skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all true and why I included social failing. We are fighting against an industry that's trying to convince us to eat their junk food. They are making it as addictive as possible. They are trying to present it as healthier than it is. It is hard to resist. So yes, it's absolutely a factor and a significant one.

However, despite that, I have a hard time believing that most people think eating at McDonalds is healthy, or that drinking Coca-Cola is healthy, or eating a bag of chips is healthy. They know it's not. Don't they? Am I wrong about that?
> the other just gives you a (more) wrong number.

This is a common misconception: IEEE754 floating point arithmetic is not wrong or fuzzy or inherently inexact. It is very exact; it just has limited precision.
the one time payment for a multi year support of software doesn't grow businesses. We just don't see the business of releasing a new version of the same software every two years with some new features and minor refresh, though it still done. It might support a small dev, but you need recurring revenue and subscriptions and ways to increase the ARPU to grow a real business.
New Orleans is almost below sea level. I'm not sure how much good all the preparation would do even if it did get done.
True, with #1 this is pedantic but it could be restated as the worth of your product is what people are willing to pay.
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What does ESL mean? I can't seem to infer it
I think the next step could be implementing NFTs into the community tbh
The nice thing about calories in minus calories out is, IF you maintain a calorie deficit, the laws of physics of the universe guarantee you must lose weight. The laws of physics are a pretty powerful thing to have on your side.

But that doesn't make it necessarily the most useful model for a complex animal to modify its own behaviour. We are dynamic systems that can voluntarily and involuntarily vary the amount of energy we expend. Our bodies send appetite signals to our consciousness, which can be pretty hard to ignore.

The only times I've consistently lost weight has been via a calorie deficit. But it's totally understandable that people want another model, either something like keto which purportedly produces weight loss without a calorie deficit by messing with the body's fat-storage mechanics in some way, or some behaviour+diet which produces a calorie deficit but with minimum lethargy and hunger. There's a lot of nonsense around dieting but the basic desire is understandable.
Discourse is dynamic and fun but:

1- There is excessive white-space everywhere (like every other modern web-app). I feel like it was designed as a mobile-first solution.

2- There could have been smarter features regarding gamification and karma. Currently you can only hit like button (the total like count of a user is not even visible)

3- If a post has many replies, it only shows them up until a certain point and you have to scroll down to view more. These javascript shenanigans should not exist in a forum app IMO.

I have never used a nimforum-based forum but a quick browse in https://forum.nim-lang.org/ shows that their UI is more dense (less white-space) which addresses point 1 above.
Probably. It gets into eminent domain law. It would also mean you could sue the government for what it seized from you.

Amusingly, if there's someone in the military who wasn't paying rent because of covid, the policy might have been a Third Amendment violation in that particular case.
> compared to dealing with Redux+Typescript's intensely noisy types.

Anybody have any experience on how this compares to ReasonML + React?
Do you think that at one point Rust could automatically transform my code into defunctionalized form, and thus make it serializable?

What you describe sounds like QT Creator, by the way.
This article is entirely misinformed. Arm China already makes all these products, and has for years. This is a rebrand of existing products.
I think food Calories are the last bastion of Phlogiston Theory in any of the sciences.

First of all, I'm glad that it worked for you. You sound like you came out lucky in the calorie counting lottery. I know many people who have never had success and before you try to blame them for lacking willpower or some other victim blaming, I think if CICO worked well Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers wouldn't be for-profit companies with new "systems" every 6 months.

Calorie counting fails to account for macronutrients. The human body is not an ideal spherical furnace and never has been, but most food Calorie continues to have that as an underlying assumption. So many of our Calorie statistics for foods and exercises still derive from the mad experiments at Kellogg's (racist, anti-masturbatory, and divorced from general reality) Wellville.

I get it, calorie counting is simple and gets results some of the time (when you are lucky). It's a decent first approximation when someone is trying to review their diet. But it's still just a first approximation and we keep finding new incredible ways that the error bars are huge and good science suggests you can't always stop at the first approximation, especially when it is doing real harm to some people in the real world where calorie counting approximations continues to fail for them and they blame themselves and self-harm over "being weak" or "lacking willpower" rather than blaming a poor approximation with a lot of questionable looking science behind that people still love because it looks so deceptively simple.

"You need to eat less heat particles than you burn in daily activities" sounds like great advice if you believe heat particles are a real thing that exists (Phlogiston theory). It sounds like way too much of an oversimplification to me in a world where we know "heat particles" are not a thing that exists.
The language itself seems interesting but from the outside looking in it appears a bit stagnant.

