skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The doctor who does my physicals commented that he considers weight to be maybe the fourth or fifth thing he looks at when considering your basic health. Being overweight is bad, but because it's so overemphasized (and so easy to see), people ignore some things that should go in front of it.

(Though one imagines that if one is not willing to change one's diet or exercise habits to lose weight, the odds of them willing to do it to lower blood pressure or other such indicators seems low too.)
Justforfunc #35: Implementing the tree command from scratch
You definitely free to argue that, but is there some scientific basis or any study you can point to?

The issue with sugar is how the body processes fructose and glucose. Unless there is indication that substances present in non-organic vs organic sugar modify digestion of sucrose and fructose there isn't much to the theory organic makes sugar less harmful.
> I believe that negative outcomes are greater when someone goes to a "patient mill" vs a good doctor

A dangerous belief to propagate without any data, insofar as it again trivializes the risk, i.e. "I'll be fine, I picked a good doctor". What makes a "good" doctor? More expensive? More likable? Nicer offices?

For medically necessary procedures, data can be a bit of a double-edges sword, as it might make some doctors shy away from more difficult cases. For elective surgery, this actually sounds like a win.
> Building density housing is cheap compared to building the schools, parks, fire, police stations, and transportation to support the new density housing.

Are developers expected to build those? Don't cities build roads, schools, parks, and police stations with the tax income from the people who live in the houses?
> UberX prices have done nothing but increase in San Francisco for years

So, like everything else in SF then.
Policy and an exceptionally robust package management system producing reliable and repeatable results.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
That sounds like the difference between Netflix-the-service and Netflix-the-app. Maybe ditch the Fire stick and get something more reliable?
Saying bread doesn't need sugar is disingenuous. It depends on the type of bread you are baking. Sourdough doesn't need sugar because the fermentation process is what makes it a sourdough. Italian bread on the other hand, does need sugar due to its effects on the crumb/crust.
I like this article a lot except the confusion about unions. Without some kind of organization of workers (you don't have to call it a union) the people with money will own the computers and they will use them to do plans 1-4. A union is a way to harness the political will get the future described in the article.
Thank you for clarifying. Couldn't a well drafted contract achieve the same ends as blockchain for giving equity in realtime? It seems like that is more an issue with the terms of the current employment contracts and not a technological deficiency
Scottsdale AZ's Galleria struggled as a retail mall, tried other purposes and then it went business park. Seems to be working, do not read headlines about it being sold for pennies on the dollar anymore...

http://galleriascottsdale.com/
Do you find a correlation with being able to memorize a deck of cards with having a better memory with day-to-day stuff?
That's the part that I can never understand with blockchain applications. Blockchain technology is excellent at maintaining a ledger or variables of information within the blockchain - these processes are completely trustless due to the properties of the blockchain. The problem is getting that information INTO the blockchain. This part DOES require trust and all those nasty things people say blockchain solves. I think it's called the oracle problem?
It sounds like they were both shareholders in the company but neither signed an actual employment agreement.

So they weren't contractors or employees, which makes this a giant mess to sort through.

Source: Almost 10 years ago I was in a situation that was shockingly similar to Daniel's.
Ask HN: Good Resume Samples?
I'm job hunting right now, and trying to optimize my resume, I've been having a hard time finding up to date sample resumes of people in the field.

Do you guys have any good examples of resumes (yours or other peoples)? Mostly looking for technical resumes, software dev, hardware, etc.
What amazes me is the lack of concern on latency for web streaming.

We use the internet (and IP in general) to stream video. At high bitrates (200mbit+) we aim for sub 100ms end to end, for compressed services we're happy with 500ms, maybe upto a second if it's something like Sydney to London over the internet.

I was in a control room a couple of weeks ago watching some football. There were two displays, one end was the feed from the stadium, one was the feed from the web streaming service.

There were cheers and then groans from the live end of the room. nearly a minute later someone on the web end started running up the field to score. Of course I knew at that point that it wouldn't be a goal, as not only did the people watching the live stream tell me, but twitter was abuzz.

1 minute end to end delivery latency is shocking for this type of program. Heck 10 seconds is bad enough.
See: any big-tech corporate campus
I make my own brown sugar at home, its white sugar + molasses. I don't know how you could consider it less "processed" than white sugar without molasses.
Installing and signing up for an app is high friction, and integrating with every country's payment providers is a pain in the ass.

