skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fasting was a nice tool for me to break my food addiction. I didn't use it specifically to lose weight but to change my mindset around food.

The mindset change for me was basically what I believe most overweight people suffer from: To start eating so much and so often that they forget what 'hunger' really is.

With that change, now knowing for real when I'm hungry and when I just 'want to eat', my weight started to drop naturally, and in 3 years (slow descent, which was good as well for other reasons) I ended up losing 50 kg, going from a "morbidly obese" BMI to a now healthy "slightly overweight" :-)

Losing weight slowly meant 2 good things to me:

1- the mind changed, so now I'm simply unable to get back to that weight, I can't eat so much, all my portion sizes were slashed and I can do that while eating normally - no fad diets or crazy restrictions. yes I eat pizza with a coke sometimes, I just don't eat a whole pizza anymore :) That level of control and balance was what I was striving for, because I think that's durable. I knew I could lose weight by being angry and brute forcing it for 6 months, but I don't believe I'd be able to keep the weight down without a proper mindset break.

2- losing weight slowly also meant I don't have heaps of loose skin, I didn't need plastic surgery or anything and besides still being a bit chubby, I can take my shirt off just fine without getting strange looks :-) I know people that lost the same 50 kg in 6 months through insane diets and overexerting themselves at the gym and their skin just couldn't shrink as fast as they lost weight, they have these folds which usually give away you 'lost too much weight'. I'm proud I don't have these features!

TL;DR: Change your mindset around food, your body will follow. Don't bruteforce it when you're angry, you're just gonna have a temporary weight loss like you probably have and tried countless times if you come from a fat background/upbringing. o/
Seriously curious: Did you try Krita? If so, is it in the same league as Gimp and suitable for the same use cases?
Reshipping centers, I don't want to sound weird, are basically hives of scum and villainy in my opinion.

I was selling something Ebay (a phone) and I got a really weird address, it was a shipping center.

I googled around because I got a strange vibe, apparently, this shipping center had this issue all the time and didn't really care to stop it. I got a horrendous review from the person because I canceled the order and refused to ship it.

I am wondering if fraud is honestly the business model of shipping centers. I can't really think of a good use for them nowadays, especially in a consumer context.
Yeah, I think there's a big difference between unpublishing and retracting. Simply making a story disappear is a common way of hiding a fuckup. (Also, sometimes a way of making a difficult person go away.) Retracting is admitting the mistake.

I'd like this a little better if they had some way to access the old material in a fashion that made it clear it was withdrawn. But I think this is way better than just leaving the old story up in a form that might be harmful to people. I'm strongly influenced here by Wikipedia's "Biographies of Living Persons" standard, which is much stricter than that for articles on other topics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

For those curious, the Wayback link is here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.npr.org/2018/04/03...

Edit: Actually, user Buge found the real archive link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180403204501/https://www.npr.o...
How much [toxic stuff] goes into making LEDs? If any?

We shall, in short order respectively have trillions of LEDs in landfill.

Old LEDs were a dollop of glass/plastic over the device, but sme/rgb LEDs are a bit more complex than the old LEDs of the past.
I've heard this is largely because North Korea's nuclear test site collapsed:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/214...

With no viable test site, North Korea's nuclear program is kaput, as are their ambitions of becoming a major nuclear power. Moreover, there is now a massive environmental disaster that will affect people all over the Korean peninsula plus northern China. They have no choice to come to the negotiating table, and South Korea has a strong incentive to reach a peace deal so they can get their geologists, engineers, and inspectors in and mitigate the damage before a massive fall-out plume blows over Seoul.
The phrasing of pendulum swinging in relation to symbolic was also used by Micheal Jordan here (search for pendulum): https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-re...

It's clear that AIs based solely on FOL are unlikely, but it's also likely to be true that any system needing to solve problems whose exact solution can't be found in steps polynomial in inputs, will require ideas that are similar to the core of the older approaches. There are problems where wide-ranging search can't be avoided.

Other nice perks of the hybrid approach are data efficiency, compact specification, easier composition, the ability to grow or alter your representation and generate new inferences on the fly (I mean inferences as a result of learning or conditioning on new information and not what people use when they mean prediction). If you learn a new fact, you can go back and explicitly work out the consequences on all the other facts and the inferences generated from them as well as generate new inferences that might not have existed before. These are more easily done with "symbolic" representations.

Combining with the strengths of DL based approaches: more robust, learns complex mappings, can learn non-trivial computations, can exploit indirectly specified structure, can approximate probability densities if trained correctly, will get the best of all worlds.

