skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obesity was never an issue in human society before the 60s.

1) A lot of people still had food scarcity up through the 1980s.

I think people on these forums don't remember prior to 1980 very well. When I was child, there were definitely students who were obviously malnourished. There is a reason we're still fighting for school meals.

My family didn't plant gardens to be hip; we planted gardens to have food. It was really common. Your garden and canning was the difference between hungry and sufficient.

Worldwide, heights for men in various countries peaked in the 1980s. That suggests that prior to 1980 there genuinely WAS caloric deficit for the average person.

This is one of the reasons why I tend to goggle at people explaining to me about the "Good Old Days(tm)" prior to the 1980s. WTF? Everybody I knew was some level of poor. My family all worked those "good" mill and mine jobs, and we still all had gardens and hoarded repair parts. Sending their kids to college was a difficult financial decision--especially if they had multiple children (very common back then). I can go on and on. I really want to know where were those "Good Old Days(tm)" because nobody in family sure as hell ever saw them.

2) Nicotine is a remarkably good appetite suppressant.

Smoking was rampant before the 1980s. One of the standard answers among the sorority sisters to the "Freshman 15" was to take up smoking. It generally worked on their weight.

It would be interesting to correlate the drop in smoking in various countries with the rise in obesity. I suspect nobody in the medical community wants to do this because the conclusion is not something they're going to want to publicize.

3) Japan really did have food scarcity.

Japan had widespread malnourishment from the 1940s for several decades. We know because of the height differentials. Suppressed height almost always correlates with food scarcity.

And, now that they don't have scarcity, their height and weights went up. And, it's only in the 30 year olds that Japan has almost caught up in heights. And Japan is now seeing obesity in the younger cohorts.
There's no hoarding or saving. The wage/rent ratio is insanely skewed. This isn't a 'be smart' situation it's a 'something has to change before the bottom falls out' situation.
> The ability to identify text via search, to summarize and read contents (with just enough contextual capability to be useful) and to output relevant results is rather close, conceptually, to the potential of language models. The difference between what we actually have – competing and discrete systems owned by corporations – and LCARS (besides many orders of magnitude of greater sophistication in the fictional system) is that LCARS is presented as an integrated, holistic and scoped system. LCARS’ design is to be a library that enables access to knowledge and retrieves results based on queried criteria.

But hasn't their been decades worth of work on just that sort of generic system that could work on whatever data sources you have without needing to be trained on a ridiculously huge corpus of data? But that nobody ever figured it out, and the "fuck it, train this thing on all human-generated text we can find" won out over trying to build search + summarization + relevant result generation from first principals?

Sure, you can imagine that future. And people have tried to build it. But I haven't seen any reason to believe that it hasn't worked because of some sort of "too many academics captured by Google" issue. Google didn't even manage to be the first company to commercialize this alternate approach, after all!
Why does this article contain funny comics in between the paras ? Getting emotionally wrecked and a funny comic appears out of the blue in between the paragraph feels really weird.
Unsurprisingly, Americans generally evaluate American media by American standards.
Your quote says represent the levels not generate the levels right?
Man, I learned so much about good architecture from just hanging out on Freenode in a few programming channels.

At some point, the business world called, and I stopped spending time on IRC. And I haven't kept up, but I think something happened with Freenode, and the communities faded away, right?

Those were simpler times, I suppose. We were working with all the new frameworks of the day, and it was the grizzled old engineers alongside the young hotshots — and none of it mattered, because all anyone saw was your nick and your code. You'd put some interesting snippet up on one of those anonymous paste sites, and the critique would roll in.

I don't know how kids these days learn about dependency injection, the downsides of singleton architectures, the art of API design, or the nuanced tradeoffs of using an ORM to abstract over a relational model. But I rather enjoyed learning it all "on the streets" of IRC — frankly a far more welcoming and engineering-focused atmosphere than many tech companies.
I don't think people watching their cars rust before their eyes will go over well. Did we forget acid rain already? 1991 was not that long ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/09/news/new-paint-new-cars-a...
Overshoot is the term used in systems ecology. Here is a good primer by Prof. William E. Rees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVe8-eKSK8
What you describe sounds more "fake it till you make it" than "will to win" :)
That would seem to setup a situation where Reddit has to fill a gap of a huge amount of moderation work that they previously didn’t have to do / people did that for them for free.
Lol at the assumption "never heard of"
The Adventures of Writing a CHIP8 Emulator
I think this sort of argument misses the point of my comment. I really don't want to write serious software with Perl, I want something more powerfull than AWK, but not as cumbersome as a more "structured" language. I literally use AWK daily for random stuff I'm most likely gonna throw away or put it in a script which I'm gonna throw away happily the moment it breaks. Sometimes, AWK is not enough, and for these usecases, in my short expirience, Perl is unmached.
Weather events, by themselves, are just individual data points. But once you start looking at the big picture, it's difficult to not notice patterns. And said patterns are extremely alarming.
There's no way to get from https://non.io/#all back to https://non.io without manually editing the browser URL?

