skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is alarmist for sure, we absolutely should be alarmed at how little control over content end users have.

YouTube specific examples are hard to come by, but here's something related to how they control their API from wikipedia: "YouTube also does not allow videos to run whilst the Android device is sleeping. This can be seen as an annoyance for some users. Particularly if the user is trying to use YouTube as a replacement music player.[13]"

When you look at the reference for that quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoVol6ujHk You get "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated."

Presumably that original use case was outside of their terms, but why? It's not to help users, it's because it infringes on Google Music and their Ad Partners will not be happy if people are listening to ads instead of watching them. If google could get away with monitoring your phone to check you're watching the ads they put up, I'm sure they would because they could charge 3x the price for them.

If we look at other similar companies that have offered APIs for developers to use in the past we actually do find lots of examples of services that already existing being shut down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Developers
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/instagram-api-limit/
https://www.cnet.com/news/instagram-dont-use-insta-gram-or-i...
https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/just-instagram/

So yes, these apps are only allowed to exist while Google allows it, if there's a squeeze at google they will get shut down. There is no reason not to use different tech given the options we have available today if we want to protect content and respect our users.
>The notion of abandoning a core craft was anathema to Nintendo’s culture, though—the company was, after all, still selling packs of hanafuda, the flower-adorned playing cards that it set out with in 1889.

Anybody have experience with hanafuda cards from Nintendo? I'm thinking of buying the Tengu pack. I've been learning Koi Koi (ever since watching Summer Wars.)
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> The hard part for me is mindset and willpower. Our minds have their own prerogatives.

Exactly right. Losing weight by counting calories is an almost entirely mental activity, not physical. We have a physiology that wants food and abhors not eating enough.

> I wonder then what did you tell yourself?

Like the author, I discovered counting calories a couple of years ago, after trying and failing to lose weight through exercise for 20 years.

I do have some mental tricks that worked for me.

Number one: the reason I got overweight is because I’m mis-calibrated. When I feel full, it’s because I already ate too much. What I need to do is re-calibrate to understand what “enough” is. By assigning a negative judgement to feeling full, and seeking the feeling of enough, it helps remove the idea that I just need willpower to overcome any hunger. A little bit of hunger (but not a lot) is a good thing, so I want to stay there.

Number two: I set my calorie budget to my future weight, not my current weight with minus a thousand. This is a “set it and forget it” plan. I want to calibrate my normal eating for the rest of my life, not diet for a month or two and then regress. I also don’t want to make adjustments when I’m done, I want to act like I’m already done. If I want to be 180lbs, and I should be eating 2k calories when I’m 180lbs, then I just start doing that and my weight will trend toward 180lbs. This takes longer than having a larger deficit, but mentally I don’t need to care how long it takes. I spent decades overweight despite trying, a couple extra months losing weight more slowly is nothing, it’s way ahead of where I was before.

Third, I also save some budget in my day for a treat at the end of the day. It leaves me just a tiny bit hungrier, but then when I get my treat it feels like I’m splurging.

Fourth, I still exercise. To lose weight fast I don’t count my exercise as calories burned. In maintenance mode, I use my exercise as a way to earn more calories. Now I’m actually going to the gym not to lose weight, but so I can eat more!

I had days where I went over, but I didn’t really have “bad” days or bad moods, it was never severe. It was more like go to a party when I’m not counting, and whoops, I’m 400 calories over my budget.

The hardest part about counting calories is the first few days. That’s when hunger is worst. After the first week, my body adjusts and my appetite goes down.
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So where are they along the project plan to useful fusion energy? Since that is not the end goal of this project, how far along the project plan for this device are they?

I'm really well past the phase of being excited about milestones like "record for a stellarator". Put it in context, show where we are on the plan. Perhaps it's behind, but still moving forward - that's fine. Confirming things work as predicted is awesome and tells me they should be moving forward at a good pace right? So where are they on that gantt chart?
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While it may be based on what is technically fiction, my views on the Drake Equation were modified to include a “caution in outbound communication factor” of fairly low probability after reading Cixin Liu’s “Dark Forest”.

SPOILER ALERT for prior novel: it convincingly argues that, due to the impossibility of trust across otherwise unrelated civilizations, the rate of technological progress in any given civilization compared to the speed of travel between star systems, and the long-term understanding that resources are limited, and outgoing communication to another intelligent civilization inevitably results in attack and likely elimination of said civilization.
And yet, they've had wheel problems.
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I believe MonoGame can be used as text oriented. At least when I tried to use it to make some small games. It's definitely not on the same level of professional use as Unreal or Unity though I think.

http://www.monogame.net/
Well, according to the Innovator's Dilemma, if you're Intel now you throw 1-2 of those billions of dollars of yours into a totally separate startup that you fully own.

