skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this is more of a pop culture, human-framed narrative driven story but words like "insulin", "leptin", "mitochondria", "carb(ohydrate)", "glycemic", "glycogen", "ketones" don't appear a single time in the 5000+ word piece.

My take as someone who has some personal anecdata is a) no one really quite knows what is causing the incredible and nationally, geographically, socioeconomic/culturally, etc divergent crisis in weight gain and obesity, however b) there is a lot of interesting and useful information at the intersection of biomechanical, endocrinological, psychological, cultural, etc research and attempt at explanations.

What's worked for me is a moderate all-of-the-above approach: eat real unprocessed food, do some lazy IF/low-carb, focus on nutrient and protein-dense plant and animal foods, find enjoyable exercise outdoors in the sun, lift some weights, eat fermented and fiber-rich foods, etc. Basically there's a slippery slope and positive feedback loop, where if you're sedentary and eat processed junk you're going to gain weight and wind up feeling like remaining sedentary and eating processed junk, which will cause you to gain more weight, and so on.

"her urge to eat, as powerful as the urge to breathe when holding your breath, defeated her" just seems like learned (taught?) helplessness "misinformation" - you need to breathe every one or few dozen seconds or you die. You certainly don't need to eat every one or few dozen seconds or you die. This isn't to understate the difficulty and I was never hundreds of pounds overweight, but fundamentally you need to commit to turning the dial in the other direction at a pace that feels sustainable, and then sustain it. Nutrition science provides good explanations for why the urge to eat low nutrient crap is going to be very powerful if you're 200lbs overweight, not totally unlike the urge to inject heroin is going be very powerful if you've been injecting heroin for a decade. Your body down to the cellular level has adapted to it and you can't just hit an off switch.

At a personal level I'd urge everyone to disregard the learned helplessness narrative and try to make a healthy lifestyle work - at a societal/policy level I think we desperately need to stop greasing the path down the slippery slope. It's as if a syringe full of heroin ready to inject was on sale BOGO for $2 at the supermarket and completely socially accepted while you had to cook up aspirin yourself on the stove for $8/pill with 30 minutes effort. "Why are so many addicted to heroin? Experts have no idea." Please.
Watts are power, not energy.
https://hub.docker.com/r/jonberenguer/mindmaps

It's a bit old, but I still use it. Otherwise xmind and freemind are my desktop goto mind mapping softwares
UK supermarket scraps 'best before' dates on fruit and veg to cut food waste
Account names don't match so not sure which alt account is "you", but:

The reason what you said was dismissed/started an argument is the reason a lot of arguments start: using terms whose definitions have been overloaded. People can both be talking about "green" energy but mean entirely different things and get frustrated talking past one another, as happened here.

Specifically, for many people right now, the pressing reason for "green" energy is climate change. Ergo "green" energy is energy which does not release significant amounts of CO2 when used. Solar panels are "green" energy in that they help solve a chronic environmental problem.

At the same time, as was pointed out, solar panels require some incredibly toxic chemicals to be created, and to the extent they are recyclable, that recycling process also involves, creates, and produces as waste even more horrific chemicals. Therefore solar panels are not "green" energy in that they directly contribute to an acute environmental problem.

The root of the issue is picking some abstract label, "green energy", and then each person argues whether something meets their own personal definition of that abstract label.

A more useful question may be "in which ways are solar panels good for the environment, in which ways are they harmful, and does one obviously outweigh the other?"

A supporter of solar would probably say "solar panels breakeven for co2 in just 3 years, a fraction of their lifespan, so they spend most of their life replacing fossil fuels which is good. While toxic chemicals are a byproduct of their creation, and those toxic chemicals would be harmful if released into the environment, they can be contained, stored, and disposed of in a way that localizes all harm to the point that there is no widespread environmental impact from their manufacture".
why reimplementing complex logic? defer is usually what is needed.
> The author also did a 180 on climate change and is now a full conspiracy nutjob.