Here's a short presentation on the topic from a recent workshop: (and if you can, it's worth checking out the other presentations too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dsx4tyzJ8
Definitely this. Better to lose a shield prototype than a fancy rover you already spent millions to hurl into space.
(Regarding a generic "you":)

If you've called your representatives, you gain my sympathy and concern.

If you've assumed ten minutes a month isn't worth it, these arguments are not persuasive.
Mac on Mac Virtualization
Housing prices in Seattle will only come down if there's a downturn in the tech industry. But that doesn't mean it's wrong to encourage density to reduce prices.
When I'm trying out a new AWS service I start using it through the web console. Once I gain some familiarity with the service and settle into a pattern of manual operations, I translate the manual operations into CLI commands. The most commonly run CLI commands I throw into a shell script.

For instance, I started using AWS Lambda by manually uploading the lambda code .zip file through the web console. Later on I wrote a shell script that invokes an AWS CLI command to do the same.

TIP: when using AWS CLI, set the parameter '--output json' to get pretty, readable output. It's much better than the default output text format.
"Sandbox" accounts where devs have admin access to go figure out how services work and fit together.

Once they're ready to go into actual dev environment it's Terraform.

We also have a service catalog for standing up ec2 instances that are fully managed like in the datacenter and cloudfoundry.

Personally I tend to use a mix of terraform, boto3 and CLI for the vast majority of things, and log into the console when I need to go look at things occasionally.
There were some pretty good Win32 API tutorials back in the day. It was similar to this, if not it:

http://win32assembly.programminghorizon.com/

It was quite enlightening to see common program constructs done only in assembly.
HiDPI support is super exciting. I've been squinting at GIMP on a 15" 4k laptop for a while now, and it's almost unusable (I started switching to 1080p whenever I really needed to use GIMP, or used some other software for simple edits like cropping and rotating and such).
The fact that the story can't be repaired does not rebut the ColanR's claim that deleting it is inconsistent with NPR's stated policy.

Furthermore, the best policy would be to retain a complete edit history of the story online, which is obviously possible even if the entire story is retracted. Given that the edit history would include a clear statement that NPR no longer endorses the claims made there, I can't see a reason for not making the edit history public other than reducing embarrassment of NPR.

That said, NPR is far from the only major news organization that declines to keep the edit history public.
VR us stupid due to the terrible user experience of being blocked out of the environment, but if there's any company that possibly might be able to make it work, it's Apple.

The 8k resolution here possibly indicates a holographic light-field display, where you have 4 or 16 pixels working together to form one lower-resolution light-field pixel behind a micro-lens. Apple could then avoid the limited field-of-view of current VR displays as well as not having to build lens optics per eye, making the headset thinner.
Thanks for the reply! I assure you my comment wasn't made in bad faith.

By the way, I do agree with this other statement you made:

> "The pithiness that makes “you are the product” so quotable risks obscuring the complex pact between Facebook and its users, in ways that make social media’s problems seem inevitable and insoluble. They’re not—but if we want to fix them, the first thing we need to do is redefine our relationship."

I don't have much faith in Facebook's "pact" with its users, but I do agree the fatalistic mindset of "this is the way things are, and you are a fool if you expect otherwise" (implied by "you are the product") is worse than useless: it trains us to accept a rather unacceptable state of things.
Still better than nukes landing in SF/Seattle. Or shelling down Seoul to bits in 30 mins after the first shots are fired.

I think your theory is plausible. I fail to see how a modern authoritarian regime could be exported though. Democracies happen because the constituent people are committed to certain ideas (and a constitution usually); its not about economics (at least not to a great extent).
Sometime in early 2000, I decided I was watching too much television, so I just stopped, completely. I was actively avoiding watching any television. I was a few months into that when I got my one and only invitation to be a Nielsen person. I told them in advance that I gave up watching television a few months before, and I didn't plan on watching anything in the near future. They said sure, that was fine. So I got a log book and, of course, at the end of each month or whatever, I wrote 0,0,0... everywhere. After six months, I was not renewed as a Nielsen person. :-) I did watch election night 2000 and the whole hanging chad period, and eventually I was watching some again.
I think this is the highest benefit. This an offloading sensitive data into the cloud.
Create Your Own Search Engine for More Privacy and Zero Trust Issues
Transactions above $600 are reported to the IRS on form 1099 MISC.