Basically, it's the Uber effect -- I want to get off the plane anywhere in the world, take an Uber downtown, and then ride a scooter inside the downtown itself, and it should take less than five seconds to open my phone and start riding.
I'd call that a smoothie and still treat it as a dessert. Fruits are pretty sugary and very much an "after a meal and in moderation" thing for me.
> just start replacing goal with nuclear

That will take a decade or more before any energy is produced, even assuming a crash programme to build them starting now. Reducing carbon needs to be done in this decade for the Paris agreement targets to be met.
I have had similar responses on occasion when I bring up what happened to me in Jr. High with a sub. Eventually I decided that waiting for stigma and toxic ideologies to disappear from society wasn't the best use of my time. Instead I decided to start a charity against sexual assault and focus on healing through a positive outlet.
Better leave your phone at home while you're on a personal scooter then.
Some comment here on HN a month or so ago clarified this for me. It's more efficient to have a delivery truck go around to ten different houses than it is to have each of ten different vehicles drive from their houses to a central location.

Now if only there were some way to do that with people, not just with stuff (cough mumble public transit cough).
Third Party MacOS Security Tools Vulnerable to Code-Signing Bypasses for Years
Also it's not just a silly commit that was made on github but an actual software release. Any other software developer would be (and have been) mocked just as hard.
Except that's exactly what Plato said. If one were to grant the possibility of some other realm where numbers are real or archetypes, then one is not an nominalist at all, as the author of this paper seems to be (although he may actually be a conceptualist). A nominalist would never grant that such a realm exists or he would be a realist/platonist.
> Building density housing is cheap compared to building the schools, parks, fire, police stations, and transportation to support the new density housing.

And to close the circle, Prop 13 makes it impossible for towns in California to tax residents enough to pay for the required parks, schools etc. There is an obvious solution (repeal Prop 13, and bump local property taxes enough to cover the infrastructure the new residents will need) but it's politically infeasible.
Show HN: A privacy-focused JSON pretty printer
your website has no details and you don't publish your whitepaper.
> I don't understand the blockchain hype.

> A startup has certified my artwork & placed their verification on the bitcoin blockchain.

> Now art dealers & auctioneers can feel secure that I am the original artist.

> One small problem… I am not Leonardo da Vinci!https://www.verisart.com/works/23f2c64a-08c6-4a42-8013-84ac8... …

Mkay, so the system is working as designed? It seems the issue in this case is that the people behind that startup are dumb. How does that translate to blockchain tech not being useful? If you don't properly verify the information you commit to a blockchain, don't trust the information on the blockchain. Meanwhile, you can rest assured that the information was committed by someone who controls a specific private key. Why would anyone expect anything more?
> Nobody has ever died from nuclear waste and its very unlikely that anybody ever will.

This is a very dubious claim given the former Soviet attitude to nuclear leaks.
I also distinctly remember enjoying going to the mall as a kid because of the fountains and glass ceiling atrium, lots of seating spaces, is that not a thing anymore?
I've paid for 4-5 different streaming services over the last few years trying to see matches. They inevitably don't work, which is the only reason I use streams I find online.

If some random dude with pr0n popups can make it work but Fox/NBC/ESPN/etc can't, tough shit.
I think that probably works better in theory than practice. In the real world it's going to be sleazy and run down in a few short years. I'd also like to be at the city council meeting where you propose adding hooker hotel rooms in the original plans.
Why should I use Facebook's GraphQL over OData which is an ISO standard? I've found a few comparisons but I'm curious what the HN crowd has to say.
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Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal
There are no equations and no citations to relevant formalisms so your guess is good as anyone's.

The author had a spat with arXiv who, while not being a peer-reviewed venue do their best to keep out the crackpottery, rejected some of the stuff coming from his vicinity. Gisin's complaint was loud, ended up published in Nature, and now it seems anything goes.

Then went a flood of similar gems. Such like over-the-top argument for physical time (deep problem formal in nontrivial ways), because thinking requires time thus obviously https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01497 (doubtful any creative time went into that). I think figure 5 therein anwsers your question best as the author can.
"Some folks view this as some kind of evil corporate overlord thing, but I think the answer is much closer to home: we like stuff with sugar in it. So other people are going to put sugar in stuff so that we'll like it more. Sadly it looks as simple as that."

