skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thing that bothers me is that in the popular consciousness the defacto way to get fit is to hit a 24 hour fitness gym to count to ten alone under flourescent lights. You're not very likely at all to engender a lifelong fitness habit doing that.

Do things that engage you emotionally, mentally, and socially. Do things that are fun, and adventurous. Compete, even if it's at a beer league level. You need more robust and tangible fitness goals than looking good in the mirror in 6 months.

Fitness gyms hate you. They want your annual fee and then they don't want to see you again until next year. It you're trapped in the mindset that keeping fit is some kind of chore that you have to add on to an already busy life, you're doing it wrong. When you see people in their 70s who are still kicking ass, it's because using their body is at the centre of their life, not at the margins.
Almost certainly, but it's nice they're making it generally available. I've seen some sites' GDPR exports limited to EU customers, which seems like a dick move.
I've wondered if whether the decriminalization and/or legalization of marijuana would eventually lead to people selectively growing strains that don't smell as strong. I guess that it's not a priority for the people that partake, and therefore not a priority for the producers.
This actually resonates with me, maybe not in the way Ellison intended as I’m not familiar with the context he said it in. A bit off the main topic but the more I revert to just using emacs for some task I previously used a .app bundle or web page for, the more I question how much we the computer industry has just been spinning its wheels for the last 30+ years. I honestly can’t really tell what value WIMP-centric GUIs have brought to the table besides fashion, let alone the endless debates in the form of actual implementations about the best way to build one. Possibly the best argument ever made died with Mac OS 9.

I suspect that in a year I’ll be using what is effectively an Elisp machine with an Apple logo paired with an iPhone.
Yes! And a lot of the time querying properly indexed JSONB is faster than Mongo.
Besides, I think taxpayer dollars are being spent on things that are far more shocking...

The U.S. leads the world in military spending, has one of the largest incarceration rates per capita, and is floating around the idea of a new border wall, and you're mad about... People not being skinny...?
People here seem to value fat shaming so I think it’s valuable to mention it doesn’t help. Reposting a reply I made:

Portugal legalized drugs and made them safer to use and... people were generally healthier and better off.[1]

People have unhealthy habits because of issues in their life. Poverty, abuse, mental health issues, lack of access to healthcare and healthy foods.

If you want people to get better you need to stop vilifying them, e.g fat shaming or war on drugs, and start accepting and helping them. Same for drugs, same for weight, hell, I’d say it’s the same for many “criminals” too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
Tying together legalizing drugs and fat shaming is a huge reach..

The drug vilification issue becomes a problem when the state gets involved in enforcing that moral compass -- the danger of drugs predominately derived from its users/product existing solely on a black market, with no regulation, and no verification of the product you're purchasing. It's not that hard to avoid overdose when you have pure heroin, it's much harder when you have heroin cut with unknown quantities of unknown alternatives. It's much harder to seek legal help, when it requires you to admit to criminal activity.

It's not the vilification at issue for drugs, it's the criminalization. Presumably portugal still does not have a positive outlook on drug usage (it's still vilified).

And afaik, being fat is no crime.
'People's health is their own concern'

I disagree wholeheartedly. So many diseases today are preventable when you consider that most people take no action to improve their health through any kind of diet or exercise. Its a probabilities game. If you eat fast food frequently, drink/smoke too much, and don't exercise you cannot expect to have the same odds of a long life as someone who is doing those things.

Now if we accept the above argument, even if only to a small degree, than we can conclude that individual decisions have should result in a widespread increase in demand for chronic healthcare needs, such as heart disease. This in turn causes insurance rates to go up for those individuals taking care of their health. Furthermore it funnels more and more human capital away from the rest of the economy by raising demand for doctors, nurses, and all other kinds of medical staffing/machinery.

Its inconvenient to believe that your health has a larger effect on the world you live in, but it does.
There are better ways to rehabilitate non-violent offenders. Prisons should focus on rehabilitation, but what sets it apart from other methods of rehabilitation is that they keep dangerous people out of society in the meanwhile.
If you want a really cynical view: consider that military spending (at every level from large weapons systems down to local spending around military bases), veterans services, and general disability benefits are in some sense the only social spending accepted by a significant fraction of the population.

