skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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First, those in power rebased the diet of the masses to carbs. Consequence: an eternal epidemic of obesity, with the many known complications and illnesses as a result.

Then, they now try to remedy the problem by fucking with the human body's mechanisms. 100% guaranteed to cause terrible side effects, in the long term. It's always more complex than you think. The more coveted a "medication" for a societal problem is -- with the problem being the pigswill that is fed to the masses, and our absolutely terrible sedentary, movement-less lifestyle --, the more quickly it will be greenlit, and the greater damage it will do over time (those pesky "unknown unknowns"). The hubris of human industry is unlimited; here's one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Leaded_gaso...

> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.

Here's another:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

And the list goes on and on.

The obvious solution to the obesity epidemic is to dismantle the food industry and the 8 hours workday. Our eating and movement/exercise habits need to revert to not just pre-industrial, but pre-agricultural standards. Move a lot every week (at least on 4 days per week), welcome hunger back into our lives (hunger allows you to appreciate and enjoy simple food -- intermittent fasting is amazing), and eat food with high volume, but low calorie content, and/or with low glycemic index. Our stomach volume and our blood sugar control had evolved for those types of foodstuffs, yet due to said rebasing of the diet of the masses to carbs, we've been filling our bellies with artificial food that's hyper-charged on calories and that get absorbed immediately. That's the recipe for growing fat tissue.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

And a final comment:

> Analysts predict that by 2030, 30% of American adults will be on these medications

Why doesn't that prediction make everyone shit their pants, from fear? Do you really want to make all those people dependent on Big Pharma just so they can eat healthily? How more basic do our bodily needs get than that?

This meds are pure evil, they're a non-answer, they're a cop-out, they only transfer power from Big Food to Big Pharma.

This is the same shit as trying to "cure" society-wide depression and anxiety with drugs. It only suppresses (or replaces) the symptoms, without fixing the root cause. We're depressed because our engineered societies make our lives meaningless. The struggle for survival is real, and the universe is unfair and indifferent, so we certainly need society, to cope with that. Just not this way.
I'm not American, but I'm very aware of the impact 18f has had from seeing the many posts on here of their work over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=18f

I'm also aware of at least a handful of hacker new members, and people I've followed, who took time out of their carriers to do a "tour of duty" at 18f.

I feel for all today, you were doing good work!
An update on this it looks to be 200,000 acres at the moment. Which is 80,937 hectares or 809 square kilometers.
AKA, a 35 hour work week.

lol. In my heart I knew this, but I didn't think anyone would ever self-report like this.
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It's pretty clear that everything Elon claimed about his improvements was a complete and total lie, and that his real goal was the seize the technological workings of the government, which simplifies implementing their agenda.

We will be lucky if we, as a nation, survive the Trump administration without turning into a fascist, authoritarian state, with little to no scientific credibility, and a pariah state like North Korea.

I have noticed that a number of conservative organizations are starting to be affected by this and speaking up, although Congress and the Judiciary are clearly either afraid, or supportive of these actions. From what I can tell, the only remaining response is truly large scale, well-organized peaceful protest, which is risky because a small number of bad actors could mess up a peaceful protest and give Trump all the excuses he wants to bring out the US military for a violent response to innocent protestors.
At which point you're no longer able to bury your head in the sand?
They might get a job offer they can't refuse.
Can I run this locally?
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The actionable part includes stimulants, but also self-awareness and structure. Stimulants alone won't usually lead to the kinds of changes that improve quality of life. Virtually any clinician and expert on this topic agrees with this point

I don't understand your question about whether or not the "ADHD" part is necessary. Yes, we should have words for complex ideas.

The comparison to shamans and tarot readers comes off as dismissive and uninformed, and generally in poor taste. Ultimately you are questioning a diagnostic framework that you don't understand very well given your other comments. There are critiques to be made and even aspects of your position that I agree with but you really need to understand the framework you intend to tear down before tearing it down
> The billionaire [Elon Musk] wrote on his social media platform X that 18F and TTS had been “deleted” weeks ago, re-posting another account that called the 18F a “far left government computer office” and pointed to its work on the IRS’ free tax filing system, Direct File. [1]

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/40...
It's not vandalism either. And the goal isn't that the government not function, per se. It's that all government function must be for the benefit of the rulers. 18F was popular, effective, and not remotely beholden to the Trump administration (in fact they were most closely associated with the Obama administration). They had to go, not because we want them to do a bad job but because them doing a good job undermined the administration.