I recommend the book "Good Calories, Bad Calories". It is widely thought by people who have only heard about the book third-hand (criticizing the people who wrote their second-hand assessments of it) that it's a diet book, but the bulk of it is actually a well-researched history book on how the modern conception of "correct diet" came about, you know, the bad one that we're still oh-so-slowly extricating ourselves from. Basically it answers the question "If the late 20th-century diet consensus was so bad, how did it become the consensus?"

Since I read it, my assessment of the late 20th-century diet consensus has only gone down, and the history itself doesn't change, since, you know, "not changing" is pretty much what history does. You can blip over the bits where it does try to discuss the science of proper diet; even if you're interested in this branch of scientific thought, there's more up-to-date resources now. But the history is good.
Scalaz 8 IO vs. Akka (typed) actors vs. Monix (part 1)
Republican senators move to block Trump’s deal to revive ZTE
I disagree wholeheartedly. Sure, there will be low quality shows. This expected by the sheer amount of content they are currently producing. But there are equal amounts of good to very good shows also getting released at a pace that a normal working person just can’t keep up with.

My watch-list just keeps growing. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to catch up.
I don't see government corruption as being wholly determined by models. Models are a factor, no doubt, and you can affect the rate at which corruption encroaches by changing the model, but time and complexity are also major factors.

Within a given model, complexity tends to increase with time and thus so does corruption. Perhaps another way to look at it is just to consider corruption as one form of complexity. Eventually complexity increases beyond the point of diminishing returns into negative territory. Then the system collapses. This is the position of Joseph Tainter, one I find particularly compelling.
I'm not disagreeing that one should become a founder if they don't like the early employee packages. I'm saying we should make early employee packages suck less.
The problem is that when you have a recently minted, largely unemployed underclass who are not having their basic needs met, you frequently get rebellion. At that point the state's ability to enforce contracts, protect property, and dole out justice becomes severely hampered.

The best way to think of it, IMO, is the way Marx described the State which is a group built to protect the bourgeoisie.

It should (will? could?) eventually reach a point in which the State represents a social contract between all members of a civil society to work in the group's overall best interests.
This corresponds to type II computability of the reals whereas the paper, as I skimmed it, is about type I computability.
On a long enough timescale (assuming we don't nuke ourselves, or we choke on smog, first) ... total and all-encompassing globalization is the end-state. At that point, it will be no different than employers in the US moving from one state to another. Of course, that doesn't bode well considering we have problems even just in the US with some states having booming economies, and others having massively lagging economies ... but that's how it's gonna be
Super stuff and very useful. Also: Loctite 3450 and this stuff: https://www.autoschadeshop.nl/images/stories/virtuemart/prod...
> Not sure how much it's "paying off"

Read what you love until you love to read. Then you can move onto books that seem that they might have some pay off.
We use it that way as well. As in: "Added $1T to the deficit and still no universal healthcare! #MAGA"

But minorities in this country have to put up with being told to leave now on a regular basis. Hate crimes are on the rise. You're now labeled a racist for standing up to racism. Racists are emboldened and cite the President as the reason for their newfound brazenness. People who simply support the President want to pretend that it's just a slogan, but they're in company with very unsavory people (the KKK aren't Democrats) who use that slogan as a weapon every day. Every. Day. And so to expect to be free from that onslaught in a paper about Prolog I don't think is much to ask. But clearly this is still Trump's world.
That doesn’t seem to account for the two factors I mentioned, although I certainly wouldn’t expect them to make up that difference.
Can I have a big impact without becoming an engineering manager?
Thankfully others have already pointed out this article's lack of journalistic merit or rigor. As a follow-up, I'd like to state:

I don't wear glasses or contacts anymore thanks to LASIK. After 30 years of squinting, jamming fingers in eyes, staring through fogging/scratched/dirty/broken lenses... I have better than perfect vision each morning when I wake, "naturally", thanks to a quick and near painless surgery. Forget flying cars, THAT is the future, now. It is absolutely life altering. Amazingly good.

