skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For losing weight, diet is much more important than exercise.

Studies have shown that very few people can successfully lose weight through exercise alone, and that dieting is much more effective.

Which is easier, cutting out soda and sweets or running every day? Keep in mind that running one mile burns about 100 calories. Dessert can easily be upwards of 500 calories. https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/running-b...

Also, exercise stimulates hunger and you will naturally eat more to compensate for the lost calories.
They claim this is because of their focus on Kubernetes, but I have to wonder how much of this has to do with Microsoft acquiring Github. That aside, that's a tough slight for AKS.
I looked into it. Those rotisserie chickens you get at the supermarket... they're made from chicken!
The plan was actually written in February 2017. Pardon my mistake.
Oh, that's interesting.

From that Wikipedia article:

"For this reason, the ion temperature may be very different from (usually lower than) the electron temperature."

So if the ion temperature of the plasma in the Wendelstein 7-X is about 40 million degrees...the electron temperature could be even higher?

What does it even mean to have a temperature of 40 million degrees? AFAIU, the Sun has temperatures much lower than that. That's utterly mind blowing...
So, there was a book called GAPS-- Gut and Psychology Syndrome published in 2004, whose author claimed you can relieve some psychological disorders with her protocol designed to heal your gut and populate it with better flora. I don't think it is a cure-all, but there are thousands of Amazon reviews saying this changed their life.

I have ADHD, and had moderate success with it when I could stick with it...but the protocol is brutal. Absolutely brutal. With the added difficulty that I'm allergic to some of the staples of the diet. I've never been able to make it more than a couple weeks. The suggested duration is 18 months. Those who have stuck with it have reported good results.

I believe the GAPS diet is based on something called the "specific carbohydrate diet." Which, if I understand correctly is from the 1920s.
I regretfully admit i’ve never sat in a fully electric car.

I wish I could pay a little more to get an Uber Green, but I think that’s only in France.
Thanks, that is really encouraging!
If you're creating additional congestion (by requesting a less common vehicle from further away) rather than taking the nearest available car, the green advantage will be lost some of the time.
Somewhat misleading title: they're playing a restricted set of DotA 2 (only 5 heroes instead of 100+, some mechanics turned off), and some important decisions are handled by hard-coded rules rather than the main AI.
Exercise is ideal, but most people* don't burn enough calories exercising to enter a calorie deficit. Worse still: appetite spikes after exercise make most people eat more. All that really matters is eating below your maintenance calories. Exercise is the cherry on top for making your body actually look good.

*If you're weightlifting HEAVY 2-3 hours a day 6 days a week or running marathons every weekend, then you are burning enough calories to enter a deficit. Otherwise: your workout is burning fewer calories than there are in a banana.
This is why I choose Ember as my framework of choice. It's been there since Backbone, since Angular, and now React.

React, in my opinion, is filled with "best practices" where they choose complex solutions to simple problems. The dependency hell is also ridiculous in React. I would like to see how many of these apps are having issues upgrading to the latest versions of their dependencies in 5 years.
It's probably more of a branding and PR strategy than a technical decision.
Except that (to use your acronym) BFTSMRs are fairly common and well understood. Git, to choose the obvious example, probably qualifies.

The only thing that's new about blockchain is that it removes the requirement for a quorum of nodes in the network to trust one another. It achieves this solitary feature by means of forcing all updates to be as computationally inefficient as is economically feasable. Even then the security guarantees only hold as long as no single party can directly or indirectly control 51% of the network's collective computing power.

Aside from the cryptocurrency use case, that's a fantastically unattractive feature profile. The more fully I grasp how much of blockchain's promises rest on proof of work as a cornerstone the less optimistic I am the technology will ever have any useful real world applications other than serving as the mcguffin in weird zero sum securities market games.
> RL is based on deep learning

False. Reinforcement Learning is a category of algorithm. There are many possible implementations, not only "deep learning". Further, you might be surprised at how well a generalized, trained model might mimic "reasoning".
The yield curve is the most reliable predictor there is in finance. [ See a variety of links below - the first one is an overview, but the others are more research-oriented. ]

In capital markets, in order to justify taking risk, there has to be an accompanying return, otherwise people will not invest.

Inversion of the yield curve signals exactly that - returns are not enough to justify the risk, and that capital expenditures will go down, leading to lower returns, lower employment, and also a recession.

There is one key thing that very few people are talking about, however - the Fed basically controls the debt issuance, and has some (possibly even significant) ability to nudge the market in the direction it wants by buying/selling towards one end of the curve or the other.

This alone can effect the economy, but the Fed does not have a strong history here. But it's definitely possible, and I think we may experience that with the current Fed President, Jerome Powell.

[0] https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/eye-...

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/ycfaq.ht...

