skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Literally every study, from rats to humans and from obesity to cancer to gut microbiome to mood to oral health to chronic inflammation shows that dietary sugar is harmful. Modern Americans eat unprecedented amounts of refined sugar compared to any point in history.

Emphasis on refined sugar.

Most food products, even meat in trace amounts, has some level of some form of sugar in it.

Added sugars are not needed in mass amounts for sure.
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In the US, portion size, calorie density, frequency of eating high calorie foods are contributing to people getting a lot fatter a lot faster than before. We now have instant gratification in food delivery services. Get anything you want without leaving home.

In fast food, people are eating a day's worth of food in one sitting. Triple burger, large fries, large drink. People are doing this once a day every day of the week.Then they go home and order more high calorie food with high calorie drinks and constant snacking.

It is amazing to see how much more obese people have gotten in the last decade, and the % of fat people has gone up a lot, too.

Restaurants of all types serve massive portions, and people eat it without thinking or realizing they are eating a day's worth of calories in one meal, and I haven't touched on the amount of fat, sugar, and sodium they are packing away.

The fact that people today have shorter lifespans than their parents should be sounding alarms everywhere, but there is nothing but silence.
> the gifted and talented communities.

As in gifted and talented individuals who form a community, or all these folks from this ethnic background you think are talented? Because if it's the former then I'm surprised they've got a community going, and if it's the latter you would be better served getting the calipers out and go measure some skulls instead to promote that nonsense.
I had to leave California so my gifted child could get a proper education. Now he's getting it, while I'm paying roughly half in property taxes.
From the enterprise perspective, the purpose of Agile was to fail while giving the appearance of the greatest and most conscientious possible effort. "If it can't be done this way, it can't be done at all": time to gift more tens of millions of dollars to IBM and Oracle and Microsoft.
Taking methylcobalamin B12 supplements essentially fixed my memory problems. Early on I tried out the cyanocobalamin type and got absolutely nothing from it.

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> Microsoft says Word and Excel AI data scraping was not switched to enabled by default (Updated)

This seems to be a misunderstanding.
You shouldn't have to, but you would be taking a massive risk, and risk becoming a medical statistic when worms grow and multiply, also entering various organs.

In me, canned tuna caused major problems that required antibiotics to resolve after conducting thousands of dollars of tests. The tuna evidently had certain highly inflammatory bacteria. I consider myself lucky that the antibiotic worked at all.
Apple's Live Captions are often worse than nothing
> This is 3/4 of the way to admitting that the evidence clearly favors evolution.

I never denied the process of evolution. I made that very clear from the start. The Creator may have indeed created us through a process of evolution. This point is irrelevant to me. My claims were:

1. that abiogenesis is understood or reproducible, and that claim still stands. If you believe it is, that still requires a leap of faith. Anyway we'll just have to wait and see - I wait to meet my creator after death in some form, and you wait for science to resolve the origin of life mechanism. However even if it were resolved, I still say:

2. That even if the Creator created us through a process of evolution (entirely possible), that was intentional, not a series of random mutations. Fermi's paradox is evidence of this, and there is more evidence, like this very article we are commenting on (mystery of life's handedness).

Scientism is the faith that requires you to simply believe that humans are somehow special in their ability to create intentionally, while everything else is random Nature. How does a product of random Nature (you) make any meaningful claim at all? If you’re just a random mutation then everything you say is just random mutations and I don’t see any reason to refute it.

If we use the standard of evidence required in any court of law to establish "intent", evidence such as Fermi's paradox is more than enough to establish that life was "intentionally" created. Again, the points about "how" this creation happened are irrelevant, perhaps by a process of evolution, but certainly not randomly.
> I always read ahead of the curve and have a short-term near-photographic memory, and so excelled at recall-based examination, which is most of the liberal arts and social studies in school.

Then you were definitely under-served by your school. An encyclopedia of knowledge is useful, but these subjects are almost entirely about critical thinking. At the best schools, students are expected to complete about ten pages of writing across all their subjects each week by eight grade. That's a pretty high workload for teachers though, so I guess it makes sense that schools with a lower teacher to student ratio have to take shortcuts and use different instruments to assess their students. However, it does mean that students without writing experience spend a significant portion of their college careers catching up with their peers.
Ah interesting. I'll have to dive in deeper here. If I understand correctly this essentially gives you exclusive core pinning? Do you find that you this reduces total utilization when workloads burst but they don't leverage the other unused cores?
If I wanted to say unnatural I would have said unnatural. I said factory.

