skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on them for over a year now. I was 320lbs at my peak. I'm down to 247 as of today. I have about another 27 pounds to lose, and then I think I'll be where my doctor wants me.

Here's my experience (n=1):

* Zepbound is better than Wegovy. Wegovy has more side effects than Zepbound. Also the Zepbound pen is better than Wegovy.

* If you're worried about needles, don't be. The injection feels more like a rubber band snapping at the skin. And you'll get used to it.

* I typically have moody days maybe 2 or 3 days after I inject. I attribute that to blood sugar changes.

* Food tastes differently to me now. Food I used to really like can sometimes now just be okay. I don't like french fries so much anymore like I used to (they're good, but not what I remember). The huge bowl of chips I got from the Mexican restaurants don't taste as good anymore. Potatoes aren't really as attractive anymore. I prefer protein.

* I had constipation, which is a side effect. There was a stool softener I took from costco that helped. Eventually that went away.

* I got a bike for exercise. It's nice in that I feel like I actually go places rather than sitting on a Peloton. I also get fresh air. I had to find something I wanted to do, and I hate walking frankly.

* As I lost weight my alcohol tolerance dropped, but it's to be expected but still surprising when one beer hits you harder than it used to.

Maybe some tips:

* Nausea might a be a side effect, more so with Wegovy than Zepbound according to my doctor. So I guess plan to take it easy if you can.

* Your relationship with food will change, so be prepared mentally for that. Food used to make you happy maybe, and now it won't. So figure out what activities and interests that make you happy which don't involve food.

* Sugar is the one thing that can still ruin your progress. So be careful with desserts/candies/sweets/sugared sodas/etc.

* There's some debate about whether diet sodas spike your insulin levels or not. I would recommend going to black coffee to get your caffeine if you haven't already, and black coffee will also help to stimulate your bowels as well. That said, diet sodas are still better than sugared sodas.
>No one has actually explained why they need to take a screenshot of a movie.

They do it because they feel like it. Why should they need a better reason than that?
Why not just let some of the farms go under, thus lowering costs of operating the remaining ones (because of lower demand as fewer of them will operate), and raise prices of their outputs?

Isn't this how farm economy operated ever since initial industrialisation, and the reason why we don't have 70% of people still employed on farms anymore? From time to time some fraction of farms goes under.
In what sense is Tesla the EV leader? BYD sold 4.3M EVs last year and is up 40% from 2023. Tesla only sold 1.8M and is down from 2023.

From where I’m sitting, Elon is very lucky the US government is protecting his business with tariffs, but that only affects US sales. They haven’t made a new car since 2020 either (cyber truck doesn’t count).
> Every well can be poisoned. Linux relies on people's values and people's skills. Neither of which are immune to degradation over time.

It's rather the opposite, combined with moral stance of Linus and it's core committee itself that has managed to kept Linux on this track so far.
> It's like Bill Gates being confused about USAID being dismantled and being willfully ignorant that the people dismantling it believe he's part of some sort of global health conspiracy along with Soros.

I really find this kind of seemingly performative "confusion" at what's happening by high profile people (politicians, media, etc) irritating. As if they don't know. It's similar to how they use every euphemism for the word "lie", i.e. "misrepresentation", "mischaracterization", etc, rather than call a lie a lie.
You can download sequentially too.
To be fair, it is not trained to produce VALID code, it is trained to produce code in the training data. From the language model point of view, it is not hallucination because it is not making up facts outside its training data.
I actually feel like it goes to say whether we are significant or not is irrelevant - your life is the only life you’ll ever experience, and it is of penultimate significance to the universe you will ever experience.
Brings back memories of those arcade side scrolling games, looks so good
Yeah but they're quite similar. LSD trips just vary a lot naturally, all kinds of things can happen on them.
I think it’s a category error to suggest IP law has anything to do with morals.
From the article: “Please do not send links, attachments, or any classified/sensitive information. If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write ‘All of my activities are sensitive,’” the email reads.
Worked :|

Didn't complain loudly ;)

Bought out my own pocket some stronger coffee, the really good stuff, so the team would work harder :D

Removed windows and hung bright curtains instead, they were cheaper by far and more fresh air can get in ... winning

Installed a bunch of baseball bats behind glass, ya just don't know when there'll be an emergency and if there will be enough to go around when moral compasses needed fixing.

... ah A.I. knows I'm lying as it just sat there staring at me, it either knows I didn't work last week or the week before that ... or I'm outside of the US.
Larry Ellison will write off the island of Lanai as his primary charging station.
Exactly, and they still have it from day one every time. It's not an effective method against piracy, it's just an annoyance to paying users.

They just never learn this lesson. Remember the meme joking about all the unskippable bullshit people had to watch on a DVD, when they could just download a pirated copy and press play :)
For top talent it might be.
First, it wouldn't help you since you're the one with this one-sided comparison of bloat you can remove being preferable to bloat you can't.

