skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll reply to all the dissenting comments just here to avoid duplication and since you were actually civil about it.

Yes that is the most likely answer I agree, however it doesn't make it the ONLY one. I have dieted using a 'food diary' and been amazed at how many calories you can eat/drink without realising it, it's really quite something.

HOWEVER, if she's so serious as to exercise that much, and knows the calories and it's at that low a level, it seems the error bars would likely preclude this.

I've noticed weird results when I've dieted where the 'energy equation' just does not match reality when I have dieted STRICTLY using a food diary and known-calorie food/drink. The 'dieting plateau' is famous and encountered by many so maybe there are more factors here.

Factors that might be at play (other than self-delusion):

1. Water/body fluid retention - This can vary quite a bit and is often (apparently) the explanation for dramatic results at the beginning of a diet. Water is dense enough for this to cause there to appear to be no weight change. In this case, the body fat _would_ be being used by the body as an energy source it just wouldn't show up in weight changes.

2. Inaccurate scales - It's surprising how often bathroom scales can be significantly off. Usually they are consistent + their delta, however maybe she measured on 2 different scales before and after (seems unlikely given how often we dieters like to check)

3. Use of muscle mass as an energy source - This can and does happen, though as I understand it usually as a 'last resort' by the body.

4. Reduced body temperature/energy usage - The body is capable of reducing energy used in starvation situations (though it renders you not feeling great often), this could happen here.

5. Change in efficiency of energy extracted from food - The body is complicated, it's not obvious that energy extracted from food will always remain the same.

6. Difference in diet composition - calories aren't the entire answer as some food is more easily digested than other food, and some types of food are more likely to result in weight gain than others.

7. Hormonal changes - Hypo and hyper-thyroidism can change body mass accumulation without ANY change in food intake, so this could easily apply to other hormonal changes.

8. Constipation - It sounds silly, but perhaps more retention of feces in the system could result in apparent lack of weight change.

9. Change in weather - Perhaps a hotter climate requires less heating and hence less energy usage by the body?

My principle point here is that things are just not as simple as energy in -> energy out - yes 'basic physics' holds that has to be an equilibrium, however you might not be measuring what these are correctly. A car must maintain an equilibrium too, but the type of car, its condition and what you do with it significantly varies the energy it requires despite the same distances being traversed.
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Yeah, I'd agree if we're just talking about weight loss. However, it's important to make sure that you get all the vitamins and micronutrients you need in your diet as well to be healthy. Fortunately, it's not easy to become deficient in most of these micronutrients.
I've always heard these "conspiracy" rumors since highschool. They never made sense to me because of competition... I can't believe that they have the engineers formerly known as ATI that far in the rear view mirror especially since the manufacturing processes everyone in Silicon works with are the same. So where does this "fairly well understood" assumption come from?
OK, so she has shown us that people cam survive with 800 kcal per day and not lose weight.

If she can do that, African famines are hoaxes and UN has been fooling us all this time.
This article seems to point at the real issue: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/uber-threatens-to-leave...

Basically, that allowing cities to specify the implementation and rules around fingerprinting makes the onboarding process too slow. Slow enough that that they can't hire drivers fast enough to meet demand.

I can see their point on this, since each city is free to make their own rules for the process.

On the other hand, if they volunteered their own process...one that incorporated fingerprints and most of what cities are asking for, then perhaps there's a place to meet in the middle. Basically, a single process that works for all cities.

As it stands, it looks like neither side is willing to compromise.
It's like Kerry Manning is deliberately ignoring that 18-year-old brains aren't "finished" with respect to judgment and perceiving consequences. Manning's argument is blatantly circular, simply assuming that Korn is mistaken that there is an issue with late adolescent brains in order to assert that 'programming' late adolescent brains with parenting is the answer.

For "the best part," that was really disappointing.
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I'm learning the game of Go at near fourty. But I'm not having any of the problems he describes.

A great thing about learning and playing online is that you can find an opponent at your same skill level within minutes. Unlike learning in a local club, where every person you will ever play beats you every time, I win slightly more than half my games. I also get this nice increasing graph of my skill level. This is a lot more fun.
Yeah I was also thinking about how the word "diet" is used. If it's one of those weird things like "you can eat as many eggs as you want as long as you don't eat anything else" then I think it's utter bullshit. I see the effects of such diets on my sister. Yo-yo effect all the way.

