skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry but you can’t just make broad sweeping claims like this with literally zero supporting logic or evidence:

> However, making people people believe that they can eat whatever they want, can be obese and still healthy doesn't help at all... it is very destructive and unhelpful in the long run.

First of all, I can’t think of a single body positivity activist who says “you can eat whatever and you’ll still be healthy.” It doesn’t really help your argument when the first target is a preposterous strawman!

More to the point: body positive ideologies might be damaging in the long run. But it might not be! You have absolutely no evidence either way - nor could you, even in principle! - and it’s extremely irritating to see such strongly-stated ignorance.

One of the major impetuses for the body positivity movement is the incredible danger of anorexia nervosa, which is the most lethal mental illness and has been spiking dramatically since the 80s. And as an unambiguously psychological disorder, nervosa rates are much more easily understood as a consequence of societal views of body image than obesity rates.

To be blunt: although there isn’t extant data, I strongly suspect that body positivity saves more lives than it loses. There will be many more women discouraged from starving themselves than women discouraged from moderate exercise and reasonable diets.

Regardless, obviously the body positivity movement has nothing to do with the 21st century rise in US obesity rates (not to mention Mexico). The problem in both countries is much more agricultural/economic. And it strikes me as a bit ridiculous (or dishonest) to suggest that marginalizing body-positive ideologies can reduce the obesity rate.
I really thought that the search icon to the left of the settings is clear enough for users to recognize. Did you recognize it as something else?
"“Older populations are whiter, ” Harald Schmidt told the New York Times. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”

See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-vaccine-firs...
> is there any hope to reform the corrupt political system or even to ascertain "the consent of the governed"?

A shared interpretation of reality would be a good start. Most of the things you named in your first sentence happened at such low counts that they had functionally zero impact on the outcome of the election. For starters, there has been no instance of obvious election fraud caught on camera, no forensic evidence that has gone unchallenged, voter roll issues, while chronic, were being addressed for years leading up to the election, intimidation of poll watchers was in the eye of the beholder, and transparency was extraordinary (they had counts live-streamed). Actionable oversight also exists, but excludes "tossing the entire result of a state election," for obvious reasons (most of the actionable oversight is of the form "Screwing with elections is a federal crime and you do a lot of time for it").

There was a commission to look into instances of fraud in the 2016 election, and it concluded in 2018 that there were a handful of actionable events but the end result was the outcome was unchanged. The 2020 election's results were even wider than the difference in the 2016 outcome. It may not be unwise to appoint a commission to investigate the election results, but my money's personally on an outcome in 2022 similar to the outcome in 2018.

(... and Carlin was a great entertainer but not a political scientist).
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? It takes threads in a lousy direction and evokes worse from others.

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It's similar to the difference between drone warfare and 'normal' warfare and this is one of the reasons why drone warfare worries me quite a bit.
It's a discussion about weight, so in context, that statement is completely valid.
Just look at the history of landmines. 164 countries have voted to ban them, 33 have not. surprisingly (or not), at least one of these countries professes to be horrified when low-tech versions of the same technology are deployed against it and considers that to be appalling moral cowardice.
We should be doing both, but COVID is very different and I don't think I need to explain why.
> Your experience on the old tech stack is irrelevant.

It's cruise control. If you couldn't fry an egg without burning it, forgive me for being a little skeptical when you claim that you can make award-winning souffles after having attended some cooking classes.
Having played a little with micro-drones as a hobbyist, the ability to have an "eye in the sky" is amazing. Just today, we got a little turned around on a hike -- in less than a minute I was able to see our location from above and which direction to bushwhack a shortcut back to the main trail. I can see how this would be invaluable in a "strategic" situation.

Even the tiny ones are noisy and give away their position immediately. The effective range is relatively short, so you know if there's a drone, the operator is nearby. Weather is a limiting factor -- winds will tax the battery, and rain or wet snow will effectively disable them.

I wonder what counter-methods will be used against drones in the field. Really accurate markspeople? Portable EMPs? From what I've read, around airports etc they've been experimenting with enforcing no-fly zones with birds of prey!
This kind of flamewar post is not welcome on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: we've already had to ask you about this once before.
The Armbian distro covers a lot of various boards. Before I purchased my N2+, I just made sure I had a more common/mainstream distro available, which Armbian appears to cover.

https://www.armbian.com/download/ lists the various boards they support.
There are plenty of other countries where sweet and fatty things are cheap, yet they don't have the same obesity rate as the US.
I don't quite understand the part in this about Google Maps changing the route. When I put in directions to Google Maps for Yakutsk to Magadan it still goes along the P-504 (aka Kolyma Highway or "Road of Bones" [0]).

