skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gastrointestinal side effects" I assume that is code for excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces.
Interesting article, but I do have a nit:

> Nike is shifting from "Just Do It" impulse messaging to long-term wellness partnerships

My read of "just do it" is actually the opposite. It's a message to dedicated athletes about not making excuses end executing.
I don't see the point in AI code completions, they are just distracting noise. I'm only doing bigger changes with AI.

Prompt based stuff, like "extract the filtering part from all API endpoints in folder abc/xyz. Find a suitable abstraction and put this function into filter-utils.codefile"
Merz (CDU) is the new chancellor-elect, Scholz (SPD) was the previous chancellor (although really hed of a weak, unstable three-party "traffic-light" coalition). Weidel (AfD) also doubled voteshare to 20.8%. The SPD and also the Greens lost at last week's election, Habeck (Greens) quit, and they will both have less influence, and the Greens might not even be in the next coalition. Merz/CDU will be a main factor in the next coalition govt's position on Russia-Ukraine.

Clearly each of the above parties have differing views on Russia-Ukraine, just like Obama/Biden/Trump. That's how coalitions work. It's very different to the US two-party presidential system, where you can directly measure a leader's power by their majority in seats or voteshare.
This is nonsensical. The response to "net worth is a bad proxy for consumption" isn't to show various ways of slicing and dicing net worth. A person with net worth $30m doesn't consume 10x that of someone with $3m, or anything like it. Piketty's own assumption is that most of the money is used for investment capital.

The argument is clear - net worth is a bad proxy for consumption and lived experience. You just can't read. Piketty can, he just doesn't like that it makes his argument significantly less potent so he tries to paper over it with "power" and "influence" as if 99% of the world could care less about those things.
This one from 2013 when the Chromebook Pixel was announced was pretty great too.
https://tomsepe.com/portfolio/google-pixeltree/
> Less than one fifth of its revenue comes from federal sources

Over one-quarter (26%) comes from Federal sources according to the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances.

Having 26% of your government funded by (Federal) income taxes sure sounds like Florida can't operate without income taxes. They simply outsource collection to another jurisdiction.
The Chinese EV Maker Threatening Ford and GM
> The deprecation of OMXPlayer has been problematic for one, since I rely on some custom applications which need to be able to have some fairly precise/low latency requirements between when you tell it to start playing vs when the playback actually starts, etc. I haven’t found a suitable mechanism which meets our reqs on a Pi for controlling/playing videos yet since that deprecation.

Yeah. The Pi3 -> Pi4/5 jump was quite a massive change in how things work. I've been writing my own playback engine for 10 years now and that one was quite challenging. Precise playback start is something my software supports: You control everything in Lua and can, for example, preload a video and then start it based on either internal logic or based on an external trigger. Up to the Pi3, my software also supports dynamically adjusting the HDMI clock, so the vsyncs of multiple displays are synchronized. Customers have been using that for almost 10 years for video wall playback.

If you go with the hosted version of the software, provisioning is as simple as extracting a single 60MB zip file to an empty SD card and placing that into the Pi. If needed you can even use the API to preconfigure that ZIP file to include settings like WiFi.
I was giving advice, not proposing a prohibition against doing what you want to do. It's your body, and your health.
https://archive.ph/sKna3
Apologies, I've updated to clarify that my comment is under the assumption that the host is not already under a non-natural influence or medical condition. For example, in the case if there is a medicine that would help drug addicts with their addiction I would be 100% for it.
I guess people whose strengths and weaknesses differ from your own should feel like absolute failures then.
Chrome at launch was an extremely minimal web browser (hence the name, Chrome referred to the barest amount of window chrome around the web content) with decent system integration and essentially no Google service integration other than setting Google as the default search engine (maybe the only one, I don’t remember if there was even a setting to change it). There wasn’t a Mac version at first, but when that came, it has Keychain integration too rather than its own password manager.

