skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is calorie restriction usually leads to full weight re-gain, usually quickly [1, 2], potentially leading to a worse body composition after the diet. The same is not true of fasting [2] - speculatively due to the effect of HGH during fasting which is known to change body composition, reducing fat percentage and increasing lean muscle mass. HGH production is not meaningfully increased by calorie restriction - it's pulsatile and regulated by the presence of any food intake at all almost no matter how small.

Further, there's a string of evidence that alternate day fasting yields substantially improved biomarkers of health (triglycerides, insulin, etc) even if total caloric intake averaged over the two days remains the same (i.e. every second day you eat 2x what you need) and weight does not change.

Weight watchers is an abject failure by their own metrics in a study they published. Their calorie restricted diets are less effective than doing nothing, but being generous, they work for 0.2% of participants who have clearly demonstrated an intent to change their bodies [3]. On the other hand, eat nothing for 36 hours and you're down 1 pound of fat, and it's not likely to come back.

That's what all that talk of yoyo dieting is, and a case can be made that its why the Minnesota Starvation Experiment led to such bad outcomes. They weren't fasting, they were eating a reduced calorie diet - they may have been much better off eating nothing. Contrast that outcome to this, albeit single data point, of a man who ate nothing for 382 days, felt great, wasn't hungry (?!) and lost 275lbs AND kept it all off 5 years later [4].

What I'm getting at here is the science is leaning towards what you're saying not being correct - that how often you eat may be more important than how much, that your body reacts very differently to 6 snacks a day than it does to 1 giant meal every 2 days even if the caloric content is the same. And further that people just aren't built for long-term calorie restriction and to recommend something like that isn't productive.

[1] https://betterhumans.coach.me/why-caloric-restriction-fails-...

[2] https://alivebynature.com/fast-weight-loss-does-not-promote-...

[3] https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/pos...

(Each of these should link through to NCBI papers)
Unfortunately not. The behaviour at the poles suggests that the whole thing is merely a hack.
And then the rest of SE Asia will reply "we'll gladly take all the manufacturing from China" And then EU, US, and Japan says "we better speed up moving out of China". And China was never heard of again.
Theory: human relationships can be hard, very hard, and any technology that confuses one into thinking he can enjoy his time without the 'burden' of human interactions is pushing this issue deeper.
What exactly are these people going to do to earn money in these new countries? We're not talking about idle billionaires here, we're talking about very high-earning people.
This is a huge move to make - I imagine Google is going to come down very hard against them in order to make sure that they aren't encouraging this. Potentially has big implications if the walled gardens start losing their cash cows whenever something gets popular enough.
It's an oversimplification, sure, but the reality is: Most of the poles being fought over are a given company's actual property that they built and have to maintain, and they are entirely right in trying to defend them from a competitor paying government officials to pass laws granting them the ability to tamper with another company's property and disrupt their services.

Furthermore, the government isn't paying them for these poles in this case, they're forcing a company to allow it's competitors to tamper with and likely disrupt their customer's service. If the government wants to nationalize "the infrastructure", I'm all for it, but then they'd be paying out a lot of money to buy this equipment from the companies that actually own it.

As someone really annoyed when my Internet drops out in the middle of a game, I'm drastically opposed to these sorts of hijinks, I don't need my ISP's competitor taking out my lines at the same time as sending me mailers about how their service is so much more reliable.
Is there an open source method to upgrade the firmware? The HP website lists two methods: first using their “eprint” web service where you have to accept some BS terms of service (no thanks) or opaque binary blobs for Windows or Mac.
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I thought the IP based geolocation was creepy accurate. Looks like just a coincidence: I arrived in Toulouse 3 hours ago!
Not necessarily. At many YMCAs (in the US at least), unlimited group exercise classes are included with a monthly membership. 3 days/week, I teach an early-morning cycling class at a Y in St. Louis, using a "canned" format named SPRINT:

https://www.lesmills.com/workouts/high-intensity-interval-tr...
OK, I’ve been wondering if I could get this data. Now I want mine.
Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases
I could be wrong about this, but many of these companies are selling their trading ledgers to market makers, which in addition to making money on interest allows them to make quite a bit.
Open Journal Systems: free-software journal management and publishing system
There is no reason it cannot run as an apache fastcgi module. They are currently working on getting it to run in the W3WP working process on IIS/Windows.
Further I don't think anyone understands Identity well enough to be able to provide transitively collected data without breaching confidence of similar third-parties.

Would you be willing to unpack this statement a bit, please? I'm not quite sure I understand.
That kind of puts things into perspective.

