skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest way to look at this is to look at the cooling rate of a corpse. The slope of the cooling is pretty much linear as long as the ambient temperature is much lower than body temperature (for example 20 C vs 37 C). This allows you to calculate the amount of energy necessary to maintain body temperature. Convert that to kcal and this gives you the minimum number of kcal you must eat.

I've actually done it before (and even wrote a comment in HN with the results -- though it was a long time ago and I don't know if there is a way to search comments), but it takes more time than I have now. Unless my memory is incorrect or my calculations faulty, the answer is that it's very, very unlikely that a person who is over about 50 kg would be maintaining their weight with 1600, even if they were doing no exercise at all. Unless they are living in a very hot climate, it appears to be thermodynamically impossible.

Fun fact: I just searched my gmail for the word "corpse" to see if I emailed that calculation to anyone. I got 19 unrelated results. What the heck do I talk about in email???

There is actually one other variable (that I'm aware of) that's unaccounted for: the amount of nutrient absorption from the food. "Calories" in food are measured by burning the food and measuring the amount of heat given off. This value is multiplied by a kind of fudge factor to approximate how much of the nutrients are absorbed. According to a quick Google search, 98% of carbs, 95% of fat and 92% of protein is absorbed by the gut. So if we imagined that someone became super absorbent, they might require up to 8% less calories. But not enough to significantly alter calorie counting.

I considered replying to the original poster of that comment, but decided that they probably weren't in the mood to receive the news. Almost certainly they are missing things in their calorie counting. On the plus side, if they are getting 1600 calories consistently and maintaining their weight, then their error is systemic and might not matter (i.e. the actual value is meaningless as long as it is consistent -- they can still go down to 1400 calories and lose weight).

I've helped quite a few people lose weight before and it's pretty easy to overlook calories -- especially from fat. I had one friend who ate a really modest amount of food every day: typically a bran muffin (with butter) and coffee (with cream) in the morning. Half a subway sandwich (the kind with lots of different kinds of salami and mayonaise), a small bag of potato chips, and a bottle of sweetened ice tea for lunch. Pasta (with a cream sauce) and a salad (with dressing) in the evening. No desert, but the grand total number of calories was astounding -- pushing 3000 kcal per day. It's really, really easy to do.
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But if that's really the case, then why hasn't Perl way of denoting the basic kind of variable with a starting symbol been copied in other languages?

My guess is because most languages don't do that, so people are used to variables not having a symbol denoting their basic type. It largely comes down to what sort of syntax people are accustomed to.
This will increase the failure rate due to added thermal/electrical stresses caused by the constant power cycling.
Everyone in a first world country should by common decency, have access to clean water, food and a place to sleep.

If your society is failing to provide this, then it's a failure of society, not a failure of the individual.

If society does provide for it in a way that is adequate, humane, and without severe inconvenience then sure, prosecution can be an option (right after providing a humane option of a place to sleep). However, I doubt this is the case.

If your laws don't provide for humane treatment of people in your society, then you need new laws.

And staying in jail... well anyone that think that's an adequate place to sleep is confusing a place that's meant for punishment vs a place that treats people humanely and offers them shelter.
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I like these ideas, but they call come at the cost of the availability of the car, and I don't know how often people will actually do them. Let's say you send your car off, and it does an errand for you and is due back at 11:30, so you can take it out for lunch at noon. Now the car gets stuck in traffic, or the weather turns bad, and the car can't return until 12:15. That's frustrating. Likewise, say you send it off to drive around until you need it at 5. However, everyone else is also doing that, and there's a huge traffic jam at the entrance to the financial district, and your car doesn't actually show up until 5:30, causing you to miss you dinner reservations.

I've owned an unreliable car, that didn't start every time, and it totally sucked.
Yes, from the police. When someone sleeping on the streets shouts threats at you, they might be willing to go through with them.
I am 100% certain that a large number of the homeless would refuse to live in a homeless shelter if it meant giving up booze and drugs.

Those are typically being used to self medicate for a legitimate issue, probably a biological issue. Substitute their prescription medication for their deadly condition and see how you feel then about the idea of requiring them to give it up.

They may or may not have a proper diagnosis. I don't think that is relevant.

