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>Nutrition fact labels can be very misleading. e.g.: showing nutrition facts per certain some arbitrary amount of weight, or having multiple servings per container, which is misleading if it's an individual serving container.

The worst are chocolate bars, a serving is three squares. I don't know anyone who has just three squares, two year olds included.
Provide citation yourself for this case. Nobody can, there is no data to cite. The only data that we have is that getting both doses on schedule works. Everything else is speculation.
> Firstly healthcare workers should be being tested on a very frequent basis to catch for asymptomatic cases.

Agreed. It's a good idea even if they have been vaccinated until community spread is way down.

> secondly there's no evidence the vaccine will stop that type of transmission.

Why do you say that? The vaccine should trigger a strong immune response which should keep most people from getting infected. That's my assumption anyways.

Seems like the multi-prong approach here is the most helpful anyways. Vaccine + testing + masks to eliminate spread as much as possible in vulnerable communities.
I had a garbage math professor in college who did this, total bullshit.
I can attest to that. Any critic of the CCP tends to sink out of the first page in a matter of minutes. It looks like a concerted effort.
Wouldn't you be able to stop it with a foil blanket in that case? A lack of autonomy would mean any kind of faraday cage would make it a paperweight.
I find it amazing how much effort and economic sacrifices we are willing to take to fight COVID, while at the same time, even now, the death toll because of unhealthy lifestyles is far greater. Why don't we put a similar effort into banning fast food, for instance? How can the USA allow companies to advertise that stuff when the bad consequences can be seen everywhere?
Source with photos: https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/tragedy-in-yakut...
> but you didn't elaborate on your preference...

To be honest, I did!

As I said above, my preference are:

- Qt (for C++ apps) N.B. Only Qt, not KDE Frameworks.

- PyQt/QtPy/PySide2/Tkinter (for Python apps)

- Xlib + custom widget sets (for C apps)

I'm involved in few Qt/C++ and Xlib/C projects, but for my personal needs PyQt & Tkinter is enough.

Also I use some 3rd-party GTK2/GTk+3 (GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice), but actually trying find its Qt alternatives as well (and there are NO place for Electron apps on my PC).

Additionally:

- SDL 1.x* also may be useful for C apps, due to its high portability; SDL2 is less portable.

- OpenGL (for C++/C/Python apps)

- wxWidgets (for C++/C/Python apps)
It's always 'diet' in a first order sense. The interesting question is why all the mechanisms broke that prevent diets from looking like this at a social level.
it,s not cloth, it,s plastic usually.
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The camera is only one of the ways you can use your phone to record the world around you. Voice recorders and note-taking apps are great to quickly capture your ideas when they are still fresh.
Although I believe it's real (this is Boston Dynamics, after all), CGI characters dancing slightly out-of-sync could be achieved naturally if you motion-captured actors performing the dance.
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The preferred style for this kind of post is something like "elapp: Share files with nearby device [Spanish]".

I see the Spanish version of the page. Hi from Argentina! Do you have a landing page in English?

A technical post about how it work may get more traction here.
This is why I find the Chinese model so much better. With all its downsides, it proofs that (some/too many) people are idiots and morons who cannot follow basic rules.

I would like to see the makers of this app and all participants of such large parties in heavily fined and in prison.
Countries aren't households. They don't retire. They don't have to pay for services in some other authority's scrip. And here is the important part - they don't have the same debt pressures as people.

It is well and good for a country to accumulate debt for meaningful ends so long as the interest on that debt can be serviced. Hold the debt long enough and inflation will "pay off" the capital for you.

The belief that "Less Government" is anything other than a point at which thought stops and rationalisation begins is one I cannot grasp. There is mountains of data and counter-examples but people just stop up their ears, screw shut their eyes and thrust their heads downward hoping to find sand. Lack of regulation, particularly around poltics itself, leads to corruption and misrule. Lack of investment can lead to wastefulness.

More and stronger government is the answer to much of the UK's and US's issues in particular.
There's plenty of multirotor VTOL drone designs out there, which combine the practicality of vertical take-off and landing (hence, "VTOL") with the greater efficiency of wings for longer range flight. Many proof-of-concept delivery drones I've seen are of this kind.

re: size, you can definitely make smaller drones. There's plenty of cute and surprisingly flyable drones out there that are less than 6 cm in diameter, some even with cameras. However, there's a few drawbacks at smaller sizes:

- Less power. They can fly fine indoors, but they'll be swept away by any strong winds.
- Less space for electronics/camera and batteries, so image quality and flight time will suffer.
> The one sole reason the West was so eager to jump on the China train unlike any other broke harebrained communist country was because China went from the start to openly bribing Western elites.