Factories come with a mountain of lubricants, plastics, metals, agents, colorings, flavorings, etc that are poisonous. They are poisonous because we were not evolved to consume them. That's just 1 of many reasons factory made foods are bad.

> we're not adapted to a lot of things but that doesn't make it good or bad or problematic

These things would be good for you in spite of the fact that you're not adapted to it.

There are far more many things that you are not adapted to that would kill you. Your list is hilariously arguable (VR might actually be bad for you lol). My list would consist of basic inarguable things like, fish can breathe underwater naked, humans cannot, and my list would be inexhaustibly long.
Congrats on the launch! Definitely a needed product. BTW, your docs link is broken, but working docs link is here: https://www.humanlayer.dev/docs/introduction
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While I generally agree with the sentiment that we should be cutting added sugar. I have to point out that sugar is naturally occurring in most whole foods. Nearly everything will have at least a little sucrose, glucose, or fructose in it.

Most of the body's natural way of generating energy involves turning macronutrients into glucose and later into ATP. sucrose and fructose just so happen to have very short and very fast routes to conversion.

That fast path is what I think makes sugar particularly problematic (as well as honey and a whole lot of other "natural" sweeteners that are just repackaged *oses). That big jolt of energy which the body ends up converting to fat since it has nothing to do with it is (probably) where most of the problem lay.
With most problems in society there is a huge stumbling block that people aren't actually interested in resolving because it conflicts with their other interests.

For example: homelessness. The number one cause of and solution to homelessness is... housing. Housing is too expensive. Housing needs to be cheaper. But too many people have a vested financial interest in maintaining and growing high prices.

Interestingly, high property prices are a big contributing factor here too. Schools are funded by a mix of Federal, state and local taxes and a big part of local taxes come from property taxes. So the wealthier areas get better-funded schools. It's economic segregation in the same vein as redlining.

California in particular has created a massive funding hole through Prop 13, which is essentially a massive tax break for the state's wealthiest residents.

I would add another dimension to this: how gifted? 99th percentile students will largely be fine. There are scholarships and progrrams to find and nurture these people. You start to see more disparities when you look at the 90-98th percentiles. If you're from an affluent background, you're going to be fine. If you're from a poorer background, it's way more likely that things go wrong for you. Your quality of school matters. You may catch a criminal charge of some kind, which can entirely derail your life.

While all this is going on there are significant and organized efforts to dismantle the public education system (ie "school choice" or "vouchers"), which are nothing more than a wealth transfer from the government to the providers of private education at the expense of everybody else.
I agree. Classification of UPFs seems more to be a "religious purity" discussion than actuall classification of good/bad

Univariable classifications are usually not helpful, and this seems to just confirm it. In the same way "sugar free" or "fat free" make little sense
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Perhaps you need several program levels? remedial, normal, advanced and gifted.

My naive take is that there is a need for each. remedial helps kids to catch up. Normal is where you have perhaps 70% of the students, advanced where you have kids with more natural ambition in some subjects and gifted is where you send the top 5%?
Nova does not make any judgment on the healthiness of foods, to my knowledge. The problem is that people take the extremely broad classification of UPFs by Nova, infer health detriments, and then cast judgment on the overly broad UPF classification as if everything in that category is equally as bad.

Here's a reminder of the Nova UPF classification:

> Industrially manufactured food products made up of several ingredients (formulations) including sugar, oils, fats and salt (generally in combination and in higher amounts than in processed foods) and food substances of no or rare culinary use (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified starches and protein isolates). Group 1 foods are absent or represent a small proportion of the ingredients in the formulation. Processes enabling the manufacture of ultra-processed foods include industrial techniques such as extrusion, moulding and pre-frying; application of additives including those whose function is to make the final product palatable or hyperpalatable such as flavours, colourants, non-sugar sweeteners and emulsifiers; and sophisticated packaging, usually with synthetic materials. Processes and ingredients here are designed to create highly profitable (low-cost ingredients, long shelf-life, emphatic branding), convenient (ready-to-(h)eat or to drink), tasteful alternatives to all other Nova food groups and to freshly prepared dishes and meals. Ultra-processed foods are operationally distinguishable from processed foods by the presence of food substances of no culinary use (varieties of sugars such as fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, 'fruit juice concentrates', invert sugar, maltodextrin, dextrose and lactose; modified starches; modified oils such as hydrogenated or interesterified oils; and protein sources such as hydrolysed proteins, soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein and 'mechanically separated meat') or of additives with cosmetic functions (flavours, flavour enhancers, colours, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners, thickeners and anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing agents) in their list of ingredients.

