skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to dig through the blatant and endless moralizing, this is the entirety of the scientific argument:

> Even a quick glance at the weight research shows that, despite decades of trying, there is no evidence that efforts to prevent or reverse “obesity” are successful. In fact, there’s much evidence to suggest that the prescription for weight loss is more likely to result in physical harm and weight gain. The data also refute other longstanding, widespread—and incorrect—notions about health and weight. Like the “fact” that fat is a primary driver in metabolic disease. Or that weight loss prolongs life or improves health. None of this is true. Dogma, myths, and prejudices about fatness have trumped actual evidence in our view of weight and health.

> It is true that many diseases are more commonly found in heavier people. However, that doesn’t mean that weight itself causes disease. Blaming fatness for heart disease is similar to blaming yellow teeth for lung cancer, rather than considering that smoking might play a role in both. And telling people they need to lose weight is a lot like telling someone with a cold to stop sneezing so much—it may not be possible and won’t make the cold go away.

>Focusing on weight—or health behaviors—puts the burden on the individual, deflecting attention from the more pernicious problem: systemic injustice.

Basically, correlation does not equal causation. Also, you are a bigot.

My 2 cents as someone who struggles with being overweight: these guys can take their self-righteous patronizing and shove it. I don't want to be overweight. It's been a huge failure of society to find a scalable solution for obesity. And worse than doing absolutely nothing, or even denying the problem exists, people are trying to attack anyone for admitting there's even a problem.
See, I disagree, because I believe that we've evolved to prefer stable, partnered life, and that a large portion of the population is still substantially affected by those drives. Not all of us can just say goodbye to biological imperative.

I agree that people should be "okay" without a partner and freestanding as their own person. But, this doesn't mean that it's unhealthy for partnership to be a major portion of life's happiness and fulfillment.

I don't know what the version of me without a stable, long-term relationship would be like. But-- I do know that my life became much better around the time that I met her; that the improvement appears to have lasted and cumulated, and also that it seems to me that a large part of my fulfillment and happiness comes from interaction with my wife. If this is unhealthy, I haven't seen the negative impact from it yet.
I have no data on this but my anecdata tells me that if a woman is in a poor state but is attractive plenty of men will be willing to treat her nicely and not consider her "pathetic" at least long enough to sleep with her.

Doesn't really work the same way for dudes
Normally the canyon opens to cars sometime between mid April and mid May, depending on the weather. That's when it fills up with families and OHV enthusiasts rather than just small numbers of backpackers.
Yeah, exactly!

It's also simply not a useful type of statement even when made in good faith. It assumes all issues fit on scales. For example, there are people today who call themselves feminists, and have extremely different views about LGBTQ+ rights compared to others who call themselves feminist (notably around the BTQ+ part). I really don't know who is the more "extreme", since that implies that I am referencing an agreed upon "center" which these positions differ from, and that simply doesn't exist. There is no agreed upon "center" for anything. Both claim to be feminists, and claim the other side is wrong, and neither would consider the other either more "extreme" or more "centrist".

This is just one example, but I would argue that this holds true in nearly every case: Reducing something to a scale with "extremes" on each side mostly just shows how the speaker perceives other positions and is otherwise not very useful.

CS stuff: IMO a better mental model would be non-Cartesian. Perhaps a weighted graph, where the vertices are ideologies (or, to be more granular, people), and the edge-weights represent some fuzzy metric of overlap of beliefs.
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Uh, so standard ISP operating procedures.
Why archive? Because history is good.

Why the anti-necroposting provision? Because if it's really relevant, having you jump through the additional hoop of quoting the good bit and copy-pasting into a new thread not only forces you to put a little bit of thought into it, but also prevents threads from being months or years (or decades) long and thus only being accessible to people who have read the whole darn thing.

In my experience in Usenet, conversations go off topic remarkably quickly.
> Would finding a romantic partner help with existential dread related to death?

For me it did not.
> Everything is geared toward XML layouts with many things being impossible or impractical to access from Java/Kotlin, which is extremely frustrating.

Compose has been available for awhile now and the views are done in code (and is much more functional than SwiftUI - it even gets bug fixes and works on older versions of Android)

> Android brings new challenges with things dependency management and ProGuard silently snipping out big pieces of required code if you don't tell it exactly what to do.

iOS has similar problems, eg mixing SPM with Carthage or Cocoapods, having to strip symbols from fat frameworks, libraries that don't ship xcframeworks or do but don't support the arch you need, bitcode, etc.
And how many men who are unbeknownst to you alone and completely struggling in the dating market have you seen but are conviently ignored for a couple flashy examples that stuck out in your mind?
Miserable is defined as "wretchedly unhappy"...you really would feel that way without a partner? That sounds like an unhealthy mindset.