That startup is free to make ARM chips or whatever the markets wants. It's better long term if you cannibalize yourself than if other companies do it.
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Averaging 1350 calories for an adult male at over 275 lbs is incredible willpower. I cut 22 lbs in 6 months for a bodybuilding show and the lowest I ever got down to was 1750 calories and that was very, very difficult. Amazing work!
Did you mean this one https://alternativlos.org/36/ ?
On premise I wouldn't suggest to run your DB inside kubernetes. It's ugly. Because on prem storage is not really solved yet (and google has no interest in changing that).

And in the cloud what would be a migration scenario? (serious question, never did it in the cloud but would suspect there are fewer scenarios in which migration is necessary)
I think this point is extremely important. Often in the rush to "help" those who need improved accessibility we deny the very people we're trying to "help" the ability to fix things for themselves. (And they often do a better job of it too, since they're invested in a good outcome.)
There’s a great looking documentary about the commune in Lund, BC...

https://www.lundtheendoftheroad.com
And yet the Genesis couldn't do Mode 7, which was responsible for some of the coolest graphical tricks on SNES games.
Yep. The ugly truth: We are kind of alone out there. There's no one, or there's no one who wants to openly communicate with us, at least not yet. Get over it.
He should STFU and be glad he isn't in prison for kidnapping.
Time/budget predictions are hard, especially for cutting edge research. So predicting required funding until fusion is profitable sounds unreliable too.
Trouble is, internet exchanges are often flat insecure layer 2 networks that operate on trust. Anyone on that network can suddenly decide to advertise anyone else's address space, and start receiving traffic.
Whether it's legal or not to prevent you from running the software you want and the software you write on your xbox, IMO it _oughta_ be illegal, whether they just say you are leasing it or not.
> Instead, it simply means that we can say with greater confidence – based on what we know – that humanity is most likely the only intelligent species in the Milky Way Galaxy at present.

The article is light years away from its title.
Manual captioning is almost always not done by domain experts, but by people who have some training with a captioning system and work as professional captionists. Their main advantage is that they'll caption much faster and much cheaper than having domain experts do it, but the quality tends to suffer.

In college, I met a deaf guy who always had two women accompany him to lectures; one of them would repeat everything into a mouth-covering microphone to generate an automatic transcription and the other went over it to correct obvious errors. They generated a lot of nonsense, especially when the German professor was using some English loanwords for CS concepts. I was always amazed that the deaf guy still somehow managed to learn something from these garbled transcriptions.
Just to reiterate, Wendelstein 7-X is not about fusion. 7-X is a research project about controlling a plasma. It is not meant to evaluate whether energy production is viable, neither is it setup to do so.
I've done a search, and don't find anything objectionable in rotisserie chicken. Can you be more specific?
Sure, if you render the entire JSON in a single pipeline you can do a merge. But then you only have a single pipeline.

In the last jsonnet template I wrote, I merged a few keys into the top level, merged a few keys into a deeper level, and added some random characters to the end of a string value to make it unique. Trivial in jsonnet.
The 12 was body fat percentage, not BMI.
> Getting motivated to lift 2x a week is another issue...

Was in the same boat until I started doing group classes. Used that to build accountability, motivation, and a "vocabulary" of how the gym works. Now I could spend hours at the gym by myself and love it. Find what works for you, cuz lifting is a blast!
Was thinking the same thing.
I also think that if you click on the flag at the top right to get the German translation, then let Chrome translate this to English, it reads a bit better.
You might see the value of knowing some abstract algebra in "Monoidify! Monoids as a Design Principle for Efficient MapReduce Algorithms" https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7544

In general, if you can model a distributed or concurrent system in terms of a monoid (or better, a commutative monoid) you're onto a winner.
This talks about this a bit, and many other examples of Russian military equipment simplicity:

http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/06.html

I have heard the book this is from is somewhat inaccurate, but it makes for a good read.
Ask HN: Does GDPR force companies to disclosure security vulnerabilities?
If security researchers find a vulnerability involving direct access to PII and report it to the company affected, is the company required to disclose it to their customers?

Article 34[1] says it is required to so in case of a data breach.

Can an incident like this be seen as a data breach?

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-34-gdpr/
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It's called WebGPU. All the major players are cooperating. The mailing list reveals quite active biweekly meetings.

https://www.w3.org/community/gpu/
I lost 63lbs in 16 weeks, wasn't even that difficult. Just ate less calories and started exercising.

Discipline is the key. When you're overweight the first pounds are really easy, the final 10-20% is what's difficult.
I've been practicing IF for over 3 years now.

