skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not, if you understand what BMI actually means.

BMI is an aggregate metric that has been misapplied to individuals.

Due to the averaging effect, it's a pretty decent predictor for groups, but due to variation within groups, it's not going to predict that well for all individuals (except for individuals who are close to the average of the group).
I guess it depends on your goals. For weight loss benefits I think you're right. But coffee does contain caffeine which has to be metabolized so it apparently interferes with other health benefits of IF, eg autophagy.
Sounds like you should be playing Factorio these days
One major difference, reliability-wise, of modern vehicles is electronic engine management---electronic fuel injection, electronic ignition, etc. These are, in fact, much simpler than their previous mechanical counterparts.

Materials are better, as are engineering, but those are a wash complexity-wise.

The major complexity increase has been antilock braking/traction control/stability control, all of which are (I hope!) designed to fail back to their older mechanical state. Their reliability has improved considerably, but my 2004 Corvette may need another brake controller rebuild and the brake controller on my 1995 BMW motorcycle's primary purpose seems to be to test for low-voltage conditions when I start the bike.
If you could integrate fusion into a human being- that would allow for time travel.
MAD is premised upon both actors believing that the other would respond in kind. In that light, Trump's boasting is... well, logical.
Dinosaurs feel so much like a local maximum of evolution. Heavy investment in one "component" - exploitation over exploration.
Why are you doing it? What benefits to you expect to make up for the struggle?
Eat more calorically dense foods and more of them per meal.
That's more about trust and faith in the maintainers of the distribution (that they won't screw up).
Awesome! I'd rethink that logo though.
I listened to a super interesting podcast about fasting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-eqJDQ2nU

Dr. Panda goes into detail about fasting and coffee. Great podcast about fasting.

Intermittent Fasting Confers Protection in CNS Autoimmunity by Altering the Gut Microbiota

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(18)...
Stephen Baxter's "Manifold" trilogy deals head-on with the Fermi paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)
What we learned from TakeCharge.io
Thank you for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it.

Well I guess my question regarding the expensiveness comes down to wondering about the sample efficiency, i.e. are there not many games that share large similar state trajectories that can be re-used? Are you using any off-policy corrections, e.g. IMPALA style?

Or is that just a source off noise that is too difficult to deal with and/or the state space is so large and diverse that that many samples are really needed? Maybe my intuition is just way off, it just feels like a very very large sample size.

Reminds me slightly of the first version of the non-hierarchical TensorFlow device placement work which needed a fair bit of samples, and a large sample efficiency improvement in the subsequent hierarchical placer. So I recognise there is large value in knowing the limits of a non-hierarchical model now and subsequent models should rapidly improve sample efficiency by doing similar task decomposition?
I think of it as very generic LaTeX. I use the AMS math styles for formatting the equations. The fonts are not the standard ones, but they were chosen for xerox-ability rather than some aesthetic (which I don't have). Other than that it is straightforward. (The LaTeX is at https://gitlab.com/jim.hefferon/linear-algebra .)
>I am pretty sure BK's departure has more to do with his performance then whatever they wrote in that PR. And may likely has something to do with Apple.

Yes

>When Apple contracted Morris in TSMC, they managed to bring up a new Fab running for Apple in less then 6 months. It was a big bet on both side, billions of dollar invested. Could you imagine Intel doing that? These relationship takes time to built, and TSMC right now has literally zero fault.

Apple contacted both TSMC and Intel for their own modem. They came with "We are ready put $n billions cash bond on the table today." And Intel refused.
Borders and populations of countries in Europe each year since 400 BC [video]
That’s interesting. I’ve guesstimated the annual risk at about 1% myself. As you say, the near misses we’ve had do seem to indicate that the probability is decently high.
Boring, exists for decades already.
General comparison of the two competing systems: Tokamak vs Stellerator https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468080X1...

Looks like theoretically the Stellerator is superior in practice, while in practice only the Tokamak is being worked on practically.
Yes, the article had a clear and strong bias - but I really think you're making a mistake when you reject someone's perspective merely because they don't agree with you.
I have never used eBay to buy anything. Though visited the site several times to look up random items. Regarding "Collections", I just visited their websites out of curiosity and looks like it's right on the front page and very prominent unless I am missing something.
Charlottesville Killer Was Clinton Supporter, Funded by Soros
Once you survive the first 24 hours of fasting (given you replenish electrolytes with salty water), i.e. some headache after 16-20 hours, then you can easily add another 48 hours, making it 3-in-a-row, and you can happily do high-intensity training as usually, without any effect on your performance. After 3 days you either start eating again or stop training. 3 days are recommended for "rebooting" the immune system; I try to do it once 1-2 months, not sure if it helps but I don't see any bad effects either, and it strengthens the will.
This first thing you said isn't in the article at all, you just misread it.