A few items that stick out like a sore thumb to me regarding healthiness:

* How could sophisicated packaging, usually with synthetic materials impact health?

* How does making something highly profitably necessarily impact health?

* Nova's definition of something with 'no culinary use' is extremely biased in my view. How do specific sugars (each with specific properties that are useful) have no culinary use? How are protein mixes not culinarily useful?

* Nova's definition of 'cosmetic function' is also just.. stupid in my view. Flavors are cosmetic? Emulsifiers are cosmetic? By this definition, adding MSG to a food makes it UPF.
While that is undoubtedly true, Leica never really catered to the 'I could do with a dedicated camera' crowd, but rather to the 'I am passionate about photography and am reasonably well-heeled' or 'I am obscenely rich and would like to show off' crowd.

That, and presumably a lot of their revenue is from licencing their brand name to all sorts of phone manufacturers.

I wouldn't be surprised if their own rangefinder line (which is what I believe most people into photography associate with the Leica brand) was at best breaking even - it is merely a means to maintain the cachet of the brand, methinks. YMMV.

(Said as a longtime Leica enthusiast, but the digital Ms are out of my (comfortable) reach - when out shooting rangefinders, it is mostly a Leica M4 (1968) or a Cosina/Zeiss Ikon ZM (2005-ish, methinks)
There seems to be a lot of context missing from these articles.

Mercado Libre has its own payment tech. They're like a latin american Amazon+Stripe. I don't know if that plays a role in what is being disputed, but it is worth mentioning.

Mercado Libre also started distributing Disney+ content, similar to Prime. If you buy stuff often, you get a good discount in a Disney+ subscription. This seems to be related to the complaint about restrictions in digital content distribution.

The whole interaction seems to be public (email exchanges and documents, in brazillian portuguese):

https://sei.cade.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_process...
It wasn't just the bottom line, communism was also killing a lot of people and not very nice on the human rights front. It didn't spread with ease due to helpful investment, it spread at gun point due to their ease at killing people. Possibly coming to Taiwan soon. You can see how the capitalist profit extraction works by looking at the poverty in south Korea compared to the utopia up north.
In general, I find that explicit code is more easily read than implicit code. I prefer static over dynamic typing, I actually _like_ the explicitness of async/await or the IO monad. If something allows me to find out information about my current context without having to move up or down the stack and reading the code in other functions, I'm pretty happy about that something, because reading code is slow and tedious. What is it about implicit code that makes you feel it's more readable?
FP is not a silver bullet. GUI is the classic OOP showcase.

> Ideally, you should be able compose them several of them into a single app and not have a custom implementation of a giant state

If you are suggesting that components store their state, I'm not sure about "ideal" there. That works well for small GUI applications. In GUI applications of modest size, you do want a separate, well-organized and non-redundant data layer you can make sense of, at least from my experience. Qt, specifically, allows you to do both things.
Yep.

The US and Brazil knew how to breed enslaved people.

Therefore today, Brazil has the largest slave descended population, and the US has the second largest.
> His [Wells'] novels are not social novels at all.

The science fiction novels for which Wells is best known form a small part of his fiction output, and are from early in his career. Most of his ca. 50 novels are "social", propagandistic and dull, and known mostly to literature professors.