[2] (PDF) https://www.dnb.no/seg-fundamental/fundamentalweb/getreport....
There are a few important things to consider with your first lifting efforts. Learn the big lifts. Deadlift, Squat, Overhead Press, (Benchpress, if you have an environment to do it). To min/max your workout, all you have to do is work the biggest muscles. That gains you the most benefit for the least amount of time. I would also point out there is a bit of a misconception about "noob gains". When starting out, and or, especially losing weight it definitely helps prevent the loss of muscle mass. But, and this is a big but, a huge amount of your initial gains in the amount of weight you can move around are not from gained muscle mass. They are from central nervous system (CNS) adaptation. Your muscles simply don't know how to fire at maximum intensity. Much of your first 6-12 months gains in terms of weight moved around are just CNS adaptation. Your body recruits more muscle fiber for activities. Folks can move a startlingly larger amount of weight without gaining virtually any amount of muscle. Once you have reached a local maximum for this sort of adaptation you start gaining more muscle mass. Of course, if you lift weights and eat at a surplus you do build some muscle mass, but not nearly as much as after a decent period of lifting. Finally, if you are eating in a calorie deficit you will not be adding muscle mass without a very carefully controlled diet that most fitness and diet novices don't have the knowledge and discipline to pull off. To actually live at a calorie deficit (lose body fat), preserve and or gain muscle mass, you have to move your calories around constantly (deficit weeks, surplus days with focused intense lifting, etc.). It is incredibly hard for someone just embarking on a fitness journey to adhere to a diet that includes surplus weeks in my experience. It just leads to a general lack of adherence and a slide back to old habits.

Also, 1000 calories (per day) is definitely at the edge, but not crazy (7k / week, about 2lbs per week). I would say that is at the limit of what is medically advisable, but not crazy. Especially if you are above 250 lbs, that is not a crazy percentage of your weight. If you have enough body fat to lose, aim for something like a 1% reduction in body fat (assuming you are around 200 lbs, start at a lower percentage if you are heavier, no more than 2lbs / week no matter what). Then every few weeks you have to crank the dial down. Fat burns some calories to maintain itself and your body adapts and tries a little harder to hang onto energy stores. Dialing down the calorie deficit over a 18-12 month period in a very controlled fashion almost assures you will never "stall out" over the long run. Final random tidbit to share, use weight trend, not actual weight, to measure progress. Without an extremely consistent diet the amount of water your body caries can vary by several pounds, but trending the weight over a 1-2 week period almost assures you will measure actual progress and not how much water your body is holding a given day.

edit: clarity on deficit amounts.
Well, you've found some propaganda!

Here's a great quote: “It just adds insult to injury to watch our postal rates continue to climb while China is being given a free ride to siphon all this money out of our economy,”

Lemme get this straight, China is siphoning money out of our economy by selling us products at a fraction of the cost of local retail monopolies?

China is keeping money in my pocket! Money that I can invest and create jobs with. China creates jobs.
Note that it isn’t quite a 100% success rate, there was a false positive in the 60s.
I've been using eBay since ~99. Bought and sold probably 50 or 100 things over that time; so I'm hardly a power user, but I've never come close to being scammed. You have to keep your wits about you, sure, but it generally works pretty well.

It helps that I'm generally selling personal stuff I don't need/want anymore, so the risk is relatively low (I've only had a couple of expensive sales where I sold things worth over $1500). On the other hand, if I was a store where profit margins were king and a scam could really hurt me, I'd probably have a better system and better intuition about scams as well.
The issue isn't temporary weight loss. Pretty much anyone can have success with that -- it's long term maintenance.

Biggest Loser contestants were very good at short-term weight loss. But many completely destroyed their metabolisms, causing them to burn hundreds of calories less than expected. It's very hard for many of them not to gain a lot of weight back because their bodies are burning so few calories.

People need to be really careful not to crush their metabolisms when dieting, otherwise all you will do is yo-yo diet, making yourself fatter in the end.

Doing a more moderate caloric deficit with heavy weight training is probably your best path forward. It'll take some time, but you won't crush your metabolism.
Netflix does, at least ec2.
As someone who (I'm guessing like a lot of others who post here) didn't really have any financial responsibilities during the .com bust and the real estate bust, it will be interesting to have a neck in the game this go around!
Yes, locks are server-side.
I think the "simple random search" algorithm in the paper you linked is not so simple -- it's basically using numerical gradient descent with a few bells and whistles invented by the reinforcement learning community in the past few decades. So perhaps it would be more fair to say that gradient descent (not random search) has proven to be a pretty solid foundation for model-free reinforcement learning.
A page with technical documents and data explaining the yield curve as a recession leading indicator [1].

