skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps unfortunately, the human body cannot ignore physics - weight gain does ultimately come down to "you are consuming more calories than you are expending"!

You're right that "eat less, fatty" is not a helpful message. That's actually the key point in these discussions - we do know how to avoid weight gain in the abstract sense (consume less than you burn), but the implementation of that is what's difficult. Different foods have different effects on metabolism; it's difficult to count calories accurately; people often overestimate the calories that exercise burns and underestimate their consumption. It's made more difficult by sedentary lifestyles, prepared foods, and so on.

If you are gaining a pound a month consuming nothing but soylent, then you're consuming too much of it. There's no way around that fact. But the point is that it's not a failing on your part - it just demonstrates how difficult it is in practice to control one's own lifestyle.
I was in the same boat for the PINQ board. I do support students getting things cheap but I really wonder if gouging engineers/scientists/hackers who don't need the hw for a current work project makes any sense.
If you're looking for "key" (dare I say "buzz") words or phrases, you're only going to get people who are gaming the system -- unless you're exceptionally lucky. That's assuming you're a large-enough employer to actually do this type of thing.

If you're not a large employer, I can elaborate, but I'll have to tread a bit carefully, hence my reticence to do so.
I feel like you're letting great be the enemy of good, but we can agree to disagree. With few exceptions, all cities have zoning to keep some consistency and continuity within neighborhoods. Within that frame, I'm happy the city is pursuing "larger than normal" upzones and converting some SF zoning to mixed-use.
Even easier if people could just let others take care of _every_ whim. If there was a guaranteed income there wouldn't even be a need for entrepreneurship!
Well, they also published those papers you see now.

On the other side, there's an organization that by definition asks you to take them on their word that everything they good is for your own good...
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Wouldn't there be enough turbines packed in such a small area that they would 'wind shadow' each other?
"The students are curious about science, but hate the math parts because they struggle with the algebra."

1. They don't understand algebra because they are still struggling with fractions, and decimals, and the concept of percentages.

2. I remember graduating high school, and didn't have a firm grasp of fractions, and decimals. (One semester at a community college fixed that. )

3. If I was a parent, I would make sure my kid knew fractions, and percentages. I would make time each weekend and go over the same material if needed. I would also teach the child to count money until they could teach me. I might even throw in how the Stock Market works. (Yes--teach them early. Tell them when it comes to money--their are people who want to take it from them because they don't understand basic math.)

4. I honestly feel the math problem we have in the states is kids are pushed on to algebra too quick.

5. Once they became experts in the basic math; I would go over the basics again. Only then, would I dare bring up algebra.

Eventually it will all make sence to the child.

I will never understand the need to memorize multiplication tables, if they are still doing it.

I looked at Common Core math problems, and they do look overly wordy, and confusing. They look worse than my wordy math problems.
By the way, which mature web language is fast these days? Go is not quite there in terms of maturity, and everything else is "slow" (maybe the Microsoft stack is fast?), but I'm a web developer by trade and none of my views have been CPU-bound in... ever.
ARM and AMD X86 Server Chips Get Mainstream Lift from Microsoft
In a single payer system, there wouldn't be an insurance company sitting between a patient and the medical provider, extracting rent. The middleman and associated overhead would not exist (or be centralized), which could make the market more efficient.
I guess we have learnt enough to know you cannot blame people for their sexuality, or their inability to come out of poverty without external help, etc. But see a fat person and its open season to make all kinds of value judgements without knowing the root cause of their obesity.
Partly its because there's this huge "health" industry that encourages the blame game by pushing out messages like if you were to just try a little harder, you would be lean and fit too. But thats just BS, people should educate themselves and try to understand the near impossibility of losing weight and keeping it off on a long term sustained basis.
Except for two things:

1. Women are expected (societally) to be more accommodating and compliant throughout most aspects of their lives, meaning they have less practice and comfort negotiating.

2. Even when women do negotiate, they end up being penalized for it, probably because of the expectations mentioned in point 1. See http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/lean-out-th.... Underlying study is here: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
This looks like a great guide, thanks! Makes me wonder how effective things like Google's app engine are in autoscaling your web apps. "Serverless" code seems too good to be true.
No, there's another option: Health care company profits could go down. (But I suspect that people who want both (2) and (4) overestimate how far they can go before they reach zero, at which point we quit having health care companies, and then we have no health care coverage...)
Not sure if that's totally fair, Califoria is very diverse. Rates that work in SF might not work in rural CA.
So we aren't free until I'm required to do business with neo-nazis and the KKK?
Said rules are not applied systematically, and there is clear bias in how they are applied.
Here is the problem. How do you deal with illegal immigrants? At least in the current system there are ways for them to get treated, but in a single payer system?

