skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a teenager, I couldn't understand why there could possibly be any people who are both smart and obese. There is an obvious answer to weight gain - control your diet and add exercise. Everyone knows this. But it doesn't work.

There are 1000's of things that can cause weight gain, but there is an obvious solution - CICO. But that obvious solution doesn't work for many people.

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I think the scientific study of obesity is full of meta-scientific problems that affect our reasoning on the subject.

- BMI is easy to measure, and predictive at a population level; but it is not as strongly predictive at an individual level when you control for things like activity level and body fat percentage.

- It is very hard for individuals to measure calories consumed and expended. It is also difficult to do this in scientific studies - it can be done, and it has been done well, but it took many years to take this problem seriously.

- Hunger is not one thing. Hunger is hard to measure. Hunger is hard to break into components. Hunger is hard to communicate about.

- - Hunger has multiple physical and psychological components - how would you even teach this in school? With physical sensations like smell and taste, or with emotional sensations like anger?

- - Hunger is a sensation generated deep within the body and the brain. There are no scientific units associated with hunger. You can't get a "hunger level" lab done at your endocrinologist.

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Occam's Razor is a powerful tool. It feels good to find a "simple" answer. People want to find "the" cause of the obesity epidemic, but there is not one single cause. I will repeat my recommendation for "The Hungry Brain" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXT28ZE/ and add a recommendation for "Burn" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D8JYQD6/ .

There are many factors in the obesity epidemic and they all work on different people in different ways. Some of them tend to increase the calories in and some of them tend to decrease the calories out.

CI factors - affluence, advertisement, psychological conditioning, "You can have it all" attitude, more junk food (list not exhaustive)

CO factors - less walking in daily life, more people living in areas where it is hard to go outside in the daytime, more sedentary lifestyle overall (list not exhaustive)

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Your body does have a voice that says "you have enough fat", but it is a little voice, and modern foods are highly desirable and calorie dense. There is some evidence that processed sugar has a strong effect on your hunger setpoint as well. There is strong evidence that having access to a wide variety of highly desirable foods leads to overeating (The Cafeteria Diet)
Absolutely. It's not that hard to write your own though:

import locale
from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def use_locale(*args, **kwargs):
locale.setlocale(*args, **kwargs)
yield
locale.resetlocale()

Contextlib is one of the under-appreciated gems in Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib...
I come from a family where my father refused to use the AC in the car no matter how hot it was because it lowered the gas mileage
Ironically enough, the most effective charities often have significant marketing budgets. You can't do any work if you don't have any money to do it with.

Also, nobody is under any impression that Dominos is a charity and not a pizza joint.
I once confused "No Way Home" with "Far From Home" and ended up spoiling the one I hadn't seen yet. :/
> And yet your average work from home "yuppie" still has to work 40 hours a week doing SEO or fiddling with YAML to make some billionaire more rich.

Again, the option to "not work" isn't real. That's an illusion you have been given. That 40 hours a week fixing YAML is not to make a billionaire richer (although it does), it's to have something that you can trade with people who produce your food. If you don't want to do the YAML, then grow the food yourself I guess? It will be a lot more than 40 hours a week and a lot harder work.

> "door dash" does not give meaning to your life and ultimately you'll not be happy if you feel you live as a cog in an unnecessary company making an unnecessary product

Idleness doesn't give meaning to your life either and ultimately you'll not be happy if you feel you've accomplished nothing in your life.

Being freed from working a job does not mean you will suddenly do something important. If it is important you will find the time in and among your 40-hour workweeks, or you will take big risks by not having a job so you can start it.

If you spend your weekends idle while working full time, you'll probably spend all of your time idle if you're unemployed. Seen this way too much to think otherwise. The people who are driven to do great things don't let employment stop them.
For this exact reason I moved to Insomnia
I know it’s only a band aid for the problem, but DoH / DNS over HTTPS largely mitigates the problem of every domain being seen and retained by ISPs. It depends on how much you trust the DoH provider. Do you trust a DoH provider more than your ISP? Which leads me into self hosting your own DoH instance and having full control and disabling any form of logs.