However like you said if you think about your diet like e.g. banning soda, processed food and other unhealthy food, it works wonders. I know the book title sounds cliche but I'm reading "The 6-Pack Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shredded Abs" by Nate Miyaki and he writes that even if you exercise a lot you cannot or shouldn't eat anything you like.

This wasn't clear to me up until recently because I thought only about calories but not the quality of food like if you are taking enough omega 3 fatty acids etc. I thought as long as I exercise and burn enough calories it doesn't matter what kind of food I eat which is not true.
I totally agree. The big costs are not in the perks but in the cost of locating everyone in the Bay Area. At GitLab we're remote only. You have to be thoughtful about organizing communication https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ but we like it and will promote it to other organizations https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-remoteonly-org/issues/1
The cost of sitting on that R&D would be huge and ridiculously wasteful. Instead it takes a long time from building a proof of concept in a lab to selling millions of the things for a few hundred dollars.

Often it's the other way, they can make a few 'super ultra' cards but nowhere near enough to meet demand. So they price them as 'Halo' items and more or less instantly sell out for months. But, in theory if you can get that card it is the 'fastest' for a little while.
On the workstation part, it recommends QubesOS.

Am I the only one who is skeptical about it?

From what I saw superficially reading their source code, there are some frightening stuff going on:

* tons of C code with nearly zero unit tests, same with the python code

* lots glue in form of bash or python scripts

* some not so beautiful stuff like:

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (kill -9 on a daemon...)

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (a daemon is a little bit more than an exe launched with '&'

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (changing a config file in an init script, humm, weird...)

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (starting a service inside the init of another service...)

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... ("logging" with stderr redirection in a file)

And it's just the init scripts... I'm too lazy to take a look further inside the C or python stuff.

IMHO, as a proof of concept, it's interesting, as a finished, reliable and secure OS, it's frightening...
While Marco seem right at some points, reading this article leaves the impression that he seems afraid of Apple affecting his business. Which is perfectly normal, don't know why people seem to bash him because of that.
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>Are the people who blame "black culture" right?

No. Those people are at best misguided, at worst, racist. If white American culture is the standard against which black American culture is judged, I am still waiting for the evidence that white culture prizes scholastic achievement and general intelligence. The only reason geeks and nerds became cool in America is because, suddenly dotcom riches! Until then there was a long history of media & movies that praised jocks and misanthropes above all else. (Hello, Molly Ringwald, hello Grease.) Today's college sports industrial complex is another sign. So is Fox News. So are the yahoos being elected to Texas schoolbook committees. So are creationists. I could go on....
You're right. I should have chosen a better example.

I mainly went with that because it's what is currently in the news but when I started writing the comment I had actually planned to do exactly what you laid out.
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... In other words they were successful despite not going to Harvard!

I didn't say it was a good system; just observed that it is how it is.
India+China+Central Africa may be less affected than the rest of the world, but I doubt there are only 41M obese people there. The map shows that in China there are 8.2%/7.4% obese men/women (or maybe the other way around; I have no idea how to interpret the button). So that's 7.8% of 1.381 billion = ~108 million in China alone.
>>The company claims that they included proper instructions in their documentation, advising companies to whitelist Merge Hemo's folders in order to prevent crashes from happening, so it seems that the whole incident was nothing more than an oversight on the medical unit's side.

These Merge Hemo fucktards should learn a bit about systems design from Margaret Hamilton [1] [2] before they start coding for such life critical software.

Another point is no closed source software (including the greatest ones like Windows) should be allowed to use in such institutions.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_03281_Hamilton_H...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28scienti...

edit: added point about closed-source software
> I don't know what you mean exactly by "expensive", but the time spent in profiling code should obviously not be counted, and it is quite simple to do so.

Only for the exceedingly trivial case where you exclude profiling CPU time from overall CPU time. Profiling to see when exactly you're CPU bound, and when you're disk bound? Eh. Profiling to see if false sharing is eating your lunch? Eh. Trying to see when you'll fail to make vsync and the framerate will hitch? Eh.

I've had to #ifdef out tracing info that boiled down to "if (happensToBeFalse) {...}" in tight loops because it was throwing off my profiling results too much. Compiler and debugger injected tracing info isn't going to be any cheaper than that.

> The real point I'm trying to make is that tracepoints do not require any changes to the original code. They are entirely opt-in and if you do not choose to use them, your application won't have this extra useless code compiled into it.

