skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I naturally started eating healthy foods because I could eat more of them. If you eat a chocolate bar, you will still be hungry. For the same amount of calories, you could eat a few bowls of vegetables and be full. That said, the best part about this overall approach is that you can still eat whatever you want – just count the calories."

That is essential to both taking the weight off and keeping it off. I followed only this rule, which meant avoiding refined carbs and fatty foods,and I didn't even count calories and I took off 50 pounds over about three years, and have kept it off.

I still don't count calories, I eat as much as I want, I just make sure it is mostly high in bulk with a fair amount of protein, and reasonably low in fat.
Simulation to real learning seems to be slowly and steadily improving?
Eg as seen in https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/10/closing-simulation-to-real...

Transfer learning, which seems more widely researched, has also been making progress at least in the visual domain.
Nonstick Chemicals Can Really Stick Around – In Your Body
I agree it's a great idea to leave comments in code, for things that are done in a non obvious way for good reasons.
You seem to have a more accurate perspective on this case than most of the comments. Thank you for posting.

But I'm still confused on one point: It seems like the supreme court has already ruled that the 8th Amendment applies to the states in Roper v. Simmons[0], Robinson v. California [1], and others. To me this pretty directly means that a state law dictating a cruel and unusual punishment is unconstitutional.

So if supreme court isn't deciding whether cruel and unusual punishments at the state level are unconstitutional in general (a previous ruling), and it isn't deciding whether this specific civil forfeiture was cruel and unusual (a decision to be made by the state court), what exactly are they deciding? Is there some unplugged hole in the middle, like whether any CF case (regardless of details) could be cruel and unusual? Or is there some other reason that the previous rulings don't apply here?

[0] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2004/03-633

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/1961/554
Ask HN: Is it ever okay for a physically healthy person to self terminate?
Strictly on the merit of having final say over one’s existence (presuming no appeal to religious authority), if someone can be selfish enough to consider their own needs above hurting others, shouldn’t anyone be allowed to self terminate?

Seems we allow this now; if someone is truly intent they will find a way.
As a full time employee I am not paid for hours worked, I am paid for the work performed; for results. As such, it is common and typical for employees like me to be allowed to engage in any number of "non work" activities to help maintain stress and keep productivity up.

That is something that has been true at nearly every company I have worked at. Amazon is not different in that regard, at least not on the teams I was involved with there.

There are a lot of social events at Amazon. I did not spend my work time approaching random people at their desks to mouth off to them. That would be weird and stupid. I simply shared it with people during social conversations at social events where we are encouraged to interact with others.

During social events, I am quite sure that free speech covers what I say.
>Note that, being marked "least effective" essentially means that one can't transfer internally to other teams unless someone wayy higher up the management chain approves of the transfer.

What a hilariously counterproductive policy, obviously people that just barely exceed the incompetent-enough-to-fire low water mark are going to be given glowing reviews, then pawned off on some other team.
I was told I needed to download an app at one Chicago restaurant to get a table. It was nearly empty but the app said 20 minutes... It is a very well known place. I was also told by the bartender he is not going to get me a beer and a server will be around at some point. I got my beer eventually. But after waiting for a table for 40 minutes I just left without even paying, no one seemed interested in cashing me out. I literally had better service at the Chicago DMV.
So basically we need one more distribution, this time targeted at developers?
I've found that AnyDesk meets many of my personal and professional needs. It's prime selling point is that it's super lightweight, unlike TeamViewer.
It does have arrow keys... I believe you hold the spacebar.

(and to be clear, while I'm OP, this is not my project, just thought it was cool/funny)
With docker you can adhere to the "Build once, deploy anywhere" philosophy.
Turks and Kurds turn French street into war zone after Erdogan election
Backspace Rethought
Based on this account (and I agree it could be quite biased), the manager did a poor job of de-escalating the situation. I assume the OP had aired similar grievances previously, so the manager should have been prepared for this conversation.

Regardless, if an employee comes to me so stressed out they can’t work, and asks to take an afternoon, I’m sending them home. I might very well start the PPI process as they’re driving home, if I thought the situation was unrecoverable.
A pretty significant portion of those people lack savings for reasons other than choice (and I'd wager a significant portion of those who do lack savings because they just can't be bothered probably won't bother if there maybe might be a recession eventually, probably perpetually convincing themselves they can just put money into savings later)
You have the cash to buy a house without a bank? Go ahead. You don't need blockchain for that.

Online transactions without fees? Bitcoin still has fees.

I send money overseas cheaply, easily and instantly all the time. Without Blockchain.
Of course! I understand that a list of books isn't initially helpful as it only presents a time sink and nothing of immediate utility, but I believe I gained noticable cognitive improvements from reading those. You might also be interested in: https://fs.blog/mental-models/, which I read recently and have mixed feelings about.