It was fast. At some point it had its own install of Adobe Flash so you could get rid of your regular Flash install and run two browsers: one without Flash as your main, and use Chrome for those few websites that require Flash effectively isolating them from your regular web experience, until this eventually became moot, it was another WebKit browser, albeit with V8 instead of JavaScriptCore, and pioneered per tab process isolation so rather than your whole browser crashing, just that one tab would. Prior to Chrome, whole browser crashes were not uncommon, oftentimes because of Flash (giving another reason to want to isolate it, although plug-ins I think were also isolated).

What Chrome subsequently became is the very definition of enshittification, and you can pinpoint it to around the time Google started trying to force people to link their Chrome profiles to their Google Accounts.
There's probably a sweet spot. Same with people. Too much context (especially unnecessary context) can be confusing/distracting, as well as being too vague (as it leaves room for multiple interpretations). But generally, I find the more refined and explicit you are, the better.
Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
Hey HN,

After scrounging the local classifieds and our version of Craigslist to find pre-owned equipment and getting frustrated I decided that there needs to be a flea market but for electronics tools and homelab stuff. The Berlin Swapfest follows in the same spirit as the MIT Swapfest!

I’ve partners with a long time hacker space in Berlin c-base who will be hosting this event!

Would love for local hackers to come by and buy and sell their old gear!

Details on the site!
I tried it, it's nice. There's an issue where high CPU usage makes it unusable though, last time I checked it was still open. Will probably try again in future.
fun to see the ‘write protection’ screw and think back to my toshiba chromebook, it also got coreboot thanks to Mr. Chromebox. Linux never ran quite right on the eMMC sadly…
I assume GP isn't a woman, why do you think 20% is normal for men. The point is that there are no side effects and there is no reason to stop taking it, especially if it saves him money.

Are you just using average as weasel words here? I get my best pump and generally have the best workout sessions at ~10-12%, which is easily maintainable for me, but definitely not for most people, having a drug that makes it effortless for most people is a GOOD thing. People shouldn't have to suffer to get to <15% if they aren't born with good genetics?

And what about strength athletes who want to build up a large runway? Now literally all of them can get down to ~7% no problem, and have no problems on the way up either.
Chroma is now 4x faster, powered by Rust
Boilerplate is better than bad abstractions. But good abstractions are far superior.
I use it everyday, it has to have good search and good static analysis built in.

You also have to be very explanatory with a direct communication style.

Our system imports the codebase so it can search and navigate plus we feed lsp errors directly to the LLM as development is happening.
Steam does its own thing but many games also collect their own analytics as you play.
>What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes?

This is similar to the rocket engines where the thrust nozzle and its extension are cooled by the fuel otherwise they would melt or fail structurally.
As you state, peace with Putin in not on the table. Your way is to grant him his every ambition, whatever that may be (historically taking territory piece by piece, be it in Georgia or Ukraine). The sanner way is to defeat Putin so that he is forced to stop now, not pause and continue his ambition after he heals some wounds. As you admit, Putin will NEVER not carry out his ambitions.
Our social media personas are also tiny subsets of our actual personalities. I think most people don't reveal their full character in any one medium.

now phone conversations—that would be a goldmine and a nightmare.
I edited my response. I'm from Canada, but we also have a 26% obesity stats.
Lots of people have access to resources. Very few of them start successful businesses. Zuckerberg’s parents were dentists. They were well off, sure, but there are hundreds of thousands of dentists in the US, if not millions. Why don’t all of their kids start companies like Facebook?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176035
Can’t shill outrage without something to be outraged about
+1, immensely satisfying read for any aviation nut
We could be Boltzmann Brains on drugs.

Or worse.