It hasn't been life changing in itself, but I found it to be beneficial for keeping my body weight stable, which in turn improves a bunch of other health outcomes. It could just be placebo, but I feel much better with IF.

Does it really work? I don't know, the scientific evidence isn't that strong at the moment.

But it has convex outcomes: if it works, the upside is tangible... and if it doesn't, the downside is negligible.
> You certainly don't want to be in a galaxy where someone else does it first: if you can't coëxist with them, you're probably going to be wiped out.

Why the pessimism? We do know that we currently do not have any plans for massive expansion through the whole Milky Way, and even if we made such plans, we would definitely include safe zones and ample space for other species we might encounter. If we are that good, maybe other species are no less good? That's not an unreasonable assumption, though ultimately anthropocentric, of course.

But the point I was trying to make was different. I should have said "There is not enough reason". There are just as many hypothetical reasons for as there are against. We really don't know.

>expansionist pressure seems to be the safe assumption.

Then again, the universe is very, very large...
> The most difficult part is not eating out.

And when you do, make the best choices you can.

Whenever I get that feeling of "I can't eat my healthy lunch one more day" I order Chipotle tacos, no sour cream, no cheese, no soda, and no chips.

By ordering ahead I'm never tempted to say "yes" to chips and salsa, and I never get distracted and go to Sonic for a burger and tots instead.
Interesting to see this post downvoted. In my 1.5 years hands on experience with k8s I found that most of the problems we faced (even in much bigger scenarios) would have been solved quicker with simple Linux administration.

We also found that most people don't just run k8s but run it on VMs, with each k8s node exactly being one VM. So the overhead is even bigger to employ k8s in these scenarios (instead of reducing overhead which is one of the key claims of using containers vs VMs).
You have to really want it, to have a reason to do it that is more important to you than your comfort because your body is going to have to eat itself and that's just never going to be a pleasant experience. Additionally, weight loss has permanent metabolic effects, so you'll have to keep doing it for the rest of your life.

I found an athletic hobby I really enjoy, so that works for me, but everyone has to find their own reason or come to the rational conclusion that it just isn't worth it.
I think we should aim to be more constructive on showHNs.
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Stomach stapling only limits food consumption, it is very easy to maintain an obese body weight with liquid calories alone (soda for one example).

I've know people personally who had the surgery and are still obese.
"It's a lie" can mean "it is not true" (at least in one of it's meanings)

"They are lying" means that they know it's not true.

I'm not saying that po9her is right. But I too often see people use "you're lying" to mean "you're wrong". Even if they are blatantly wrong, the two are not equivalent.
A truly epic fight, I'm guessing.
An inwards turning civilization would be much more incentivised to collect all the matter they can since E=mc^2, and for them E is their lifespan.

For a civilization living for trillions upon trilions of years inside a simulation, intergalactic latancy is just a blink of an eye -- they have no reason not to distribute their simulation across the galaxy.

All of the burning stars would be just lost time for such a civilization
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They are still far away from a useful reactor. There are a lot of fundamental questions to be resolved.
> Apart from a certain segment of the population with large gun caches and a year's worth of food stockpiled, most people don't have any contingency plan or emergency supplies.

I'd say that I'm part of the periphery of that community. I certainly don't have a year's worth of food on hand, but I do have enough supplies to make it make it a couple of weeks at home without worry, and a plan to make a short journey to another family member's home if the emergency were to last longer than that.

For every serious "prepper" out there that have supplies for months or years, I suspect that are dozens of us that could at least outlast the immediate emergency and could "self-extract" from a disaster area.

> When California gets hit by a big earthquake (Magnitude 8 level), I can guarantee it's going to be complete chaos, despite the fact that we know it's going to happen.

Based solely on my own observations, I think California would be fine. Their buildings are generally designed for that eventuality, and an earthquake there would be geographically isolated and the disruption would be fairly short.

What really scares me is the New Madrid. I can only imagine the chaos and destruction in places like St. Louis and Memphis should there be a repeat of the 1811/1812 earthquakes.
The smart phone has an SSD in it and that is why the smartphone has many convenience factors.

For instance, a netbook with an SSD can ride in your backpack and play music to bluetooth headphones, just like a phone. If either of those had an HDD you would have trouble with the music skipping caused by the vibrations of your footsteps. Probably you'd trash the HDD before long.

The fast responsiveness you expect from a phone also comes out of the use of SSD. Computers with HDD frequently "go out to lunch" and that's a convenience negative for a computer (if it doesn't have an SSD).
(I work at OpenAI on the Dota team.)

