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You can also start the video in the web browser (haven’t tried the app), turn off the screen, turn it back on, hit play on lock screen, turn the screen off again. Podcasts for poor people

I don’t buy this fatalistic attitude at all. Japan has an abundance of food as well, and Japanese humans are also human. Yet I don’t see nearly the same level of obesity here. The difference is entirely cultural, and yet you argue that we poor humans are destined to overeat. It’s not like the poor Japanese are suffering not to overeat every day of their tragic lives.

Instead the same measures that work here work in western countries as well. Free food at schools in the US and Europe has led to less obesity. Teaching cooking at school has led to less obesity. Teaching appreciation of the own physical self as a gift that one is responsible for rather than a burden has led to less obesity.

None of this requires throwing even more money at pharma to balance out the out-of-control American food industry (originating from the unscrupulous tobacco industry) which pays pharma to create more addictive foods. And yes, our bodies did not evolve to handle those ultra-processed foods laden with additives, but that is not normal food! Look up how the American food industry wreaked havoc in Latin America, leading to insane rates of obesity in mere years.


I don't think "big pharma" is creating more addictive foods, lol. I will say our food industry is fucked but what they're doing isn't magic.

Fast food is addictive because it contains high amounts of fats, sodium, and carbs. That's all there is to it.


I don't think that anything you said here is wrong, however I don't see how any of it is relevant either.

I mean, sure... We should fix all the everything, but we can also help the people who are dying right now while we do that. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Imagine rejecting a cure for cancer because it might encourage smokers to continue. That would just be silly.


What I’m afraid of is that this just ends in an arms race of ever unhealthier lifestyles versus medication to counter-balance that. These aren’t wonder drugs. People just need to stop eating garbage food, and too much of it. And the government should pass laws to facilitate that to counter lobbyists

This is a drug that literally turns off the part of your brain that craves overeating. Governments can’t legislate against human nature, as much as the nanny state wants to. We fixed food production without fixing the scarcity mindset that got us here. Now we’ve fixed that too.

It's a pretty dangerous mindset to imagine you're "fixing" a problem rather than "treating" a symptom.

Obesity is the main cause of myriad health problems. It is both treating a symptom, and fixing a problem. On average, somekne imwho is obese will love a much healthier life that is years longer than it would be without the drug. If that isn't an amazing outcome for medicine, than what is? Everyone dies, so all medicine treats symptoms at some level

Sure, but none of us know what the impact this drug will have on a societal level yet. Saying we've "fixed" anything is ridiculous.

>"People just need to stop eating garbage food, and too much of it."

Easier said than done. However for the vast majority of the people taking these drugs, these drugs enable them to finally do that.


But this drug is basically mind controlling people to live healthier. Its not countering an unhealthy lifestyle, it improving their current lifestyle

mseal digresses from prior memory protection schemes on Linux because it is a syscall tailored specifically for exploit mitigation against remote attackers seeking code execution rather than potentially local ones looking to exfiltrate sensitive secrets in-memory.

If a remote attacker can change the local environment then they must have already broken into your system.


Not necessarily. By posting this comment, I have caused "THIS STRING IS HARMFUL" to enter your computer's memory! If you see my comment on your screen, it's too late -- as a remote attacker, I have already changed the local environment! I've even slightly changed the rendering of the webpage you're looking at! Muahahah!

The point is that "The local environment" could refer to what's inside the sandbox. Your browser isn't going to treat my comment as x86 machine code and execute it, for example. Javascript is heavily sandboxed, and mseal() and friends are ways to add another layer of sandboxing.


The poster obviously meant environment variables as in the LD_PRELOAD variable mentioned previously...

I also work in that industry and am quite puzzled by the technological inferiority, scope creep and NIH syndrome of the OPC foundation’s standards. I wish they just used sparkplug b and implemented their specs on top of that for semantics.

Then again the async stuff they’re doing now is so over-engineered and terrible as well.. I took part in their teams meetings some time, only to find they had never read the mqtt spec (less than 50 easy to read pages) and didn’t understand what the headers are for for example (they wanted to put stuff in there that actually belongs in the payload). Some microsoft guy also took offense at my suggestion to first look at what competitors are doing with mqtt, because he wanted to create something new rather than copy. My company will just treat opc ua at the very edge and isolate it from our tech as much as possible on my suggestion.


Umm. There is a deep integration between OPC UA and MQTT since ca. 2017.

For binary and JSON payloads, and with encryption and group key management features.

I see quite a bit of unsubstantiated bashing lately. Especially advocating 20% solutions that solve the easy parts with less effort.

What are you missing from OPC UA?


* After this "def wish" has been carried out, the rac function is as well understood by the genie as is car. *

Sometimes I wonder what non-programmers think about us when they hear us talk..


I’ll join your revolution under the condition that I’m allowed to ignore all lines of text that don’t end in a newline :) (POSIX)


Microsoft also translates documentation based on my IP and it’s atrocious


I’ve tolerated their corruption and incompetence, but downright evil I cannot condone. Fuck it, might as well uninstall firefox and install chrome (despite knowing about its issues). I won’t bother with Mozilla anymore.


Consolidate step 2 and 3 into one and cut it down from 4 hours to 1 or you’ll have a lot of people “fail” because they don’t want their time wasted (usually companies pay for extensive tests with programming). You can still kick people out during their trial period even in countries with strict labor laws too.


> Consolidate step 2 and 3 into one and cut it down from 4 hours to 1 or you’ll have a lot of people “fail” because they don’t want their time wasted

That’s not been our experience at at all. We did not have a single candidate drop out of their own accord. Our interview process is not long and the coding is minimal (most the people we hired finished in less than half the allotted time, even that can be attributed to stress, these aren’t hard tests).

> usually companies pay for extensive tests with programming

2hrs of coding is not “extensive” by any stretch of the imagination. This isn’t a 4-8hr+ take home test.

> You can still kick people out during their trial period even in countries with strict labor laws too.

Spoken like someone who has never hired/managed. Firing, even with cause, is never quite so simple. I’ll gladly take a couple hours (HOURS! You act like I’m asking for weeks of people’s time) to confirm they will be a good fit upfront instead of going through the onboarding and off-boarding hassle. Not to mention it’s a super asshole move to hire people that are considering letting go just because it makes for an easier interviewing process. Honestly that’s kind of fucked up, especially if they are leaving another job to come work for you. I would absolutely fire someone new if they lied or if their work ethic did not match what they said/did in the interview process (probably after a couple warnings) but hiring with a high chance of firing? No, I won’t do that just to save a couple of hours upfront.


It’s not even firing, it’s “not continuing employment after the trial period formally agreed to in the contract and national law” in my country. There’s nothing dishonest or fucked up about it. There is also no legal hurdle.

Meanwhile your candidates go to multiple companies, spend “just” 4 hours at each uncompensated, without any guarantee to get hired. You should be aware that there are a lot of HR departments doing window shopping as well as issuing fake job openings due to legal reasons when they already have an internal candidate due to nepotism.


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