Presumably the probability of a brain appearing as a disordered psychiatric monster is far higher than the probability of arriving as an Earth-normal tenured cosmologist.
I think some skepticism is warranted. If this is a medication that most of us can be on and it comes with positive health benefits, that would mean that humans as a species have lower than optimal GLP-1 levels. I guess it’s possible that our bodies are wired for a world that is unlike today’s and that these drugs correct for that. But drugs that doesn’t come with side effects. It also wouldn’t be the first time that a drug company manages to convince the medical community to think a drug is healthier than it really is (OxyContin).
So, would protecting Estonia bring us closure to Nuclear war? What would stop Russia from taking Estonia, Latvia, or even Lithuania, or is the West ready to use a Nuclear weapon in that situation? The Lithuanian capital city, Vilnius, is 20 km from the Russian border; they wouldn't even have to cross it to level the entire city. Would NATO attack Russia proper, would the West Nuke Russia to stop the destruction of Vilnius? I'm sure Lithuania would use a Nuclear weapon to protect itself.

If there is one thing that this war has shown us, it is that a country's security is in its own hands and a Nuclear Weapon is the difference between being invaded and conquered (ex: North Korea and soon to be Iran).
Everything collects analytics these days. However, VS Code let's you opt out of telemetry and I doubt it slows down builds like Xcode is doing.
This also applies to high performance car turbo engines, a “turbo timer” is used so the ignition can’t be shut off until the turbo cools down.
When today's children are old, "house" may well imply "billionaire" in many places. At 11% appreciation, it only takes 67 years to gain a factor of a thousand.

Then we will be ruled by trillionaires.
The world was not "working just fine". It _appeared_ to be "working just fine" but it isn't.

Take a look at U.S. shipbuilding capacity, U.S. military equipment maintenance, and the defense industrial base that is maintaining the _appearance_ of the powerful status quo. This isn't unique to the U.S., the same is happening in Russia.

Turns out it costs a _lot_ of money to keep this charade up for everyone.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168589
Russia is an enemy of the Left and "wokeness" specifically at this point, for sure. I'd oddly posit that Russia is at least semi-aligned with the "sane & conservative" values that the MAGA movement represents, so it all makes sense.

Personally, I think all Western nations need to be in partnership-with and promoting Democracy in a relatively-sane and ethnically-white country like Russia. Short of a few eastern-European countries and Israel, Russia has until recently been the only such country that hasn't fallen prey to "pretty please invade us we'll even pay you" kind of left-wing socialism that's fallen upon most of the west. A movement that oddly hasn't fallen-upon any non-majority-white country around the world.
Not even engaging with your pathetic arguments based on your comment history being exactly why HN has become full of Redditors. And the fact that you make no mention of the bloodshed.
Bad faith comment I assume. The most popular repo is some kind of guide. The other top ones are repos for sites like login.gov and government analytics
Read up on fen-phen.
Trump isnt trying to solve anything in Ukrine. He's very happy if Europe want to continue the war. He's trying to solve an american problem, which is the US being trapped in europe, spending large amounts there, and otherwise wasting resources on containing the wrong country (Russia).

He will try to impose a peace, as the best outcome for everyone -- if he cannot do that, he will choose the best outcome for america and let europe manage the mess.
Here's another word for ya: hoax.
I've heard similar accounts and it sounds pretty wild. I'm not overweight and don't take anything but I do enjoy food. It would be horrible to me to lose the enjoyment of such a primal pleasure. If the choice is between being overweight and giving up the pleasure of eating altogether, I can imagine plenty of gourmands who would rather carry the extra weight for the physical and social pleasures of food. I've heard anecdotal reports of people losing their enjoyment of food permanently, even when discontinuing the drug. Canot confirm but that would be a high cost to pay, imho.
Much more recently to be honest. The bottom only fell in MechE fields (Automotive, Aerospace, Defense) in the 1990s, but if global tensions continue, it might be a good time to be a MechE.
> Like, write an Arduino program that performs

stuff like that works amazing

> But for anything involving my $dayjob it's been fairly useless beyond writing unit test outlines

This was my opinion 3-6 months ago. But I think a lot of tools matured enough to already provide a lot of value for complex tasks. The difficult part is to learn when and how to use AI.
> scares the rich is wealth taxes.

