skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty good run for a domain specific language for converting XML files into stack dumps.
There is a new sentence in the "Things I've changed my mind on" section:

> Things I now believe, which past me would've squabbled with:

That phrase was not there originally when the article was posted.
JAM stack ? The first letter I guess is Javascript?
I haven't used Drupal since Drupal 7, but I really liked the Fields API. Drupal felt like it had more built in that WP should have built in but didn't. I believe Drupal 8 went with a templating language as well. That's something else I wish WordPress would adopt.
This is why I avoid buying beer in growlers. My wife and I just don't drink enough to kill a bottle before it's done. If I have friends over, it goes fast, but that's not really a thing right now.

They do make cans of wine... I know it's a crazy idea, but my friend who likes wine loves the single serving size.
The wine industry has totally failed to adapt to the Covid era. Or maybe not, now that I have to finish a bottle by myself.
There aren’t any bagged wines worth drinking. There are some ok wines with screw tops or synthetic corks. Wine drinkers don’t like the idea of things changing.
You...do realize that around 30% of people in every economic level eat fast food right? It's how a third of the population gets their food.

Stop being a dick.
Being near a crime when it occurred is entirely different than your phone being at your house when a crime occurred somewhere else.
There has to be some flame-lessly oxidizing material that could be used?
The author of this seems like a real joy to work with

> “TDD purists are just the worst. Their frail little minds can't process the existence of different workflows.”

Imagine thinking about colleagues as people with “frail little minds.” Yikes.

Many of the other points betray serious attitude and perspective problems, but it was forgivable until getting to that last bullet and realizing, no, this is just a person with a shitty attitude.
Organize one meeting, tell everyone you don't care which one but they have to decide on one by the end of the meeting. Otherwise you're deciding one for them (phrase it as "I have a PR ready to go adding this one"). Assuming you have the sufficient authority (managerial, technical, or buy-in from your manager) for such an ultimatum, of course.
> The company currently has more than 21,000 full-time employees

Unbelievable, I can’t even think what type of work they do.
"We need, when financial firms muck up on a global scale, to replace the people who run those firms with different people."

I don't really disagree, but he with gold makes the rules. Attempting to limit their power will result in a backlash. Yellen's testimony can be seen as that, but in truth, it is not a new stance. Crypto was merely tolerated until now.
I assumed aero-braking and parachutes would work out.
there are
A lot
Many would desire elite teams. On the other hand, such capable programmers are not the norm. Most are stuck with what they get and have to make it work.
Smells a little trollish to me, but I'll bite.

The HAES (Health at every size) movement that has been gaining in popularity states that people with a marked excess of body fat can still be considered just as healthy as someone with a normal range of body fat (particularly if they're active).

That assertion is fairly shocking to people familiar with the studies on the subject. This study focused specifically on quantifying the measurable health differences between these groups, specifically factoring in activity level. It shows a strong correlation of excess body fat and worse health outcomes. Even among obese people that are active. This is strong data to directly counter the claims of the HAES proponents.

I would think the progressive /"sjw" (as you say) mindset would be to embrace the HAES model, but you're suggesting they're picking on overweight people? That doesn't make sense to me.

My opinion is that we should be honest about the real danger obesity presents (even with exercise), and have that inform our approaches to treatment. I see no value in shaming or picking on people though, those are orthogonal issues.
Have you ever tried to customize or add functionality to Wordpress? Because if it’s anything like Drupal or other PHP based tech of a certain era, it’s hell
I am the exact same way. It always gives me intense anxiety.
As someone who has lost 40 lbs and continues to lose weight, I get it, but at the end of the day you're the one who's going to get heart disease early, get diabetes, die young, etc, not the ones who aren't obese.

Stop worrying so much about what other people think and do what you think is best to take care of yourself. Get help if you need it - there are a lot of real clinical options these days. These are internet commenters who don't know you and won't ever know you, and won't care when you die. That's just life. Don't sweat it.
Non-paywalled link to summary of article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/overweight-and-healthy-is...

In the study, the bottom group by activity contains 63% of the population, while the bottom group by obesity contains only 18% of the population. So shifting from bottom to middle by obesity is a bigger move than shifting from bottom to middle by activity level. Not sure the author is comparing apples with apples here.

In reality, we need to be aware of what lifestyle changes we can sustainably make given our particular circumstances, whatever the whole-population results might look like. To quote the author, “Fighting obesity and inactivity is equally important; it should be a joint battle. Weight loss should remain a primary target for health policies together with promoting active lifestyles".
Does stalking mean hunting?
Yeah no. Don't do that. Your body adapts to low caloric intake and make weight loss wayyy harder than it needs to be.

