skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say such a study is difficult to perform, somebody from the set of people requiring a structured system like weight watchers might be from a different set of people who lose weight through other approaches.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777230/#!po=5.... indicates there are definitely approaches people in the US can take and have taken to reliably maintain weight loss over extended periods of time.
I guess I can't see how being in bed + on a chair for 23 hours a day can be considered anything but heavily sedentary. Yes, it's not 100%, if we want to nitpick.
This TED talk was very interesting about some fungi facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY

On a side note, I thought this was an interesting take on Bitcoin in relation to fungi.

https://medium.com/@BrandonQuittem/bitcoin-is-a-decentralize...
China and Russia band together on experiments to modify the atmosphere
It would properly be safer to use algo. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
I don't disagree with that. I'm saying that no events are ever set in stone, so you can't talk about history without tying together events that are only partly related.
Bitcoin Is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium)
The application the developer is using has an interesting add-on feature of encrypted immutable chat logs that are stored on the block chain.
I recently read The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung and in it he states that bariatric surgery is little more than surgically enforced fasting. Most people can fast without doing the surgery.

I highly recommend the book. It's more like a science book about dieting than a diet book. Now that I understand that when I eat is as important as what I eat, I've been able to lose 20 pounds (and still going). And, yes, sugar (especially fructose) and refined carbs are bad.
Sorry, I meant via performing your own searches against the watchlists. Most of them are public. Treasury Department sanctions are a good place to start.
That's a great way to put it.
This is super fun! Nice presentation as well
Ok I better understand you now. Still, that makes little sense to me. They have reportedly been working on this product for two years[1]. Are we two believe that they never once reached out and asked "hey, you guys cool with this?" It's either gross incompetence or something more nefarious.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2018/12/13/in-a-bol...
It's only looking at moving inside of a country but this article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst... finds a link. You've got me curious too so I'll look to see if I can find anything for international travel.
Likewise, Belize and Qatar have higher obesity rates than the USA, so it's not necessarily correlated with the development of a nation
I was thinking the same until I read the whole article. I think the author is doing something interesting, read the am i a denier part.
That wouldn't change anything. If a company knowingly chooses to bring a sexual harasser into your workplace, and you get harassed, the technical employment status of the harasser won't matter when you file your lawsuit against the company.
Either:
definitely yes, as the conclusion of the article is very different than what I expected from the title

or:
no, because the content was substantial and many people probably would not read yet another article with a title like "even more evidence for how sure scientists are of climate change". we all already know and have mostly made up our mind
Humans were working their asses from 4-5 in the morning, up to late nights, walking miles and miles, carrying heavy stuff (women with their infants strapped on their back, or in a pouch working in the field/farm).

I know, because i knew such strong person that was frickin healthy even in her 90 years - one of my grand grand grand mom. Rosy cheecks, wrinkled face of a worker. Still later in her years, was no problem for her waking up and working a lot.
The more interesting question with git statistics is what they are actually useful for. Tools like this seem to be guided by which data is available and easy to extract. What is commits per hour useful for?

Sometimes these metrics are useful. For example, the top committers are interesting, because it instantly gives you a good hint who is very experienced with the codebase and its structure.

Two metrics I find useful to know where to refactor: Files with the most commits and with the most authors.
I'm not at a top 3, only a large regional. But I'm going to guess software packages and services from companies like Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (http://www.wolterskluwerfs.com for those interested).
Except it was likely property, and he couldn't liquidate those properties without incurring capital gains taxes (set at 49% in 1970)?

I don't know, perhaps you couldn't very easily leverage properties back then for cash (i.e. once they had been paid off), or interest rates were very high (a quick google teaches us that in 1970, the interest rate was 8.5%)?
I know somebody who got bariatric surgery and ended up mega fat again a year later. Obesity is often not a deliberate choice, but it is a product of lifestyle decisions in almost all cases.

Even though I have never been overweight last year I lost 25 pounds in 3 months by eating more food, not working out, and vastly increasing my fat intake. The secret sauce was eliminating carbs 6 days a week and slightly increasing my water intake. Avoiding drugs also helps including caffeine and nicotine.
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I've gone from 255 (BMI 33) down to 185 (BMI 24), back to 205, had an illness and got up to 225, now back to 210. I resent the article acting like this long-term weight loss is somehow a freak occurrence.

I just watch what I eat and exercise. Many people with obesity just don't like to exercise, but I love it. This is a natural advantage I have. But I also go on days when I don't feel like going, skip office snacks, and so on. It's neither magical nor impractical.

