skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s just ignore the controversial things like cholesterol.

Your knees are significantly more likely to work well into old age if you’re active, but not constantly supporting excess weight. Talk to any orthopedic doctor and they will tell you weight loss makes your lower body joints much healthier in old age. Not to mention the natural increase in activity people experience when they are lighter and walking is less of a chore.

Having healthy lower body joints makes you much less of a fall risk.

Being less of a fall risk extends your lifespan quite a bit once you’re around 60-70.

Being overweight is one of the most objectively bad for you things out there, but it’s a shame we all share (75% of Americans are overweight and way even higher you look at people old enough to be doctors).

The entire point of this article is now that it is something treatable through medical science, people who understand the major health downsides of being overweight are treating themselves.
Now all I can think is how there was a Janet in my family and none of us children could say her name, so she became Janice to us forever even as adults.
Yes, and that's precisely the root of the problem here.

If you want government that's responsive to the will of the people, then it has to be either directly elected by the people, or accountable to someone elected by the people.

The way this is supposed to work constitutionally is that Congress sets policy by law, and the executive "take[s] Care that the Laws be faithfully executed". The executive branch does not set domestic policy at all; it just implements the policy Congress set.

But what happens when the scope of government grows so much to the point where Congress cannot possibly set all policy itself? What did happen is that Congress started creating agencies and granting them broad powers over certain aspects of domestic policy. It then, as the constitution provides, became the executive's job to implement those agencies. And as any software dev knows, there's a lot of wiggle room in implementation details.

So now we end up in a situation where the executive has a huge amount of control over these agencies which in turn have a huge amount of control over us.
You are being downvoted because the therapeutic use of these drugs doesn’t involve life long use. It’s expected and common to transition off of them once an immediate result is achieved.
wow this is like:

"I made a hypothesis that works with 1 to 5.
if a hypothesis holds for 10 numbers, it holds for all numbers"
All we have left is a dumpster fire supported by ads.

> HN (website whose sole purpose is to let people advertise)

I don't think anyone comes here to read the advertisements (which is what paid job postings with no comments? I'll pass.). The closest you get are the "who's hiring" threads. Calling that an advertisement when both parties clearly want to engage seems wildly disingenuous. Advertisements are necessarily forced on people. There isn't a single person in human history whose life was improved by an advertisement (except the people hosting the ads, of course).
Making a judgement against someone based on where they randomly happened to be born is self-defeating as talented people who are security- and defense-oriented will just work for another place that you maybe don’t want them to work. Interestingly, most of the news I’ve come across of someone betraying national secrets has almost always concerned a white man, but maybe that’s just what I know.
This is tangential, but the fact there are a significant number of physicians with lifestyle diseases is testament to the idea that our food culture/industry is broken. As doctors they're probably not impoverished, ignorant, or even lazy. So the fact they also struggle to keep a healthy weight suggests maybe the food that's readily available is a big part of the problem.
Henry the Potter. Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it heh.
All of the symbols in Uiua have short english words as alternate names, and the online editor allows you to type them by alias.

K has "traditional names" for all the primitive operators which appear in reference cards and which are typically used when discussing code aloud with other K programmers. Q and Lil, which are both K descendants, outright replace some symbols with those named keywords. Named keywords can make the primitives superficially easier to remember, at the cost of making idiomatic patterns in the language less visually apparent.
To each their own, but you ought to meditate on how much of this "purity test" is just your own psychology looking for a way to feel better than others. If people start getting healthier/fitter from meds than "the hard way" would you be mad? What about people who lift every day and take steroids, they're in the same category as Ozempic patients right?
I just write things so i can reference them later. Saving myself the effort rewriting things i'm saying.

And if anyone else benefits is a bonus.
Worth noting that canned "sardines" can be any of a multitude of unrelated fish, so it's not a good differentiator. Although they tend to be small fish, which is probably a reasonable predictor for lower mercury content.
Recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388973
Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
Hey HN,

I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool.

It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me.

The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know.

Cheers!
> I personally think it says volumes about how those in the Trump-Musk group (Musk group?) see this. They see the task as infiltrating an adversary..

This is what actual schizophrenia looks like.
In the classic cartridge systems, you plug in the cartridge, and the data is directly accessible on the bus of the system. Some milliseconds to initialize hardware, and the game can start.