(Edit: SNI leaks make DoH redundant but there is Encrypted SNI / ESNI)
> I don't think you need to incentivise people to host each other's data.

Bitcoin is worth a trillion dollar. Meanwhile 20+ years of effort into creating P2P networks has resulted in pretty much nothing. No Linux distributions are hosted on P2P. No source control is on P2P. No messaging. Nothing of significance. Just a few tech demos here and there.

Proper incentives can make all the difference and given the utter failure of getting any non-incentivised P2P off the ground in the last two decades, I think it's safe to say, it will be necessary. I don't see much point in repeating what hasn't worked in the past.

> and they may host others' data for free like in BitTorrent

BitTorrent isn't free. All the fancy piracy sites have share ratios. The public stuff more often than not has 0 seeders, lots of leechers and is just a lot of dead torrents in general. You are better off just using a centralized share hoster. Even your average Linux distribution agrees. BitTorrent might still be offered for ISO downloads, but it's hardly ever the default anymore, it's all back to plain old HTTPS.
I can't actually get satiated with vegetables. I can eat enough to feel ill, but I'll still be hungry, paradoxically.
And just want to point out since it's not explicitly stated-- you can run Python on the JVM with the Jython project (although only Python2 compatible)
Does anyone have any experience in comparing Carta's comp and equity estimation tool to the reality? The cash seems aligned with what I see in the market but the equity always seems a little low
The problem is that corruption is widespread throughout most of the world, and especially places in poverty. A stable, just society is able to bootstrap into relative wealthy pretty quickly, so most of the countries that have the largest need of aid, also tend to have the greatest issues with government trustworthiness.

As an aside, some charities are scams, but many are not. There are tools you can use to determine which ones are trustworthy, but some basic common sense goes a long way too.
Tidy up your GitHub repos
Microsoft Versus (2007)
> loudly proclaiming "look at our charity"

They weren't touting their charity. They were touting their charitable franchise owners. That's a major distinction.

Imagine if Google made an ad saying "We donated $50,000 to charity. Look how generous we are. Come work for Google". That would be nonsensical.

Now imagine if Google made an ad saying "Joe is a Googler. Joe donated $50,000 of his own money to charity. Look how wonderful our Googlers are. Come work for Google alongside people like Joe." Very cheesy, but it makes a lot more sense. Domino's ad is the latter, not the former.
> They don’t pay the cost of their capital.

If so Uber will eventually cease to exist, and this is not an ethical issue

> The wages they pay to their drivers are less than the depreciation of the cars and the expense of keeping the drivers fed, housed, and healthy. They pay less than minimum wage in most markets, and, in most markets, that is not enough to pay the costs of a car plus a human.

The depreciation and operating cost of a car and the living expenses of a driver are variable by the choices of the driver. I have taken Uber rides in new SUV's and in old Priuses that have little depreciation value left in them. Is Uber supposed to pay more for drivers with less efficient / more expensive / newer cars? Is Uber supposed to pay you more when you move into a more expensive apartment? Is Uber supposed to pay you more if you are married or have kids to feed (which would be illegal). Decisions on what car to drive and where to live are economic decisions made by the individual driver, and if they lose money by deciding wrong, that is not Uber's fault.

> Drivers are draining their own reserves to get cash now, but, hey, they gotta eat and pay the bills.