That giant slice of blue is composed of people who say, "But Android phones are for poor people! Of course I'll spend $1000 on a phone I'll use 1-2 years!"
Could be a change in reference frame, facebook did make be super depressed because I kept seeing others photographic happiness. I'm not more social these days but being off social networks I spend a lot less time ruminating over it and do other things (even walking out).
The way this shows up on your taxes is that Vanguard stock mutual funds (almost) never make capital gains distributions, while other mutual fund companies do. Capital gains distributions are taxed, and are inefficient as they cost you money.
> since that's what matters

I think the societal consequences are "what matters"

The technical details _literally_ don't matter without societal consequences
«Fidelity also has an extremely attractive product in their cash management account (free checking account with ATM reimbursements)»

Yes, just like Charles Schwab. I wonder why most Americans don't know about this and either pay ATM fees, or endure the hassle of never using an ATM outside of their bank network.
Taken together, I hope it's clear that I'm not certain that evidence shows that grass co-evolved with radiative mammalian evolution post k-t. I could be wrong, but I'd like to have some references so I can be correct in the future, if that's the case.

Are current and pre-holocene megafauna grass specific or generalist herbivores?
I see what you are getting at - but it's all about pressure and selection.

For instance Sickle Cell anemia is hypothesized to actually be a defense we evolved against malaria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_resistance_to_ma...

People that had that mutation were better able to fight off malarial infections in those environments where it was prevalent - and those genes now are passed on specifically in certain ethnicities, etc.
Ah very cool, thank you I'll look into it! I think even before AGI, these architectures could be very useful at predicting and forecasting large, complex problems. I'm actually applying to startup school hoping to apply them towards disease prediction
> On the other hand, the people who design Facebook or mobile games to be maximally addicting definitely understand something about how their software is affecting society.

This is an interesting point, a whole lot of companies do actually hire soft-sciences talent specifically for that purpose, has been quite common in the gaming sector for years now (Blizzard, Valve, Bungie, just from the top of my head).
It's still 10 cents in Michigan
This was going to launch years ago with the vector rewrite, but it was only enabled for the globe mode (Earth/GL, complete with a simulation of the objects in the sky). Interesting timing.
But just because our bodies bioaccumulate things doesn't mean they cause cancer. You didn't really address any of GP's questions. Do PFOA (and similar) molecules affect cancer rates, and if so - how significantly? Also if PFOA and friends are so unreactive with the body - can't be removed, then what is the mechanism by which they cause problems?
Every home has somebody living there.

Unless you can connect it to an identity, and have a particular reason to target that identity, it's not much of a reveal.
> I don't think it would take much for one of the better bike manufacturers to duplicate the "nice bike" part, and the UI should honestly just be a bluetooth to your phone with a mount.

Like say, Wahoo? https://www.wahoofitness.com/

It'll run you at least $900 anyway: https://www.wahoofitness.com/devices/bike-trainers/kickr-cor...

Proud Kickr owner here.
tl;dr Japanese investors have been splurging on overseas assets because returns at home are so poor. This has ballooned their influence on prices globally.
Wow, your comment really spoke to me. Thanks a lot
The frustration-free packaging seems like the way to go. I don't care what box my stuff comes in. It's a shame it takes a behemoth like Amazon to get manufacturers to do this, instead of doing it on their own.
I have a nice cast iron pan and one that has ceramic. The ceramic is nice because it is non stick but the cast iron just retains heat so much better.
Are you asking about any first world country, or about random third world countries?

In rich countries the norm is all active landfills are properly maintained. There are a few bad apples that are caught once in a while, and a number of long abandoned landfills that cause problems, but for the most part a landfill in any first world country is not an environmental disaster.

In poor countries people just toss things wherever with no concern.
Apple seems to be moving towards virtual SIMs so that may be coming soon.
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I meant like the ZOTAC ZBOX MA551 which has been basically vaporware for the last 9 months showing up at consumer show every 3 or 4 months. NUC like package.
> Firstly, this is for researchers/academics who are publishing in journals, disseminating ideas for new technology.

The implicit assumption is the engineers will use it to make something bad. The scientists must anticipate what engineers will do and document potential negative actions. At worst its useless boilerplate, at best its advertising all the negative uses. Science and Engineering are inextricably linked when it comes to impacts on society.