When we know for certain how to completely and reliably cure addiction and mental health issues and reliably identify all health issues in a speedy fashion, then I might have some sympathy for such an attitude. But we aren't there yet.
I think this is more business point discussion for a platform (how do you motivate your users to create) than for a government how to enforce that creators are not being ripped off by users and platforms.

The case you described is already covered (at least in US) by the Fair Use doctrine [0] and works, well, works ok. I don't think the government should consider the use case of copyrighted work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
That is not a factual statement about what most security professionals believe.
The Extensions Marketplace for VS Code also seems offline, still.
That does not guard against the phishing scenario that is one of the biggest threats to campaigns. Any kind of two-factor auth short of a security key is inadequate against that threat.
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Currently on this path almost exactly. Problem description and steps all the way up to limitations of swarm. Our swarm currently handles 1M/requests per day we haven't really hit any limitations yet. Good advice though, really
What business did you have had visiting all (100+) county and city jails in California? Don't public defenders usually work for a county office? What would an LA County public defender be doing visiting a Yolo County jail?
> spread disease and filth to the rest of the population

You want to quibble with constitutional minutiae, but drop that whopper without evidence?

I mean, can you cite even one instance where someone got sick from interacting with someone who... slept outside?
Which is why they ultimately get their passports after the government has conducted their investigation. For the people who weren't actually born here the government should be able to find evidence of that, e.g. the mother is not a US citizen and her passport wasn't stamped into the US before the child was born.

That’s not how the US constitution works. Whether or not the parents were here legally, if the child was born on US soil, they are still a citizen.

So it is still not on them to prove their innocence. It’s on the government to prove that they were not born in US soil.

Which is why there aren't enough socialist-leaning immigrants from Norway to affect election outcomes.

You claimed that it had to do with politics and not race. But Trump was more than willing to welcome people who would vote against his party’s interest. Why would that be?
What we're trying to protect here is people's personal accounts. So even campaigns that use GSuite have people's personal stuff just on random Gmail (or Yahoo, or AOL...)
Stephen Reinhardt was a self proclaimed activist judge. Wikipedia has decent info on how he conducted himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Reinhardt#Judicial_phi...

The very makeup of the court is unusual, and results in issues. Even SCOTUS thinks it should be changed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...

The fact that they are reversed so often, have firebrand partisans on the bench (Reinhard recently died, but there are others carrying his ideology), and don't even come to a complete consensus between all the judges is enough for me to conclude it's not the most impartial court around.

(I wager other apellate courts suffer from similar issues, but I'd prefer my judges to be as unbiased as possible, even if I mostly agree with their agenda)
> The often repeated claim that batteries will wear out faster than engines is contradicted by the evidence.

My (anecdotal) evidence was that I replace my regular car battery in my cold-weather state every few years, and it does barely anything! And my sister just replaced the main battery in her 2006 Prius.

On a more applicable note, a Leaf loses 33% of its range after 56k miles [1]. I'm not nearly as familiar with Teslas (unfortunately); perhaps they have cracked the formula to long-lasting batteries.

[1] https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/nissan-leaf-battery-capacity-ra...
> Presumably she had some control over her fecundity? She could also, partner with someone willing to cook meals?

I wish those things could be taken for granted, but...

Fecundity: Not saying this is true for her in particular, but I suspect the woman sometimes has remarkably little say in birth control (think husbands refusing to wear a condom, doctors and pharmacists refusing to supply birth control pills, etc) or even frequency of sex (from the belief that a wife is not doing her marital duties if she refuses sex, to refusing to prosecute even violent outright rape when she does).

Partner: the article says her marriage was arranged (which I understand to be common), so I wouldn't assume she had much say in it at all:

> A year after she began working at Isro, her parents arranged her marriage to orthopaedic surgeon Dr Manjunath Basavalingappa - which meant that she suddenly had a household to run.

By the way, the article also gives a reason her husband doesn't help out with household duties (besides societal expectations that she'd do it all)...

> Dr Basavalingappa explains that as a doctor, his working day often stretches up to 18 hours, while his wife mostly worked office hours. Dakshayani seems satisfied with this explanation.

