skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naltrexone and Bupropion. It doesn't make the other parts of losing weight unnecessary, but it does make it easier to handle cravings. I don't care that I'm getting some willpower in a bottle - I'd simply like to weigh less.

Two years ago, I was ~300. I had been constantly gaining weight since I started taking Seroquel. I also had ankle surgery (unrelated to my weight), and was completely bedridden for 6 months, then in PT for another 5. After that, my doctor put me on those two medications.

I still had to be careful about what I ate, but the occasional snack was occasional; I could eat something bad for me once a week and not lost much progress. After a while the exercise was more pleasant, too.

I hit 220 a few months ago. When I switched jobs and stopped taking the two medications (doctor and I just wanted to see if the weight would stay off without them), my weight jumped back up to 250, but stabilized there. A good bit less than the 300. I started taking the two medications again, and now I'm losing it again.
1958 TV show had conman ‘Trump’ selling mystical ‘wall’
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A strange game. The only winning move is TO STEAL EVERYTHING.
This is deeply engrained in our culture. I honestly cringe when I see my nephews leaving food on their plate.
There was an advocate for DA/DV victims in SF who surprisingly engaged in BDSM. He got caught putting ads on Craigslist. A couple of his “mistresses” accused him of beating them.

Edit, it was a labor lawyer[1] In any event, says he it was consensual. Charges later dropped.

[1]https://abc7news.com/archive/8337736/
I do. It takes a bit to enter that space. Need a couple hours of reading to get the most vivid experiences.

And it can be spooky. There is a scene in Lord of the Rings, where frodo is talking to a lord in a castle, near Mordor. They look down at a pool, and see Golum enter, catch a fish.

When I watched the movie, I found many places familiar, but that scene, where Golum enters, the pool all matched my minds eye well. It was deja vu.

I said to my wife on first viewing:

There it is, I see it, Golum will be over there...

What you need to do is read slowly at first, close your eyes and try to see it. It can help to physically turn, point, and imagine the feel, sights, sounds, smells. What you need to do is invoke your ability to create. Trying to actualuze a scene in your mind takes some effort at first.

I think some of us just do it. But I think anyone can, if they seek it and are helped along some.

Then read more, alternating, until you reach a point whrre the worfs flow and so does that scene in your minds eye.

I remember one of my first. Was the ooening paragraphs in "Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids." It talked about a ship, on the moon, sleek, shiny... as a little kid, I saw it vividly. Went and drew it, just savoring that sight.

Others observing me reading say I will read a chunk, pause, read more, and sometime look choppy doing both.

To me, once I am in that state, I am not aware of the pauses. It is just reading, flow...

Try watching a movie first. I usually reccomend the other wsy, book first. If you do not visualize well yet, a movie may really help as you will have msterial to draw on.

The book will expand on the m9vie considerably. What shoukd happen is your mind will fill in the blanks to give you new "scenery."

It can also help to read simpler, but vivid books.

Try different things. You want this to happen for you. When it does, books becomr amazing!

Ever play old text adventures, like ZORK? Words are the ultimate canvas.

And ever notice how sound can trigger spatial sensations?

What you may want to seek is a little like that.

The "WOOL" series is amazing, and it starts in modern day, familiar settings. As it takes off, you should experience this "mindsight" (my personal word for it) easily and vividly.

And, if you enjoy horror, Stephen King "paints" some of the most vivid pictures there are. He can be quite remarkable.
Hi all, founder here -- does this problem resonate with anyone else?

I feel like I've been on a lot of projects that kinda blew up (in a bad way) at the end, and the PMs seemed surprised. But it was kinda predictable, to all of the devs, in a vague way. And there wasn't a great way to raise these vague concerns _during_ the project. :/

I think honest 'feelings' feedback from dev teams up to PMs could help. Track responses, see if confidence is trending down -- if things look bad, at least PMs know there's a problem.

Let me know what you think!
We'd be in agreement, and I don't believe I suggested otherwise. IQ is a predictor of success, it's not a measure of success. Groups and individuals with higher IQs tend to have better outcomes and there's about a hundred of years of research backing this up. Their involvement in successful democracies is no exception.
The Picton ferry between the North and South islands of New Zealand does this too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interislander
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/31190

https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/01/tribute-to-former-pres...
I would say absolutely yes. I started with the STM32 parts and have then used ARM Cortex devices from TI, Freescale, and Atmel. They all have different peripherals and of course different peripheral libraries from the vendor but overall they are conceptually similar. It can certainly be a pain in the neck to switch a project from one device to another (lots of gotchas with pin layout, peripheral minutiae etc etc) but starting a new project with a different device should not be too hard!