Ultimately, obesity has been normalized and people don't really care. This is going to be hard to change, either hard on society in funding education and support resources, or hard on the obese in cutting them off from health care and other Draconian measures.
We've updated the title to a more representative phrase from the article.
Robotics and Smart Cities Just Got a Lot More Real with Nvidia Jetson Xavier
I have a hard time putting psychedelics in the same category as cannabis. And saying they are far less destructive than alcohol might serve the purpose of decriminalization/legalization (because you are right: they are safer), but it doesn't serve the purpose of whoever winds up taking them.

You can have a couple of beers for the first time, and that will give you an idea of what alcohol feels like. You can microdose, and that will give you an idea of what psychedelics are like. But as you scale the amount you take of each, each drink of alcohol will feel like another layer of alcohol, and each increase in dosage of psychedelics is going to feel significantly different than the last. Setting also has more impact on psychedelics than it does on alcohol. Six beers at an office party is going to feel the same as six beers at home. A full dose of psychedelics at an office party is not going to feel the same as a full dose at home.

If legalization were to happen, cultural shamanism would need to exist in some form. In South America ayahuasca doesn't drive those who take it to madness because there are experienced people not only guiding you through the process, but also preparing your diet and expectations before hand. In the late 60s if you were seeking out LSD for the first time, you likely already existed on the side of the cultural fence that advocated for open mindedness and acceptance, and some of your peers would probably already have tried it and would be able to guide you. Illegality today almost forces that same network to exist, as in you need to know people who have done it in order to find it in the first place.

The idea of Joe employee of the month hearing about legalized mushrooms in the news and how they're safer than alcohol, going to a dispensary and buying some with his hard earned USD and then going home to have his ego ripped out of him doesn't sit well with me.
And considering all the interesting work that OpenBSD is doing to Clang, i.e: retguard [0] [1], ROP gadget reduction framework [2]. Ignoring the fact that two major open source *BSD operating systems use and ship LLVM/Clang as their default system compiler. Their entire system compiled with clang, LLD as the default linker for an increasing number of supported platforms. A ports tree with between 10,000 (OpenBSD) to 30,000 (FreeBSD) ports compiled with Clang, maintaining patches upstreams won't take..

.. You might think that objection would be listened to more readily, or do the interest of a handful of corporations hold greater weight?

OpenBSD will undoubtedly be forced to fork LLVM 8, and likely have to take on the burden of asking individual developers to dual-license contributions they backport going forward. This will place them in a similar position they had with GCC, since the GPLv3 license change.

[0] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/e688c2b0648a80551cf735...

[1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/9866f44de26a847eaed067...

[2] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/c0f0c565f0b312e55b410b...

Mark Kettenis formal rejection on behalf of the OpenBSD project: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300.h...
Do you have a source for that? Super interesting...
This isn't true. We have a pretty clear picture of what will happen as earth's temperatures rise. We know that sea levels will rise, ocean salinity will fall, sea currents will slow or stop, and much more.

It isn't hard to find research on this.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=effects+of+climat...
Sad you got downvotes.

No one is loyal to Google. Apple fanboys have a double standard that I don't understand, maybe its a social club.
Not a criticism of you but an observation: people will say a browser monoculture is bad but have absolutely no problem with a political monoculture.
Sugar was a rare luxury until recently. Even fruit was a luxury historically. Yes people ate sugar more than a hundred years ago, but it was a few pounds per year. Modern intake is more than fifty times as much.
That's a nice introduction to FFmpeg. Highly recommended because there are not that many up to date articles and sample code.
The reason why Robinhood was venturing into "too good to be true" territory was they required no minimum balance, no minimum activities (direct deposit, debit card purchases), no maximum balance for the high interest rate., plus ATM reimbursements.

In contrast, for LMCU:

Maximum of $15,000 for the 3% interest rate, most people with houses and/or families are going to want to have an emergency fund greater than $15,000, I spent almost $10,000 on emergency house repairs a couple weeks ago. If you're saving for a major purchase (car, down payment on house, major purchase, etc.) you're probably going to have more than $15,000. There is ZERO interest paid over $15,000!!!

The following are required to earn the 3% interest:

Direct deposit (self employed need not apply)

Minimum 10 debit card purchases per month (this alone should be a dealbreaker, one should almost always be using a credit card over a debit card if you're going to use plastic)

Minimum 4 logins to home banking per month

Requires eStatements

You're only getting an extra $12.50 a month over if you're keeping $15,000 in an Ally or Discover Savings account, and if you spend a modest $500/month on your debit card you're leaving at least $10 on the table in credit card cash back, not to mention the other benefits that come with using a credit card (extended warranty, price protection, purchase protection, travel insurance, etc. - depending on your card)
It's not that complicated in most cases.

Eat less garbage (sugar especially - cutting out soda and juice is a good start) and be more active. You'll almost certainly lose weight and be healthier.

