skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll add one more anecdote to the mix here. Been doing intermittent fasting and extended fasting since February and I’m down 75 pounds in that time.

I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed. Now I don’t snore at all. My wife sleeps better, I sleep better; win win!

I haven’t exercised at all and I don’t count calories. My biggest diet changes have been cutting out soda entirely and I try to keep my carbs under 100g a day. Many days I’m under 50.

It’s honestly been amazing and I’m glad that I did it now while I’m still young and will be able to physically play with my kids in the future.

One of the other big wins has been physiological and my relationship with food and the feeling of hunger. Living in America, and especially here in the south, food is a religion. Stopping whatever is going on to eat is never looked down on. Snacks all the time, large comfort food meals, etc. While the community aspects around food are a good thing, our dependence on it as a society has crossed over into causing more harm than help.

After starting to fast, I’ve learned that hunger is just another feeling, like being too hot or too cold. Sure, it can be uncomfortable, but it won’t kill you and we can tolerate it a lot longer than we think.

Right now, I’m in the middle of a 7 day fast where I’m only drinking water. Every week I normally fast 48 hours twice a week and then one meal a day for the other 5 days in the week. My relationship with food has morphed and now I’m totally in control of my body. Skipping a meal is no problem and I have no ill side effects.

I’ll wrap this up by saying that I still enjoy food, a lot! When I do eat for my one meal a day, I can easily eat a large salad and a burger and a side. My favorite pastime is going to the movies and eating a meal and a large bucket of popcorn with my wife. Some days though, I eat a “normal” portion and call it good. Sometimes I have dessert. The difference is now that I can manage my love of food in a sustainable way for my body.

Happy to answer any questions. AMA.
If we understand 'fictitious person' in the limited legal sense, you're right. It becomes wrong when laypeople start to think that this means a lot more than it does, because they take the literal words out of context and attach a bunch of meanings that aren't present in the legal meaning.
Humanity is the blink of an eye in the universe. Claiming the suffering is always worth it (ie doesn't matter), is defeatist. Not sure how that's an argument for how dissemination of medical tech is "working".
Plenty of people try to promote brands and businesses with social media but the word on the street is that there are too many ads on Facebook/Instagram.

It is as if they have ended up with the wrong revenue model. Imagine if telephone calls weren't metered and you could talk all you wanted to so long as you were willing to wait out five minutes of adverts every ten minutes. This would be fine for cheap people willing to 'be the product' but you would not be able to have serious phone calls.
Can’t read the article, but I did want to share that the title resonates with me.

I love running and now run again, but I started learning swimming during a knee injury.

One thing it re-taught me was how rewarding it is to learn or improve a non-work related skill dramatically. I picked up juggling (poorly) and jump rope since.

Two, I knew I was getting a stroke down when I knew when to glide versus to move or exert myself. Maybe a metaphor but practically it makes 40 laps enjoyable instead of torture.

Three, having one hour of somewhat sensory deprived solitude is great therapy.
Honestly, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman is probably the best book I've ever read. My dad recommended it to me and I was hooked, read it a couple times over.
So true. I try not to eat anything after work, not always but usually. During daytime a softdrink with sugar is ok, but also usually after work I drink just water. I eat a bit something for breakfast, even small snacks during the whole day, eat a proper lunch and that's it .. I do sport two evenings a week so I can't eat anyway something before. So why should I eat dinner if I do nothing at home .. If I'm tired and don't go to bed .. wathever reason .. I suddenly start to eat a lot of snacks .. not because I'm really hungry .. just because of be bored.

I'm around 40 .. since ever in summer around 60 .. 63 kg in wintertime around 67kg.

The only thing I try to avoid is eating dinner at all. I drink softdrinks with sugar, eat chips, icecream, chocolate and for lunch just a standart menue.

