skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to discuss the socioeconomic reasons for the rise in obesity, I think there’s plenty of meat there to discuss meaningfully. That’s very different from discussing gut flora or gut neural connections or metabolism. Indeed, all the ways that “people are different” are irrelevant because the rise in obesity is a societal problem. It’s not about the individuals and their differences.

If you’re an individual who wants to lose weight, focus on calories in and calories out because those are the biggest factors by far and they are also largely within your control. If you want to talk about social problems then ignore individuals and discuss the broader problems that are leading to such a large and consistent calories in discrepancy. In either case gut flora is probably not the major factor and probably not where the solution will be found.

I also didn’t dismiss anyone as stupid and your accusation is out of place.
I dunno, a guy who read all of TAOCP and did all the exercises is probably a better programmer than you would ever be (me too probably).
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From your own link... from 1978 to 1997, there were more than a million abortions each year.

But... now that we know abortion clinics only murder a few hundred thousand, that makes them like twice as good as they used to be. That's how this works, right?
I never said sports were bad. Organized team sports after-school are not part of a basic education. Since after-school sports activities favor the well-off, we should not use public funds for such activities. Those education dollars should be spent to help the education part, not the rich-kid sports part.

If you want to have public sports programs, that's fine. It has nothing to do with school, should be an entirely separate pool of money, and IMO, should be entirely self-funded.
Describing ops as “writing yaml files” is like describing software engineering as “typing.”
4chan (and 8chan) have a Global Rule #1 which says you can't post anything which violates U.S. or local laws. Also trolling and racism are quarantined to /b/

I doubt there are any "anything goes" social networks in existence.
At some point there's going be some form of court system(s) evolve out of this, or else case law is going to lay down some rough guidelines for companies like Facebook that are going to have to operate their own internal courts. I could imagine a court overturning a decision by an internal company court on censorship, for example. Maybe it's already happening.
> You sound like someone who's never been on a hike,

You sound like someone who doesn't understand the concept of context.

> Try driving any wheeled vehicle over terrain that's filled with rocks and boulders; it can't be done.

Neither can driving the Walking Truck over that same terrain is my point.

> But I can easily walk over it, climb through fissures, etc.

…

Putting crap on the back of humans who are pretty good at navigating bad terrain is exactly one of my suggestions?
I'm seeing a couple of comments on here to the effect of, "what did you expect when you started asking companies to screen/moderate content?"

This is not a good example of screening being impossible to do, or being too subjective to nail down. Facebook moderated the video on largely neutral terms; not asserting that abortion was right or wrong, just that the claims the video made were scientifically false. It should be the type of fact-check that Republicans can get behind: objective and verifiable.

This specific story isn't that Facebook can't fact-check, it's that ultimately Facebook is willing to define neutrality based on what Lawmakers are complaining about at the moment. It is specifically Facebook's commitment to "neutrality" in this case that makes it easy for biased groups to manipulate the platform.

I'm pretty sympathetic to the idea that increased calls for global moderation may have unintended side effects, and on average I tend to disagree with people who conflate neutral tools with complicity. But this particular story is definitely evidence in the opposite direction -- that Facebook is not opinionated enough, and that a commitment to avoiding even the appearance of bias can lead companies to make ineffective, gutless moderation decisions.
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The current administration seems willing to pull the trigger on anything at all that has ever been vaguely pointed in China's direction: postal union complaints, WTO grievances, party poppers, champagne corks, water balloons filled with urine. You name it; if it hurts China even a pinprick diplomatically, they want to use it. If it has ever been proposed and analyzed, just for preparedness, and then left alone for prudent diplomatic reasons, they're now pulling it out of storage and setting it off, or pushing it from the slow-grind to the fast-track.

It might have been in the works for decades, but the current administration is why it is actually happening in 2019, instead of getting perpetual postponements, hoping to resolve things amicably, without major economic disruptions.

I'm a bit surprised they haven't moved toward recognizing Taiwan as independently sovereign, and I'd bet that someone is carefully redacting any allusions to the fact that Taiwan exists from all briefings, and begging Fox News daily to keep any mentions of it off the air.
This comment shouldn’t have been downvoted because it’s completely accurate, and provably so: tax rates for earnings on capital are by and large less than earnings on labor. Warren Buffett has complained for years that he is taxed at a lower rate than his secretary. The system we have rewards trust fund babies, and punishes hard working people.
Do you have the URL to the video?
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There are lots of ways to deal with this. If you’re going to screw with the Chinese, just slow roll them in customs.

