skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess not enough people are smoking these days, and we can't criticize drug users as they are all victims of circumstance, so the next logical and socially acceptable targets to shame are the obese.

Just curious, are "Yo Mamas so fat" jokes still OK these days or are they considered misogynistic?

So hard to keep up with the SJW rules of who is still OK to pick on.
Bitcoin was most likely created by Paul Le Roux to launder money for his questionable business empire. The rest was just a flag to wrap around.
I wonder if these same techniques will be used to track down all the rioters and looters from this past summer. Or is it just used against particular groups?
> DRY is about avoiding a specific problem, not an end goal unto itself.

To add on to that, I think the key behind DRY is to not repeat a concept within your codebase, and not failing into the trap of avoiding similar but slightly different code blocks that aren't exactly logically equivalent by carving up your code into nonsense. The former leads to elegant abstraction, while the latter just leads to functions with signatures like my_function(data, BITFIELD, opt1=false, opt2=true, opt3=false, BITFIELD);
I'm surprised the article didn't suggest just buying bagged wine. The bag takes the shape of the contents, so no oxygen enters. El cheapo bagged wine lasts way longer.
Looping back. That was I said or at least was trying to convey. It is what the the nation, US in this case, finds in their best interest.
If you plan to cook with the remaining wine, it will remain viable longer for that purpose than for drinking. At least, according to the internet.
I can't respond to cecidia because of the downvotes but I fully agree with their statement.

I also agree with the insanity that is the energy consumption associated with bitcoin mining.
For many healthy people, losing weight to reach a government ideal of 'healthy' means dropping useful muscle mass. Which is not good.
While that is true, the USSR produced a better military and more, higher quality consumer goods than most nations of it's size.

That said, it is certain that the soviet system was suboptimal in a great many ways.

But, crucially to the fact at hands, 1960s' USSR produced better rockets to send people to the ISS, at a lower cost, than 2021's USA, so there something beyond the free market in this particular case.
I want to see the schematics for whatever device you design to make this happen.
A few parties I've been to have had several bottles of partially-remaining wine left over - unless you drink a moderate amount daily, it could easily take a couple weeks to get through. For that kind of scenario, you're left with options like "drink it all ASAP", or "drink a little, dump the rest", or "find some way to make it last longer".
Does it delete the coefficients?
I don’t think professional athletes are a good population sample to map onto the general population. Athletes are highly incentivized to burn bright and flare out.

Take NFL players. Yes, an obviously aggressive sport that lends itself to short careers…but even then, the average stint is 3.3 years. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/240102/average-player-ca...) You will do anything, no matter how deleterious, to keep yourself in the game, damn the consequences. And by anything, I mean a steady diet of uppers, downers, and steroids.
Okay, if you're an enemy of the West you can hide in Russia. If you're an enemy of Russia...I haven't heard of Russian agents murdering and kidnapping much in the USA, so that may be OK.

Also, Navalny was about the opposite of trying to hide. He was trying to be found.
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Please correct me but I always thought HAES meant “you can choose healthy choices no matter your size”, presumably because past a certain point fat people might be like ‘fuck it no point in trying to be better’.
Yes, we use golangci-lint for our few Go projects, which works well. However, most of our projects are in Java, and the mistake of our team was to never have our Checkstyle break the build. So, the result is many Java repos with a variety of coding styles.
I'm a sumo fan, and when you think about the daily routine these guys endure it's really amazing that even then it can't overcome their diet. They wake up at 5am, train for 5 hours in the morning, perform the domestic chores that the stable needs them to do, then come back in the afternoon for more 4 hours of training. E-VE-RY day. Other than some rare off season oportunities only the top wrestlers can get, that is it. And they still become diabetic and develop heart disease. There's no escape, other than having amazing genetics, if you eat like a pig, you die like one.
Do you still have that StarMax? The Mac clones are becoming extremely rare.
Of course BMI doesn't work for body builders. However only like 1% of the population work out enough to have muscle mass vs fat mass to actually make BMI "worthless" as so many people say. BMI is an "ok" way of determining if you're obese or not with 95-99% of the population. (at least in the USA). Lots of people just don't want to admit they're fat.
Inside DrRacket you can use the Student languages that are somewhat simplified, or you can use the full version of Racket or even Typed Racket if you like typed languages.

I think the main problem is that debugging is enabled by default. You get a nice error exactly in the spot of the error, but the program is much slower. (I usually use DrRacket with debugging disabled, and when some error appears I enable debugging and run the program again.)
I wonder why he changed his mind to these. They don’t seem that controversial.
I wonder if the two can't be reconciled. It's probably ideal, from a health perspective, to avoid developing things like metabolic in the first place. But has it been demonstrated that, once you're already there, living the kind of aggressively orthorexic lifestyle it takes to get down to an ostensibly healthy weight does more good than harm?