Unfortunately I don't have any clear cut answers, and sadly I don't think reality does either - by nature, it's a question that is subject to personal opinion and biased answers. But if you find a satisfactory answer, please let me know. And as a final note, I think I've learned the most from debate - be it online or in person. Engaging in challenging discussion whenever possible (figuratively). It may sound lame, but forcing myself into such discussions, or at least reading them carefully and analytically, has helped me tremendously.
Mozilla bakes ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox’s new privacy tool
the awarding of court costs is very rare in the usa.
I agree that an employer can fire anyone they choose, but if they do list a reason that reason has to be in a legal subset of possible reasons.

That is why most states are "at-will", meaning that they don't need to list any reason. I am not saying that they could not fire me; they certainly could have. They simply cannot list the reason officially as "because you told people about this event that happened and gave your opinion on it".

If they said "we believe the employee is violent and threatening" that would be a valid reason. I am not. I may get upset and stressed but I have never laid a hand on anyone in my life. There is no evidence to support the claim that I am violent, because it isn't true.

There are also more complex things going on here than just whether or not I can be fired and they can "get away with it". The real issue is that they don't want anyone to know what happened because it makes them look bad.

For that, it actually doesn't matter if I am a raving lunatic or not. The simple fact is they want to cover up the whole situation and make it go away. That is the worst part of all of it.
Hi All,

Chromely - https://github.com/mattkol/Chromely was introduced earlier. Thanks to all that gave feedbacks.

Based on demands from some developers, there are new features added - like Websocket implementation for real-time apps development, frame handling (to execute JavaScript functions see - https://github.com/mattkol/Chromely/wiki/Frame-Handling) and "iframe" support.
My personal favorite is how the current debt based economy allow almost infinite amounts of government debt to be created. In fact, one of the reasons why we got off the gold standard decades ago is military spending.
Why do you stay?

> I'd be lying if I said I didn't see this seemingly happen with multiple people across multiple Amazon development centers.
I cried multiple times at work at Amazon. This is not surprising for me to hear either.
Generator function and Redux saga
And? Most civil forfeiture is from small town cops, not the feds. Yea your one type of case is less problematic, but the majority of real life cases are still guilty until proven innocent

Edit: additionally, what happens when the government doesn't follow the law? You bring them to court? That's still guilty until proven innocent unless there's a strong IG which is not the case
> I've tried and failed a couple times to make Debian packages.

That's a real problem. Distributions have really dropped the ball here (to varying degrees).

But there's a big difference between "Docker is $distribution_package_manager done right!" and "Docker at least sucks less than the alternatives".

The tradeoff when packaging via Docker is often in integration with other facilities provided by the OS. Some of the hassles of packaging for a native OS package manager are senseless, bad UX to be sure. But others are there for a reason: how to integrate with init systems, standard directory locations, shared cache locations, or (god forbid) desktop/windowing systems? If your answer to those is "fuck it, use Docker", you often end up with a user experience akin to driving a portable mobile home down a small city street: technically fits and obeys traffic patterns, but doesn't behave in a way that anyone who has lived there for awhile expects it to.
War and Prosthetics: How Veterans Fought for the Perfect Artificial Limb (2012)
Well, unless your db master fails. Do yours automatically fail over?
Do “open” keyboard designs for more traditional keyboards exist?
"The company says it takes 20 to 25 percent of the fare. [...]Uber says drivers make around $19 per hour in the top 20 U.S. markets."

Do you want inflated taxi fares of old, or do you want supply and demand? You can't have both.
Is 50% a typo? Because for 50% I better have gotten at least a handjob.
>which the utilitarian will always prefer by definition

That is the heart of our confusion here. You are comparing it to a neutral state. Yes, a utilitarian would prefer any positive outcome to that. However, I was implying that there was another path that would have resulted in an even more positive result but through inefficiency we were left with a lesser but still positive result. That waste of resources like time and money is equivalent to a waste of utility that a utilitarian would obviously oppose.
While I'm not certain I could state what problem iPhone (or smartphones in general) solves, it's definitely proven market fit. Bitcoin has not.
Yeah it sure is hard to believe that rapidly increasing rent would make some people unable to afford their rent anymore. Definitely a totally unrelated problem. NYC, Seattle, and Washington DC all have really great weather too, that's why they also have some of the highest rates of homelessness in the country and is again totally unrelated to them all having rapidly increasing costs of living.
I can watch John Oliver a lot more easily than Stephen Colbert. Oliver at least does his homework, presents facts, and produces episodes on issues that actually matter to him.

Colbert just seems like the democrat equivalent of Fox News... putting a leftish spin on whatever issue crosses his desk without any regard for journalism.

Even when he speaks on lefty issues that I care about, he seems disingenuous. Like he’s just trying to get brownie points for being progressive. I think he’s so scared of being lumped in with other white men he just goes along ideologically with whatever the lefty zeitgeist tells him to do.

