skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cardio works for some people, but I think a lot of people go run for 20 minutes and then decide they've earned a Big Mac with Behemoth Fries. Data has completely freed me of that delusion - I've learned that I'm not willing to do enough cardio to outrun my diet. I'd rather just not have cheese on my salad than have to go hate the world for an hour on the treadmill. There are the people who run 10 miles on a daily basis because they enjoy it - I am not one of them! :)

Lifting for me is less about weight loss than it is just about personal improvement, though. I want to be strong (and hey, if I'm losing this weight, I want to look good!), and lifting moves the ball towards that goal. I've found that I really enjoy it, too - it's not something that I tolerate as some grueling price I have to pay to get the body I want, it's a hobby that I genuinely enjoy and derive a lot of satisfaction from. The fact that it helps me lose weight is a great bonus, but I've found that lifting lets me hack my internal tendency to "try for a high score" by giving me a whole suite of metrics that I can rate, rank, and compare myself on. I love it.
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No they aren't. You can choose to buy refundable business fares, much as you can buy refundable economy fares. But the default is non-refundable tickets with hundreds of dollars high change fees.

Some business travellers do buy mostly refundable tickets, but they specifically have to select them regardless of class of travel. Tickets bought on day of travel also tend to be refundable since that's often the only fare that can be sold close to departure.
Um. I would much rather have false negatives than false positives in criminal cases, thanks.

"it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer"

Also, you've got this wonderful dichotomy laid out, but there are other options too: for instance, that this guy is sent to prison but was not the creator of the malware, thus ending any chance of the true creator ever being caught.
You call this "data driven"? Look at his explanation of the supplements he takes:

>Grenade Thermo Detonator: A scary name, but essentially a dosage of caffeine from concentrated green tea extract that's meant to be a fat-burner/pre-workout pill. It gives you some energy to focus, and suppresses your appetite. It is not very different from simply taking a packet of coffee. I used these for the first 4 months.

>Multivitamin: Just to ensure you get your vitamin requirements for the day, but there is evidence to show this might not really be necessary.

>Fish Oil: I heard from many sources that omega-3s are good for you so I thought I'd get some

>Whey Protein: If you don't consume enough protein a day and are on a weight loss plan, you will lose muscle with your weight. 1 - 1.5g/lb of body weight is the general recommendation. Because it's not always easy to make sure you get that much pure protein, a protein shake is an easy way to quickly gulp down 50g of protein regardless of how hungry/full you are.

So of the four he takes, one he takes may not be backed by any data, and another he takes because he heard that it's good for you.
That's fair, it's always best to let the facts come out in court before any of us decide to judge him one way or another. By then we'll have a clearer picture of exactly what (if anything) his knowledge of and involvement with the principles of the crimes was.

It seems to me that, if proven, the DOJ has a case here. They key point will be exactly what they can or cannot prove in court.

It's best not to get too riled up over preliminary things like this. We haven't heard most of what there is to hear until the closing arguments are given and I'd rather not make up my mind too far one way or another before I've heard everything there is to know. And I would be embarrassed to stake an opinion later proven ridiculous because I rushed to judgement.
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Fraud has other components beyond just lying. For example, I could tell you that I'm Santa Claus, and, due to the rising complexity of children's toys, I need more money to hire additional elves this year, would you please donate?

That wouldn't be fraud though, because, among other things, you aren't damaged by it. You might be damaged by it if you sent me your money, and I actually used it to buy myself sugar cookies, but you didn't.

What I'm trying to get at is "harm" or "damage" is typically a component of a fraud case. In this case, the defense of "My investors didn't lose money, but actually made back multiples of their initial investment" seems very strong to me.

Shkreli had a company which failed and lost investors money. Rather than break the bad news, he lied to them, started another company, made more money, and paid back his investors. I may have the details wrong, but from this article, that was my main takeaway.

The point about damage goes to intent. Did Shkreli lie to people to take their money and make himself rich? Or did he lie to people to get a working productive business and pay off his investors? The fact that he did the latter implies his intent was the latter.

If I were an investor, I'd be upset that the initial investment failed. I'd be litigious if I realized he had lied to me. If he lied to me and returned my money with profit, I'd just stop doing business with him in the future.
Grasping Robots Compete to [be minimally competent at picking stuff up and after many years trying are still hilariously bad compared to the humans that] Rule Amazon's Warehouses.

They are getting better these days, but let's not get too breathless about it. That headline is very misleading.
This is a case where the airline should sign the information in the QR code. Lounges get the airlines' public keys and pick the one for the passenger's flight and, after verifying the signature, can trust the information in the QR code. No API access necessary.