Debugger injected tracing is useful, but hardly a panacea. You know this or you wouldn't have written your own tracers, most likely. When you have the source code, writing a separate tracer doesn't make sense - you just embed your stuff directly into your source code and #ifdef it out when necessary (same result: no "extra useless code".) Easier to add data to your events ("what file am I hanging on?") without performance killing deep copies, or reverse engineering structure offsets. No need to subvert platform security on e.g. Xbox One to figure out how to inject your own code at runtime. No need to deal with another process's address space.

Sometimes tracing info is useful to leave in your release builds. Which is cheaper: A few rare if() checks and some dormant code? Or spending hours rebuilding, retesting, redeploying to the production machine that is experiencing some issue you need tracing info to diagnose? As long as you're not shoving it into your inner loops it's fine.

An event on entry/exit of main is about as far away from an inner loop as you can manage. It's fine.
I don't want any empathy nor do I have a 'situation' other than being fat :)

I am responsible for being overweight it's totally my fault and responsibility, I make no excuses, I just dislike the often seemingly ideological discussions that result.

I gave some thoughts on why you might be wrong on that in a separate reply... yes basic physics apply, but your ideas of what the energy in and energy out is might not be correct. The body is complicated.

This can be observed by anybody who's dieted with a _strict_ food diary eating precisely the same things + quantities with known calories - weight change can vary surprisingly and significantly without the laws of physics being violated.

The grandparent IS _very_ sanctimonious:

'This while article sounds like a justification for the author not losing weight.

...

...there's not much science involved, eat the right stuff and work out.'

I hate this attitude of 'you're just making excuses' vs. overweight people - it's unfalsifiable as you put literally anything down to excuses.

Losing weight is very hard because your body doesn't want you to do it for evolutionary reasons and weird shit happens even when you do everything right.

Sanctimonious blame games are harmful not only because you might just be wrong, but because food is so often a crutch that when dieting you no longer have, and I've found that people tend to come out with the harshest comments when you are dieting and actually trying to fix things, which can be devastating when you literally have no crutch any longer.

Also most of the time the people who make such comments are emphatically _not_ motivated by health concerns, and there's a culture where just being a dick is acceptable in this one area but no others. People don't like you telling them about their personality flaws and how they are just idiots and should stop being such a twat, and it's not socially acceptable, but the exact same approach to overweight-ness is totally acceptable, and does fuck all to help the situation.

TL;DR The VAST majority of dieters fail in the long run, things are more complicated than just dieting and staying at low cals for the long run both physically and psychologically.
This is overwhelming.
Apple's iTunes is single handily responsible for popularizing DRM and MP3s isn't the only thing they sell. But if you think music is free of DRM, maybe you haven't noticed, but plan B is in effect: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...
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I'm quite interested on the data analysis for the applications to Y Combinator. I'm a data mining researcher. My research interests include BI and Innovation Analysis. I'm looking for the kindly reply from Y Combinator. Thanks. My email address is jinbo.dlut@gmail.com
This is what I've seen firsthand from the treatment facility I've volunteered at. Long term use becomes a problem for many patients and eventually they have pain even with dangerously high doses of opiodes.
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Not saying a "men's plus". Saying have an everyone and a ladies only.

Ladies rooms tend to have longer lines and also tend to be stocked with additional products.

The concern raised by supporters of the bill his largely been unwanted men entering ladies rooms. This solution would totally address that concern in a cost effective manner.
This has completely closed the question for me: http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-11-20
What ever happened to the 7 habits?

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/7-habits-of-highly-succes...
The research on young and successful isn't really showing any causation.

Maybe being young and concentrating on a single thing makes you more obsessed about it? So you end up spending a lot of time on just it.

Maybe the older you get the less obsessed you can be, having the interest spread around on family, work, and other thoughts?

Maybe accumulated knowledge makes you slower at learning and playing because you're more cautious due to the mistakes you made before?

The research showing the decline is really weird. As I've got older I felt I learned stuff much more quickly than when I started college. I know so much that this knowledge allows me to avoid traps. Far sooner I have a feeling of understanding and can demonstrate it to someone else.

If your whole life is oriented on learning and improvement it's weird to think that will slow down.

People, as they age, lose interest in learning and rarely become obsessed about something, for most it is right after highschool, for some after college. No wonder the performance drops and IQ too. No one is using that brain as hard as it was used before.
again the smart arse comments... How about, instead of lashing out questioning/attacking what I said in a civil way? Is it so hard? Would you talk to someone this way in person and expect a good response? This isn't YouTube.