You're thinking of the bank account deposit reporting threshold.
It's very pleasant to be able to go for a whole-day bicycle trip and not get any insects in my mouth. But even if cars have grown more aerodynamic, I don't think I can thank the car manufacturers for this pleasant development.
However, if you want good full spectrum LEDs (that approach what an incandescent bulb provides) I believe you must buy really expensive ones that are only manufactured in Japan https://www.yujiintl.com/high-cri-led-lighting
Why would it be a US client state? There's only one reason why: If it felt threatened by China. If you're China, and you don't want a unified Korea to have US troops stationed in it, make it clear that you don't threaten it.
Animated map and reduce
The system you envision is Gale–Shapley algorithm for solving the stable marriage problem, but with roles reversed.
I think they really are. Give you a redia inside vps and the hardware will rate limit you.
The automobile market is not like smartphones. In spite of assembly lines, the identical unit is not stamped out one million times and sealed in glue.

Car designs are quite modular and individual components and suppliers are revised during manufacture. There are far more intermediate sub-assembly steps and smaller volumes produced in each batch. It is common to see recalls and technical service bulletins that "patch" cars already delivered to gain some of the fixes devised after the car left the line. Sometimes these are direct replacements of parts,and sometimes they are literal patches of the older design, such as applying an extra gasket or some adhesive to resolve a rattle in an interior trim piece which was designed away in its next revision.

While marketing maintains "model years" as a nominally uniform offering of a particular car, it is not uncommon to find odd half-year or worse hybrids which mix together cosmetic and mechanical features of different years. These happen when the manufacturer drains out certain supply chains and integrates unusual combinations of the different modules into specific cars. People focus on the visible parts like cosmetic body trim or interior features, but this also applies to mechanical and electronic parts buried deep inside the car.
Hi! I created some animations to explain what happens internally with the `map` & `reduce` functions. These functions are really important in functional programming.
The code is open source, any feedback is welcome !
If you're fine with it being large, having no battery life/using a lot of power, why are you buying a laptop at all?
Yes, MSG is MSG. Accent apparently has at least two products.

Pure MSG:

https://www.amazon.com/Accent-Flavor-Enhancer-lb-canister/dp...

And a seasoning mixture that contains MSG, salt, and a mixture of spices:

https://www.amazon.com/Sa-son-Accent-Seasoning-Original-Pack...

I have only ever seen the first kind of Accent before (crystals of pure MSG) so I too was initially confused about what the author meant when writing

I picked up a dusty bottle of Ac’cent-brand MSG at my corner bodega. I brought it home, made dinner, and stepped into the light. After a few months of passionate use, I levelled up from Ac’cent, which includes other flavorings besides MSG, to the more pure and exquisite Ajinomoto...
...Aaand, that's why we run the tests!

Better to fix it in a component/unit test than to lose the entire project

A successful test, identifying an flawed component design.
AI Weekly 27 April 2018
I'm constantly worried about that teapot orbiting Mars that nobody can disprove. Imagine how much it must be worth! What color might it be? Endless fascination.
Here is quick video summary about the "Masquerade" puzzle.
The solution seems quite arbitrary. (drawing a line over left eye and hand without knowing the exact point can lead to quite different letters.)
https://youtu.be/3yaHBdhIsCo
The Rocky mountains treasure is also mentioned.
It's interesting that our continued insistence on not signing a peace treaty because of humans rights violations has allowed them to continue for even longer.
It is absolutely possible for governments to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_capture
There are services that do this. Several retail stores I consult for have transaction filtering through an independent fraud detection service which has its oen blacklists of hashed CC numbers, emails, and street addresses. They also evaluate the ip address, distance fom billing and shipping addresses and a slew of other factors.
This is a massive release with a lot of new and improved features. Congratulations!
I realize the targeted approach also works much better for me than the shotgun approach. (Should this be surprising? ;) Speaking of myself, I'm not hot, barely average lol.

So I signed up at OKC before and deleted my account at some point frustrated. Actually I even had 2 dates through it - after tons of right swiping and writing so many messages that I had to delete ones from my Sent folder.

When I recently signed up again, at first it didn't really work out again. I swiped right when I thought the person looks good.

So I changed my approach: I swipe right when I imagine I would feel at least kind of comfortable meeting that person. And tadah, I have far more matches. Also I recommend stopping to write a person immediately when there is obviously no interest, that just brings frustration which doesn't improve the writing in turn. So I think 3 women were then willing to date me, although somehow it didn't happen because of difficulties finding a proper date/time. (Yup that also changed, I prioritize realworld higher than online ;) - doesn't really help with dating but maybe better for general happiness)
I think what you and others don't understand is that, there is SO MUCH demand, and SO MUCH money that no matter how much you build, the prices simply won't go down.

From a developer's perspective, building a brand new apartment building is ludicrously expensive, you simply MUST charge very high rent, or your whole project is not feasible.
Yes. There are significant beneficial network effects in payment processing.