How is he a “conspiracy nutjob“?
I'll take your Laurel and Hardy, and raise you Harold Lloyd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd
I am willing to accept they are trying to improve if I see it, but everything I saw out of the Texas government seemed to be a denial of any problems at all. The power grid is stressed in the summer under A/C load anywhere that is normally hot, which Texas is, so why weren’t they prepared for it?

I’m just comparing this to my region where the government doesn’t have an excuse for the power grid failing everytime it’s hot or cold and has actually removed utilities who had catastrophic failures[1].

I’m not judging Texas for having unforeseen problems, I am judging them for failing to respond to their issues

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrimack_Valley_gas_explosi...
Exactly my experience too !
Yes this website keeps popping up in HN.

Which makes me to wonder what is the logic for checking a duplicate? I know that dups are checked while submitting a link, but how far in time does it go?

If the check is time bound is it due to performance or is it due to belief that after sufficient time gap content inside an identical link could be different?
Chasing Ghosts: Unlocking the mysteries of human hibernation
List of main JetBrains competitors [pdf]
I finally managed to quit drinking coffee and tea.

I used to drink one big cup a day each morning of one and a half teaspoons of Nescafé Gold and throughout the day multiple cups of tea.

There was a constant feeling of anxiety or irritation or nervousness in me which has gone away.
My favorite antipatterns at the moment:

- only light roasts. Lots of acidity. No option to get a chocolaty or nutty flavor

- baristas with a mission to sell you pour-over or cold brews

- no sugar! I really hate that one. No I don‘t think light-roasted coffee tastes sweet.

- raw cane sugar. So you got the rolling eyes and the barista gives you sugar, but with a tiny wooden spoon and a tiny wooden sugar box so you need to scrape raw cane sugar out of that and it‘s all horrible

- what milk? No I don‘t like your soy/almond/oatmeal craziness. Just milk. Full fat. We are surrounded by small farms who get their milk processed by their milk processor that they own as part of a cooperative. They have happy cows.

Luckily we have a roaster in vicinity that is still old school. I love getting my medium/dark roasted arabica there, with a full-bodied chocolate flavor and lots of crema. Goes well as capuccino. I have a 15 year old heat exchanger machine with a classic E61 brew head and almost no electronics. It has a personality on its own, makes funny sounds that have evolved over time, but I know which sounds I need to attend to to make a great brew.
you shouldn't taste battery acid. really. don't.
Rowan is a staunch defender of Free Speech in Comedy. When it looked like the UK government were going to legislate against it, he delivered this amazing speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU
The smaller "third wave coffee" shops generally have a liberal bent to them -- largely because the movement was born in Portland and Seattle. You are much more likely to see an "ACAB" sticker, a rainbow flag, or other left-virtue device on display than anything on the other side of the spectrum.

Starbucks may be anti-union, but they have frequently taken public stances of a liberal variety (particularly around visible issues like LGBT activism, and occasionally on guns) which has left those who felt alienated as a ready market for coffee without the moralizing (or coffee with their sort of moralizing)

I often try to find a mainstream trend in the other direction to compare it to, but there are so few mainstream consumer categories dominated by the right, mostly due to demographics.
That's probably partly true since the debate over late-term elective abortion does bring in the motivations of the mothers as potential qualifiers, but that is only a subset of the debate and issues.
Emoji are more than internet language
Where do they put the waste?
The approach of avoiding having to explicitly name variables is known in computer science as "point free" or "tacit" programming, and in math as "combinatory logic". Languages like APL have even less boilerplate/ceremony for this than shown in the post. E.g the examples shown:

[ even? ]
[ even? not ]
[ 4 > ]

in APL are:

2∘|
1-2∘|
>∘4

`∘` is partial/bind, and `|` is modulo.

Many other languages are pretty good for point-free programming. For instance this series goes into the benefits of using this approach in Swift:
https://www.pointfree.co/

Point-free programming has always been a controversial subject. Some people passionately hate it (particularly people that haven't invested in learning to use it) and some passionately love it.
Hugo is very fast in updating a website. Unless you have thousands of blog posts I would not bother.

