skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they put the start menu back? Whoever decided the mobile-style start screen made sense on a server product...
Whatever condition you had didn't cause you to gain weight. You can't defy physics. If you control your caloric intake, your body /will/ lose fat. Your story is anecdotal so I'll response with an anecdote as well: I've seen more than one person with a "thyroid condition" who were in good shape.
For a company to be so visionary and forward thinking on the arcade front, being a pioneering force of 3D polygonal games, it is astonishing that they released the Saturn in the form they did. You had to be a assembly savant to get decent 3D performance out of the Saturn that your average programmer could easily obtain on the Playstation using C. The VDP2 was pretty impressive though...
> You can only become obese due to some very critical character flaw.

Maybe in some alternate universe. In this universe, you can get obese by, among other things:

- untreated hypothyroidism (even low grade)

- certain autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes

- inborn errors of metabolism

- having parents consistently overfeed you at youth

None of the above is a character flaw.
Man that's ballsy. Taking two jobs and vacations on both? Who the hell gets away with that?

Was he trying to time slice multiple processes like an OS?
Article doesn't mention who pays for the increased cost to serve the morbidly obese. Replacing all the MRIs, Xray machines etc would be very expensive. Also added malpractice insurance as morbidly obese have more complications especially when it comes to anesthesiology as dosing is extremely hard to to get correct.
> inability to read social cues telling you to stop gaining weight

This one is going the way of the dodo of late, especially for females. Articles like this one are a symptom of the normalization of obesity.
Same here. Chromium with more than just a few tabs open is almost unbearable on 8GB RAM, while Firefox works well with hundreds.
As an advocate for both merges and bisect, even I have to admit that the experience of using bisect over merges can be quite terrible. I would prefer if bisect had a working --first-parent mode, because most of the time that's what I really want. Git-core seems against this, though. Not sure if it's on technical or aesthetic grounds.
Irrespective of the article, the comments in here are appalling. Ask yourself if it's truly acceptable to paint big people with such a broad brush. HN commenters are generally liberal, and liberals (I am one as well, this is not an insult) will fall over themselves to decry real or perceived discrimination against women, minorities, or disabled people - unless that disability happens to be obesity. Would these comments be acceptable if the subject was some other class of people receiving inadequate care?

I'm a big guy. I've been big for 2/3 of my life. It fluctuates up and down as I've tried everything in the book to lose weight. I would _love_ to lose weight. I hate being fat. It causes numerous physical problems and complicates everything I do. Most big people I know are in the same boat. It's not fun carrying the extra weight around with you, or trying to fit in airline seats (I've given up), or being uncomfortable in your own skin, or looking in the mirror every day and hating what you see. I know my weight is unhealthy. I promise you the vast, vast majority of big people are similarly aware. Do you think if we could lose the weight as you say that we would not? That we'd willingly stay this way?

Calling big people weak willed, revolting, or undeserving of medical care is unacceptable. I am not a Healthy At Every Size activist. You know nothing of why these people are big. You don't know what they've tried or why they stay this way. You don't know their struggles and what they've gone through. Please stop making value judgements on other human beings based on their physical dimensions.
Wow, all this talk about VR in 1993 ... it would be interesting to read the history on that. Either the world wasn't ready for it or the implementation was very lame (something like Nintendo StarFox or worse yet ... BattleZone)
Apparently the Dock team just really liked Swift and wanted to go all-in on it. (According to Federighi.)

(I believe the Dock "app" also encompasses Mission Control, Spaces and all that sort of desktop interaction wizardry.)
US insurance carriers generally ask you to certify that you did not have insurance through another carrier/policy simultaneously (upon submission of a claim), as policies tend to have 100% coverage kick in on things like annual and lifetime maximum numbers.

Double-dipping on insurance policies messes with their actuarial table calculations.
Agreed. It's been 20 years that I use low brightness (and not too high contrast), plus I code on dark background.

Another thing I noticed helps is some other light source in the room, possibly a desktop lamp to light the wall behind the screen. It bothers me if the screen is the only light source in the room.
I agree.

I only mentioned Rust, because of ergonomics, since the compiler cannot guide the user unless the types are known.

Or is already something in place to make use of intrisics for better error messages in such cases, instead of just giving a type error?
I'm hoping for automated wash bots...
I'd be interested to know what the plans are from other vendors (Microsoft, Google, Apple, ...); can we expect them to follow Mozilla's lead in taking action against WoSign?
You're wasting your time. He's Bitcoin's biggest troll.
> Maybe some questions are just not "too broad" but simply broad, and that one may wish to have a number of possible solutions to a problem and pick the one that fits one's case best

I think there are two kinds of "broad":

1. There are multiple ways to solve a specific problem with a specific expected outcome. "How do I sort an array?", for example, is a broad question in that it can be solved in many ways, but you can definitively say whether any given solution is correct or not.