This is very accurate. Recent example is the implied Biden family in CCP's pocket [1][2].

[1] Prof. Di Dongsheng's national televised speech that has since been taken down: https://youtu.be/aeegrkPx0xE
[2] https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/6/16084...
Boston Dynamics robots can dance now
It should be an easy metric, yes. I think it does help some people realise they are in poor physical health.

The problem with it is that it’s so commonly responded to with ‘muscle means it isn’t right’.

I used to be fairly fit and fairly strong and a bit too much towards the ‘obese’ category. I remember semi-believing it was muscle pushing me up the scale that far.

I’m now right in the middle of the ‘healthy weight’ category and I’d like to go back and convince my younger self that it’s time to fix the food intake and that muscle isn’t what’s pushing the weight up.
page locks up in spinner, is there an slternative?
^^ this!

Don’t overthink, go and enjoy.

(trips in bear country take a bit of additional preparation, but also that can be done w/o too much hassle, lots of info online)
The guy you're quoting gets his information from spelunking in Tesla firmware. He's not a dev on AutoPilot team.

It's well documented that FSD is a architectural rewrite of the code.

Pre-FSD the input to NN were individual still pictures taken by the cameras.

New architecture feeds NN with video feed from all cameras.

New architecture is possible thanks to new FSD chip that is 20x better that was Tesla used before.

I don't see what definition of NN would consider them the same system.

On YouTube you can find talks by Karpathy where he goes into detail about this stuff.
BMI is a poor indicator of Individuals Health

BMI is a good metric for POPULATION level studies, infact it was designed explicit for that purpose

So me calculating my individual BMI then making health judgments solely on that number is stupid.

However A person calculating the BMI of all persons in a Population then using those numbers to judge to overall condition of the population is valid
Are you talking about the cuts that start around 1:50? I think it's pretty obvious those are different takes (there are different robots in different positions instantaneously, I don't think anyone would expect that to be physically possible). The same thing is frequently done with human performers as well.

There's no way Boston Dynamics would publish a hyper-realistic fake (setting aside how much effort that would be). It would be very damaging to their brand.
BMI has no scientific validity and never did. Huge numbers of people are "overweight" by BMI standards, which is why even the armed forces don't use it (the Marine Corps height/weight standards allow for heavier individuals at each height, which is pretty telling since were the most physically demanding branch and geared toward being light naval infantry).
You can turn off archiving to the Internet Archive, but there is n local archive solution available yet.
But is it more of a gamble than not doing it?
It costs time?
Ah, thanks for sharing the song. Haven't heard it in a while. I was listening to Chick Corea's 80s material earlier today though. That era had a lot of cheesy sounding jazz fusion that I can't get enough of!
HiSilicon / Huawei is yet another player making CPUs and GPUs. Pretty big, too. Although having lost access to TSCM in 2020 is going to hit them hard.
You don’t need true AI to make this thing deadly or oppressive.

You don’t need an AI that ponders the meaning of life for you.

You just need a smart Decision and Control System (DCS).

Paired with additional technology for facial and gait recognition, obstacle avoidance, path planning, and you have all the hallmarks of a rudimentary hunter-killer bot.

What Boston Dynamics cracked here, is the physical control mechanism to allow these robots to live in our world.

Next, they need to build the brains, to allow this machine to move independently and autonomously.
Obesity is strongly correlated with chronic healthcare issues (stroke, coronary artery disease, cardiac issues, diabetes, cancer, etc) and poor health outcomes overall. This has partially been directly linked back to signaling from adipose tissue. Being fat is unhealthy; this has been known for awhile; full stop. We can absolutely expect an aging, obese population to contribute to increased healthcare costs.

Additionally, while end of life care for the elderly is one significant contributor to health care costs, managing patients with multiple chronic healthcare conditions actually is the single largest cause of healthcare spend. If we want to be blunt, your assumptions are wrong: Fat people typically don't die suddenly while young, they die slowly after battling chronic disease, and they rack up costs while doing so.
Just watch some home movies or look at pictures from the 60s or 70s and see how skinny most people were back then. It’s pretty amazing how the country got fat in such a short time. Having lived only on the coasts I noticed that Americans are a little chubbier than what I was used from Germany but the extent of the crisis became only clear when I did a cross country trip. Going to a Walmart in Indiana or Oklahoma you basically see only very fat or morbidly obese people. Even children are huge.
Here’s why I worry: https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1343768397084053505?s=...
>The fact this sometimes can have an 'agenda' or be exploited by the original sources will never negate the value of a neutral 3rd party..

I agree with your sentiment, but we are all aware of the role WL had in the 2016 election. And in chats Assange was found to have said, “We believe it would be much better for GOP to win,” .. and then he continued to play the Seth Rich conspiracy angle until finally distancing from it.