20 years ago I was over 70kg and tryed to cook healthy dinner menus for myself .. my weight just went up ..
I cannot help but chuckle at that last paragraph. Well said sir. Well said.
Perhaps you're free-loading on other people that don't.
>This increase is not because heights are being genetically selected for

Can you explain how you know this? Taller people, in general, are often considered more desirable mates. Wouldn't this lead to such people having more children which would lead to, well, average increases in height?
I’m not necessarily discounting the results however I found it odd that the primary source didn’t state the sample size (or maybe I missed it)?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22518
Alternatively, it's revealing a deeper truth that had been obscured by a long chain of seemingly logical justifications. Corporations tend to abuse abstractions until they break, and self-checkout is basically at that breaking point.

Comedy is especially good at deflating bullshit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxINJzqzn4w

I for one could never stand the things for their slow and obtuse programming. I cannot get how people just accept slowly following a machine in lockstep, rather than the machine being designed to accommodate a natural human workflow. Back when the things were new, they would give out freebies by deciding to flip out and void the last few items, without the conveyor actually bringing them all back. I certainly wasn't going to go out of my way to correct its error, setting myself back even further.

At this point I just skip the frustrating things out of personal policy, and outright avoid stores that punish customers for doing so (Walmart being the worst offender). If I can't stand an extra 5 minutes in line for the professional cashier, I should order online or simply stock up and visit less.
Annexation? No. Overthrowing governments with subterfuge or force? Absolutely

The only target for annexation would be Quebec (there's a small minority party there that has talked about this for a long time) but that's extremely unlikely. Anything else would be colonization which isn't fashionable.

Russian annexation is targeting places with large ethnically Russian people who speak Russian and identify more with Moscow than their local government.

If you believe the line, there is a significant population in these places that want to be annexed.

Anyone who is saying that is probably exaggerating the support but it's hard to deny that support exists.

I believe in self determination more than border immutability. Free and fair elections would be preferable, of course. I don't know what the Crimeans want but it's plausible that they prefer their current situation.

It would be nice to hear actual Crimean voices instead of Moscow or Washington. Anything the latter two say seems only in self interest.
Except that if you launch in production a bad web site to sell bicycles people don't die because of it. You need to make the difference between bad products and dangerous products - if you put in production a bad plane, car, medicine or gun people can die and there is no sympathy for that.
I strongly disagree with this. I read Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years for the first time in 2007 and was learning C#. I changed languages 20 times and each one taught me something different or a new way of thinking about an old problem. Those 10,000 hours will be a great investment in your success.

The rest of it is networking.
It’s too bad his arguments for basic income aren’t backed by better arguments. His whole example of his wife not being valued by the market makes no sense because personal caretakers are super expensive on the market.

They just chose as a couple to have her take care of her own son as a caretaker instead of her working and them hiring. That’s not a failure of the market anymore than the market not valuing my car because I refuse to sell it.
Ok I'm gonna throw a common-sense BS flag here.

Yes, someone thought of the idea of neural networks and with enough high-end scientific research money they had a few prototypes. Okay - point conceded.

The real question is how accessible and realistic is the technology to the broader society? Until microprocessors and other technologies came along to drive down costs and scale, it was totally a high-science adventure. Regular folks (even high end professionals) had absolutely no way to use or interact with it.
Yes, it was a serious comment, and yes, I'm aware of stage names. I suppose I could have said that you can think of "Galileo" as Galileo Galilei's stage name, except that he wasn't a performer.
Brain-inspired computer system sheds new light on how images impact emotions
The problem with the mindfulness approach is that it only leads you knee-deep. Enough to enjoy the waves and the joy of water, but too little to start swimming.

For example, I can still see you are not accepting your past self for what it is ("I thought I was insightful and deep before") or how the world is ("would be a FAR better place").

You are on a path towards awakening. Some of us have come to understand that there are seven factors [1] to master, not one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Factors_of_Awakening
I think both of you guys are right. I am continually surprised though to see some outright anger though. A good example is Microsoft Office. People who were used to pre ribbon get downright angry when talking about the ribbon.