Single-payer works great in countries were everyone have a ssn. Not sure its feasible in the US as much as i think it would be great.
I'd argue it is human nature to sleep in every morning, yet a significant portion of the population defies that just fine. You can make a habit of most anything, hunger or overeating.
I know my local Albertson's and Tom Thumb both offer delivery. I find that to be of limited use, since I don't want to let the store employee search for my produce / bread / meat / milk. They're bound to find the stuff closest to clearance.
There is http://www.olegkikin.com/md5game/ on which I wasted some GPU cycles many years ago. It uses a very silly metric for progress though. Finding a longer substring that matches doesn't bring you closer to finding MD5(x) = x. It was a fun problem to try out some crypto bruteforcing on the GPU though.

I don't think any of the known weaknesses of MD5 would help you in finding MD5(x) = x.
Isn't this a part of the book "Born to run"?
Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not!

Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old.

The entrance is a hole carved out of the sandstone that you have to squeeze down into - it may look like a rabbit hole but it's not.

Lots of local kids & others know about it and use it as a place to hang out and drink and I'm pretty sure it's used for some sort of New Age rituals judging by the number of candles and detritus that are sometimes in there.

It's a hard place to find if you don't know about it. On private land - completely hidden and it's never really been publicised... until now.
Uber is an electronically requested livery service, it's not a taxi company. It's legal. :-P
Okay there were many comments here... I'm a dad of 5 and 7 year old girls. They're now old enough so I start teaching them to code, and then I plan to take it from there some day (learning together). Besides that, I always have an hour or two each day to do what I want, when they sleep. In the first year with each kid it's hard to find any time, which is fine, but then it just gets easier every year.

Another way for you to keep learning might be to found your own company - just be careful to focus and not to neglect your family. With my first company, I was lacking focus and put too much unnecessary work into the company, to the cost of my family. Also, my co-founders didn't have kids.

The second time I founded a company with another dad, who understands flexible schedules. We're now a few moms and dads in the team. Sometimes I would go home early, be with my daughters, and catch up with work later. I feel I'm a lot more focussed than before having kids, and I definitely get a lot more done, in less time! It doesn't even compare. I don't have a choice anyways. My learning mostly happens on the job. When we get a new project, we sometimes decide to try a new technology - if it seems to add a benefit or save us time in the long term.

Ah yeah and of course, communicating with your partner is key if you want to shave off some time here and there!
Wow. This is huge.. Take a peek. https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html
Traversing Trees for Rubyists
IMO the distinction has more to do with whether you are:

(A) Converting something that you understand and are satisfied with... into a form the computer can operate upon.

(B) Persuading other people to change their process or expectations into something that is sane and generally understandable.
I wanted a db for realtime analytics.

I agree on scale-out but scale-up performance I will say Cassandra is not even close to cost to performance ratio of Postgres w/ extensions for a real time analytics.

I have legitimate 6months experience that I wasted on Driud/Cassandra and could not match Postgres in terms of performance.

I don't want to hear CAP this and that when I can do all sorts of stream processing a priori. Besides real SQL is easy to understand and hack with then many proprietary query languages.

I only tell people so they don't was time like I did.
Because this attack is not feasible against MD5 with current state of the art cryptanalysis.

Instead collisions between files are demonstrated by appending bytes to two files until their hashes match.
Yeah, the title is misleading. There's nothing self-referential about this formula.

Now, if the formula was also capable of drawing the constant k, THAT would be exciting.
> As a mid-30s person who earns a decent tech salary

... you can afford it. Moreso that others. You _are_ the wealth.
Because they can't afford the care they actually need and are trying to leech from others to extend their worthless (in a technical sense) life.
>$5-$10 and have a week's worth of food delivered. Is that so hard Loblaws?

Yes. $5-$10 isn't a lot to get time critical cargo (spoilable food) that last mile.
Either you need to tweak your calorie limit down (it's above what your body needs for maintenance, which varies from person to person), or you're forgetting to count some items.

It may be hard to limit calories without feeling hungry on a mostly soylent diet. Salad and veggies make it easier because they're low on calories, but still have a lot of bulk which helps stave off hunger.
As the article notes, eating less than you burn is effective for a while until the body works to get back up to a previous set point to maintain homeostasis.

An excellent book on this topic is The Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung
That's true in a strict sense. But how do you implement that at population scale? If it were easy to control one's weight, then we wouldn't have an obesity problem.