The second thing also indicates a lack of reading comprehension, thus downvoted.
I took this class. Professor Aspnes is a great teacher and his notes are ridiculously thorough.

On the first day of class he told us (paraphrasing) “I never went to class in undergrad, so I don’t expect you to. But the lectures will help you on the problem sets, so I encourage you to attend.”

For those of us who may have had... less than thorough attendance... these notes were a real godsend!

He also has some for his randomized algorithms class: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/469/notes.pdf

And also for his other classes which you can find here: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/

(Professor Aspnes is now the DUS of the CS department at Yale)
well good luck trying on those countries!

with PRC operating quick-death-"police"-vans, aren't you telling the intercept reporters to risk their lives?

maybe you should try...?
Congrats man! Nice write up. I realize this isn’t a good hn reply but wanted to give support!
Turning on/off outdoor lighting as sunrise / sunset changes over the year.

Raspberry Pi runs a program that gets sunrise sunset data for my lat long, and then turns on off lights depending on that data plus preferences about when the earliest I'd expect someone to be leaving/coming.

Used to have a little timer that plugged into the outlet, but you'd keep having to update the on-off times as the seasons changed, and the clock kept drifting.

There are photo sensitive equivalents plugs, but apparently they don't work great, and they would keep the lights on all night long, and light pollution is a pet-peeve.
It happens a lot on The Intercept. It's really super annoying.
Congratulations buddy, I can't imagine how hard that must have been. Thanks for sharing what you experienced.
That moment when you need to fix a product before you can get a date!

Anyways is it open source :D
‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention
That's assuming the exact opposite of this paper; that there's _infinite_ other civilisations, which is as obviously untrue as the idea that there are none.

If the period of time before all high-power communication is encrypted is short, then the likelihood that the period of our ability to pick up unencrypted high-power communications will intersect it is potentially very low.

The universe is _huge_. Most of our communications will not be audible above background radiation after a little way out - this could be no different for any other civilisation's communication technology. You don't use a nuclear reactor to power a cell tower, and if you don't put that much power into it then it's not gonna be detectable ten light years out.
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Delete your facebook/whatsapp/instagram/whatever. You'll be much happier and, ideally, they will die.
Looking at a few studies, the data is much more complex. For example, higher levels of circulating testosterone were associated with lower risk aversion among women (r = −0.1793; P = 0.01), but not among men (P = 0.11). However at comparably low concentrations of testosterone the gender difference in risk aversion disappeared, suggesting that testosterone has nonlinear effects on risk aversion regardless of gender.

Or to make a summery of the summery of the study: there is an association of risk aversion when going from low levels of testosterone to very low levels, but "male with high testosterone" is not supported in that study as increased risk taking behavior vs males with normal levels of testosterone.

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741240/)
Stock Market datasets standardized and ready-to-use
> but clients (and many employers) seem blind to it.

I see what you did there
Nowhere close, but as you rightly stated, that isn’t the goal of this experimental device. For what it is, which is an exploration of the dynamics of containing high temperature plasmas, it is a resounding success. What you’re asking is sort of like someone asking Babbage how close he is to a Pentium 90. Babbage still did some incredible and foundational things, and it was still a world away from playing Doom.

There are a lot of issues outstanding for fusion to be a viable power source, and this reactor is simply exploring the dynamics of one of those issues. Putting aside hype and desperation, there is no chart yet. For a fusion plant to work and compete with any other plant, you need it to have good uptime, relatively low maintenance burdens in terms of downtime and costs, good output, a viable source of fuel, a fusion cycle that is safe and sustainable, and more.

As of today the d-t cycle isn’t sustainable because it requires tritium, produces a lot of energetic neutrons that along with helium will undermine the reactor. The problem is that more viable fusion cycles occur at significantly higher temperatures and it’s a struggle to control plasma at d-t temps. The lack of control both quenches the reaction, and exposes parts of the reactor to plasma which erodes the material. Neutron bombardment causes the metal to become brittle, and helium infiltrates and undermines it too. So a reactor would be down for maintenance a lot, which would make it difficult to work as an economically viable source of power.

As of today the tritium for the reaction has to be bred in fission reactors. There are theoretical plans to use a “blanket” impregnated with an isotope of Lithium to breed tritium within the fusion reactor, but so far no one has gotten it to sustainably work near necessary levels. As a result a fusion reactor today would require fission reactors, and it might make sense to ask why we don’t just stick to the far more mature and efficient fission technology.