What they're doing here is dumping the cartridge, and loading it into an emulator. That, and probably the boot of whatever OS the device is running, is the "load time" for the game.
Not that this is really news at this point but halting funds that have already been approved by congress (if I'm understanding this right) is exactly the violation of separation of powers. Once its finally challenged in court, and I guess assuming it is struck down, do all these executive defunding orders just all go away or does every single one have to be challenged separately? What a huge waste of time.
My first thought too. Permanent... As long as checks notes the territory of Cocos Islands doesn't change governance.
No-one believes that I went to school with someone called Ben Deacock, but it’s true.
And yet the things they write primarily benefit themselves (nobody pays the rent by reading the news). So, then: how does that shape what journalists write?
Ebola: Anatomy of a Global Outbreak (2014) [video]
Except that Harry isn't a nickname nobody has any more.
It's certainly too early to see if this class of drugs extends lifespan, but it does improve numerous biomarkers that are associated with longer lifespan. And a longer functional lifespan as well.
Because it's a lot less work! I still have to schedule my workouts and find time to make healthy meals, but I no longer have to schedule my meals and social calendar around when I get too hungry to function.
6:11 I don't find this particularly strange. I think they'd make a much stronger argument if they showed the drop-off vote for 2020. I found it strange that they only picked 2012 and 2016 given my theory that drop-off votes are probably more prominent in controversial elections. Especially given the fact Kamala entered the race somewhat last minute. I also find it odd that there are no links to explore the previous years that were shown in the video from the website linked in the video's description [1].

10:10 Another claim of irregularity that doesn't quite support their conclusion. It seems they're indicating that both plots seem irregular, which I agree, but there thesis of fraud doesn't completely address 2020's case. They could say republican cheated in 2020 as well, but then they'd have to explain why this election went any different.

11:36 Here they're trying to support the irregularity of the data with anecdote. "Does this match from your opinion with the actual demographic there?" is not a methodical approach to figuring out what's wrong. Surely not every republican would be okay with fraudulent votes regardless of who won. A contrary voice in these video would lend some credence to their claims.

13:28 Voting against one's registered party also doesn't seem crazy to me as I've had many friends who have this past election. My own anecdote doesn't affect the data and may not sway arguments, nor does my theory of controversial elections breeding "irregular" results, but hopefully it can create an equally valid opinion than the one presented in the video.

15:05 If someone was rigging the election in what way? Any security model being claimed as breached needs to define what constitutes a break and how the attack could create that break in security.

16:30 I don't understand why a '2014 Wisonsin Gov. Race' (the title of the graph) is applicable here. Maybe she just used it as a lead-in for the next part?

18:37 Why is she bringing up the random distribution of inadvertent errors?

After spending about an hour watching the video and observing the results, I'm even more skeptical of their claims.

[1] https://smartelections.us/dropoff
Yeah that’s an autocomplete bug I didn’t catch until edits timed out. Thats “scenarios”.
You're asserting that they are curious enough about a free browser to join a subreddit, but not curious enough to download it?
The problem with shell scripts are that they are objectively badly designed. And I do mean objective--there is no reason to accept that "accidentally delete your home directory" is a sane default behavior for "oops I forgot to set a variable". Any project that attempts to make shell scripts not broken is, by design, going to have break compatibility, because compatibility is insane.

Powershell is interesting because it's attempting to introduce a different modality into shell scripts--rather than marshalling data as streams of bytes, you can actually represent the output as, well, data. So that a producer program can say "I'm outputting a list of files" and the consumer can actually handle it as a list of files and easily deal with the fact that maybe files have weird names like " ". A task that, for all the 50 years of experience on UNIX, still requires you to jump through hoops in every other shell script.
The diagram of link rot is depressing.

I used the same unique online alias from age ten to eighteen.

I used to be able to google it and see hundreds of results. Dozens of forums I posted on. Dozens of games I played. In my twenties, I'd do this for the nostalgia of reading posts I'd written in my preteen era.

Now, there are just seven results.
No, Rust gives you a lot to wrap your head around very quickly, and it took me three or four epiphanies to get it, and I tried to learn and stopped twice before I was able to get far enough along with it that it became easy to think about and work with. It doesn't make you bad programmer, but I'd still suggest giving it another shot every 6 months or so as your time allows, and see if you're getting farther each time. As long as you're still learning each time you bounce off of it, it was probably time well spent, most Rust concepts will show up in other languages, and the ones that won't are still useful paradigms to be aware of so you can contrast it with other paradigms as you get more experience with those.
Eh, I run an ad-supported website that employs and has had to fire people because of adblocker fluctuations before.

