skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the point is that they would have colonised Earth already.

Not saying I believe this, but are we sure they haven’t? There’s a bunch of fringe people who believe it did happen.
Yeah, but you got to get that PhD somehow and there are only so many unique topics for your dissertation. Eventually you gotta start reaching!
Everything (most things) that accomplishes weight loss will involve caloric deficits. This is true in the same way that "eat your dinner or you won't grow" is a true statement.

It's true in some uninteresting abstract sense. Growing up involves caloric surpluses. Death involves an end to caloric intake. Did that corpse rot because it stopped ingesting calories?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413725.
Here using closed-loop feedback for weight loss.
Okay, that makes more sense, that the maximum sustainable deficit would decrease with age.
I'm assuming that the term "slapper" is not a derogatory term in the US - because it sure as hell is here in the UK.
> Not that it isn't that simple, because it is. But, because for most people who are 100lbs overweight, they have a very unhealthy relationship with food. They stress eat, binge eat, binge drink, purge...

I've tried explaining this to people who claim, "But X barely eats and doesn't lose any weight.". While there may be some variation in body efficiency and metabolism, if a person isn't losing weight over an extended period of time then they're eating more than they're burning and they're probably doing it when you can't see them.
> I am pretty sure BK's departure has more to do with his performance

"The strife of Brian", as the wags at ElReg titled it last week, suspecting the same: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/23/brian_krzanich_inte...
Arbitrary example:
GRR -> Copenhagen roundtrip is ~$1,100 USD.
From NYC or SF I can do that for ~$400-$500. Pretty much anywhere else I could pick has a similar differential.

That's a massive cost difference, especially when you're looking at 2-4 person vacations. That's a problem in pretty much every rural area (flying out of Ithaca was expensive as heck). I'm able to travel way more as a result.
I love this idea, and had also thought of similar automation. I think with nuturional values data, you could get a great system going.

Ill be happy to start an open source project with a few peeps if their interested as well?

Catch me on github https://github.com/Alfanhui
Did your parents decide your profession? What's next, arranged marriages?
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> Meanwhile during normal usage the driver (of whatever gender) is likely to be getting shot at. This will tend to have a larger affect than their gender.

No -- being shot at is 0-2% of your time deployed. The rest is waiting around.
Missing link? Curious why this got 12 points.
I'm working on a similar project on the side [1]. It's not only videos, but also slides altogether. The project UI is even more lacking than the one from OP. It's also mostly web related. I'm working on making it more diverse (currently I can only spend few hours per week on it). There is a small cherry on top: you can access this data via a GraphQL endpoint.

[1]: https://eventil.com/topics/nodejs
I'm also of the opinion that current smartphones are not "personal computers" in the original sense of the term. The power is in the hands of the OS and apps, they are the real users, making the decisions of how to use the computer - while the consumers are just that, consuming programs that other people/companies designed.
Should be https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44550312
The length of the words doesn't matter much if you have an effective process to filter and make sense of them and those processes are completely natural.

For example if we take self replicating proteins these will self optimize to an exact letter order which would improve their ability to self replicate in the environment and this isn't conscious since the random assortment that would be better would simply over take the other types in a fairly short amount of time.

Beyond that you still have some random process of "mutation" and that is proteins that were not replicated correctly which can happen for multitude of reasons something bumped into them, temperature changed, acidity changed, random high energy cosmic ray hit them and boom one is not like the other.

If that new protein is now better at replicating in that environment whether it's because this new protein can replicate faster or is more resilient to it's environment and it degrades slower it will take over it's environment and the same holds true for the opposite as if that protein replicates slower it will eventually die out because it cannot compete faster proteins for the available raw materials and so it replicates slower until eventually it's gone.

This is the true beauty of natural selection it works on all processes even those we don't consider biological.
Mosh only uses SSH to setup the initial connection, when the handshake between server and client has been created SSH is no longer used.
I'm not trying to discount your progress, but you likely didn't lose 1kg of fat. If you were actively trying to change your diet, you probably consumed fewer carbs or less salt, which having fewer carbs and less salt causes your body to retain less water. Low carb diets often show a very dramatic weight loss in the first week because as carbs are flushed from your body, the water they're holding onto is flushed as well.
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Because the material isn't quite the same, and because different people have different teaching and learning styles.

