skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fasting is only useful as a hunger management tool. it doesnt really do anything incredible to your metabolism

This is a pretty dismissive comment, here are some excerpts from the abstract of my previous citation [1]:

> In lower eukaryotes, chronic fasting extends longevity, in part, by reprogramming metabolic and stress resistance pathways.

> In rodents intermittent or periodic fasting protects against diabetes, cancers, heart disease, and neurodegeneration, while in humans it helps reduce obesity, hypertension, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.

> Thus, fasting has the potential to delay aging and help prevent and treat diseases while minimizing the side effects caused by chronic dietary interventions.
Son of a gun, Finland and Norway are not enjoying any of that advantage that Sweden is enjoying. They show rather dramatic delta-bumps. How enlightened of only Sweden.
Sorry for not mentioning both, i consider both part of the feedback loop.I considered ghrelin a tad more important because of two things.
If a stomach is extended(can grow to 7 times it's size) , the ghrelin feedback is temporarily not synchronized and will trigger appetite and hunger pangs more frequent and the leptin cannot counterbalance this too well.
The other point is, everyone knows that feeling, after some hefty Chinese meal or mc Donald's, even though plenty calories have been consumed, 30minutes later you feel like "having an extra". The ghrelin simply overrides the leptin reaction.

Thanks for the addition, I have just always held the opinion that ghrelin has more effects.
Another example would be on a binge, no matter if people eat slow or fast(important for leptin trigger), the appetite keeps being a bit higher than the satiety sensation for some reason.

Btw, I wanted to add that I did not intend to just point fingers at the US, was just because the title is us centric. Europe is mostly no better, nor are most LATAM countries.
You are far less likely to get infected at all if you're fully vaccinated, and people who aren't infected can't transmit the virus.

If you do get a breakthrough infection, the time window during which you're infectious is far shorter.[1]

There's more and more data now on how much vaccination lowers transmission. For example, a recent study found that vaccinated people who caught the virus are 40-50% less likely to pass it on to their family members than unvaccinated people are.[2]

> I would rather have SARS-COV-2 injected into my arm personally.

This is insane.

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...

2. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2107717
> Someone with an actual medical issue learns to adapt to life and live it

That's quite harsh to all the people who cannot join you for dinner on a hike because of some illness or disability.

Describing non-drinking as a "control ritual" and "self sabotaging substitute" is an equally harsh description of people's personal choices or medical needs. E.g. pregnancy.

> I don't eat with anyone I'm not willing to pick up the entire tab for, because the pleasure of their company is well worth it.

I never thought of measuring friendship and companionship with money...
More or less. We expect our users to charge at a relatively small number of chargers (you might have, say, 10 shared chargers in some buildings), and likewise for chargers to see a relative small number of users over their lifetime. Hope you'll get a chance to use it in a building near you soon!
> Should we have kept 10,000 US soldiers on the ground permanently to prevent this? Seems like a very small cost.

Is this sarcasm?

> There's no way this pull out doesn't look bad for the Biden administration. This is going to be a major election year topic and we're going to hear how Democrats "hate women" and freedom. What a quagmire.

I think it looks pretty good for him. A president that finally stopped wasting US taxpayer money for people US taxpayers do not prioritize.
List of gravity hills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravity_hills

"Gravity/Magnetic Hills Explained "
https://youtu.be/-lXAeIJdxDc
> North America (Canada specifically) is much less open to these kinds of discussions, though that could just be my social circle (or lack thereof) and it feels kind of lonely.

The US particularly is so hyperindividualistic and isolating.

> Granted, a major driver of this when I lived in the UK was boredom

Nothing wrong with boredom that leads to long walks and discussions. I think we need more of that kind of boredom in the US.
Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa Endanger Africa's Progress
We are not at the end of the process, but the beginning of it. And the change is speeding up, as positive feedback loops are being triggered.