Is this a real project or another collect-HN-users-IP-addresses scheme?
I can't really fathom it either, it feels somewhat like a self-reinforcing cycle which may have started from the earlier hunter-gatherer days. I'm just satisfied that in our recent generations we've quickly started to abandon a lot of these malignant ideas.
Looks nice, but I can't register because Cloudflare hates Firefox users.

(I was able to register an account using Chrome)
She survived a White House lightning strike. Could she survive what came next?
I recently published this article and it's been weird to see how divided the community it is on this.

It feels that half of my inbox is people yelling "we've been running this in production", the other half yelling "this is this worst thing to do in the cloud next to leaving S3 buckets open".

I'd love to know your sentiment if you have one as I didn't expect to hit such a nerve.
Is this an allegory for mass immigration?
There's also the padding vulnerability CVE-2013-3900 that still isn't mitigated by default.
US Military Needs Women
Thank you. That inspired me to try out the lemmy android app. But that
was quite underwhelming. We'll see where that goes.
We don't have a community yet, but sift (https://sift.quest/) is aiming to be a comprehensive alternative.

We've got some new ideas around dealing with cross posts:
* posts can have multiple tags and be findable from any of them
* all posts to the same url map to the same backend node (so you don't get as many duplicates)

I'm actually most excited about what we're trying to do with regards to the low effort content and degradation of communities aspects.

At our core we're actually a reputation/trust/"how much do I want to see things from this person" graph that has recently pivoted to being a Reddit alternative. This means that (once we get the community going and our algorithms tuned up), we should be able to offer you much more ergonomic ability to choose how much of what kind of content you want to see (people who like memes can post them, but you can choose not to see them.

We're still in alpha and don't have much of a community yet, but we're adding features fast and will be very friendly and responsive to any feature requests you have.
Reddit is odd.... while most communities hate the mods, they hate admins far more. Admins taken over a subreddit would kill it in the eyes of the users.
Aw come on now, don’t play coy, you know what I meant :)

That just as we went from hunting and gathering to farms and now cities, internet grew from a few people having access in universities and some tech corporations, to now phones in the hands of children in villages.

Let’s be more inclusive and dare I say progressive even?

I, for one, am not hankering to gather and hunt.
I wonder how much would a government intelligence or defense department who controls millions of bot accounts be willing to pay per month in order to have even a small percentage of power over who gets to mod (for example) r/ukraine?
Bill Gates purchased farms clandestinely on a massive scale

Clandestine means secrete and illegal. If it was secret, how do you know about it and if it was illegal, what was illegal about it?

Bill Gates famously funded a "mini-nukes" company to make smaller footprint nuclear power plants, and portable nuclear generators.

So what? Where is the connection to a smaller nuclear reactor coming from?
I don't know, but this Morningstar article from 2013 says...

"Even though personal rates of return are crucial numbers for any investor trying to reach a goal, few fund families provide these returns on investors' account statements. Why not? Many fund companies brush off any suggestions for improved disclosure by arguing that providing more information would only confuse investors, or by pointing to surveys showing that shareholders are satisfied with the status quo."
https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/65362/understanding-yo...

In any case, for me, the PRR is the best measure I know to understand how my portfolio is performing. I don't think it's confusing... if my PRR is 10%, it means that a fixed-rate account with a 10% APY would have provided the same returns when applying to it the same cash inflows and outflows as my investments. I think that effectively communicates the performance of the portfolio (and lets me compare it with other portfolios, or particular investments).
>Use some wit

The author's aunt was brutally murdered.
RP2040 ZX Spectrum 48/128K emulator available
>"woke culture" doesn't actually exist.

Well woke culture does seem to exist since so many people talk about it, and it has its own term in our lexicon. I could give you a million examples of it, but I think you already know what it is.