I'm scared of 2% wealth taxes (as discussed in New Zealand) because I believe that will take 100% of retirement savings over time. And I'm no multimillionaire. Say portfolio returns 6% and drawdown(spending) is 4% then 2% takes 100% of gains.

The 1% or 2% figures sound trivial to the voting majority but they really are not trivial. Cue discussion on compounding.

The other issue is Forcing sale of private owned businesses. If you fuck with the incentives to grow a businesses, you will end up with a shitty economy and everybody suffers.

Apart from the obvious 2% * decades = lots (for low growth investments).

I could work to create new high-margin export income for New Zealand: I have the skills. But I don't work because I hate our taxation system: NZ loses.

An economy needs to incentivise everyone to work including the wealthy: otherwise it bombs. It scares me to see people in the US want to introduce features to cripple their most successful economy. I think most workers poorly understand businesses or economic incentives.
The way I read it, i think the original commenter would usually agree with you, but the effect of the drug turns the post-fast food / treat satiation from joy to pain.
It's not necessarily his idea.
> This inline type field is key for fast and effective type checks for all casts, similar to other type-safe languages (e.g., Java or Rust).

I am not a Java expert but I know enough Rust to detect a problem here. Maybe it just needs clarification?

Rust is often not in fact storing the "inline type field", so presumably they're thinking of some very particular cast and not "all casts". But what cast?

some_f64 as i32 // Nope, that's going to emit code to work out the closest integer

<&str>::try_from(filename).unwrap() // Nope, that's just going to check the filename is UTF-8 encoded

OK, they talk about "down casts" Rust doesn't have inheritance, but presumably they're thinking of e.g how you go from an IpAddr to an Ipv4Addr ? And now at last it makes a little sense, yes we do need to store the difference between v4 and v6 in the data structure. But, what I do not understand is, how can the equivalent C++ (without type++) do anything reasonable here? Why would this be a bug people repeatedly trip? I know C++ is famously the language for footguns, but this is some gets() level stuff if the "no type info YOLO cast" is a thing people actually write.
Because someone selling AI tooling is incentivized to sell you AI, not to inform you.
18F, when it started, was viewed with suspicion by other federal agencies—here were these Silicon Valley know-it-alls, coming in to tell us how to do our jobs. So, basically DOGE.

Except: 18F spent 10 years building trust in the government. As consultants, they met their clients where they were, and acted with empathy and understanding. This is pretty much the opposite of DOGE coming into an agency and seizing control.

18F’s model was geared toward continual improvement over time (“Move slowly and fix things”). It was, I think, a model with a more long term mindset than what is going on with DOGE.
Anecdotally, it isn’t really giving up impulses. It blunts the desire for a lot of the ones that are related to consumption.

I can still get a wild idea at 9 pm and lose myself in code. I still see flowers and buy them form my wife without planning. I still have a bowl of ice cream before bed sometimes.

The best way to describe it is that you still have the impulse, but you are able to rationally consider it.
Yes, and it seems to be global. MS hasn’t even updated their status page though.
I wonder if Hitchens were still alive, what he would think of the AI version of himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kuEusnt8bo&t=20s
I’d be interested in seeing the scripts if you are able to share (redacted) versions of them
Hmmm, you raise an interesting question. I'm no game theorist, but are bully/victim dynamics and Nash equilibria necessarily mutually exclusive? What I'm getting at is: the threat of force determines every other player's optimal strategy, with a fight always being the last resort for everyone involved.

Under such conditions, Adam giving the bully his lunch money, Bob his homework, and Charlie his lunch may be the Nash equilbrium—that is, until Dave (who knows kung fu) moves to the neighborhood.
Growth and productivity due to technology innovation does not stagnate. Rather the output becomes more complex, of higher quantity and of higher quality.

Any business / company / marketplace participant stagnating by these outputs will be replaced by the competition.

Market forces require constant growth and output. Again, the magic word is “competition”. Stagnation loses, and thus does not survive.