We probably won't end like Venus, but if nothing is done we will reach conditions not fit for human life nor our food sources or whatever else you think it is essential. No matter if in some day you got a nice rare rainbow, after we die nothing will matter.

Hanlon's Razor doesn't apply anymore for climate denialism. By now it is pure malice.
100 times this. There's a massive organizational cost to having N "languages" that a developer needs to know to be able to solve a problem end to end. Unless you have a very large team and redundancy within every specialty, having N heavyweight tools is going to destroy you on a regular basis while you wait for the new person to spin up on them.

Pick 5 tools and use them religiously. They're rarely the optimal tool for anything, but unless you're operating at large scale, you'll always get better results sooner.
You’re making my point. Nobody cares about your penis pictures.

EFF is an advocacy group, and you need to read between the lines what they say because they have a specific set of principles that may or may not align with reality. They published a bad article and took an extreme stance about what could be as opposed to what is.

Parents care about children sending or receiving explicit material. This is for behavioral, moral and liability reasons.

When your 12 year old boy sends a dick pic to his girlfriend, that may be a felony. When your 16 year old daughter sends an explicit picture to her 18 year old crush, that person may be committing a felony by possessing it.
You realize that we had to keep soldiers and all of the logistical and air support assets on hand.

What benefit will the freedom of these people that mostly don't want it badly (or their 300k fully equipped soldiers would fight well) have for us in the future? Most likely we will have a global conflict with CCP, Russia, NK, Iran in about 5-10 years time. I highly doubt the Taliban will influence the outcome of that.
I pointed out (exaggerating only modestly) the absurd amount of benefit of the doubt you're giving the NY Times. If you believe that's an insult, I really can't help you.
It really highlights questions we should be asking like, if we accept the status of "fact checker" for some media or other organization, how do we ensure we fact check these fallible, human organizations? We're not perfect, and our ideas around institutional legitimacy ("this one is a fact-checker, this one is fake news") need to be constantly challenged.
Yes, humans could help correct false positives... however, that doesn't mean there are no consequences for the people wrongly matched. Investigators might have to look into the person, and question them. Not sure if you have ever had to talk to the police about anything, but the situation is stressful even if you are completely innocent. Also, having your life examined, having to answer questions about why you did things, etc, can be scary.
Fair argument around "mostly true." I would've probably chosen that myself. But again, "convicted" is a big, specific, technical word, and it's hard for me to get past that, especially around potential liability issues of making such a claim, especially when the shown tweet specifically says she was convicted of three specific bombings that she very much wasn't.

Flip it on its head: can you claim with a straight face that "She was convicted for the 1983 bombing of the United States Capitol Building, The US Naval War College and the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Assoc" is not a blatant lie? It's a straightforward claim that would've been trivial to verify and correct before by the person who tweeted it, without even losing THAT much impact towards the argument they want to make, yet... they didn't.

So to establish bias... do we know of any right-wing terrorist-esque folks that Snopes is either less or more wishy-washy on? Seems like too specific a scenario to find anything direct on, the closes I can come up with is something like https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kelly-loeffler-kkk-member-... . There's a somewhat-close comparison https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-kkk-klan-wizard/ here but the part claimed false there is the exaggerated claim of "grand wizard."

(And are we agreeing that the Biden/vaccination one shows no bias at all?)
I was hoping to put in my Visa and country where employer is and see a list of countries I could go work remotely from.
I'm using a logical FR layout on a physical Mac FR layout, the underlying layout for Japanese input is QWERTY while the pinyin for Traditional Chinese uses AZERTY... I'm tired of all these context switches and I wish there was an universal keyboard IME that allow me to type the languages I care about without having to switch between IME all the time. Same complains about mobile (iOS). I might build something one day because of how annoying it is (at least typing English is easy from FR keyboard so that's one less keyboard to use).
"Fake news" was a phrase originating from the Clinton camp. Trump's political history has many examples of him taking Clinton's ideas that were getting a little traction and turning them on her. They were very close at one point.