Anyway, I meant the alleged self-delusion of the author. Maybe I wasn't clear in how I put it, but I wasn't accusing anybody of it, I was saying that the implication is the author is self-deluded since she claims 800kcal/day + 1hr gym and yet didn't lose weight.
Actually no. The white shirt looks soft but whats the inside joke so I dont have to watch a cult classic that probably didnt age well
Fat causes overweight and the diseases that go along with overweight. Nutrition science has never wavered on that. Fat goes to the lymph and the excess is dumped into the bloodstream, making the blood obviously cloudy and with fat separating to the top, which you can see if you ever see people get blood drawn after a heavy meal. Then the fat is taken up by fat cells. That's where the body load of fat comes from. That's science. They've measured that the sorts of fat stored are the same fatty acids as the fat eaten. It works the same in all animals. That's part of agricultural science too, not just human nutritional science.

The current majority of people who believe that high fat diets are good for something other than getting fat and that carbohydrates cause obesity is no more a sign of a change in science than any popular political or religious belief.

It's a very popular conspiracy theory that nutritional scientists and doctors who follow them are part of or corrupted by the powerful vegan lobby, while the meat and dairy and processed added-oil food and fast food industries have the ideal products for making you thin, as long as you skip the traditional starches in those products, because everyone knows that the all the world's old cultures that lived on potatoes or rice or corn or wheat were full of massively obese people, and it's not until they got modern food industry amounts of butter, manufactured oil, and soybean-fed chicken that they became the crowds of dangerously thin looking people that you see in old pictures.

(I'm going to get downvoted into invisibility for being right, but people's health is at stake, so I'm going to reply anyway.)
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If you think of it as a cash flow it helps. I remember the first Nvidia card I was given (as you needed to test your game on a variety of graphics cards).

This is back in the day of 3DFX, PowerGL, you know when there was actual competition in the market. The nVidia card blew them all away, they destroyed the competition. So how do you continue to grow revenue after you've destroyed the competition? Invitation, but not too much (what Apple does now, and very well).
Which FPGAs in which workloads do they crush?
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Have we run out of problems?
Lately I have been trying to fathom a problem that software could fix, automate or even replace humans all together. Every time I get that idea or "ah ha!", moment I am finding solutions to those problems already. Might I add really good solutions that sometimes mimic my own or blow it out of the water.

I pose this question. What problems do you face on a daily bases that you wish a new app could solve or make easier? Preferably something without an answer already.

I'm not trying to start the next billion dollar startup. I am just curious to what people beyond myself see as frustrating or troublesome in a day and age who's slogan is "there's an app for that".
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> OK, so she has shown us that people cam survive with 800 kcal per day and not lose weight.

Only for several months while (probably) leading an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. Still remarkable, but a far less impossible feat.
Your conclusion doesn't follow, there's nuance here.

She claimed it over 3 months, it might just be errors in measurement, water retention can make a big difference, there might be muscle mass loss (small amount, countered by water retention perhaps), etc. (see my other comment for some other potentials.)

Let's not just assume our model is definitely correct because it correlates to energy conservation - energy conservation assumes we know exactly energy in/out and that weight is a good measurement of the balance of the two and that we are measuring it accurately.
It was all about showing how network enabled and service oriented your were.

Back in those days people were still pushing XML web services, SOAP and UDDI like it was the goodest thing possible.

.NET was about showing how everything .net was all those things, kinda.

Basically marketing meets tech hype 101.
It's almost impossible, in western society, to talk about obesity without blaming obese people for lacking something: willpower, honesty, something that makes them individually responsible. This thread is testament to that.

What if weight regulation was as deeply baked into your brain as your sex drive and changing its mechanism was as hard as abstaining from orgasm? Would that be easy for you?

I think the overall lack of success from individual attempts at weight control via diets should tell us something: that we need to find other ways, probably involving changing neurochemistry.

But I fully expect we'll continue the blame game instead, because to do otherwise would admit that we are not necessarily in full control of our actions, and that in turn would threaten our self identities, our egos. It would admit luck and circumstance as a primary factor in where we end up rather than effort and agency.
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Eating too little when cutting is a classic noob mistake. Starving yourself makes your body get protein from where it can, which turns out to be from your muscles.

I think the most sustainable way for normal people to lose fat and not muscle is to try to stay as strong as you were during a bulk while maintaining a small calorie deficit.