...which I find insane by itself, but it's not limited to India. I just googled "medical mistakes long shift" and found a NIH study...which defined an extended-duration shift as at least 24 hours. [1] Unsurprisingly, it found that doctors screw up less when they don't do that, and talk about setting the bar low...I'd expect >12 hours to be considered extended-duration, perhaps even 8.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705824/
Windows is great for coding if you can live almost entirely within Visual Studio or things like Unreal or Unity.

Windows has an utterly useless command-line environment. PowerShell is an attempt to remedy this, but honestly it's both a little too much, and far too little at the same time. Ubuntu on Windows is another attempt that falls short of its goals, it's a second-class environment strapped on top of the legacy mess that is Windows.

The only thing I've found that makes Windows even habitable is that the Node.js experience is actually pretty good. With NPM, git, and a good text editor you can get a lot done, but even then you'll hit bare dirt now and then. Want to make a quick shell script to automate something? Hah! No. You need to commit to making a quick Node script instead.
They would use Verizon if anything
Does this happen very often? A UX rollback for a piece of consumer/business software used by hundreds of millions of people?
You too can have the fun experience of Adobe's garbage locking up your machine because one of their "helper" applications is inexplicably using 20GB of memory!
David Johnston's stubborness continues to change the world (and the de facto law.) A homeless guy who changed the world far more than most of us ever will, for the better.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/court-strike...
What makes processors fail – and how to prevent it
One of, unfortunately, not many comments based on rationale and not on feelings. Feelings do no good to society when we are policymaking. Feelings are so easy to exploit and overuse in modern day of public “platforms”, available to all.
Law obedience should be the first and the main message we send, while worth mentioning that as fortunate citizens in developed society we have the power to vote and self-correct.
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> EDIT: careful, looks like a partisan brigade is trying manipulate the comment section regardless of comment quality. (violating HN rules)

This is happening a lot lately. My comment saying enforcing an existing law isn’t cruel and unusual is sitting at -4. I’ve noticed a lot of my old comments getting waves of downvotes long after the post has been on the front page. I’d say it’s been very active for the past week or two and makes using this site very frustrating.
Also, busses in transit apparently follow "universality". https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-pattern-math-an...
> This is full of holes.

Well it’s a ninth circuit decision, and a 2-1 at that...
We've tried several different video conferencing programs within my company to bring in people from two offices about 150mi apart in Cali, as well as a couple of employees working in the mid-west. Nothing has worked as well as Skype but even Skype still seems to have issues with reliability at times, necessitating a reconnect to the call.

When we tried Discord for a while the reliability was ok but some folks had struggled with the user interface.

Eventually IT rolled out Office365 but Teams was so unreliable for most people in my group that we stopped using it for our daily stand-up meetings and switched back to Skype.

Does anyone else feel like there's still room for a dead simple and extremely reliable product in this space? (corporate video conference)
Fair enough. On reflection, `\f xs -> []` is a better example of the point I was trying to make.
What’s a good alternative, that has native apps for Mac/Windows/iOS/Android, and isn’t attached to a social network?

(Ideally with the ability of callout, buy a phone number etc)
> I suspect the protections in the Constitution are equivalent,

No, Australia has nothing like the Bill of rights, even if some bits of the constitution cover the same ground very partially.

To give a flavour of this, our constitution prohibits an established church using language very similar to the US 1st Amendment. But the silence about freedom of speech is deafening.

In the '90s the High Court decided there had to be an implied right to freedom of speech inherent in the political system which is itself implied by the constitution. But since it is not explicit, they still restrict it to only political speech. And (since it really did require a strong judicial activism) many in our legal community are against even this much enforcement of fundamental rights.
Same for people not sleeping on the streets, so maybe the threatening should be the thing that's illegal.
In Australia (unlike the US), constitutional amendments are decided by both a majority vote in both houses of parliament and by referendum where the public votes and a double majority (majority of people in the majority of states, and the majority of people in the country) must vote YES in order for a referendum to pass. And in Australia voting is compulsory so there's no question about election turnout spoiling the result.

So in Australia it is very hard to get a constitutional amendment to pass, and politicians have very little say in whether the amendment will pass (they can block it by voting against it but they cannot force it to pass). Only 8 (out of 44) have passed in the past 117 years that we have been a country.