Don't over think, just use HMAC. It's disturbing how often that advice is needed.
How is that actually possible for a human given all the sub-millimetre-parts like micro smd resistors etc?
That's why I can't understand people who complain about removal of MagSafe. Seriously, it was a great thing to have but replaceable cord is MUCH better for me.

I'm very careful with my laptops and never needed MagSafe (luckily) but during the years I broke 6 or 7 chargers. Sometimes it was a year, sometimes two, but the cord always snipped. No matter how careful I was.
> I don't know many 30-somethings (especially in tech) that can work out for a half hour uninterrupted, nevermind an hour.

I work full-time in tech, have a wife, two kids, two dogs, and work on my book [1] writing every single day. I still definitely have 30 minutes of free time every day to work out.

What I don't have as much of is will-power/discipline/execute function whatever you want to call it. I workout twice a week and run once a week and with that on top of working and writing I really do feel like I'm at the limit of what I'm able to motivate myself to do.

If I wasn't writing a book, exercising even more would be pretty easy.

Try tracking how much time you spend staring at your phone and/or the Internet. Cut that and you'll be very surprised how much long the day gets.

[1]: http://craftinginterpreters.com
Here is our collection of HiDPI bugs: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?i...
Looks nice! I've not yet received an email, so we'll see how good they are - but I would also appreciate purchase links and difficulty ranking if they're not already included.

Thanks for this!
Vega is a good supplement for those who cannot digest the milky whey.
Ask HN: How to get around ageism and perceived incompetence?
I'm about 35 years old working in software.

As you age, people expect you to be able to handle increasing levels of responsibility. 9/10 of my years working professionally have been as a contractor to small 10-20 people companies. Despite their small size I never felt like I was a major contributor or had a major say in something, aside from one project. I have been the architect for one reasonably complex project, but I never lead, interviewed, or managed people.

General consensus I get is that I'm too overqualified for junior roles, but for senior roles, they didn't find any exceptional strong points with me. My network is weak and I have almost no friends in the tech field. So, how does one work their way out of this problem?

Don't know if it's impostor syndrome but it feels like I require a "remedial" software job (which doesn't really exist).
$10/month to no longer need my phone for map my run and Spotify? That's worth $120/yr to me
That's really interesting to me because I'm the opposite. I skipped many of my lectures in college and learned through the book or working with my peers. I didn't feel like going to lectures added much to my learning but they added a ton to burnout. Everyone is a little different I guess.
No. They. Aren't. EU regulations only affect EU carriers, or flights departing the EU. (And also Switzerland, possibly Norway.) Not applicable here.

And if they had to pay that compensation (as explained they don't in this case), they definitely won't want to add bonus lounge access.
Nim https://nim-lang.org/ seems to be an independent language that is getting some traction lately. I haven't used it myself but am impressed with how well the project is doing.
They call it "theft" for the defensible reason that it maps to traditional theft in (what they regard as) the most important dimensions. Your disagreement with the validity of the (IMHO, obvious) mapping doesn't make it lazy.

Theft is wrong for well-known reasons. Most of those same reasons apply to these situations.
My personal opinion, until shown evidence otherwise, is this is the real author/seller being turned into an informant, and part of that process, the first step, is to protect the informant and smear another. MTB's high profile on the issue may mean he was a target of opportunity.

Of course I could be wrong, so time will tell. A good future indicator of this will be if the case is dropped as quietly as possible.
Losing 30 kg (66 pounds) in 6 months is not normal and this guy definitely did crazy stuff. I would say 3-4 years would be "the norm" to do this transformation, so don't let yourself be discouraged.
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Nice job and all but the sheer amount of shirtless photos at different angles just shows how narcissistic you are.
> I've never seen one learn to tie a shoe.

For what it's worth I for example only learned to tie my shoes when I was already 9 years old, while I had learned to read almost all by myself at 5 (my dad had taught me the letters of the alphabet).
Self-driving cars, it will majorly change how we transport.

People in 100 years will look back to manually driven cars as we look back to horse-drawn carriages
Correct, I don't count a software foundation as a corporate branding. I see it as a positive.
That's absolutely true, but if the DoJ is acting in good faith (they believe they have sufficient evidence of guilt by this person) then is this really a problem?

There are good reasons to be cautious, but this particular case is far from decided either way.
The judicial system mostly prosecutes people who have not managed to piss off Congress and the public.
I wonder if the Ryzen bugs can really be fixed with a microcode update..
I've been into SFF PCs and computing for a while and, being disappointed by a lot of small cases in the market, have taken to learning how to build my own case.

There is actually a lot of this going on in the niche, with some custom cases even progressing from one-offs to a limited production run so it can be a fun little business if you put the time into it.
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The cost of participation is totally different. Physical robot vs. pure software.
> I'm not going to do your work for you.

It's a high-level idea, dude. You made one specific critique, which I refuted, and now you're criticizing the idea as uncriticizable because it doesn't have enough of the details specified.

