skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta-analysis as we know it today is largely as it is because of psychologists using it to study therapy effects.

Referring to Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment as the "emblem of its field" is a bit strange in my opinion. It's like referring to Snapchat as the emblem of computer science.
Easier to browse if you don't know exactly what you want, but you know you want a dev talk.
> [...] you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday

and

> I never understood how simple it was before starting this.

Sounds so trivial, but sadly true for a lot of things in life. You read and hear something multiple times, but you have to make the experience yourself to get your eyes opened.
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They're not going to be very happy and fulfilled when the U.S. economy is a smoldering wreck, they're having to work day and night to pay the taxes needed to support the baby boomers, and are boning up on their Mandarin and facing the prospect of leaving their families behind to emigrate for better opportunities.
Aside from the philosophical side of your argument, there is of course the biological argument: There are far too many people. I understand that anyone who advocates reproductive moderation will get out-competed by everyone else, but that doesn't mean that we have to accept mentally that this is the purpose of life. I'd argue that seeing this as your one and only purpose makes you akin to a cancer. Your genes exist to consume, but fulfill no real goals.
> I tried running – about 30m, every morning, for 3 months.

For a few seconds I was confused as to how much running 30 meters would help :D But I guess he means 30 minutes.
This is in line with my horrid experience with them last year. I have experienced the fallout from each point that you made. I had no idea that an e-commerce platform as popular as theirs could be so incompetent, rigid and downright hostile since I've had the exact opposite experience with their competitors.
Their resolution policies and guarantees are a joke.
Hi!

Thanks for raising this. We're still learning how Algolia search works :)

Investigating the issue, fix is coming soon.

– Eduards
Chinese tech investment is next target in Trump's crackdown
They are not necessarily mistaken just because we have a hypothesis.

It's a fact that it's harder for women to lose weight than men in certain cases. Their point was that "caloric deficit" is different for each person, and sometimes dramatically so.
Restricting calories sufficiently can create weight loss at any age. Metabolism is not magic but basic chemistry/physics, if output exceeds input this will happen.

Of course each of us is unique, and also changes over time, so efficiency of both inputs and outputs varies.

I believe you meant that its mentally hard to restrict one so much in later age to suffer from hunger enough to lose weight, but technically its doable and happening in millions of instances around the world all the time (ie due to long term illnesses).

Exercise helps tremendously of course, and everybody should do enough of any healthy type every day to get sweaty (and more). But it isn't necessary to lose weight, not at all, at any age.
The website is killing my eyes
SO was complaining that I never text her while at work. Wrote a twilio app to pull random sentimental quotes from rumi and others, fit it into a personalised looking message spelling mistakes included )"thinking of you" etc.), and send it to her at random times of the day from my number. Weird thing is when I mentioned it was automated, she didn't believe me, so we kept it going till she broke up with me eventually.
(Re: AWS config) Oh yes, the MCSE books with screenshots of wizards. Those can be done as a video, or condensed 100:1 if you give up on the screenshots and just write the option names. All admin interfaces that I've been in had text descriptions for every element, you just need to read them.
At 30 photosynthesis starts or what?
Damn dude, that's awesome progress! I love the consistency.

On average, it takes about 3,500 calories to burn 1 pound of fat.
Suppose you eat 1,000 fewer calories than your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).
After a week your body will burn 7,000 calories or 2 lbs of fat.

I'm almost surprised that the weight curve dropped off linearly -- I always thought weight fell off quickly at the beginning, before plateauing towards the end. Great personal "myth" to have dispelled.

Can I also compliment the site design? It's very clean, and presented the information well.
This is incorrect. The laws of physics in play are biochemically complex but the net energy differential is straight forward. Calorie Intake > Burn Rate = Weight Gain, and vice-versa. Exercise increases the burn rate, but it doesn't change the formula.
Kids don't always do what they're told, but they're inclined to believe what they're told. Acting out on a false belief nevertheless can be done willingly.

Similarly, the parent telling their child to do such a thing also believes that their child is getting a ticket to paradise, along with themselves and the whole family. Isn't an eternity in paradise worth it? From that perspective, there's nothing sick or evil about it, it's just a very different perception of how the world works. If you were born in a different time and place, you may share those same beliefs.

> Your own refusal to address the primary assertion of my post concedes your agreement.