Go on a low carb / ketogenic diet instead. You get to eat lots of protein and fat. You will automatically feel less hungry but also, once ketosis sets in you will have a surplus of power that you can uses for physical activity. Added bonus, your body will react to insulin again.
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Go to Airgas and buy a 40# argon tank meant for welding. Thirty seconds will displace the air in a nearly empty wine bottle threefold. The tank will last years.

One stops worrying about bottle boundaries. One buys magnums. ("A difficult size, too much for one but not enough for two.") There is a faint mellowing effect by the next day, but nothing like the effect of oxygen.

We sometimes deliberately skip argon. In Italy you know you're tight when friends serve yesterday's wine. Those wines need the abuse. Most wines don't handle the abuse of an open day well.

Scale matters. There are $300 units made of cheap plastic aimed at wine "connoisseurs". The cartridge is the same size I'd carry mountain biking, to fill one inner tube on an emergency basis. That's supposed to last 50 bottles? How stupid does the manufacturer think I am?

Yes, argon is heavier than air, but there's this thing called diffusion. There's argon in the air around us; if argon cleanly separated from air and formed a bottom layer, we'd all suffocate when we lay on the floor. Obviously, we don't. Put it together.

I'm reminded of Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery cookbook taking heat for proposing 350 ml of water for bread steam, poured onto 30 lbs of thermal mass such as an aluminum disk in a cake pan. That also generates enough steam to displace the volume of an oven threefold. A commercial bread oven depends on serious steam for the first few minutes; this is a home approximation. People liked the idea of spritzing 10 ml of water from a plant spritzer, and were offended Keller did the science. They were just genuflecting.

One can wait months to obtain medical grade argon. It's the same process, only tested to confirm the fact that the process doesn't introduce toxins.

My wife is a practical engineer; she indulges every exploration like this. Some take. This one took. A standard after-dinner question is "Did you argon the wine?"
My understanding is that, while government debt is in some ways a fiction, it serves an important purpose in setting the risk-free rate of return in the economy. Yes, the debt could be eliminated and replaced with constant money printing, but this would eliminate that important market signal.

By pinning rates low as the Fed has done, that signal has been disrupted, and that is probably why we've seen repeated financial bubbles and panics. Also, it runs the risk of money being diverted to projects that only make sense because the risk-free rate of return is so low that extremely risky ventures seem "worth it."
Obviously, but it doesn’t help me when support has a “we will never speak with you” policy
10ish years in, professionally. I agree with the official list provided by the link pretty well.

edited for clarity
I think there are still just as many of us who are against it as there were years ago, we're just no longer as vocal about it. A lot of us have given up being perceived as "doomsday" prophets. Mainstream culture doesn't really believe or care about mass surveillance until it personally affects them negatively.
Okay, it's been a while, more data is available now, and I can provide a counter argument:

This whole event was planned on social media in the open, and still that did not help anyone prevent it. Had it all been planned on Signal the exact same result would have occurred.
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> Back up beepers are considerably louder than they need to be.

Tom Scott has a fascinating video that describes how this is changing: https://youtu.be/fa28lIGuxq8
That’s some next-level reality distortion to frame this as “against particular groups.” Unless you define the “particular group” as people that directly attack the heart of the government.
These aren't solutions to systemic problems.

People like doing stuff that is unwise/unsafe/destructive, acting like they don't (ignoring the problem) and then throwing out dismissing quips isn't even an attempt at a solution.

Nudge theory[0] has worked in the past (within the limits of the problems). Dismissing those problems as trivial while waving them away as an individual choice hasn't been and cannot be because it doesn't even attempt to address the underlying issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory#Types_of_nudges
Rust: similar
The account wasn’t hacked. It was a day old
If more people thought like you we wouldn't have an obesity problem.

Thank you. Seriously.
Yeah, pretty much. At the February '95 budget meeting (which determines budget for the next fiscal year (July 1)) they agreed that FY94 was the last year First Person would be funded so by 7/1/95 it was up to us to find new jobs either inside of Sun or elsewhere.

But to be fair you are looking at it from the future backwards. At the time Sun considered "the web" to be a feature not a product (many were bemoaning that because SGI was making it so central to their identity) and a "browser plug-in" (which in itself was kind of a weird concept, originally we thought all applets would be java://applet-host) was hardly something to interest a big enterprise player like Sun. We literally went overnight from other parts of the company saying "I knew they were never going to make it." to "really this project has been ours all along it only seems fair that we should continue to direct it.", Sun Labs, SunSoft, and Sun hardware all claimed to be the reason we were even existing.

It stands today, for me, as a classic "accidental" disruption.
You just accused me of being a scammer for creating a Twitter account and making a single tweet and getting banned the same day. What is wrong with you?
It is hell, but there are also millions of contractors that still sit in that webmaster space between designer and developer who will do it cheaply.
> If you're obese its the ONLY thing you hear your doctor say.

