skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nutrition is a pseudo-science.
> > too much is bad

> In what way?

“Of course too much is bad for you. Too much of anything is bad for you. (…) That’s what “too much” means. (…) “Too much” is precisely that quantity which is excessive. That’s what it means.”

From https://youtu.be/XewVicFzRxw?t=2m44s
Well, that's still examining gender norms, isn't it? Like, Jabberwocky is nonsense but it is also examining what language is.
>They listened to their doctors. Modern life is too complex for everyone to understand everything fully.

Exactly. This directly contradicts the notion that "the research out there" is by itself sufficient to convince anyone of anything.

People rely on authorities, and different groups of people have different entities they consider authoritative.

>So we delegate decisions to reliable authorities.

Sure. Like, uh, elected politicians? Who benefit from politicization of science, no matter which side of each issues they end up on?

It it remarkable how oblivious most people are to the social dynamics of these issues.
I think that's a perfectly fair description, they didn't say 'remote' they said 'secluded wildness'. And besides Thunder Bay isn't just 'nearby', it's separated by at least 30 miles of Lake Superior, and there's not much in the way of major development on the rest of Keweenaw peninsula.

Or put another way I'd consider places on the opposite side of the Cheasapeake to be secluded wildness even tho they are technically only 30-50 miles from downtown baltimore.
Initially I wanted to figure out how to export my notes. I don't like to use software if I can't export my data. Then I saw strings in the table data mentioning CRDT and was curious. (I like to take things apart and see how they work.)

The data is protobuf encoded, gzipped, and stored in a sqlite database. I wrote some python code to help me work out the protobuf schema. Then I observed how the data changed as I tweaked the notes to assign names to the fields. (After I figured it out, I learned that the protobuf schema was being sent to the client in the web app, but it was a good exercise anyway.)

To fill in a couple of details, I took a look at some structures via classdump and the disassembled code in Hopper. (e.g. the point representation for the drawings.)
Invalidation is manipulation. The goodness of the reasons does not matter. Some people prefer a currency that can not be invalidated (shrunk) or debased (grown)
The problem is then what is proportionate and how do you estimate it?

Should Apple be taxed more than Google? Should an actor that gets paid 10 million dollars for a movie be taxed more than an actor who’s paid 5?
What if the actor that is paid 10 is has 5 times more views just in less valued markets?

Should I who works as an engineer for a financial institution be taxed more than an engineer working for SpaceX or NASA?
That’s probably one of the least interesting applications, really. We’re already quite good at optimizing engines for a narrow RPM/power range.
`if-else` for this will get messy quickly the more layers down you want to go.

if a is not None and a.b is not None:
c = a.b.c
else:
c = None

vs

c = a?.b?.c

The safe navigation operator is useful enough that beginners ought to be introduced to them anyway.
I will admit that adding `??` may be too much though, we could easily just use an `or` (although the PEP does have some justifications for adding it).
Wouldn't creation be manipulation too? As in the creation of the genesis block with Bitcoin?
> How arbitrary is arbitrary? ARMv7's Thumb2 format immediates are composed of a 8-bit field shifted by up to 5 bits. So you can form any 32-bit variable, but with limited precision.

When it comes to encoding the address of an entry point, every bit of precision you lose (above the first two or three) in the address loses you memory compactness (and adds a certain amount of complexity to compilation and relocation).

On the ARM and AArch64 V8 ports they use a constant pool for target addresses, on RISC-V you can probably just use AUIPC to compute the target address in place with no pool address register. You can, of course, do the exact same thing on RISC-V that they do in the ARM ports, but RISC-V has the considerable advantage of four extra bits (totalling 20) in U immediates vs. MIPS (16-bit U immediates), and eight extra bits vs. ARM in some cases (though ARM's immediate encodings are various and sundry, and produce a huge variety of corner cases and microoptimizations which are mostly useless to JITs [in my mostly amateur opinion]; to a lesser extent MIPS also has some interesting features for loading immediates which make up for the shortfalls in AOT code, but are harder [it seems to me, an amateur] to use effectively in a JIT).
> Yes, as a Westerner I hadn't even heard of this massive invalidation of 86% of India's cash currency.

Happened on 8th Nov 2016 - the western news cycle was laser focussed around a certain historic election.

This wouldn't have hit front page on the 9th, for sure.
There are good insights in this exchange:
https://register.epo.org/documentView?number=US.201113244836...

The invention pings both an IP address of a first server, and a URL of a different server;
The patent examiner found an earlier disclosure of very basic pinging (the document is referred to as "Sinha"); no mention of IP+URL pinging (at least according to Theranos), or switching network providers as a result.

