skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that did the whole burn the boats and force the change thing several times in my life.... That is exactly what I don't recommend.

Everyone here has great advice. But my #1 advice is to take all their advice and use it to get a new job.... Before quiting yours. Do not quit your job first. Sure it works for some people. But those that it doesn't work for end up wasting a lot of time and a lot of money.

If your dream of a career change isn't enough for you to give up nights and weekends to help facilitate it, then odds are you don't want it bad enough imo to really pull it off.
I read it as that's how they think of it. It doesn't actually matter if it's true or not.
You may be wrong in the specifics of the mechanism of calorie reduction (reducing appetite vs reducing calorific absorption), but not in the general philosophy.

The obesity crisis (specifically in the US, but elsewhere too) has been caused by bad food essentially - food that is not only nutrient deficient, but also engineered to be as cheap as possible and addictive as possible to get you to buy more of it.

As ever, the US is attempting to fix the symptoms, as opposed to the underlying cause, following the general idea of 'if everyone does what they like, things will turn out ok (somehow)'.

Probably negative health implications of these drugs will surface as people become habituated, and we can continue to shake our heads and wonder how it all went so wrong over there.
> I can navigate my browser to Al Jazeera, RT, or Xinhua without interference

The reason you can is that very few people actually do. As the Tik Tok affair shows, the moment the US suspects it might have some real competitor in controlling the narrative, it shuts them down. Maybe it's the right thing to do, but it's worth taking note that it's how things are.
> at this point I don't really care, the company deserves it.

Right. Obvious national security reason.
That's a good point. Anyone has experience with haggling over the web or email - for stuff that's listed on web sites? Besides stuff that's deliberately not priced on the web like enterprise software?
> Yet this approach is obviously much better than what’s being done at companies like OpenAI, where the data is processed by servers that employees (presumably) can log into and access.

No need for presumption here: OpenAI is quite transparent about the fact that they retain data for 30 days and have employees and third-party contractors look at it.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/how-we-use-your-data

> To help identify abuse, API data may be retained for up to 30 days, after which it will be deleted (unless otherwise required by law).

https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/

> Our access to API business data stored on our systems is limited to (1) authorized employees that require access for engineering support, investigating potential platform abuse, and legal compliance and (2) specialized third-party contractors who are bound by confidentiality and security obligations, solely to review for abuse and misuse.
Fantastic idea, the UI of the site is clean, I think the actual content itself could use some improvement.

After opening the site I had to "fail" a couple just to understand what the user goal even was. I recognized the fake/misleading UI but still wasn't sure what to do with that information.

I think you should take this exact concept, do some user studies, and come out with a V2. There's a market for this. My grandparents are getting to the age where I don't really trust them with access to their own credit cards / operating the web, I frequently come over to fix their computer and it's just extensions they've unintentionally installed. If this was iterated on & repackaged as either a educational course or a "test" to see if they are "safe on the internet", I would pay money for it.

And on the other end, it's well-proven at this point that tech literacy for the average person peaked somewhere around people born in 1985-2000. Before then, people grew up without as much access to tech. After that, people grew up in an environment where common tech problems were already solved. (A 10 yearold in 2012 wasn't dealing with corrupted disks, they were playing on an iPad). Offering this concept as a course targetted at the age range could be good.
Using a game engine for UI development can be a practical and innovative approach, especially if you’re aiming for highly interactive or visually dynamic interfaces. From my experience, game engines like Unity or Unreal can handle complex animations and real-time updates effectively, which is great for projects requiring more than static designs. However, it’s important to consider the trade-offs, such as steeper learning curves and higher resource requirements compared to traditional UI frameworks. For instance, when researching creative designs, I stumbled upon a unique example at https://bigbasssplashslotdemo.com/ . This slot game by Pragmatic Play showcases dynamic elements and transitions often achievable through game engines. It’s a clear demonstration of how interactive design can engage users. Ultimately, whether to use a game engine depends on your project’s needs, team expertise, and budget, so weigh these factors carefully.
I went from being an anthropologist (post doc) to being a programmer. I'd done a lot of Monte Carlo simulation as part of my thesis, and new programming was a possibility. In my case, we were wandering through a University library for old-times sake when my then wife and I noticed an ad for programmer trainees on a computer screen...

So, I'm not sure how replicable that was, other than keep your eyes out and be willing to take a chance.

I think the first thing is to imagine, broadly, what it is you want to do, and then look at the entry paths for that.
Agreed in general, but is it reasonable to say to people living in multi-million dollar houses on some of the world's most coveted real estate that they are should assume the risks of it? Or move?
I didn't realise HN locked posts - I have a few posts I keep meaning to respond to that I'm terrified I've missed the opportunity now! Thanks for the reply though, I really appreciate it!