Obesity is a public health problem, like tobacco smoking or STIs. There's no secret - avoid ling disease by not smoking, and avoid STIs by not having unprotected sex. But clearly the "it's stimple, just fix it" approach isn't effective at improving the overall health of a population.
You can view it from the other side, though. if the market is skewed in such a way that most food readily available contains e.g. unnecessary amounts of sugar and you need specific skills, knowledge and mental resolve (not to mention money) to not eat unhealthy food, I believe a bit influence to re-balance things is justified.

Consumer-choice and personal responsibility is a nice thing as long as that choice isn't systematically undermined by market forces.
I wonder how much taxing legal marijuana will help the state's budget issues?
Perhaps they could've given it to Aaron Swartz to support the legal issues they threw him in as a result of his responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging our norms, rules, or laws to benefit society.

I'm half-tempted to nominate him as an act of disobedience.
WA isn't even meeting its constitutional mandate for funding education.
A third alternative would be to increase efficiency so you can have the same level of care for less money.

Other countries spend far less on health care for similar quality, so it's possible.
Either tremendous numbers of people simultaneously and coincidentally find themselves sapped of will and personal responsibility... or there's something systemic at work.

So the question isn't what happened to personal responsibility. It's why exercising that responsibility is apparently so much more difficult than in the past. Address that, and you'll find the "agency" problem largely solves itself.
Some of the numbers for [2] confuse me. How can an office visit cost $30 in Canada? When I go in for an office visit, it typically takes about 30 minutes of staff time, around 15 minutes with a medical assistant and 15 minutes with a doctor. If that's $30, the implied wage is $60/hr for the medical staff, if you assume that all the money goes to staff. That just doesn't seem feasible.

Some of the other numbers seem more reasonable, though I should point out the charts are a bit misleading as they list the US 95th percentile in addition to the averages, which makes the difference appear larger than it really is.
Do they really?

I don't think so.
As I understand it, a big part of Vermont's problem was due to numbers. They had too small of a population.

California does not have that problem.
Indeed. People who claim recursion is the only way to handle some types of data structures are missing how recursion is implemented. In practice, it boils down to a stack and a loop - and in the case of tail-recursive functions, not even the stack - though it may be a little prettier if you use recursion.
I didn't take it as arguing for the sake of arguing at all. I know a lot of people who really do well with low carbs - and I'm slightly jealous.

I've tried before, but I feel like complete garbage. I'm told it goes away, but I don't really have days to waste feeling dizzy trying out something that may or not work for me.
If "people are weak minded" then how is it their "fault"? You can't have it both ways.

Also have you considered that you might have motivation and willpower far above average? Not to mention the time, money, level of education and understanding necessary to change your diet.

Ultimately you are one single data point - do you believe that everybody can do all the things you can do just as well as you? No. Why should diet be any different?
I'm very new to the single-payer idea, but Vermont rates 49th for population in the US, California ranks 1st. I thought one of the strengths of a single-payer system was to leverage the power of large numbers to help drive costs down. Would this not make it more viable?
It has very little effect if any. denmark have a true single payer system and social wellfare program you can only dream of in the us. Yet the number of startups created are declining just like ine the us. It creates a very different mindset.
if health care prices were mandated to be public (like calorie counts on food) then we would all be better off
From the authors github, I presume its written in go. So its just going to be a binary with a config file. Thats great, and easy to deploy! I get your point, nothing is a 'production ready' deployment in 10 seconds. But, i think the author means it will 'just work' for most people. In reality, our version of production ready wouldnt take more than an our max to deploy that to ecs/kubernetes.
I mix the two. Citus for offline warehousing and pipelinedb for realtime. I'm very pleased with the results.

I mix the two by using a message bus (Kafka + RabbitMQ)

I spent a lot of time with Cassandra.
It is probably great tech I just don't have petabyte data yet. And I know all the stats
I want a prior.
I don't doubt your expertise, but I think you're making a lot of declarative and slightly inflammatory statements without supporting them with concrete evidence. Is there publicly available evidence that you could refer to?
It sounds fanciful to say that we'll just use our existing Medi-cal budget but now it will cover everyone.

If the government had so much bargaining power, then Medicare and Medi-cal would already have far smaller costs. We don't really see that.

Also, who exactly, would we be negotiating with? I don't know that you can squeeze the budgets of hospitals in California by 50% and have everything carry on like normal.
It could be a number of things:

* Your gut biome might need a "reset". Sometimes people experience extended weight gain after antibiotics because they ended up with a different, less effective biome. (Soylent might also contribute to this issue.)