The best defense against it is good journalism, honesty, clarity, and disclosure.
When I was in the mandatory army service earlier this year, we had to wear masks all the time and change them multiple times a day.
After doing that for months, I literally don't even realize that I have a mask on anymore if I have it on. It doesn't seem to annoy or obstruct me in any way whatsoever. I even felt weird not having to wear a mask in the time after my service ended...

We also had to test every week. I've had so many swabs up my nose that that i keep a completely straight face when doing that kind of test now.
And there are also a lot of OCP specs for components that don't care whether they're in a 19" or 21" system. Their specs for NICs and SSDs are relevant regardless of the rack size.
I can think of only a couple of ways that most articles published by "news" outlets are NOT entertainment:

1. Useful to inform voters
2. Useful for people who make business decisions

For 1, one can research the issues and candidates 3 weeks before an election, which will suffice to make an informed decision. For 2: it's important in many business niches to stay informed so as to make better decisions.

Therefore it seems like a more accurate description is: "media entertainment channels start charging subscription fees."
Chime Financial Raises $750M in Latest Funding Round
First, if you're not the owner you are in no position to push for anything.

Second, if you can't help it, set up your own shop.
Great project! For anyone interested in the UK, there is a similar-ish (government funded) scheme called the "knowledge transfer partnership" [1], which connects academics and their research to businesses where it can be usefully applied.

[1] https://www.ktp-uk.org
I guess there is some positivity about it seen that way, the problem are the dark days ahead.
What do you mean "your evidence"? I'm making no claims as to whether or not Snopes omits references. I'm merely pointing out that "My Grandma smokes and she's 100 years old" is not evidence that smoking doesn't kill.
Another POV: the US and allies were too naïve to think you can transform a middle-age society to be a modern democracy in a matter of decades.
>Taxes on net worth won't work because net worth is abstract

If it's abstract why can you use it as collateral? You have to make up your mind, it's funny money or real money?
Thanks. I couldn’t agree more.

We need both - develop free software alternatives (which means to stop pretending the alternatives are good enough), and to get real about supporting legal and governance principles that would protect against abuses.

If people want to do something about this, these are the only protections.
The Greek Words for Love
To address several of your points:

> Basic science if you don't measure something (e.g. how many people wear masks) you don't know anything. Fairly simple isn't it?

So phone call in's are measuring...phone call ins, it measures neither covid tests nor mask usage?
Seems like it's measuring even less?

> scientists are all wrong, because my gut tells me I'm right

I think the pro-mask people are listening to their gut more than anyone.
I've never seen a more fanatical group who don't question their assumptions.

Here's just a few studies that contradict the narrative that masks are effective.

The effectiveness of masks in a community setting is not a settled fact.

Especially the CDC's policy of 'wear a dirty rag on your face until the waiter brings the breadsticks'.

https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
We had only a few thousand troops holding most of the populated centers free at very little cost. We could have done that indefinitely without any issue. US casualties in Afghanistan in the past few years have been minuscule and the actual dollar spending wasn't much to keep ten's of millions free from tyranny.
Here's my solution:

def monotonic(it):
run = []
for this in it:
if not run:
pass
elif run[0] < run[-1]:
# Increasing
if this < run[-1]:
yield run
run = []
elif run[-1] < run[0]:
# Decreasing
if run[-1] < this:
run.reverse()
yield run
run = []
run.append(this)

if run:
if run[0] <= run[-1]:
# Increasing
yield run
else:
run.reverse()
yield run

It's short, is a single function, doesn't rely on fancy features (unless you consider subscripting with `-1` or using `yield` fancy). It will work on arbitrary iterators, the input doesn't need to be a sequence. It passes all of eesmith's tests. It uses memory proportional to the longest run in the sequence.

