skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of people who consume highly processed foods and stay skinny. There are plenty of people who eat greasy, sugary, fattening foods who stay skinny.

The problem is not car culture, sugar, and processed foods. The problem is overeating. America, and the rest of the first world has major issues with food addiction and a culture associated with "eating until the plate is clean"
China is "Hotel California" for investor money!
Who said anything about 10th percentile?

There is no universal ranking of doctors, you can't really claim "percentile of success" for doctors or lawyers, and it's weird you're trying to do so.

Why is it so important to you that you have to be "smart" to be a doctor/lawyer?
Yep, "42.4% of US Adults are obese" would have been a better title.
Outlaw sugar? What about those of us that can use sugar on moderation? Sugar passports might be better - you have to get a physical from a doctor and if your BMI and biometrics are ok you can get a sugar passport allowing you to order soft drinks and purchase candy.
I've read in a few places that BMI can be inaccurate too. Wondering if anyone has any good articles or perspective that dig into this some more:

1. Is it a "good enough" metric?
2. Is it "wildly inaccurate" for most, or just some outliers?
I just saw a rose garden with differently colored roses, and some made me think: this is a color a computer screen can't show
The way I've heard it, BMI can be inaccurate on the individual level, but it was created to analyze populations more broadly, where it can be a somewhat useful heuristic. I would guess athletes with obese BMIs are a small enough portion of the population to not make too much of a change to the population-wide statistics.
People love to rail on suburbs, but I'd be willing to bet that sugar is the real problem.

Sugar is in everything. Snacks, restaurant food, drinks, sauces. It puts the metabolism into a bad state and desensitizes the body to its deleterious effects. Before you know it you're overweight, mentally foggy, and pre-diabetic. Not a good place to start working out or going for outdoor activities.

People exercise and walk more when they have energy to do so. Sugar saps that away.

Look at people in other "confined" spaces: submarines, ships, the space station. These people are not overweight for lack of walking.

It's diet.

America is pumped full of sugar.

edit to respond to comments (since I'm flagged / rate limited) :

Someone with a healthy body and mind won't "sit on their ass 23 hours a day". They won't consume too many calories, either.

Sugar pushes the body into more lethargy and higher sugar consumption.
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I have been theorizing that the reason the US has had the most deaths from COVID has been because our population is mostly obese. Of course there are other failings, such as people being uninsured and as a result not wanting to go to hospitals. Or people not wanting to wear masks or take vaccines. But when obesity triples the likelihood of being hospitalized, it's no wonder that the US suffered the greatest death toll from COVID. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html
Outlaw sugar? You must be joking. No thanks, I don't want to live in your nanny state.
If the current course continues this seems likely to lead to a bifurcation of the Arm ecosystem - presumably with Arm customers outside of China competing with incompatible products exported from China based on Arm China designs.

I don't have any insight into the quality of the Arm China team but isn't one possible outcome that there is strong competition between the two ecosystems. So we could be in an Arms race (sorry!)
Yeah I doubt the obesity pandemic in the U.S. is really just a bunch of bros have had sick gains.
Verbing weirds language.

Beaten by ten years:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 :)
> I don't buy the "cars and suburbs" as a root cause argument

Why? I didn’t think the connection between infrastructure and transportation was particularly controversial. Also, real world problems often have multiple causes…
The numbers start in 1999 because the previous year the CDC arbitrarily changed its criteria for healthy weight, by dictat rendering swaths of the population overweight[1] For the elderly at least, being somewhat overweight is actually healthier.[2] I appreciate that the authors of the article are trying to be helpful but too much useful information is left on the cutting room floor here.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/17/weight.guidelines/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182070/
Don't worry, the CDC is surely working hard on a new fat measure that makes fewer people feel bad
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> And that is the result of having family and friends, setting long-range goals, meeting challenges with courage and conviction, and being true to yourself.

You need luck to not have broken families and friends. Sustaining a family is so fragile these days.
I think the issue has been beaten to death but just to recuperate the main points:

* I have many headsets at home, some quite expensive, that I want to use directly, without any dongle hell

* "remove something so that people use a dongle" seems to become Apple's mantra which is really irresponsible given the current situation of our planet

* Apple's initial excuse "we removed the jack but made the phone waterproof" holds no water (pun intended) as other manufacturers were able to do it and keep the jack so it just makes Apple look lame

* people applauding Apple need to realize we had been able to use bluetooth audio also before they removed the jack, so the only result of their decision is the limitation of our freedom of how we use our device

I don't want to compare wired and wireless audio (including things like charging the batteries of BT headphones, the high cost of AirPods etc.) as these are more of a red herring and tangential to the main issue. The removal was clearly a customer-hostile move, that's all.
That's for the exact same reason (obvious identification and easy scanning) that I proposed to prefix all Scaleway's access keys with `SCW`.