The key is knowing what foods to eat and what to avoid. Then making it a lifestyle change, not bandaids or temporary diets.
They shared the iCloud private keys with the Chinese government to get permission to operate there...just google
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I'd be interested to hear from the couple people downvoting.

Find a lifestyle that lets you eat few enough calories. If that's low-carb, then go for it. If that's counting calories and just eating less, go for it.

When I was losing weight, I realized that certain foods made me feel more full per calorie (vegetables). Then I realized that drinking was using up a huge part of my calorie allotment. Then I realized that if I run then I can eat more. Everything was just to make it easier to eat few enough calories, and it happened to all make me healthier too.

I'm not claiming its easy, but it's true.
Actually thoughtful and worth reading.

The problem with climate change warnings is that they depend on a prediction about the long-term (30+ years) future. And even people who understand the analysis find it hard to believe, deep down, any predictions about the world that far from now. From Malthus to Huxley and Philip K. Dick, to Millenarianism, almost all dramatic long term predictions turned out wrong.
Is the 4K resolution less strenuous for you than HD? I tried looking at text in VR a while ago on an older Vive and the text was too blurry for me to easily read.
Relevant SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof
I say this on every VPN thread and it's still the best advice:

Just use Wireguard.
You could even extend these pipelines into customers' homes, completely eliminating the need for truck / car transport and packaging up to the last mile.

Oh wait.
Golang comes to mind when I read this:

"He is known for introducing the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans ... "
Random commenter #2, but I'm a genetics professor at a med school FWIW. Sugar is a major factor. The genetics of obesity point to a strong link to behavior. Sugar is addictive. Alcohol and nicotine are drugs, and so is sugar. There needs to be regulations on sugar content of foods. If you say it's not possible, I point to the low-fat craze years of the 1980s-1990s, where ironically we basically proved that swapping fat with sugar made our obesity problem worse.
"(calories in, calories out just doesn't cut it)"

Why not?

There is not some amazing mystery to why so many people are overweight. They eat more food (energy) than there body uses. Possibly over a long period of time. Just look at people's shopping carts at the grocery store.

Yes we understand so little of the body's biological processes but that doesn't mean CICO is not an extremely useful idea and something to put into action.
StatefulSets are not "smart." You would need to manage and configure any kind of replications, leader elections, backups, etc. Operators like KubeDB make this easier to manage, and can make stateful applications more "Cloud Native"
Yes the notepaper with triangular tiling was gifted at Knuth's 80th birthday celebration in Piteå, Sweden: http://knuth80.elfbrink.se/ (Sorry I don't remember where I read/heard about this.)
Ask HN: How do you cope with an inevitable pain?
Hi,

Sorry if this not technical, but I’m posting here for the insighful reponses I expect from the HN community.

I recently had a big argument with my wife (married for 7 months, knew each other for 5 years, mostly a long distance relationship), which might lead to a divorce, as I don’t see a workaround for our incompatibilities.

I’m already feeling a huge pain thinking about it, and I’ve been completely shutdown, depressed for the last 2 days. This is my first relationship and we love each other, I just can’t help it even if my brain tells me that’s the only logical solution.

I know pain will disappear after some time, but how do you deal with it when it is present? How do you continue functionning, living normally when you know that something bad is inevitabely coming like a break-up or a close one going to die because of cancer, etc? Any tips/brain hacks?

Thank you
I cut out added sugars and dropped 80 lbs over 3 years.

YMMV.
I agree about the confusing naming. They could reverse it: DBKube!
> I wonder if LLVM has a code of conduct?

It does indeed. It was mostly non-controversial, except for [AFAIK] one notable departure, de Espindola [1]. Lattner's response [2].

> ... new open source CoC whose mere existence is a violation of itself.

I can't tell if you're just being silly or if you're referring to an actual contradiction related to relicensing and/or the CoC.

[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122922.htm...

[2] http://nondot.org/sabre/2018-05-02-Rafael.html
Oh yeah, cars will make you lazy in ways I'm still surprised. It changes your notion of time and space. You can go from A to Z in 1h, something that would take a day. And the speed increase is exhilarating. It's a bad drug.
The people who study this stuff for a living are pretty clear on this. The only unclear question is how to find the political will to fix it, or to deal with the effects.
+1 I hope this is just pre-release. I imagine once 1.0 it'll be opt-in.
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>> “This idea that people should eat less and exercise more — if only it were so simple,” Dr. Hall said.

Well, actually it is that simple.