Except for the Kinetis DMA, I never understood that one!!
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Seems like most people who own slaves could probably force the slaves to say it was consensual.
It's more efficient to ship grain than cattle, and most cattle still requires feed to get to market size. The whole mythos behind cattle drives was to get them to a location for slaughter and shipping. The same exact thing you said about cattle is the same as grains, except cows require more water external to the grass.Cows also require maintenance above what crops typically do as well. Ranchers are very good at what they do, however it's still a ton of work. Farming is slowly becoming significantly more automated, which is a good thing as less people are interested in becoming farmers.
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It was high time!
She's in the spotlight because she's an amazingly accomplished person. A 54-year-old black woman from the South Side of Chicago who went to Princeton despite her high-school career advice telling her "she wasn't really Princeton material".

It also helps that she wrote a #1 NY Times best-seller that everyone is talking about[0]. Maybe if you read it you will understand what makes her so special.

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⁰ https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Michelle-Obama-ebook/dp/B079...
Yes, you're right. I was a kid (in a military family) at that time, but not so young that I don't remember it!
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Totally! I think it is the right choice. But I wanted to be clear about what it actually is, that’s all!
While it might help with eating less, it does mean you're deliberately wasting food (unless you collect all the scraps into leftovers for a later meal), which is... not good.

Try deliberately reducing your serving size instead.
So Poland should just accept spies or beware China's wrath?
The spot where most alliance service providers have to start is IAM - controlling how your members are able to access mission critical services such as voice chat and text chat. This is usually done using the EVE SSO, which exposes an oauth2 provider that we can authenticate users against. Authenticating users is just the tip of the iceberg though, you also need to authorize the users to verify they're in your corporation/alliance/coalition, and reject their access if they leave the group ingame. We use the EVE API to query authorization data like that, but it's really the tip of the iceberg of what can be done.

The workflow for a new user joining a major alliance generally looks like this:
1. New user creates account on your central services site
2. New user uses EVE SSO to link their EVE characters to your central services site. This also gives us access to advanced EVE API queries that we can use to monitor everything from who the user trades with, what they own, where they're located in the game universe, and all of their EVEMail. This data is used by corporation HR representatives to check for spies (a whole other topic entirely)
3. If the new user is accepted into your corporation, the central services site needs to figure out that the users character's are now in your corporation and grant them services.
4. When the user navigates to an alliance service, they're presented with a _separate_ oauth2 authorization that uses our central services as a provider. This is how we can quickly integrate new services since oauth2 support is so prevalent.

That's all great for IAM, but it's a small part of the equation. Data federation is another big-deal problem. Many times people who aren't on our IT team need access to their corporation's data - we don't want to expose the EVE API keys of each user because of the high security risk, so instead we expose a plug-and-play proxy. All the user has to do is plug in the URL of our central services proxy instead of the EVE API endpoint, and they can obtain access to their users data without requiring each and every user to go through the oauth2 authorization process twice.

Another interesting mechanism we support is our tax calculator. Many EVE alliances implement an alliance-wide "npc farming" tax that has no ingame mechanism for enforcement. In EVE, corporations can easily levy a 10% tax on its members, but there's no ingame mechanism for an alliance to levy taxes against its member corporations. What we do instead is query the EVE API to find out how much each corporation is taking in in tax, then calculate how much that corporation needs to pay the alliance. We can even track payments using the journal API endpoint. The technicals behind this are fascinating - a months worth of raw, unprocessed tax/journal data represents 5-10 million data entries, and requires about 5000 queries to the EVE API. When you have to run all of that including alliance services on a tiny Hetzner box, things get interesting pretty quick.

If you wanna see what the EVE API looks like, there's a swagger documentation page here: https://esi.evetech.net/
> Have other companies done that? If not then they assume complied

Google literally lead the charge on this with their transparency report for government data requests and won huge victories in allowing for the reporting of things like FISA requests.

It's great that Apple has followed Google's lead and also publishes a transparency report, but their own report also clearly shows that they DO comply with government requests: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

And both Google & Apple have comparable percentages of requests honored per their own reports.

Regardless an "assume complied" is an illogical position to take here. Assume a company did work that they didn't have to for one-off requests? That's a safe thing to assume they didn't do. Assume they did nothing, because that's way easier, cheaper, and simpler for them. Which means assume they didn't help anyone, including the FBI.

> large amount of effort to protect privacy (It's one of the main arguments of why IOS/OSX is so locked down).

No. iOS / OSX are locked down to prevent competition. There's no privacy benefit in keeping the user from poking at their own device.

Apple did a lot of work specifically to enable apps to do things like track a user's location in the background. Things that didn't used to be possible, but which Apple put in work to do. The only significant thing they did here on iOS was make it a runtime permission, which other platforms have similarly done. OSX continues to have no real restrictions or enforcement for apps, except to try and prevent you from installing them outside of the app store.