You can self-host it on a "cheap" webhost and rsync the changes (that's the way I do it). Or you can integrate it with Github and host it with

- Netlify https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-netlify/

- AWS Amplify https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-aws-ampl...

- Cloudflare Pages https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/dep...

to name a few. The hugo site has a couple of howtos.

Some hosting solutions require that the entire website is stored in a separate branch, others regenerate the HTML through a CI pipeline and store it in an object store.
You get pure, naked capitalism at that point where the little old lady who can only pony up 50 dollars a month to keep the ac running at below deadly temperatures loses out to the aluminum smelter or cryptominer willing to pay 200/ month because they make a profit.

This causes political problems because people like capitalism until they see grandmas dieing so someone can make extra widgets, but it’s the US so we can’t say capitalistic behaviors have to be regulated to prevent that situation, and we get crazily inefficient solutions in response
The old-school method of learning from books has many advantages over articles on the Internet. But, unfortunately, we must admit that books are no longer relevant. In programming, for example, frameworks are updated almost every day, and yesterday's experienced professionals are forced to retrain again.

I see a compromise solution is to start with books if you are a total zero in programming. And, with understanding, switch to modern sources of information as soon as possible.
That linked stackoverflow was a bit silly and misleading. They admitted they were too lazy to count the instructions given in Intel's manual.

Of course we know how many instructions there are. Assemblers (e.g. NASM) have to know what instructions exist if Intel or AMD want people to use them. There are undocumented and dead vendor instructions that nobody cares about (3DNow, Cyrix maybe?) But we definitely know all officially available instructions because they are all in Intel's manual.
To be fair, it's not awarded on "promise". It is awarded based on contribution, the Fields medal is phenomenally prestigious in that respect. It is just restricted to recipients under age 40, among other things.
Also Khaby Lame, TikTok's most followed creator (currently almost 150 million followers and 2.3 billion likes). Some say his purely visusal comedy contributed to his success, because he is not siloed into a language community.
I'm basically doing the same thing right now. Started at 420 in November, need to be at ~220 (I'm a bulky 6'4 dude), so, 200 pounds to get rid of.

The most I ever lost in recent years was when I went on Kaiser's medically monitored weight-loss program (a soft prerequisite to be eligible for bariatric surgery through them). Liquid diet, 860 calories a day, frequent blood work, etc. I lost 50 lbs in 3 months. Gained it all back over the following year. Fearing all the side effects, I never ended up doing the bariatric surgery.

This time around I'm not "cheating" my way through it. Keeping track of everything religiously has kept me honest about what I'm eating, and I've been taking a 3+ mile walk most days. Been trying to keep a pace that makes me sweaty even in the cool weather of my area. I'm back down to the weight I was after the Kaiser thing (50 lbs lost), but I'm not craving all the things I did then.

Diet has basically been whole grains, lots of veggies, turkey, fruit, nuts, oats, and the occasional fish. Overnight oats is my go-to breakfast - steel cut oats, chia seeds, soy
milk, fruit, nuts. I've been making a bunch of things from the Forks over Knives vegan diet. I can't bring myself to go full vegan, I love fish too much. Either way, mostly keeping it under 1700 calories a day.

I recently joined my friends' gym group and plan to go regularly. Been keeping up with them for the last two weeks so we'll see where that goes. Maybe try to get some muscles to fill in some of the loose skin I'll have.
A delivery app in my area has hundreds of options of pizza delivery and not a single option for a salad place. I don’t get it, but it is true that eating healthy is just harder.
Good points. I think comedy boils down to absurdity, personally. So seeing absurd situations makes people act and feel weird until they realize it's only for show and they're not going crazy.