I don't disagree that these things are abhorrent, but that's because we happen to share a different system of beliefs. I don't agree with your simplistic explanation that these people are just "sick fucks".
I don't know about the other poster's opinion, but mine is that it isn't a personal computer unless I can program it with itself. The ability for anyone to write and distribute software was what made PCs great. Current smartphones fight the idea that the user can own their device and can do whatever they want with it, preferring a walled garden approach that's helpful to consumers, but not personal computing.
For people who accomplish things like this, I often wonder about how often they tried and failed in the past and what factors changed to make them finally succeed.
Congrats! This is a great achievement. It’s not easy. Don’t let up! Maintenance of your current weight can be just as tough.
Metabolism is not as impactful as nowadays is though. Simply - you eat more, you gain more weight. If this is not the case, checking out your overall health would be the way to go.
Its much more efficiently solved with the naive 'represent the distance between each adjacent ring as a number' and slide the array of numbers representing the sample along the known line and for each possible offset, calculate the error. Then you're left with some shortlist of candidate dates and their probabilities.

It reminds me of the algorithms for locating reads on the genome.
Although CAs don't (not can't, neither the CAB rules nor any major trust store programme requires you allow names without) require DNSSEC they absolutely can insist on figuring out whether a name is protected by DNSSEC and enforce that if so, since the root is signed and DNSSEC has a closed world assumption (we can get a definitive signed answer which says "No" this domain isn't signed).

It's interesting, even though the $0 price isn't intended to be the main draw a large number of domains with broken DNS fixed it to get Let's Encrypt working rather than pay a CA that doesn't care...
What if Estonia pulls a Czechoslovakia ?

Maybe political or national tlds aren't reliable.
The rule is simple, but finding your real caloric consumption isn't.

Most online calculators are veeery optimistic (off by >500kcal). If you take the general advice and only restrict to a 500kcal deficit, you won't see much happening :/
>Whenever there are real captions,

How can you tell if the captions are real vs auto-generated? Do you mean "real" as in subtitles that are burned into the video source instead of being dynamically overlaid?
I think daily tracking in combination with a long term goal is key here, because it allows you some wiggle room when it comes to progress while having a strong rubber band effect (that gets stronger the more you sway) to get you back on track.
given the distances involved and what we know about the speed of light, an alien civilization would have had to develop a very long time ago in order to send signals that we would be able to detect today.

The Milky Way is only 100,000 light years across, which is a blink of an eye in geological time.
> You folks should read the urban meaning of orthogonal, to understand how people roll their eyes at you, when you inappropriately use the term.

If that mattered at all, then we'd have stopped using other remapped words first, like "tree".
Completely eliminating simple carbs (bread, noodles, rice, pasta, potatoes, and the like) and eating meat and veg and dairy (i.e. a cheese-heavy salad with sugar-less dressing, a big bowl of broccoli with cheese melted on it, as many chicken breasts, steaks, and burgers as I liked, coffee with heavy cream but no sugar, etc.) exclusively worked for me. Weight gradually melted away over the course of the past year and I'm still dropping pounds. Meals like those fill me up quickly and I stay full longer. All while I've exercised very little. And I'm older than you.
I used the same approach explained in the article and it also worked very very fast for me. The most pain to me was using MyFitnesPal, that is really annoying because of its usability. It was a pain to use it. I will try to use pencil and paper, and one time a day, type it all on the app.
Mutual nuclear disarmament is the obvious answer (lookup the START treaty), unfortunately it's a slow process and hopefully there will be another president by the renewal time, as Trump doesn't like the treaty.

Regarding the access to the button, would you prefer to have egoistic, emotional man or rational and cold one, like Gen. Buck from "Dr. Strangelove"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4
I'm sorry again, but I couldn't disagree with you more.

Like I said, it is down to each individual to make the best with what they have. I don't advocate anybody "wallowing in despair", but I do fully support objecting to structural inequality that denies people the opportunity to compete fairly.

The only equality we can strive to achieve is equality of opportunity.

Obviously.

Although we could improve on this point, we actually already do it pretty well.

We do it shockingly badly by almost every metric.

At no time in my life have I ever been denied an opportunity because I grew up poor

I have no reason to think you don't believe that, but it's almost certainly not true. It's completely obvious that this is the case. If you grow up poor, it is harder to access better education, better nutrition, better medical care. These subsequently have an effect on which opportunities one can take advantage of.

I have found many opportunities to improve my life, and I have taken advantage of many of them.

That's awesome! It's the only way to improve one's own outcome. It doesn't invalidate the fact that those opportunities are harder to come by for people of some backgrounds.

redistribute all resources perfectly equally between all members of society, but people would still be born with their own set of natural talents and abilities.

We don't require complete redistribution nor absolute equality of circumstances in order to improve the situation. We can make sure that there are well-funded public schools, so that children from poor backgrounds can receive high-quality education. We can provide welfare systems and education programs so that kids have access to quality nutrition. We can provide universal medical care. We can try to eliminate structural racism or homophobia. There are all good things that are worth arguing for.