I was worried you might say something like that. I want to be like that, and I generally respect people who say what you're saying (basically, have informed views, weakly held).

But we've gone full circle: the problem was the flood of disinformation making it hard to find reliable new sources of info. Your proposed solution of "think critically" and "be prepared to change your mind in light of new information" is the essence of most philosophy of thought or knowledge since Socrates and that lot. I think a lot of modern stress comes from the idea that our brains can't apply this approach any more to the scale of society and information we have to cope with today.

I think I could even go as far as suggesting modern disinformation tactics actively exploit this approach to knowledge by overloading us with so much confusing information that we don't feel we find enough legitimate information to feel like we really know anything. And sure, there are benefits in saying "I don't know" - science needs that sometimes - but if we know nothing, that means we have no knowledge to build on, which generally slows progress.
The USA is a racket cubed.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/prices-of-drugs-fo...

The pharmacies are also in on it
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11147645/
The code is on their GitHub: https://github.com/jetkvm/kvm (almost everything up, not sure about the base image yet, but they said it's coming).

I'll mention the broken link on their Discord.
Pretty much. And that's just one program that services a small portion of the population. The issue is we can't make this level of spending work, why should we believe spending more money will be successful?
That's not how reality works.
I can make guesses about a lot of things, but I know for a fact that what Chinese law requires is materially different than what US law requires.

Regardless, "someone associated with the government got a job at your company" is entirely different in consequence than "the government requires you to have government interests on your board"
Whoops, "doesn't change " should be "doesn't mean." I think the simple reading actually is pretty powerful. It just says "[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;" There aren't many qualifiers there except notably intrastate commerce.
In my original example, the profit on wool could be $0 (0% of revenue) or $1000 (100% of revenue), depending on how you allocate costs. So, if there's a true number, it's somewhere in the range 0% to 100%.
Artosis was doing this with historical games and then he started getting DMCAed from the copyright holders of the original broadcasts.
Seems like if you're doing static masking and you mask enough data, this works just great. Am I missing something?
Musk derangement syndrome
> The question should be "why isn't everyone obese, given the huge amount of calories available to humans?"

We're close.

According to the CDC, approximately 73.6% of American adults are considered overweight, including those who are obese
Sure, no problem. But then your users will ask you to preserve comments. How do I know? Because we've seen that request in jq multiple times.
My story (also not spring chicken):

-Had a very demanding IT job up until 2 years ago (12-hour days, stress...)
-Asked for a demotion and moved to a more relaxed position
-Used the extra time to go back to grad school
-40% complete in Fine Art program (drawing/painting). It was an easy choice, visual art was a life-long passion, but math/physics took over early on and then I had to make money as the kids started to arrive...
Demystifying GPU Terminology
We already make ammonia from the nitrogen in the air.
Computer Science Papers Every Developer Should Read
So basically running SELECT anon.anonymize_database(); will do it.
It feels very conspiratorial to suggest multinational pharmaceutical companies are creating low quality versions of their own branded drugs in Europe.

We know that these drugs cost roughly $10/dose to produce, and most of that is the auto-injector pens. Hardly seems worth ruining their reputation and getting punished be regulators to save a few dollars on something with a 600-6000% markup.
And you don't seem to understand what Binney meant when he said "the NSA can basically access anything anywhere, and they don't have to justify it to anyone other than the US President in person".
Pen-testers? People do it for auditors as well! $OLD_JOB literally took one of the auditor’s questions to heart and decided that the question meant they needed to separate the databases physically for each client, they didn’t realize they could have just said “logically separated”. People are more scared of these checklists than they really should be.
FTC Sues PepsiCo for Rigging Soft Drink Competition
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never made secure after testing Redmonds products
It doesn't matter what media are available as long as you manage to control their impact- that is, the vast majority of your citizens don't really watch them. The moment one becomes impactful, you can shut it down citing dangerous foreign interference (and it's true!).
> The debate has never been "will consuming less calories than you expend make you lose weight"

If you missed the whole "calories in, calories out" debate, consider yourself lucky. The comment above isn't helpful, but there really was a period of time where the topic du jour among health influencers was debating that calories didn't explain weight gain or loss. It played into the popular idea that blame for the obesity epidemic rested squarely on the food industry and "chemicals" in our food.

At one point, I had a podcast-obsessed coworker who tried to tell us all that even when he ate 1000 calories per day he couldn't lose weight. He had a long list of influencers and podcasters who supported this claim.

The CICO debate was especially popular among influencers pushing their own diet. Debating CICO was a convenient gateway to selling people your special diet that supposedly avoids the "bad" calories and replaces them with "good" calories, making you lose weight.
Zero ROI?