Even without that, though, I'm sympathetic to HAES because it seems quite likely that, even if absolutely nothing else, focusing on body weight rather than lifestyle factors ultimately does more to discourage than encourage making healthier choices.
I do like the focus on health rather than weight though, I think that's valuable.
At the same time I looked into life expectancy of olympic athletes. Iirc it was higher across the board, but powerlifters had a lower boost compared to runners.

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/at...

Edit: Fixed typo thanks. Also note that bodybuilders on steroids may not fall into the same group. One report found higher mortality below 50 this group.
I was denied life insurance once because I was underweight.
Maybe, statistically, it's true.

I have since gained weight and now have life insurance.
Wow, no, stunningly wrong.

Being underweight is highly correlated with poor health outcomes in seniors. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16886095/) Obesity is obviously bad there, but being underweight is just as dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOA75NAoN6Q

There is a low tech solution to every problem.

For a real world example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White#Conclusi...
encryption* is in the long run unregulatable
A good example of why BMI is actually a good indicator. Its a bit of a meme that when you weightlift BMI is inaccurate, but all excess body mass is somewhat unhealthy. Even most people who lift weights are too fat.
You should view the Cryptocurrency lecture at MIT, which was given by Gary Gensler, who will be the new leader of the SEC. There are references and readings for both sides and good discussions.

Very good overview of cryptocurrencies, even some students have created cryptocurrencies.
I've also heard it phrased as: You'll never outrun your fork.
What. 90% of people do not have any musculature worth talking about. Where are your sources? For 99% of people losing weight will be the problem
I imagine a dirt-cheap 'wand lighter' would do just fine for this purpose. Stick it in the bottle, click, it'll burn out in a couple seconds.
right off the bat I'm suspicious of the methodology, since it seems that active obese people are more likely to develop high cholesterol than less active obese people (doesn't pass the sniff test).

More importantly, I don't think the "active" category is sufficiently discerning, ie it's a pretty low bar to exercise 150 minutes in a week. I know several hardcore endurance athletes who are likely overweight if not obese, who exercise obsessively and achieve those weekly exercise figures every day. If anyone was "fat but fit" it would be them, but this study doesn't measure that kind of person.
Interesting idea. “Smoke taint” is a very negative characteristic of wine, so many sommeliers will react negatively towards the idea of any flames near wine.

But if the combustion particles can be controlled, there’s no reason this wouldn’t work.

Sounds like an innovative idea!
You don't really need to be obsessed though, you just need to be willing to commit to an appropriate caloric intake. You might need to look at boxes for a while to see how many calories are in your favorite foods, and you might even need to cut some of them out, but after a month or two you just kind of know what you can and can't eat, no unhealthy obsession required.
Sure, but you're also missing the downstream consequences/chilling effects. Maybe you're right insofar as it should motivate people to create new platforms, but with even the cloud operators willing to deep-six a business... well I don't know about you but I can't afford to host a social media site with hundreds of thousands of users in my basement anymore – not to mention the credit cards, banks, and payment services now willing to kickban anyone they don't like...
I'm still learning Rust, but iiuc you could do this by creating an OffsetPtr type that implements the Deref trait (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Deref.html). This is exactly a "fancy pointer" as you describe.
Nobody's going to "come back to you" because you're just trolling, not arguing in good faith, so nobody takes you seriously.
Powerlifters or weightlifters might be better because they don't cut to <5% body fat and steroid use is less common.
> It's very hard to count things that don't happen

Interesting problem.

Just thinking about this particular issue, maybe some options are:

1) counting time and then expressing success as the longest period of time during which the bad events didn't happen,

2) letting it happen initially to have a base "bad rate", then taking action to bring that rate down, and continuously make an effort to keep the occurring rate down

People preventing accidents at industrial sites have good experience doing this.
When the crime in question is a headline crime they're happy to go through hundreds of "leads" in order to find someone they can pin it on.
Actually, I just had another idea. It may be just me, but I already have an Alexa echo, and Smart Home controlled lights and fan in the bathroom. All you really need is an WIFI-enabled motion sensor - and then, an easy way for it to start playing music on my alexa - bonus if it would automatically turn on the lights and fan when I enter, and turn fan of 15 minutes after I leave. Maybe even just an integration with IFTTT or Home Assistant.
Unfortunately, it went to the thrift shop many years ago, along with all the vintage UNIX workstations I wish I still had today. Haha. Hopefully, someone picked them up and they didn't just get recycled.
I replied to another comment to say that olympic athletes actually live longer than average.