The Wikipedia page also says that the road is called the Kolyma Route "since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway

Edit: Okay, it was pointed out in the comments below that Google maps does go on the correct route now. It is the same general road, but there was a section called the "Old Summer Road" that had fallen in to disrepair but was shorter.
Pay attention for a while and you'll notice there's quite a list of topics and positions that are verboten,either because they have a personal army who care about them or there's a finger on the scale.

For example, lightly and generally criticizing China will get you a lot of upvotes. Criticizing China in specific ways and proposing strategies of action will get your comment down voted and flagged.
Maybe there is space in the economy for a fast food restaurant that is slightly more expensive but also slightly healthier. Food for thought.
“Servings” must be the biggest fraud in nutrition ever. The companies can basically make up whatever they want to make their foods look better. It’s unbelievable that this nonsense can be done.
The problem is: you have to assume "something", because otherwise you simply can't make any predictions. Either assume progress is linear (which seems to be the instinctive default most people use if they don't know much about a particular field) or assume it's non-linear. In case of the latter, you can choose between assuming exponential progress to apply or a step-wise, non-continuous kind of progress. It's a bad idea to not assume one of these to be the case if you want to make a prediction, because it's not possible to predict anything without that assumption.

I mean, you can of course refrain from making any predictions. But I have never met a single person who could resist the instinctive urge to extrapolate current developments into the future. It is as much a core part of being human to do this as it is to breathe air.
This is so cool. High five and deepest respect to people at Boston Dynamics.
Is this a custom <Canvas/> widget or is it using a library to create the canvas? If so, which library?
The experiment you linked was on mice.

Anyway, that's the opposite of what you said before. Treating heart to improve balding is not the same as treating balding to improve heart.

And finasteride is not a cure for balding. At best it slows it, with variable results among different people.
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The temperatures today might be, the difference is however that the Crusaders didn't burn fossil fuels at even remotely the same level as recent generations. CO2 concentration assures that the comfortable temperatures today aren't those enjoyed by future generations.
A thing I wondered over the weekend:

Is there a correlation between frequency of bowel movements and BMI?

I read a book about pigs a couple years ago. It mentioned that once of the main differences between breeds of pigs that are high fat and those that are more lean is intestine length.

Basically, the longer food is in your guts, the more energy gets extracted from it.

My hypothesis would be that for an obese person, the length of time between food entering the body and food exiting the body is greater than in a person of a healthy weight.
If you're inclined to think of this as just an American problem, keep in mind that most western nations are following the same trajectory as the US -- they're just 10 to 15 years behind.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-who-are-o...
some unscrupulous souls might claim they have been vaccinated and refuse to obey distancing requirements.

I'm skeptical that such people exist, but if this happens just arrest them. We should probably apply uniform policies to everyone, vaccinated or not, until herd immunity has been reached to avoid exactly these problems.

Politics aside, something like Google Trust Tokens provided with each dose could be interesting.
But is gaming at fault here? Or maybe "gaming personalities" are simply people for which real life sucks, so they try to alleviate their pain by gaming a lot? Maybe gaming was the thing that delayed their suicide by months/years?
I disagree with the sibling, it's not technically democracy to coerce a vote through fraud.

If you tell people R will give them S, and they vote to get S, but it turns out R doesn't give S at all and you knew it all along; that doesn't mean people voted to get R. They voted to get S, giving them R is not therefore "technically" democracy (or any other weasel way of saying it).
This is great; is there any view towards rehosting this stuff on peertube or whatever? Or is it okay for now, to just know that it's sitting on someone's disk, as long as we know how to reach that someone if needed?
> They solved the function-coloring problem

Not really, they've just made it super implicit. Any FFI calls are now implicitly coloured, same with anything CPU-heavy.

Like their approach to type annotations, I think this will be a mistake in hindsight.
The measurements don't have to be precise to show a trend, relation, or infer a number of valid results. If someone calls the study into question based on using imperfect methods, rather than using those methods incorrectly... That's their opinion, but it's not useful.
That's not 'sadly', that is a direct consequence of the aftermath of World War II when the German offensive capability was purposefully reduced.