I’m so tired of the “AI will replace us” argument
I mentioned Perplexity because their service focuses pretty much only on using LLMs for searching and summarizing. It doesn’t do creative stuff like some of the other services do.

I mainly also just use AI for searching and summarizing like you seem to do as well so that’s why I recommended it.
They are good at (combining well-known, codeforces-style) algorithms; often times I don’t care about the syntax, but I need the algorithm. LLMs can write pseudocode for all I care but they tend to get syntax correct quite often
I do not think this extra justification is necessary, but it is valid.
> People who don't need to be chronically medicated should not be.

If they're like typical westerners, they already self-medicate with coffee every day, with alcohol occasionally, and a big fraction of them (though much less than couple decades ago) also treat themselves with tobacco smoke - and ironically, weight loss is one of the few benefits some people actually use to defend their smoking.

Do they need all that medication? Well, it's socially unfavorable to say so wrt. alcohol, but ask any of the daily coffee drinkers whether they need their morning coffee...
My claim isn't about housing prices. It is about the cost of housing. True, a land value tax transfers value from property owners to the government. But paying that tax represents a cost of housing. Either directly - you're paying tax on your property - or indirectly in the form of rent.

In theory this is net neutral on costs. In practice, it is likely to be an increase immediately because housing prices tend to be "sticky". So it takes time for land value to drop because of the tax.
Does relativity mean that time is not just a human construct? It’s hard to believe it is irrelevant when we have discovered special behaviors that are part the fabric of reality.
I remember when someone adapted the Chromebook Pixel display as a standalone monitor [0]. I’m sure it made the rounds here. I was almost tempted to do it myself because, at the time, it was a nice 4:3 screen. I couldn’t , the Chromebook Pixel was too beautiful to hack up.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2015/05/02/excruciating-quest-turns-chr...
I meant that pension payouts are a legal claim, and somewhar untethered from what the actual amounts an individual puts into it. You're guaranteed a benefit, until death. in practice thwt benefit is met by new younger contributors, higher taxes,...

You sense a pension is like insurance (a benefit, paid out because of legal contract) , and this burden by mathematical nexessity is carried unequally. Other people feel like it should be more like a return on prior investment, a burden carried individually.

I think both are complementary fwiw because both by themselves have drawbacks, different moral hazards
Hmm. Good thought. Perhaps we could, for strictly educational reasons, set up some agencies who could collect these phone conversations.

Maybe the Chronicle & Information Agency? Or the National Scholarship Agency?
> We're discussing the first medication that effectively regulates human impulse control.

Is this another numbing zombie drug, like over-prescribed anti-depressants -- that some people genuinely need, but that make some other people accept a situation that they would otherwise be up to challenging and improving?

Also, are there side effects than can make it backfire for any patients? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaver_(Firefly)#Origin
Feels like it's time to move our reliance away from US tech
Couldn't get past

> Between 2020 and 2021 I worked full-time at Google for about a year.
Apparently the source code has been lost so probably not
In this sense, I see adoption among some people as akin to nootropics or attention management drugs like modafinil. A way to have more control over your own mind. Interesting times, I guess, but caveat emptor.
In marketing world, many consider the slogan "Just Do It" to have a double meaning: 1) Don't make excuses, get after your goals! (the one you're espousing) 2) Treat yourself, just buy it (the one the articles author is emphasizing).
It’s kind of baffling how Trump, a famed liar, made this claim, and people just… went along with it? Like, it’s _Trump_. It’s not even a “trust, but verify” situation, it is an “assume made up, and verify” situation.

In real life, the US has committed ~120bn euro of which 114bn has been allocated; Europe (including the UK) has committed 250bn euro of which 130bn has been allocated (in both cases this is a combo of military aid and economic support). So about the same in terms of money spent, though the US would find it much easier to _stop_ spending.

Even the most extravagant US _official_ (ie not just made up by Trump) claims would only come to about 170bn.
Hallucinations like this could be a great way to identify missing features or confusing parts of your framework. If the llm invents it, maybe it ought to be like this?
This sucks for accessibility.