* Another health issue changed your digestive process

* You're losing muscle mass, making it easier to gain fat

* You're sleeping more poorly or are more stressed

Calorie counting really isn't sufficient to know what's going on with weight changes. The factors are numerous.
When you say "know statistics", how high are you placing the bar? Lots of people are forced to take one stats class (for non-specialists) in college, and it goes up from there.
OK, let's talk about overhead. Every doctor's office has one or two people per doctor who fight with insurance companies to see that the doctor gets paid. Every insurance company has people who fight with the doctors' people, trying to find ways to not pay them. Those people - on both sides - are a total waste to the business of actually delivering healthcare to people. Yes, we could cut a lot of overhead by getting rid of them.

That works... right up until the healthcare scheme is underfunded by the legislature, and then the single payer tries to find ways to reduce payments to the doctors, and then the overhead comes right back. So to reduce the overhead, the rules have to be really rules, not something the single payer tries to play with in order to control expenses.

Is that enough to get old-gregg's 50-60% reduction in expenses? I don't know. I'm a bit skeptical. It will get a large chunk of the way there, though.
> Maybe I'm uneducated on "acts"?

"acts" are how smarter Californians let the lesser Californians what to do.

> What is the point of this?

To make people feel good about themselves.
Bear in mind that it's not a binary choice - "total free-for-all" versus "ban it". We can implement public health measures that strongly discourage harmful activities, or offer mitigation, without banning them.
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[2] is about CalPERS, which is separate from the budget of the State. There may be a current budget shortfall, but CalPERS is fine (it is the largest non-country pension fund in the world; and comes in the top 10 when listed among countries).

[3] mentions that tax revenues will fall because of the end of temporary tax increases; those increases are likely to be renewed.

Categorizing these as 'severe budget issues' is disingenuous and misleading. California has had a bumper crop in terms of tax revenue over the past decade, and this stupid meme about California being out of money needs to be corrected.

That being said, health care is not an inexpensive line-item, and will have to be funded with taxes.

But as a Californian, I'm sure as shit happy to pay more in taxes for a universal single single-payer. I have many friends who are either contractors or who earn very little and find themselves in that uncomfortable valley of having to pay for expensive insurance -- I'd rather that people (like me) who are better off financially foot a bit more of a communal bill so that no one would need to worry about it.
I'd honestly experiment with fasting and skipping meals. I think you're just conditioned to eat way too many calories.

A day fast is really not that bad IMO. I used to do them every sunday and found it a really effective tool to get from "obese" to "overweight" (BMI). Got much less effective as I approached "normal" though.
You would think so, but it passes muster rather often. All female hiring sessions for civil service positions (police/fire) are not uncommon at all.
Maybe we don't know exactly the right way to get lots of people to eat less, but it's certainly not making everything ultra-delicious with tons of sugar and running continuous advertisements to children for these new ultra-delicious foods.
I agree that talking about a $0.7X to the dollar pay gap isn't helpful, since it isn't controlled for a number of factors. But there still is a pay gap of 2-20%, , depending on the industry, attributable only to difference in gender.

It's better than it's made out to be, but that there still is a gap is not right.
Bizur in Hebrew mean distributing.
I see all four authors[1] are Israelites, then, I guess, this is where the name comes from

[1]: Ezra N. Hoch, Yaniv Ben-Yehuda, Noam Lewis, Avi Vigder
They published the papers with a heavy dose of spin. Remember how the headline contained FUD about Signal and WhatsApp? The released documents have nothing about sidestepping Signal and WhatsApp. That was pure conjecture and editorializing.

Of course WikiLeaks wants ordinary people to be vaguely afraid of using Signal and WhatsApp. End-to-end encryption is very much counter to their goals.
The driver of the cost of insurance is the cost of care, and I haven't seen much, even in the form of rhetoric, paid this way.

So, can they really? Part of the reason places like Canada and the UK can do this is they can threaten to run around the industry when they try to fleece their citizens. Ultimately CA may be unable to do anything to combat the costs of medical care because the laws that give pharmacies and the AMA their monopoly in the field are enacted at the federal level.
I think most of the comments in this thread miss out the fundamental issue, which is bad food not only tastes better than "good food" it also often is cheaper and crucially is more convenient.

Convenient food, that tastes good but is bad for you will beat out inconvenient food that tastes "ok" and is healthy for you.

For a lot of people cooking is just more work and if they've got the choice and the money they'll order take out or buy pre-made ready meals.

Moaning about sugar and advertising is just tinkering around the edges, to me if you want to solve this problem you've got to make eating healthy as convenient if not more convenient as eating badly.
Some office visits are shorter then others. (Although less scrupulous doctors in Canada aggressively optimize for faster visits - more money for them, worse outcomes for their patients.)
If that were true there would be no need for taxes. But in reality poor people will steal from non-poor people. That's what taxes are. "everybody pays" is a worthless statement if you don't include amounts.