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Good for you! I mean that. But your experience isn't everyone's experience. Mine isn't either. I said so. For one, men have much easier time losing weight. I'm not a man. I offered my singular experience to give support for those who might also be mystified after trying everything with a doctor. To those who think my surgeon is trying to get me to buy surgery by saying a diet won't work-- actually, my surgeon (also head of a weight loss clinic) recommended against surgery and against my eating less that I already do. There are a number of drugs that can help people trying to lose weight that aren't phentermine. Some people like me can't take them because of a family history of thyroid cancer or other diseases. But for those who can take these, they are helpful tools. Often, those who struggle with weight loss have struggled with it throughout their life for a host of reasons, only one of which may be eating and exercising habits. To the person who told me I could "add in exercise", what are you trying to accomplish with comments like this? Of course I exercise. People who struggle with this health issue need support and to know that there are other difficult cases sometimes and to keep at it anyway. I keep at it anyway, because being in shape and healthy matters to me and always has. I do an hour of cardio 5x a week and I weight train every other day. I was a serious athlete as a young person (high school/college) and never had trouble with weight gain/eating disorders. I definitely know how to add in exercise. In fact, I never didn't exercise in my life. When I hear simplistic comments like some of these that seem to be meant to shame someone for not exercising, or for having no willpower, or for just generally not being disciplined at losing weight, I have to ask myself where is this kind of thing coming from? I can't say for sure, but perhaps it is because they feel that way about themselves and it feels harsh to them so they throw it at other people so they don't have to deal with the discouragement. To these people I say: don't be too harsh with yourselves! You will do much better at all of these things if you support your own small successes every day. Ultimately, don't you want to succeed at being as healthy as you can? Well, you get there through encouragement and support of yourself. You get there hopefully with the help of better data, drugs, approaches, exercise, and emotional support as better and better research is done into weight loss. And this is what the OP was all about anyhow. One of the best things a person can learn from being an athlete is that if you have team support-- if you root each other on-- you raise the level of the team. People who are trying to lose weight, including yourselves, need this. Because the other raises cortisol levels, and we know what happens then.
"... the ACH system never provides positive confirmation that an ACH debit has gone through successfully. The only response an ACH originator may get is one notifying them of a return. Because of this 'no news is good news' policy, it is wise for originators of ACH debits to wait for 3 additional business days of 'no news' to ship their product to the customer. Though the ACH system is described as a next-day settlement system, in practice, it is not because of this."[1]

So your bank is being optimistic and giving you a credit, assuming that no return will happen. A pessimistic or cautious bank would really have to wait several business days to ensure no returns happen before crediting your account.

[1]: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...
It was finished in 2016, after eight months.

According to this article: https://biv.com/article/2016/09/crews-complete-structure-rec...

"The $51.5 million structure is on budget, and Metras expects any future buildings to cost less, as the Brock Commons budget also includes $4.45 million from external agencies to cover first-time costs of using mass timber on such a scale."
> We need to communicate the true goal of given exercises to parents.

This is spot-on, and can't be emphasized enough. The goals also need to be communicated multiple times, more clearly to the students, in writing in the homework. So much of the homework asks what seems like trick questions when I look at it. Whenever they weren't paying 100% attention in class, it seems like trick questions to them too. The exercises feel like they intentionally withhold stating the goals clearly for fear that it would give away the answer or fail to make the students struggle enough on their own.

> Make showing/explaining your work interesting.

This is true, but tough. Not every exercise should be an essay answer or story problem. The homework my kids get has lots of variations on exactly the example the author gave, and it doesn't feel like it's helping generate any appreciation for showing the work or for coming up with alternatives. It usually just feels like forced busywork.

My real appreciation for showing my work only came in college physics when I finally realized that I make too many mistakes when I try to think my way through steps. Writing down every minor step was finally more efficient and accurate than not doing it.
For anyone interested in working on such a project, I highly recommend checking out the Automerge library, posted on HN ~2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16309533
This doesn't answer the question, but on topic: I was working with a building engineer who described a situation where a car engine caught on fire underneath a buildings (large, extended) eve that was built with steel beams, and they did melt, obviously necessitating a lot of fix-up work. He reckoned though that if the beam was built of wood, in that situation you'd just have to clean of some blackened material and carry on business-as-usual.

