skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I track every calorie I eat
> Why??

To keep myself honest. I've tried not tracking it and it was too easy to slip into bad habits over time.

>> and weigh myself everyday

> Why???? Every week AT MOST. And even then, TRACK THE LONG TERM TREND.

To keep myself honest. Only weighing myself once a week it was two easy to slip into bad habits because I couldn't see the consequences of my choices for a whole week. Even then, it was too easy to pass off gains as water weight, which can fluctuate 5lbs quite easily over the course of a day. By weighing every day I get more data to work with which allows me to more easily plot the trend over time and be mindful of the effect of fluid retention or loss.

>> I can't keep food in my house

> Why??????????????????

Ugh. Look, I'm sure for you it's real easy to keep yourself from just walking in to the kitchen and making food when you're bored, but like many people who got fat I am a food addict, so it isn't easy for me. If there is food in my house, I will eat it. Mindlessly. Casually. It's too much temptation that I have to expend mental effort to fight. By making sure I only have just enough food to get through the weekend I ensure that the barrier to eating is much higher and it's easier to fight temptation.

I also keep just enough food at work to get through the work week. Work is harder regardless, because people bring in free food all the time and there are convenient vending machines.

> YOU NEED FOOD TO SURVIVE. You need food in your house to PREPARE MEALS that YOU PLAN.

No shit Sherlock. I keep just enough food to meet my plan and no more. Moreover, my plan is the same every single week so I spend as little time thinking about food as possible. I even prepare meals at work thanks to my microwave steamer, the single best decision I ever made for eating better.

> A caloric deficit WILL lower your ENERGY LEVELS

Yes, which has a corresponding effect on one's ability to exercise their willpower. This is well documented.

> ... BUT you are NOT REQUIRED to be HUNGRY because of it.

First of all, I disagree, because in order to lose weight your body literally needs to eat itself. Secondly, I'll repeat that I am a food addict. Hunger is not a requirement of being tempted to eat.

> Don't listen to me. I'm not your doctor. I'm not your nutritionist.

Physicians and nutritionists, in my considered opinion, give only slightly better advice than randos on the internet. I am not in danger of accidentally listening to you, I assure you.

> The point is. I don't track my calories because I have a meal PLAN. I don't just jaunt off to a restaurant, """track""" 1500 calories, and say to myself "Welp guess I'm going hungry for the next 12 hours". That's STUPID.

What happens is I eat my planned meal, for which I track the calories, and then I go hungry anyway. That's just how it is and telling people that they don't have to be hungry to lose weight is one of the reasons people fail at weight loss.

> I'm NEVER hungry.

That must be nice.
This is spoken like a person who has never struggled with their weight.

The times I have successfully managed my weight were when I was able to control what I brought through the door of my apartment. I would always eat before going to the grocery store to reduce impulse buying. With the exceptions of fruit and veggies I aspired to never bring anything through the door that I could eat without having to cook in some way.

My weight has grown since I got married to a woman with a metabolism that allows her to snack seemingly with impunity and who can be in the same apartment with snack food and not feel drawn to it.

If I am aware of delicious food in the house it can be a constant mental battle to not go eat it. In the morning when I'm full of energy it's easy to resist but late in the day when I'm stressed by work or whatever else my reserve of restraint is much less and I often give in.

I've been following microbiome research with interest. I understand that certain gut bacteria have the ability to stimulate the vagus nerve basically to get the kind of food they like. I am battling an enemy that has a direct line to my lizard brain.

The only solution is to not bring that food in the house.
This is historically different because severe fire weather started early in spring. The dry hottest summer months are still ahead. I'm not sure how long this will go on?

Previous severe big bushfires started much later:

infographic: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/ECEF/production/...

article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50951043
I am very pro-body modification. And it’s affordable to the masses now and safer with non invasive medtech.

One day...I hope in my lifetime..we will be able to have implants to download our thoughts, memories and feelings..dare I say..consciousness..or soul..into a chip.

Looking at the physical body as a vessel and getting used to the idea that it is merely necessary hardware to our mind is important.

I don’t want to create children for immortality. I want to be immortal as myself.

It’s not about hacking biology. It’s about hacking immortality. This is the first step. Tiny one. But crucial one.
Why would you do that in 2020?
Where I live court records and property records are completely public and available for anyone to view online. So just simple web scraping. Voter records aren't online as far as I'm aware, but they're easy to request.
No. This post violates both the HN guidelines[1] (no job posts allowed) and the "Show HN" rules[2] (must be something you built that people can try out).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Unfortunately most of Roblox games are just attempts to siphon your money by buying Robux. Their target market, kids around 8, beg their parents for Robux so they can buy some stuff in one person's game.