I understand not being as happy or fulfilled without a partner, but _miserable_?
>And the negotiations only took 5 years.

Yeaaaah I'm gonna point fingers to Belgium tho.
Are you telling me these people don't need Kubernetes engineering in their operations and still deliver value to their clients?
Show HN: Relationship Ninja Cards – psychological concepts in your hand
I agree with this. STEM is being shouted from the rooftops from just about every major employer in the US I can think of at this point.
Yes, it's a sorry state of affairs. I'd escaped that sort of thing until recently when we started working with a client who behaves as though everybody lives in their inbox and sees emails seconds after they're sent. Explaining to them that I look maybe twice a day at emails was interesting.

Slack is my problem. I'm trying to train myself to be disciplined but too many people treat it as synchronous.
> That's what I'm asking. What (useful) thing should have happened?

It is beyond my competence to answer that question, for a variety of reasons, mostly because I'm not especially active in the VCV community.

Also I don't think equality of outcomes is always a laudable goal, but inequality of outcomes can certainly be an indicator of something being off upstream.
Totally agree. OP should tell that to my friend who worked as hard as he could to save a dying marriage. No amount of understanding will help if the other person just doesn't feel it.
> I think many people in the incel community don't understand how far showering, dressing well, and working out will get them. Its much better than complaining without any action. Also, I see many of them complaining about not dating "10s" yet never bother to look at people at their level.

This is not really true. At least in the observable, online incel communities. Incels talk a lot about "-maxxing"[1]; looksmaxxing (improving appearance), gymmaxxing (improving physique), surgerymaxxing, moneymaxxing, therapymaxxing, ... you get the point.

The most common advice (showering, better clothes) is also a meme within the communities, like the "Just take a shower, bro" meme.

[1] https://incels.wiki/w/-maxxing
Hi HN fellows, it’s the author here. One of the most rewarding experiences in the past year was to show people different psychological concepts and how to use them to understand themselves and others. This inspired me to design this set of cards. Easy to understand concepts, illuminating examples and simple explanations.

One thing I had in mind was to help parents teach kids about their emotions, for example. However, because I struggle with anxiety, I found it important to make them in physical form, to help me focus on their texture and shape, whenever I feel the need to ground myself.

Long story short, it was an amazing experience creating them and I’m happy to share with you anything you would like to know.
Only because marriage rates have been falling faster. The divorce rate (divorces/population) has not fallen as fast as the marriage rate (marriages/population). The number of divorces/marriage is still on the rise. No one is getting married these days and when they do, they are more likely to get divorced.
At the same time... if all the incels improve their fashion, attractiveness, and dating game... it's going to be at the expense of someone else, right? Or do we think more in total will end up partnered and the total size of the pie will increase?
that's funny, the tech lead at my last company was formerly from Tandem, and the architecture of our HA product reflected that :)

It was a cool system, with architecture completely alien to the consumer products I work on nowadays, and I kinda miss QNX.

Did you know a gregk?
Unfortunately, I don't think that influence from NSA has had much to do with the reluctance of legislators to limit Big Corporations
Google grew into the incoherent American corporation long ago and is totally beyond salvaging. Unfortunately their inertia will let them keep steamrolling over people for another century just like GE does.
tldr: Static Python plus Cinder JIT achieves 7x the performance of stock CPython
You're right. I was thinking of dvdisaster. My mistake.

However, par2 is not a substitute for it, as without the kind of ECC that dvdisaster puts on the CD/DVD, the files on it might not even be readable, so the par2 files on it would themselves be inaccessible, making them worthless.
Compose is nice, but as noted elsewhere in the comments it's not of much help unless you're starting a new project. It won't be worth it to rewrite existing views for a few more years at minimum.

Re: dependencies, take-up of SwiftPM has been lightning fast and a lot of projects can move to it already. It still has a few rough edges but for my use case it's a massive improvement over Cocoapods/Carthage as is.
Thanks for the overview. I’m looking forward to it, and best of luck with your project!
It's a little disappointing that 538 didn't talk about the distribution on this.