He also said that of steel, perfect glass, and wood, glass was (strength to weight) the strongest material (I don't remember if this was in compression, or tension, or ...), but it's so affected by its environment (chemically, physically (a scratch)), there's really no such thing as perfect glass, so it's moot.
Visa confirmed this... on Coinbase's blog. Why didn't they post it on their own website?
I haven't used it much, but I believe the numpy library (I know, not a language) sort of fits the bill of "a language which borrows the good ideas from array languages and applies them in a 21st century context". In any case, I know they've taken a lot of the ideas -- not sure how well they've made use of them.

As for J, I disagree that it's "not much more than a very powerful calculator" -- it's backed by a deep computational paradigm, and is closer to a work of art than any other language I've seen. The power arising from the small selection of interacting primitives, the harmony of combinators built directly into the syntax, the metaphor with natural language, and much more. It's also somehow more fun and satisfying to solve problems in J than other languages.

That said, it is by far the most difficult programming language I've ever learned. I'd say it took a year of part-time tinkering before it started to click, and I'm still not an expert. But the effort was worth it just for the lesson of how different things can be.
Part of the problem with this is that I feel elementary school teachers often lack understanding of why the math works. I remember hearing horror stories of people taking the Praxis and all the elementary teachers freaking out about the math -- one even said she had failed that section three times! It doesn't bode well that these are the people teaching our kids how basic math works. And it does show when they get to secondary schools.
If you add a U2F security key to your account as well (which you really ought to) you can turn SMS fallback off.
> You’d have to go to someone that doesn’t take your insurance at all

There are some doctors at teaching hospitals who specialize in diagnosing rare diseases and don't take insurance for this reason.
> Whoever the operator of the drone is, they are wholly responsible for illegal operation of their drone and the results thereafter.

Absolutely correct in a general sense.

In this story though, it’s not exactly clear who is at fault though with the details given.

- Helicopter was doing hovering drills

This means they were below 400ft

- Crash occurred in a remote area per article

This implies they were not near an airport, but it’s inconclusive based on the article alone. It’s entirely possible the DJI pilot was flying on his/her own land.

- both instructor and student said they saw the drone

Doesn’t indicate how far away the drone was however. I have a feeling though either the quadcopter pilot was either flying FPV (aka in violation of the line of sight rule) or wasn’t giving appropriate clearance to the helicopter, so ultimately they could partially be at fault.

Overall, it seems to me the root cause was the instructor overreacting. The instructor should’ve landed the helicopter if they didn’t have situational awareness enough to know a tree was nearby.

Replace “drone” with any other object in the air (say a kite flown by a kid or a bird or whatever) and would you have the same “blame goes to the other party, not instructor” perspective?
Steel has a great tensile strength but an average compressive strength at best. It's prone to buckling. Concrete is the exact opposite. In a skyscraper you need great tensile and compressive strength in different structural elements. This is why reinforced concrete is such a big deal. The properties of steel and concrete naturally complement each other.
The Guardian used to have much higher quality journalism before they decided to avoid a paywall and instead produce traffic generating articles like this one which are light on sources and facts but heavy on hand wringing and outrage.

I say this AS a Guardian subscriber but I think this will be my last year subscribing - at the rate they’re heading towards click baity articles they’ll be the left wing equivalent of the Daily Mail. The Independent is another formerly stellar paper now pumping out filler and relying on their name to sell it. Damn shame what’s happening to so many previously decent journalistic outlets in the UK.
well that and lasers will pretty much take the place of AA missiles.

I think one of the Navy's biggest issue is railguns pretty much make large surface ships a detriment and they are very loathe to give up their carriers. Those are their "balance in importance" versus the Air Forces stealth bombers and missiles. The Navy has lived off its success since WW2 for far too long with this need for 10 full CV forces.
Even if it had been illegal nobody would be sent to prison over it. Just a fine and probation.
> In Norway, cooking, nutrition and house work is a subject in school called heimkunnskap (Home knowledge)

In the US, the equivalent subject was called Home Economics, and was focused on women. This article goes through the history of the field: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/what-happened-to-home-eco... (keep in mind that the publication is biased, as all are)