It also explains why people have different tastes. Some people don't like British comedy because their absurdity may be different than an American's. For example a lot I watched in the 90s was a man dressed as a woman or some such, which may not be absurd to us today.
Microsoft 365 Defender for Endpoint with the Datadog integration
A physio I went to see about some neck / shoulder issues said that the reason standing desks are good is that they make you move, not that they make you stand per se. He took part in a study where he had to stand completely still for as long as possible and it was very painful after a short time. The value in standing desks is therefore that they make people move - if you stand really still it's not going to help. When using my standing desk I find myself doing things like the lower part of the yoga tree pose, moving in time to music that I'm listening to, and so on. I have a height-adjustable desks and manage about half a day of standing, then sit down in the afternoon. That works really well for me.
The public really is an idiot though, unfortunately.
Do these browser options, which I will note are currently disabled by default, not work for you?

| Browser | Option | Enabled by default |
|---------|-----------------------|--------------------|
| Firefox | dom.webgpu.enabled | Not yet! |
| Chrome | #enable-unsafe-webgpu | Not yet! |

I imagine this has something to do with why browser vendors have taken so long to ship WebGPU (another complaint I hear from WebGPU skeptics frequently), but what do I know.
Does maintaining a system for political reasons remove the technical drawbacks?

We’re mostly engineers on this board, have you never had to build a substandard system to meet the political needs of a higher up and then watched it blow up in their face as reality doesn’t care about political needs?
These are usually domains that belong to a disposable email service, be it public or private.

I maintain a 100% free API [1] to check if an email belongs to a disposable email service. We dogfood the same API endpoint to prevent users who abuse disposable emails to create fake accounts for free trial credits.

We use the domains found at https://www.stopforumspam.com/downloads amongst other sources of data. Works pretty well. We have close to eliminated fake account registration with the use of Recaptcha.

[1]: https://nubela.co/proxycurl/disposable-email-checker-api
Initially I was in a similar boat, but recently I stumbled on a way to be more aware and positive about the change.

I lost 55 pounds and still felt like a chonker. At the time, I only had about 10 pounds to go to hit the "ideal weight" I'd set for myself (which was still at the high end of the acceptable range, based on BMI). I never did hit that number; I ended up wandering around that plateau for 1-2 years, feeling thoroughly fat the entire time.

A recent injury led to me not being able to lift (for now), and so I've lost about 3-7 pounds of muscle and gained about 14-18 pounds of fat. Now I can definitely notice the difference! For me, it's the little stuff that really drove it home -- my face is noticeably chubbier (to me), and my rings and shoes fit more tightly.

I wouldn't recommend going about it this way, but it definitely drove home a lot of retroactive gratitude for what I had -- and sparked some motivation to get it back.
I assure you that the difference between a $2k and $20 grinder is vast. Reasonably competent, usable espresso grinders generally start at hundreds of dollars and go up from there. If you can figure out how to make a good one for $20, you’ll make a fortune. Same goes for the machine.
But you only have to rebuild the VM software once to get access to all kinds of software that ran on that architecture.
A list of london prostitutes, with reviews! Or am I missunderstanding?

Also fun to see the changing of single letters in the names to stars and dashes. This is used on the biggest independent forum host in Sweden (flashback.se) when naming suspects in crimes. I assume this is done elsewere too.
I haven't dialed back my coffee consumption, but I have dialed back the caffeine. I love the taste of coffee at least as much as I love the morning ritual. I tried tea and coffee alternatives, but they never took. I stopped entirely for about 6-7mos, but didn't notice any significant differences (e.g., sleep was the same, anxiety no worse but no better, etc.)

If you like coffee, but don't like the occasional jitters or anxiety that caffeine can bring with it, go decaf or 1/2 caf. Decaf gets a bad rap.
I wonder if those people taught Google the idea of insisting famous candidates solve their pet leetcoder challenge before they can go another round of interviews?

Perelman, when asked for his CV, "You have heard my lecture why would you need anymore information?" Then proceeds to leave.
In fourth grade we had a paper airplane contest, but they had a restriction on the design: a circle about the size of a quarter was on the page, and no fold or crease could go through the circle.

