skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the web page:

"""
What did this study do?

[...]

* an additional 30 minutes of physical activity each day

* a family cooking workshop each term

* in collaboration with local Aston Villa Football Club, three sessions of coaching in physical activities and two on preparing healthy meals, with weekly activity and healthy eating “challenges”

* information sheets about staying active during the holidays, with signposting to local facilities

"""

So 1.5/4 points about diet, and the rest about exercise. Thus mostly focused on exercise. While diabetes is known to be preventable/reversible by primarily diet. Specifically by removing processed foods (that includes oils, refined starches and sugar) and animal(-derived) products (as they are high in saturated fats), while adding lots of whole plant foods. And not only for cooked meals, but for all meals and snacks.

Seems to me they've been trying to optimize the wrong parameters. Just my 2ct.
> The more frivolous commentary and petty insults he gets the less threatening he seems.

And as usual in American Politics and/or debates the focus has shifted to be about the petty stuff of the individual, rather than focusing on the actual topic at hand. Pretty soon everyone will be so busy criticizing Zuck they'll forget why he was even speaking to Congress in the first place.

Americans love a good gossip, to the determent of actually getting anything done.
Ineffective?! It was positively corrosive. My growing Iowa farmboys were starved nearly senseless. We sent lunches thru elementary school (which they were stigmatized for bringing) but in middle school they had to use the provided meal service. Nearly passed out by 2PM, they struggled thru till they got home and we could put 1000 calories in them to tide them over until supper.

This program was phenomenally clueless and ill-conceived. Instead of patronizing inappropriate low-calorie choices (which drove students to hoarding dingdongs in their lockers), how about providing plentiful good food? That might have had a positive effect.

{edit: I thought they were talking about the federal school-lunch initiative, sorry}
If you're on iOS, use Apollo instead: https://apolloapp.io/

Hands down the best Reddit app for iOS.
The problem it solves is Google+ lol.
Is this really true? If this were true, why are there no reports of Israel using its F-35s in operations over Syria? They lost an F-16 last month. Yet they flew it again into Lebanon/Syria just a few days ago.
Congressional Hearings are dog and pony shows anyways. I'm not sure what people were or are expecting?
Shoutout to Sync as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda...
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I don't know about that particular quote, but this has a photo of the WWDC side claiming 64-bit Carbon and Cocoa, so that was definitely the original plan

https://www.wired.com/2007/06/leopard-won-t-support-64-bit-c...
Well, New Vegas had a few people from the original fallout working on it afaik. And it's made by Obsidian, who made the excellent Pillars of Eternity which you already praised :)
No, if you are invaded, you do with what you have. And it sure nicer to have F-35 than MiG-21 when the push comes to shove.
It wasn't great. There's a lot of anxiety watching my bank account go down with no plan at all. Resting seems even more unproductive, it resulted in a lot of bad habits forming.

I find I am much happier working 14 hours/day than resting 24 hours.

I did have an extremely productive remote work era during that period for a side project, but unfortunately the team fell apart.
You don't know what we would have instead.
Deliberately misleading Congress by his ignorance.

Two words: plausible deniability.

Also see: dog and pony show.

This was a performance for the various constituencies that will, save for a few minor exceptions, prove to be ultimately a toothless exercise.
You can only execute in 32-bit mode if the kernel gives you a compatibility-mode descriptor in the GDT, or lets you put one in the LDT.

(or you use virtualisation)
A counter-example (the only one I’m aware of) is tru64 UNIX from Digital (later Compaq, later HP), now EOL. If you used “int” in C on that platform, it was 64-bit.
The key takeaway is that ice melt is very non linear.

You can't estimate future melt rate based on just past melt rate and drawing a line.

It's more like taking away bricks from a building and having a sudden collapse.
Well, that's what the printing press did, no?

Anyway, while I agree with api's comment about losing boundaries (or more accurately: having to find a new way of setting them with the improved ease of communication and tracking), I think that blaming the Babel fish is a bit of a "shooting the messenger, not the message" problem. Removing barriers to communication also reduces the ability to ignore things that have to be addressed.

edit: clarified what I meant a bit
But you can't actually treat everything like a file, so you have to turn to ioctl and whatever structure is actually related to what you're working with in reality.

In a sense, we only treat everything as a file the same way some languages have a toString method for everything. You can get something out of it no matter what it is, but there's no guarantee that something is going to be in any way useful and you still have to interact with it in a way that doesn't treat it like a generic string.
Yes! I was doing the math from that "13 years ago...".

Anyway, it sounds like a very short time for something that was created, became a such relevant part of my life and all my friends, then disappeared.