So basically this is like the economic profile of taking a loan. You get cash now in exchange for additional costs paid later. If Uber's deal was similar to a payday loan in its cost/benefit ration, I would say you have a point here. But if it's more similar to a regular loan, then no. But this gets back to my point that it is variable by driver, and it doesn't make sense for Uber to offer higher rates to some drivers based on their choices. So basically I assume what you want here is for Uber to refuse to take on a driver that they calculate will lose money based on their vehicle expenses. I don't think this is entirely unreasonable, but IMO it's on the driver to make that decision, and Uber is not ethically responsible.
> This comment is way too broad and cynical

Or, as anyone who has been on the internet since the 90s will tell you, bang on the damn money.
A line of small and fast portable SSD disks from Samsung. Random example:

https://www.samsung.com/it/memory-storage/portable-ssd/porta...
Switzerland was a hub for China’s spy networks in the Cold War
Made by Studio Puckey: https://puckey.studio/projects/pointer-pointer
Photos capture Lake Mead's boat graveyard as water levels shrink to record low
Sure, but they have the same implicit “… or else”, meaning losing the capacity to publish again on PyPI until they “fix their attitude”
>However I'm starting to think that scripting languages are a false economy. There is no intrinsic reason you can't have a concise and easy to use language that can be quickly (in debug mode) compiled to the metal and dynamically linked to the project.

I’m a big fan of interpreted languages like python and the python like godot script. The power of quickly accomplishing tasks because of their fast and loose nature is great, but as I’ve built up some large repos at work written in pure python, I’m starting to regret the loose typing. Bugs caused by a small loss of data because of implicit type casting have been a source of much wasted time. I’m starting to convert to rigidly typed systems of program just for that peace of mind that any calls I make to an API will not compile because I am not passing the right type. It makes sense to switch to a language like CPP/Rust for big projects like a game.
The 80's will always love you
Assuming you aren’t running a charity, increasing the bottom line is always your goal. The difference between a company that burns user goodwill in the process, and one that doesn’t, is the difference between short-term and long-term thinking.

The downside with hired testers is that they are unlikely to be a statistically representative sample of your target market. I don’t think this is actually a problem for most startups or new products being launched by major players, since a lot of UX issues early in product development will be obvious to anyone who isn’t the original developers, and the number of actual users you have won’t be big enough to serve as a statistically representative sample of your target market anyway.
That's irrelevant (and anyway, I'm not sure economists collectively agree with you), the parent claimed that conservatives and libertarians don't empathize. Even if our hypothetical conservative/libertarian is incorrect about the dynamics of minimum wage regulations, the counterpoint still demonstrates empathy.
>credit, that’s a game to build wealth that is usually worth playing.

He's talking about consumer goods which typically have a negative ROI.
Posteo
How a non-toxic company should've called it? "A terrible fuckup notice"?
> it's rather obvious that having one less bootloader allowed by default means less potential for vulnerabilities.

Ok, so why not allow me to remove the Windows bootloader and just have the third party one that I trust more?
Exactly. I can eat enough vegetables to feel ill, and still not actually feel satiated. It's an uncomfortable feeling, still being hungry but also feeling full and a little nauseous even.
Obviously we'll never know but I'd love to see an alternate timeline where those acquisitions didn't happen.

Instagram specifically has just become another ad infested shopping app for me these days.
There needs to be an interpol arrest warrant for Travis Kalanick for racketeering. Uber was operating like a mafia family.

It doesn't matter that he resigned a while back. This is not acceptable and people need to know they will not get away with it.
Most people in big cities live without cars and rent for the once every few years moving or whatever that requires a car.
> Perhaps Germany thinks that economically hurting Russia is more important than finishing the pipeline?

Sounds like the guy holding a hammer before another guy and saying "I know you think I'm being cruel to you, but believe me when I say this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you" and proceeds to strike how own shin hard with the hammer.

> The choices are living under what is at least trying to be a democracy versus being a slave state to Russia.

Oh there. That "democracy" word. Like how America waged long destructive wars in order to bring "democracy" to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan resulting in 100s of thousands if not millions of deaths.

So now we are going to have a long war in the Ukraine for "democracy" which is nothing more than having gay pride parades.