Under scrutiny, the agenda is not as neutral as one would like, and the consequences of this lack of neutrality are massive.
> And the Big Dog needs constant direction.

And the Big Dog requires a lot of technical experts surrounding it at all times, an energy production system, and if it falls over or gets stuck it will be harder for one or two people to get it back to orientation.
I recently purchased three ODriod-N2+ units in particular because they had an RTC battery onboard.

I run Armbian on all three which was easy to set up with the eMMC storage and use two for unbound and the third for a Unifi Controller.

I had looked at the current RPis and they weren't attractive. I'll check them out again once CM4 + I/O board comes out or wait for the TuringPi 2.
Yes, it looked like censorship/manipulation, but HN explained it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570247

I suspect a bias towards Apple though...

Note: I highly appreciate the work of the moderators in keeping HN objective, but it is not perfect- humans are naturally biased so this is to be expected...
Wikileaks stated mission was to "make secrecy expensive" (ie. so unweildy with rules and procedures to ensure secrecy, that even those with very deep pockets could not maintain it) - it was meant to democratize information - all information. Whether it was dangerous or not.
Because healthy food is not subsidized.

A raw Big Mac costs on the order of a dollar. If you tried to just match that with raw healthy ingredients you'd be looking at five to ten times that.

And that's before we get into the labor costs of cooking.
Could you be a bit more specific about what you're talking about here? What secret parts? And what software do they run?
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The armed forces are allowing the overweight to enlist because they can't find healthy recruits in the numbers they demand.
> running and exercise is worthless

A bold claim indeed.

Not everyone who exercises is trying to lose weight.
You are confusing democracy and elections.

Elections are some times a democratic institution, but not always.

Democracy is government for and by the people. Considered decision making is a very important part of it.

By fetishising voting proponents of referendums cast aside all the important bits of democracy - consultation, consideration, listening to other views, expressing dissent.... and replace it with a brutal contest of propaganda.

Voting is important, but it is not the most improtant part of a democracy and if all yu have is voting and elections you do not have democracy.
I guess I'll take the bait here.

I have owned 2 cars that I bought the first year the model came out.

The Model 3 I have had a few dumb issues like, if you run the paint app sometimes the gps location on the map doesn't update until you close the paint app and your displayed location lerps from the old point to the new one over a minute or so.

The Mini had an eco mode that would occasionally shut off the engine entirely at highway speed and not allow restart until you came to a full stop and put it in park. Eventually, they just disabled eco mode in software Which took a few weeks of me working from the mini dealer. There was display of how many miles you had gained that reset when you filled the gas tank. My record is 42 Miles gained in eco. After the final update to the software, which was a full day in the garage, My best was 8.

One of those was worth running stories in the press about.

I guess what I'm saying here is that there is a deep vein of shadenfreude in the news about Tesla. A single Tesla on fire is a big national and some times international news story. I have stopped even reading the damn things. It seems like a weird combination of them being seen as rich people cars, early adopter cars, and liberal hippy cars. Everyone can hate someone on the spectrum. Typically, the issue in articles about Tesla flaws is so isolated and dumb that it exists solely to generate clicks. The last article about Tesla I clicked through stated that consumer reports had downgraded their durability rating due to the discovery of single human hair in the paint of a model Y. I get that it sucks. But, I don't get why I should care about it.

I own a Model 3 because I needed a four door car because I had kids, electric seemed like a net win, the local Bolt dealer told me not to buy their car, and the range let me drive to the grandparents houses without a charge. I recognize that there is stuff about the model 3 and Tesla that sucks but overall it has been a pretty solid car for the last 2 years for me.

Would I recommend one to you? Yeah. I don't think there is a company that offers the combination of electric car, mature tech, range, and charging network at a similar price tag.
SOME fats are indeed essential for our health, but not every fat out there is.

Highly processed shit like trans-fats seems to be pretty destructive.
Heavypaint is a fantastic abstract drawing tool that's fun to do while you're killing time. Here's a great example of how easy it is to get into: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3ho4Vc7Ng)
We stopped for burgers in a Texas McDonalds in a tiny town off the beaten path.

Every single person inside was obese. It was actually embarrassing trying to squeeze by people on my way to find the end of the line, and we decided to just have one person order the food instead of all three of us contributing to the awkwardness of the human body version of bumper cars. I'd never seen anything like it in my life.

Living in Austin, I would wonder where exactly this 73% of the population lived. But after that rest stop in McDonalds, it was obvious that they simply live everywhere between the urban centers.

Our society is failing its people tremendously and on so many levels.
"Competition" in the Darwinian context is often understood in a too narrow way anyway.