Second, Windows doesn't have it in the same crypto-protected-risk-breaking-boot way, there are well documented ways on debloating Windows both before and after an install.
I'm with you on this. Until proven otherwise I'm going to assume that we're very, very special, maybe even the point of the whole thing, that all of it is necessary just so we can be here. More of an excuse to not mess up what little we do have control over.
Sure, and I'm not a "billionaires shouldn't exist at all" person, so I'm not saying we should have a 95% wealth tax on billionaires. I'm also not proposing that we fund the government solely by taxing billionaires.

I'm saying we should tax them significantly more than we do now, and we should also tax multi-millionaires a lot more than we do now, and we should focus on reducing the deficit by raising revenues. We don't need to close the gap with all 6.9T in spending, we need to reduce the deficit of $800B.

We should look at raising an addition 200-600B in revenue, putting the burden largely on the backs of the extremely wealthy (and not just billionaires, but if you're in a household making more than half a million dollars a year), by heavily taxing their income, capital gains, and estates. We should look at moderate reductions in our defense spending. With approaches like that we could bring our deficit down into the $100-$200B range, which would be a more reasonable steady state for us.
Every time this topic comes up I post a similar comment about how hallucinations in code really don't matter because they reveal themselves the second you try to run that code.

I've just written up a longer form of that comment: "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes" - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/
> It's only "free" if you value your time at $0/hr.

With FOSS I don't have to spend time trying to figure out how to remove the latest unwanted crap from my start menu or taskbar. I don't have to spend time figuring out how to remove the telemetry crap. I don't have to set my default browser back to Firefox after every major update. I don't have to click through popups about new features they want to promote or telling me how I can waste even more money by subscribing to their cloud services. I don't have to lose work because it decided I didn't update often enough and just forces a reboot without my approval. No, I can just work on it and it will just do what I want, not what Microsoft wants. That saves me a lot of time.
> There is no price at which I think the service is worth the money.

It’s fine if you don’t think there’s anything worth watching on Netflix. Worth knowing that more than 300 million people around the world disagree: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-300-mil...
I gave up on C# and .Net after realising Microsoft is still the same old Microsoft I loathed back in the 90s and 00s when IE ruled the world. The emperor's new clothing is cross-platform .Net. The reality is that whilst .Net may well run on Linux and OS X the culture surrounding .Net hasn't changed. Case in point, I recently assessed .Net's leading CMS - Umbraco - for a project. Yes, it runs on Linux and OS X but can you use standard open source databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL with it? Sorry, not supported. You have to cough up for a MS SQL Server licence to get your open source CMS up and running. As if to rub salt in the wound Umbraco does support SQLite but wtf!? M$ culture will never change. Their lip service to Linux and open source only happened because their hand was forced after decades of pursuing the likes of Red Hat and SuSe with bogus patent lawsuits and secretly funding the notorious SCO in their Unix patent litigation.
The thing is, scaling font size does not necessarily mean you want to scale other aspects of the UI. Josh Comeau touches on that in this post: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surprising-truth-about-pixel...
Because all that will be left will be a few consolidated industrial farm scale operations.
In my opinion, all developing countries could do it and should do it. You either stay in line or push up, that's the unfortunate fate of developing countries. Rules are not set to protect the poor, they are set to keep poor people in places.
Cheers. I wish I could still quote the comment I was replying to, but IIRC, they stated that the NIH funded gain of function research on the virus that became known as Covid-19 after it escaped from the lab in Wuhan.

Honestly, lab escape has always been plausible to me, but there's sadly so much politics in assessments of lab-escape by governmental non-scientific agencies, whether it be the "oil on troubled water to placate China" potential bias or "blame China for it as part of an economic biffo" potential bias, that I hold out no hope of ever finding the truth.

Because China was never going to allow investigations by anyone, WHO, UN bodies, whoever, into the physical facilities and processes and data thereof, of that lab in Wuhan.

And, gain of function is an ethically dubious line of research, especially debated amongst scientists, and I'm dubious on it also.

But it's not illegal, and it has some scientific value. (Whether the value is worth the potential risk, well, scientists, debating, so yeah)

So then it comes down to...

Did NIH exceed any policy boundaries set when funding GoF? Did they contradict any laws?

Did they ignore a preponderance of evidence when making this decision?

If not, then using this as justification for crippling the NIH is solely based on personal agenda.

I have no particular dog in this fight but "NIH did ~~9/11~~ Covid-19!" is a really long bow to draw. (Which is how I read the original comment, not yours, to be clear)
The clickbait article title is completely unsupported by the actual content of the article.

The NIH isn't being slashed and burned. It's simply redirecting more of it's funding to actual grant recipients, to do actual research, rather than allowing NIH funding to be siphoned off by the universities for largely unrelated purposes.