2. The problem is not specific, and there is no clear way to determine whether any given answer is actually a "solution". For example, a single question with only the text, "How do you write a game?"

Most "broad" questions fall on some spectrum between these two, but the closer a question is to the latter category, the less likely it is to generate any sort of helpful feedback. The community does sometimes label the former as "too broad", but 95% of the time the given close reasons are correct, and when they are wrong the site provides documentation on how to get your question re-opened.

It's hard to maintain a proper balance between moderating the inundation of terrible questions and avoiding the false-negative closing of legitimate questions.
This is great. On the other hand, no one mentioned Gitlab here yet as squash merge remains as an ee-only (paid-only) feature in Gitlab all this long.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/150
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4106
A descriptor of physical state is not mutually exclusive with condition. In fact a condition is almost always a description of a body's physical state.
>(XFCE, LXDE, ...) but they lacked little features like:
* hibernate when closing lid
* cpu/mem/network visualization in top/bottom bar
* clean theme without much fiddling
* mute/unmute via hardware button

All of those are possible with XFCE. Technically I think the mute/unmute thing comes through ACPI or something -- it works in any DE I've used.
> I actually sort of resent the comparison between "why don't you just cheer up?" and "oh, just lose weight." Everyone understands that weight loss is diet and exercise, even if they've never have to do it. Most people don't understand that depression isn't just an extra long bit of being bummed out, let alone the resources a person might need to overcome depression.

> I am empathetic, what I am NOT is sympathetic. I have a problem, and I need to fix it.

That's a healthy outlook for you to have. It's the one I have, too. The people we need to have sympathy/empathy for, though, are the people who haven't gotten there yet. I imagine there was a time for you where you hadn't reached the point of understanding your problem, for any of the various reasons of shame, denial, anger, blaming others, etc.

There are a lot of people in that boat. What I think commenters here don't understand isn't that weight loss is relatively straightforward, it's that straightforward things aren't always easy, and that preparing oneself to do something difficult is hard, even if that difficult thing has clear steps to take.

Given that other people have pointed out the same vagueness in my comparison to depression, maybe it wasn't the best one to make. I will think on a different one for next time. I do think that, given the above, it makes my point though.
Not really what I'm looking for, but thanks for the reply!

I'm really looking for an opinionated Javascript library/framework which would allow me to write Javscript once for clients and render both on the server side and client side with the same code.

For me pre-rendering isn't just about bots, it's about not having to use Javascript at all if the client doesn't want to.

The lag associated with calling an external service would also be a non-starter as it's a pretty dynamic site. But I'd imagine it would work well with highly static sites. Thanks again.
The first 3 examples you give can all be handled with self-discipline. Only the 4th must be learned.
This is why people want to rebase.

Now we could use some UI improvements to the github commits page to make the merge method not look so ugly. Lets say: collapse merge commits into a single gray line and roll up the commits made on the branch(es) underneath the merge commit line, maybe indented.
Same. Tell-tale signals include driving slower than reasonably makes sense. Drifting around the lane. The speed-up / slow-down pattern where they speed-up while they're looking up, then slow down while they're typing. It's infuriating how selfish drivers can be.
Since all your containers will be based on `windowsservercore` (and perhaps some on the much smaller `nanoserver` base image), you could choose to bake the image into your container host image.
I live in Zürich. Here, you can only throw things away if they're in the proper bags, which cost about two francs for a 35 litre bag.

But taking stuff to the recycling centre is free, and there's usually one within five minutes walk of any given house.

The end result is that waste is basically self managed --- people are incentivised to recycle as much as possible and reduce waste. I remember hearing that disposal largely pays for itself, but I don't have a reference for that, so don't quote me.

(Fly tipping is basically unheard of.)
"The issue is psychological - not believing one can achieve the goal, not being ready/willing to fully commit to the goal, feeling too ashamed of oneself to believe one can improve one's situation, and on and on."

And here I was, thinking it was just that you love constantly stuffing large amounts of high-calorie foods down your throats.
Just like a parallel GC.
This seems useful for animation.
People aren't going to magically sell Eth and buy Bitcoin just because you're spamming the Hacker News thread, Chris.
It reminds me of the Anna Karenia (sp?) principle.

Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Most fit people are fit the same way. They have the same body proportions, respond the same to anesthesia, and can be maneuvered into the same positions that doctors train for and are used to.

If you're obese, you accumulate fat in different ways, you respond differently to medication and anesthesia, because you just accumulate in different patterns.

Doctors don't train on obese patients because they're all different, so it's hard to get a standard operating procedure. They also don't train on obese patients because until now, they've been a vanishingly small proportional of the population.