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/ycfaq.ht...
Agree, this is the first thing i thought when i read that. Reaction to all troll on the fact that gitlab was hosted on Azure
WeaveCloud makes it a whole lot simpler to deploy, monitor, and manager your K8s cluster. http://cloud.weave.works. Give it a shot. Easy to connect to your K8s cluster and get going.

Disclosure: I'm Director of Product for Weaveworks.
Show HN: Awesome open source profiles visulization app built with Kotlin
I mean, we're quickly getting into "somebody once told me" territory here, but: word on the street is coffee triggers / speeds up autophagy, not slow it down?
Like surge pricing though, it should bring out more EVs in the Uber fleet (if a premium is charged, and routed to the driver).
I always toyed with the idea of taking small positions far out of the money buying puts to hedge against my 401k.
Not too impressive, but I'm glad I have it - a cronjob runs each night and makes sure I shut my garage door. It is an open source python project to talk to the alarm system and a relay between the pins of a raspberry pi and and a wire I soldered to my garage door opener.

I also threw together an Alexa skill that I can tell goodnight - it closes the garage door, turns off some lights, turns off my hot water heater and arms the alarm.

Nothing large or fancy, but they get used and save me at least seconds a day!
Google makes file transfers four times faster in Files Go
It's interesting how companies balance that decision, like Netflix's use of AWS despite Prime video being a competitor. That said, I'm skeptical that they made a major decision like this so quickly after the acquisition was announced.
PowerPC had support from Apple, IBM and Motorola, plus it saw use in every video game console for a time period, it got a Windows port... it's still around and has its uses, but I don't know that you'd say it "succeeded." RISC-V may have support, but it's a hard market to break into.
Because planets suitable for life could have formed several billion years before the Earth. Our solar system is relatively recent. I don't know when rocky planets first started to form, but I've heard for at least the past 10 billion years. Also, we don't know what evolution always takes as long to result in a technological species. It could be tens of millions of years slower or faster, just depending.
AT&T confirms it is buying ad platform AppNexus reportedly for between $1.6B-$2B
You've answered a different question.

They didn't ask would it be likely in an ejection event, they asked what the programming parameters were.

AFAICT it's "continue as before", which is useful to guide the aircraft away to avoid excessive harm to people/property.
Lisbon has Uber Green, and it costs the same as UberX (which is the cheapest, since there's no UberPOP).
Agreed, although when I read that I was trying to remember what he is doing these days, and failed to come up with Palantir even though I used to work right next door to them. Of course, that doesn't absolve a journalistic enterprise of their responsibility.
I don't agree with Ray Dalio on everything, but his take on the business cycle seems useful and solid:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
> your body may respond by only burning 4 instead of burning its usual 5

Absolutely. In fact your body will repsond and burn less (because you weigh less).

So what that means is this is an iterative process. Put 4 in your body and watch how much you're burning. If you're now burning less than 4, put 3 in your body. Now watch how much you're burning. If you're now burning less than 3, put 2 in your body.

It's an ongoing process of re-evaluation and adjustment, and every body is different. But they are very much the same in the one way that science limits to universe.

If you put in less energy than you use, your body can't invent that extra energy it needs to function, and therefore your body must start to consume it's energy reserves. It's not possible for anything else to happen.
Short and long term interest rates in this case are for US Treasury Bonds that mature at different lengths of time. Short term bonds tend to have lower interest rates since you're taking less risk that your money will be tied up when the economy grows at a faster pace. If you invest in long term bonds and the economy hits a growth spurt, your money is stuck for a much longer period of time earning less interest than if you had invested in something other than that bond.

Edit: Missed the first question in your post. The Federal Reserve is essentially buying fewer Treasury Bonds when the bonds it currently holds matures. Instead of reinvesting the payoff + interest that it received for those bonds, it is now just taking that money and essentially keeping it out of circulation.
The irony of GitLab running on Microsoft and GitHub not.
While it's not a very accurate predictor, since 1960 there has been a US economic recession once every 5 to 10 years. The last one ended in 2009, 9 years ago.
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I think it's nearly unarguable that the current market is irrational. The problem is the old adage that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, and thus simply shorting it can result in short-term bankruptcy.

Worse, there's a corollary that even trying to move your funds into lower-risk vehicles now can still lead to long-term losses vice keeping them in higher-risk investments now and moving them later (e.g. in a month, or a year, or two years).

I honestly don't know what to do with my money. Right now I'm basically keeping everything where it is: not selling stocks, bonds or real estate, but not buying much either. But leaving my cash as cash has its own cost.
Jim Barksdale:

“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.”
Can Silicon Valley Change How We Build Physical Structures?
There are a couple of important differences, though someone from Signal might need to correct me if I get this wrong:

- Signal never deletes keys until after a message is read, because the key schedule and the message history are closely integrated. So if I send a "30 seconds" disappearing message, but you read it a month later, that will work. Keybase doesn't work that way; we delete keys on a fixed schedule, generally about a week. The "start the clock after sending" rule fits our key schedule better, without creating confusing cases at the one week boundary.