When I am feeling very cynical, I think of how government spending and pork-barrel politics reflect the same quirk of psychology seen in the marketing of burly SUVs and trucks to the segment that could otherwise be served by minivans and economy cars.
Probably for the same reason people have a build process to load in 100s of KBs of Javascript in order to render an <h1> tag, and the compile it all down to HTML and declare static sites are the wave of the future.
not sure why you're getting down voted, I think these are some great points. Similar to trying to update a large legacy codebase vs starting from scratch-- it's easier to design, plan, and execute using the latest and greatest, vs. ripping out old infrastructure and systems or building on top of/along side of/etc.

And yes, healthcare spending is unnecessarily insane. Healthcare is tough though because it is not your ordinary product. Is it a right? How do we deal with different levels of care? Politicians don't want to answer these questions. The truth is there is unlimited demand and limited resources in a market where we feel morally obligated to give everyone the absolute best-- an impossibility. Healthcare is just one example that gives me doubts about our political system. Do we have the collective courage/wisdom to make big, important decisions? Sometimes any decision is better than none and I see our current healthcare system as a non-decision-- a "kick the can down the road".

What scares me about China is their gov't's ability to make these decisions (whether right/wrong, regardless of consequences) and get shit done as well as their people's staunch nationalism, essentially, our weaknesses. I do think that western values of freedom and transparency win in the long game, I just hope that the free nations can stay in the game long enough to win.

On that note. I think we need to get better at being a country--politically, economically, etc. We need to work on inefficiencies in the markets: monopolies, corruption, and players in comfortable positions because they've gamed the system. The free market should be uncomfortable for all players. Constant competition is what we want. Unfortunately, as players in the free market win, they gain power and alter the rules of the market so it is no longer free/efficient. We can't fault them for these self-preservation tactics, hell we view them as individuals right? (corporate personhood, Citizens United, etc). At the same time we need to seek out and prevent these cancerous tendencies. In addition, don't let corporations get too big too fail. Let corporations that are no longer fit, die!

I watched that Crouching Tiger series on youtube and while I recognize that it is a bit alarmist, it's tough to ignore the facts.
1) That only matters if nicotine itself is substantially bad for you, which is far from clear: https://www.gwern.net/

2) Adults like flavors too. We shouldn't ban anything appealing that kids shouldn't have just because it might appeal to kids.
You moved to MS?!? Your about section still mentions your Google address. Good luck!
I've got some buyers regret over supporting various decriminalization and legalization pushes merely over how common the smell has become from the increased exposure to individual smokers in So Cal. I never considered what it'd be like to live near production.

I still believe in the principle that the criminal justice system is a poor avenue for addressing most issues related to drug use. But I think the jury is still out whether individual users are generally good at being good neighbors about their use. And industry... honestly, I'd think that an industry that recently had to hide as much production activity as possible would be better about this. But monetary incentives are a hell of a drug, and this isn't going to be the last issue a market oriented society that brings cannabis industrialization into full fellowship is going to face.
Unsure if you're trying for a parody here, but HOH isn't actually that absurd. Numerous public health policies - methadone clinics, needle-exchange programs, Narcan syringes on every EMT - are based on the assumption that addicts are gonna be addicts, and until they are in a place in their life where they can do the work needed to kick the addiction, they might as well not be spreading HIV, committing petty crimes to support their habit, living on the street, or dying. All of these interventions make it more likely that they will eventually get to a place in their life where they will be able to do the work to actually kick the habit.
Yes, you can still be liable for defamation when printing a false story, e.g. reckless disregard/negligence of the facts. My comment was that Erderly's failure/transgression was not one of fabrication. Doesn't change the damage of her reporting though.
> They're making an entire movement to justify why they're lazy and undisciplined.

Congratulations. You are literally the reason why this movement exists.
James Madison University is located a few miles from a dog food factory and the entire town smells like it.

Also dead skunk is how you know it's good so... shrug
Will pot consumers like that? I think marijuana smells fantastic, I doubt I'm alone on that. It's an acquired taste similar to beer and coffee. This would be like if breweries stopped making IPAs because some people find them too strong.
Optimizing hobbyist IoT parts for power usage
Every bit of research I've seen contradicts this. I'm talking about NHI in the UK and several peer reviewed papers which seem to support safe injection sites as being a cost effective way of dealing with social addiction issues (we already know the war on drugs hasn't worked)

Care to share any sources on the ineffectiveness of these sites?
iPhone vs. Android: I missed iMessage too much to leave iOS for good
What? No comparasions to the MacBook Pro?
> I'm unsure why the further would orbits require a larger size though

Stern–Levison's Λ finds a body's ability to scatter smaller masses out of its orbital region over a period of time equal to the age of the Universe scales inversely with its semi-major axis [1]. (A circle's semi-major axis is its radius [2].)

