but are included in congestion pricing. Similarly, the street-level entries to the congestion zone were never tolled. I think the state's calculations probably conclude that these more than offset the drop in toll revenue.

(Or, more nuanced: much of the previous toll revenue went to PANYNJ, whereas congestion pricing funds go directly to the MTA/NYCT.)
Now that's one filling meal!!!

Those you listed also aren't prepared.
I feel like this gets at the core issue which is food being too palatable and not satiating enough? At least on the obesity / calorie overconsumption front, I think it's just that simple. 'ultra-processed foods' or 'too many carbs' or whatever other explanations people come up for are just lossy proxies for the underlying issue which is 'foods that people tend to eat too much of'.
2006 was peak "Great Moderation," where there hadn't been any serious financial crises since the 80s. The consensus wisdom was that many of the policies of the 80s & 90s, particularly around inflation and reducing uncertainty, had made financial crises almost obsolete.

It seems dark today given that we know the outcome, but I'm sure at the time, Comic Sans seemed appropriate for a set of tools that they thought likely would never be used. Or maybe it indicates a certain hubris undone within about 18 months.
As an experienced software developer, I paid for ChatGPT for a couple of months, I trialed Gemini Pro for a couple of months, and I've used the current version of Claude.

I'd be happy if LLMs could produce working code as often and as quickly as the evangelist claim, but whenever I try to use LLM to work on my day to day tasks, I almost always walk away frustrated and disappointed - and most of my work is boring on technical merits, I'm not writing novel comp-sci algorithms or cryptography libraries.

Every time I say this, I'm painted as some luddite who just hates change when the reality is that no, current LLMs are just not fit for many of the purposes they're being evangelized for. I'd love nothing more than to be a 2x developer on my side projects, but it just hasn't happened and it's not for the lack of trying or open mindedness.

edit: I've never actually seen any LLM-driven developers work in real time. Are there any live coding channels that could convince the skeptics what we're missing out on something revolutionary?
I think people think that comment is wrong because ner-ner Dropbox was in fact a big success, and just because it's _possible_ to do implement something on your boutique computer doesn't mean it won't have value for people who can't do that.

[I totally agree if Microsoft had more vision and were competing on an OS that actually worked better for the owner of the computer in 2007, they wouldn't have ceded core parts of the computer's function to some two-bit VC-fuelled bodgers]

But to be the comment is wrong because - well - it wasn't and it isn't trivial to run a version control system on top of a network filesystem! Synchronous filesystems over the internet are awful. If the commenter had ever tried this for more than about 2 hours they'd find it hangs on the first network wobble, and probably loses data.

Anyhow we're getting off-topic. Do you think French fries deserve their success?
Potential Scam Alert in Co-Founder Matching
I wanted to bring attention to a concerning trend I've encountered while searching for a technical co-founder through YC co-founder matching - the platform could be exploited by scammers.

As a solo founder based in Taiwan, I have been actively using co-founder matching lately to find a technical partner in the Southeast Asia time zone.

Our startup blueberry has acquired hard-earned initial paid customers with our beta app, and is ready to take things to the next step.

However, in the process of matching with three candidates, I have observed what appears to be a pattern of fraudulent activity:

Fake Profiles – The candidates I matched with presented fake Y Combinator (YC) profiles, fabricated profile pictures, and misleading background stories.

Inconsistent Experience – Upon deeper conversations on google chat, they were unable to provide personal insights or verifiable experiences that aligned with their profiles.

Focus on Salary, Not Partnership – A common thread among all three candidates was their immediate interest in our development plans and salary, rather than the collaborative spirit typically expected in co-founder relationships.

Misleading Locations – Their listed locations often did not match their actual whereabouts such as random time zones that weren't mentioned anywhere, and they referenced random projects that bore no connection to their stated experience.

No remorse being confronted - the reason why I believe it's beyond just a few guys trying to make extra money is because while I confronted them on the call, they showed no remorse but were only interested in salary and getting me back to chat which is a common scam tactic.

I went through at least 70 profiles in the SEA region (there are 0 matches in Taiwan so I had to look beyond), and only chatted with a select few, and so far none of them are authentic.

I urge Yc admin and founders in this matter, i really wish this matching product can work.

This trend could negatively impact the experience in a huge way, please take notice, thank you. Dont get scammed guys !
Doubt it, a year ago useful local LLMs on a Mac (via something like ollama) was barely taking off.

If what you say it's true you were among the first 100 people on the planet who were doing this; which btw, further supports my argument on how extremely rare is that use case for Mac users.
It is virtually a tautology to say that the moral failings of capitalism are already condemned by current moral systems. It's hard to see how one more way of condemning them would help.

If you want to solve problems with capitalism, the only way to do it is to arrange things such that morally bad actions are more expensive. 'Crime does not pay' kinda thing.

It is hard to see what sort of institution could arrange that other than governments. There have to be robust, extra-market methods of enforcement which will decide who gets the penalties, how much they are, and ensures that people pay those penalties.
Or you get voted out of office and your charges reversed down to zero - or perhaps negative as the people are so mad they take it out on the transit this was supposed to fund.

Politics is tricky, don't take so much you make people affected mad enough to undo what you wanted.
It's a leisure activity, "necessary" isn't the metric to be used here, people clearly care about RT/PT while DLSS seems to be getting better and better.
FTC Chair Khan hopes Amazon, Meta won't get 'sweetheart deal' in antitrust cases