And to be fair: this is what allowed Germany to quickly re-emerge as the economic powerhouse in Europe, without having to spend a fortune on defense and with a Marshall plan plus a lot of knowledge about electronics and mechanization what may look like a disadvantage to you today actually is historically a huge advantage.
Indeed, paper maps have killed people in the exact same way, like James Kim who drove up a forest road in Oregon, became snowbound, and died.
The question is not whether most men can weightlift, but whether most men do weightlift. They don't.
I hear you. Both my parents were alcoholics (and, significantly, smokers) and both died from cancer -- and my mom quite young.

The evils of sugar are less obvious until you develop Type 2 diabetes...
Feel free to browse my own instance, which has guest mode enabled. :)
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That’s what I am doing and it works well. It’s just amazing how many foods have added sugar. Even whole wheat bread is sugared up like crazy.
Is it though?

Is the fact that parts of this agreement, that means so much for so many, is nonsensical worthy of a journalist's attention and a paper's publication?
Condoms should also be mandatory.
What a fucking joke. Another hole in the sinking ship that is US manufacturing.
> The hotels with shared bathrooms are very common even in Switzerland, and everywhere else in Europe.

Truly curious. Could you provide a link to one?
If China encroaches on Taiwan, the US is economically obligated to intervene; losing access to TSMC would be a massive hit. (It seems that TSMC is getting increasingly-advanced over their competitors, but maybe that's just my media blindspot.)

I expect the federal government to take action here, probably by giving huge monetary incentives to Intel/AMD for creating a state-of-the-art fab in the US.
I don't know for sure what's inside this drone, but it's probably because they had to pay for developing and building a custom small drone. I suspect DJI or Autel can build better drones at a far lower price, but the UK military probably does not want to rely on a Chinese company for their drones.

Maybe they've could have turned to Parrot, which is French? Or maybe even that would not be desirable, especially after Brexit.
The left seat was 8000 hours.
I seriously do not think that is the case.

I don't know if everyone is paranoid or I am wrong.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for.

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A human in India or China can be had for a couple of hundred dollars a month. These robots probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy and maintain. And they aren’t as adaptable.
I did not feel overly fit. I was definitely not as fit as the people that played a sport competitively. I hung out with friends, ate (a lot of) fast food, and didn't do much outside of school. I did have a "weight training" class a few times a week, where we ran a mile and then I played basketball the whole time. A total of about five hours of exercise a week, and not being sedentary, definitely not an outlier for many teenagers. Yet still considered overweight?

The problem is that the BMI probably matches fairly well to a specific slice of the population. Maybe males 25-40. It likely loses accuracy of meaning the farther in age either direction you go, as well as the more different you are from the optimal subgroup. This is only barely noted in most cases (it's alluded to here in this article that Asian people might see problems at different BMI numbers). What about women vs men? What about the young and elderly? As a metric, BMI is poorly understood by the public, and this poor understanding is targeted and capitalized on by different studies. All it does is cloud our view of what's really going on.
Article mentions "forced to change a route" but has no before/after image of the route and nothing to support the idea that this incident forced anybody to do anything with respect to the map.
The norm in plenty of places where there is a big difference between rich and poor both in degree and in number is that the rich will have private security. Locks are really not going to be worth much as protection at all in those situations.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for.

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You shouldn't use actor systems as a code organization pattern, only in places where async is necessary and in those cases you're going to have to debug race conditions anyways. When that happens you will want an actor system because it will make it easier to understand the data flowing through your system, and especially, effortlessly (0 loc) clean up dangling resources from error conditions and prevent leaks. Moreover Elixir provides you fantastic tools to drive unit and integration testing around your async systems.
Repetitive physical tasks can usually be done with existing machinery and industrial robots. To do anything more complex than that, i.e. non-repetitive tasks, even if they could do it physically, they lack the required brain power. They don't follow verbal instructions except very basic ones.
Yeah, but could you do it with confidence on the street, eg break into a commercial building? Also, I don't think it's that difficult to run a successful hack; admittedly I have many many years of computer experience to draw on, but conversely modern tools make it unnecessary to reinvent the wheel.
Don't a lot of the DJI models have a ~30 minute flight time? Point taken though, that there's a wall we hit with current battery tech.
>What is your alternative proposal?

Ban over the counter sale of processed food, the same way heroin stopped being sold as Mr. Jims Magical Cure All.

It's not like banning additives that have proven detrimental to health is a radical new idea. We have killed hundreds of industries that killed people before, most of them in much smaller numbers than the food industrial complex.

