skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some people the issue really is that they eat too many cookies. However science shows that much of the body's weight is hormonal regulated - i.e. The body can just dump calories if it wants to. However reducing calories while increasing excercise is usually a terrible, terrible way to lose weight. What happens is your body believes its starving and hangs on to every calorie by shutting down glucose usage wherever possible. You won't be able to think clearly because the body is saving glucose instead of letting your brain work, and you'll feel so tired. It also makes you more hungry so all you can think about is food

A much more effective way to lose weight is adopt an active lifestyle with reasonable exercise, and to eat healthy foods only. Studies show that in rats fed the same calories either as sugar or high fructose corn syrup, the rats eating hfcs gained like 30% more weight.

Ladies need to understand that their Bodies are not meant to look uber skinny. Their body has a natural weight and trying to lose more will just make them miserable, feel guilty, and never work. We unfortunately as a society encourage an unhealthy level of skinny in girls.

I read an incredibly informative study on what calorie reduction does to a person over time. People were given fewer calories than normal daily for something like a year. After the diet people reported eatin huge amounts of food and feeling bad for doing it. Interestingly they did not stop the "overeating" until they had gained 20% more Wright than their starting weight. Then their urges to eat huge amounts subsided and they went back to normal weight.
While there's a lot of placebo and less-than-truth-in-advertising regarding vitamins, they do make a difference to some people:

See gwern on vitamin D[0], which shows it's likely not a placebo, (n=1, of course, but coincides with a lot of not-quite-as-well-executed self experiments from other people)

Iron and/or vitamin B3 (Niacin) make a huge difference for RLS[1]; You'll find some peer reviewed reference for iron, mostly anecdotal for B3 (some better executed than others).

As a general rule, if you eat a variety of foods, some of which are grown naturally and not processed to death, and have decent exposure to the sun, then - no, you don't need vitamins. But among my peers it seems that this rather simple set of requirements is often not satisfied, and vitamin supplements are needed (usually B12, D, and Iron deficits are found for whoever does testing).

[0] https://www.gwern.net/zeo/Vitamin%20D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_legs_syndrome
Also those who suffer from Celiac Disease, like myself, are often low on Iron and are recommended to take iron supplements to prevent anemia.
No, it's nothing like "outlawing religion because some priests are pedophiles". It's more like sending the priest to another parish to obscure the fact that they've sexually assaulted children. It's just covering up the actual atrocity by having children marry their assaulter. You really think an 11-year-old being forced into marriage is not part of the problem?
> Which is to say, nothing material is added to the equation, and thus, nothing useful is actually extracted. Conceptually, the idea is to question whether we're really just burning the candle at both ends, to get more light.

We could try adding ATP molecules while decreasing cellular decay, I think that would be great, maybe Karma will Punish us but I bet if we fuck around a bit we can do better. But also I think the biggest challenge is political, arguing against people who feel discomfort by the finite and disappointing abilities of their brain organs, projecting their need for comfort to avoid being left behind
I think the problem with the "calories in < calories out" idea is that while it's not necessarily untrue, it's too simplistic to be useful. It's a bit like saying, well, if you'd just stop putting cocaine up your nose, you wouldn't be a drug addict anymore.
Coffee is dosed by weight, not volume. A 1:15 to 1:20 ratio of coffee to water is ideal - assuming 300ml cups, that's at most 30 cups per pound.
Seems like communicating with the airline would be the most accurate way of determining this, even if it's not very accurate.
Let's celebrate those whom enable being that much closer to a Panopticon world with zero privacy for everyone but the very rich and enabling militaries to murder more efficiently. Applause!

It's assholes like you whom build Argus-IS, hellfires and drones for the military-industrial complex that terrorize and murder hundreds of thousands to millions of people in the ostensible name of imaginary WMDs and a few thousand terrorists.
I notice you're new to HN. Welcome! https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

To understand what makes HN different from other sites, you may want to familiarize yourself with the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular, we try to write comments that are interesting to read. That rules out swipes and one-line dismissals: calling something amateurish, or complaining about downvotes.

HN has a lot to offer as a community, and we started out as a tight-knit group of refugees from sites like Reddit. This place has grown up a lot since then, but those fundamentals were the reason for HN's success.

Your second comment was better than your first -- a substantive dismissal is always preferable. And you can write comments like that if you really want to. I usually find it's more productive to focus on what's cool about a piece. There's usually something.

However if an article is mistaken, that's worth calling out. Some of the best HN comments are refutations. Though you'll want to be certain you're correct, or else you'll get called out yourself. :)
it's a paper, not a javascript framework
> There are no problems you can model with logic that can't be modeled by Bayesian logic.

"Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal". Please explain to us, speaking a bunch of incoherent nonsense, how Bayesian logic will prove the necessary "all men are mortal". Notice, that just saying "100% of a sample died" proves nothing. I am not asking about why the sun will rice in the east next morning.

> You can never be 100% certain of anything, even mathematical proofs.

This is some pseudo-intellectual hipster's bullshit, I am sorry to say. One can be 100% certain that DNA is the genetic material and bunch of other things, like for an external observer one and another one constitutes a structure - a pair and a pair introduces the notion of an ordering, etc. This is the good-enough basis of the DNA encoding, (and a Lisp). Notice, that the DNA encoding relies only on exact pattern matching on concrete physical structures - there are no numbers anywhere. The Mother Nature does not count. And this is logic, my friend.

Now take your canonical map-territory metaphor a bit further. The structure of a brain which makes mind possible, and all the other body's organs, of course, including an eye, reflects the physical environment it has been evolved within. A brain is an "implicit map" of the territory, it reflects what is, like a print, or using modern terminology a trained neural network.

The mind is bound by the brain and its sensory and evolutionary conditioning, which is bound by the environment (no matter what idealists, humanists and theologians would say). Everything the mind is capable of, including a valid reasoning (and excluding socially constructed bullshit and sectarian beliefs for a moment) is bound by the structure of the brain which is a representation of reality or so to speak a "map" of the territory. Consulting this map makes logic (and intuitions!) possible, the very same way a correctly trained model could give a reasonable predictions. It is just a form of pattern-matching.

This kind of map is more "valid" than any Bayesian map. There is no objection about uncertainty part as long as it refers to a process of "unfolding" of reality.
I downvoted this entire thread for the appearance of spammery

If these were legitimate posts I would apologize except that you apparently communicate in the manner of spam bots.
People aren't consuming those on a a daily basis; not really a fair comparison.
Cool story, but their big sales came from door-to-door it seems. Also this wasn't a tech company either. It was a cleaning company so it makes perfect sense that they didn't need a $15k a month engineer when starting up.
It's all about the money...
I suppose anything is possible, though that may well be much more challenging if intelligence is a function of the physical configuration/arrangement of the neurons in the brain. The interesting question if the structure theory is true, is what kinds of effects that would have on the sense of self, and of consciousness as a whole.
Same here. I'm looking at eventually replacing my router with an OpenBSD box and having it handle the VPN stuff.

My servers are primarily FreeBSD, but I wouldn't recommend doing IPSec on it. FreeBSD 10 doesn't enable IPSEC by default, so you have to recompile the kernel to use it. FreeBSD 11 enables IPSEC but does not enable IPSEC_NAT_T (NAT Traversal, basically IPSec encapsulated in UDP), so you need to recompile to use it since many clients end up being behind NAT at some point.

My ideal setup would see OpenBSD gateways in front of my FreeBSD servers, but in some cases that isn't possible. I'll probably end up creating small OpenBSD VMs on the FreeBSD hosts to do the VPN work.
Somewhat related, a reminder that the US Census for 2020 is in a state of hiatus - the US Census director resigned 20 days ago - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/us-census...
Unless we figure out a way to make artificial wombs, our best bet is just to use an elephant for that. Since mammoths are unlikely to differ much in terms of body temperature and nutrient requirements, the problems you mention won't be much of an issue.

More problematic would be immune system incompatibility, which could lead to the mammoth or its elephant mother being killed by the other's immune system response. But I think we have a way to deal with that when it happens in humans, so there should be a workaround.

Anyway, first you need to get some cells with mammoth DNA to divide often enough. Before you have that, those other problems don't really matter much.
Okay, so who's going to spot me 3 EUR? ;)
Money comes form the productive ability of individuals. When they make something better, people want to buy it, and hencce, money.

And no, the barter system is not a lie and neither is daddy marx true. And no, I'm not going to write paragraphs for your two-liner.
Embiggen the pyramid a little.
https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack#architecture
Water Margin: Searching for the sources of China’s great rivers
No joke, they shouldn't even be allowed to sell that much caffeine to one person. I'm surprised Starbucks' lawyers haven't prevented that.
it's not about practicality, it's about morality. ANd what UBI does is mandate self-sacrifice.

And what's stopping people with UBI from sharing half of it with a non-citizen? nothing.
That's 400oz of water to 16oz of coffee, or a 1:25 ratio of coffee to water. Keurig might pull that off.

Specialty pour-over coffee is usually between a 1:15 and 1:10 ratio.
Windows 10 also has this feature built in, called Night light, in the Display settings.
Moore’s Law Morphs Toward Software-Defined Hardware
Cleaning Equipment – Steam Cleaning Machine
Thanks for sharing. While searching for more, I found a higher-resolution photo of your first image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gate_d%27Amboise_01.jpg

And there are several more great photos on the rest of the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_Rhodes
What ever roasts your goat.