You may read this and think how obvious it is to ping both a domain and an IP address, and switch providers based on that;
but unless you can find it in an earlier reference with this (before Sept 2011), or convince a court it's an abstract idea ("101" in patent parlance), this is what's patent-worthy according to present laws..

If you spend 200-800k, this patent can be invalidated easily. These patents get granted because examiners have less than a day to evaluate them, and the PTO survives off the maintenance fees (it receives zero tax dollars), and the cost of invalidating them later.
What's the solution?

Should we heavily invest in Quantified Self as a society? I'm sure we have the technology to make it worthwhile, but I'm not sure most people would be willing to do so due to privacy concerns.
I find this statistic dubious at best, given that by 2004 the internet had hundreds of millions of users. Even if we're generous and assume they mean public data on the internet, that'd be less than 1MB of data per person.
Its good that more than one way exist for something like this, though I personally prefer something like zenodo, were every record automatically gets a DOI attached.

(Zenodo is limited to 50GB though)
It really isn't. I left the reference in my post for a reason.

The fact is our society has a tendency to be unable to have meaningful discourse until someone provides framework for it. Just as the issue of Slavery back in the 1800's was fraught with the same types of rebellious antics and slaveowner hysterics, we're seeing the same patterns reserve at a time where inequality in the country has begun to reach a new perceived maxima.

You're also seeing the same sort of outpouring of sympathy that many workplace shooters saw after they snapped, even from some people they shot.

I'm not bringing the topic up lightly. I DON'T make a habit of bringing up the obvious or trying to find a way to turn things political. I've seen slices of life recently from the 1%, to teachers, to call center workers, to someone working the floor at a Tractor Supply, to an AM in a grocery store, to farmers, to the retired elderly for who the system worked.

Every last one realizes that something is going amiss right now after a bit of time spent talking. Every last one feels helpless to change anything about it. In this type of environment it is frequently the mentally ill who are best able to perceive the flaws inherent in the System, and the most likely to ACT because of them.

The 'crazies' in short, aren't the problem. The fact we as a society have normalized something so 'off' that even the 'crazies' are starting to get pushed over the edge by it is what we should be paying attention to.

As I said, I was quite confident my post would prove controversial, but I felt it needed to be said, as it has been left unsaid for too long.
I think a patent is only worth something to the extent that it is enforceable.
Agreed. It would also be nice you could take your dog on a train.
Juicing, cooking, tofu making is minimally pocessed and generally accepted in WFPB circles.

I't the point where you refine something (oil from seeds, sugar from beets) where it is against the protocol.

> Seems a bit of a misery diet to me.

I was not trying to make you happy. I stated it has a lot of science on it's side. There are some great cooking resources on how to make it taste/look/whatever great. Wanna know more about the science, see How Not To Die.
Glad you like it! Happy to answer any questions. I’ve been trying to make my writing accessible to both the HN and academic research community; let me know if you have feedback on how I can improve here
I'm pretty sure all the twitter datasets violate the twitter TOCs.
That might of been the case at one point in time but the current patent system allows the retention of the trade secret that makes the invention actually work as well as allowing a patent on that same invention. That is because there is no longer a requirement that the invention can be reproduced from the patent because this is no longer tested.

There was once a time when an actual working prototype had to be submitted to gain a patent. This "having your cake and eating it too" issue was why such a cumbersome requirement existed.

There are companies out there who do not know why a particular product works as well as it does. Those companies can still get a patent that does not describe the invention in a way that would allow someone to reproduce the desirable attributes of that product. They then can sue any smarter companies that actually can figure out the secret.
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You can already search your browsing history.

Non-centralized personal search engines have a few challenges to solve before they're feasible.
1) The web cannot support thousands or even millions of spiders/crawlers.

2) Search indexes are (probably?) too huge to distribute. See the commoncrawl project. It's TB for a few Billion pages.

3) Assuming a single crawler collects the necessary data, indexes can be easily distributed, and the search engine software is simple to set-up, who is going to subsidise this effort?
In the UK my experience has been that graduate developer salaries aren't that great, but can double for someone woth as little as 1-2 years experience post university.
See the book How Not To Die. As I see it it is converging quite a bit lately. But it is hard, sure. We know so much, but how to boil it down to something we can practice (that's what WFPB seems to be about to me).
> If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it to within four inches of the solar surface.

91cm and 10cm, to save anyone else doing the conversion. Also, it seems to understate the closeness: Closest approach is 6.1 million km, which is 1/24th of 1 astronomical unit, but four inches is 1/9th of a yard-stick.
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Nutrition is, for the most part, not science at all.

Studies are not just financed by obvious interests in the result, but also they use really poor population samples with horrible falsability and repeatability issues.