The material isn't quite the same because your ideas of what a first-year student needs to learn about probability may differ from someone else's. Not just because your and their prejudices are different: it'll be influenced by what else is in other courses. Imagine two universities with first-year probability courses for their mathematicians. One of them also has a statistics course that everyone takes, the other doesn't. They may make different choices about what goes in the probability course. And it'll be influenced by the students they get. Imagine one of the universities is a very prestigious highly-selective one that lots of good mathematicians apply to, and the other ... isn't. The first will likely want more material in their course.

Now, think again about those last two universities. As well as possibly presenting different material, they may well want it presented differently. Fancypants University will want extra-rigorous proofs, connections to other fields of mathematics (measure theory, probabilistic methods in combinatorics, ...), more challenging problems. Slowcoach Polytechnic will want a very clear and straightforward presentation that doesn't leave anything unexplained and doesn't distract students with irrelevancies. So even when they're presenting the same material, the approaches required will be different.

Different students will want different things, too. Besides the sort of differences in the previous paragraph (which of course apply between students as much as they do between universities), some students will be interested in the foundations of the subject (what is a probability, anyway?) and some won't; some will be interested in particular kinds of applications; some will like thinking visually and benefit from a lot of digrams, some will find them distracting; etc., etc., etc.

Now, with all that in view, imagine you're a professor who's teaching Probability 101 for the first time next year. No matter what, you're going to need to do a lot of thinking about what material you put in your lectures, how you divide it up, how you want to present it, etc. You're going to need some notes for your benefit. (The benefit comes both from making them and from having them.) The extra effort required to polish them up and make them usable by students too is actually pretty small. The fact that other people have presented other similar courses and made similar notes is neither here nor there. You can't just take their notes and avoid all the effort, because their course isn't identical to yours, and their students aren't identical to yours, and their style of presentation isn't identical to yours, and much of the benefit of making the notes comes from actually making them. So, you make your own notes, and then you might as well put them on the internet. And here we are.
> Where was this level of scrutiny before

Fact that you had to look very hard and go all the way to 2010 to find examples proves my point not yours.

Going back to 2010 doesn't mean plenty.
EM is much easier, any moron wit a HAM radio can broadcast to the whole Earth, and a similar upgraded version that is still small and cheap can be used for interplanetary communication. So I'd guess EM for usual communications, but the idea of something weird like neutrinos for special purposes is nice.

I don't know the size of the current neutrino transmitter/receivers, but IIRC the size is about a big building. Even the initial EM device where smaller.

About dark matter, the current understanding is that it is diffuse and there are no "dark star" or "dark planets", but I always prefer to wait 10-50 (100?) years to call it definitive.
I think a lot of it comes down to what made you decide to change. 10-12 years ago I decided to get in shape, and I calorie counted and exercised every day for the next 2 years, and stuck to the gym for a decade. Now I'm struggling to get back into it again after letting my weight creep up.

What made me start the first time was a really scary moment of getting up and nearly blacking out (not getting up to fast and getting dizzy; I'm talking things just went properly black in a way I've not experienced before or since) and having distorted vision for 20 seconds or so after I sat back down.

Couple that with persistent knee pain that made my doctor look at me for about 10 seconds before giving me an exercise sheet for old people (when you're in your 30's and get handed a sheet of exercises where the pictures are of people 60+ it's not a good sign).

Get the right motivation and it gets a lot easier to stick with it.

Different life events made me start to slip a couple of years back, and at the moment I find it hard to be motivated in part because I still feel healthier than I did last time, and I'm far stronger than I was, and feeling like I'm in a better position makes it so easy to justify that one extra helping of food.

I'm not saying that to diminish the effort it takes to stick with it, but just to point out that even for the same person, the right catalyst (or lack of one) can mean the difference between sticking through it all the way through and not even getting started.

Also keep in mind survivor bias - not many of us will write about how we hoped to drop a hundred lbs but failed 5 lbs in. 10 times in a row.
I'm against software patents but patents were not intended "to solve the opposite problem" (expensive manufacture & distribution and cheap invention).

They were intended to solve the problem of technological progress being hindered by trade secrets that never come into the public domain. If you couldn't protect your recipe for making a life saving drug, no one else could make it even if you decided not to anymore or went out of business.