As for Wells' non-fiction work, all I can say is don't confuse "opinionated" with "knowledgeable". Wells was a prolific writer but not a careful scholar. He was at one point failed out of college.
If it was that simple I'm sure we would have seen it already. I imagine any gifted program, and you can imagine it in any way you like, will inevitably promote a majority from a certain group, thus by definition will be a target for every discrimination complaint - because basically it will be supporting and pumping more money to an already privileged group. So somebody has to decide: either targeted to constant fussing and worse, or no program at all and wait for the somewhat fewer gifted from the group with possibilities to still bubble up. Of course this can change every few years, and given a ideal situation when you had addressed the challenges of poverty, you can draft now a challenge-free gifted program. Note: From the start we assume that the gifted deserve more from public school, thus we call them "neglected" when they seem to be simply treated the same.
Good thing you don't need to follow what everyone else does :)
True. And what is an "illegal state" anyway? If two options are "mutually incompatible" it means that they, as far as we know, so far, have never occured at the same time.

But that is just how things are currently. The world may change. And it's important to strive for maintainable code that can accommodate such change easily.

Expanding company operations to work in a different country is an example of this (our) "world changing". States that never occur together here, may occur together there. Or in the future more generally.

So, making illegal states non-representable is about avoiding errors in respect to the system specification. But it does not take into account the fact that in the real world specifications typically evolve and change even during development, and perhaps more so later.
Hold up, is that illustrious Sprout Social alumni Dex Horthy? If you and Ravi are in SF we should catch up after the holidays.
> This is definitely not true for poorer gifted students:

I don't think that's as big of an issue because kids have access to teachers, libraries and the internet.

> Gathering gifted kids together, instead of bunching them with lowest common denominators, can result in lifelong friendships.

Kid's together creates the opportunity for friendships. Focusing too much on academics at a young age will miss key milestones for social development. It's particularly acute for high functioning autistic kids.
Centrum is a start, but it is not great for dozens of reasons. It would contain B6, the pyridoxine form, not the P5P form, and not in a dose that's sufficient for stress reduction. I take all individual vitamins and individual minerals.
The goal should be to allow them to self-study topics ahead of time. For example, if a third grader has already demonstrated mastery of third grade material, they should be given textbooks from the fourth grade to study on their own. And if they can do fourth grade topics, go to fifth grade topics.
… centuries of disadvantage compounding over generations? The predictable outcomes of poverty?

People talk about those all the time.
I am a layperson for astrochemistry but IIRC comets have much higher hydrocarbon content by an order of magnitude or more (and obviously more water, fewer metals to contend with for extraction energy requirements).

Anyone have more insights? Did I miss mention of comets in my skim of the paper?

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Right, I understand. But my question is, how do you _ensure_ a failure value is dealt with by clients? In purely functional languages, your clients have no choice, they'll have to do something with it. In imperative languages, they can just ignore it.
>It's almost impossible to know if an idea is good at the early stages

But identifying the "right" people is easy?
I forgot about VisiData. Great tool too.
> settled on racist teachers

If the population of gifted kids is statistically over-represented by white kids, then one of these must be true:

• The test doesn't measure giftedness, but rather level of education. So we would expect kids from worse schools to perform worse. This is institutional racism. The opportunity is not equal.
• Gifted kids from minority communities don't have equal access to the test or the classes. This is institutional racism. The opportunity is not equal.
• White kids are smarter. They all took the same test, white kids came out on top. This is a racist belief with a millennia of discredited science to back it up.

No racist teacher required.
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“Allowed” is determined by The Elders of the community. Also, this does not go against the Amish ethos - they were not dependent on this for living. The day-to-day would have still been off-grid. Someone noticed they could make some extra money off The English and it was acceptable.
I don't believe it. Almost every kid in America has access to the internet, a public library and a teacher. How many don't have access to any of those? That's a different problem.
>This creates an extremely obvious conflict of interest.

That's not necessarily bad though. People like to throw out these terms that sometimes have negative connotation as if they are inherently negative. If you think the conflict of interest is a bad thing, you need to elaborate on why you feel it's bad, not just pretend it's prima facia bad.
I was under the impression that playwright was (a very good) how your code behaves when actually running in a browser testing library, and vitest was a how your code behaves on its own testing library.

But I'd tend to have relatively independent test suites for my frontend model/state layer and the "how it behaves live in a browser" stuff because that way if I'm not currently iterating on my view components I can test the rest of my frontend code changes without having to faff with headless browser instances.

(obviously you'd then want to run both before committing, and again under CI before merge, but still)

Depending on how thin your model/state layer is (and if you have a Sufficiently Rich Backend then it can probably be very thin without that being an issue) your situation may not match mine, of course.

But y'know, free data point, worth exactly what you paid :D