Take a look at vintage photographs of "fat men" in carnivals in the beginning of the 1900s. You see people like that all over the place these days. Cheap abundant food and obesity has only recently been a problem.
Circa 2009, playing 80486-era Master of Orion II on the Nokia N800 using a DOS emulator. 400MHz ARM tablet, actually playable.
Hate? No, not from me. But I am wary of bitcoin advocates' desire for it to become widespread because it is an anti-democratic currency. Like all currencies, it's got assumptions baked into it (fixed supply leads to deflation, etc) that influence its spenders' lives, but unlike government-sponsored currencies, there's no way for its users to have a meaningful say in those decisions.

With dollars, I get to vote regularly for people, and those people appoint someone to call the shots on "how dollars work". So does everyone else (well, registered voters, but you get my drift). They don't need to be versed in printing or ACH or whatever to have their voice heard.

With bitcoin, if I'm not happy, where do I go to have my voice heard? Saying "code up your changes and get 51% of the network on board" isn't the same, not even same ballpark, or neighborhood, as "here's your ballot, citizen".

So that's my beef with bitcoin.
Ever try to take a cab to Flatbush at 2AM?
I don't disagree on the benefits of RAII at all. I love it. It's a much cleaner and more general resource management idea than a tracing GC.

But incrementing/decrementing an atomic value in a tight loop apparently creates a performance problem that is severe enough for the Swift team to redesign their API. That wasn't decades ago:

"Code that handles indices has to perform atomic reference counting, which has significant overhead and can prevent the optimizer from making other improvements."

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
That's a great solution. Avoiding wildcard certs seems like a poor way to deal with the issue...
Even if true, this doesn't account for not mentioning that he was leaving his job at The Verge.
> Which ways to lose weight are most safe, reliable, and effective is well-understood to actually be quite dependent on personal factors which are exactly the things that will not be properly assessed if doctors are less likely to order appropriate diagnostic tests for people that are overweight.

Other than a few anecdotes, one of which comes from an urgent care center[1], the article provides no evidence of categorically denying diagnostic tests, only surgeries.

> "Excluding other medical conditions" is exactly the problem, since comorbidities with obesity are not at all rare, and many of them are directly relevant to weight-loss strategies.

I have yet to encounter a doctor whose response to my weight is just, "Hi! Lose weight! TTFN!" It's hard to tell with the kind of surveys presented in this article if people are really being brushed off or if they are just being told things they don't want to hear.

[1] Relevant because urgent care centers tend towards shitty experiences regardless of your weight or medical problems. Especially the ones not affiliated with a hospital system.
That last bit says to me that we need to:

a) figure out how to make washing plates more efficient

b) extend the lifetime of plates so their manufacture is amortized over more uses

(Or do you specifically call out china plates because they are known for seeing so little use?)
I don't believe the problems with visualization of merge commits are insurmountable. Nearly all the command line tools (other than, really notably, bisect) allow a --first-parent flag that makes navigating them much simpler. Even gitk supports this mode, so doing it in a gui is also possible.

In terms of the preservation of useful information, I vastly prefer the merge tree. And using merge trees appropriately and never using merge trees at all are both matters of discipline.
Think more flat plane with software scaled sprite-based rocks moving along the ground approximating motion.
Nobody's saying that arbitrary corporate restrictions are well thought out.
Interestingly, we (Fieldbook) used handsontable for a long time, but eventually found it wasn't performant enough for the size of data we had (also we just needed to be able to do more customization than we could wrangle out of it)
Yep I used to get them too, sore eyes also and weird squinting. I run my screen at about 2/3 or 3/4 brightness, I use a dark theme in my IDE and I also always bump up the font size. Doing all this I don't get headaches or eye squinting anymore.

Also I use flux and try not to use the computer much at weekends.
When the "guage" is selected, you could play a series of audio ticks faster or slower as the measure changes?
I think if it can be solved in California, Texas, and at the federal level, the rest will follow suit.

Self-driving taxi legislature, on the other hand, will be a different can of worms.

In our current economic system, no city in its right mind will be interested in seeing robots funnel money directly from its residents to a VC fund.
Hey @fiatjaf, FYI we are working on scaling to larger data sets at Fieldbook. Some memory/performance improvements coming. Stay tuned.
which Is the problem with things like mandating maximum power for vacuum cleaners you just get a lower power motor which is run at 100% duty instead of a higher power one run at a lower duty cycle - with the effect of reducing the design life of the device.
Thanks for the clarification re: repairs.

But I checked the (UK) Miele website just now and it seems like warranties there are 2 years by default, with extended warranties of 10 years available. So maybe this varies by region. Maybe German consumers are savvier than UK consumers and demand longer warranties?
what are the safety advantages?
Dependency Injection and Testable Web Development in Go
The whole point of the majority of the conversation here is that there isn't systemic discrimination happening. People like to feel victimized and are claiming discrimination when it's overwhelmingly not the case, and dishonest articles like this do a huge disservice to the real, legitimate discrimination that does happen.
Trump Replace – Chrome Extension
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This is great, but as chrisseaton asked on Twitter [1], how does it interact with CI?