Thanks for playing, I guess.
I'm not at all aware of Concept2 - I'll have to take a look at it. I know there's been something of a revolution lately in resistance rowing and biking tech (some of my friends are SUPER into the Twitch subculture with people who do these competitive resistance bike ride video games), but I'm not really too aware of most of it. I'm generally happy just picking up heavy-ass things. :)
No, I don't think so. People tend to over-emphasize the latest ML techniques when the greatest improvements right now come from better and cleaner data sets. I am interested in this sort of thing because we were just about to try and build something like it ourselves.
The trigger and the choice
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Do you mean Hive on Hops, I guess? HopsFS is a filesystem (drop-in replacement for HDFS with distributed metadata).

Partition-pruned index scans are key for high performance in distributed databases. Index scans and full-table scans hit all shards and kill performance. Hive supports partition-pruned index scans and push-down filtering for projections.
In her article, she points out that the same study failed to find Norman genes either. So I might ask similar questions about them: where are the Norman genes? Is the Norman invasion of Britain a hoax perpetrated by the alt-right of yore?

etc. etc.

(In other words: it’s a legitimate question, but the way Taleb is using it as some kind of gotcha! query suggests that he isn’t really asking it in good faith.)
Yes. AIUI, German law seems to draw heavily from the school of thought that "obviously you're not supposed to do that, jerk, now pay up". American law prefers to say, "oh, crud, you caught us. Add it to the ever-lengthening terms of service (that no one reads) so we can prove you agreed you wouldn't do it."
Do you think that's plausible with ar kit?
Yes in general. What I meant to say is for someone like me, I had trouble with what I ate, for example overeating after a cardio session. Understanding this and changing behaviour is a lot harder as compared to building more muscle which is "sustainable" in terms of a larger TDEE that's evenly spread out. Unless I'm mistaken building muscle is far more efficient than bursts of cardio. HIIT seems to work on a similar idea.
As I understand it this is the crux of the case - that the creation of such software isn't illegal, but sale with the intent to be used in the commission of a crime is. I understand the indictment is pretty barebones, so I wonder what exactly they are basing their allegations of intent on.
You can still create class-like ontologies with Clojure specs, but usually you don't need to.

Clojure's specs, adhoc or otherwise, certainly might not be your cup of tea. Clojure really pushes the idea of separation and isolation, and in my view you need to buy into that philosophy to be at all comfortable with the language.

Where I disagree with you is your assertion that maps in Clojure are always less structured than objects. I'd claim that (at least when properly spec'ed out) they provide far more structure than objects.
What if it could pair with air pods and function as a proper phone?
Almost, but not quite. It does apply on all flights departing from the EU, but only on flights arriving in the EU if they are operated by a carrier from an EU country. It's a small but important distinction.

For example, if you were travelling from London to New York, it would always apply regardless of the airline. In the other direction, however, it would apply on BA but not on AA.
Isn't that stuff about the cords just anecdotal? I have every power cord I've ever owned for my various Apple products; sometimes I feel like they are taking me over. Totally agree on your other points though.
The canonical “engineer studies the problem of being fat and works on it like any other problem” story is The Hacker’s Diet by John Walker. There’s no secret formula necessary, just eat less. I found it very inspirational (and effective). https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
Indeed already amazing.

"Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. […] I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them"

from 1995 http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...

today google shows it right away: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=date%20of%20the%... (powered by the now slightly more semantic wikipedia I think)
Thanks for the clarification! Do you think rapid weight loss could lead to HPA axis dysfunction as a result, i.e. lowered corticosteroid output (what some call adrenal fatigue, but is actually regulated by the hypothalamus)?
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The one in the video (IST) is actually very nice, there is lots of space (especially compared to the rest of the airport, which is usually very crowded), free food and drinks (including alcohol and decent, non-drip coffee).
Palantir's blueprint is also a great UI kit for react. I'm surprised nobody brought it up.
"Sustainable weight loss is achievable by everyone, whether you're 40 or 50 years or 400 pounds or 600 pounds."

While I applaud those individuals that have kept off weight long term, the science disagrees that is an achievable goal for everyone.(only about 5% of people who successfully lose large amounts of weight will keep it off long term)

For example here is what happened to the contestants on the biggest loser.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig...

The body will fight very hard to get back up the heavier level. It play nasty tricks such as increasing hunger, decreasing metabolism, and nastiest of all physiologically sabotage the part of the brain that is responsible for conscience regulation of food intake(it turns off willpower specifically for food).
And what's the initial plan cost to get that shared data pool?