From the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8):

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
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You might look into Yodlee. Services like Mint use their non-free apis to get financial data.
Show them that lawsuits are happening more and more due to precedent set in many states that ADA regulations for buildings and such also apply to websites.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2017/06/13/first-...
There is nothing specific about energy restriction there. To a first approximation, if you are losing weight you will be hungry, full stop.
Were you working full time for those three weeks? How did you manage to find the time? That is over 10 hours of exercise a day, plus work, and commute, and everything else you need to do. Seems like there would be no time for sleep, which I would expect to need to sleep for a long time after 10 hours of exercising. I guess the real question is, what was the rest of your day like?
Not trying to push our app too much here but we made Bitesnap for this reason. I was overweight as a kid and tried really hard to use MFP but it was the biggest chore of the whole weight loss process. With Bitesnap we're trying to automate things using computer vision.
You could disperse* the beam over the entire object to even out any added rotational force. *whether by increasing beam diameter or sweeping beam across the object's face.
I doubt an overweight person is running 3-4 miles per day, that would be incredibly strenuous amounts of exercise.
it can't be. This is physics, not nutrition.

If you have a jar with €100 in it, and you put €9 more in every month but also take out €10 then you will lose €1, no matter what an economist says.

There is still research being done in how the body reacts to different caloric deficits, but the basics hold up.
There are a lot of instances in a design, both macro and micro, where you can trade off greater performance at the expense of something else - either area or power or both.

Then these tradeoffs tend to multiply each other. If you have a design which is fast on branch-predicted and slow on branch-mispredicted, and you build a big branch predictor, it works well. But you're committed to powering all that.

I mean, compare http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.... (few sentences) with http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf (admittedly a lot more detail, but it's clearly a more complicated system too)
What was the point of harpooning something already attached to an arm? (see video)
The possible search space and possible combination can be huge even with chemistry however the number of combination that would be the most effective in a given task and environment is fairly limited and natural selection makes this search very easy because anything that isn't suitable for that environment and the task of surviving even if it's a simple protein would die out.
Simple is not the same thing as easy. Mostly "diet plans" are basically psychological tools to help you do a difficult but simple thing.
Thoughtful replies here, thanks.

Perhaps letting rates vary across institutions might be the simplest improvement. That would help Stanford students and make it hard to attend lower tier colleges. So we’d also need a way to advantage community colleges with a service mission. The big losers would be lower-tier, high-cost private schools and for-profits. But that’s a good thing- those are the schools that are breaking the American educational system and loading up students with low-value degrees and high debt.
It's not an inconvenient truth, it's a trivial truth.

"You can make this program in any Turing complete language" is true. That truth is interesting to a computer science class. It's completeky useless and meaningless to a person writing a program. Say you want a program that does something with a relational database. The right advice is "you can do this with SQL."

The fact that human bodies follow the laws of physics ads no information. It is a logical red herring.
I have a 2018 Subaru and a Pixel 2 and Android Auto is very unreliable. Every time the phone connects with the head unit, it asks if I want to grant access to contacts and every time I click yes. This seems like something it should remember.

I complained about the poor performance to my dealer and they replaced the stereo but that didn't really fix anything.

I wonder how difficult it would be to automate clicking on the notification to grant access to whatever it is that Android Auto thinks it needs access to?
Some minor things.

* Automated a "speed check" of my new internet service provider to see what kinds of speeds I'm getting throughout the day/week.

* As an MMORPG player, wrote a log file scraper to automate different events; when my avatar's spells fail or expire, when specific items I'm looking for are put up for auction, when my avatar is sent a private message, how long it takes to "zone" from place to place to check for network issues, etc.

* Wrote a public web site that tracks population of a particular game over time. Mostly to exercise some coding skills.

* Automated some email alerting that I couldn't otherwise manage with my calendar system(s).
Standard undergrad courses often have kind-of standard literature.

In Germany, for example, calculus courses will recommend Heuser. Linear algebra will recommend Beutelspacher. Every EE owns a copy of Tietze & Schenk.
In probability theory there's the concept of a filtration.

Rigorously speaking, probabilities are not attributed to singular events, but to sets (possibly, in the discrete case, single-element sets such as {heads}, {tails}).

To be even more precise: a sigma-algebra is a concept of set-of-all-sets that avoids continuous-case paradoxes through technical stuff you can ignore.

A filtration is a decreasing sequence of sigma algebras: for example, if your event space is the six numbers a die might show, you could have

F(0) = { {}, {die number is odd}, {die number is even}}

and

F(1) = { {}, {die number is 1},...{die number is 6}, {die number is 1 or 2},...} (a sigma algebra is closed under intersections)

What this means is that earlier probabilities are defined on coarser spaces of sets of events as compared to later probabilities. This is how you get dynamic stochastic processes that don't look into the future.
That a broken link made it to my front-page certainly indicates that what we see on the front-page hasn't necessarily got there by merit.
Great to see browsers adding accessibility in their devtools since a few months!