> in the 1950s and ’60s [...] in many cases, home ec departments were eliminated, renamed, or folded into other departments, and funding was cut (although administrators’ salaries typically rose). “Administrators, all male then, held skeptical and hostile attitudes toward home economics, even as they expressed unabashed ignorance about the field,” Margaret W. Rossiter writes
Repurposing testing as such a distro (not calling it “testing”). Discontinuing stable (i.e. leaving the enterprise use case to Red Hat and SuSE) if the security team doesn’t have capacity to support both.
Back in the 90s we still had Quantum Effect processors, too.
So you're advocating the return of the slide rule? As that's what was used for most calculating, the "old math" method being too cumbersome for such large problems.
That was quite interesting, particularly the videos. Lots of use of pretty innovative techniques - 3d modelling, just in time delivery during construction, CNC for structural members & pre-fab parts (high precision for construction industry)
This is what mongodb picked up for schema validation in its last release: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/schema-validation/
Wouldn't surprise me if it was an organized (paid) troll campaign trying to stir up anti Coinbase sentiment. Small block fanatics have had it out for Coinbase ever since they published a blog post advocating for raising the block size. Ever since any hit of a problem they go out of their way to blow the issue out of proportion.
Exactly! I'm not in an inner-city area, but a rural one and there's a lot of the same problems. The poverty level of the county I teach in is 20%, and a lot of the students have to go home, and often get no support at home. And it's a clear night and day between the ones who do get support and encouragement and those who don't.

Sadly, the biggest issue I see is that they want school to be, basically, training for a job and real life. So, since you'll never solve a system of equation on a job (or so they believe), they don't see why it should be taught. But, yeah, that's not getting into accountability issues with students and their families. It's a frustrating cycle, and is likely going to push me from teaching before too much longer.
The fact most drones have a very small lift capacity is the biggest issue.

As to how to stop it, it’s just like any other terrorist attack. SIGINT is the main tool.
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That's not correct, but a widely held view. The speed differs to the properties of the EM field in these materials, not due to absorption.
> explainability is necessary to use it.

For that matter, freedom from daily blue screens and reboots is not needed to use an operating system.

All sorts of non-AI software has confusing states and quirks, yet is in wide use.
>Obesity is a disease that you physically have, and you can't decide to not be fat anymore.

Obesity is a state, not a disease (there are some diseases that can cause obesity, but by and large it's due to diet for most people).
Really? In the case of math, it provides you with the ability to add/multiply/etc. Now, maybe you don't think that being able to do fast and reasonably accurate mental or paper-based arithmetic is important in a world in which calculators are ubiquitous but rote learning does help give you that ability even if you don't understand deeper mathematical concepts.

Asimov's short story "A Feeling of Power" is a fun read by the way.

Rote learning also has a role in things like language vocabulary but in that case there are certainly differing approaches to developing language skills. My understanding is that there's a lot of memorization in things like medicine as well.
I agree with your main point, but I think the naval equivalent of a B-2 is a long range nuke sub with Trident missiles.
That's a huge ask. My query was really about "rebranding" unstable.
All of the consumer grade drones (aka ones under $2,500) don’t show up on radar. They are too small and don’t have enough radar reflecting substances (think about a typical airframe, the motors and battery are the only really metallic parts of any size and they are still very very small compared to any aircraft).
Creating a JSON schema for your data and committing it is a great way to codify assumptions about the data consumed or produced by your program. Once you have a JSON schema for your data, you can generate models and serializers in many languages with quicktype: https://app.quicktype.io#s=coordinate
New government can easily reverse or change the policies of previous governments, the civil service jut enacts what the government of the day tells them to do.
Once some managers get hold of velocity numbers they use them as the main metric. "How can increase the number of story points per sprint?" or "Why does dev A finish more story points than dev B?". Then you get all kinds of perverse incentives to game the system.

Or: They start comparing story points between teams which in reality is a totally meaningless thing.
If those elements of the graph are "spurious", why not remove them from the very beginning? Or, should I say, not have them there?
My guess is the doctors who don't spend extra time trying to solve the case probably shouldn't be paid for the time separately as is being suggested here.

It would appear to me that they have already lost the innate curiosity (if they ever had it) that made them want to become doctors in the first place.

Or they're not confident enough in their ability. Doctors are already paid substantially compared to most other professions, so for them to not put in extra time on the exceptional cases makes me feel they probably feel entitled. Too much so to have any impact on the rare cases.

The doctors who could realistically find the solution are the ones who will likely want to take the case on for free.
Even if all people in the world were "$arbitrary_number comfortable with", say, wars of aggression, that still wouldn't sanction it. At the very least, let them speak for themselves.

> Britons have decided (or was forced to them and they didn't push back)

"This victim probably welcomed the death following her rape; notice all her skull tattoos in combination with a route through an unlit street. Either that, or she could have been deceived and/or forced, so it's fine either way."
This model works because China run a huge trade surplus, and its excess production is consumed by other countries. It would be interesting to see if this model can continue when the global trade balances out.