I'm looking to avoid the one flight that's delayed an hour that means I miss my connection because my layover was an hour. Only 5 flights have to arrive on time to hit an average arrival delay of 10 minutes. Those are not favorable odds, as I see them. Especially if it's cutting into my vacation time.
255k is a lot of damn money even in the bay. Go take it and live a fabulous life. Who gives a crap about FAANG if you’re getting paid.
> or just lieing

Well, that's the thing. People either lie or (more likely) what they say and what they do are different. My guess is that any study you look at is only slightly tied to reality if it depends on interviews or questionnaires.
Shaming people of any kind is counter productive. On some weird level they are correct however, fat is not the problem. Fat is often the symptom of a fatty liver and pancreas and is absolutely a serious life threatening problem that cost people and their government a lot of money and lowers the quality of life. There are hundreds of downstream chronic illness that come from a fatty liver and pancreas, too many to name here. I have been monitoring the governments of the world this last couple of years hoping they might use the pandemic to help solve some of the root underlying causes of bad health. I have not seen any improvements as of yet. No improvements from the FDA around food quality and chemicals. No evolution of the medical industry allowing the adoption of better science and technology. Only temporary improvements in air quality in some areas, but only as a side effect of the lockdown. Air quality overall has not improved.

Scientific American as of late have been posting click-bait articles that attempt to invoke an emotional response and start fights, political and social commentary disguised as science. It is unprofessional and opposed to the scientific community. What happened to them? Did I just shame them?
But now you have the Prisoner's Dilemma working against you. If things won't go back to normal until 60% or 70% or 80% or 90% of people get the vaccine, and getting it yourself before then doesn't give you anything, the rational but selfish thing to do is say "I'll let everyone else get the vaccine but pass on it myself. I'll get the benefit of normality without the risk of side effects."

As for this:

> Close to zero? You mean the likelihood of catching COVID dropping to nearly zero is worthless to you?

If someone has been offered the vaccine but chose not to get it, I think they would say yes to this.
> The resolution is that this only holds for non-accelerated motion. Flying in a loop around the galaxy requires not just high speed but also a constant acceleration, giving you the additional effects of general relativity, which complicates the situation by quite a lot, but resolves the paradox.

Very interesting response! Thank you for that. I do see why my comment was misleading now. If you don't mind, could you clarify a few things? I'm just really interested in the subject.

I understand your point about travelling in a straight line: If a traveller were to travel at the speed of light speed away from a theoretical stationary point then both the observers at the stationary point and the observer within the travelling vessel would appear to eachother as frozen (assuming the traveller had equipment to measure the place they left from), because light wouldn't be able to catch up in either direction. That makes sense. When I said "From the inside looking out, the universe would move much faster" I shouldn't have used the term "looking out", that was definitely misleading now that you've mentioned it.

> However, an inhabitant on a star moving at relativistic speed through the universe still falls under the original case - the inhabitants on the star will see the rest of the universe moving in slow motion, while the rest of the universe will see them also moving in slow motion.

Your last statement got me thinking... so let's say there are two equally sized vessels that are somehow able to communicate instantaneously (for arguments sake, let's say the travellers are immortal wizards who have a telepathic link).

Let's say that one of the vessels is caught in the orbit of a black hole and is travelling at nearly the speed of light, and is constantly accellerating as it gets closer to the singularity (ignoring that tidal forces would destroy the vessel, because of it's wizard shielding).

The other vessel is lacadaisically making it's way around a star the size of our own. And let's say that the star and the black hole are slowly drifting away from eachother.

My question is this: Will the wizard inside of the vessel travelling around the black hole age more slowly than the wizard travelling around the normal star? Keep in mind that they will never meet (i.e. never share the same world line), but they do still have a telepathic link and can compare their clocks.
Men on the other hand are generally taught by society that good sex is entirely their responsibility, and that if the woman does not get off, it is their fault.

This is one of the reasons why men are hesitant to talk about sex. It is easy to talk about it if you can say "No I didn't enjoy it and it isn't my fault." and less so if you have to introspect. Thoughts like, is my penis big enough? Am I not lasting long enough? Am I good-looking enough? and other thoughts come unbidden to the subconscious.
Is this just a pirated copy of the book, or a book review or something?
> We don't have the capacity to support Cinder as an independent open-source project

But they had capacity to appropriate CPython?

Make billions out of open source software and then throw back a rag? "Here look we made this! How cool we are. See if you can find something for yourself and we might have _a conversation_"
Man this is some next level entitlement.

If they are making so much money out of it, the should have some decency and contribute stuff back to CPython and not just throwing things like this. This is offensive and disrespectful!
It's one of the most popular software packages within the brain MR community. There are many alternatives, but FreeSurfer is one of the first and most robust packages that allows researchers to segment (divide the imaged tissue into classes: white matter, gray matter, cerebral spinal fluid), parcellate (add labels to different brain regions), and generate cortical surface models that can be used to quantify cortical thickness across the human brain.

FreeSurfer is also very influential because it offers a bunch of utility tools for doing analysis/stats on brain images and cortical surfaces, and these tools can be easily combined with other popular neuroimaging software packages.
This is meaningful for some big web workloads. By cranking up your Python codebase performance you can avoid expensive rewrites in harder to maintain languages.
My own plan: shield them until they are old enough to understand the concepts of trust and respect.. then pull back the safety net, but maintain quiet vigilance (like montoring (read only) the dns queries or system logs, and maybe keep access time window restrictions).