The message that "it's not your fault, it's inequality's fault" is so incredibly destructive and dangerous. The only person responsible for getting your life to where you want it to be is you.

Far more dangerous, in my opinion, is the view that unequal circumstances are unavoidable and the best thing to do is to "put up or shut up", as it were. I do not claim that anybody other than yourself is responsible for your own life, but I totally disagree that we should pretend inequality doesn't exist, or that we shouldn't bother fighting it. It's not an excuse for failure, but it's also something that very obviously makes it more likely.

There's a comic I quite like that illustrates this: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
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Putting a simple filtration system on your tap is a lot cheaper than buying soda-priced water, though. And even if you do buy it, there's no guarantees about the quality of the water in the bottle.
Just from the article and some of the comments here, it's not quite clear to me what the motivation for making HTTP use SRV records is. To me, naively, it seems like relying on A/AAAA records a) "works", and b) is central to a lot of people's intuition of how networking services function.

Following some of the links in the article, I've seen people make arguments on how straightforward it would be to implement and how it clearly works well for some non-HTTP systems. I'm guessing there's some implicit shared understanding of the problem space that I, as an uninitiated, casual DNS user, can't really wrap my head around.

Can y'all point me in the right direction to read something about, like, what problems SRV records solve for HTTP, and specifically how that solution compares to how people have traditionally solved those problems with HTTP? There seems to be some tension between best practices as established by IETF RFCs and best practices coming from decades of deploying public-facing HTTP infrastructure/browsers, does that sound about right?
Don't cheat, lie or harm any other human being in any way. Sounds simple enough. If all would be heeding this rules, we would have paradise on this planet. Every sane person must realize this when reaching adulthood. Rest should be treated by professionals.

Yet somehow, billions failed, fail and will fail spectacularly.
Why would you bother asking for a source for this?
Credit cards have manual charge back as a fallback with human driven process. The equivalent fallback for certificates does not exist. You can only revoke.
That's the point. The so-called "post-PC era" has never arrived. Personally I don't know any adult who doesn't own a computer. We no longer upgrade so often but we use them on a daily basis. Pretty much anyone doing any kind of white-collar work will use a PC (that includes Macs...) Your needs outside of the work environment will vary, but people are still not throwing their laptops away just because they use their phones more often.
> It would take 15 to 20 generations of human beings, living their entire lives confined to a prison, to complete this journey.

From a link given by a poster in another comment, earlier, you can do it at 1g acceleration for just 12 years subjective time:

http://convertalot.com/relativistic_star_ship_calculator.htm...

... so from the look of it, the difficulty isn't having a generation ship, it's having sufficient fuel to produce the acceleration.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that it is acceptable to stop the world. We do in-house deployments and a lot can fail on the customer's side (IT disabling the DB Server, network failure, etc.). We'd rather have the stop and be focused on fixing it ASAP, than be tricked into thinking that the issue may resolve itself.

What I need is a recipe on how to handle db migrations, which are quite frequent, every customer has different current version of the app and therefore is on different db schema. We have our own tool to do that, I suppose we could wrap into a kubernetes-something, the only thing special is that it should run : after old version containers are brought down, before new version of containers are brought up, run only single time, include backing up the db and stopping the entire process on failure.
I didn't say anything about proteins being random. But words of hundreds of letters, out of 23 possible letters, come in many, many, many combinations. All governed by laws of physics. Not to mention the many ways a protein could fold, not all ways being useful, but are still possible. The search space, as I said, is huge.
> A gamer would much rather have the XP security model

.. but you probably still don't want your machine to be remotely exploitable by other players. And gaming has the interesting security issue of "anti-cheat", where it's useful if players can prove they're not leaking information from the game process on their own machine. And lots of people will use the same machine to play games and do online banking.

Perhaps the way out is more than one "computer" on the same board with different security models. There's already bits of this with TPMs and ILO systems, but the manufacturers care more about keeping them proprietary than making them usable.
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It most likely follows a non-linear pattern in individuals who are consuming an extreme amount of calories. As the author notes, your calorie intake needs to drop as you lose weight to maintain that progress. If you're consuming 4000 calories a day it's really easy to cut to 2000 in the beginning by just not eating sugary crap, but getting down to say 1250 calories a day is a lot harder, which often requires meticulous management.
>"The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s science. Nothing else matters for weight loss. The magnitude of the caloric difference will regulate how quickly or slowly you lose the weight.
[...]
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.
[...]
Somewhere along the journey I picked up intermittent fasting. I like it but it’s also not necessary. I found that it helped reduce my appetite which means I can eat fewer calories."