Isn’t SpaceX the largest launch provider in the world and for the U.S. government?

Many times than the rest of the U.S. space industry combined.
Wildfire structure losses can be mitigated with cutting firebreaks, building material selection and removing flammable trees and plants from properties. A lot of communities in western Canada have learned this the hard way.
This is just hypocrisy baiting, this isn't a real analysis at any level. They didn't bring ANY evidence for them to argue against, it was purely an opinion by the state that there could exist a threat, which again is not supported by evidence, true or not. America has a lot to gain by controlling tiktok and one American billionaire will become a lot richer, that's all there is to it. I mean both candidates used tiktok to campaign while wanting to ban it. It's just a ridiculous notion and even they know that.

"Oh you love hamburgers? Then why did you eat chicken last night? Hmmm, curious... You are obviously guilty"
> they provide a standardized interface for all those low-cost manufacturers and get paid by them

As far as trends in IoT goes, I feel like Tuya is mostly positive. I bought some cheap smart plugs at Costco and the default app was worthless. When I learned that they were Tuya-compatible, I managed to get a half-decent (relative to cost) experience out of them. It seems to me that the alternative are a bunch of unmaintained one-off apps for each fly-by-night manufacturer. With a standard protocol and app I think old devices will live a bit longer at least.

Perfect (better) world it's all open source, but c'est la vie.
I’ve been using this with a Fuji XT4 for last 2 years as webcam, working great.
Though for stuff like google meet, I usually set it to 1080p 60fps since that’s the max res most meeting software will accept anyways, and frame rate is more important for live meeting than res.
Do you disagree then that's not a sentiment widely reflected within Chinese social media? I simply gave an example for brevity, other answers are similar, I would encourage people to actually go in and read themselves here.
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Some houses survived Los Angeles' extreme wildfires
Taxation has overhead. If they were to actually track everyone's use and intention on a case-by-case basis, everything would get massively more expensive, just to offset the amount of extra bureaucracy needed to handle this.

It's the same idea as to why reducing the amount of means-testing and other hoops to jump to get social benefits would save taxpayers money - sure, more people who don't need benefits would get them, but that's more than offset by what would be saved by eliminating the workload of (and government jobs dedicated to) gate-keeping those benefits.
Eerily beautiful. It's like a brigher, closer, probably more dangerous meteor shower.
>But why didn't Supreme Court find the first ammendment arguments compelling?

Apparently the owners of the operation are not US citizens operating in the USA and don't have any first amendment rights because that's part of the US Constitution and doesn't apply to other countries.
I’ve tried to explain it many times too, but I can’t really articulate a good, comprehensive rule for when to single and when to double click.
>What does this have to do with the First Amendment?

Because obviously changing the owner-editor of a media outlet has everything to do with their editorial policy. The SCOTUS just said that censorship is ok (and forcing the change of the editor is censorship, there is no doubt about it), as long as it's against another state's editorial preferences potentially having a significant audience in the country.
> But TikTok seems to be uniquely about censorship.

Censorship, or protectionism because TikTok is eating the lunch of the big US social media?
Please do and let us know if you have any questions!
My reading of it is they didn't bother to take the motivation of the law into account (suppression of speech), and only took the law "as written" to decide.

> We need not decide
whether that exclusion is content based. The question be-
fore the Court is whether the Act violates the First Amend-
ment as applied to petitioners. To answer that question, we
look to the provisions of the Act that give rise to the effective
TikTok ban that petitioners argue burdens their First
Amendment rights...
Show HN: I made a workspace for founders to manage and validate startup ideas
After struggling to manage my growing backlog of startup ideas in various notes apps and spreadsheets, I built TheLeanIncubator - a dedicated workspace for founders to store, track, and validate their startup ideas.
It's built with Node.js/React and implements lean startup methodology into the workflow. Currently supports:

Kanban-style idea management
Validation milestone tracking
Customer interview documentation
Automated progress tracking

Link: https://theleanincubator.com
The tech stack:

Frontend: React with Typescript
Backend: Node.js
Database: PostgreSQL
Auth: Next-Auth
Hosting: Vercel

This is very much a v0.1. I'm using it daily to manage my own startup ideas and would love feedback from other founders/makers. All data is stored securely and can be exported anytime.
What I'm particularly interested in:

How do you currently manage your startup ideas?
What validation frameworks do you follow?
What features would make this truly useful for you?

Currently in private beta but happy to provide access to HN community members - just email me at adam@viralvisions.live.
People don't understand the exponential change. As you correctly stated, the effects of climate change are exponential. Why? Because if you take a normal distribution and shift it linearly, the area on the edges grows exponentially. This is why even a linear shift in temperature can lead to an exponential rise in disasters.