Harvard siphoned off a whopping 69% of the grant amount, and it's not going to funding equipment or similar, those expenses also comes out of the remaining 31%.

If people actually cared about increasing the overall NIH research output, they should be supportive of these changes.
Then I think, you should still give a warning to users

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/07/court...
600m people in China live in poverty despite claims of the CPC eliminating it. Traveling around China you see this. Showing off main cities is not proof that people don’t live in poverty.

Low crime is simply not true. Most crimes are not reported or swept under the rug as local statistics are reported back to the central government and no one wants to look bad. But wow if you have Weibo you can see some pretty horrible stuff daily before it’s deleted. Nothing worse than seeing 2 woman hacked to death with an axe because of road rage. Cheap food in China comes with a lot of trade offs such as quality. Many shops recycle left over hotpot for the following day. Gutter oil is a real thing. Fake meats or meats from other animals is a real thing.
> Nope. Not doing that.

Why? I’ve started to use rlh as my base unit for almost everything, and it’s great as it automatically gives your whole design consistent vertical rhythm.
I see lying as institutional laziness on the decade scale.

The propaganda is pervasive enough to not realize its there at all. You shouldn't accuse others of being in their own informational bubble without realizing you're in your own. The desire to disenfranchise is also an extreme authoritarian impulse.
More likely, overpriced institutions like Harvard will cease to be competitive for grants, and those which offer better value for money will be better placed to submit competitive grant proposals.
Can US arrest the head of Chinese startups who have bought banned NVidia chips from the black market? Is buying a crime?
Definitely an improvement over your normal Text-To-Speach model, and to some degree really different, but the subtle imperfections do appear and ruin the overall perception. A move in the right direction, though, I suppose.
As a fellow (?) American who does not have fuck you money, but also does not have to work anymore, I can see how 100x wealth could make my life 100x better if played right. And I am not talking about ski lift tickets vs WoW subscription or organic food vs ramen, which really have trivial differences in value.
>Name me 5 executive orders by Trump which, combined, disrupt normal economic affairs by as much as that single one.

By the end of this year, I think you're going to look back on this comment and wonder how you ever typed it. FDR's policies are responsible for literally saving the economy and pulling the US out of the Great Depression.
Last time I called my mom who's in Beijing, she says that economics doesn't seem very good at the moment, many shops and restaurants has closed, but there are more luxury shops popping up. Looks like similar in the US.
TIL hangzhou/new tier1 is a "modest" city. It's a sick world class city.

Yeah, PRC RE in T1/2 cities stupid expensive, but highly compensated PRC talent always have option to rent for dirt cheap in T1 and buy something nice in T2/T3 city with a few years wage. Many highly paid Hangzhou tech workers renting in nice districts while buying equally nice in less expensive cities close by, i.e. renting nice condos in Binjiang for $2000 USD and buying 150sqm apartments for 400k USD in Yanghzou on single salary. Let's be real shitty T2 and nice T3 cities that puts most north American cities to shame, factor in cost of living relative to wage and it's much better QoL than most tier1 north American cities if you prefer urban life. Living really well in PRC on high end tech salary (i.e."AI leaders") is babymode if you're not a retard insisting on living in tapped out T1. Granted tech wage cucks in some western cities get to live in large houses which isn't available in PRC, which has it's appeal.
There are as many reasons as there are screenshots on reddit ...

* sharing glaring continuity errors ...

* finding real world shoot location via crowd sourcing and comparing screen and original to identifiy CGI addins.

* reasonable use screenshot for a fan wiki.

* send to a relative showing your face in crowd scene as an extra.

* ...

Why shouldn't people be able to take screenshots?
I don't know if syncing the videos would work because of playback issues over time but the aquarium pages sync their clocks every second just asking the server the time (demo time not wall time) over web-sockets and then subtracting 1/2 of the time it took to get a response. I suspect the technique works better for time based animations than video since video require seeking to change the time.
It was genuinely startling how human it felt. Apparently they are planning on open-sourcing some of their work as well as selling glasses (presumably with the voice assistant). I’m very excited to have a voice assistant like this and am almost a bit worried I will start feeling emotionally attached to a voice assistant with this level of human-like sound.
My bad, I thought it used to be the 1st? Or maybe I just saw too many months that started on weekdays and got the pattern wrong.

I appreciate the clarification, because I had wondered why I hadn't seen it yet.
AI voice is an overwhelmingly harmful technology. It's biggest use will be to hurt people.
Please. None of the media is making hay of Trump's IV-bruise, and credulously accepted the White Houses's statement that he was sharking hands too hard the day before. Half his face is droopy, but that's not notable or worthy of speculation when its Trump.
OK, but how does XCode conceivably "manipulate people". Apple's privacy promise was always as rooted in its business model as it was its technology. It says we make money primarily from selling you hardware and paid services so our interests are far more aligned with yours than ad supported free services.
The IRS rules. But tell me more
Looks like someone's prayers were answered.