>Empowering people to make better decisions is actually one of the best things we can do.

Looking at the state of the US, it really isn't. Taking advice from Americans on food is like taking bathing advice from Catholics in 900AD.
For navigating Russia, I guess you need to trust Yandex.
I didn't find it enjoyable though

Sure, yeah - I think we're on the same page. My post was a reference to enjoyability more than functionality.

I have definitely read novels that were long, yet rote and simplistic even in their native language. =)

But they were not works worth reading in any language IMO. They could probably be satisfactorily machine translated (with some human editing) but the result would not be enjoyable except for ultra diehards of the genre who are simply happy to be reading a work from that particular genre, quality of prose be damned.

Those enjoyable xianxia/xuanhuan you mention were either rote and boring in the first place, or they were wonderfully written and had the life crushed out of them by a machine translation that dispensed with all nuance.
This. I was not expecting HN crowd to almost universally blame the attackers and fully absolve Funke. It just doesn't make any sense if you have the faintest idea about cyber security in modern age.
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From this link posted in another comment it says "The two travelers - not dressed for extreme cold - evidently took a wrong turn and their car got damaged". So it does not seem to be because google suggested the incorrect route.

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/tragedy-in-yakut...

Edit: It was pointed out in the comments below that Google maps does go on the correct route now. It is the same general road, but there was a section called the "Old Summer Road" that had fallen in to disrepair but was shorter.

Here is a link that illustrates the difference: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/481952e93a2fed32c94a09bd...

Google maps now follows the red dotted line in the image if you enter the route.
Not to spoil, this reminds me of a certain Card's Game.
Plumbers that work with the brown stuff. Had a drain backup and the guy that showed up said it was $150 an hour. minimum 1 hour. As he was working he kept getting calls. He said he had 6 more calls that day for drain issues. The he was getting he had to schedule for the following day. Sometimes when im neck deep in tech crud for hours tracking down a problem or trying to cram in yet more "needed" features I sometimes wonder if ditch digging or working in the brown stuff would be much more rewarding. After all you can see the problem is resolved when your done with a plumbing or ditch issue. With IT you never really know if it will crop up again or not.
This is awesome in the older, atomic bomb sense of the word. It could turn out wonderful or horrible.

The way this breaks has everything to do with the lessons people have drawn from past mistakes with technology. It's an unsettling thought.
'forced' can sometimes be used synonymously with 'compelled by good sense'. Our context clues for this are: the tragedy of events that occurred, and possibility of worse outcomes.
> I realized how much high-calorie ingredients you have to add to make the food taste delicious.

Is that not a trap? Most professional cooks who want to stand out use lots of salt and sugar, sometimes up to a point that I find it disgusting. I can imagine if you are used to that much salt and sugar, you need it again to taste anything. But believe me, you can unlearn it and start to taste the food itself, instead of the added salt and sugar.

I learned the rule that a cook that uses lots of salt and sugar is a bad cook.
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Reading some comments that blame the victim of the cyber attack reminds me of something I thought a couple of days ago while I was cursing bureaucracy and taxes: it's amazing how in IT we take the bureaucrats stance. We develop impossible to understand overcomplicated systems and then we blame the users of those system, which usually are forced to use them, for not taking into account every possible detail. You can substitute "you should know the law" with RTFM and a similar attitude.

I'm not sure what is the conclusion of all this. Maybe bureaucrats are as good as developers, maybe developers are as bad as bureaucrats, maybe people should do what I did and pay specialists.
That's all fun and games until those harmless electrical pulses empty your bankaccount.
> Yes, everyone realizes this already, and nobody who is in that position is going to be mislead into thinking they are obese.

Not everyone would know by now if people didn't repeat it. Just because you know something don't expect all 7 billion other potential people to automatically know.
Why Tesla Autopilot ought to be awful, until it’s perfect

https://jperla.medium.com/why-tesla-autopilot-ought-to-be-aw...
Thanks for sharing, this is great.

It's also a bit intimidating and overhwelming. There is so much to learn and there is also a danger of just getting through textbooks that cover the same material that you've read before or covering stuff on a surface level without getting any practice with what you've learned. As a data scientist, it feels like anything from mathematics, computer science, statistics, large-scale systems, software engineering in general is within my domain and there is a real danger of spreading oneself a bit too thin and not getting that good at anything.
What's the definition of processed food?

I think most people will think your proposal is very extreme.
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