They put more effort into bragging about their privacy than they did in actually improving privacy. Advertising turns out to be extremely effective, as Apple frequently proves.
No. Monero uses RingCT for transaction privacy. RingCT employs Borromean ring signatures, Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs (for range proofs). It does not use the zkSNARK construction. The Bulletproof (and the Pedersen Commitments) can be seen as another zero knowledge proof system.
Hey, thanks for posting. I have a few people close to me who struggle with the same issue, I really feel for them and I truly don't understand their daily battle. I want to help but I don't know what (if anything) I could say or do to help.
venture capital should be minimal in initial rounds. Nowadays most of the startups know their potential, good or bad. They understand how their competitors are making and how much their startup will be worth. So, I see the point why they are rejecting the VC funds. Most startups nowadays are looking for buy outs or acquisitions on different terms
Sure you can even do 100% cash and then refinance to 80-10-10. Although in both cases the rate is usually 50 bps higher, and all refinances essentially have a 1 point origination fee (this is often "baked in" so many people think it doesn't exist).
My original point was simply that property taxes come way behind many other problems in the Northeast. Housing costs, whether it's renting or buying, is near the top of the list but it's not like having a property tax rate comparable to Houston would make those homes affordable.

Sometimes there are situations where a senior citizen wants to stay in their home but the assessed value has gone up so much over the decades (plus some tax rate increases) that they can't afford the property tax. They may not value the financial windfall of selling the home and downsizing but there are worse problems to have. Anyway, the original topic was about wages and people of traditional working age.
This is super cool. Though makes me want to go back and write some lisp.
I work for a multi-national $BIGCORP by day, but in the course of my career I've worked for little 10 person companies, other $BIGCORPs, mid-sized consulting companies, other small-to-medium sized software companies, etc. I've kind of been all over the place experience wise.

Predisposition? I like the enterprise "world" in many ways, but I don't necessarily like working for a $BIGCORP in many ways. In fact, I don't really like the fundamental idea of having a traditional "job". My real passion is to run my own company. That's why I've been working on getting a software company of my own established. It's still a "nights and weekends" thing right now while the day job pays the rent and electric bill. But doing my own thing is my real passion.
That has always been the case with humanity in general. Think of book authors, there are few of them, but they've been influencing our thinking for hundreds of years. The problem now is, the barrier for entry has become incredibly low (although, this would have been true when the printing press was invented too).

I stopped using reddit because of this. I've no idea about the credibility of the authors, their intentions and their motivation. When I'm listening to someone's opinion, I'd like to know more about them, so I can decide for myself how seriously to take it.
10. Buy an oscilloscope learn to use it.
Sperm count in men is declining as well.
The podcast 99% Invisible had a story on "The Great Red Car Conspiracy" which covers this. As with most issues, it looks like it is more complex (and interesting) than first appears.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-...
I don't know that Monero uses ZK-SNARKS for anything, do they? Don't they solve their similar problem with ring signatures?
That's an interesting list. Thanks for compiling.
related where the name change was discussed, too: "WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855680
> Most people in the tech industry are brainwashed by Silicon Valley group think. These people believe that every business must have a billion dollar opportunity.

From past experience, part of the "brainwashing" is because the major VC firms have way less interest in pursuing ventures that net them less potential money. The VCs are out to make the best return possible for the members of their fund, and 5% of $1B is way more savory than 5% of $100M. Trying to get past a Seed or Series A with a market cap <$1B sucks when trying to get funding from VC firms.
We also use WikiJS, it is great. The fact that all the articles are stored and checked into Git in the background is great for keeping track of who edits what, undoing accidental changes, and keeping the wiki content agnostic to the platform.

That being said, there is room for improvement. Image handling is not great, and a lot of the components feel simplistic and could be fleshed out (permissions, indexing/search). Dead simple to set up though, especially with Docker-compose.
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The popular viral video from 2015 making fun of this is mentioned in the article, it's pretty funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKi-o4rHw

> Having an Instagram husband is also a smart financial move...

*smh

> Stevens said he has lurked on the #InstagramHusband hashtag on Instagram and connected with other men that way after interacting with their photos. “It’s almost this silent brotherhood right now,”

This sounds terrible. I just feel bad for these dudes. Ha
Yes but the best people to judge what's garbage and what's not are the experts.