His interviews with people of color are like pulling teeth for me to watch. He’s trying to pander to them, but you can tell he doesn’t actually understand racism or black experience with any depth. He is looking for the “right” thing to say without necessarily caring why it’s right or wrong.

It’s awkward because someone like Jay-Z doesn’t care if you pander to him. He’s dealing with actual politics and actual discrimination and I think people like that are often insulted when someone like Colbert comes at them with the “look at this, aren’t I saying right things?” song and dance.
Doing Our Part – Without Hacking Back
No its not. And I fail to understand why this keeps coming up. The gold standard tied fiscal and monetary policy to an arbitrary commodity: gold. Whereas value exists beyond the commodity itself. The gold standard had all sorts of unintended consequences and is not fit for a modern economy.

What is perhaps more worrying is common currency. The Euro has lead to a lot more trouble than it was worth, Frankly speaking.
So what do the experts think about the Tachyum founder's claims, like that the chip is far faster because there are far fewer, and far shorter wires between the transistors. Does this make sense?
By definition, disabling remote management will be visible to the attacker. But a recording hub that can prove an attacker did things would be possible to deploy undetectably.

Digital locksmiths who can update a home network and cloud footprint are now a feature of middle class life; most divorce lawyers know one or two.

And don't forget the cars. You'd be surprised at how small a gps tracker can be. And cars with on-board compute power can do funky things like use the backup cameras to watch the surrounding area...
684 was at the close.

The intraday low was 666.

https://imgur.com/a/VfV4TAe
Brother/Sister, I have come down from the mountain, and behold, I bring news of a glorious new future, and it is called Gentoo!

Salvation shall be had, in the weeks/years/decades after the first successful kernel compilation is achieved.
They have these in MSP, and it may be a bit of an exaggeration but basically "all of them" - at least enough to quiz my teenage geography nerd on flags for a minute or two.

I have no idea how good or extensive those translations are, but assuming these are OTG terminals it's a pretty tightly integrated vertical so I imagine pretty good.
I think they mean 50% of the full, reference tip amount. If the full tip is 20%, then 50% there means 10% of the bill.
There's no middleman.
Depending on the Uber driver, they might not need any downtime. According to PBS, the average NYC taxi driver does ~180 miles in a 12 hour shift.

I have no idea the accuracy of that statistic. But if it's true, then an Uber driver could buy a Chevy Bolt, get 220+ miles a day out of it (one full 12hr shift), and just charge at home or garage overnight. No downtime besides their own sleeping.
I feel this will be an easy one for the supreme court.
The issue is how many people actually read the linked article when paywalled before leaving a comment on the thread.

Which leads to a drop in discussion quality since nobody even knows the content of the article at first place, so it quickly becomes totally off topic.
Nah, it was funny, just a little too subtle for me at the time.
Some of the tablet screens were really smudgy, though. So kinda gross.
Could you explain about tail-rec causing stack overflow?
If there is one to be found, the solution to this is not going to be a technical one. Local switches and use of passwords can still be monitored or disabled. Tape on cameras will attract retribution. You literally cannot beat the house at its own game.

In a few states I'm aware of, if you commit any form of domestic abuse and deprive the victim access to a phone, it's a separate charge. It can't/doesn't stop it from happening but it disincentivizes it by making the punishment worse.

I suspect a lot of this IoT nonsense will eventually attract the same riders. A documented history of remotely tampering with locks or lights, blasting heat in the summer and blaring music at full volume in any context will eventually become factors in a case of abuse.
I've seen similar problems with this layout at airport check-in kiosks (and been accused of "cutting line", when there was no obvious line, etc).
Yeah.

FWIW, Micorsoft's implementations of Win32 have swapped out the kernel a few times anyway, so it's not the biggest leap for a third party (DOS/Win32s, Win9x, WinNT).

Because of this, Microsoft considers the system call layer to be unstable, and appears to go out of their way to change the system call table every service pack. So the dll entry points are the stable ABI, and that's what 99.99% of developers rely on.
Assuming there's a recession coming what is a good investment strategy?
Why all this work? Just multiply by two and move the decimal to the left. 54 -> 108 -> 10.8. 37 -> 74 -> 7.4.
For better or worse, on way is citations. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&... (in top 30 according to that site)
> I'm not sure if you actually have ever used React but every single major version update is non breaking.

That would be fine if they were making major releases every 2+ years, when you release a major version on average of 3 times a year it's incredibly unstable. A typical upgrade will be jumping several versions.
I enjoyed this take on it: http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual...
To be fair, civil forfeiture is against the law, so being on the law-and-order side is a good thing. Law-and-order also means applying law and order to the government.
I've seen comments that the first thing women's shelters do when sheltering domestic abuse victims is 86 their cell phone.