See: https://blog.scaleway.com/strengthening-scaleway-token-secur...
You yourself distinguished in your first post between squatters occupying someone's primary residence vs a rental or otherwise unoccupied property. Here you are eliding that distinction in order to make an emotional argument. There is no need to be so angry about the existence of other points of view besides your own.
Michael Pollan (in his cooked netflix show) has pointed out that the cost of "junk food" has been heavily subsidized (eg corn subsidy), but fresh produce has not. Subsequently the consumer price of each has fallen, or risen a lot, respectively.

One policy choice (amongst many required) could be to stop subsidizing the inputs to junk food.

Another policy I've heard talked about by Joel Salatin is that a lot of low processed foods are getting crushed by regulation because the cost/barriers are very high and demand scale/volume. For example poultry processing is only feasible on a massive scale because of regulation policies like (paraphrased) "there must be a dedicated washroom onsite for the inspector to use". That makes no sense if you only process 10000 birds a year (something like $100k of gross market value).
Somewhat orthogonal to the story, but in the intro they talk about adding features and say: "Imagine the internal ‘pat on the backs’ and recognition that occurred when Gmail fully launched dark mode for the mobile app,[...] or Apple announced their M1 chip"

How is implementing dark mode even remotely comparable to launching a new general purpose CPU and transitioning an entire product line from one CPU to another?? Is changing the color on a web site that hard?
We can probably look at large cities for appropriate policy here: increased investment in pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, localized access to fresh groceries (eliminating food deserts), and investment in public parks and other facilities.

NYC's obesity rate is half of the nation's; we could still do better, but it's a starting point.
I hear Prohibition was such a great deterrent to alcoholism and related debauchery. Seems like something we should try again.

(/sarcasm)
>The problem is overeating.

We've had a food surplus for a long time, why is obesity a relatively recent problem?
Good to hear. I’m not an expert on the topic, but seeing what some companies lawyers do like backcountry.com made me a bit concerned for you. backcountry.com was really without merit, just more lawyers. Backcountry.com even went after coffee shops with the word, a totally unrelated area.
Exactly. If you operate at caloric deficit (which can be achieved via caloric subsidies such as diet or exercise) you will lose weight. Even if your caloric deficit is achieved through processed junk, you'll still lose weight. Not a recommendation to do that, but, if you're simply optimizing for losing weight, it would technically work.
20 years ago, who is going to lobby for electrical cars or solar power? They aren't financially profitable.
To answer my own question, in case others are interested: https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-do-you-create-a-co...
what do you think happens to workers at a building when protesters block the gate to leave?
We're building this at our startup - a universal app store in WebGL. Primary use case is for game developers (Unreal Engine, and later Unity). No 30% fees, applications work everywhere.

For users, clicking a link is much easier than installing an app.
Uniform Resource Characteristic for a WWW with no link rot.
Samsung now too, wonder if this is chip shortage related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329386
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> protesters that effectively siege buildings by blocking roads

I would hope it's effective!
Every "processed food" definition is incredibly arbitrary, and not necessarily correlated to health.

What about rolled oats or steel cut oats? They're clearly "processed", oats don't look like that when they come off the plant.

Potato chips + fries are just cut potatoes dropping into a vat of oil. Oil itself isn't very much processed either. But we all know that potato chips / fries are unhealthy and shouldn't be eaten all the time.

Cheese or butter require incredible amounts of processing to get done. But when properly portioned, they are part of a healthy diet (more so than potato chips anyway).

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Is honey any healthier than sugar? Is juice healthier than soda? From an obesity perspective, not really. You really want to be cutting back on these empty calories. (Sure, juice is __slightly__ better than soda cause juice has vitamins in it. But... its actually not that good for you)
Everyone is already using PEDs, sports can't possibly get more ruined
Bitcoin is already used as a payment rails from USD -> BTC (lightning) -> NGN, using Strike wallet and Bitnob. But I don't know how much the spread is.

Edit: correction, "already used" is too strong. This is a very new feature on Bitnob's side.
I can't stand sugar in savory foods. I had a friend tell me a handy tip at Thai restaurants is to ask for your food made with no sugar, so I tried it at my favorite place. The college student waiter got a wide eyed look on his face and lowered his voice to say "can't do that, and it's in _everything_."

It sucks that this is as commonplace as it is.
Processed sugar definitely. At least cap & trade sugar if possible.
IMO we dont need more late (consumer) applied taxes, first we need to remove the negative taxes (subsidies) from the input.
What is the root problem of 996?

The crack down on after-school tutoring is mainly to drive the capital away from it, it is not designed to eliminate every single after-school tutoring. CCP does not want the after-school tutoring to be a lucrative business for unicorn IPOs.
People are using them to provide a decent living for their families and relatives in their home country.

A year or half of savings is often enough to start a business in a poor country.