The next step of course is to stop research if its determined someone can do something bad enough with it. Why else would you go through the effort of documenting it?
I found this site via shopping for refrigerators also. Price very cheap. Contact# is a cell w a full vmail box. They list bestbuy as a contact for installation. Called Best Buy they will not price match & are not officially partnered w site. Additionally they could not confirm whether or not they have done any installs for the company. I have emailed the site, waiting on a reply. I noticed a discrepancy in cu ft stats from search to actuall site. Plus they fail to provide any model # details or product specs. Haven't moved on purchase yet still doing home work but at this point I'd say "buyer beware"
IMO it tastes better this way too.
Has anyone else noticed that clicking on this link causes them to be logged in as "Pam" on the site? That doesn't seem great...
What is a multi cryptocurrency payment gateway?
How secure are your web application’s open source dependencies?
Google Earth desktop edition is still available. And it's still approximately ten thousand times better than the browser edition.

https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
> I also don't understand how a substance with such a strong bond that we can't break it down, can interact with anything in the body. Is it something like a catalyst?

No, just an agonist or antagonist for some hormone, neurotransmitter, etc. Just search Google Books for "fluorinated agonist" or "fluorinated antagonist". That is, it's about 3D shape, to fit some receptor protein, and not about chemical reactivity.
It's much difficult to differentiate between "many people will enjoy and be entertained by this game" and "people will be harmfully obsessed with this game".
Last month they announced that they were starting the Scout project. https://sanfranciscoallhandsjune2018.sched.com/mobile/#sessi... Looks like it's still in brainstorming stages.
Are there any other hugely popular games or apps that do this?
Did you just pick a formal logic debate with a philosopher? I disagree with your interpretation of the language used. The comment was authoritative in tone generally, and this line said (in my estimation) that the argument was "if someone is an engineer, they are not a philosopher". Even worse, there's a suggestion that this philosophical work shouldn't burden those "least qualified to perform it". Leaving the philosophy to "better men" is how we justify evils committed by underlings and evokes thoughts of the Nuremberg trials. Every person should come to terms with the moral implications of their actions.

In any case, one doesn't need a philosophy degree to do philosophy, and many of the great engineers and scientists of history had a great deal to say with regard to the moral implications of their work.

Even today, engineers at many of the big tech companies are objecting to some work their companies are doing. Many others choose not to work for companies whose mission they disagree with.
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It's changing requirements without taking time to clean up technical debt.

Also, poor design decisions early on can really influence things later.
Women attempt suicide at a rate 40 to 60% higher than men. Men on the other hand die at a greater rate because of the greater use of lethal means like guns etc. It still may be that loneliness is a greater factor in male depression but gender differences in suicide rates are misleading indicators.
There's also xar[1] (and similar things like par), which provide similar functionality in python in a managed way.

Usage would be

python foo/setup.py bdist_xar && scp foo/dist/foo.xar user@server

if my understanding is correct.

[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
> I was convinced the guards in the modern art section were there to keep the janitors from tossing the modern art

I saw a work of "modern art" on the television once, it was a rectangular canvas with small torn-off squares glued to it in rows and columns. Each rectangle was painted a slightly different shade of green, and each one had a (different) number on it. I thought it was crap. Then the artist explained what it meant to him:

He had been in Vietnam, and was still coping with the fact that he made it out alive when so many others, just like him and equally deserving, hadn't made it. The khaki-coloured rectangles represented the soldiers who had been killed, and the numbers highlighted the randomness of their living or being killed.

I didn't think it was crap after hearing that.
Would have been very useful to me back when I was buying my house. But I'm not sure that people like Rightmove etc. aren't on the side of property sales agents, who prefer customers that have less information. Rightmove is just a lead generation tool for an estate agent. Once someone walks in the door, they can bring them around to two or three properties, rather than just the property they saw on the website. Information about how hard it is to get to work, to a supermarket, etc. are just reasons not to buy.
Some states do have a deposit. What it really does is ensure that people don't drink generic pop. The people who would recycle anyway recycle, and find it more convenient. The people who wouldn't don't recycle.

I'm probably being overly cynical above, but much.
Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days
I tried something similar to Google Earth in the late 90's at SIGGRAPH, running on an SGI Origin or similar. Was gobsmacked as I "parachuted" from orbit into Dodger Stadium. :D
I couldn’t disagree more. I find Cython syntax allows me to express the thing I want at the C-level with significantly less work than the equivalent syntax directly in C.

For example consider using cdef to define a simple class (which compiles directly to a struct + helper functions). Organizing it with class-like syntax is so much easier and better mapped to the concept model, and (as it should be) the compiler worries about how to map that concept down to a thin struct with functions (something the programmer should not have to consciously think about but should still benefit from).

You can go really far with this with Cython. For example this is a side project to write a “typeclass”-like pattern for polymorphism in Cython.

https://github.com/spearsem/buffersort

The function definitions hardly look different from plain Python, yet you’re getting auto-generated specialized functions for each resolvable child type of the type class (called “Ord” here), plus a dispatcher to invoke them from Python.