Like everything else in this administration, there’s a grift play somewhere. They will play chicken with the issue and fold in the end.
I thought US lefts = US liberals == US Democrats?
That's all great advice, and ugh... sorry about the GVHD. Light therapy is definitely on my list and great point about setting up a Google News alert. Thank you for the comment!
There are some YouTube videos and mini-documentaries of Indian street dentists who have been working for generations. It’s probably as close as we can get to viewing the 1800s or earlier practices.
right, songkick and bandsintown doing just fine and work in any city
How useful is this test tool to you? What bugs did you find or do you hope to find this way? How often and long do you run it?

I'm asking, because I guess, it probably takes ages to traverse some kind of dungeon. If there are special sequences, the tool will most likely never find them (like find key, open door, kill boss), right?

I've done some small games in my spare time, but Unit-Testing was either completely useless or way overkill. But I guess, the larger your game gets, the more important it will be.

But the the work involved is so huge, that I think it's not worth it for indy games or small studios. If you look at the test setup for AAA-Games, like League of Legends [1], the work involved is mind-blowing...

[1] https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...
This is just not true. As a counterpoint, I have done 48 hour wakeful crunch time sessions before with very little eating (about 400-800 kcal/day). I typically lost 5 lbs over that time (which I mostly gained back as much of it was water, but also lost some fat and muscle). Don’t extrapolate your anecdotal personal data like that.

Your weight is mostly a function of how much stuff is in your bowels, glycogen, how hydrated you are (indirectly how much salt you have), your muscle mass, fat mass, and then a relatively static amount for the rest (organs, skeleton). Sleeping does not magically make you lose weight. You just lose a lot of water while you sleep due to breathing, and might lose a small amount of fat and/or glycogen
Indeed, although I suggest that that comes about in part because the government fails to fund these organizations to the level required for self-sufficiency forcing them to outsource more and more of the work onto the only "competent body" willing to take on the job free of charge: the companies themselves. This creates a relationship where the companies have a disproportionate share of the power, and can dictate things like anticompetitive practices. It's basically a case of "give us what we want or your costs skyrocket."
It is a bit too early to say. :-)

But inter-US rates for a 1oz to 4oz "letter package" are from $3.66 - $4.06.

So if a Chinese company opened a US warehouse, that is what it would cost for inter-US shipping.

If it is not too thick, you can send 'flats' for $1.00 to $1.50

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Some welders make good money. If you can weld the I-Beams of a 80 story sky scrapper you will make good money. (I'm told most construction workers hit a wall at about the 30th floor and will not work on anything higher). If you can weld while wearing scuba gear you make good money- you also get a full pension at 40 when you are forced to retire because of the wear it does on the body. There are a few other areas where welding pays good money - but they pay good money because so few welders can do them.
That's great news for anyone looking for business opportunities. Just start selling all the stuff to Europeans that so far was too cheap to ship over from the US. /s
It took me 10 minutes to learn how to weld. If you only need it for DIY stuff then it's very easy to learn. But if you need to satisfy safety requirements or tolerances then it gets much harder.

It's the same as in software: All those people who think they know how to do programming because they can whip up some shitty python script. But that's the easy part. Making an application that works superficially is practically trivial. Making something that is proven to work, that scales and will still work in 10 years is where the money is.
It doesn't help we have a president who has destroyed and/or wasted tons of U.S. soft power.
It's a jobs program for GC/MS technicians! /s
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I don't know why that expression is being taken literally. Obviously if you make terroristic threats to the US government you're going to be in trouble no matter where you post. Obviously the context is given by the original submission.

The point is that the attitude I was responding to is extremely entitled. You're not entitled to use Facebook. You're not entitled to post about abortion without a fact check from Facebook, that is up to them. If you don't like it, leave Facebook.

I'm tired of the public square narrative, as if Facebook is the only forum for discussion on the Internet. If Facebook blocks my speech, I can talk about it on Twitter, or Hacker News, or Gab or chan boards (using these as an example), or my own website, or any other number of places for discussion.

Facebook is a private company.
Ooh, I should look into that, as an aficionado of induced senses and cozy mental states (without drugs or voodoo).