>great anecdote

You are right, all I have are anecdotes. I'm just a normal person with regular every-day experiences; my opinions are formed after living there for many years. But I will tell you, that I have had a lot of conversations with people that have these ideas in the Bay. Like, the majority of my friends in the Bay have this opinion that the future is too bleak, the planet is doomed, having a kid is bad for the planet, blah blah. It seems significant to me because these are people who can definitely afford to have kids, but choose not to because of their ideas about our horrible doomed future.
Oh god me too. Doom scrolling habit for sure. I had to remove the Apollo icon from my Home Screen to force myself to take part in the protest.
I don't think there's any mainstream language where the basics of the language change every two weeks or people have to rewrite things every three weeks.

I realize you're exaggerating and that you don't literally means 2 or 3 weeks, but I have Python programs I haven't touched in about 10 years that I still regularly use and that still work fine. Some of my oldest Go programs from over 7 years ago still work fine, and I'm pretty sure that if I were to try running some of my older Ruby or PHP programs (some of which is >10 years old) today it would still work either out of the box or with a few small changes (IIRC some of the defaults in PHP changed wrt. errors, so that might need a little bit of fiddling).

Even JavaScript – the poster child of "rewrite every 2 weeks" – is pretty compatible. You don't need to switch to $new_js_framework and many people use older stuff just fine. The language itself is pretty compatible (almost to a fault, arguably).
> specifically I'd like to have a automatically updated backup of my wife's Instagram account.

Instaloader is pretty good for backing up Instagram accounts but it's easy to trigger Instagram's anti-bot protections using it. I use a secondary account to avoid locking out my main and even then it took ~4 days to download my 9k posts because of the lockouts and rate-limiting. But once you've got the main bulk down, you can run it once a day to fill in anything new and that's pretty reliable.
There are infra-red illuminators.
Not American, but DocuSign is becoming quite popular in my country and was deemed as a legal way of signing documents by courts.
> A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,”

Calling bullshit on that one. If they had expected stability issues, and knew exactly which subreddits will go private and when, how is it possible they had so much "anticipated issues"?
I'm not saying 3500 is "alright", it's definitely still expensive!

I would say 6500 is too much for a better version of something I already have that doesn't really enable any additional usecases. The Vision Pro would be used pretty differently than my Vive (which is just the occasional gaming session right now). I'd think of it as more competing with iPads, external monitors, and laptops than a Varjo right now.
The person you are replying to never said that Berlusconi was a fascist (he wasn't), just that his rise to power helped enable the far right populism and legimitized/emboldened a lot of fascist thinkers. That's pretty much a fact.
The main reason why reddit works as a platform is because its mods and subreddit regulars do a lot of unpaid work. Where is reddit going to find enough people to work for free on such short notice?
There needs to be a way to incentivize long-lived, stable corporations. Maybe going public simply makes that impossible, but the target of consistent profit rather than infinite growth is so much heather. I guess that don't make VC money though huh.

The problem is, theres just no ramifications for pumping a company to its death.
Seems to be along the lines of, "I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of the Echo device." I do not get this mindset at all.
How is this actually accomplished, though?
Looks pretty good and a non-profit seems perfect for something like this.

I do have to say, I really dislike the card design that seems pretty much ubiquitous at this point. By introducing a border, you need to add a bunch of padding and then margins. Between two titles, you have padding (from the upper card), border, margin, border(lower card), padding. It's so much whitespace!

How do comments work? Can you have infinitely nested comment threads? If so, I'm not sure your API will scale? Do you need to fetch replies for each comment recursively? That'll be a pretty bad experience, since you need to wait for one comment level to load before you can fetch the next one. But maybe I'm misunderstanding the API docs.
It's a hybrid model, and I'd be curious if people like this or not as it's been something I'm fiddling with.

Note that when you vote, you upvote the tag itself. The vote within the tag determines its order when browsing the tag itself. So if something is tagged with #formula1 and has 483 upvotes for the tag, it will appear high in the #formula1 list view. If it's also tagged with #funny with 1 upvote, it will appear low in the #funny list despite the high votes on #formula1.
Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61B VMware deal, sources say
I really have a problem with Discord how to choose a discussion, find a link and stay on topic. I see Discord as a modern IRC tbh but far from Reddit. Perhaps im using Discord in the wrong way. May i ask which type of communities do you follow in Discord ?
I actually think this might be a good thing. If the people looking for modern social media (mindless scroll dopamine hits) stay on Reddit that's less noise for the rest of us who are looking for internet community. There's so much discourse about this right now, so many discussions about alternatives, the nature of internet community, etc. I'm hopeful we'll see a resurgence of smaller communities full of people who actually want to talk to each other, not just scroll mindless content.