There are lots of other issues that aren’t as big or obvious as what I’ve described, but ITER and desperation hype aside, there are more unsolved problems than solved. So where this reactor is concerned, be excited for what it is away from the context of “fusion any day now!” hype. Appreciate the slow, but steady progress in the context of incremental research.

If you want clean power in your lifetime, support fission plants.
Gmail Tracking -When and Where Your Gmail Has Been Opened – Geekhubb
>OpenAI Five does not contain an explicit communication channel between the heroes’ neural networks. Teamwork is controlled by a hyperparameter we dubbed “team spirit”. Team spirit ranges from 0 to 1, putting a weight on how much each of OpenAI Five’s heroes should care about its individual reward function versus the average of the team’s reward functions. We anneal its value from 0 to 1 over training.

A bit disappointing, it would be very cool to see what kind of communication they'd develop.
You could try https://lawnguru.co. My lawn was mowed within 20 minutes of signing up.
That's a good point. There's got to be a way I can replace these wheels with some sort of modern javascript framework.
Learning in an Accessible Way
That's totally believable. My own calorie log for the year shows me at a daily average of just under 1600/day and even with 6+ hours at the gym every week that's still only allowing me to just barely keep my weight from increasing again.

As you lose weight, you cause irreparable damage to your metabolism and for the rest of your life it will burn fewer calories. The more you lose, the slower it gets. It's a bitch and a half.
There was quite a bit of discussion about this photo[0] when it was released by North Korea. If I recall, the general consensus was that it wasn't possible to determine if the device was real (or a mockup of a real device), but it was apparent that the design was reasonable and that it wasn't an obvious fake.

0: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-03/8/22...
How would you build that?
I just counted the domain names starting with the xn-- punnycode in the URL database of URLfilterDB and the punnicode URLs are 0.02% of all domains.
Emissions footprint is being improved every day - you might remember an article from a month ago discussing that giving seaweed to cows reduces their emissions by a huge amount.

If everyone went veg, we would need more farms right? How many more field mice/rabbits/snakes/whatever will suffer/get squashed from this? Is this number comparable to the amount of cows that suffer for steak? It seems like smaller creatures treatment never get considered.
You enable the student to follow their passions with more capability if you inform them of the collective intelligence of hundreds of years of progress, which happened to take place in Europe. That is not eurocentrism this is just recognition of the reality of history.

If you dont like that build a time machine and change history.
It looks like a package manager choice. Dpkg/Apt isn't doing by default what they actually need, so they use Docker instead.
How has your experience been with their anti-scraping attempts?
I wish Instagram had an API for their photos. You used to be able to query photos by coordinates and what not. I started building a weather app that would only show you the feels like temperature and wanted to show some photos of what it looked like outside near your location. Instagram kept rejecting my app and then they shut down the API completely. So what I had to do is this:

Query Facebook for a list of location IDs near your location -> use those location IDs to get photos tagged with that location on Instagram -> wait for response for all of those photos to come back and then sort by recently taken. It ends up taking fairly long.

I still made the app anyway: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/feels-see-what-it-feels-like... but I am going to transition to using public Snapchat stories.
When you add the hummus, vegetables are no longer low-calorie.
There's a good saying:

"Time heals all things...but you might not live that long..."
For context, that's over twice the size of the Gates Foundation. You have to compare that to all other possible investments, including energy startups that could pay off a lot sooner.

Note that SpaceX is set up as a business, not a charity; Musk may talk a lot about Mars but that's not really where the money goes.
Two small, but neat changes I'll incorporate into my daily usage:

"git blame" now has an option "--color-by-age" that paints lines by age of last change.

There is also a small change to a Perl script that improves diff visualization I didn't know even existed: the "diff-highlight" script in share/git-core/contrib/diff-highlight.
Please, explain to me how I misread the map. It clearly labels Washington DC as a city in the state of Maryland.
Sure they could, but one might hope the AT&T's eroded trust would serve as caution towards other overly cooperative companies. Or encourage companies to fight in court to be given the transparency allowances they desire to let the rest of us know they are legally compelled to do this and in no way do they agree or are doing anything beyond what's required.

Granted, like FB issues and others, we in this community need to realize that most users simply don't care (even many b2b ones) and not get upset when our users don't move their dollars on principle. For us it's a big deal, for many there are real, harmful issues going on in the world and volume collection of data by companies and governments is not one of them. And we can't make it so despite the deluge of articles by a supportive mass media.