It's incredible how much money they make through tactics that make many of their games not really enjoyable unless you spend a lot of money in them.
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I've been big most of my life, for a few years I managed to drop 100lbs and unfortunately gained it all back. It's staggering how differently people treat you, whether they realize it or not.
Hang on, you're both right, and you're both wrong. Gizmodo's making the point that there weren't 180 charged with arson.

> While 183 arrests have been made in connection with fires, only 24 people have actually been charged with arson.

There were some cases of arson, including a firefighter starting fires, but most of that number were scenarios of stupidity like deciding to have a campfire or tossing a lit cigarette. The fires started via arson also haven't been the large ones thus far.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-fires-legal-action-taken...

> NSW Police have taken legal action against 183 people so far this bushfire season, including charging 24 people with deliberately lighting bushfires.

> Since November, police have also taken legal action against 53 people for failing to comply with a total fire ban and against 47 people for discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land.
Are you saying that trans women aren't women?
Police take legal action against more than 180 people so far during 2019/2020 bushfire season

The NSW Police Force has taken legal action against more than 180 people for bushfire-related offences since late last year.

Numerous bush and grass fires have impacted the state, claiming the lives of 18 people and destroying hundreds of millions of animals and livestock, thousands of homes, and more than 4.9 million hectares of land, so far this bushfire season.

Since Friday 8 November 2019, legal action – which ranges from cautions through to criminal charges – has been taken against 183 people – including 40 juveniles – for 205 bushfire-related offences.

Of note:

24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires
53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and
47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land.

https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_s...

Source: NSW Police official webpage
If access to healthcare weren't tied to employment, it would be a lot less risky to move.
I wonder if there's a point at which the particulates from the fire become globally relevant. Knowing what we know now about how awful particulates are for health and cognition, we would be in a bad place as a species if none of us can breathe clean air.
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Its funny you mention the RX series. I think an RX-8 like car with an electric drivetrain would actually be a lot of fun. It would weigh a few hundred pounds more, but the increase in torque and the low CG would mostly make up for it.
I love how global warming starts fires in California and Australia but not in places naturally dry with few antifa and illegal immigrants. Strange.
Don't give them ideas or they might just do it. And then sell your data anyway.
I don't know if this is just a satire or just someone who sees themself as a mastermind just expecting some taps on the back for their supposed enlightenment. Pure bs.
Dilute this down, the internet and social are merely tools.

Humans are using them for nefarious reasons.

Humans have been dicks from the beginning of time.
What's to stop those same insurance companies from using it for marketing purposes?
I was tuned into 2GB and heard Alan Jones make the argument, (no surprises here):

93% [I think, something high...] bush-fires are not started by natural causes ... all this climate change rubbish!

The arson narrative is that the arsonists are causing the fires, not climate change. Because, in this world view, everything bad can only have one factor contributing to it's cause.

No one says "yes there is an arson problem but if they didn't start the fire there is a good chance something else would have started a fire in thousands of sq km of bush, and the fact that all the bush is super dry and it's very hot means it is most likely that would start a fire anyway." because that's too long and boring and doesn't fit in a tweet let alone a hash tag.
Just adding another datapoint: With no particular dieting, I tend to hover around 95kg. I was able to get down to 80kg with smart dieting. But I was miserable at that weight.. I couldn't concentrate when programming, my brain kept interrupting me with hunger signals. I put the weight back on; I'd rather not live the rest of my life in hunger-misery. 20 years later and I'm still fine with that decision. I get plenty of exercise and eat lots of vegetables and take other steps to be healthy, but significant sustained weight loss with it's side effects is no longer desirable... until medicine comes up with a pill that removes the hunger itself w/o nasty side effects.
You want the car to feel familiar. So they have the accelerator pedal have a similar performance curve to that of a gas car. This way people can sit it it and control it they way they expect it to perform.

Makes perfect sense.
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So SV is slowly becoming like other large industries - you win less in value created than on internal
politics - on impressing a VC instead of amazing a customer, on impressing the boss not actually managing a SLA.

Perhaps it is how SV eventually fizzles out- it must happen sometime.
The first episode of the Jerry Brown podcast describes his transition from Jesuit seminary into politics and learning to come to grips with the difference between the world of ideas and absolutes, and the world of politics: https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/jerrybrown It'd be banal save for the fact that he goes from such one extreme to another.

EDIT: Looks like they haven't posted the first episode yet, just the 2 minute preview. I guess they're delaying the podcast in favor of the on-air broadcast.
Australia's summer is from December to February.
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oh no, I agree with you. I was just responding to the parent, cause they seemed to imply that the max speed hype is of very limited use on the roads, with which I agree, as opposed to acceleration.
Have you heard of research tying childhood trauma to obesity?
"in cases where you have to perform a safety maneuver or evade something."