The trick I've applied is that we don't explicitly keep track of whether we're increasing, decreasing or undecided. Instead we check the run in progress.
I thought Swedish society was rather similar to that of Finland, Norway and Denmark. Yet they each show rather significant delta-bumps whereas Sweden does not. Good science would ask what distinguished Sweden's COVID response from that of the others and did that have any effect on the difference we're now seeing.
I'm confused which facts you think that I'm missing.
Tutorial series demonstrating how to build a retro first-person shooter
I've just been mediocre at one job and video games - I'm missing out on some cash!
>The South Pacific is a ticking time bomb

You mean "South China Sea"
What would the effect be if the FDA, for example, sharply limited the amount of sugar and sweeteners in food and beverages?
Literally true but misleading, 4/5 Pinocchios.
I would summarize the drift as far-right voices are getting louder (in terms of air time / reach) and centrist-right voices are getting quieter.

On the left, far-left voices are also getting louder, but I don't think the centrist-left voices have gotten quieter as much as their centrist-right counterparts.

The end result is that "the right" seems more right (in terms of speech) while "the left" seems... conflicted (in terms of speech).

Even if that's masking the underlying counts and beliefs.
Apple defends iPhone photo scanning, calls it an “advancement” in privacy
>That it went faster doesn't mean it's less safe

No, but it does the mean the long term risk are not defined as well. What if, for example, this causes reproductive harm, or some harm to the offspring? I personally believe this is very unlikely, but it's too early to know at the moment. Or, what if the ADE risk is real, and vaccinated individuals aren't able to combat variants as effectively, perhaps even reacting worse to reinfection? It's simply too early to evaluate so many risk here. On the other hand, I can be pretty sure COVID won't cause birth defects, given that no coronaviruses do.

>hospitalization rates are 15-200X higher in the unvaccinated and death rates are 8-87X higher

Well, of course - there's a lot more unvaccinated people and cases, what else would you expect? And I'm not at risk of being hospitalized anyway, so I still see no reason to try and mitigate that risk. My time would be better spent ensuring my car is operating safely, or a million other things that could decrease my chance of harm more substantially.

Regardless, taking the vaccine is pointless beyond self-preservation if it doesn't reduce spread, and at the moment that's unknown, and complicated by the fact that some 'variants' seem to side-step the vaccine. Sitting on the side lines and waiting for more data seems reasonable to me.
Only 10 percent of kids with ADHD grow out of it as adults, research says
A lot of the responses here seem to be attempting to sow Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) on the fact-checking articles themselves (which were not in any way implicated by the revelations of this article). As if there is some kind of "essence" that permeates an orgainization which either wholly condemns it or wholly justifies it. I reject this assessment. Every article stands or falls on its own.
https://archive.ph/9zrPo
Wouldn't it be better to just create a new keyboard layout featuring the composed keys you want, rather than running software constantly in the background to achieve the same thing?

See here for example: https://dailydoseoftech.com/how-to-create-a-custom-keyboard-...
Which is a ridiculous assertion, since I clearly remember running gdb targetting a Handspring/Palm way before the ARM transition, late 90s or the like. In fact m68k gdb was the only option available if you couldn't pay the big compilers. Damn gdbpanel.

Not to mention that in 2005 Nokia already had the 770, which was basically a mobile desktop GNU/Linux device, with Gtk+, Gnome and everything. You could run gdb on the device itself.
That's a good point. Maybe you're right, who knows.
Why do you say that? (Worst dev experience)
I'm going to save this thread as an example on how the tech world is structurally incapable of relating to the problems that people in the non-tech world have.

Incredible.
> How many GPUs would NVIDIA sell in the HPC market if it wasn't for CUDA and the various support libraries around it?

We don't have to hypothesize about this. The HPC GPU market has multiple vendors, just look at how many HPC GPUs AMD or Intel are selling: AMD and Intel have ~0.8% or so market share. NVIDIA has >99%.

Pretty much every review of HPC GPUs states that AMD GPUs are both faster and cheaper.

So how come they don't sell?