The problem is:
1) sugar
2) long commutes
3) sitting all day

And the solution is pretty simple, too.
1) Turn sugar down to 0
2) Do 50 burpees per day

The big meta problem is that people talk about it and complain about it and hand wring about it rather than doing the simplest thing possible.
This makes me think of an older HN post (Unpopular Opinions in SF(?)), where the author said something like: “The people who think about the effects of climate change the most, more often than not, choose to live in places that would be first underwater (SF, NYC, etc).”

The point was about humans being bad at considering long term future changes, which affects everyone.
I'm sure most militaries of the world have similar pork.
would that fall under "exposure therapy" ? i.e. doing it enough to get comfortable that nothing bad happens no matter how unprepared, as opposed to learning the skills to have a good "script" for when situations arise. I've tried Improv classes for this reason, but can't say it was a huge boost, other than adding 1 more thing to my list of self development achievements :)
>iMessage and FaceTime are end-to-end encrypted and work in China. There's different rules for Apple.

Does it count as "encrypted" if the keys have been given to the people spying on you?
> Is there a public announcement/commitment saying that Apple does not share any data with China?

They have to share data:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

> And even though Chinese iPhones will retain the security features that can make it all but impossible for anyone, even Apple, to get access to the phone itself, that will not apply to the iCloud accounts. Any information in the iCloud account could be accessible to Chinese authorities who can present Apple with a legal order.

> Apple said it will only respond to valid legal requests in China, but China’s domestic legal process is very different than that in the U.S., lacking anything quite like an American “warrant” reviewed by an independent court, Chinese legal experts said. Court approval isn’t required under Chinese law and police can issue and execute warrants.

Previous to this, the data was stored on American servers and subject to American legal safeguards.
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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing this.
>One of the exceptions was [Person]'s family office, which managed a shit-ton of money and had some good people who actually knew something about portfolio construction.

I'm not sure what type of professional you are, but you may be in breach of your responsibilities by disclosing the specifics listed above.

I know this message might seem silly, but I'd hate if you got in trouble for complimenting the guy's affairs.

Edit: I've editted out the person in question's name in case you do the same.
Disclaimer: this is how I understands all this, I could be wrong though

> Funds are invested to be able to get that 3% return.

If they are, then they are not insured either. SIPC doesn't insure bad investment decision, thus if the 3% return fail, you would lose money.

The SIPC protect the cash that is stored there which you are going to invest at some point. Let say you put 1000$ there and you invest 200$, it's alright, theses 800$ are protected whatever happens, but if you put 1000$ there but wasn't planning to invest anything, then it's not alright and this is the issue. It's mostly a semantic point, but that semantic is what make it manageable for the SIPC.
Right up until 1999 this was a meaningful position with actual political power. Even now, non-hereditary lords comprise the upper chamber of parliament.

Being a Lord in the UK is more or less equivalent to being a US senator.
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Every person aware of the extent of the coming (and current) climate crisis is a denier in this way I think.

Burying the knowledge at the back of my mind and holding it in the abstract is just about the only way to keep from dissolving into a puddle of pure anxiety and despair for the future and the children alive today who never even had a chance.

I'm not convinced the people with actual power to reverse what's happening will band together in time, and I'm not convinced that technology will be invented to significantly manage the run-away effects. Too many people are still bargaining to keep their current comforts and business as usual to accept the monumental change in our way of life needed to truly have a chance at solving this crisis.

But, there's always a glimmer of hope. There has to be, or I'd go insane.
Disappointing considering it would take less than 3 months of electric bus production to replace all ~14k busses.

“The numbers are staggering. China had about 99 percent of the 385,000 electric buses on the roads worldwide in 2017, accounting for 17 percent of the country’s entire fleet. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9,500 of the zero-emissions transporters—the equivalent of London’s entire working fleet, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/china-is-adding-a-lon...
I understand that it changed. But if there is a "wink, wink", who is it supposed to be for? For those who knew it was F/OSS? If so, it's not very effective, since they know the difference, and the text is clear that about why it's not likely to be considered F/OSS by the OSF, FSF, or Debian.

Or is it a "wink, wink" to those who didn't know? In which case, don't the many other community-but-not-F/OSS licenses mean that Confluent is being consistent with what others do?

AS someone who hasn't used Confluent but knows about issues related to F/OSS licensing and the difficulties of getting sufficient funding for developing F/OSS software, the explanation was pretty much what I expected for a company switching to an open core model from one which was all open source.

So, why might it be a "wink, wink"? That's likely my stumbling block in understanding your g'parent comment.
> Stop eating at restaurants, cook all your own food, bring in a lunch to work, count your calories. Also exercise, lots. And get 7+ hours a sleep a night.

> That's it, that's all it takes.

That's a simple recipe, but let's not pretend it's an easy one. It's a significant investment of your time and resources.
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