I pay $30/5GB (then throttled unlimited), so if I have to switch to a $50/month plan for a shared pool and add another $10 for a second device, then we're up to $360/year.
I completely agree with the first paragraph. I should have made that clear in my comment :)
If your health is really important to you, you'll take a 3 year break(Not realistic, I know) if you have to. I know people who quit jobs so they can focus on weight loss. Moved to cheap areas/countries and made their weight a priority. I'll rather go broke a few months than spend the rest of my life with mounting medical bills that pile up as a result of my weight.
You can write go with the same loose nature of Python. Conceptually you can write programs the same and get some speed boost + type checking while you're at it.

It's like a more intense form of adding annotations in theory.

So while it requires a rewrite, a cost which you should not write off either, it can feel similar to Python but more verbose. Where Rust feels like Haskell and C++ had a child together and can be more jarring to switch to (in my experience as primarily Python/Django who uses Go in many side projects and tried Rust up-to and around 1.0).
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Hadn't heard of this until now! Thanks!
The protein numbers are rather incorrect, too. Research supports 0.82g/lb (https://bayesianbodybuilding.com/the-myth-of-1glb-optimal-pr...) - though you're not going to hurt anything if you're getting more than that (unless you start taking in several multiples of that quantity - then renal failure can become a concern).

Protein tends to be more expensive on a per-calorie basis than other macronutrients, though, so it can be advantageous to not overconsume it relative to fat/carbs, presuming you're getting enough to optimally support muscle synthesis.
Agreed. I think many people do a good job of logging when something goes wrong, and maybe they are good about logging inputs/outputs of a system, but I think that logging important decisions often falls off the table. Ideally I would like to take a request ID, grep the logs, and get an entire story of what happened to that request. In reality, this rarely happens!
I've had to deal with "huge" deallocations causing stuttering before -
by e.g. deferring deallocation over several frames. Deferred deallocation is also occasionally important for working around use-after-free bugs in middleware or system APIs that you don't have the source code to.

Building and using the tools to track down and break up circular references, dangling pointers, leaks, visualize memory fragmentation, etc. has eaten up a lot of my time.

I've considered attempting to write what would amount to a compacting GC in a C++ codebase to deal with memory fragmentation issues before - but retrofitting such a beast into an existing codebase was a huge enough undertaking, that we went for other simpler half measures instead. Being unable to control some middleware and system allocations meant any such GC would involve half measures and hacks as well anyways.
Not only that, but it's difficult to mathematically model deformable objects in ways that are computationally tractable (e.g. running on a 10ms update loop)
So maybe instead of saying, "Find one person who got it for free," you should have said, "Find one person who got it for free that I like even though the US has some serious medical privacy laws and therefore it's nearly impossible to find unless that sick someone (with HIV) voluntarily comes forward publicly, risking their career and future job prospects, to be on the side of a person that has been heavily vilified in the media circus."
Anti-Fragile is a popular work on risk; the description is simply accurate, and distinguishes the works she had read from Taleb’s academic work.

Most academics who also write popular works aren't prickly about describing their popular works as such; I don't think Hawking would get upset at someone describing A Brief History of Time as pop cosmology.
Piggybacking on this to +1 the sentiment as another "security person": I literally do not go to Black Hat or Defcon because I don't like Vegas.

It's a minor networking hit for me, but a total win otherwise (and I can make up by networking elsewhere - I cannot get time spent in Vegas back).
> And yet nearly every single person I know has had their power cable for their iphone and/or macbook fray after a year or so.

You don’t know me, but in 12 years of solely using Apple laptops and phones (obviously < 12yrs for the phones), I’ve never once had a cord/cable fray or fail. I’ve had 4-5 laptops and 4 phones.
From crystal-lang.org, Crystal is a compiled language

I never understood the phrase compiled language.
I just downvoted this and decided to explain why (and knowing this comment will be downvoted probably, too). Using profanity is not appropriate. Being in tech does not justify this behavior. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProfanityDoesntWork.aspx

Not to mention I'm not even going to read the README file of this project as long as this software is licensed under WTFPL, which is basically a joke.
Mary Beard’s proper title would be Prof. Beard of course. Something she extended the courtesy of to him, but apparently he couldn’t be bothered to extend the same to her.

The falling back on 'I got more citations than you, so ner' isn’t exactly a good look either.
Some obesity is a disease, and some (perhaps much) in the western world is brought on by the combination of available foods and the lifestyle driven by our culture as it relates to compensation and work "ethic." Quality, healthy nutrition is hard to come by in America, either because it's scarce in an area or else the basic mechanics of putting together healthy things isn't really taught or socialized.

The whole concept of "fat shaming" is outrageous. It is quite hurtful and, if the object is to motivate change, unhelpful anyway. On the other hand, the concept of "fat but fit" is also not helpful. Being fat isn't healthy, period. As one gets fatter one gets even less healthy and it also starts to impact hygiene (which itself negatively impacts health).