To wit, we already had a word for this: this is a purge.
Title needs (2018). Data on language usage growth goes to 2018.
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I think you’re misunderstanding my point. The reality is more complicated than that.

There are some people who will be discouraged from committing a crime over threat of punishment. But many will not. Many people behave well because they’re just moral people, and others won’t because they’re just selfish and antisocial. Still others commit crimes out of desperation despite the risks. If the threat of imprisonment were effective, there would be no crime, because we already have prisons and penalties of punishment. But since we do have crime, it logically follows that it’s not effective.

The other point here is that threat of punishment is not particularly effective as a management strategy in the private sector. It doesn’t incentivize behavior in the manner you might believe. Mostly it makes your reports dislike you and it makes them less productive. It’s a thing you learn pretty quickly as a manager.

There’s a model of a person being a rational thinker, but in reality, people aren’t always rational. (Hell, adolescents are biologically programmed not to be rational and to stress test the limits of nature and society.) You find success in making less-than-rational people work together in harmony and achieve positive outcomes.
I said hundreds of thousands, if not millions. It turns out there are around 200,00.

Success depends on some combination of hard work / talent / luck. You can have an extreme amount of all three and get an extreme outcome like being a billionaire, you can have moderate amounts of 2 / 3 and still be quite well off. You can have extreme amounts of one and be successful from very little.

Access to resources helps, obviously, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient.
They open sourced quite a few guides, resources and standards over the years. I think they did a lot of design and i18n work like the US web design guidelines. Also... don't they own login.gov?

https://github.com/orgs/18F/repositories
> This is strange phrasing, because reference counting is a garbage collection strategy.

Oof, don't open that can of worms. Let me summarize the result: 1) the distinction is arbitrary and 2) people are very passionate about their personal view being considered canonically correct. To the extent i've started referred to refer to both mark-and-sweep/boehm garbage collection and reference counting as "automatic memory management".
That’s exactly the doctrine in mutual dissuasion: offensive use of a nuclear weapon breaks the statu quo, where the equilibrium is only ensured if no one uses it.

The first that breaks the statu quo is not a reliable power anymore in this equilibrium and must then be disarmed.

Multilateral escalation ensues as a logic step. There’s no WWIII because this happens and is « settled » in a matter of a few hours.

Don’t want it to happen? Don’t ever use a nuclear weapon. Simple as that.
"But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet."

Thank you, 18F.
The Event Destinations Initiative
Pssst disable hardware acceleration.
All fuel comes from the sun (or other star activity). Food is a stupid argument invented by the oil companies.
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Exactly the same experience.
All of this seems like deliberate destruction of America from the inside out by an ayn-rand worshipping, billionaire afrikaaner cabal (David Sacks, Elon Musk, roelof botha etc). Thoughtless and mindless cuts
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It's depressing to think that this recent half-random half-stupid-keyword-revenge firing spree is going to cost much more than it ever "saves", since it is destroying the intangible reputation of the federal government as a stable employer, which was used to defray wages.

In other words, the federal government will have to raise wages to get qualified candidates in competition with private-sector jobs, probably costing more money in the long term.
> Just yesterday we were working on important projects, including improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS

I think this answers the question of "why".
Since you are not terribly overweight you could reach a healthy weight with relatively minor lifestyle and diet adjustments. Isn’t this preferable to the side effects (some probably unknown) involved in these drugs? Genuine question.
Why adversaries? Just think of all the big beautiful deals you can make with them.
I don’t think there’s “nowhere,” but the wealth disparity is making it much harder than it should be.
Has/will Swift be sufficiently disentangled from Apple influence?

And is this redirecting open source in an essentially proprietary direction (which has happened many times), on the key piece of software that is the Web browser?

Why I'm asking: For a startup, I've used Swift (and SwiftUI, various Apple APIs, "entitlements", developer-hostile App Store experience, often nonexistent documentation). The core language is OK overall (not great). But most of the rest of the developer experience was awful, due to Apple. And you need a lot of pieces beyond the core language.

Ultimately, the people who fund/do the work get to decide how they do it.