Organisms can become more fit by carving out a specialized niche for themselves where they don't have to compete. Or by becoming more cooperative as a species.

The association with ruthless domination of others can be misleading.
Use an elliptical and it will show you exactly how many calories per minute you can burn.

For reference, Olympic athletes only manage to burn 30 calories per minutes at their best. I would put most people’s capacity at 10 to 15 calories per minute sustained.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/sports/olympics/cross-cou...
Maybe the norms or language is changing to be more accurate. This applies to mental health as well. For example: Skylar has bipolar disorder. Trevor has depression. A person is not their condition and many conditions can be overcome.
Hahah that's fantastic, how that thing even takes off with a 1S2P 18650 I'll never know. That's 100 grams just for the batteries.
Here's a link with an image of the highway of bones:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2020-12-23/perdidos-en-la-t...

Here is a video of a drive along it between the cities mentioned in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46vglp6g98

Insane cold in this area - I'd be curious what type of preparation they had for this, and why not turn back if things were impassable?

Google in the USA maps lots of roads that are 4x4 only (but totally fine on 4x4).

Is this really a ghost road with no use in 20 years? I could pretty easily find some towns that would seem to be connected with it. Also plenty of adventurers and motorcyclists (??? how cold would that be?) seem to take it?

Did they by ANY chance turn down a farm road or some other side track?

A brief check of sat views doesn't really match the "abandoned for 20 years" claim being made here.
I think body fat percentage is a reasonable metric but even that isn't absolute. For example, studies on Sumo wrestlers in Japan found that while they had lots of fat, they didn't suffer from the adverse affects of obesity while they maintained their active workout schedule. Once they left the career and stopped exercising, the obesity related health problems showed up. Exercise and activity play a significant role in overall health, not just fat percentage and weight.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sumo-wrestlers-obesity-diet-....
I agree Tesla's shipped software that doesn't inspire confidence in the current version. I only use it on highways and remain fully engaged. (If I had to guess, in that scenario it does provide a marginal improvement in safety over fully manual driving.)

However I don't think lack of confidence in the current software, particularly the production autopilot software, is really giving me much signal in helping predict if Tesla will have FSD anytime soon or not. Now that FSD (at least in Phoenix conditions) is known to be possible the prior that it will never be achieved by Tesla to me is near zero, beyond the chance that LIDAR is strictly necessary and they have a doomed hardware stack. I think there is a pretty big range of possible timelines though - I could see it happening in as soon as 18 months or as late as 10 years depending on how poorly things sift out with their hardware stack.
One of Wikileak's overt and major goals is to expose CIA secrets. The two are in direct opposition.

The CIA are known to be professional bad-faith liers (eg, [0]). It is quite possible they are lieing for political purposes. Their opinion on Wikileaks is not remotely authoritative.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies#Cove...
> Warning people that all the food they have access to is poison is not a solution to anything.

It sounds like you are suggesting all food in American grocery stores is equally bad when it comes to sugar. Perhaps I misunderstood you, as that is obviously absurd. While I do wish there were more healthy options, I can assure you that the mainstream grocery stores (Ralph's, Safeway, etc) contain many products with low or no sugar.

Empowering people to make better decisions is actually one of the best things we can do. What is your alternative proposal?

I read nutrition labels, looking at the sugar content. I eagerly await the requirement to list the amount of added sugar, as it will inform my food purchases.
...and perhaps we could make it better
You're right.

In my opinion there are good reasons for physical property to exist (individual freedom), but avoiding violence is not the best theoretical argument for it.

Is physical property against freedom or in favor of freedom? I think both, depending how you look at it. I've though about this a lot, and tend to fall on the side of proprietarianism, because I think property is absolutely necessary for the fulfillment of human needs and desires.
Another day, another person killed by Google.
TL;DR there is a road that goes through a really cold part of Russia (and we mean cold for even Russia). 2 young men were driving on it and their car got struck by a tree branch so it stopped working. One froze to death before help arrived the other is in critical condition.

The article appears to be almost devoid of information about Google.
> I burn nearly 1000 calories in an hour of running (~12km distance).

You get a lot more calories than you can physically burn in one day. A donut can be something like 500 kcal. Skipping on snacks is more much effective than exercising no matter how you look at it.
There is evidence of astronauts who've walked on the moon punching people. Does walking on the moon make people violent?
No it doesn't. It validates exactly what I said. Not sure how you could have missed that.
Nonsense. You just move the years of suffering and high health care expenses to a younger age.
You can watch videos on YouTube of FSD beta doing very complex things.

It's clearly order of magnitude more advanced and capable than pre-FSD AutoPilot.

Calling anyone who disagrees with you a "fanboy/apologist" does the opposite of strengthening your argument.