Math is hard for people, even on HN.
Why would the experience degrade because US users are disappearing?

There are countries other than America.
Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required
> We know that these drugs cost roughly $10/dose to produce…

Can you link the source?

If it really is a 600% to 6000% markup then it does seem unlikely they would try to save a few dollars.
> We’d love to hear your thoughts! :)

Have you ever played any of the Horizon (Zero Dawn/Forbidden West) games? :)

Jokes aside, it looks pretty cool. What kind of hardware have you tested it with so far? Is this using WiFi only?
There are at least in Germany exceptions for this for heavy cars loke these.
We're relying on buildx bake. And few days ago Docker just stopped working. I tried the steps that they outlined with no success.

I know I can still run it from CD/CI, but I don't want to jump around like a crazy monkey trying to debug my builds locally. I had issues with docker desktop just hanging on my mac.

I've been using podman for over a year with docker context pointing to podman so I can still use bake.

I've moved some of our workloads to s2i and bash scripts and could not be happier. Old good sysadminy stuff just works.
Sure but I don't buy it's being done at scale. Even in that video they are mentioning an unusual design as a partial reason for the pre-fabbed elements.
The motivation was based on content, so the actual text of the law shouldn't matter. Such acts have been overturned before (see the Muslim ban) based on motivation.
Can personally confirm. Wooden houses do flex and often survive unscathed. The only major damage is usually due to any masonry attached to the house (see: chimney) or the house moving off of the foundation (see: before ties were in the building code).
> double clicking is extremely uncommon on the web so that would be a big red flag.

You've never had a slow internet connection have you? I've seen double clicking from all users in the office. Comes from frustration.

How many times have you tried to open an application; for it not open? So you click the icon again only for two windows to split open?

Young, old, even techs. It's not as uncommon as you think.
>it's maintained by the grace of those who understand that often the real threat isn't the enemy, it's your fear of the enemy.

But how do you know that? Do you any such examples of how the CCP or China is dicussing politics amongst themselves to support that claim, their ideological leanings and papers or their own national strategies?
Such a simple operation, but it'd probably fix 95% of problems I've had with git.

"Uh oh, I tried to checkout a branch from remote by doing `git checkout origin/some-branch` instead of `git checkout some-branch` and made a couple source changes. Now I'm in detached head state. What is detached head ? I have to stash my revisions? Can I make a new branch with the same name or do I need to delete the origin/some-branch that I'm on?"

When you could be able to just revert the "operation" and check out the correct branch, that's amazing.
Great story!

> You’ll soon find that doing your hobby for a living cools your enthusiasm for your hobby

I think a lot of software developers are in that situations. I suspect for a lot of us, programming started as a hobby.

> A non-obvious negative is getting used to loss of status

I can imagine. I never had a great status, it can sound very vain but I sometimes I wish I had one :) Ironically, working in a big tech company can send you to the very top of the salary range but nobody knows, you're just a "programmer" which isn't super prestigious.
And what specifically is causing the security issue. Is it speech?
Google Drive uses it as an interaction pattern. I find that baffling, but while uncommon, it's not totally absent. And as others have pointed out, many users carry over their expectation of having to double-click from desktop interfaces.
Pakistan mentioned! Let's go!!
I looked back at my eBay history. It looks like I bought it way back in 2021, longer ago than it feels... They don't have a brand, and the listing is long gone, but here is the description on my invoice:

2 Pack M.2 NGFF SATA SSD to 2.5 inch IDE 44PIN Converter Adapter with Case
Unit price $17.98

I did a Mac Mini and also a Powerbook G4. They work great in both.
> I thought not trusting clients was already security 101?

Of course it is. Always has been.

The security field is riddled with complete nonsense. Much of it even couched in terms of "best practices". It's the perfect field for people with zero specific knowledge or experience to be trusted with management or engineering - since it doesn't matter until it did matter, at which point a mild non-apology is usually sufficient.
Do we know why the insurance companies can't simply raise the insurance price to match the risks in those areas that are prone to natural disasters? I mean in general, not as in California where the government imposes strange policies. Speaking of the policy, why wouldn't California allow the insurance company raise the premium by region? Doesn't such policy benefit the rich at the cost of the poor as the rich love to live by the hills, lakes, or beaches, which is very much against the ideology of California?
Well, India has already banned Tik-Tok, now the US is. It looks like some European countries are giving it the side eye. This may be the beginning of the end for it.
Less propaganda is always better. Less foreign propaganda doubly so. There's no benefit in a plurality of propaganda.
Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle
4.2M internet hosts hijacked via bugs in tunneling protocols