The circle was located a few inches above the exact center of the paper.

Anyway I made a "dart", and just offset the angle a little to avoid the circle. It was good, and most of the competition was incredibly bad. And a few maybe had a bad launch. One throw only.

One clever design was submitted by a duo composed of my two worst nine year old enemies: Derek and Derek's sidekick. It was basically a UFO (saucer) made by carefully crumpling the edge until it was a nice size to throw. They threw it sidearm with one finger hooked around the rim.

It really sailed, maybe went twice as far as the second best plane: my plane.

But their plane was disqualified on the grounds that it wasn't a plane. So, I was deemed winner.

For the announcements the next morning, my name was announced as the wrong-gendered version (something like Jesse announced as Jessica) and it definitely didn't feel like a win anymore.

I still like paper airplanes, though.
RSA Animate: How to Help Every Child Fulfil Their Potential
A really great video about helping children develop a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset. I think this absolutely applies to entrepreneurs as well.
Amazing. I'm grateful for the way this universe creates magical experiences for us. Sometimes I wonder if it really is just an accident.
It is definitely why. I know nothing about the fields medal beyond that movie.
I used beta over month. It was great experience. But not that great for 10USD/month.

Subsribtion business model annoys me quite a lot. I want be charged for actuall use.
That translates to "They'll be as good as others, but far more likely to leave" doesn't it? Still not a good signal for hiring.
As Tagbert noted in their response, your suggested solution does not work.

Imagine you have an 18 digit number that happens to end in a couple zeros and Excel "helpfully" converts this to scientific notation. Ok, you say, just set the number format, except then you don't get your original number, you get something else. This is because Excel (and Google Sheets) silently convert numbers. At least in Google Sheets if you explicitly Import a sheet you can uncheck the box to convert and it will come in as plain text, but you have to do that every time.

So yes, I would prefer to just display long numbers. It's not paper and I can resize columns to fit.
Had the same tool for years but never made it public since there was. no expectation of any interest.

At some point I was thinking of dealing with HSBC PDF statements, but they supply them in non-split form so you need to OCR it first and then process. Was too much hassle at the moment
It still holds a pretty compelling position in the cultural zeitgeist - it's become an object beyond an event, largely decoupled from its origination by virtue of its excellence.
Have you ever hired a car before? You pay for the time you have the car, and you also pay a certain amount as a "deposit". This is money that the rental place keeps, and when you bring the car back undamaged they give you the deposit back. If you damage the car, you don't get your deposit back.

This is the same idea.

Buy a device with a battery, pay some small amount as a deposit, get your deposit back when you bring it back for recycling.
My friends and I could never get any of the pointy darts to work with a hard throw--they never had the right balance not to loop or nosedive at high speed. What we settled on as the most satisfying to hurl is this design (found online widely under this name; requires letter proportion paper): https://www.instructables.com/The-Hammer-Paper-Airplane/

Carefully made, it flies straight when yeeted without trimming, and the blunt nose handles landings without damage. I surmise that the fold along the entire edge of the wing contributes to high-speed performance by preventing the trailing edge from fluttering. Could this also be why the world record designs tend to have winglets?

A design that's amusing to experiment with is the most minimalistic glider, made with a heavy roll-fold of the leading edge of the paper and three parallel folds forming the wings and fuselage.[1] The parameters being length & number of folds and camber of the wings, it can be tuned to manage a hard throw straight before stalling and leveling out to a long flight in phugoid motion.

Flying rings are interesting, too. The rotationally symmetrical type formed from only a roll fold and tape (purity notwithstanding) are similarly minimalistic

[1] like this without the winglets, thus a case against my theory of wing support: https://www.origamiway.com/plane-spy-plane.shtml
> it feels a lot more like excess skin

That’s exactly what it is. When one loses a lot of wait after holding it for a while the skin may not be able to shrink back down. There are various remedies for that from supplements to surgery but you should talk to a medical professional about your options.