If asked from top of mind, I would say it was founded 20 years ago.
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What threats are you referring to?
The issue that GP was pointing out is that in Linux, everything is not a file. And the inconsistencies (in Linux or the POSIX model; take your pick--I'm not interested in splitting those particular hairs) are a hassle to program around. For example:

- Non mmap'd memory: what do you do with memory retrieved by [s]brk(2)?

- Signals: are they files or not? Signalfd is provided in addition to lots of other complicated other facilities for handling around the same things. And that's before getting into realtime signals and the like.

- Timers/events: are they files? vDSOs? Available via files? No? Depends on which syscalls/APIs you're using.

Additionally, many of the non-file-ish APIs in POSIX implementations are a massive hassle to use across multiple threads. Even the file-based APIs for eventing (select/poll/epoll.) have substantially different behavior with regards to edge/level triggering, and different behavior when used across multiple processes (shared fia fork or non-CLOEXEC handles) or threads. Can you master them and use them correctly? Sure. But there are so many ways to achieve very similar things, and, while each method has its niche, there's no unifying thought model that ties them together in the same way that "everything is a file" was promised to tie together UNIX operating systems.

Oh, and /proc is being moved away from/found to have limitations because it's a file descriptor exhaustion hot-spot, among other things. So the plan9-style of "expose the internals as a filesystem" appears not to be the route that the Linux community is pursuing.

TL;DR if you're writing simple, non-concurrent standalone utilities or working at a very high level then sure, you can pretend everything is a file. Below that, or in more complex applications, those abstractions break down in surmountable-but-annoying ways.
Or even, more waking hours total over their shorter span of years?
Even GPU drivers compile shaders to the respective internal architecture of the GPU. Only desktops, laptops and commodity servers have managed to get stuck with x86 backwards compatiblity. It's probably rooted in microsoft's dependence on intel but nowadays even microsoft has a cross architecture SDK (UWP).
Care to elaborate?

Analogy: How do you get people to win the game? "Reward the winner". Sure, but what's the game, how do you win it, what's the reward, how do you distribute it.
The paid content is definitely way worse (more insidious) in the new design): it blends in far more, and equally as bad is that a lot of it seems to be just using those trash fb-esque style clickbait titles.

Reddit's not perfect, but trash-tier clickbait titles is not something I'm accustomed to seeing on there, nor do I want to.
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Can someone talk about the reason MZ didn't need to testify under oath? I understand it's a federal crime to lie to Congress; However, was that out of the ordinary ?
It’s an intensely complex system.

All that you say is true, but:

Warming sea water due to decreased salinity and infractions through the circumpolar current result in increased precipitation, which as you say results in an increase in volume of land ice - however this volume is accruing inland, while the coastal feet of glaciers and ice shelves continue to be undercut by said warmer water, which then allows their collapse, which allows increased flow, which allows retreat. Now - the worrying possibility which arises is that the combination of more on shore mass and less off/near shore buttressing will result in a net increase in flow, which will then contribute further to the positive feedback loop.

Honestly, nobody knows, our models are nowhere near granular enough. I prefer to err on the side of caution, and take a pessimistic view, but that’s just me.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
Reddit is pushing the new redesign which seems half-baked attempt at competing with facebook.
What sites/forums can be considered as alternative to reddit or its parts?
This is very confusing. Your landing page is available in German, but the app is not available in Germany. Ratings in the Play Store are horrible, and support responds to bad reviews in the wrong language (English Review, Spanish response). The "download page" is 50% India and 50% all other countries. What is special about hello? After 2min on the website, I have no idea. And if I did not know orkut already, I would be soooo lost by the copy.
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Instead of assigning too high-level meaning to stuff that works on a much lower level, it might be the opposite.

The reason why you can say that one transistor doesn't handle moving up and down is because we can engineer and economically produce systems with enough spare resources and performance to implement general computing devices capable of running arbitrary programs.

If instead you were playing say... a very early arcade game, you might very well actually have the 'X coord' register implemented in a fixed discrete component.

One of the assumptions baked into biology is that by the time you're talking about cells, you're talking about implementations of behavior subject to reasonably strict constraints (plus hilarious amounts of path dependent evolution), with the assumption that things are more like old school analog/digital electronics where every component counts, versus modern integrated processors.

That's not to say that they have the perfect analytical techniques for solving problems in their domain space, or any domain space.
If you happen to be in Belgium this weekend or know someone who is: Newline is the annual conference by the local computer club. This year's programme is pretty stellar ( https://hackerspace.gent/newline ). Everyone is welcome, the entire event is free.

edit: fixed link
yes very Digg like - Digg is the only thing on Readspike I wish I could remove. I wonder how to replace Reddit - Discord seems like where a lot of good conversations are going. ? Can YCombinator host some good discussions beyond app development - I really like how it is moderated.
I started using reddit in 2008. Although I doubt it was intentional reddit was a refuge from the "Best viewed with Javascript" modern web for many years. It worked just fine to browse and read with no JS enabled and was very snappy and low resource usage that way. Sure, you had to toggle JS back on to vote or post but that was easy enough.