Just have heard a story today of a truck driver in US who helped his relatives open and run two medical clinics in his hometown (not Africa).
Sugar does not “sap your energy away”. Sitting on your ass 23 hours a day does.
You don't get addicted to 2 lbs of turnips and some bacon fat. You get addicted to three 1500 calorie McDonalds meals per day
Most likely done based on BMI because most methods of measuring body fat are not easy to access and have significant variability. I agree with you that BMI is not the best method, but it's probably the best default because it's easy to measure.
We (Americans) didn't understand CICO any better in the past. I'm not saying you're wrong, but the way we get our food has changed dramatically. For the most part, we know what we're supposed to eat. It's just so much easier to eat poorly now. We need to change incentives to make it more costly to eat unhealthy food.
City design and the food industry haven't changed substantially in the last 40 years. If anything, there has been increasing emphasis on walkability in communities and health in foods. And yet the obesity rate was 15% in 1980 and 42% now.
B/W sensors have very real upsides over a color sensor if you want a B/W image.
This is the standard Chinese operating model, as I understand it. Accept foreign subsidiary investment on condition of 51% Chinese ownership, transfer the technology, then turn around and compete with the parent. It was a similar story with maglev trains.
Are you speaking from a developer or user perspective? As an user, I've always found Discourse to exceptionally user friendly and fluid to use. I find it a chore to navigate a forum that is not using Discourse.
This reward was defined ten years ago. By definition, Tim Cook is unique in that he has successfully run Apple for ten years. The risk of taking on a new CEO is orders of magnitude greater than 750mn.
Excuse me if I have mis-read your sample program but it looks like you are allocating 16 bytes, then immediately freeing it, again and again in a loop. Since you're not allocating anything else, the allocate and free will happen almost immediately. Malloc() has a run time that can vary a lot depending on what has already been allocated & freed in the past, so this test is not meaningful.

Not only that, but the original doug lea's malloc has a bin specifically for 16 byte allocations: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html (the smallest size), so you've specifically chosen a very fast example.

In order to properly test malloc() you have to pre-generate some pseudo random numbers for your allocation sizes, and allocate and free unpredictably. But it's more complicated than that, as in the very occasional case when malloc() has to ask the OS for more heap, that system call may not "finish" until your program first writes to that region of memory... (ie malloc() returns but hasn't finished!)
Content marketing well is an art. You have to source quality writing talent who can weave a story without it coming across as an ad.
> So if you want to know how it’s going [...] message me on Signal.

Does this guy just give out his phone number to anyone?
> As part of the emphasis on the Chinese market, SoftBank succumbed to pressure and formed a joint venture. In the new joint venture, Arm Holdings, the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors for paltry $775M. This venture has the exclusive right to license Arm’s IP within China.

Somewhere between a hard fork and rebase force push. There is even less value in Arm, but RISCV will face a slightly harder time, Arm China will be tough to compete against.
Beat to the reply by a few other people on the accuracy across populations. The only thing I'll add is that BMI is a much more accessible measure. The more accuracy we want, the more invasive and expensive it is to collect. Just about anyone who's ever been seen by a healthcare provider has their height and weight taken so it's a very easy metric to capture across an entire population.
I don't know how true this is.

Take just streaming videos for example - I use some services/devices that I find distasteful to stream content: In particular an Amazon Fire TV Cube.

Over the last few years, it's become basically impossible to use.

The UI stutters and lags horribly (even on the updated version)

The Audio output frequently desyncs with the video. I happen to know restarting the current streaming app fixes the problem, but the UI doesn't allow that - "Users aren't smart enough to manage app lifecycles!". So the next best option is opening the Hulu app - precisely because the app is such bloated garbage that it uses enough device RAM that the other streaming app will be evicted and shut down. Then I can switch back after waiting 100 seconds for Hulu to load. Hurrah!....

There's no way to mark an episode as "played" in the UI - you have to open the fucking thing and fast-forward to the end.

If you happen to have an "unplayed" episode in the season of a show you're watching, it will always play that first. Incredibly annoying given the above point.

More and more of the UI is clearly designed to drive me to specific "shows you'll like!" that I don't like, and see over and over again.

More and more of the UI hides actually scrolling through lists of things I might want to watch, in favor of shoving 8 giant auto-playing images of things I've already marked as "Not interested" in.

It's a fucking Alexa based voice activated device - We control it exclusively through voice and our phones with the remote app. Yet if it doesn't detect the hardware remote, after about 10 seconds of playing it STOPS playing, puts up a giant "We can't find your remote! do you need help syncing it?" screen up literally every time you play something.

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Basically - My point is that these apps might "just work" in some cases, but frequently they don't work at all, or work so poorly that they might as well not work.