This is most simply because a wide orbit contains more volume than a small orbit.

[1] http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/PDF/planet_def.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes
Not that I'm all that good at the more esoteric features of git, but you can overwrite the history with the correct flags, right? It seems like all you would need to do to sync them is have the most recent checkout of each, a way to determine which was newer, and push the newer branch over the older one (to be simplistic and destructive).

If you're always overwriting history of one to make it match the other, diffing the git logs of each against each other would likely tell you which had items the other didn't, and if it went just one direction or both (i.e. can you just overwrite one with the other or is some manual intervention required).
I may be confused, but doesn't the European Central Bank have a zero percent interest rate set at the moment?
Isn't that a Keynesian stimulus?
I believe low smell would be prefered for illegal grows as it attracts attention.
Thanks. Can you provide a link? The edx course is down and the YouTube collection I found has a missing video.
Glitter bombs and fart spray.
Google denies altering YouTube code to break Microsoft Edge
>Aphorisms aside, yield curve inversion is rare.

^^^This guy/gal gets it. The 10-2 treasury yield spread is currently at 0.16 and has been steadily falling since the beginning of 2014. Since the 1950s, every time the 10-2 spread dipped below zero, a recession followed within two years.[1]

The Fed just announced another rate hike less than an hour ago and have indicated that there will be two more rate hikes in 2019.[2] As the federal funds rate continues to rise, the yield curve will continue to flatten.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/preview-feds-last-monetary-po...
Any data on that?

I am not convinced that it is "immeasurably" so. Being fit is not going to change some of the most unpleasant things in a lot of people's lives. A commute is still a commute. A bereavement is still a bereavement. A boring job is still a boring job. Debts are still debts etc etc.

Being fit is not going to change any of those, so I am not sure how life gets immeasurably more enjoyable if you are as fit as an Olympian but your partner just died and you've got to go work in the Amazon Fulfilment center 90 minutes bus ride away to pay for your medical/student debts and still just about have enough left over to pay for basic food and heating. But hey I can run 100m in under 10 seconds so wow my life is immeasurably better as a result!</sarcasm>
Probably the same as in any dystopian book.

Sentry guns on top or inside.
Space is so hugely, mind-bogglingly big, that even paring it down to small fractions using clever orbital analyses still yields hugely mind-bogglingly big regions of space. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

I think someone should re-imagine all of Star Wars as hard Sci-fi set in the vicinity of a system like Alpha Centauri. That's still a vast setting.
While I share your disgust for IE and its successor Edge, you are incorrect about one thing.

The Chrome install base on Windows is not entirely due to user choice. Chrome is/was bundled and selected for installation by default with many other software products, including Adobe Reader, CCleaner, and Avast antivirus.
The only problem is that it takes ~10 minutes to filter that much coffee. You may have to change out the filters 2 or 3 times during the process.

Coffee Grounds clog up those filters and really slow down the process. But once its done, you've got so much coffee that you can use conveniently. Just gotta find the ~15 minutes to work the filters.

See my comment here for an example schedule: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18718842

My personal preference is to cold-brew Tea however. I'm more of a tea person than a coffee person. But I switch it up every now and then to change the flavors.
We've already got unmanned vehicles all over the place - in parking spots. Surely they'd be easier targets for vandalism etc. than a moving unmanned vehicle with a bunch of cameras recording?
I mean do you think it really makes a difference? Kids have been doing drugs and drinking and having sex for as long as anybody remembers.

Teens are genetically programmed to engage in risky behavior, it's a very old evolutionary adaptation. I don't think you or anyone else is ever going to be able to change that.
The interesting part of this for me is their conclusion that that there is no such thing as being too fit in terms of longevity and health. This is surprising because a lot of athletic and fitness endeavours I've seen stress the importance of getting adequate rest days and not overworking. For example, in weight lifting circles, people often stress that lifting every day can lead to injuries and negative health effects. I wonder if this article calls that into question or perhaps they are just overlooking that the most "highly fit" people also take adequate rest days as a part of their routine.

It's probably also likely that the more highly fit someone is, the more likely they are to have other factors that increase longevity - ie. it means they have the leisure time to exercise and maintain a high level of fitness, it means they likely watch what they eat etc. I wonder how much of this is direct causation vs correlation.
I have often thought:

Why isnt there an unmanned transport infrastructure which could be built between endpoints.