- Keybase is designed to support "very large" groups, like thousands of people. In that setting, a "start the clock after reading" rule would be a problem. It's unrealistic that all N thousand members will ever read a given message, and that would make deletion less reliable.
At least in Lisbon, there's no premium, they cost the same as X.
OK, I can see that that is a place where the interpretation is intentionally left up to future courts and precedent.

Since you can't foresee every possible future circumstance, you try to establish a general principle to apply instead.

But I don't think that means all parts of it was intended to be freely reinterpreted to mean anything the people in power in the future wanted. I think the main purpose of the constitution was to prevent that!
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Except for major recessions, you can always find a basket of stocks that are going up in price. You have to look at broad market indexes like SP500 or RUT to get a better feeling of the market.
So it's probably a good idea to have some investments that aren't tied to USD right now, yeah?
Umm, our Github account just got flagged... Related to this?
Here is the thing: what prevents me from learning a new technology is not that I don't get the "big picture" concept which inspired it. Cognitive load-wise, these concepts aren't difficult to grasp in the abstract.

What slows me down is the little implementation detail that is causing this weird bug that I just don't understand.

And if it is a new technology, then stack overflow doesn't have the answer.

So, to take the example the author gives, when Rails was new, its not that I didn't understand the MVC framework and how the roles were different. I didn't understand that RVM had to be set to a default ruby version every time I restarted the console.
I think there is some confusion on the part of the author of that LEM post. The processor was indeed 32-bit but the data path was 64-bit. /shrug

On that note, I finally found the link I was originally looking for - a later post which goes into way more detail as to the flaws of these systems. I can vouch for the unbelievable slowness of these machines as I used one for years. haha :(

"Performa and Power Mac x200 Issues" http://lowendmac.com/1997/performa-and-power-mac-x200-issues...
That's the point. Using relational data in a non-relational system is just foolish, and introduces issues not worth dealing with. What exactly is MongoDB going to give you over PostgreSQL in that case?
It's also why I chose Vue over React.

In terms of capabilities they are fairly similar but the the existence of an official router and official state management store means that the "things that can break in horrible ways" surface is reduced.

I stuck with KnockoutJS for a long time because they had (for a JavaScript project) incredible backwards compatibility and stability.

I've been programming long enough that "the new hotness" is of much lower interest than "what capability does it give me I don't have and will I still be able to build/deploy this in 3 years if I need to".

Also if something seems amazing I'll wait a year, if it was amazing it'll still be amazing in a year and I'll have 365 days of other people smacking their heads on the not amazing parts.
This is awesome project. For the last week I was developing essentially the same thing, but with F# as shell/REPL language. It's not yet ready to be open-sourced but if there is any interest I can clean it up and move to Github in a week or so.
You might eject when in control of the vehicle if it couldn't land, or there was an engine fire say. You probably want the vehicle to ditch where it will do least harm.
Is amazon video their biggest competitor? I’d have thought that Hulu, HBO Go, iTunes and other streaming services might be more popular than Amazon Video. I have no data to back that up though.

ps: given that Amazon Video is available for all prime members, we can’t compare total number of subscribers. Hours of videos watched per day might be a better number to look at.
You're still missing the point.

> We've known that these specific buildings are the key hubs in the network for close to a century. And that they're hardened against nuclear attack, etc...

Yes, it's been known that these specific buildings were key to AT&T's infrastructure. But any speculation that these specific buildings (as opposed to other specific buildings) were also key to NSA projects was just an assumption. The new information, which comes from released NSA memos and documents, shows that these specific 8 buildings are key to the NSA, meaning it's not just based on assumption anymore.

There's some other new information in there from the memos/documents, too. You really should actually read the article before mounting your high horse and spouting off nonsense criticism about it.
Does anyone here have any good science they can point to that would help us understand what the short and longer term effects of prolonged Calorie Deficit are on your Basal Metabolic Rate? I've heard a lot about the BMR going down significantly and staying down, after significant calorie deficit weight loss, leading to people gaining back a lot of weight even if they are eating a lot less than they were before.
> For example, Object Oriented Programming became Functional Programming

What? No it didn't. An imperative language is the opposite of a declarative language. OP might want to edit this one.
Indeed. This moves them closer to reversing that. Now to complete that, all that has to happen is for GitHub to move to Azure. They probably wouldn't want to do that now because it would look like they were implementing the merger before regulatory approval.
Kubernetes? Yeah right... The reasons are very clear: 1) GitHub being acquired by Microsoft. 2) Google is an investor in GitLab (through GV).