Is the community active at all in 2021 or is it just the result of having basically one person working on the language?
Ah, good call. Forgot he's in Japan. My mistake.
Nowhere do they imply that they're at all comparable. They're not comparing them to each other. They're comparing them to eliminating comparable features.
I have been building the app for many years now. In the beginning I spent money mostly on instagram and facebook ads. I had pretty decent results on this, and could get installs for around 20-30 cents. However, those users also trashed my app in comments and didn't convert to paying users. Later I moved to App Store ads, it costs a bit more for the downloads, but the users convert much better. I am starting to think of going back and giving IG ads a shot though.

Edit: forgot to mention, I also spent quite a bit of time improving app store ranking, which contributes significantly to getting more downloads and customers.
They also surely didn't ship the slow units to the reviewers...
Well as soon as a bunch of officers and politicians realize someone followed their every movement and we know where they buy their groceries, where they go to church, who their friends are, who their children are and what elementary school they attend, the route their 8 year old walks home after school and any other creepy but legal information one could easily obtain by surveillance in public. I don’t condone this type of action. But I also don’t believe we should be tracked across everything we do so perhaps doing something like this could send a message.
People all over the world are doing this, and it's not a last resort. It's a foundational component of the spiritual journey.
Dumbasses, literally. But the whole world knows now.
Leads to non-reproducible or non-portable software.

It's better to have well-defined and reproducible behavior, so one can reason how to make correct algorithms.

Neural networks do it for very precise reasons nearly unique to them. If they were built on randomly rounding primitives, and that random was not the precise flavor one model or another needed, then you'd not easily be able to get the distributions needed for the task.
Interesting take at the end, I wouldn't necessarily call it a Win about AppleCare coverage, it only highlights all sorts of issues which are becoming increasingly common on Macs. Logic board and full unit replacements should not be commonplace.
Of course Simpson's is heavily at play, of course especially when lumping <25s with >75s. Not sure I see how one can get from the (UK) data to statements like 'more than 99% of recent deaths were among the unvaccinated', which seems off by at least an order of magnitude.
As if offices weren't noisy enough already.
They didn't ask that question. However, there is no defense in a nuclear war, only scorched earth.
Or if you need rationals, use fixed point (unfortunately not native in many languages)
One of my colleagues is a vegetarian. During a business trip to Dallas his associates took him out for dinner at a steakhouse. After reading through the menu he asked the waitress whether they had anything without meat and she cheerfully replied, "We have chicken!"
Interesting that most of this rant is focused on static dashboards - does anyone really use static dashboards? I can see if you're stuck using 1998 technology like Excel that you might throw together some static charts/graphs/KPIs, but even in the most primitive dashboard tools available now (PowerBI, I'm looking at you) the default is a dashboard that's tied to a 'live' dataset.
This is why I want it to be taught in schools. It's not a topic that can be fully covered in a 100 word post. People get mad at me for bringing it up and not covering everything.

Like duh, if you eat burgers and fries you're going to be hungry when you hit your calorie limit, and then cheat on the diet. Then it won't work. That must mean CICO is useless! Why bother teaching it!
> […] there are colors your eyes can see in nature which can't be printed with state of the art tech.

As an example see sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProtoPhoto RGB, Rec. 2020/2100, etc:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020
Thank you! The early users came from me buying instagram ads, and recent users are primarily from App Store ads. Amazingly there is some organic traffic as well. I spent a lot of time trying to improve my app store ranking, and that makes a HUGE difference for getting new customers. If you can rank in the top 3 for a couple of important keywords, you can do really well.
With US troops.
"Pre-configured EDA"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis
If personal choice was dominant, or rather, if personal choices were not determined by society, there is no way the Japanese obesity rates would be so low.
The distinction I was trying to make is that most people take a gradual approach to this contract, even if they don't articulate it, i.e. they say "you robbed a gas station, [so you are 15% "pond scum" and 85% not, so we are going to take 15% of your rights away, ] so we are going to jail you for a year", or "you killed this family and ate the bodies, [so you are 90% "pond scum", so we are going to take 90% of your rights away, ] so we are going to execute you".

I think the problem is actually uncertainty. If someone robbed a gas station, it's not that they broke the social contract N% of the way and are N% "pond scum"; it's that we are about N% sure that they are 100% "pond scum". So, before we are sure enough, they have full rights and we should try to re-integrate them and not punish them beyond fixing the damage, and after we are sure enough (which may be on the 5th bike, 3rd gas station, or the 1st rape), they have no rights and yeah, it's e.g. mines/lethal injection.

Either way it responds to the original objection... punishment/retaliation works fine with negative-only rights.
Another class of bugs silently transfers fractions of a cent into a bank account...