The fact that we still don't have a fully functional human body model to test theories on, doesn't help either.
Another corporate angle is the extent that MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is at work. Large companies in older industries will have a large portfolio and if they get hassled by a competitor, the competitor can strike back.

As a practical matter, what can happen is that small companies can't get traction since all of the minimum features/implementations in a given type of product have already been patented by one of the existing older companies as a form of low-hanging fruit.
They are not separate if your silicon can not do high frequencies on a fairly low voltage say below 1.35v you’ll be thermally throttled unless you delied and use a custom loop, as 1.4v+ would cause the chip to run way too hot.

I haven’t seen any 8700K that would not reach 5.0ghz heck I haven’t seen one that wouldn’t reach 5.2 the question is at what voltage and if it’s sustainable under load.
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How much do you pay for a high quality unlimited graphic designs for a flat monthly fee?
Someone suggested to me that my anger was inwardly focused and that had a direct causative effect on my depression. That rang true for me. So my first work on that was to get my anger directed in an outward fashion. At first, that entailed literally breaking stuff, chopping wood, climbing steep hills on my bike until it hurt, just get that energy going in the right direction. Get it out in the moment instead of bottling it up, fermenting it, then serving an explosion of it to some undeserving person who happened to be in my proximity.

Later some anger management came in. When I felt anger, I would pause, take a breath and assess why I felt wronged in a situation. If the reality check was the other person was crossing one of my boundaries, I would express that boundary and uphold it in as gentle a way as I was able. Which sometimes was pretty brutal, but my intent was always to de-escalate and ask for what I needed without expectation. If the reality check was I had expectations, particularly unreasonable ones, I would just own it, laugh at myself and move on. Maybe share it with some people in my support network.

Later, as naikrovek alluded to in his reply, I started working through childhood trauma issues with a therapist. That's when I got the most relief, though I'm not sure I could have skipped straight to therapy without doing all that other stuff first. Discovering my primary trauma as feelings of being unseen and unheard put things into perspective that made it very manageable. I just make sure I'm being seen and heard, and those skills evolve over time.

When I feel anger and it isn't about any of the above, I take it as a call to action to try to invoke some change. Mostly with myself, though at times I will put ideas out there for other people to contemplate. Acceptance is the key, however I should not accept the unacceptable. If it has to do with others, I invoke a cost benefit analysis to see if I want to fight, and if so, then I do. If I don't feel the fight is worth it, then I use what I call the short version of The Serenity Prayer, which is "Fuck it". I can't say I let it go, but I leave it alone. If it comes up in a recurring resentment kind of pattern, I just remind myself I'm leaving it alone. That gets a lot easier with time.

Perhaps I'm oversharing for a forum such as this. I hope it is helpful in some way; we all have our own journeys. Maybe none of this applies to you. I feel the key things are, be honest with yourself about how well your choices and strategies are working for you, and make sure you have some support. Some real people who really care enough to listen to you and help you without judgment. And most importantly, people who will tell you the truth no matter how painful it may be to you.
Right, so the million dollar question is "what species of bird are we talking about". rmason didn't specify.
The end result is still a policy which oppresses the people who can not afford the tax more severely than it oppresses those who can. If the desired effect is a reduction in smoking, for example, the appropriate approach is to track and limit sales on a per-person basis. This, of course, is less attractive to the state, and more cumbersome to administer and specify, but it doesn't suffer from the obvious moral wrong: artificially pricing people out of perceived vice on the basis of class.
Indians with large amounts of hard currency are usually involved in some sort of tax evasive maneuver and sometimes involved in criminal activity. Corrupt politicians will use enormous amounts of currency to influence elections, so in this case the party in power (BJP, similar in ideology to US Republican party) used demonetization to disarm other political parties before the elections while appearing hard on corruption.

There are numerous ways that wealthy individuals and businesses got around demonetization - for example, a bank manager could spread a large amount of "black money" across multiple accounts in the names of existing account holders, deposit a minimum deposit to avoid reporting requirements, and then withdraw the original amount later (minus a 20% commission) and return it in the form of new currency. The only people who were hurt were the average people who had to stand in long ATM lines or withstand reduced economic volatility. An established business may be able to withstand a month of severely reduced business but a street vendor, laborer, service worker, etc (a large part of the population) could not.

* The political disarming is from my own speculation and the Washington Post wrote a great article on the economic impact: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/...
Wouldnt the test just need to apply to all modes? If its a matter of automatically tuning through a series of conditions then its reasonable that those could be documented and tested by the facility / standards body.
That was the original point of patents when the patent office required a working copy. The inventor gave the public enough information so it can be copied and in return the government gave a limited monopoly.