America is that wonderful "democracy" where monthly insulin treatments cost hundreds of dollars, and the walking wounded in vehicle accidents would rather make their way to the hospital on their own rather than have an nearby ambulance take them for fear of the $3000 bills they may be hit with for a journey less than 30 minutes. The wonderful democracy when many families do not even have $400 of savings to weather a medical emergency. I would say low-income Americans are being terrorised with fear of destitution by the own "democratic" Govt, inspite of the US being the wealthiest country in the world.

There is as much democracy in Ukraine as there is in Russia. I believe Ukraine's ruling regime ranked lowest on the corruption index, and now its democratic leaders are the toast of the free world for standing against Russia.

A free world where bodily autonomy was rudely sacrificed for the sake of ineffectual Covid vaccines.

I could go on and on about the flaws of the "so-called" free world but you would find that boring.

Go read this - https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/06/20/thirty-years-of-u.s...
I was shopping for lenses the other day for my Sony and what stood out is a lot of lenses that are very small such as the Sony FE 35mm f/1.8 SEL35F18F that make for a very light kit combined with a mirrorless camera that is itself much lighter than a DSLR.

I got the opposite kind of lens, one at the upper end of what you can wrangle in your hands. If your lens is big you have a heavy pack, look like a dork, can't hold it steady, all that. There is a lot to say for a camera that is easy to handle.
The first, high-resolution image from the James Webb Space Telescope
> due to lower deductible

I'm confused. Why does cataloging your household items have anything to do with the deductible on your insurance policy?

I'm definitely not concerned with cataloging my t-shirts and underwear, but I do have some high ticket items that I've parked money in that I would like back in the event of a disaster, so I do have a good catalog of anything I think is important.
> If Libreboot wasn’t such a pain to install, it would have saved a lot of grief.

Dunno if you need LibreBoot specifically, but if CoreBoot is sufficient, several vendors offer it preinstalled....
The primary not secondary effect of random sampling is noise.
EA claimed that it needed a server connection because a desktop computer couldn't run the simulation. This claim was absurd on the face of it; EA couldn't possibly turn a profit if each copy of the game required dedicated beefy-ass server hardware to support it.

But of course, on launch it was quickly discovered the game ran just fine without an internet connection. After 30 minutes, the game would complain the server would time out and shut down voluntarily. But all it took was patching the "30 minutes" magic number. Poof, problem solved.

Long story short, it is an ongoing problem that pirates receive a superior product. (A problem for publishers anyways, not one for pirates.)
I spent years playing WoW on a pirated backend.
I'm waiting for constant time WASM. https://github.com/WebAssembly/constant-time/blob/main/propo...
Didn’t JWST use some kind of grivitational breaking to stop at the LGPoint?
A manned mission would require much more fuel to shorten the time of the trip and fuel for returning.
That's heartwrenching
> There will never be a true way to "pirate a backend"

Get access to one of the machines hosting the backend and download it..

I guess, an even more true way would be to don the wooden leg, cannons and drive up to a data center fueled primarily by rum and old-time maritime jargon xD
They are allowed to push the boundaries against unfair laws. Which protesters have done countless times. Do you think that prochoice activists should follow the laws when constitutional rights are stripped from them?

Should the Dutch farmers who are being regulated out of business sit idly by while all their hard work goes to nothing?

Uber chose to break the rules against an illegal taxi monopoly and I’m thrilled they did because otherwise no one would have been able to break it. Because they put their necks out on the line we have a driving service around the world that would never have existed if we didn’t have them pushing the boundaries.
I highly recommend TypeScript. I don't really like the JS runtime, but, purely from a language point of view, TS is my favorite.

Some cool features:

1) Type unions

interface A { a: string; }

interface B { b: string; }

type C = A | B;

const c: C = { a: 'a' };

2) Type assertions
if ('a' in c) { /* compiler knows c is of type A here */ }

function isA(c: A): c is A { return 'a' in C } // compiler knows c is A if this returns true

3) Nice helper types
interface A { ... }

ReadOnly<A> // Like A, but all properties are read-only

Partial<A> // Like A, but all properties are optional

Omit<A, 'someProp'> // Like A, but without 'someProp'
...which will still lead to lower profits than if they instead tried to push into the higher-margin section of the market. The Innovator's Dilemma, you know?
The argument has been made often. Yes, noise raises with sensor temperature. But I haven't seen a test which shows that it makes any difference in real-life situations.
> I'm a huge functional programming evangelist, but high-level stuff like this does not belong in a low level language bytecode like WASM.