I personally wouldn't invest in increasing open source adoption of an Apple property like that, unless someone has a compelling new argument for that.
You can't hole punch on mobile. Most mobile networks use symmetric NATs unfortunately.
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The Incuriosity Engine
We frequently joke that it is reasonable to assume that all MS Executives actually rename their own children (at least once) as soon as the child reaches an age of two years.
Sorry, to me it looks like a lot of words that say nothing.

Obviously, if you don't do, you don't do.

> to use that to question the impact of a human's agency on their own life outcomes

I'm not doing that at all. I am not saying that the effort put into achieving something is worth nothing. What I am saying is that whenever someone is successful, it means that they have been incredibly lucky (and on top of that they worked a lot, maybe). Whenever they compare themselves to someone else who also worked hard but was not successful, the first conclusion to make is that this someone else was not as lucky.

But the first thing that happens when someone gets successful is that they forget how lucky they are, and just start talking about merit. My point is just that whenever you talk about merit, just remember that you were not born in a poor family in a war zone, and that does not make you more deserving.
At least in my country I've seen so many young people move to cities to get a better education, only to end up unemployed or working a dead-end job, as they're competing with all other young grads who did the same in a stagnating economic environment.

The winning play, at least over here, is to move to a city just for the education, and then moving back to the countryside / smaller city with cheaper housing and less competing job applicants. The salary difference isn't that bad, for some professions (doctors, psychologists etc) working in rural areas actually pays more, as employers are raising salaries to find applicants.
> why on God's green earth is the present working directory not searched for the package I'm trying to build, like every other build system to ever exist?

What if you want to share packages (aka CL systems) between different CL systems / applications?
Is there much value in being clearer? The republicans vote in lockstep with limited exceptions for vanity votes. They haven’t deviated from that under the existing administration. There’s not much value in pretending fiscal policy is at the root of their plan. It’s fairly transparent in its efforts to privatize government to enrich those in positions to capitalize on it.
It’s been clear since last year that this administration is a government specifically designed to hurt people.
Would be cool if California hired them all and made a nice but inexpensive office building somewhere near housing and public transportation and had them help clean up all the inefficiency in our state's tech systems.
Ok however, the blame for toxicity really needs to be redirected more towards the people making these decisions and less toward the people complaining about them. This is destroying people’s livelihood and will continue to do so for many years to come.
The irony here is that despite all these DRM efforts, piracy groups upload 4K HDR (or Dolby Vision) atmos mkv files within hours anyway.

Meanwhile watching these shows the legal way on unsupported DRM chain gives you 720p SDR with worse audio.
The situation in Hungary in the best case, Russia in the worst.
It's the age old privatization trick:

1. Defund and cripple gov. services

2. Point to those, and say "See? it doesn't work. We should get private sector to provide those services, as the private sector is much cheaper and more efficient."

3. Hand out contracts to your buddies.

4. Years later, down the road, another sitting government will revert back to the original state - due to the private contracts turning out to be much more expensive than anticipated, and delivering sub-par service.

5. Next pro-privatization government is elected, goto step (1).
“You will own nothing and be happy.” includes public ownership through your government I guess.
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I've been using SizeUp for 15 years too, but I just switched to Rectangle a few months ago. Mostly because it's faster. You wouldn't think it matters, but for some reason it does.
> Big food corporations profit from ultra-processed foods that manipulate our natural systems.

I've just never bought this.

Does grandma manipulate you when she adds sugar to her cherry pie? Does she manipulate you when she adds salt to her mashed potatoes?

Foods -- "ultra-processed" or not -- don't "manipulate" you. They literally just either taste better or taste worse. Grandma, and her grandma before her, used sugar, fat, and salt, and thank goodness they did. These are normal ingredients. It's not like they're nicotine or heroin or something.

I mean, is a fig tree "manipulating" you when its figs ripen with sugar so they'll be eaten?

You're not being manipulated. You're just choosing to eat what you choose to eat based on what you like.
Atkins-ish diet caused the same thing for me with a car accident back in the 90's. Sudden uptake of carbs with the alcohol resulted in lost memory of over 13 hours, a '68 De Ville convertible that got totaled and 2 months spent with a wired jaw.
I take LSD every two to three months, and I'm always excited to do so, even though I usually get bad trips. Weed consistently gives me at least five minutes of joy
I am devastated by this news. I was lucky enough to work with Mohamed and Andy for several projects (including taping out the world's first ChatGPT-authored silicon [0]), and I've never met people more passionate about making chip design and silicon tape-out accessible to all. This is a real loss for the academic and maker communities.