I did, personally, once have a bug in a script while working in finance, once upon a time. Working on a portfolio of test contracts with trillions of dollars in notional value, and I was off by a single penny. It was an easily found and fixed one-line bug due to truncation instead of correct rounding. But, yes. $1e-2 off on a portfolio worth $1e12 was enough to block release.
"One of the many problems with shader code is that HLSL doesn’t support arrays in a meaningful way. Pointer math (and thus array indexing) just isn’t a thing on the GPU, so writing to a non-constant index of an array is impossible. To work around this, there are several places in the code with patterns like this:"

This is weird, AFAIK pixel shaders have had arrays since DX10 and the OpenGL equivalent through Buffers (and also Unordered Access Views for reading/writing pixel data) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3dhlsl/...

Are VRChat shaders stuck to Direct3D9/ps_3_0 level functionality?
> So how is that true?

This question says to me you misunderstood something in their post, which states that helicopters do spray larvicide, just not on residential areas.
Improving quality compared to what? In my experience, Delta and United are completely interchangeable, and comparable to the much more limited experience I have on foreign carriers. For some reason American consistently has the most obnoxious passengers and (presumably related to the preceding) the rudest staff.
Sure, and that is definitely a separate issue that should be addressed.

The point of contention is that with data leaks of SSN-esque data, we have the theoretical ability to hold an entity accountable for that violation of privacy and trust.

If you're scanning my face with a discreet, pinhole security camera and then sell the data you gather to a 3rd party who then loses that data in a leak, what theoretical recourse do I have when I didn't even know the data had been gathered & subsequently lost in the first place?

Edit: removed some text that was poorly thought out and not representative of the point I'm trying to make.
How to Build an Island
To the extent of sending their children overseas to fight for it? Otherwise it's just empty feelings!
Are yours 7.5h in the office or hours of work? Just curious whether they include lunch and breaks.
Activesupport is hugely widespread, yeah. It's a bit unfortunate since it provides so much, and it's rare that all (or even most) of it is used.

But beyond that though, the vast majority of issues I've seen with monkey patching has been stuff that was created in the project/company that's experiencing the problems. Libraries are generally very good about how they monkeypatch (because doing it wrong with hundreds of using-projects VERY quickly runs into problems), but those ad-hoc internal monkeypatches are routinely done by people who don't fully understand what they're doing, or take shortcuts. Those can have latent bugs linger for a very long time, and yeah - they can be nasty to unravel.
The problem with closures is that they are opaque. The only way to interact with them is to call them. Making them the foundation of your system eliminates a lot of useful architectural patterns, such as putting filters on the event stream, being able to prioritize some of them based on certain criteria, being able to ship them between different servers if necessary, creating a generic logger that can operate on the enumeration values without having to have each closure log things, implementing various security checks (you really don't want a security system to be stuck only being able to run a bit of code to see if it's safe), just a whole lot of things that can't be done if all you have are closures.

If you don't care about your values leaving your local OS process, which is a pretty common use case, there's a hybrid approach you can take too, which is to put closures inside your data structures that describe the value, instead of passing raw closures around. You get the benefits of being able to examine the values without executing the handler and being able to filter, decorate, etc. but while retaining all the advantages of being able to implement handlers inline. Depending on your local language, various slick implementations may allow this to be one degree or another of transparent, such as implementing some sort of interface/trait for all these values, or implementing __call__ in Python, etc.

"And by the way, defunctionalization sounds a lot like transforming my code into a bytecode interpreter which interprets my code. This is something I don't need and which would make my code slower and more difficult to read."

It depends on the language you're in. Most OO languages have some way of doing this that doesn't add any speed issues to speak of, it's just a slight rearrangement of code.

I'd also say this is an issue of scale. I don't bother with this in small programs and may just glue everything together with closures, but as program size increases the odds that you'll want to do something that you can't do with closures directly increase. But the languages I tend to work in don't make this much of a hassle usually, either. I think you may be overestimating the expense.
Are you a communist or something?!
Agreed on land tax. High taxes on land helps eliminate empty parking lots and other unproductive uses, and so long as zoning cooperates, encourages density.
only if it comes with a free course for low iq people like me to understand what NFTs are
Something decisions require all-or-nothing social consensus.

But as much as possible, it's best to reduce decisions to the individual level.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a sound-only YouTube option?
I know that question should probably be directed to Youtube, but I guess they already thought about it and ruled it out.

What do you think are the reasons? There are many videos that require no sound, or that people just listen in background. There are good opportunities to save a lot of bandwidth no?

I know there is an extension that allows it, but it's less practical, and still strange that Youtube doesn't allow it
Yes agreed. I used to have a one time purchase, but then I kept improving the app, adding more complex features, and the old price didn't reflect all the new work I had put in.
There could be a number of factors that have nothing to do with responsibility, that's a narrative that gets added to explain the data. You need to do ANOVA test to verify any significant difference in data sets, not look at avg - esp when its not a controlled experiment.
You might be serializing your enums, but unless you serialize a lot more (button IDs, view IDs, etc), the IDs in your enums will be meaningless. I don't think you're suggesting we serialize the entire GUI?