Certainly, there is risk. Certainly, not everyone is a good candidate. Selecting a surgeon who is credible and who will say "no" to you is critical. You need to do your homework! How many surgeries have they performed, what is their reputation, are there complaints(how many?), how long have they been established. Price, that is the last, dead last factor. Why save a buck for something you'll do only once and whose outcome is permanent?

I'm not a LASIK shill. I wasn't paid to type this out. I am just really, really happy to be able to see. I can't imagine not getting this procedure done. Having some asshat tell you lies to rile you up or confuse you about the risks or outcomes is a disservice. Both myself and my partner went to the same surgeon, and had both eyes corrected. Both of us have perfect vision and no complications. I'd absolutely do it again.
The hardest part of Whole30[1] is avoiding food and drinks with added sugar or sweeteners, but I strongly suspect it's also the most effective part for a variety of health benefits, including losing weight. I found that after a month, though, the cravings essentially went away and it was easy to follow (more or less, I don't do it strictly nowadays). I've lost over 20% of my body weight since January.

Drinks were maybe the most difficult for me; I drink coffee with Nutpods[2] and Coffee Booster[3], unsweetened tea, and water now.

For snacking, I like salted cashews, although again, strict Whole30 doesn't really want you to snack.

It does involve a lot of cooking, and (especially when you're following it strictly) makes restaurants difficult. But I think it's worthwhile. I could talk more about it if people wanted but I don't want to divert the conversation.

1. https://whole30.com/new/

2. https://www.nutpods.com/

3. https://coffeebooster.net/
Introducing My New Pet ML Project: Should I HODL
I think this might be US-centric phenomena. While we have some Malls in the UK, I believe most shops never really left the high-streets here (until the rise of the internet).
This may come across as ignorant and I apologize in advance but are health care costs associated to gender transitions typically covered by health insurance?
Being one of the few pre-Internet media companies to still be around in some form today, their story is pretty fascinating. It clearly hasn't worked out for the better though. Vice on HBO, while covering a massive breadth of topics, suffer from their presentation; their nasally-voiced mid 20s employees they send on documentaries are mostly boredom-inducing, and their various online news outlets are Buzzfeed-tier clickbait with the occasional well-researched piece.
Convenience of course. Coffee is easy and cheap to make, but millions of people pay for coffee every day. Lunch is easy to make, but again, millions of people outsource that to someone who specializes in making lunch. Not owning something is one less thing to worry about--no securing it, no charging it, no maintaining it, no buying it. Sign me up.
Nobody suggested there’s a force of nature or biology behind women underestimating their skills, only you - have you considered that many women may be socialised to do so?

It’s not like the job application/interview/etc dance is perfectly neutral towards every characteristic and background a person might have all the time as it is - words used, interview styles, and so on and so forth are never neutral.
"What makes a "good" doctor?"

Exactly the crux of the issue- I've only been to one doctor for getting my LASIK procedure, so I'm not sure what the best combination of data points would make a "good" doctor.

For me, I researched all of the doctors in my area, read reviews on many different review websites (specifically paying attention to people who had complications and what they said about the doctor's follow-up attitude), picked a couple of doctors who looked right for me, and then had consultations with each of them.

I also paid attention to which doctors didn't downplay the negatives of the surgery- because some doctors absolutely play up the "it'll be great and it's totally safe and nothing bad ever happens!" and some are way more realistic about it being a major surgery with a serious risk of complications.
If the sequence doesn't repeat, and goes on forever, it cannot be a rational number. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/61937/how-can-i-pro...

This does not "prove" the statement given in the abstract, however, as the statement isn't a mathematical statement. It cannot be proven.
> In theory one could have uncertainty 10E-100m in position of an electron, if uncertainty in its momentum is of the order 10E66 or higher.

I'm not an expert in quantum mechanics, but what I was thinking was that to measure the diagonal of a physical unit square you would have to physically build something like a unit frame from some metal atoms for example. Would this still be an intact metal frame if the uncertainty of electron momentum would be on the order of 10E66 or higher? Naively I would think if the electron could potentially have a momentum of 10E66 due to uncertainty it is very quickly anywhere but not part of the metal frame anymore.

Edit:
That part aside if you go to even smaller length scales wouldn't the Planck length be a lower bound for how precise a measurement could be?
You could crowdsource it, or use machine learning to read the screen and look for buttons to click? heh