I would kill to get a few regular sponsors and not need an ad platform but I've been literally able to only find one sponsor after almost a decade. No one wants to pay without tracking, especially in emerging markets/niches.
> I have a secret that I use to keep myself healthy

Whats your secret?
Discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999735
Quite an understatement:

> The core is about 4,000 miles from the Earth's surface and, despite best efforts, scientists have so far been unable to reach it.
He's on my list of "science advisors" as well (Dr. Patrick being the OG in this regard).

Another that bridges the gap is https://www.youtube.com/physionic
The sealant isn't just for water ingress protection but also to have no hard edges that car tires will eventually snatch upon and erode the edges. Using a compactor makes it less likely if done well as well.
I don't know shit about law, but I'm assuming it's not allowed for someone to build their own compiler and make their own business out of the Ada programming language?
Developers act like they forgot about K
How I learned to stop worrying and love the LLM
LLM Failure Modes in Medical QA Arising from Inflexible Reasoning
Haven't seen uncheched_deallocation in modern codebases in a long time... The secondary stack removes many/most use cases of short-lived dynamic allocation and pointer-passing. Controlled types, containers, alleviate most other use-cases. I'd frown at code review if I saw raw memory allocation. Memory safety issues I've seen (very rarely in 15 years of dev) hinge on aliasing, stack overflow (which you can mostly catch now) and tumbling down in C bindings.

I'll praise the language I use daily as far more memory-safe than the others I use daily (bar managed-memory Java-like languages).
What would you propose as an alternative? All healthcare systems have to ration care because resources are limited and demand is effectively infinite. We can discuss the process used for rationing but it has to be done on some reasonably objective basis.
It's a stupid choice
The article‘s author argues that this would be a slippery slope with secondary and tertiary effects that Apple might not be willing to risk.
Last I checked Google Drive shows everything as files in folders, just like a desktop OS.

And as someone who had their house (whole town actually) burn down recently, cloud storage saved all my data, thousands of baby photos, etc...
All these complains about "shortuts for copy-paste" are so confusing...

COPY: select text with the mouse

PASTE: middle click

don't people use that? No need for the keyboard at all! It works across all programs since forever (except inside jupyter notebooks on firefox, for some weird reason).

If I had to single out a unique feature that makes linux worthwhile (as compared to windows or macos) it would be that one! Way ahead of anything else.
There are also a lot of nicknames for Margaret (Marge, Madge, Maggie, etc), I guess because there just aren't nearly as many biblical names for women/girls so people wanted to get creative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999672
"BC" is shorter than "ago"
I may have missed it, but what autoimmune disease were you diagnosed with? It seems rather odd that you wouldn't mention it.
Trying to get some technical details: https://boomsupersonic.com/boomless-cruise

It seems "boomless cruise" is just flying at low ultrasonic speeds high enough. So the novelty is not breaking the laws of physics, but having engines that can live in these inefficient trans-sonic speeds for long durations.

The reason that sonic aircrafts are banned above land in the US is largely due to the bungled handling of the Oklahoma City tests back in the 1960s. Citizens were subjected to some pretty gnarly combinations of high Mach and low altitude, so public outcry made the FAA abandon any reasonable parameters.

So more than anything, this seems like a reeducation/lobbying effort to update the guidelines. From their website:

> In the U.S., FAA regulation 14 CFR 91.817 currently prohibits all supersonic flight over land, regardless of whether a boom reaches the ground. Boom Supersonic supports revising this regulation to allow Boomless Cruise and to establish a certification pathway for future low-boom aircraft. Updating this regulation will support innovation, promote American leadership in aviation, and strengthen U.S. national security.
JWST shows surprising violence in a young star system's birth
I think that section only covers promotions on the Steam platform itself, or other platforms, not in-game advertising content.
I'd actually say that in contrast to debates over informal "reasoning", it's trivially true that a system which only produces outputs as logits—i.e. as probabilities—cannot engage in *logical* reasoning, which is defined as a system where outputs are discrete and guaranteed to be possible or impossible.
How does being backed by financial information magically make that constraint go away?
You first justified the Trump administration's blatantly illegal actions by saying Americans voted for Trump. Now, you're saying it's all fine, because anyone can challenge Trump's illegal actions in court.

The fact that the president is taking one extreme, illegal action after the next in rapid succession is itself extremely alarming and unprecedented in American history. The fact that the Vice President has publicly declared that courts have no right to overrule the President's illegal actions is equally alarming.
The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare (2019)
Well, that's nifty.