One thing I don't understand here: why is the Accessibility tab not shown by default? Accessibility is something lots of developers don't even know about. I'm sure having the tab visible by default would help greatly in making developers more aware of it.
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This

There is a part of my brain that, usually around 1030 at night, says, right eat everything in the immediate vicinity because it might vanish / get eaten by sabre-tooth tigers, just be taken away from you.

It's so deeply wired in me i actually resent (no deeply hate) the food industries that take advantage of my biology.

I think the only hope for health care costs to be brought back to earth is to treat most foods like we treat alcohol or tobacco - chocolate bars that cost the same as a bottle of whiskey, sugar eating areas away from other parts of restaurants, cities that revolve around walking not driving,

It's wholesale chnage - and no please don't throw the nanny state argument at me - look at the Libertarian party (Their presidential candidate suggested it would be a good idea to have a driving license ... got crucified) We live in a nanny state and most people don't think it's sane to leave
> I wouldn't try to productise an app that takes away the main source of income for the radio stations.

Do you have similar objections to things like self-driving vehicle technology that will take away the main source of income for truck drivers?
The article is incredibly meandering and non-committed to saying anything in particular.
Great progress and tips! We're developing a "MyFitnessPal + UberEats" food delivery service that automatically counts calories and macros here in Shanghai, where ~16 million people order their food instead of cooking or eating out. I wonder why nobody did this in the Bay Area at least? Is it generally lower penetration of food delivery? Or gathering the data is just too much work? It's easier here with Chinese food: orders naturally consist of 2-3 dishes at least, and for 2-3 people it can be 5-6 dishes, making it possible for us to pick a right "combo" for the right macros. I think with Western food, most people would stick to one dish with a side, which is much harder to "configure" and meet the right target.

Also, of course, even a modest amount of exercise will kick off metabolic processes that speed up weight loss, not mentioning that increasing muscle mass will naturally increase the basal metabolic rate. Weight lifting routines like 5x5 or Greyskull LP can be squeezed into 20-30 minutes every other day, and provide lasting benefits almost immediately.
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Whenever I see a piece like this I just want the authors to read this article while taking a really good look in the mirror:

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/

Seriously, you want to talk about the "gentrification" of nerddom? Fine, but then you should be prepared be brutally honest and reflective about your own "ethnicity".
I agree, but just as a counter point, sometimes I upvote articles I've already read just based on the heading.
Lots of things are self-replicating that we would not consider "living". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replication
I'd love to hear how it sounds with a 700bps stream.
Honestly, I’m still not fully over the “new/shiny” phase, so I think that’s the main reason I like it right now.

I can see some useful things about it. Deleting messages in Mail.app is a tap on the TouchBar vs Cmd-Delete, which is a bit of a wash. Switching months in Calendar.app is quicker and easier with the TouchBar. Access to the formatting options in Word and Outlook is nice.

On the downside though, I spend a lot of time (at work) with the computer plugged into two monitors and a USB keyboard. In this situation, the TouchBar is basically useless so that really limits how much it will get integrated into regular use.
This is great news. Just making it easier for developers to see the impact of small things without having to go look for tools to do it is huge in this area.
>The error is to think that 1 mile is a long distance. That takes like 7-20 minutes.

That time frame represents a big range of abilities.

The person doing it in 7 minutes is probably in good shape. The person doing it in 20 minutes is probably walking it, and not fast.
The scariest option is that the life that finds us in the universe is human, and just a few centuries ahead of us in tech terms.

We know what would be coming. We did to native americans already.
Ah, yeah, I do some of the same with Llama (Android).

* Remind me on my phone when I'm at home, connect to car via BT, on weekdays, during "morning hours" to not forget my building access badge.

* Go into "silent mode" if I've been in proximity to my son's high school for more than 5 minutes (I'm usually there for some event where I should be silent).

* Various volume controls when I get to (or leave) home/work/etc.

* Change the screen to not auto-dim/off when running certain apps.
More like Teclast F7

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Teclast-F7-Notebook-14-0-Win...

UPD. After looking at the ports on the left side I've found precise model. It's YEPO 737A, not Teclast or Chuwi.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/YEPO-737A-laptop-Apollo-13-3...
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Teaching styles differ and student populations differ.

And re: in-depth, this is a long tail problem. The profit is in the mainstream, not in the tail. Producing really good in-depth work isn’t that rewarding because the market is small.
They had a mobile-dominance strategy -- it was Atom. They even partnered with Google/Android. (Maybe you're saying the execution was lacking?)
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