It's well proven that Folate during pregnancy significantly reduces the incidents or neural-tube defects.

It's well proven that putting some B vitamins back in the flour after it's milled significantly reduces psychiatric presentations.

Sounds like you've made your mind up though.
> The world is larger than what you know now and you can always live a different life. I get reminded of this every time I travel to a different country.

It's nice to have the privilege of being able to drop everything and travel. I imagine if everyone had that option at their fingertips suicide would be much less of a problem.

> But also it never hurts to talk to a psychiatrist and get an assessment.

I know people who have been put on sex registries and lost a great deal as a result of talking to a physchiatrist. It would be nice to live in a world where it never hurts, but that's dangerous advice incongruent with some surprising western disclosure laws.
Who was it that asked you to do that? Your mgr? Marketing?
Does anyone know VPN service (NOT self-hosted server) that could help establish small private networks for multiple PCs without public IP? Right now i should to setup OpenVPN in DigitalOcean, but i really prefer to pay for service here.
Yes, mostly like this. Not sure why I thought it had anything to do with Babylon... My script had two modes, the one above and a different type which I preferred.

The first line was as normal

reversed was second the then

but only the order of the

the of letters the not words,

words.
define "right not to be murdered". I never used that.

And no, you can't just arbitrarily give people rights to shit. You can only guarantee things which do not require a human to be constantly working for it as a right. When you declare healthcare, or food as a right, you are enslaving farmers and doctors, not to mention stealing from people on a greater scale for nothing at all, for something the market could have easily done.
Running also increases caloric and definitely doesn't reduce lifespan in humans. So the abstraction "increase energy causes bodies to wear out faster" is very leaky, and probably so leaky that it's not super useful.
Yes--I should have mentioned I was using free IntelliJ!

Also great re: VS Code!
blockchains are the new microsoft of itunes if apple googled AI IoT-QL with as do many look like data.
How the the Blue Grotto Malta looked before it was gone foreve
Also Polansku's Macbeth, Coriolanus with Anthony Hopkins, and King Lear. . I think there's a Richard Briers version which was really excellent, though you may find others. And of course Olivier's famous Richard III.
Question: If ISPs get the removal of Net Neutrality, do they then become liable for the content transferred through their connections?
WebSub literally does the same thing, except ActivityPub cuts away the middle layers, removing some redundancy on the way. It makes ActivityPub less of a protocol hodge-podge than OStatus, which has the same drawbacks and benefits as any introduction of a dependency into a protocol or software.
Really doesn't matter. just because someone else is more productive does not entitle you to their money, or time. People can voluntarily pay, but forcing people to pay for it is wrong and immoral.
But why would I build a new decentralized Twitter "simply" (it's the HN go-to "I could build that in a weekend" that none of us could build half of in a year if we were actually trying to clone actual Twitter) when all of the money and control is in the centralized version?

Also, if the best example you have is "you can make easily decentralized Twitter after you learn all of our brand new replacement technologies for the things that you're already familiar with" then I don't think that's much of a value proposition.

Also also, come on - "applications will resolve around users"? Great catchphrase, but what does that even mean? Like we don't have product teams already trying to build things people want?
I almost wonder if this was a ploy by the American companies. AI is being injected into all apps and even pushed as major feature, but, at least in my circle of friends, nobody cares or wants that. Most people use Whatsapp, with no AI. Google is trying Allo, to no success, and Facebook is pushing M, also to no success. I think AI is brilliant and could be the future, but from my experience, people generally don't want it in the ways it's being pushed. I definitely see the 'AI' and 'ML' markets, somewhat tied together, switching gears soon.
Native in iOS, OSX, and windows now. Probably on android.
Spot on. I'm also a long time user and also keep hub separate & like to understand when it's acting as straight pass through, enhancing the behavior or doing something that only makes sense in Github's implementation.
One of his advices is:

> 2. Beware vanity metrics

Can we tell if BitCoin and other cryptocurrencies has any vanity metrics? If so, what would that be?

My uneducated guess would be how valuable the currency is in Dollars. The currency seems virtually inflated as we don't know how much of that would translate to real purchasing power. It doesn't seem that it would be possible to many people to sell it all out. Thus, who invested in it would be supposed to keep using within the coin's network, and given that a transaction takes awhile and there are not many shops accepting it, it would be hard to get some return.