We sometimes use Excel to prepare our scripts. We can use that to automatically optimize a rehearsal schedule so that people get the maximum use of their time, and avoid being called in for rehearsals where they have little to do.
I'm more fed up with smug rustaceans acting like everything Rust does is somehow novel. Just because *you're* not aware that a language feature already existed earlier doesn't mean Rust invented it.
I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or not. I've only _once_ in my life encountered a tool that didn't have `--help` support (and that was a script written by the worst coworker I've ever suffered), but plenty of times I've encountered tools that have no manpage entries.
-kin is not but via your link https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-kins sometimes "-ikins"/"-ykins" is used, I've heard this before but can't think of any specific examples
Yeah. reminds me of the ancient okcupid data analysis blogs and not the creepy one by sleep8. The group I'm surprised not to see represented in their analysis is "personal", where people I know use ChatGPT as a therapist/life coach/sms analysis&editor. and of course they crucially but understandably left off the denominator. 35% of a million requests is different than 35% of a billion. and also how many of the conversations had 1 message, indicating "just testing" vs 10 or 100 messages.
The story with the Indo-Europeans is basically as follows:

1. By intersecting ancient word sets of ancient Indo-European languages using comparative phonetics we can try and reconstruct the words of the proto-IE language, both their approximate sounds and approximate meanings. This gives us some information about the society. E.g., the PIE language very likely had a word for wheel, which puts the common PIE community in the period after the wheel was invented. Other words can help us guess what landscape the PIE people lived in, and it has been generally assumed for almost a century now that it strongly resembles Southeastern Europe, essentially the Ukrainian steppe. Two alternative hypotheses (modern-day Turkey and the area to the north, in modern-day Poland/Ukraine) had different drawbacks. We can also look at the locations of the earliest historically attested IE groups (Europe, Middle East, Punjab, Anatolia) and try and guess where they all may have had come from, given the time frame.

2. By looking at the descriptions of the earliest IE societies (first of all the society of Rig-Veda), we can try and guess what way of life these people had. We can then look at all the archaeological cultures in the roughly appropriate area from the roughly appropriate time frame and see which of those have features of interest (in the IE case, warrior-like culture with social stratification, etc.).

3. We know that IE migrated a lot and provided a lot of genetic material to modern populations in Europe and some other regions. Since quite recently, by looking at palaeo-DNA data from the remains of the people who belonged to these cultures, we can try and check who of them made the biggest contribution to contemporary populations.

All these sources of data are rather imprecise, but if you combine them all together and see a clear pattern, this looks rather convincing.
I actually just sat down to crack open MITs Theory of Knowledge and it seems promising and free:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-211-theory-of-knowledge-sprin...

This also looks promising:

https://hiw.kuleuven.be/en/study/prospective/OOCP/introducti...

If you wanted something a bit different Wittgenstein’s Tractatus has always made my head spin with possibilities:

https://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/tlp-hyperlinked.html
I don't think there are many cases where it's used "correctly" but it does get constructed in some cases - e.g. in Harry Potter some of Ron's brothers call him "ickle Ronniekins", which is slightly nonsense but we recognise it immediately as a maximally diminutive form of his name.

I can't think of an augmentative suffix, only prefixes (super- and things like that).
On macOS the shutdown command uses `-h` to mean halt, i.e. an actual shutdown.
> No the price will become 1.05 and when customer buys 2 it will be 2.10 not 2.05

That's quite literaly against the "various rules to try to ensure neither the seller or buyer always benefited" that the previous commenter was talking about writing software to handle.

No country that has cash rounding rules would allow 2*1.03 to be charged $2.10.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_rounding

(Unless you mean: the price of a single item is changed to $1.05, in which case sure; that's the business's perogative to raise prices but it's not taking advantage of the rounding system)
They're both excellent programs. The schools have different vibes: Berkeley is much more urban and closer to SF in culture while Stanford is more of a bubble.

If you are interested in Academia after graduation, then your primary advisor is going to have a lot of influence on where you end up and the trajectory of your career. Their reputation and their network will have a lot of influence since you will be seen as a protégée of Prof X. The school tends to be a bit less important. If you're interested in industry and startups then Stanford is probably closer to that culture.
I think the trap people fall in is that LLMs don't need to be novel or reason as well as a human to revolutionize society.

Plenty of value is already added just by converting unstructured data to structured data. If that is all LLMs did they would be still be a revolution in programming and human development. So much manual entry and development work has essentially evaporated overnight.

If there was never a chat based LLM "agent" LLMs just converting arbitrary text to structured JSON schema would be the biggest advancement in comp sci since the internet. There is nothing equivalent that existed before except for manual extraction or rule based hard coding.

Judging LLMs based on some criteria of creativity or intuition from a chat is missing the forest for the trees.