Apparently they also have ‘sleep music’ and soundscapes with names that sound rather newagey and are probably of the sort that never attracted me. Now, oldschool dub music, of the 70s' kind—that worked wonderfully both at home and for subway dozing. Dub is so completely non-aggressive and non-busy that I don't get such warm feeling from anything else. I remember lying in bed and suddenly wondering why my thoughts follow a weird rhythm—turned out it was the bass in a track that got mixed in the fading awareness.

Bill Laswell's mixes are my favorite: https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/trojan-dub-massive-vo...
Can your mods give you permission to stick it on a website that doesn't want to vacuum up all my gmail contacts?
I'm not a welder but I have friends who are and it seems like this is painting the most difficult, least lucrative way to go about this as the norm(ie the whole thing is a strawman) and then crapping on it.

My friends who got into welding mostly did so through aprenticeships with unions or on the job non union apprenticeships.

They will probably not become millionaires selling their time as welders but they are solidly middle if not upper middle class. They go on international vacations and eat at fancy restraunts. They are fairing on average far better than my friends with "soft" liberal arts degrees.

Yeah it's not a total panacea easy road to riches but learning a trade like welding seems like a super high EV move for a lot of people who want a stable career right now.
This is definitely on my list in a few months if the diet changes I'm making haven't helped (I'm trying to stay in Ketosis for a few months). I studied Chinese martial arts for most of my life so some TCM treatments have worked for other things in my past.
I mean the burden of the proof is on you not on me. Find an anti-gun video or content that has been fact checked by FB. And you can't. All the fact checks we are seeing is against right wing content.
Infant mortality is probably the biggest factor in "under 5 years old" mortality rate. However, even if you look at children mortality overall, it follows a similar trend: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?tab=chart...
This could be an interesting case for blockchains. I normally am not a proponent of seeing everything thru that lens, but having a proper chain that is publicly verifiable is in the public’s interest. That said, there’s not a lot of incentive for people to reveal their supply chains — it’s often trade secret or hidden for a reason.

If there was a market behind it, then there might be a way. But good luck getting Samsung to tell you where their cobalt came from, or if some generic drug was made in a dangerous lab. Even if you knew it was Generic Factory 1736, it’s hard to know if that’s good or bad.
Or, if they're remote employees, the expectations have just been set that they'll deal with their work arrangement with, possibly, up to $X/month reimbursable.

In the case of a remote employee, why wouldn't the employee knows what works best for them? Maybe it's not a hipster open space with beer on tap.

If they're setting up a remote but co-located team, the situation may well be different--although there are a variety of options.
Yes, especially if you're buying guns for recreation. If it's for survival and you live in the middle of the wilderness, perhaps you can make a case for it.

Oops, was that not the answer you were trying to bait?
Do you have a source on "arbitrary number"? There were no obvious explanations online.
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I don't think anyone disputes the laws of thermodynamics, just how the body processes different macronutrients in the presence of certain levels of hormones. By changing those hormones, you change the balance of the total energy equation. For example, I know someone with crohns disease, and her body just doesn't metabolize nutrients the same way mine does. I burn a donut more efficiently than she does. In this case it isn't about hormones, but about inflammation, but it's generally the same concept just on a more apparent scale.
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Part of the reason interstate shipping is high is due to the fact that the USPS must ship below cost on these kind of international packages. One subsidizes the other.
I've seen demos of this with Hololens. It really opens up new interactions. Neat stuff.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Hololens. All opinions my own, etc.
There was one particular example, intended to encourage pregnant women to allow their Downs-syndrome babies to be born, that was disallowed by the group that determines what may be shown on French television. So not illegal, but the effect was similar, at least in that case.
> Welders at the 90th percentile of income for the profession, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, earn $63,000 a year before taxes. Those are, statistically, the top earners, and they are usually expert welders with decades of experience.

I know one anecdote doesn't mean much, but I have two friends who are making around $100k/year as stick welders (boiler type work) in the New Jersey area. They do more than just weld though - I'd say that 50% of their job is actually welding and the other 50% is miscellaneous boiler repair work.

One of them has only been doing it for about 4 years, after going to a two year school.

My other friend is making around $80k/year as a "burner mechanic" with absolutely no schooling at all. His only prior experience was that he was a DirecTV installer. He is very mechanically inclined though.

The key is getting into one of those companies that does work at state locations - I'm not sure exactly how this all works, but it's something like "if you're working on a state site, you have to get paid the prevailing wage", which is usually very high. Couple that with overtime and you'll see welders making $80+ an hour.