Look I'm done with this thread. I've made my point, and your comment history shows you only post this sort of pseudo-intellectual nonsense. You represent everything that's wrong with this site.
I think you have to put his principles in a historical perspective. Sure it sounds somewhat extreme today when OSS dominates many layers of our business stacks. But assuming that the industry would have naturally seen the OSS light is far from a given IMHO. I think copyleft licenses where a very important springboard to start the virtuous OSS cycle.
I personally don't think that it is any government's business to regulate a company that is not inside its jurisdiction, I also don't think think it should be their prerogative to stop me from engaging and communicating with one just because they rightfully say that it's not their job to bend the knee to them. As an adult the EU is neither my parent nor my guardian.
LoRa is awesome technology, if you haven't yet played with it. Here in West Michigan, our city's Board of Public Works runs the local power station, which in turn powers snowmelt heated sidewalks in our downtown area. The employees are testing homegrown bricks in the sidewalk with little temperature sensors and LoRa radios that can run for months without needing a recharge, that in turn report their temperatures back to homebase. Super cool.

https://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/20180626/new-smart-bric...

LoRa can be used for all kinds of low-bandwitch medium-range transmission of data. Temperatures, lat-long, you name it.
There’s also one in Eastern Turkey on the Van Lake [1], it’s on my to-visit-as-soon-as-possible list

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Van_Ferry
traincar is already taken.
If the address on an email list was obtained via some other party that the address was voluntarily submitted to (say, a service with a ToS that included sharing your email address with "partners"), then consent was already established. Doesn't mean it isn't still shady.
It's explicitly not a subscription because you can still play the game without purchasing the additional expansions. I have played Destiny 2 consistently since it was released for PC, but I play it almost exclusively for PvP (Crucible). I can continue to play PvP without purchasing the new expansions. The main difference is that I won't always be able to unlock some of the new guns (which is fine by me).
What economic harm have they caused?
>I think the VC model itself is a great development from the last century. The fact that someone can raise millions (more than most people earn in a lifetime!) with an idea enables a lot of innovation that would be hard to nurture otherwise.

I think this has actually backfired. Because with sufficient number fudging you can raise more that you would ever earn, we have a whole generation of companies that are built to look great on paper, and actually identifying and solving business pains in a profitable way is becoming a lost art. Once the gravy train of investment cash accumulated in the previous economic cycles stops, we might be in for a very painful correction.
So you have an ethnic group that A) is many shades darker that even the darkest European ethnicities, B) speaks with an accent that is very difficult for native English speakers to understand, C) only had a meaningful support group of people with the same background in the last several decades, and D) is able to pull in 2x the income of white Americans and your position is that somebody's race is the most important limiting factor to their success in this country?
This guy sounds a lot like me at my heaviest (468# at 6'1" tall). I have a lot of correlated health issues, the bad knees predate the extreme obesity, and recently discovered via elimination diet that I am allergic to legumes and have trouble with grains in general. I went keto last year (mostly eggs, meat, greens and sometimes nuts and cheese).

Without trying much I dropped to under 380... where I've hovered mostly for the past year. When I'm strict and track I get closer to 350#, but getting below that has been incredibly hard.

Everything I've read and understand leads me to believe that longer fasting periods are what I need to do to break through this. But I tend to get fidgety around day 5 and stop early. I also do pretty consistently when I only eat one meal a day.

I don't think it's for everyone, and it isn't magic. More fat is more sating, and a lot of disinformation starting in the 60's has now been disproven. I do think that the majority of human kind was keto for significant portions of the year for most of human history. I feel that refined sugars are the single biggest factor in terms of obesity, followed by refined grains and vegetable oils.

In general, low fat and lots of sugar has spun society into obesity. Not understanding the role of hormones, or underestimating their effects are another compounding issue. Doctors need to start testing against resting insulin levels as part of a regular checkup. They need to push for changes in diet over supplemental insulin. And absolutely need to convey the message of why refined sugars (mostly the fructose component) are bad for you.
Sorry, just saw your comment- no, I thought I was linking to the article itself. The Guardian's comment section has been behaving a bit weirdly for me lately. Thanks for pointing it out.
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I really like the tagging system on this. Very KISS and allows for other parameters in the future with zero learning curve: speech balloons, backgrounds, props (park bench, sofa for "sitting" option..).

Even additional actions (aside from sitting, jogging..) can be easily added. Not sure how far you want to take this (story telling?) but... it's currently a remarkably user-friendly base/template!
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You can spy on people using your Apple AirPods
Yes, and faced with the option of making money in China and eliminating any and all user privacy, or not making money in China, Apple chose the former.
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Totally OT: I must have agreed to the Atlantic privacy thingie a hundred of time. But they keep asking me to allow them to rape my privacy by telling me they value it. I had enough. If the adtech industry doesn't know how to use cookies to store settings I am available for freelance work. And I can make powerpoints with funny GIFs, random pictures or use an MS theme. /s