In a way China is subsidizing goods for the most of the world. The outcome is the kind of political problems this is causing in most countries.
Many consumer grade drones can’t fly high enough to get to an altitude where “explosive decompression” would be an issue. 5k ft is pretty doable, 10k ft is unlikely, 15k+ altitude is basically not tangible currently.
I must say this article seems like a bit of rambling. However it is true that private and digital currency are not new.

The description of things like the Bank of England and so on seem to me a not very exact or well explained.

First, I would say that money does not always and everywhere require debt.

The point however stands that currency systems can often be private, independent of the underlying money. Meaning the underlying money could be a fiat money, a gold standard or bitcoin. Currency systems unlike money often involve some kind of debt.

If people are interested I would first consider:

- Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 (Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gn55fTRXZw)

A more detailed view about free banking in Britain:

- Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience and Debate, 1800–1845 (http://iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/upl...)
> I think it does something unusual on deeply nested comments.

IIRC, HN does roughly the same thing that reddit does for deeply nested comments (meaning that you have to click on a link to view more of the thread). The most deeply nested thread I was involved in [1] on HN didn't appear to be handled any differently than any other thread I've seen here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13632352
The military acquisition process (of which technology development is part of) is nothing like software development (even software acquisition projects barely resemble the way SV approaches software). It is frustrating to be a part of because of the endless bureaucracy, but during tech development they do indeed try new things. That is the entire point of Dahlgren's existence, is to research new stuff.

Remember that this is also the same lab that gave us the Norden bombsight, which many historians agree was a major factor in the allies winning WWII.
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If the app is the product, it should feel native. Major apps lie WhatsApp, Snapchat, instagram etc are built natively because that’s what users expect of a professional app. If the app is auxiliary to your main value add, and users primarily use your product on desktop, then a mobile website might make more sense.

Have you considered a middle ground of something like react native?
Didn’t most studies found correlation between smoking and cancer as well as a myriad of other diseases but didn’t actually managed to corolate the number of cigarettes per day to a specific increase?

So while one cigarette every six months might not be catastrophic the difference between a pack a day and a pack a week might not be as big as you think.
Would love to chat more about this privately. My contact info is in my profile.
The big problem at the heart of the Big Tobacco Problem was that big tobacco could not change direction in light of new information and remain big tobacco. Sure RJR could buy Nabisco and eventually merge and rebrand as Alitra. But big tobacco is dependent on selling tobacco to make money.

Facebook can stay Facebook by changing how it handles advertising. It could eliminate advertising revenue and replace it with subscriptions revenues. It might even be possible for Facebook to derive all its revenue from selling/renting software and data services. Something like AWS or IBM where interaction on the social graph provides data for valuable algorithms for uses other than advertizing.
Likely Chinese researchers have they're own set of papers and incentives that replaces being able to publish at Nature due to ethical concerns.

Wonder if people with more insight would clarify how incentives work in Chinese academia.
Is polymorphism really needed for OOP?
How is this building protected against termites and other wood eating pests?
Youre still being tracked by your phone service provider though.
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its my understanding that common core math is of the theology that its more important to learn how to think than to solve the question.

its also important to understand that if a kid uses 'the old way' to solve a question, they do not get points for it. remember, this is coming from an ideology that being taught how to think is priority number one, and priority number two is to not deviate from that thinking.

it was always frustrating in hs, especially calculus when I would get 0 points for questions i had right because i used a shortcut, trick, or simply solved it more efficiently. then I got to college and the professor encouraged that. on the first major exam I scored a 96, far above anyone else, and the professor asked to shake my hand, because no one ever solved equations so efficiently before.

i attack and do problems differently, sometimes out of necessity. dyslexia is an adversary of mine, and i find it better not to fight it on its home ground. i also read slow, and take much longer to absorb a problem into my head than other people. but once i do, i own it. unless people make me do it their way in the process. its like running 100m hurdles with 30 hurdles.

im sure you love how you solve problems. you can do it fine your way, i cant. once you start forcing everyone to think one way and evaluating them, your measuring each animal how well they climb a tree.
It (temporarily?) hides the "reply" link after some depth, so you have to click the timestamp to go to the comment permalink instead and reply there.
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Further, it’s a popular recurring story arc that appears in many popular magazines (Discover, which for some reason I always buy when flying has a regular series) and in many books (eg, ``Awakenings’’ by Oliver Sacks)

Whether this particular submission meets the criteria for a HN discussion could be debated, although it does seem to have generated at least some useful comments.