EDIT: To clarify, you mentioned "other ISPs" but I want to be clear I'm talking about private pipes and not residential internet though I know they are often shared.
I've always thought Crock Pot was a brand. It's the Kleenex of slow cookers. I call my slow cooker a crock pot even though it's made by some Target brand.
Mobile sales are plateauing now as well. Moore's law has hit them just as hard. It would be foolish for Intel to dump everything to jump into a market just as it matures and peaks.
For anybody interested in accurate monitoring of body weight, I highly recommend checking out a Bod Pod near you. You step in this pod, it vacuum seals, and it uses air displacement to measure your body fat percentage (accuracy usually around 0.5% [1]). Afterwards they print out a sheet that has specific measurements of everything: weight, height, body fat %, non-body fat %, etc.

Last I tried, it cost $30 at a local university and took about 30 minutes. Once you know your current body fat % it is much easier to figure exactly how many lbs you need to lose to reach your target %. When going by BMI much of that is guesswork.

Locations here: http://www.cosmed.com/en/contact-us/test-site-locator

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10487380
I've read that high level body builders will actually eat candy after a workout for the same effect. Also, ultra marathons will have mountain dew at aid stations for that immediate boost.
So the really hard part is not knowing what to do but managing to do it - willpower, feeling hungry, craving sugars, whatever.

I've lost 15kg (so far) following the current (they keep changing it) Weight Watchers plan, which is mostly a series of tricks designed to create a calorific deficit without me feeling hungry and miserable all the time. Works for me. Okay, so I have to pay, but it works and that's important (and I can afford it).

I don't think any one method is going to work for everyone, because so much of effective weight loss is a mental game and you need to find the game that works for you. Research, think, consider yourself and your needs and then go for it. Personally, I tried calorie counting and I just couldn't handle the nitpicking nature of it. WW turn everything into much broader units, which are rather crude but it all seems to work out in the end.

Although that said I'm currently stuck 3kg away from my goal weight because having crossed into the "healthy" BMI category and experienced a huge boost in my energy levels, physical fitness and capability my motivation has faded somewhat. I look better (people have commented, which is nice). I can dance more (I'm a morris dancer, yesterday I danced a solo jig after three other dances in blazing sunshine and I was fine, couldn't have done that last year) and I can do much, much better at aikido training (not only do I have more stamina throwing people around, I can also be thrown much better as I can fall better because I've got less excess mass to worry about when I hit the floor - I've been told it's much more fun to train with me than it was when I was at my heaviest).

So however you do it... it's worth it. But it's impossible to say there's just one method anybody needs, because you have to get over your own mental hurdles first.

Which is not just the system btw... I had to change jobs to give me the mental space to pull it off, as I was miserable and depressed and comfort eating constantly.
What would be the point of an alien ship travelling across the galaxy contacting just a select group of loonies?
More modern Java libraries and frameworks don't have this issue.

Sure, if you look at JEE stuff, you'll run into it...
If they ever formally codified the acceptable risk resulting in death and operated accordingly, then yes, they might be.

However, a doctor is not a machine - there isn't some piece of code that says 10% of all appendicitis cases die. Equipment deaths are usually operator error or perhaps component failure, etc. Bridges? Who knows?

The point is that an autonomous vehicle has a programmed decision tree where the others do not and at some point, someone has to have, or should have, taken into account vehicle operation under catastrophic circumstances.

Go read up on the trolley problem and tell me if I'm wrong in bringing this up.
I think this thread drastically underestimates the impact of removing incentive to protect their intellectual property. People will simply file their IP in the EU, China, and elsewhere internationally, ultimately deterring people from operating in the US market entirely.
> As soon as we start cutting calories from our diet, the number of calories our body expends begins to fall. "It literally starts happening on the first day," said Hall. "And it continues to mount as you lose weight."

This is also discussed in the Hacker's Diet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker's_Diet / https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/, free ebook and accompanying software). There seems to be a plateau around your "normal" lifestyle on which the body adjusts to small differences in calories in and out. You have to push the difference beyond a certain threshold to actually make a difference:

"If you eat a little too much, the body cranks up the burn rate a little: you feel warmer and more inclined to run up a flight of stairs rather than walk. If you eat a tad less than ideal, you may feel chilly and inclined to curl up with a book under the blankets and get a little extra sleep. [...] To achieve weight loss, you have to reduce what goes in below your capacity to adjust by banking the metabolic fires, forcing your body to tap its reserves[.]"
> Not healthy at all, every nutrition professionnal will tell you.

Given the track record of nutritional professionals that's practically an endorsement.
If you're in ketosis before exercising, your body doesn't have those glycogen stores to begin with, right?