BTW having 0-60 in 3 seconds helps you keep a safe driving distance.
That fact about Wisconsin seems crazy so I looked it up and it's $100/yr which I can only assume is meant to recapture lost gas tax revenue. Hardly in the same ballpark as the federal subsidy which is $2500-7500.
As an owner of a few Mazdas, I am also biased, but that gives me a similar opinion to the article. Trimming torque intentionally is really not consistent with Mazda's past behavior. Emulating slower cars shouldn't be a thing at a company that trademarked "Zoom-Zoom".
There are so many problems in this article.I don't know where to begin. Obviously she doesn't mention the Oculus Quest and Obviously she doesn't even mention popular VR games that everybody is actually buying.

There are VR devices for everyone and she seems to be basing her entire article on the shoddy VR mall experience she once got to try out.

The Quest is the best VR experience today for casual and semi-hardcore users and it changes the game entirely.
First off, this is all just public information.

Secondly the location of the database was not disclosed by the researcher, so he can't exactly load it into haveibeenpwned
Why does this require a new understanding of truth? That seems to me like giving up. We just need to accept that perception does not always (or even often) reflect the truth, and that perception can be easily manipulated.
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I haven't been in the market for a mattress for awhile now but went on Casper's website and was shocked to see the price for a Queen is now $1095.

I didn't remember it being that high, and checked Wayback and sure enough it was $850 in 2015, and $950 in 2017.

Given how many copycats are out there, many selling for much less, can someone help me understand how Casper gets away with selling a $1095 mattress + tax to a majority millennial crowd, who are supposedly cash strapped, and doing so successfully?
Not all residents drive.

But in any case, I doubt many people would think $4/yr for info that's probably already available.
True, and it is easier to workout for a half hour everyday and buy a nice pair of clothes, than spend hours coding and pouring through tech docs, which also works into the signaling of 'I work smarter, not harder'.

OTOH, the actual engineers see through all the external signaling, which I've also discovered :) :P Or rather, the external signaling can work in the opposite direction with engineers.

At any rate, the big take away is it's ultimately about signaling one way or another, and knowledge about social signaling is probably most valuable for career advancement. Which can make a person cynical about the whole thing if one don't take such insight with moderation.
Well yeah. But I've seen it done; the attitude being "this is fine, React is fast, it works on my Mac..."
The mega bush fire was much larger and 50 years ago and therefore could not have been validation of a climate change feedback loop.

So today's fires are weak ammunition for reallocations of public resources towards climate change efforts, compared to existing arguments that can't gain consensus. I can see how it isn't budging consensus.

edit: removed bad news regarding arson
That's true enough.

Related, the definition of gif has actually changed for some. Instead of a specific file format they use the term to mean "soundless looping video". Admittedly even I have a hard time swallowing that definition.
BTRFS is never going to become stable. Ever. Just take a quick dive into the codebase.

Bcachefs has never had an unrecoverable data error AFAIK, even though it isn't even considered stable enough to merge into the kernel. The bcache on disk format won't be considered stable until he merges his code into mainline, though he doesn't feel he will need to adjust it further.

Features that currently work:
Full data checksumming
Compression
Multiple device support
Tiering/writeback caching
RAID1/RAID10

All of these are stable, tested, and mostly bug free. Honestly, once the code gets mainlined you'll be able to start using it very quickly.

Main issue right now is performance, as it about as slow as BTRFS, which isn't inspiring. However the author has stated that he's going for correctness first, then he'll begin optimizing.
> you haven’t lived until you’ve tried a fresh-baked green tea mochi cupcake, or dipped pão de queijo into lima bean dip

Author goes on about how pampering yourself with comfort is imprisonment, but also says this? cmon.
Wow great to see a dentist here! I've had a lot of experience with sleep apnea in the last couple years, and it seems to be under control now after about 5 remedies, the most of important of which is a dental appliance. The other ones were sleep position, weight loss, and breathing habits, as you might imagine.

What do you mean by "gold standard"? Is it because it's more effective for severe sleep apnea?

From my perspective, the dental appliance is easier to use, and is better for traveling. I also tried a CPAP but couldn't get the hang of it.

It's also super creepy that CPAPs all seem to have a cell modem that spies on you. (OK, that info also helps the doctor, but still.)

I know a couple other people who are having problems with CPAP, and the doctor has not even made them aware of the dental appliance. They're surprised when I tell them there's an alternative.

And one of these people is a doctor himself! I feel like sleep apnea is being treated very poorly given how common it is, probably for economic reasons.

I know everyone wants to say this about their pet cause -- but it does seem like an "epidemic". The "epidemic" of weight gain seems to be an obvious reason for this. FWIW my BMI is now normal (less than 25, 166-169 at 5'9"), and I still need the dental appliance and to sleep on my side. Either one alone doesn't cut it.