A tail call is a jump. Jumps are not "high-level stuff". They're very simple instructions. If WASM can't do a jump, it is actually WASM that you can't call "a low level bytecode".
> MBA's are generally better communicators

"Convenience Fee"
"Synergy"
"Circle back to this"
"Double-click on this issue"
It’s a very easy and well documented free engine. If you have used and like python, you can learn the ropes quickly. But as OP mentioned there are drawbacks to the loose type system. But I would encourage anyone looking to make their first game to try Godot as it gets out of your way so you can start making your sprites move around and interact with the world.
So when the workers unionize, what's gonna change? Workers will not be notified of their mistakes? They will not be fired if they make too many of those? Miscalculating the items won't longer be a mistake? They will pay the double of minimum salary?
As much as it's "wrong" to splurge on clothes, Michelin-star dinners, expensive cars, etc. If you can afford it, and you genuinely enjoy it, just go ahead and do it. De gustibus non est disputandum.
Tangential but what's the status of garbage collection and DOM manipulation in WASM? Are we ever getting those? I understand it's a high-value technology without them, but I'm interested in writing full apps in say, OCaml (so I'm glad to hear that WASM is getting TCE!).
Sway is a window manager, not a desktop environment. Not a fair comparison, since you have to install everything DEs provide separately.
If you want to run Linux, stop buying Windows hardware already
They ironed out nearly all autofocus issues with the Z9. If they can bring that tech downmarket in a reasonable amount of time they will be okay IMO. The bigger problem is that the market for standalone cameras is still shrinking.
McMaster-Carr might be the single thing I miss the most from my time in the US. It is like ... stupid good. Their listings catalogization is like godlike compared to alternatives.

The Amazon or Google way of throwing all things into the bin and spew it out to the users is BS. We are saying we live in an information age but I firmly believe stuff were way better catalogizised back when it was done manually by paid gatekeepers.
This is why any good org will make sure to observe all important KPI’s while doing an A/B test. If your “email signup” KPI went to the moon but tanked your “bought shit” metric… you should probably roll back.
Depends on whether you pay your airbag subscription on the new one.
It may just not be your game, but I suggest giving it a few days. There are definitely some tracks where I feel the same as you, but this happens to be one where I got it on my first try.

Another aspect of the game is the guessing itself. It auto-complete so you can narrow down based on the limited library. For example, if you think it's a particular band but can't remember the track, you might be tempted to skip. Instead, type in the band's name and maybe there are only a couple of tracks to choose from, helping you narrow it down further.

I'm curious if that will expand (and therefore become harder) with this acquisition.
> It isn't impossible to ventilate a train well.

Not for the trains at rush hour in Tokyo.
They pushed against unfair laws, betting they wouldn’t get punished and guess what? They were right.

They broke through all of those unfair laws and now we live in a system that benefits from them breaking the rules for the better. Seriously, you think the taxi monopoly was so much better than now? That’s laughable!
> half of Amazon warehouse workers have been successfully propagandized into not supporting unionization

Isn't it possible that they're adults who carefully considered the pluses and minuses and made their own decisions?

Or are you saying a No vote could only be explained by denying any agency to the workers?
Blockchain doesn't actually solve the Byzantine Generals problem, because that is in principle unsolvable.

It mitigates the issue by making a 51% attack or its equivalent harder.

Outside cryptocurrencies, there is literally no practical application for even an approximate solution for the Byzantine Generals problem.

Outside cryptocurrencies, you can always use a 1970s vintage Merkle tree without the 10000x weight of the blockchain.