Yea because it will kill you early. Do you want your doctor not to talk about your health problems?
The problem is the creation of the wrong incentives by Keynesian governments
> but I have memories of trying to compile programs and having to dive into the source and make changes with the blind confidence only a teenager could have.

That is an awesome sentence. I sometimes miss this blind confidence I had as a teenager.
i can,t solve systemic problems. no one can. each of us can only solve problems locally.
This kind of attitude comes up on HN a lot. They have lots of internal tooling and jobs that have to be done, especially at their scale.

WhatsApp with 50 employees is an anomaly. In reality, companies need lots more employees just to get by. Not all industries are equal when it comes to responsibilities and programmers are the most ignorant but arrogant class, thinking that all you need is software. Spolsky covered this 2 decades ago in his “Developer Abstraction Layer” article.
I'm imagining the Swiss watching in horror as a caravan of thousands of obese American refugees arrives at their frontier...
> it doesn’t get shut off nightly when the RDS systems do to save money

If your company needs to shutdown RDS to save a couple of bucks a month, there's a much larger problem at hand than RDS vs Dynamo.
> Well I suppose the reaction of police at the Jan. 6 insurrection vs that of the BLM protests tells us a little.

They shot a woman in the neck. What’s the difference you’re trying to portray?
Yes because Wordpress includes frontend rendering (of both the actual pages and the backend admin) by default. This means you get working HTML powered by dynamic content out of the box, and it keeps working as content changes without needing constant builds for static sites.

I see the benefits of modern component-driven frontend systems but I think the better opportunity would be to integrate this cleanly into existing server-side engines rather than try to recreate the backend entirely or disassemble it down to such low-level build steps.
> so no oxygen enters.

Not strictly true, some air does get back in the wine bag, even with the best boxes I've bought. But not enough to spoil the wine before I've manage to polish it off :)
Well, encumbering "losing weight" with a bad method like losing muscle or breakfast cocaine or cutting fat off your belly with a knife to do it isn't an attack on losing weight, but a misunderstanding of their claim.
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The only thing incorrect here is your degenerate comment. Google insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome before rubbing your stupidity into everyone's faces.
add_shortcode is incredible. It's probably my favorite part of wordpress, and writing a plugin is so easy, just a single file zipped up or scp'd. Especially with custom post types or adding a new table.
I see no infinite scrolling on https://whitehouse.gov/ It clearly has an end point and a footer. Also, the "briefing room" has pagination.

Not sure what pages you are looking at.
I mean, if they're gay, moving to the US from Iran probably did not lower their life expectancy.

But more generally - we can't ask everyone in the US to move out of the country, can we? So it seems worth figuring out how to get the US to be healthier.

(And in any case, the linked study happened in Spain.)
Damn, I usually don’t agree with every bullet point in these lists but I agree with everything here (even the last bit about the weirdos).

Is the OP me?
Use an autoformatter and be done with it.

If your preferred codestyle can't be expressed in a standard formatting tool, change your code style and run the autoformatter once. Have a bot make the commit if you care about your diff histories.
Floccus works with chromium variants like edge.

https://floccus.org/
It's confusing but let's be honest, we aren't talking about really fit body builders with muscle. We're talking about people with excess fat. Body fat % is a better metric, but you don't really need that if you're a doctor and can tell your patient has too much of it and the scale says so too.
Drupal 6 was kind of a mess technically, but it had the best ecosystem of contributed modules.

Drupal 7 lost some modules, and Drupal 8+ lost a lot more.
Grassland is better way to sequester carbon than trees.

That and reducing world population.
Gosh, talk about nostalgia in this post, hah. One of my first adventures into Linux was mklinux on a Umax S900. That thing was a tank.
The problem with NoSQL is that your simple model inevitably becomes more complex over time and then it doesn't work anymore.

Over the past decade I've realised using a RDBMS is the right call basically 100% of the time. Now pgsql has jsonb column types that work great, I cannot see why you would ever use a NoSQL DB, unless you are working at such crazy scale postgres wouldn't work. In 99.999% of cases people are not.
they also haven't made a single dime in what, 11-ish years? Writing software is fun, but usually companies do it to earn money. If they were building the death star it would be one thing, but they're making a taxi app. The entire company feels like a jobs program for software engineers run by Softbank instead of the government
My personal trainer told me that first application of anabolic steroids was in endurance sports like cycling.

One effect of testosterone is to increase red blood cells count, enhancing the oxygen transfer and thus endurance.

(BTW, red wine's quercetin blocks testosterone's drainage by kidneys and indirectly elevates red blood cells count)

The weightlifting also has positive effect on the longevity: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190412085247.h...

To counter your article about cycling: https://www.dw.com/en/michael-goolaerts-death-raises-questio...

And obligatory reference to Marko Pantani: https://crushingiron.com/cycling-is-the-toughest-sport/

He was so fit, he has to cycle several times at night to make his heart go faster and not to die.