[0] https://cyber.nyu.edu/2024/07/22/chipchat-nyu-tandon-team-fa...
The most significant takeaway for me from this analysis was that many businesses were aligned with helping people become or remain obese. Where do the opportunities flow to now that people can apply their disposable income to items beyond food and alcohol? Something similar happened during the "low carb" shift when bakery goods sales decreased, but people shifted to high protein (and perhaps high fat) food away from high carb. But it was still food. This feels a little different.
If you have only just noticed that the stars of the "All In Podcast" are intellectually deficient then you haven't been paying attention.
The effects seemed to wane slightly for me, but it vastly changed my relationship with food. I was raised in a family with plenty of food, but food was used as a weapon of manipulation and thus I was taught to eat as much as I can else it might be taken away. With Zepbound I now eat appropriate portions. Can’t really stand more than a single beer. I don’t mind being at a restaurant and not really eating. I’ll have a bite of this or that and be happy.

My shits, however, have been glorious since starting the drug. Truly pleasant steamers that rocket right out.
> Also not the worst thing for Apple to measure average build times

There's no evidence that Apple is measuring average build times. As the screenshot in the article shows, gather provisioning inputs is actually one of the earliest build phases. Moreover, build time is not a useful measure, because it depends crucially on the number of source files, the programming languages, clean vs. incremental builds, run script build phases, and various other factors that vary almost infinitely from project to project.

The article does not even claim that the connections are telemetry. Gather provisioning inputs is without a doubt exactly what it says it is. Nonetheless, it's not necessary for Xcode to gather provisioning inputs on every build, especially not for non-archive builds, and a side effect of doing it on every build is that Apple receives personally identifiable data about developers and their everyday activities, regardless of whether that was Apple's intention.

There appears to be a common assumption that every privacy violation has to be intentional, some kind of conspiracy, but that's not true. A lot of privacy violations are just thoughtlessness, laziness, or incompetence. That doesn't excuse them, however.
> but notice how, for example, from the previous calculations the problem of trading is less of a “technical” problem and more of a market, risk management, money management, statistical kind of problem.

I agree. It just happened I built such system already which models strategy over significant period of time, and accounts statistical/risks indicators, transaction price, sleepage, etc. I built it for forex eur/usd pair (probably hardest market to beat), while results were positive, I decided that they are not strong enough, and I keep wondering since then if predicting patterns in commodity futures is easier, and I should try to relaunch my effort..
Food is the easiest expense to maintain.
If you are eating less, you absolutely may as well eat better.
This is incredible, and it's not technically a "hallucination". I bet it's relatively easy to find more examples like this... something on the internet that's both niche enough, popular enough, and wrong, yet was scraped and trained on.
They would continue operating but fund less speculative drug development.
If anyone believes the cuts were for efficiency and cost reduction, that belief simply cannot be true anymore.
The number of drugs developed would drop. In particular, the really expensive to develop drugs that target rare conditions, exploit novel pathways, or require difficult synthesis.

The kinds of drugs that routinely experience years of delayed availability in markets like Canada and the UK until the learning curve has kicked in via the US and other less constrained markets.
It’s really about whether people buy into the inane take that the other guy is lazy.

Civil servants are easy targets, unless you wear a uniform, except if you’re a woman.
I still don't follow why the first response has to be nuclear. You could respond conventionally, and if another nuke gets used 1-2 more times, then escalate. You can get the point across without actually responding in kind the first time.
Meta but I really appreciate how minimal static but styleful the website design is, specially the code snippets.
You shouldn't be convinced. Republicans are lying when they say they want to cut the deficit or pay off the debt. You only have to look at the Bush years and Trump's 2016-2020 administration to see increasing deficits every single year, due to tax cuts rather than any sort of spending problem. When they are in power, they dismantle good government and regulations and redistribute American wealth from the poor and middle class up to the wealthy.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

The US has a tax problem with billionaires. We don't have a spending issue.