Let them have Reddit, we can do better.
Part of the problem is that when Google really wants a feature for themselves, they'll plow through and implement it in Chrome regardless of any concerns raised or input offered by Mozilla and Apple, creating "nonstandard standards" much like those created by IE.
Well climate scientists have collected more proof than ever in the last 2 decades to back the models and predictions. What we see is _measured_, not just opinion.

And if you happen to read a bit about how biological systems, the weather systems, our economical systems, food supply et al. work together while keeping in mind that IPCC reports are _conservative_ about their predictions (meaning they rather underestimate than overestimate), you should really deeply be worried about the near-future outcome of the ongoings.

Just because we successfully hacked our nutrition system a 100ys ago does not mean that we'll be able to cope with how consumerism and agricultural intensification afterwards affects us with dozens of new problems. At some point it just gets too expensive and/or too complex for humans to solve.
If you want to know what's a Harlow's monkey, here's the story https://www.simplypsychology.org/harlow-monkey.html
Honestly I believe that hashtags only work on twitter due to the character limit. If hashtags were exempt from the character limit it would be a complete mess.
My only interaction with 4chan is when one day I discovered a /d/ thread devoted entirely to insulting me. I had never posted on it before, never posted after.

So, I think there is some additional gatekeeping: ability to ignore the fact that the one day the community decided to personally make me a target of their vitriol. :(
Another interesting one... maybe I'll give it a shot if I fail with vmware player and windows xp
Yes, I frequent subs like r/Electronics, r/Arduino and r/ElectricalEngineering.

While I sympathize with newbies, the incessant “My First Blinking LED” posts get old really fast. Especially when said LED DOESN’T blink, and they post a Fritzing thing instead of a circuit diagram.
You're right that 4chan has a high level of tolerance for hatespeech, but that's a secondary, derived characteristic from the anonymity and free speech absolutism. There's a level of humanity enabled by that that you don't see elsewhere.
Benefits of Accompanying Your Video with a Blog Post
Has the cost of lawyers and moderation been modelled? At $2/month spammers break even if they get like 5 clicks from all their posting on the platform, huge magnet for them, and content copypasters, if the platform gets some traction.
That page says if he doesn't fit into mega plan, it will cost him 50k per 50m reqs, or I am missing something?
yeah the games are not popular enough, unfortunately.
if you can 3d model in any capacity I reckon you can make VR apps, ive seen plenty of them done at game jams near here, including some that won. Don't need movie-quality textures or whatever, a cartoonly low-poly look works well. Don't let the player move, thats a can of worms.

speaking of 3d modelling, I taught myself this year in my spare time over a few weeks, and feel im pretty good at it now, ive made scifi wargaming terrain im happy with and almost considering selling some. Blender is free and good and there are literally endless high quality tutorials for almost any specific object you might want to make and after ten or so you will be able to generalise to anything simple you choose. Of course human bodies are more complicated and I was intimidated but I found sculpting caricatures fun despite not being an artist in the slightest after following an excellent tutorial
Hi Ladberg,

When you worked with Vision Pro, did it have a device native terminal and/or a device native ssh client?

What I mean by that is a terminal running under VisionOS, as opposed to getting terminal access by first connecting to a remote computer.
> It's common to translate a phrase into the most current version of the phrase in the target language

That is correct way of translating and not an violation. If the original author wrote the book with contemporary style, pleasant to read to people at the time, proper translation will produce contemporary text.

There is no reason to use archaisms or outdated language in translation if the original author was not using archaisms or outdated language.
after you and another commenter suggested it, I checked it out. It does look pretty interesting. Unfortunately I can't find any way to import my OPML so I'm a bit stuck. The discovery of feeds contrasts rather poorly with my podcast player. And forcing me to manually copy a whole bunch of hard to find urls one at a time is not a fun onboarding experience.
Interesting. I had a superficially similar thought, which is that subreddits look like a path to keeping "villages" while letting the platform grow. That would tend to entail multiple "villages" for the fast-growing interest groups, which is weird. I don't know how well that could work/be worked around.