If that really want questionable content, it will be cat and mouse game. Build trust and respect... Give them enough rope to hang themselves... Occasionally do responses without admitting knowing... then punish if they cross your safety threshold, but then they will know you somehow know.. so a cat and mouse game will begin if they are not responding to the mutual(ish) trust plan.
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I prefer the term robustness to slack. And the concept applies to more than just time. Keeping sufficient inventory to deal with spikes in demand, having redundant systems so you can keep running while doing maintenance, programs designed to fail safe rather than leading to cascade failures, these are all ways that systems can deal with the inevitable perturbations of the real world. The reckless pursuit of efficiency leaves systems fragile, which may be fine in good times but is catastrophic in bad times. In the long run, you need robustness.
I think there's room for some down to earth,
responsible men to try and fill this space.
Right now the "teach young men how to be"
space is mostly filled with misogyny and
terrible pick up artists.

Goodness yes. The PUA and red pill communities have absolutely poisoned this space and, at least in America, it's impossible to see how a healthy alternative could even take root. I know that if one sprang up, my first reaction would be to lump it in with the toxic crap and never give it a second look.

It's a shame because there is absolutely a need for this.
Why not just tax gas? It’s the perfect solution. The more you drive, the more you pay. The more polluting your car, the more you pay. Long term it seems inevitable that tax will need to move onto the electricity used to charge cars.
That's the "humans are part of nature, so everything we do is natural" defense. With that angle, this whole discussion is meaningless.
In my case I have to be available for an 8-5 work day like a FTE.
It seems like this type of lens has been available since the 1920s, and there would have been nothing stopping, say, the German Expressionists from using this sort of technique? I love seeing this sort of thing, it's part of why I find modern demoscene so fascinating.
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Great idea! Perfect way to get rid of all the shitcoinery once and for all! And rest assured that by the time they finally got to the final boss battle ie. Bitcoin, they will have understood that that not only is destroying Bitcoin actually impossible, but in fact the very last thing that they really want to do.
> My money stays in my bank.

That's not quite right. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...
>in a typical setup, with Clos fabrics everywhere

You choose a single spine switch to carry the multicast messages destined to the process group. The paper also explicitly notes that different process groups need not to share the sequencer.

>when your redundancy group is spread across different geographical locations

The paper applicability is limited to data center networks with programmable network switching hardware.
I was able to view the captcha by rotating my phone into landscape mode
It's interesting to read so many comments against marathon sessions.

I can't imagine reading the same set of comments 20 years ago (when I was young and a frequent marathoner, as were my teammates).

Is this indicative of a cultural shift in the industry?

Or collective learning?

Or might it just be that no 20 somethings are commenting here and it's just a sample bias resulting from older commentators?

Do 20 something developers today feel that marathoning is a wasted effort, or do they tend to think it is the best way to get things done?

BTW I think I would agree with the comments now, but even 10 years ago I might have been dismissive.
Why doesn’t it update itself?
I will preface this by saying I agree with you.

However, I'd like to point out (as someone else did too about downplaying the upside) -- if you did get rewarded with money, respect, promotions (decision making power), knowledge -- these are all real material gains from those long hours. True, from the business point of view, your extra hours didn't matter to the business in the long run. It did matter for your career though. In fact, if you happened to work for a growing unicorn, and you gained those rewards and promotions with those long hours, you may even have made lifechanging money from unicorn equity, from those long hours.

Which, comes back to the point, this is unhealthy and somewhat toxic (the fact that putting in long hours gain you those things, i.e. it encourages people to do so).
Well, even in my company we don't have Kubernetes. I'm not a devops so can't elaborate more on this one :)
>The founding fathers knew that government always wants more power and control

As a UK resident, i'm astonished how the almost prophetic wisdom of the Founding Fathers can go ignored for so long by their spiritual heirs.
I think that it is just as important to talk about the extremes and the bad ideas as it is to talk about the good ones. We bring up the extremes because they're there, and they can be tempting, and so we should warn each other about them. Saying what you're saying usually (but not always) is an attempt to not address the usually perfectly reasonable point one is responding to without outright defending the extremes. Extreme ideas do need to be pointed out precisely to do what you want: prevent the reasonable discussion from becoming one between two extremes.
Never tried but been using Colab pro and for most part it works pretty well even though I use it for R kernel. The most difficult part in such notebook environment is the installation of some non-standard R packages such as "Vegan" and "Phyloseq" but otherwise no major issues.
You responded to the wrong person. I didn't write that.
I'll go on a limb assuming you don't have children yet.