I don't really think this is consistent. Basically yes if you eat less calories than are used you must lose weight, but the ease of doing this depends on what you are eating.
I'm not a partisan American (particularly not the latter), but I find your anti-CNN rant to be an irrelevant distraction in this topic.
Author seems to be
https://twitter.com/JennaMagius/status/1010893277069914113
No, a caloric deficit is not different for each person.

Every living person that is maintaining their weight can eat 500 kcals a day less than they do now and they'd lose weight.
Surely, de-orbiting is how you remove the space junk from orbit.
The consistency is hard to achieve because he had to regularly adjust his calorie intake as he lost weight. If you don't do that, it will work the way you thought - the weight loss slows over time. That's also one of the reasons people feel the last pounds are always the hardest to lose
> The first thing about css that sucks is the "cascading" part of css.

This tells me you hve very little experience with CSS or even HTML. The cascade saves you from declaring "font-size: 16px" in every single element of your page. Think of it as a form of property inheritance
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Well, Spectre was already an exploit without "an easy fix" but a lot of nasty workarounds.
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That argument for support due to situation is pretty spurious 'crank magnetism' level like suggesting scientests of gut bacteria's role in human health should support homeopathy because both are outside mainstream established practices. NoSQL actually works for a task and isn't being pushed by people trying to rerun every financial scam in history but with tokens on a computer.
It may have helped that he became more proficient at dieting and using the app as well as intermittent fasting.
Myfitnesspal and and fatsecret (the two most popular apps) are annoying as hell in the same way. They make it very difficult to just add calories because they want you to help fill in their food database.

Anyone know of an app that only tracks calories? I personally don't care about my "macros" and salt etc . There's almost no chance of going over recommended values at 1600 calories a day anyways unless you only eat gas station food
Cultural Marxism is coming down like a stack of cards. You can only fight reality for so long.
I embarked on a similar course as the author - just after Christmas I realised my BMI was well into the overweight category - and the same strategy of calorie counting worked for me. I can especially recommend using an app, this really helped me too. Turns it into a game almost - where can I cut out the unnecessary calories? Whereas before you might help yourself to a biscuit with a coffee now you know it is going to blow your budget right open. Makes it a lot easier to resist.

And it was easier than I thought - a piece of fruit for breakfast, a small lunch (single sandwich, down from two with crisps and chocolate bar on top some days), and a normal evening meal. That would come to around 1500 calories or less a day, easily enough to lose a few pounds a week. It becomes easier as time goes on - your body expects less, I guess. And you do gravitate towards healthier food, simply because you can eat so much more of it.

I've lost two and a half stone since then (I don't follow the diet at weekends so I could have lost more) and am back in the green. Not as much as the article's author - his loss was spectacular!

Alas I did not take a before and after picture, though others have commented, which feels good.

So yeah, great article that I can fully endorse, and encourage others to follow. Just set realistic targets, change will come eventually.
> I'm almost surprised that the weight curve dropped off linearly -- I always thought weight fell off quickly at the beginning, before plateauing towards the end. Great personal "myth" to have dispelled.

I think that this is due to people not modifying behavior as they lose weight. A person weighing 250 lbs has a higher BMR than when they weigh 200 lbs. So if you lose weight and don't adjust your daily calorie goal, you're no longer eating as far under your BMR as you used to.
A facile response. Sometimes prohibited activities are not observed. In these cases, it's hard to impose consequences.

But it's much more complex than this. There's a question of how much we want to prevent such things, and, even supposing we're willing, how many resources we're willing to dedicate to the solution. There's also a question of prevention via cultural change, which is a hard problem if there ever was one.
A friend was telling me about her latest date.

The guy refused to eat at dinner because he gets his energy from the sun using photosynthesis.

As laughable as it sounds, it's not out-of-line compared to all the dietary marketing myths and superstitions that somehow persist.
> The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s science. Nothing else matters for weight loss. The magnitude of the caloric difference will regulate how quickly or slowly you lose the weight.

One important point to note is that past a certain level, usually around a 500kcal per day deficit, it becomes extremely hard to maintain. Performance physically + mentally will start dropping off quickly. If you do want / need a larger deficit, do more low-intensity exercise rather than reducing caloric intake, and make sure you have a reasonably varied diet (or at least take a multivitamin).

(I used to do competitive sport with weight classes, and messing up your weight plan was never fun ...). Standard disclaimer: I am not a doctor or nutritionist etc.