Dota is far too complex for random search (and if that weren't true, it would say something about human capability...). See our gameplay reel for an example of some of the combos that our system learns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZHTNBMAfAA&feature=youtu.be. Our system learns to generalize behaviors in a sophisticated way.

What I personally find most interesting here is that we see qualitatively different behavior from PPO at large scale. Many of the issues people pointed to as fundamental limitations of RL are not truly fundamental, and are just entering the realm of practical with modern hardware.

We are very encouraged by the algorithmic implication of this result — in fact, it mirrors closely the story of deep learning (existing algorithms at large scale solve otherwise unsolvable problems). If you have a very hard problem for which you have a simulator, our results imply there is a real, practical path towards solving it. This still needs to be proven out in real-world domains, but it will be very interesting to see the full ramifications of this finding.
You have to admit that there is something to this meme, It seems like Fusion suffers from a lack of focus and direction. Ive heard all sorts of horror stories about physicists and engineers going off on fusion design tangents that pull funding away from more viable designs as far as energy-in/energy-out.

I understand that there is a level of experimentation and R&D that is guaranteed not to generate viable results but at some point you need to trim the fat, get everyone moving in one direction etc. This grand project has been going on for over 50 years at this point, It seems like we should at least have one design that everyone should be focusing on. If they had real, defined commercial goals (even if they miss the goals) it might be easier to secure funding because your average politician would see the benefit to them.

I'm not a nuclear engineer so take that all with a grain of salt.
At least one, yes? There's no university student without one, and there's no white-collar worker without one.

Literally nobody is typing up their 10-page essay on their phone.
Can you expand on how messages ideally get passed around between objects? Is there a good example in python (if not Java or others is fine)? Thanks
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To be fair though - the stellarator design is pretty cool as it doesn't have a plasma current and nowadays we can heat the plasma via beam injection.

The lack of the current might make it more stable vs. the tokamak.
Because nothing you said disproves what the parent said, it simply gave an annecdote about what bad things a publisher did, unless you would categorize those as "ill-will of a single writer".

Claiming systematic bias can also lead to that would have been fine in contrast, maybe even mentioning it has happened vaugely and bringing up your CNN example when challenged.

The down votes are likely because your post could seemingly be summarized as "but Fake News" which has people on edge. Sure that isn't what you said but your phrasing makes that an easy mistake to make as a reader.
Isn’t there typically a VMM per VM? So the risk is then lower?

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First, I must immediately question the informativeness of anyone who thinks Washington DC is located in Maryland. Second, pointing out addresses of major AT&T PoPs is useless. Do carriers (still) mirror traffic to intelligence agencies? Most likely. However, this makes it sound like AT&T and the NSA have dedicated entire buildings for this purpose, which is ridiculous. Complete sensationalism.
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Do we need to update Godwin's Law about the probability of comparison to Nazis?
> Most people just curl 5 lb dumbbells or do some other motion with a weight that is barely noticable.

Are you recommending this as an approach to avoid noob gains?

EDIT: Why the downvotes? I'm asking this as a legitimate question. The OP's tone sounds neutral and I can't tell if he is recommending low weight for muscle maintenance, or disparaging folks who do so for thinking they will gain muscle mass.
FREAKING tired of this mining crap
I was making a general point, but even then you shouldn't need to have a "verifiable track record" just to say something mildly controversial without getting fired.
It's hard to know what is a 'tangent' and what is the next breakthrough though.

As they say - if we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
It's possible, of course, that Intel is just doomed but I don't see that we have any reason to think Intel would be better off taking Ben's advice than not. Integration has hurt them in the last few years but again they could quite plausibly have ended up in a worse place now if they'd gone the foundry route years ago. I'm pretty certain that Intel's manufacturing arm would do much worse without being tied to the design arm and I think it's a tossup, going forward, whether the design arm will benefit or be hurt from being tied to the manufacturing arm.
I believe so, the number of vegetarians will certainly increase in the future due to the awareness. Though, might no be true that the whole world will turn vegeterian in thousands or millions of years from now. Unless meat disappears.
The US postal system does bear much of the cost:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...
I took this class, and although I can’t speak for Prof Aspnes, I always imagined he just preferred writing the notes himself (since he can edit them) and might want to publish them into an actual textbook some day.

He wrote similarly thorough notes for his Randomized Algorithms class.
I have one rule - I eat cake only when I do ~1000kCal aero training on that given day. That's like pushing on a bike for an hour for me (hilly terrain with interval sprints). I've noticed that if I don't do that, I gain weight, if I do that, I keep the weight and when I do only training, I lose weight, given everything else stays the same.
Living life is going to work every day, working 8 hours a day, and then having something for yourself in the evening - walks in the park, or some exercise, or something else that actually requires energy.