As for Australia having a bill of rights, I think it would be an improvement (especially if it was anything like the Swiss constitution) but I don't know whether our bill of rights would be ridiculously watered down (not to mention that the US bill of rights is like the 10 commandments -- many people know a couple but don't know all of them and forget that the majority of them are not really relevant today).
Maybe try sample content that leads them into registration? You can also try to get them to register after they’ve tried to engage with the content. Users are moser likely to register after they’ve engaged.
It's trying to help you take a break, duh.
I don't think UBI can help someone like Terry. Only a community and nothing less.
Funny, you could probably say the same about joining the military as well..
I came across this video that shows the potential issues with this bill https://youtu.be/eW-OMR-iWOE

What is concerning is I am building a information management system that focuses on privacy and this sort of bill makes a mockery of the entire concept.
Google Hangouts is pretty decent, especially if you’re already a Google Apps org and you can outfit each conference room with a camera and Chromebox.
Stock tires are uninspired and the car doesn’t handle particularly well, but basically “no; they’re great!”
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The biggest and most popular services run on Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/customers/

You know....services consumers actually use.
its not a sloppery slope argument. imo, the slope is already slipped if you are claiming they can sleep anywhere just because they can't find a place to sleep.

your counter example is not quite there. I dont think anyone is saying they can't sleep in ALL public places, just that there are limitations on where they can sleep in public.

for instance, is it OK for you to park in front of a hospital in such a way that it blocks ambulances from entering? no.
Slack/discord.
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“In its majestic equality, the law forbids men and women alike from rape.” - Anatole France, paraphrased.

Should we do away with laws that have unfair application? Or is that quote coming from a place of disingenuousness merely to shut down alternative opinions on the matter of public health?
I prefer notion because it enables powerful structures around individual notes. From when I used evernote, it was limited to folders of lists of notes sorted by some not very useful criteria (towards the end I was naming my evernote notes with certain prefixes to try to instill more structure), or sets of notes grouped by tag.

In contrast, notion allows notes to coexist with other notes within a single "meta" note, ad nauseum. You can organize them in rows and columns and insert arbitrary text or whatever other content to label notes, for instance. One particularly powerful structure is using notes in a kanban or trello like setup, while enjoying the full evernote-like features provided within any individual note.
$1 per download isn't enough to pay the bills. That's not much more than a 99¢ game. It means people don't actually value the product enough to pay for it.
Good, there's still hope for me... lol (38/dev/entrepreneur).
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This is the original study, the test may derive from its authors:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5397297/
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PGP addresses literally none of the operational security problems congressional campaigns have. No matter how you protect individual emails, for most users (and probably every single congressional campaign staffer) your email account is still the most important account you have, the key to every other account you control. And PGP doesn't do a thing about incoming emails with malicious attachments.

People think PGP is important for campaigns because they want it to be important, not because there's any empirical evidence that it is important.
During uninstall take them to a page where you very simply and sincerely ask them for feedback. Promise that you will read it and respond to it. Don’t require an email on that form though so they can answer anonymously if they want to.
As far as I can tell, most of Waymo's fleet is gas-powered. They bought 62,000 hybrid minivans, and hybrids are gas-powered. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/31/w...
Your alignment: Lawful Neutral

Your desire to organize society according to simple, elegant and absolute rules is understandable - it is in fact the quintessential engineer's mindset.

But society is not a microprocessor, or a factory, or even a neural net. It's far, far more complicated than any of those things, and can't be governed by the same approach.

This is why things like empathy, transgression, forgiveness, and rebellion exist within a society but not within a codebase. Trying to eliminate those things from a society is effectively trying to collapse the complexity: to dramatically simplify the system in order to make it possible to manage problems through absolute rules.

While this is an understandable approach to an engineering problem, I rather enjoy the beautiful complexity of society, and would hate to see you have your way with it.
Unsure if you can buy a number but we have found Google Voice a good replacement, at least in terms of ability to make cheap phone calls.
What kind of liability limits. I pay way more for an Odyessey and Pilot.
I received a notification just now in my Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition that I "have a license for Visual Studio Enterprise 2017. Get it now". When I click on in, the web page asks me to sign in which returns a 502 error code.