This also seems like the wrong layer to serialize. Normally we would want to serialize the model, not the view. Admittedly, the line is a bit blurry here (and for most small programs) so take my words with a grain of salt.
They're FUDding the discussion by attributing malice to the offended party.

I'm confident they're self aware of their position, but trolling or otherwise, I don't think they intend to argue faithfully.
People who are 120 pounds overweight didn't gain it all overnight. It's completely unreasonable to expect to lose it all overnight either, and that fact has nothing to do with CICO.
I'd love to see an east-west transcontinental aqueduct from the southeast to the southwest. Cover it with solar panels and string an HVDC line alongside it to both increase grid transport capacity and to run pumping stations and connect substations along the way. Maybe put it alongside I-40.
The most effective dashboards I've worked on have been glorified interactive spreadsheets with the ability to graph the data in various ways. High density, not pretty. Sometimes there was a map if the data was geospatial.

Also, does anyone remember the covid dashboard from John Hopkins. That one is pretty useful.
Obesity is a problem, but we need a better measurement than OBI. I'm 6'1, 245 pounds which would make me obese, but I come in at 8-9% body fat.
I switched to Linux after 20 years of Windows! Linux is just fine, I don't want it to become the best OS (already is)
The difference is that the powerful people with a lot of crypto can't unilaterally decide to issue themselves trillions more bitcoins which devalues the few coins held by the poor. Yet this is exactly what happens with the dollar.
Its amazing to see the disinformation at work. Samsung literally upgrades their 970 EVO SSDs with the 980 PRO controller, making the drive faster in almost every scenario. But media outlets who make a living generating outrage act like "Shamsung" is lying and cheating customers.

And people fall for it. Even people in this thread are calling for a class action lawsuit because they accidentally bought an upgraded 970 EVO - even though all advertised specs are correct. Its ridiculous.
No, they also aren't interested in war coming to their soil.

As long as war is something that can be done to other people, though, it's an easy sell.
actually it’s quite to the point, no fuss, clear value proposition.
Of course Newnham would write this. Her entire business model and career depends on the kinds of distracting and addicting systems and dark patterns highlighted in the film.
I think you are making a connection that I can't find. Care to elaborate?
It may be the single biggest component, but it's not the only component which means it is not the problem. And the definition of overeating has changed because of these other factors.

Sugary sodas and drinks are not eaten, consequently what was a healthy and satiating meal is now overeating because people are getting 250-2000 extra calories a day (250/bottle of soda approximately). Drop the sodas and many people won't be overeating (or overeating to the same extreme) as they are now without changing their diet.

Poor nutritional quality of foods can be disruptive to metabolism and health in general. Which again can mean that what was an objectively healthy portion for them becomes an unhealthy portion. As an example, low iron (anemia) decreases a person's ability to engage in physical activity and leads to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. So that a 2000 kcal a day diet that may have been healthy is now overeating.

The general sedentary nature of people also means that what was a perfectly reasonable diet for our grandparents and great-grandparents is now overeating. When people spend 1-2 hours a day sitting so that they can go from one place where they sit for 8-10 hours to another place where they'll sit in front of a computer or tv for another 4-5 hours and then sleep, their calorie needs are barely above that of someone who is bedridden for illness or injury.

Restaurant portion sizes are outrageous (though, anecdotally, the last few times I've been to a restaurant they seem to have toned it down). That is a problem. But these other issues cannot be neglected because it's a system, they all interact with each other.
We will support EUR and GBP soon. They are already and option as a sending currency. But they will also become available as an account currency soon.
How do you know the vaccine reduced severity? My household of 3 all had it and 2 weren’t aware of it. I had minor symptoms which is the only reason we found out. This was back in 2020 so we were all unvaccinated.

The “b comes after a, so a must imply b” fallacy seems to be everywhere and nobody is calling it out.
If people make there own money. Then fine whatever.
If the set of gamblers has a large crossover with the set of people on welfare. Then people paying taxes have a right to be grouchy.

Like watching a who Person is always out of money and gets a lot of hand outs; blow all the money on scratchers.

I have a family member whom I only buy food for because every dollar I give them goes straight to scratchers.
She once won big. 150 out of the 100 dollars I gave her. she then proceed to buy our kids expensive crap.

Umm that was so you had food for week.
How does this 20" of rain compare to Katrina? https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3221
Indeed. To the extent that healthcare or other costs are carried by society, society must own the sources of those costs.