I left just before they pushed out the redesign due their increased censorship but from what I can see now it is a random chance that a sub will work with JS disabled. Half the time the post content in a div that only is rendered visible when you turn on JS. You can read it if you view source but not in the browser's native interface.
Use "stdint.h" in all new code. I only use 'int' and 'long' for counters I know won't be that big, etc. I use stdint types for anything where I might care about the size.
> 1. Get all the crap out of the food supply.

Additional taxes may do, it helped for smoking. Slap the same tax on sugar, (processed) animal products, oils. And make a VAT exempt on whole plant foods. That combined with updated nutritional education will save millions.
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It's definitely easier to understand a microprocessor than chemical-oriented protein systems that have mostly evolved into an operable state by chance.

A CPU is founded on a limited set of basic components that possess reasonable qualities, behave consistently, and only scale to large quantities with identical repetition.

Just leave out the deeper materials science and solid state quantum physics behind the "why" of how transistors operate.
There is an extremely powerful tool that developers have always had and designers sadly never had: functions.

Look at every website you've built. The frontend is made possible only by functions. You may call them React components, or Vue templates. You may even have your own view library. But they all boil down to the characteristics of simple functions:

As in, they are parametric, they compose, they recurse, and, most importantly in visual design, they do NOT match 1-1 with HTML nodes. Let me qualify:

Look at this simple <Button> component (defined in React for example):

+----------------+
| | <--- div
| {children} |
| |
+----------------+

The component not only produces the surrounding <div>, it also accepts an instance of another component that it then places inside that div:

const Button = ({children}) => <div class="button">{children}</div>

The <Button> component does not match 1-1 with the number of HTML nodes it produces. That's how you build abstractions – it's why you can re-use this button in different situations without changing its source. And, you do the same thing for other reusable piece of your project. That's how you keep the complexity of your frontend manageable.

In visual design tools however, these abstractions aren't possible. What you get to work with are layers. Every 'thing' on the screen is made of a layer, sometimes more than one layer. Every 'thing' you want to put on the screen will make your hierarchy at least linearly more complex. That is the opposite of what programmers have, where they can create hundreds of 'things' with the ease of controlling just a few 'things'.

The most that visual design tools have done to manage this complexity so far, is a feature known as Symbols/Components as it's named in Sketch/Figma. It helps, but it doesn't give you anywhere near the power of functions. It's not parametric, it hardly composes, and it doesn't recurse. Also, you can't create the above <Button> component with it.

Now, why haven't design tools given us something as powerful as functions (or React/Vue components)? Because functions have complexities of their own, eg. type annotations, or runtime errors, just to name a few. Can you imagine having to fix runtime errors when you're in the zone playing with shapes and colors? I certainly can't.

This is all not to say that it's impossible to make such a powerful design tool. It is possible. It's just harder. You gotta rethink the whole thing from the ground up. But there are tons of low hanging fruits in this growing industry. You can take Sketch's UX and add animation/multiplayer/history to it. People want that. So it's easier to invest on those and get rapid adoption rather than invent something completely new and convince people to jump ships.

--

ps. We're building such a tool. We call it TheaterJS. No online demos yet, but we'll have a private beta soon. Hit me at aria@theaterjs.com if you want to know more :)
F-16 is state of the art 4th generation fighter. It is just as good or better than various Su-27/3x variants in Russian AF fleet at the time.
Right; its a publicized opportunity to get your sound byte in the press. So everybody is 'on message' and repeating the same points, questions and fake outrage no matter what the topic.
I appreciate all of these distributed social networks (Mastodon, Peepeth, Diaspora, etc.) getting some buzz right now. I think distributed hosting of social networks is an important step forward.

However, they're all lacking one major thing that needs to happen in order for a true Facebook Exodus to take place - distributed discovery and consumption. Facebook has a HUGE network effect, and simply put there is no way any of my acquaintances are going to leave Facebook just because of the recent news. I can start a Mastodon node, but I would be shouting into a void - there's no one there to see my content, and no incentive for someone to move over. If I _did_ convince anyone to move, they'd be shouting into the same void, and get bored. There needs to be a way for us early adopters to post content, but let it still reach people that haven't jumped yet.