I've also been meaning to write a article about "Why AHI is wrong", which is basically because outliers determine outcomes and AHI doesn't measure outliers. It's a "count". It has a lot of the fallacies that Nassim Taleb talks about in his books.

The AVERAGE minute of sleep doesn't matter; the WORST minute of sleep matters. The worst minute can ruin your whole night's sleep (or at least a REM's cycle worth of sleep), or it can cause you to have a heart attack and die.

My AHI is 6 or 7, and most doctors have dismissed that as not important. However my sleep quality has improved greatly with all these remedies. Several minor health problems have cleared up all at once.

The thing that motivated me to get treated was that I crushed a tooth in my sleep, which many doctors don't realize is related to sleep apnea (but my dentist did thankfully). But I think of all the people who did NOT happen to crush a tooth and are undiagnosed. I guess it's one of those things that kills you over 20 years and used to be called "getting old". But really it was amazing to me how many problems can have the same fundamental cause.

FWIW I highly recommend this book about the "sleep breathing paradigm". It's written by an ENT who has observed a lot of these things in his practice. A key point is that he actually looks at your airway and sees if your tongue obstructs your airway when lying down. I went to 2 ENTs and neither of them did that. They don't understand the mechanism behind sleep apnea! It's geometry and gravity.

This book is not popular, which is a shame. Don't judge a book by its cover :) It's a bit dense but that will be fine for HN readers.

https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Interrupted-physician-reveals-r...
Not to mention that a lot of farming is done by undocumented workers, who don't necessarily appear on payrolls. It's hard to find people to do hard, dangerous, exhausting work for so little pay.
Hah! A funny observation. No the weight loss and gain were not based on my ability to maintain that level. They were based on changing priorities. When I first started, I wanted to be a body builder (so I gained). Did it for a while, then wanted to be "athletic" (so I lost). Then I maintained for a while (focusing on career, lost a lot of weight from sedentary lifestyle). Then I wanted to be a powerlifter which required fluctuations in weight. Now I want to be a "strongman" (so I'm gaining). Btw I'm not a world class athelete. I never even compete. I just enjoy chasing the goals and seeing my body adapt. Its a fun hobby(-ies) that's all.

My change in weight reflects a change in priorities and habits. Not an inability to maintain.
Apple Watch. Leverage HealthKit/ResearchKit.
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High quality sensors. Data is encrypted e2e
Addiction is a sickness, and society needs to treat it as the public health problem it is and effective treatment needs to be made easily and cheaply available to all who need it.

However, incarcerating people against their will, forcing them to take medication against their will, possibly for months, is problematic.

We might tolerate that if it worked, but from the evidence we have we don't think it will work for many people with substance misuse.

Addiction treatment is hard. I don't know many people working in addiction treatment who are asking for more legal powers to detain people.

In England I sometimes speak to people with substance misuse disorders (comorbid with mental illness, or learning disability, or autism, or a mix). Many of them will have been detained for mental illness (they were not detained because of substance misuse). It's fair to say they have mixed views about compulsory treatment. Some of them hate it and think it caused them harm. Some of them think it was transformative. It is complicated.
That's pretty dumb as well. My Subaru with a CVT allows the driver to select from preset gear ratios, but unless you actively engage the paddles there are no artificial shift points as it should. The only time I can see value in the fake is when you are going downhill and want to control your speed without burning your brakes.
>Who cares about Spectre and Meltdown in a game console or set top box?

The business model of consoles is subsidized hardware, with the bulk of revenue coming from game licensing fees (per copy). These vulnerabilities would reduce the security of the consoles which would directly put that business model at risk (unlicensed games + piracy).

>Especially if the game console is airgapped because I'm playing a single-player game from a cartridge or optical disk.

Between 10% and 30% (depending on who you ask) exclusively play only online games. The number of mixed is harder to discern but significant. About 50 million people use xbox live, microsoft's paid online gaming service. Last year, over 80% of game sales were digital. The business and consumer landscape simply would not accept airgapping.

These consoles are often used for other entertainment and health applications. Many of them have cameras attached to them (I know, I know). They are tied into peoples' cloud accounts. They are used for web browsing. They are used to watch porn. People deserve privacy, I think we can all agree.

You, personally, may not be affected, but these are concerns that cannot be ignored, both by users and business.
I haven't read TFA because the title alone is horrific enough, but it sounds awfully like a what PG calls a "submarine".

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
A company sales can go wrong for many reasons, how do you differentiate between a legitimate reason to not proceed to the sale and a "last minute backing out"?

I assume that's what a LOI (which is all that the founder had) is for: it comes before any legally binding agreements and allows both parties to be sure they get what they want without bad surprises.