Thoughts and prayers may have a future.
FBI attributes $1.5B Bybit hack to DPRK hackers
I think it's always been the ugly reality that factions in US politics aren't in the business of helping others, and it's less phony now to acknowledge that. Example: look at how many pious words were uttered about the US opioid crisis since 2010, by everyone from Obama to Trump to Biden to Hillary. Why were the Sacklers never criminally prosecuted, and allowed stash their assets abroad a decade before settlement negotiations? How is it "El Chapo" Guzmán or obscure figures like Joseph Kony could be brought to justice, but somehow not the Sacklers? How is it prosecutors could figure out the chain of command for the Abu Ghraib scandal, but not the opioid crisis? Why was the derailment and toxic leak in East Palestine, Ohio ignored by both media and Congress like it wouldn't have been if it was a plane crash? Why was Norfolk Southern allowed operate a longer train with 149 freight cars, including 20 hazmat, with only three employees, one of them a trainee, and defective bearings? Going back to when the Biden admin legislated to forbid the rail strike in 12/2022. Yet Biden wanted to cosplay wearing union caps throughout his presidency. I don't see how the performative phoniness on any side is useful to political discourse.
Erm, no. Its biggest use will be... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs :-)))
* read email asking for 5 points

* read email saying ignore 5 points email

* read another email again asking for 5 points

* read email from supervisor saying to ignore 5 points email

* thanked $DEITY that I'm no longer a federal public servant.
Recently ran into issues caused by Apple's DRM protection as well.

I wanted to stream Crunchyroll on my TV from my iPad 9 via the Lightning to HDMI dongle. Apparently an iOS update 2 years ago broke that functionality for DRM content [1].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/04/ios-16-break-drm-content-hdmi...
I did. When I lived in China and traveled outside of Shanghai it was eye opening. People living in slums with no running water or toilets. No trains. No buses. No taxis. The nicest people ever but makes you realise that the whole eliminating poverty claim is utter BS.
That's where it is inevitably going anyway.
> cars and houses should both depreciate

Perhaps, but at vastly different time scales. For most normal people a car degrades to beater status in just a couple decades.

Houses last more than a lifetime in most cases, barring natural disasters. Many centuries in some cases.

> The fact that we underbuild is why houses refuse to depreciate though.

Given that a house is seemingly good forever (no, not forever, but longer than a human lifespan) its value must go up at least as much as inflation. This is easy to prove by contradiction. Assume it didn't: it would mean two identical houses right next to each other would have vastly different prices depending on when they were built. But we know they don't, since comparables in any given neighborhood have about the same price (the value is assessed based on the comparables, after all).

If a house was built 30 years ago for $100K in labor and materials and an identical house across the street cost $400K in labor and materials to build today, the older house can't help but be worth at least as much because it is a comparable property.

Sometimes the argument is made that we'll just build so much that values are pushed below this, for both the old and new comparables. It is not clear to me who that "we" can be though, since no builder is going to afford to sell houses below cost of construction.
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
Email is also a thrash heap. My country has an official "inbox" app that aggregates messages from all agencies.
Well no, economic strength is really a matter of labor productivity, and I do not disagree in that the difference stems from government policies, I am not sure what statement I said makes you think I disagree?

The OP questioned people's stances on wealth inequality and free trade, implying that the growing inequality stems from free trade policies. This is understandable from solely an American perspective, but globally and economically speaking, this is untrue. My argument is that it's rather government policies around credit (and its costs (ie taxes)) which fundamentally drive economic inequality.
If you went naked into the wilderness, how long would you survive?

I expect 90% would be dead within 24 hours, most likely from hypothermia.
Very impressive. well done team sesame!
What’s your actual point, dude?

> Plenty of places mask violating peoples' privacy as "analytics data" to drive decisions about how to manipulate those and other people.

Are you talking about a different group of places? Or is this your view of places that collect telemetry?

Do you use Xcode? Are you aware of Apple’s telemetry disclosures? How do you feel that Xcode telemetry has ever or could ever be used to manipulate people? How do you feel peoples privacy has been violated? Do you want to re-state your point in a more concrete way instead of saying something that basically amounts to “I’m upset, so it’s bad!”

I hate rent-a-crowd privacy people.
The existence of one is usually an indicator of more, especially when the sample size is low.

If we were the only “rational” beings (all of past, present, and future), that would clearly be some feat!

However, if we’re to bet on our limited evidence that this is true, we’re likely not to flourish as we might.

Just remember, there are more stars than sand, and more time than not.

We are surely not the first observers of this reality (however “rational” or not), and likely not the last.
If you let the perfect be the enemy of the good like this then I can’t imagine that you ever have or ever will be in charge of, well, anything.