Right now the best solution I have for this is something pull-based like RSS. Even that's not a great solution, though - my average acquaintance no longer uses RSS. I might be able to get my mom to install Feedly, but no way is my old friend from High School going to install it. Open to hear ideas around this.
Or Reddit Sync.
Unfortunately I doubt there are any good solutions to this. People become obese because their lives are too fucked up to care for themselves properly. If your parents are weak, you're at high risk of being obese. If too many bad things happen to you at once you're at risk of being obese. Kind of fucked up to think of society as fucked up hunger games where if you fuck up the bodies of you and your loved ones are mutilated by this condition but that just seems to be how life works
> there was a comment yesterday about how short-bursts of extra activity actually made people less active outside their regular exercise times

Made mice less active! Not people. It was a link to an article about a mouse study
> I'm assuming the Fuchsia development is 100% about not having to use any GPL software

And for that reason, as an end-user, I’d be extremely weary of buying any Fuchia-based device.

You can be 100% assured the source for the required HW-drivers to use the device for anything else wont be available.
> I can get my old MP3 files to the app without stupid iTunes sync? Does it support "File sharing" so the app is shown in iTunes and I can drag and drop my MP3 files to its storage?

That’s what I want to know too. My biggest problem is having iTunes in the middle.
If it allows me to remain anonymous and does not tracks me, spy me etc. I am down for it!
Google tracks online behaviour on an industrial scale. It's baffling how little scrutiny the company faces, least of all from the tech community who often rush to it's defence. (Does a multi-billion dollar company need your defence?)

When you create a Google account, you're asked to provide your name, your gender, your date of birth, your location and your mobile phone number. Some of your most personal and private details, all of which will now be tied to your online behaviour.

That ceaseless data capture starts right from school, where millions of students use a cloud-based OS called ChromeOS that records everything they do. It's quite horrible that this is happening - the kids don't even get a say, it's the adults who've decided this.

It doesn't matter if that information is only collated in aggregated form and detached from user accounts, we don't know how that information could be mined or analysed either now or in the future. (In fact, I suspect that even Google hasn't figure all the possible uses of the ginormous quantity of user behaviour it has captured and continues to capture).

And we've seen from Spotify and Netflix how even aggregated data can reveal very private and personal user behaviour.

Google and many of it's supporters conflate security with privacy. Just because Google hasn't ever suffered a breach of user data, people say that Google can be trusted. You can't have privacy without security, but security by itself does not equal privacy. You're still being tracked relentlessly by Google no matter how securely it's storing your online behaviour.
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Sure - Trump's allies, domestic and foreign, used Facebook to game the elections, at a bargain price. Smart weapons for a brave new world.
It's the same with Turkish. There is a text in Turkish on orkut.com, but the app hello is not available in iOS App Store in Turkey.
There's not even any content to be obscured if JS is disabled, as I tend to do on phones to minimise data usage.
Ooops - I had a different definition for 'crap'. Maybe we should instead use a scheme that lets people choose their own food, like a free market or something...
60% is unrealistic. It's still very expensive to make anything as reliable as a human being if we're talking about anything other than pick-and-place (and that was really expensive the first time around).

For a business to automate, it must invest substantial resources into the automation process and product. It must work in an industry where consistency is the most important quality customers are looking for.

Automation already affected most of what it's going to do in manufacturing.

Given the capital and talent being deployed, automated driving is on the way. Most other industries are not seeing similar talent and capital being invested into automation. Long-haul trucking is the industry I have the greatest concern for. Most of the others (e.g. short order cooks) will be fine for quite some time.
For a lot of people, RSS hasn't gone away. They just call it Apple News. It has very quietly scaled to 70M MAUs and lets you add custom news feeds.
iirc, it was just a business decision to focus on Google+ and other efforts. A bad one in my opinion though.
> hello is the first social network built on loves, not likes.

Ah, ok.
Whenever you don't disagree with someone that means you agree with them. So say you agree and stop being so high minded.
I expect automation (whether full autonomy or just the assistive driving capabilities that we'll have for a fairly long time) will shake up the landscape and perhaps lead to consolidation. But automation isn't going to be some magic cube that gets stuck in every vehicle any more than it is today. I suppose you can posit a world in which there is some open source software and data set that everyone has to use for regulatory reasons but there's not a lot of evidence things are developing in that direction.
On the word “microblogging”: I think this may actually be the fundamental problem with all Twitter clones (so I'm not singling out your project; you just happen to be here).

For a mass-market tool, it should be possible to describe the purpose your tool using words that have existed for more than a couple of decades. At the moment, the shorthand is always “like Twitter, except not quite”.

So is it public chat? personal status updates? a public short-form diary? crap poetry? a personal news feed? a way to contact companies with short messages?

All of these are valid, and maybe it's several, but perhaps choosing one use-case to focus on will lead to a clearer offering.