Personal note, had thought at one time of making a private lojack for cars. Personal meaning it just responds to transmission from a remote device without going through a server. Handy when someone steals your car in SF. But that seemed way too useful to a wife beater for my comfort level.
I live in downtown Bellevue and I’m pretty sure the Expedia building down the street is its headquarters.
IPFS+Tor would solve that?
A solar panel purchased 25 years ago may be still technically functional but far, far less efficient than a modern solar panel.
I was given authority and encouraged to push back against people who are wasting company time. I made careful judgements and fought requests only when it made sense. Nearly all requested changes, even if they were ridiculous, if they had any value, I did. I know it could be construed from what little I've said that I am being arrogant and refusing to listen, that is not the case.

I requested style guidelines to be put in place and would be happy to follow them. Amazon does not have style guidelines for the code in place. It was and is legacy code with no documented styling. The style I used was a modern proper one. The style complaints were arbitrary and came from a junior engineer. They were not based on mature reasoning or proper practice.

I readily agree that I could have just said "I don't care" and lowered my stress level significantly. The stress was partially my own fault. I don't disagree with this. This is a big reason why I started my own company rather than immediately returning to another "corporate job". I needed to recover such that I can do my job without anything remotely like this happening.

Based on my past experiences, if you are forced to stay home at all, you are very likely getting fired. The reason I wasn't is less to do with them telling the truth, and more to do with the fact that the projects I was working on had high dollar value for them and they wanted me to keep working.

I started my company with around $35k on hand. I did not have any more money than that. My co-founder also contributed some of his money as well to cover expenses during the year. We lived frugally. There is no hidden saved up money here that I had to make it work. I am still broke to this moment because of this.

I have a lot of experience in the industry; it is not significantly hard to find a place that will hire me. Finding a job that is a good fit is more difficult.

Whatever guidelines I am presented with I follow.

It might serve you to consider that you don't have sufficient information to cast the sort of judgements you are on me.
The Stock Market Loophole That Screws the Little Guy
So an alternative to shared libraries is RPC over FUSE-like transport?

It is a sane idea and may work well, but I think the page overcomplicates it. Why bother with filesystem -- having cryptofs implement "getattr" and "readlink" seems like a total waste. Why not use the things designed for RPC?

For example, one may use raw unix sockets (this is how Xorg, and pulseaudio work), or D-Bus (this is how disk mounting in modern desktop linux works), or HTTP-based transports (this will be known as "microservices" then).
> The question in my mind is who the scapegoat is going to be

Step 1 - do dumb and harmful things to increase your popularity among ignorant supporters

Step 2 - blame the innocent for the inevitable crisis

Step 3 - use the crisis you created to justify more dumb and harmful things

Step 4 - multiple crises cascade into catastrophe

Step 5 - use the catastrophe to justify emergency powers, suspend due process, arrest political opponents, mobilize local militias to "restore law and order"
They said late night television, not journalists. Like the Tonight Show.
Stocks suffer worst day in weeks as Trump’s trade threats rattle
Grow: A business print magazine by Facebook
It will be the fault of the party not in power. The autocrat will demand that his opponent in the general be locked up for it...

and so it goes.
Without knowing anyone's individual situation it's hard to answer, but at the very least you should have 3-6 months expenses in a money market / savings account. You don't want to be in situation where you are forced to liquidate assets at below market prices.
San Jose wasn't close to the epicenter (Nisene Marks), either.

There's an entire coastal mountain range between the epicenter and San Jose, even.
Completely agreed. The argument I heard made before is "if people can just move, why do gay people live in [state with no civil protections for gay rights]?" It's an easy one to answer. Family, job, social connections, money; those are just a few. Then comes the question of how free should each state be or not be? What if you are born, for example, both gay and a native Texan[0]? Should Texas have the right to "force" you out of where you were born and bred simply because a majority of its legislature detests gay people?

0 - The choice of Texas was deliberate because I am a native Texan so I'm not "picking on" any state other than "my own."
Transfer learning is about the best we can do right now. Using a fully trained ResNet / XCeptionNet and then tacking on your own layers after the end is within reach to hobbyists with just a single GPU on their desktop. There's still a decent amount of learning for the user even with pre-trained models.
If American people are not going to use 2nd ammendment over civil forfeiture then they don't need it.
That picture isn't comparable to a big ugly coal plant, you need to show a couple square miles of panels.
a16z is just responding to market demand. Regardless of your personal beliefs in crypto, investors have made a killing, and are convinced that more nuggets must be out there in those hills... If you can raise a $300M fund and charge 2%/yr to maintain it, that's $6M worth of headcount luxuriously plugging away up on Sand Hill Road.

Keep in mind: Venture Capitalists mostly invest other people's money, and charge a great deal to take care of it in the mean time.