NFl players aren’t a great example. That much traumatic brain injury is seriously harmful to health. Among olympic athletes, those in contact sports did less well.

You do have a point as sumo is grueling and involves contact, but you wouldn’t expect hard playing to take off that much life expectancy all on its own. Sumo wrestlers surely lose some from adiposity.

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/at...
NFL players have another major issue that greatly shortens lifespans: CTE [1]. I wonder how much sumo wrestlers are affected by it. I could imagine it also being a problem due to the powerful impacts from their heavy bodies slamming against each other.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-traum...
"In seniors" would be the key word there. For the average American they'd be far, far better off being slightly underweight than being obese.
Does anyone know if the thresholds for being "overweight" and "underweight" have changed over time? I mean, with so many people getting heavier and heavier has the standard crept up so that "underweight" isn't even skinny anymore?
Good to see this getting some traction! While I did start with Usenet, and do remember reading this long-long ago, I didn't post it as a historical curiosity, but because I thought the advice within was still relevant to places on the internet today such as HN. Or at least, still should be relevant. For example, here's the opener:

Never Forget that the Person on the Other Side is Human

Because your interaction with the network is through a computer it is easy to forget that there are people "out there." Situations arise where emotions erupt into a verbal free-for-all that can lead to hurt feelings.

Please remember that people all over the world are reading your words. Do not attack people if you cannot persuade them with your presentation of the facts. Screaming, cursing, and abusing others only serves to make people think less of you and be less willing to help you when you need it.

If you are upset at something or someone, wait until you have had a chance to calm down and think about it before posting a reply. A cup of coffee or a good night's sleep works wonders on your perspective. Hasty words create more problems than they solve. Try not to say anything to others you would not say to them in person in a room full of people.

It goes on in this vein. While it would be easy to dismiss this as naive advice for a lost era, I think most of it still applies.
That's actually not working as intended. There is a part of the brain that is supposed to monitor body fat percentage and suppress hunger and encourage physical activity in order to get body fat to lower again.

This book[0] goes through how the metabolic system works, how it is supposed to self regulate, and how it can miss-regulate. It also talks about what it is about our food since the late 1970's that has changed to cause this to happen more frequently.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Hungry-Brain-Outsmarting-Instincts-Ove...

EDIT: I want to add a bit. This book goes through how the metabolic system of humans is supposed to work, and it can get technical at times. It also goes over the specific traits that certain foods have that can be problematic, which gives enough info to make a self-improved diet. It backs up everything it can with specific citations of scientific experiments.
The police and other areas of the government who apparently doesn't have direct access to the NSA data just buys it from brokers anyway.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-...
Your point was clearly the broader law-enforcement tracking, you sought to draw a comparison between the two events to ask why one had been an infosec focus of law enforcement.
This should be the top link not a paywalled times article.

The chart below is pretty clear as to their findings if anyone wants the summary.

https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/225496940/zwaa151...
> Caused by eating too much and probably minimal to no physical activity

Very often actually it's unrelated to eating to much and doing no physical activity (at least wrt. most obese people I ended up knowing, context: Germany/Berlin).

Most obese people I ended up knowing did had a rather controlled diet and did more sport/physical activity then your average person.

So why where they obese? Some combination of:

- They had problems with their metabolism, potential had to take medicament too.

- In their childhood they ended up getting fat due to a varity of aspects and even with strict diet and sport had a hard time of losing their weight (once you where fat enough for long enough time your body gets used to it and as such is much much more prone to add fat to your body when you eat etc.)

- there are other reasons too for other people but not people I did know close enough.

Either-way I don't know about the US but in Germany/Berlin "minimal to no physical activity" is not often the case and neither is missing discipline or laziness.

For many obese people telling them to just do more sport and eat proper is like telling a depressed person to just stand up in the morning and go out or a person with social anxiety to just leave the house. I.e. impolite, discriminatory, mean and far of reality.
I think it also depends on your commute.

I look forward to the office because I’ll always live 15 minutes away. I’ll either take my bicycle or a motorcycle. (Both of which can be fun - wheelies on either are great!)

The in person meetings were more frequent for me because I could just stop by a persons desk to see how they were doing. I can’t do that online and the culture is much more closed down. Forget about going offsite to get lunch and really hear how things are. No weekly basketball games with various people from other departments to see what’s brewing.

There are plenty of benefits to the office and I would like them to still exist. And they won’t as soon as you go remote because they rely on everyone being in one area. If you go remote, chances of seeing anyone in person will fall off a cliff compared to office life.