And that's not touching my "idealism" at all. This product is noticeably worse than my self-hosted XBMC/Kodi instance, and at this point we mostly just use that.
Love this idea! Clever to build up the repeated skills and software internally, and take cuts of the moat-margin other SaaS tools reap from switching costs.
What harm is there from artificial sweeteners? Or rather, how much consumption of artificial sweeteners is harmful?
I suspect people going home, working out, living their lives, decompressing, and relieving stress would increase productivity.

I'm not screwing caps onto bottles, the number of hours I work has NOTHING to do with how much I get done.

I get 80% of the work done in 20% of the time, the rest is gathering information.
Follow-up question: having built a mobile app backend on Phoenix (with Channels) and having played a bit with Absinthe and LiveView -- is there a future of Phoenix that's focused not only on web but also mobile?
I think a third major thing is that people often have very skewed ideas of how many calories things have, like you decide to have a salad instead of a burger at a restaurant because it's the "healthy" choice, but often, because of the dressing, the salad will have as many calories as the burger, and then you feel like you were "good" so you have dessert!

Or people will try to do something like cutting the 30 calories of cream from their coffee, while leaving their 1,400 calorie lunch untouched, trading big expenditures in effort and habit changing for tiny calorie improvements.
This is what Python 3 did. Python 3.0 removed a lot of Python 2 features which were then progressively re-added in 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3. No matter how good your design, you need people using something else to actually want to make the move.
The problem with "policy solutions" is that they don't account for individual preferences.

Do people want walkable cities? Or do they want single-family dwellings and yards?

Do people want to be healthy? Or do they want sugary foods and television programs?

Fortunately, the U.S. has plenty of each, to accommodate multiple preferences.

Life is trade-offs. It's the conceit of policy makers to force their trade-off preferences on people.
> There are plenty of people who consume highly processed foods and stay skinny. There are plenty of people who eat greasy, sugary, fattening foods who stay skinny.

These people must burn at the stake.
I love the promotional messaging. :D

"Your Instagram page will gain tons of followers. You will be famous on Twitter."
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This series of articles proposes that environmental contaminants are the only possible cause of obesity that fits with all the available data. Can someone with a biology/medical background weigh in on whether this is legit? https://slimemoldtimemold.com/author/slimemoldtimemold/
The iced package requires the messages to implement the Debug, Clone, and Send traits, none of which are available for closures. I was able to implement something similar to your example[0] but it only supports plain function pointers for the callbacks. The compiler wasn't able to derive a sufficiently general Debug trait for the function pointer due to an issue with the lifetime of the argument, so I had to implement that myself as well.

[Edit: Ignore this next paragraph; as steveklabnik pointed out, this change has already been implemented and "Message(|c| c.value += 1)" is accepted by the latest stable version.] Incidentally, as long as there are situations where only function pointers can be used and not closures it would be really nice to have some support for anonymous function pointers in Rust (with the fn type and not just the Fn trait) so that one could write e.g. "Message(fn |c| c.value += 1)" instead of "Message({ fn f(c: &mut Counter) { c.value += 1 } f })". Or just infer the fn type for "closures" which don't actually close over any variables without the need for an extra keyword.

[0] https://github.com/nybble41/iced-counter2/blob/master/src/ma...
Between this and the SMR NAS drive debacle, I think I'm done with Western Digital for the foreseeable future.
as a user it's not fun having a feature I am using disappear because I am part of only a small group using it

Apple is really bad at this with Siri. One example: For what feels like a couple of years, almost every night I'd lay on the floor and play with the cat. Occasionally I'd call out, "Hey, Siri, where is my wife?" And Siri would reply something like "She is 8.3 miles away."

This was how I could tell when my wife was about to arrive home and it was time to put away the cat toys and start making dinner.

As of a couple of iOS versions ago, now all Siri will say is something like, "You'll have to unlock your iPhone for that." If I was near my phone, I wouldn't be shouting into the air.

A LOT of Siri responses these days are, "You'll have to unlock your iPhone to do that," or "I can't do that here, but you can do it on your iPhone." I understand that it's probably for privacy (though Siri is supposed to know it's me speaking), but it makes me less likely to use Siri at all for anything else.
I can't say what you should do, but what I would do:

1) talk with him so that he knows I care and that my only goal is to do what is best for him.

2) Compare the vacine to covid. We don't know the long term effects of either, but we do know people end up in hospitals/morgues for covid, but not for the vaccine. The ability to have and/or care for future offsprings when you are dead are not good.
I mean, she is selling something. She is the founder (former CEO) of Honeycomb which is all about doing ad hoc queries rather than setting up dashboards.
Absolutely! There are a ton of cheap and easy ways to get calories these days. In the past we didn't need to worry so much about people understanding CICO.

However, now we have two options:

1. Education

2. Banning a ton of food-types.

Both seem hard at scale, but #1 can be achieved on an individual level, at least.