I'm sure there are welders who make far less, but that's probably the case with any industry. My friends are probably at a gig equivalent to FAANG in the software world.
So would you consider it more “software engineering” using AWS’s Cloud Development Kit and writing code to generate cloud formation files “software engineering”?

I use to think that all “true” developers needed to know the ins and outs of assembly because every time I went to a new platform that’s the first thing that I did - learn assembly language (65C02, 68K, x86), but then I grew up.....

CloudFormation takes a text file and generates API calls much like any code compiled down to assembly.
The author is in my opinion and (whatever little it may be) experience spot on. More people, have a starvation issue, they are eating carbohydrates, where the body makes them on it's own.
Before we had 'food' on every corner at each gas station, we hunted, (being physical) until we scored that game. Not three or six meals a day, not chemically processed 'food stuffs' that shock the endocrine system and break the very nature of how our systems function.
I say starvation as in , when food is scarce, the body somehow knows, and stores what is taken in, for future use. Yea, were all horders by nature.
> focus on calories in and calories out because those are the biggest factor

A lot of people tried that, and it didn't work, but we never got to "why doesn't it work for so many people" because people like you keep parroting "CICO! You're just weak! CICO! CICO!!" even though it helps nobody.

Of course, calories in and calories out are mostly out of your control, but we're past that, since this has now become about moral judgment of obese people.
A man in his 70s has a routine check up, and then brags to his doctor: "I'm really fit for my age. As a matter of fact, my 25 years old wife is expecting a baby".

The doctor then replies with a story: "A man was an avid hunter, but also a bit light-headed. So one day he gets up in the morning and goes hunting, but he mistakenly takes an umbrella instead of his shotgun. After a while he encouters a bear. He pulls out the umbrella, aims, pulls the trigger. The shot is heard, and the bear drops dead"

"That's impossible!" exclaims the man, "someone else had to make that shot"

"And that's exactly my point.", smiles the doctor.
Agile: We don't have a formalized process of developing software, just wing it.

DevOps: We don't have admins, so you are reponsible to run the systems you develop.

This is at least how I perceive it. But the second point is not the worst thing that could have happened. I hate to write configs as much as anyone, but it has given me a better perspective on how to design systems that actually... you know... run.
The link got that actual paper is much better than a sentence or two on LinkedIn. The paper’s title isn’t as catchy to put in nicely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/

From my link:

>It is important to note that the USDA mineral content of vegetables and fruits has not been updated since 2000, and perhaps even longer, given that the data for 1992 was not able to be definitively confirmed for this review.

I’d like to see if it’s improved recently. Healthy foods and organics are more readily available now.
You could make the argument that China, who refused to negotiate with the US, was the party that fractured the global postal system as they forced the US to take such drastic action. What other options did the US have? They've already tried work it out amicably.
China's GDP per capita is behind Brazil's and 73rd overall, so I think there can be strong arguments to label it a developing country (and arguably, strong arguments for why "developing country" shouldn't be the metric used!). Just want to point out that merely circling a very large piece of land with a tremendous amount of people and saying "in absolute terms this area has a very big economy" is not necessarily a good metric.
Well, at a minimum it makes goods from China more expensive and drop shipping from China no longer makes sense for many products. If you aren't getting those products from China, they'll come from somewhere else.
> I'm not sure what the unintended consequences are but I believe this is the right move.

I don't know how that works. If you don't know the effects, how can you know it is a good action? Knee jerk actions tend to poorer results than well planned ones.
“As low as” Isn’t it still tons higher than a fair market evaluation compared to other rental companies? I mean I get that they “own the word We” and branded themselves a tech company. But when you strip away those jokes, they are just a b2b rental company that’s bleeding money month after month.

I feel like the real news is that rather than drop the IPO in the face of severe disillusion they(SoftBank) are actually trying to recoup some of their losses while cutting the company down, rather than comfortably pursuing the valuation that they previously seemed to push as being a reasonable possibility.
No it didn't. The responsibility of negative externalities due to petroleum does not belong to the oil companies. It mainly rests on the shoulders of the vast majority of people who demand oil, cheaply and widely available.

Demand for petroleum is not explained by capitalism, but rather by humanity's collective laziness
EDIT: Actually, my father is still alive and his grandfather was born in 1844. No second wives involved.
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
This is the best I could find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_functional_programming

There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_function implemented in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOP_(programming_language)