The answer is software.
But we sometimes use antivirus so it checks out
> it’s attaching a cryptographic voucher to every photo uploaded to iCloud that, if some number of photos represent hash matches

I see this number very quickly getting set to '1', because the spin in the opposite direction is "What, so you're saying, people get X freebies of CSAM that they can store in iCloud that Apple will never tell anybody about?"

_That_ is a whole other PR disaster.
Weight and what's normal varies between nations, but nobody considers body composition.
A skinny kid with a beer belly will be full of visceral fat and weigh the same at same height like an Olympic swimmer.
Also the dietary habits can trigger problems at any weight.
Now It's Harvard Business Review Getting Section 230 Wrong
If I post this to Facebook, or Twitter, what are the chances it will get taken down, or moderated?
So if there is no clear authority on reality, that means that a single private site is? How does that argument make any sense?

The solution is the same as it’s always been: read multiple sources that have different viewpoints.
But hiring a third party who is making profit on top of cost of hiring and managing these jobs is something they can afford?

I can understand if you are a small business hiring a cleaner for like 8 hours a week. When these companies have multiple full time jobs worth of contracted labor done every week for years, I don't really believe them if the justification is that they can't "afford" to hire actual employees
Who would kill children to save the planet?
It’s hard to take seriously the complaint that this mechanism would give the Chinese Communist party more power.

Also, in the US, the 4th Amendment protects against the abuse you are talking about:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/12/a-38-year...
I'm sitting here trying to make sense of how nginx parses regexes and I feel this in my bones. Any critical function buried in infrastructure is going to be inherently so much harder to debug and test in a predictable way. I lean towards putting as much as possible into application code and keeping infra as simple as possible.
Interesting that the Antarctic sea ice extent during July 2021 was above average; climate change is weird.
The US cut and ran, forced the Afghan gov to release thousands of Taliban fighters, and cut off intel and logistic support. It wasn't just a withdrawal, we tied a weight around the Afghan gov, threw them in the river and told them to swim. At least with Saigon we managed to evacuate thousands. This admin hasn't even done that.
Right, you can tell by the publication date (it's in the URL), why I say "they reference a medical journal article from 1.5 years ago as evidence."

What you said is not true, and their position hasn't shifted (they're critical of those that did). https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/07/16/lab-leak-evidence/
It was a lifetime ago, but remember this story in January?
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)00183-5/full...

Nuclear physicist here, so I can't hang when it comes to crunchy immunological details, but here's the gist as I understand it:

The vaccines use a designed and stabilized version of the spike protein, which leads to antibodies that bind more strongly and thus more effectively.
People aren't likely to be reinfected by the same strain, but mutations can reconfigure the spike protein slightly, making it bind more strongly to cells, and less strongly to those antibodies.

"Naturally" derived antibodies may be as good as the ones from a vaccine, but that's a gamble. In aggregate, people who have been previously infected (with a strain other than delta) are more likely to catch/have poor outcomes from delta than people who are fully vaccinated, by a factor of 2-3. This is a fairly recent result, and I can't find the reference, sadly.

The absolute risk is low, but the relative risk is huge. Also, when you look at the total risk budget, again, vaccinated immunity just swamps natural immunity. It's only the naturalistic fallacy to think otherwise.
> Fact checkers reconcile memes/news media against primary sources/other news media

Yes, that's what they do. They should do this for every article in your publication.

> while adding context, references, and journalistic integrity.

No, this is editorial.
Messi to Get 40% of His Salary in Cryptocurrency at PSG
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/figures/2...

> Since invading Afghanistan in 2001, the United States has spent $2.26 trillion on the war, which includes operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Note that this total does not include funds that the United States government is obligated to spend on lifetime care for American veterans of this war, nor does it include future interest payments on money borrowed to fund the war.

And even if it is $50B per year, I do not see why the US should spend it unless it we should also be spending $50B per year in Somalia and Congo and wherever else is needed.
Conservatives are the only ones to have passed laws explicitly to silence political enemies so I'm assuming you mean them