The article of yours was not about professional cyclists, more about "cycling fitness" approach. I love cycling - it improves deadlift immensely. But professional cycling is different. Very different. And dangerous.
Agreed. I love Drupal, and hate WordPress. It seems like Drupal module developers are more interested in solving trivial problems so they can focus on the bigger ones, while WordPress plugin developers are more interested in making a buck with a trivial solution.
A certified detuning is indeed theoretically possible, at the expense of having to re-flight test the airplane to determine and prove the new performance tables as part of the STC for that fuel, which any new fuel vendor will likely find to be a prohibitive barrier to sell the fuel to the public.

The "all models STC" approach with a "no degradation in performance" judgment is much more desirable for the fuel vendor seeking to sell the fuel, for the FBO who only wants to sell one version of avgas and one mix of Jet fuel, and for the owners of heavy piston-powered airplanes and therefore more likely to succeed (IMO).
For the same reason that people use Newtonian physics even though we all know it's a simplification which doesn't apply exactly to all situations. BMI is also obviously not going to work the same for an amputee, but it's an OK heuristic for most people.
That’s largely my opinion of reds as well. We recently found Roscato from an Olive Garden take out and it’s the first red I’ve liked. Basically grape juice.
> There are very few overweight people past the age of 80.

How much of that selection is due to voluntary lifestyle choices, how much is due to genetics or other involuntary factors? The answer has a pretty big influence on how appropriate it is to look down your nose at others for not fitting your ideal.
I can't speak to your specific use case, but I can tell you that a relatively small RDS instance is probably a lot more performant than you think. There is also "Aurora Serverless" now which I've just started to play with but might suit your needs.

As far as what makes Dynamo a good fit, I almost take the other approach and try to ask myself, what makes Postgres a bad fit? Postgres is so flexible and powerful that IMO you need a really good reason to walk away from that as the default.
The press release [1] for the paper Joint association of physical activity and body mass index with cardiovascular risk: a nationwide population-based cross-sectional study [2]:

> We retrieved information from medical examinations on the prevalence of diabetes (medicated or glycaemia > 125 mg/dL), hypercholesterolaemia (medicated or total blood cholesterol ≥ 240 mg/dL), and hypertension (medicated or systolic/diastolic blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg).

> Data from 527 662 participants [32% female; age (mean ± SD): 42.3 ± 9.4 years; BMI: 26.2 ± 4.3 kg/m2] were analysed. About 42%, 41%, and 18% of the participants had normal weight, overweight, or obesity, respectively; 63.5%, 12.3%, and 24.2% were inactive, insufficiently active, and regularly active; and 30%, 15%, and 3% had hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension, and diabetes. Being either regularly or insufficiently active conferred protection compared to inactivity against all the studied risk factors within each BMI category, which was evident in a PA dose-response manner for diabetes and hypertension (Figure 1). However, regular/insufficient PA did not compensate for the negative effects of overweight/obesity, as individuals with overweight/obesity were at greater CVD risk than their peers with normal weight, irrespective of PA levels.

The headline is inappropriate and I'm not convinced the study is as useful as it could be. Though large, the study only demonstrates that being overweight or obese is linked to high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure; all risks for cardio vascular disease (CVD). I'd prefer more direct measures of CVD like the Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI). Regardless, the data has to explain the U-Shaped BMI mortality curve [4] and it does not. There are also well established mortality tables [5] for blood pressure based on age and gender; 140/90 is not reflective of risk.

[1] https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankle–brachial_pressure_index

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity#Mortality

[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067369...
Yes, a bash script will do.
Ha! You must not know people who work in the industry. It was a record sales year. There’s no worry about adapting, just fulfilling demand.

On premise consumption (restaurants, bars, etc.) is only something like 20% of sales. Retail is most of it, and 2020 was insane. Brands view on-premise largely as discovery/marketing.
My coach used to say, “Know the difference between pain and strain.”
Yes, a few months ago, it was ridiculously easy. It literally took me 20 minutes to customize how the side bar was working and embed some new dynamic content. I even inherited off a parent theme so any updates to the theme wouldn't over-ride my changes.

I've never even written much PHP in the past. I even added it into the the theme editor so the client could change the text/etc. themselves.

Not sure what you did, but you clearly did it wrong if you think it's hard. It just worked.
It's not bullet proof, but I've seen people describe reader macros and macros for semi advanced stuff on old mailing list. To them it was a natural too to turn annoyances into natural pleasurable work (think not having to deal with xml/html as strings). There's a couple of papers on some japanese research lab that showed how to turn your common lisp code into pascal with the generic pretty printer.

These sort of things seem to be trivial in the lisp world, whereas until a few years ago it was alienating topics for most of the industry (since we had the transpilers fever and jsx for instance)
How much is the jar filled? I wonder if it’s just a function of less air?