Back in the day, eBay had ludicrously good fraud rates (and hundreds of engineers working on models, from what I heard). We hired a few people from them and were quite proud to achieve rates in the same ballpark with orders of magnitude less traffic.
A classical retraction is a note, because physical newspapers that have already been distributed can hardly be pulled from view.

Another advantage of print media.
I know that we're pretty pro-privacy around here, but I'm gonna just go ahead and suggest that everyone not rape or kill someone.
I can't see NY articles anymore because i ran out of free ones. but i think it was one of the following two:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-ca...
Which quite surprised me. Aren't circuit boards a large, already well researched and optimized field since they're inside everything? Is the autopilot board better than that of a laptop or smartphone?

Sure, hardware is hard, but it doesn't seem like differentiating knowledge in the tech industry (while maybe the other car makers are a few years behind in optimisation).
You don't have any. You have unfounded opinions which you yourself fail to back up.
I would assume it's because of intent. Companies want to give you credit, they just use your credit report to determine the likelihood of your future creditworthiness. They've determined that after 7 years your previous actions aren't indicative of future behavior.

Background checks on the other hand are serving their intended purpose, telling you exactly what someone's background is.
There hasn't actually been any conclusive proof that open bottomed hives help at all
You have no control over your data, even your DNA
Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. Wars would break out over data resources, as factions war over access to storage and compute power.

That assumes a future where humans colonize the stars and spread life through the universe. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. It seems to me the focus of most of our technology has been to figure out how to poke and prod our pleasure sensors to maximum effect. Forget the stars, we're going to invent our own personal paradises on Earth and just stay here.
This is reductive. I don't know what the faction of major Redis deployments (by transaction volume or data size or however you want to measure) that are housed in AWS is, but I'm guessing it's north of 50%. In an AWS Redis environment, running Redis over TLS is not in the top 10 systems security concerns relative to database security. The access you need to attack Redis for lack of TLS is almost certainly gameover by itself with or without TLS.

I'm not saying Redis TLS is a bad thing (honestly: I'd prioritize "not having Redis in a design" over "making sure Redis runs over TLS"), but I think in a lot of very mainstream designs, it's mostly a cosmetic security control.
Isn't LuaJIT assembler DYNASM often referred to as poetry

https://luajit.org/dynasm.html
Top of article mentions 'In the previous post...' (which is an intro to homomorphic encryption)

That post is here: https://radicalrafi.github.io/posts/homomorphic-encryption/
> Mission in San Francisco (which is already quite dense, by any standard short of "midtown manhattan")

Not so dense by the standard of Brooklyn, either. Brooklyn is 1.5x denser than Mission.

And that is the average density for all of Brooklyn, Brooklyn being 40x larger than the Mission District.
The advantage is that it not possible to forget to use it.
I first heard it about TV, which is what TFA mentions :)
I have to say I laughed outright at the whole "taxi-cab -> call the FBI" thing. That was kind of mad.
I want to buy something that doesn't ship to my country, I use a shipping center.
Don't click that link from IOS. A site more full of bullshit I have never seen.
I think it’s an over correction for the reality distortion fields these companies project surrounding their purpose.
15-20 years ago the market wasn't flooded with viable candidates and people claiming to be viable candidates
That could be accurate. That's not the point though - the issue is that there are all these articles being written about North Korea wanting a peace treaty as if it's something new, when North Korea's always wanted the peace treaty.
The magical mumbo jumbo that makes this work is the fact that Seattle is the fastest growing city in the US [0], thus demand is increasing constantly.

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-once-...
If you want to build houses of similar quality to those built by homesteaders, it's really, really cheap.
> An interesting choice for someone that turned in his middle-eastern clients to the FBI because they took a cab and didn't talk like typical rich people. Ervine's response to this is to hand over all of his client's private information to the FBI, without a warrant, after which his client is jailed and deported.

So he suspected someone was breaking the law and reported them to the appropriate authorities? Or are citizens supposed to always cover for criminals unless and until the government gets a warrant?
Reshipping centers are used heavily by people outside the US to get access to goods sold online. Tons of stores (especially on Amazon) don't ship outside a few select countries, so customers pay a small fee to these reshipping centers to have packages forwarded to them.
> It's the man's job to try, and it's the woman's job to choose.

IMO this is very close, but missing an important point. It's a man's job to escalate, it's a woman's job to choose.

Women definitely try. They put a lot of effort into how they are perceived (looks, mannerisms, etc.) and giving us subtextual clues that they are interested.

All we have to do is be a little vulnerable and ask them out on a date, go for that first kiss, get down on one knee and so on.
I would love to hear more about Tromer's exploit. Anyone aware of where I can find more about it?
I didn't think prime affected the returns process, though?