I’ve made some of my best friends through work and I plan to continue doing that.
30+ years ago banks would transfer money for anyone that wanted it. Then regulations clamped down and enforcement was lax - as a result banks were fined. Now banks including non-US banks like DB and HSBC are strict and the US government will see exactly what you're doing esp in USD.

Maybe some big exchanges like Coinbase follow the US laws closely but mostly crypto is like the old days where most people in the world can do what they want. Its in no way like these big global banks.
The Army Sergeant Major of the British Army is 'overweight', for example. (He's done interviews about it.) That's obviously nonsense and he doesn't need to lose any weight at all. The idea of 'overweight' is meaningless.
And in fact this study totally fails to refute that idea. All it does is it says that, among a half million people, the higher-BMI groups had more cases of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes, even when controlling for levels of physical activity. It says nothing about whether adding physical activity to get to a lower-BMI group could work as a treatment for any of those, nor whether there are any consequences of that level of physical activity.
>Iirc correctly
If I recall correctly correctly?
If I recall correctly the same is not true for professional cyclists [1], a sport with a rich doping history. They seem to live longer than the general population. I believe this is related to the impact on the body versus steroids.

1. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/cyclists-live-longer-a...
Honestly this is more of a systemic failure than an individual failure.

It's extremely hard to eat and live healthy. It's getting harder every day. Why are low sugar alternatives to basic snacks (e.g. Keto friendly) like 3-10x more expensive?

Why does EVERYTHING have sugar in it? Why don't we have cheap and healthy fast food that seems to be common in so many other countries?

We could solve this problem if we actually subsidized and demanded better food standards. If we helped people make the right choices. But hey, we decided that fat is the enemy and everyone should have hundreds of grams of carbs per day.

When I lived in Iran it was so much easier to maintain a proper weight. After moving to the US it's become extremely difficult. I'm still the same person. But what's available to me has changed immensely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP4IyBal1xg
> they told him the data had been lost, which is pretty weird

I don't think that is weird at all. After the lead student on a project leaves, the faculty, especially non-technical or not so organized ones, may not even know how to access the data anymore. Who knows what arcane scripts or processes are needed to get it in a shareable form.

There can also be hoops with the IRB to jump through and a lot of effort in general to give someone access to data. I had an IRB insist that all raw data be deleted after 2 years of collection anyway, so by the time the paper got published the raw data had to be deleted forever.

I wish it were easier to release data and replication kits, but sadly the incentives aren't there.
Yeah I read it as even undershirts getting as few as 25 wears before disposal. That number sounds crazy to me. I don’t track my usage but I estimate I have 15 which I wear 300 days a year and replace every 2 years? Hmm that implies roughly 40 wears each. That’s a much smaller difference than I originally expected....
I wouldn't worry. In my (long) experience there are many of you.
Backstory : I need to chat privately with someone. The topic is very sensitive, so i need to ensure myself that this chat wont stored on any 3rd party server and it should be deleted after the recipients have read it.

Technical Details : Go server and Javascript client, communicating using websocket. The server wont store anything, it just acts as "router" to redistribute any message that it received to the rest of current online user. The client has heartbeat mechanism to tell the server that it is still active. Based on that heartbeat signal, the server will count current number of concurrent user.

You can launch your own instance simply by running the go executable. You can use it for personal use on home server or deploy it on VPS, making your own "secret base" on the Internet.
Floccus is a good self-hosted open-source alternative for syncing bookmarks across browsers. There is a docker available to use their WebDAV, or you can use your own.

https://floccus.org/
In fact being slightly underweight is one of the only sure ways to increase your life expectancy. Restrictive calories diet.
Combining C++ with python via pybind is something bazel really excels at, with CMake you end up maintaining two disjoint build and packaging systems.
Having your cardiovascular and endocrine system taxed by steroids is going to be shit for longevity.

I think from what I've seen in media restricting calories seems beneficial to longevity so bulking and packing muscle mass probably "burns you out" even without steroids.

Having said that I'd rather trade 10 years of the tail end of my life for being jacked and rested in my prime years (testosterone does wonders for energy and recovery), especially compared to being a fat slob.
I'm talking about lead in the gasoline and you're talking about more speech.

I don't disagree with your point but it isn't relevant to mine.
Then you get to have many meetings about which litter and lint rules to use.
I used to be an "insane weirdo", but at some point I gave up.

Now, I just focus on code correctness, merge and fix the code style myself, avoiding a lot of useless back and forth.

My hope is that people like to see their name when they "git blame" (what's the PC version of "blame" again?)

So they will over time learn to follow the code style in order to keep their name there.
There are many stupid movements. Do you think you’ll change the opinions of anybody with a study? Especially when the solution is losing weight