In addition, BitCoin has fluctuated a lot since 2012 and there were several issues in its way, like the lead maintainer stepping out, capacity limit being reached because of block chain monopoly, Mt Gox bankruptcy etc.
Hi -- unrelated to your comment, but I saw this thread and was curious about the work you mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135353. Since that thread is archived I couldn't reply, so I'm replying here instead. My email is in my profile -- please send me the paper(s) as well if you're so inclined.
How Happy Are We? (2009)
An undocumented immigrant? So she was legally in the country, but with paperwork incomplete? Or a refugee?

Oh no, they mean illegal immigrant - in this case, someone who violated the law to make more money. Got it.

Every time I see the term "undocumented immigrant" I am horrified at how easily people will thoughtlessly toss away the rule of law to serve their own self-indulgent empathy.

Mexico today has more GDP/capita than New Zealand did in 1990. There's no justification for encouraging the human trafficking and dangerous cross-desert trips (often ending in death or rape or robbery) this way. Immigration should be orderly and safe.

If someone wants everybody on Earth to have free access to America, they should campaign to make that the law, and face the real consequences. This "let it be illegal but keep the border-jumpers as our empathy pets" stuff is self-indulgent and self-defeating on so many levels. Ugh.
Interesting that the article is in the top ten twice. Is the dupe detector down?
"United States, where artificial intelligence was pioneered and established."

Assuming this is talking about deep learning, I wish this myth would die, but it's repeated again and again, by people like Ted Cruz and media outlets with little knowledge.

Deep learning was pioneered in Canada, not the US....
Blockchains are the new south seas, not the new Linux
Did you read the comment you are replying to? Not every country in the world is exactly like the United States. I was impressed that you managed to make a comment that was refuted by the comment it was replying to. But then you insult his intelligence? That is some next level idiocy.
Not at all. ActivityPub comes from pump.io, which was based on the experiences with OStatus.

BuddyCloud is a parallel track to OStatus, possibly inspired by the OStatus predecessor OpenMicroBlogging, but I don't know that. Both tracks came about around the same time a decade ago.
In consumer products, perhaps not. Business systems? Oh, you betcha.

Note: I'm interpreting AI as "also the very useful subset of AI called Machine Learning" here. ML is already in so many things, but I think it truly has yet to take off. But I very much believe that it will be ubiquitous. It's probably worth it for programmers to learn some of the basic algorithms, general approaches, and what they're good for.
Yes. Though pandoc handles more formats and doesn't parse HTML using regex. And it supports more features.

In general the language something is written in isn't necessarily a benefit by itself. Is there a reason why you prefer Python when there already exists another tool written in another language?
Is it weird that these videos never work for me? I haven't tried these particular ones, but I've had tons of troubles sleeping through the years, and hypnosis audios never works. It actually gets me frustrated and keeps me up longer.
This trend is also evident in conferences like ICML, CVPR and EMNLP.[1] I have a semi-popular open source ML project [2] and the repo gets more Chinese visitors/users (from posts on Weibo/WeChat etc.) than all other countries including USA.

I think Chinese researchers & government have a key advantage in collecting enormous datasets, e.g. I wouldn't be amazed if they end up with state of the art models for problems such as object-detection/segmentation for videos taken from Vehicles, Medicine/Radiology and face recognition [3]. Several US strategic funding agencies seem to be pursuing projects with this implicit assumption.

While american government agencies do collect data at a similar scale (Body Cams, Police dashcams), inefficiency in data sharing significantly complicate their use.

[1] https://medium.com/@karpathy/icml-accepted-papers-institutio...

[2] http://www.deepvideoanalytics.com/

[3] https://github.com/seetaface/SeetaFaceEngine

On an unrelated note: If you have a popular Github repo, you can view the Google Analytics style stats under graphs/traffic for referring urls/unique-visitor counts etc.
Uneducated poor kids? The ironic thing is a lot of people have become rich from /biz and are now millionaires. Seems like your version of hard work is to pay out the nose for a degree to be a debt serf in this stagnant, corrupt economy... suddenly buying into this crypto meme sounds like a much better alternative. Once again, 4chan is prescient. Sure things will probably return to earth soon and some crypto-memers will be holding some heavy bags, but in the long term I think this hype has created some real value, and cryptocurrencies may end up being a real way out of the fiat scam
But this isn't a case of A going away making B go away, it's a case of A being a part of B. That's not a shifted goal post. That's the simplest understanding of what I said that's possible and I have no interest in arguing with someone simply looking to misconstrue my words. I don't understand how you can't tell the difference between separate entities, using vs existing only on a machine - and I can only think you're trying to force me into some sort of weird philosophical argument about how everything is connected that I'm really not interested in having. Machines are not and cannot ever be sentient. They may simulate sentience, but they will never possess it truly.
My sense is that needing a TV to sleep is a sign of a deeper issue, that of some underlying dissatisfaction or depression or boredom with life.