Take Hyperloop as a model-example. Instead of hyperlooping people about - why not only freight?

Imagine a mini-hyperloop enclosed tube about 10-feet in diameter, which has delivery sleds between hubs, which interconnect...

Then do a 20' diameter tube with sleds, and you have a trucking system which can be managed with BGP level routing experience...
We had a commercial Gaggia bean-to-cup machine, fresh ground, etc., the difference to me is noticeable obvs, but it's not worth the costs. It's only a drink.
Label your mason jars in the communal fridge. Its my coffee, I don't want anyone else drinking my coffee. There are some nice Mason Jar labels which dissolve in water (so you can wash them in the dishwasher when you bring it home each week).

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/ball-reg-cann...

Basically: put cold brew into the home fridge on Saturday. Wake up Sunday to do the filtering (roughly 1.7 liters of cold brew). A "standard" cup of coffee is 6oz, which is 170 milliliters.

Bring your ~1700 milliliters of coffee to work (labeled!!) in a Mason Jar on Monday. Drink 2-cups / day (average) from Monday through Friday. Bring the mason jar home on Friday, wash it, and repeat the cold-brew / filtration process on Saturday / Sunday.

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I'm sure I'm saving the environment and stuff. But really, I do this because its more convenient. Its far faster for me to open up my mason jar recap, pour out 6oz of coffee, and then return to my desk.

Sometimes, I split it up into 16oz jars on Sunday as well. In case I wanna leave some at home, or drink something on the drive to work. But a singular giant 64oz jar sitting in my office fridge has plenty of benefits too. Ball offers jars in 8oz, 12oz, 14oz, and 16oz, 32oz, and 64oz sizes, so you have a lot of options for how you want to store your individual servings of cold brew.

In any case: even a K-Cup requires you to wait for the coffee to pour through the cup, which is slow due to the internal filter in the K-Cup. In essence: I've "time shifted" all of the filtration time to Sundays (where I have more time to wait for the filter), instead of during the workday.
Who said that they moved to relational model? They chose PostgreSQL because it's JSON support makes it also a superb document database.
Can't seem to be able to edit on mobile:

I meant that the logic fault should be apparent even for a free software advocate, that more resources and paid programmers do not necessary mean better solutions.

So the excuse that red hat has more resources therefore a better process than Debian should not really mean anything for someone I suspect is a free software advocate (the GP)
Strange. There is nothing there but Google Fonts and a script for the background lines and the one image. No other external resources. It is hosted on GitHub.
The key difference: Social stigma. HAES seeks to remove stigma.

Safe injection sites don't.

Both being fat, smoking cigarettes or being a heroin addict are things to be, at the least, slightly ashamed of.

*exceptions go out to anyone with thyroid or other such medical conditions, just as to people who are opioid dependent due to pain management.
Why is this being downvoted? It's the same thought I had. Parole is early release. You are not on parole if you serve your full sentence.

I don't know how good behavior credits factor into this. Typically a prisoner can get a significant reduction in time served for good behavior, but I don't know if that really means early parole or actually full release from the sentence.
Newsletters can work for a very targeted topic that has an audience that it equally targeted on that same topic, e.g. AWS.

But there's real email fatigue out there. I know some folks who are reasonably well-known in the tech space who have tried newsletters at various times but gave up (as did I) because people generally just don't want another weekly or biweekly email. (And even if they give up their email address, they mostly don't open or read.)

It's too bad in a way because a newsletter is a nice format for short form topical news and commentary on articles in a way that blog posts really aren't.
Sometimes the choice isn't in the hands of the person most qualified to make that decision.
I don't know what you think you are proving here. I accept everything you just wrote and agree with it 100 percent (except for detox. I think I would say for heroin we now have buprenorphine which might be useful way to manage this specific addiction, but I'm not claiming to be an expert on heroin addiction).
There are already strains that have low(er) odor while growing (https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-top-5-low-odour-cannabi...). But most people that smoke pot enjoy the unique smell of marijuana.

There are ways around the smell being an issue. Growing indoors, it is quite easy to filter out the smell with activated charcoal filtration, which is how it was done when it was illegal and smelling up your block was a nice way to get caught. The problem is arising from outdoor grows and greenhouse grows which don't treat the smell and can't really in a cost-effective way since they would need to filter all of the air.