Then government process change and today patent has changed. The ability to copy a invention from a patent is for all practical purposes impossible and in general no one objects to that fact. As the joke goes the only invention invention that the patent office will demand to be able to copy is one that breaks the third law of thermodynamics.
It's not up currently, but make a note about a domain for a project I'm working on and releasing soon. It's a general platform for accumulating any type of geo/metadata/media possible about a point in space.

thislocation.com

I mentioned a few details about it in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532101
> mainstream nutrition science was a key contributor to American obesity crisis

This seems unlikely given that mainstream nutrition science is the same in most of the western world, but the obesity levels are far more severe in the US. From what I hear from friends who have travelled to the US (from the UK), standard portion sizes can be over twice as over on your side of the pond. And it can be very difficult to travel anywhere without a car. Seems to me this might have the bigger effect.

That said nutrition science really is a mess. Hopefully we'll work it out one day :)
Unlimited? yeaaahhh uhuh
> Native tool, supporting all properties of resources

Unfortunately, this is far from the case. I can name 3 things off the top of my head not supported in CloudFormation.

1. The ability to create Route 53 records for Certificate Manager

2. Create a full EKS Cluster (with nodes).

3. EC2-Fleet.
I see a many clear reasons to avoid/reduce any processed fat (oils, butter, etc). It is not part of what primates ate, so good chance we're not well adapted to it. It is too calorie dense. It blocks insulin. It becomes fat (carbs barely become fat), especially when combined with carbs (as is common). It often comes with cholesterol.

> Doesn't seem consistent with your logic of less refined is better.

That's why I continue to say its better to avoid both. More or less as bad as butter is still quite bad either way.

> So basically veganism.

Yeah. When applied for health reasons, it's called a plant based diet. Since you can make junk-food from plants, the WFPB word came about.

> Pretty much a non-starter for most people.

Stopping smoking is also hard. Wanne live longer/healthier? Look into WFPB. Wanne do what you always did? It is still legal, no worries as of yet.
There is a definite ultra conservative "culture fit" that is common in the business culture of the region. Newer companies don't seem to be effected.
Professors sleeping with their current students is incredibly inappropriate regardless of how the relationship was initiated. Just keep it in your pants until the end of the semester.
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>LOL. Notice that none of your points address any specific studies.

It doesn't matter. The post above gives a fairly good explanation of why there are so many people skeptical either about the climate change, or about its exact rate, or about the causes, or about the policies that should be enacted in its regard.

It is not very scientific in most cases, but from average person's perspective it makes sense. So the notion that every "climate denier" out there is some kind of raving mad lunatic is itself patently absurd. Their position is completely understandable, even if it's scientifically incorrect.

This is especially true when you get to the "policy" side of things.

As a side not, let's not pretend that climate change "believers" (denier, believer - both are horrible labels) are always rational. Most of them are only vaguely inspired by research and driven by more mundane and "social" motives.

For comparison, how much zeal have you seen around colony collapse disorder? It's a serious issues with potentially grave consequences for ecology and agriculture. Almost no one cares. There is no social signalling, no in-group/out-group dynamics, no vitriol. Because it hasn't been politicized. Yet.
Excess salt can kill you, that’s why we can’t live on sea water. The question is how much is excessive, not can salt hurt you.
Thanks for the link. Ive not yet had a chance to play with Terraform 0.12 but from what I've read it does sound like HCL v2 is definitely a step in the right direction. However so long as it's primarily a data serialisation format I think I'm going to take issue writing Terraform code in it because sometime you just need to express something procedurally. Maybe I'm just in the minority here? Or maybe I've just been spoilt with tools like Puppet and Bash but I can't help feeling that HCL is a step backwards in terms of expressiveness.

I wasn't aware about the JSON subset / Consul problem though. That's really interesting to read. It's funny because back when I was building test Consul cluster I did wonder why JSON was used for config instead of HCL. I guess now I know why.
I like the interpretation of minimally processed food as something that you can fairly easy make in your own kitchen. Freshly squeezed juice is fine. Packaged juice from concentrate with added refined sugar is not.
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Anderson Cooper has a higher networth than Kim Kardashian are you ok with taxing him until he quits as well?
The inherently self destructive nature of ICE's make it likely that ICE vehicles will always be more complex, less reliable/ higher maintenance than comparable all electric vehicles. The simplicity advantage of electric will soon take a quantum leap when driveshaft-free 4 motor all wheel drive vehicles hit the market [1].

On the other hand as long as batteries are heavy, ICE's will have a place in aircraft, and I would think the OP's technology could be huge for helicopters.

1 http://www.electric-vehiclenews.com/2017/06/hondas-all-elect...