The trees in the rebased commits are new and may never have been tested. Is GitHub going to expose a `refs/pulls/123/rebase` ref (cf. the existing `refs/pulls/123/merge`) for running through CI before the button can be pressed?

EDIT: The docs [2] say:

You aren't able to automatically rebase and merge on GitHub when:

* Your pull request has merge conflicts.
* Rebasing the commits from the base branch into the head branch
runs into conflicts.
* Rebasing your commits is considered "unsafe", such as when a
rebase is possible without merge conflicts but would produce a
different result than a merge would.

So I guess the point is moot. You can’t rebase a branch unless the resulting tree is identical to the one you’d get from a merge, and that’s the tree that runs through CI.

[1] https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/780441251992731648

[2] https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-request-merges/#...
From the article:

"A recent survey of more than 700 hip and knee surgeons confirmed Dr. Yates’s impressions. Sixty-two percent said they used body mass index scores as cutoffs for requiring weight loss before offering surgery."

It sounds to me like "cutoffs" and "requiring" would indicate a blanket refusal, and 62% seems like a fairly large scale to me. What evidence are you looking for?

Other common conditions can also increase risks of complications, and patients are routinely given opportunities to weigh those risks before deciding on surgeries. My suggestion isn't that the doctor throw his duties out the window, but that with high-BMI patients, those duties should not suddenly become more dictatorial than with other patients.
Just happened to have read some fiction set in WH40K universe and... now I know what exactly a mutant possessed by Chaos looks like. This makes a perfect illustration.
I occasionally see screens change shape from the typical rectangle to trapezoid. That's when I would just shut down and go outside or do something else.

This effect could last the rest of the day/evening for me.
What a great barrier to competition. If a smaller airline grows, they'll have to buy "credits".

Cap and Trade is political bullshit. If you want to tax carbon emissions, tax the fuel coming out of the ground and let the drillers and diggers pass that on to whomever uses the fuel. It's the only way to be fair about it. Otherwise just accept that this is nothing more than a political game.
Why couldn't you instead have a deployment process that includes calling certbot automatically for the new domain then? Since the domain is likely ICANN registered right.

EDIT: it's common courtesy to explain why you downvote a post, as it stands I'm going to make the assumption the downvoters are simply too lazy to do things properly.
What about good old dark editor themes or, better: Inverting of screen colours? Staring at a bright computer screen for hours is a recipe for tired, red eyes. And all operating systems offer negative screen colours. On OS X it is an accessibility option and has the standard shortcut control+option+command + 8.

Android and iOS also can do this. On iOS it's again an accessibility option, press the home button three times after it is activated and you will be able to read HN much longer (also, a black+blue HN is nice).

I am using this option so much that I finally switched from Ubuntu to OS X on the desktop after an Ubuntu upgrade at that time eliminated negative screen colours (and hibernation, but this is a different story), and it was impossible to bring it back.

I also like Flux darkroom, but after some time it gives you the feeling of being in a horror movie.
Another person who thinks obesity is caused by solely overindulgence.

Maybe next you would claim that people with movement disorders (e.g. in wheelchairs) are overweight because of overindulgence. Or maybe you will shift the blame to lack of exercise, not considering they would need multiple times more. Our maybe you will start designing diets for everyone that are trivial to adhere to and make millions as a life coach.

GP is there to treat, not indulge. If they are unable to treat obesity, they are to blame, not the patient. Obesity is extremely hard to treat even when there is will to change. Heck, the causes of it are not yet well understood. Something goes wrong with the feedback system of satiety and energy expenditure, which is evolutionarily stacked to accumulate calories.
Any Docker for running IE8 on Windows-2012 and later?
Singapore-based music startup buys 49% stake in Rolling Stone
Cost of the machine is amortized over the number of e-mail sent, in other words OP is more interested in the average cost of sending an e-mail message, using statistical approximation... (i.e.: sending an e-mail from USA to China on average requires x amount of servers, middle-servers, data-centers, and these process y amount of requests per minute, with a cost of operation of z on average per minute, etc.)

see: https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-send-an-email...
Not true in my case. Chromium often makes the system start feeling unresponsive by causing a lot of swapping, while Firefox deals well with way more tabs open and still keeps some RAM free for other apps to use. When Firefox catches some memory leak and also starts to swap, restarting it fixes the issue (but I have to say that it has become very rare nowadays), but when I restart Chromium, I have to quickly clean up unused tabs to prevent them from eating whole RAM again.

On my 8GB RAM machines, Chromium performs faster when there are up to 10 tabs open, but otherwise Firefox easily beats it.