So you sort of get just as much type dynamism as plain Python, except each typed instance is much more performant with no PyObject or PyFunction overhead in the call sequence.
Most of Vanaguard's ETFs are just another class of the overall mutual fund. So for example, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has four (I think) share classes: Investor, Admiral, Institutional, and ETF. Vanguard arranges things such that shares of stock in the underlying fund that have lots of built-in gains are shoved into ETF shares, which means they don't have to sell them when people redeem shares of the mutual fund classes.

tl;dr: basically they just never have to sell shares with built-in capital gains so you rarely see a capital gains distribution when you use Vanguard index funds.
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Type hints are not taken into account by the Python interpreter. They do help an IDE like pycharm, but that won't catch all errors.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if this sort of thing were legal throughout California: https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/2018/2/23/17011154/s....
Strip it with a wire cone brush on a power drill (wear full face shield!). Then start with ~60 grit (EDIT: sandpaper). Once sanded smooth move to 80 then 100 grit.

Once you’re done, give it a rinse, wipe dry thoroughly, and then season immediately or it’ll rust.

I like to initially season by heating to a very hot temp, and then using flax seed oil on a paper towel held by tongs, and brush thin layers of oil on that will smoke and turn amber colored immediately. I don’t like the oven method that people write about on the internet, because the seasoning doesn’t last, it takes forever to do, and it takes way more energy to hear and cool. The “wipe oil on to hot skillet” approach works better and only takes a few minutes.
I think a huge factor is the growing theme of social interaction being unacceptable. Back in the day you could walk up to and make friends with almost anyone, it wasn't weird to interact with strangers, thus making new acquaintances.

Modern society stigmatizes that kind of interaction, don't talk to people you don't know if you don't want to be ostracized. You could want to befriend someone in a crowd, but come up with no good ways to go about the situation. See someone wearing a cool jacket and you decide you want to be their friend > Go up and introduce yourself > See almost every single person in the immediate area turn and spectate the interaction, instantly judging you as out of the ordinary. Really stretching the topic, even getting contact information is more difficult these days. 20 years ago you could meet someone, and they'd have no issue giving out their home telephone number. You'd ring them up and you could schedule to see a movie. Nowadays you are considered suspicious if you ask for someones phone number. I know people today that will absolutely not give out their phone number to anyone other than immediate family.If you are their friend and want to contact them, you have to do it over a social app like IG.

That and it can be hard to find people you fit in with well due to the rise of the internet and people staying inside. If you are a hermit and enjoy other hermits, you won't find them by going outside. Which means you are then stuck with trying to meet people online, and introducing yourself online is even harder than it is in person and met with the same hostility. I'm talking about guy > guy and girl > girl here. It's a whole different level of hell trying to befriend someone of the opposite sex these days. Most people assume you either want something sexual or unusual, not just friendship.
You're kidding yourself if you think that electioneering and lobbying are a new thing. Look at Saudi role in promoting Wahhabism, religious fundimentalists worsening AIDs epidemics and promoting homophobia by pushing bullshit on the third world for one alone let alone actual CIA or KGB influence. Before people were falling for literal fake news they were falling for Satanic Ritual Panic because the truth wasn't what they were concerned about but how it made them feel.

Tech was never the issue here - people were. The drive to scapegoat the upstarts should be regarded with great suspicion. While there may be questionable ethics involved with companies it looks to be a classic attempt to scapegoat the troublesome for matters that are peripheral at best and any action they could have taken would have dissatisfied people like how both the left and right are convinced Facebook is biased against them because they don't reflect the world as they wish to see it.
Rural and suburban means very different things in Europe than it does in the Americas, often orders of magnitude more distance.
Saying "people don't want to live there" while at the same time admitting more than 2M people live in a high income area seems to be contradictory, no?
The last company I worked for offered that, but I didn't get it because after graduation, I was responsible, lived very frugally, and paid off all my student loans within a year.

Kind of annoying. How about you pay us $100/mo more, and if people want to spend that money on craft cocktails and jetskis instead of their student loans they can.
It persists when you move to other pages, too, although it's not obvious from the site what opportunities, if any, this newfound Pamhood presents.

EDIT: going to "manage your subscriptions" presents you with a login page, so no danger.
>Further I don't think anyone understands Identity well enough to be able to provide transitively collected data without breaching confidence of similar third-parties.

I'm obviously not a lawyer or anything but I think that this would be more compeling if Spotify was open source. "You don't want to share this? Well just remove the code then."

Here not only can't I do that but I've been a paying customer of Spotify for years and I had no idea that they even collected 90% of that stuff. In these conditions how can it be argued that I gave them ownership of data I didn't even know existed?
Glyphosate is also used to get cereals to dry up faster once they've grown enough.