Its this weird delicate balance of improving the UI but not changing it too much. I tell people all the time UI is the hardest job in the world, an entire team of PhD's cannot get it right most of the time. Its simple an impossible task to consider the 'work flow' of every user- it is just beyond the scope of human intelligence I think.

All you can do is create a good UI that works for a majority of people, and try to manage it from there.
When you make a product that will take billions of people 8 miles high in the sky, you need to make it as safe as possible, at whatever the cost will be. If you take the risk and the cost in consideration, the cost is low.
Even if they were doing that now, won't it be around 20 years before it started having a large impact?
Would that mean they pay me to own a home? I could stand behind a move like that
>Education is more a filtering mechanism than an enrichment mechanism. Panning does not create gold.

Teaching people to read and write and do basic arithmetic significantly improves their overall outcome by almost any measure you care to look at. How is this not enrichment?
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight to On-Premise HPC Clusters
They take the choices away from people of unlimited means. Instead of giving a fuck about "basic standards" for employees, just let them live in coffins. Why do you think “basic standards.” in quotes as you put it are a bad thing? Do you think they shouldn't exist?

Note how you call these absurd living arrangements as "small houses", why did you feel the need to use this euphemism? I think we all know why.
Go Contracts – Updated Draft Design
Join the club - could not read the article.

Swimming was not my thing but I had to learn so I could do other watersports.

The Down Syndrome girl and others in her special needs group that were in the pool when I went were incredible inspiration. If she could smile and put in the lengths then I could too.
If you're interested in reading more, there's a student's write-up of the course here:

* Impressions [0]

* Optimizing The Kernel [1]

* The 72-hour bug [2]

* Train Tracking [3]

Notably, QNX started as a CS 452 project.

I'm not too sure about the future of that course. The last I heard (Winter 2019), the professor, Bill Cowan, had decided to stop teaching. Last term, they were clearing out the CS 452 lab and were moving the trains elsewhere. I had wanted to take the course then, but unfortunately the course wasn't being offered, and it was my last term before graduating.

[0] https://www.taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/cs452-impressions

[1] https://www.taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/cs452-optimization

[2] https://www.taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/cs452-72-hour-bug

[3] https://www.taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/cs452-train-tracking
> hunger is just another feeling

Exactly! I've done intermittent fasting for many many years, it works for me. I've told people, "You know how a workout 'hurts so good'? Learn to think that way about hunger/cravings. Consider it the same way you would consider a workout pain, as progress not punishment".
> Shopping can be quite boring because it’s such a routine, and this is a way to make the routine more interesting.

Maybe there is an opportunity here to somehow make shopping or self-checkout more thrilling and thus reduce shoplifting. Maybe add some features from a slot machine and give random discount or free items. Gamify the checkout experience so people want to buy more.
Less powerful than you’d think. If you’re familiar with the zones of popularity of his main newspapers, you’d see that they correlate very nicely with Labor-held electorates.

(Just think about your own personal experiences: in a typical Liberal electorate, which paper is the most read? In a typical Labor electorate, which paper is the most read?)

You might call it the Murdoch Paradox.
The headline is a bit misleading. I took it they couldn't get VC's to invest for some reason. But it's the reverse, they won't let VC's invest.
Yes.
The article mentions various “fraud detection” schemes in place (weight etc) but I don’t get why random checks aren’t just used instead, or in addition?
Accepting her change is accepting ourselves.
That would happen if you cloned one person a million times, but with all the tradeoffs of genetics I doubt there even is a single conclusion to be reached
I'd prefer a small place than to commute to work.

Commuting is hell.
> they’re explicitly instructed to disregard the content of their own thoughts

Seems like author is biased on purpose. Entire central idea behind mindfulness is to be aware of your thoughts. i.e. not being lead into same issues by subconscious conclusions (hence breaking the cycle/loop). Well at least that's my interpretation anyways

Mindfulness works because it helps someone reach to conclusions on their own. Who knows you better than yourself
As a public company you wouldn’t exaggerate it that way. An $8bn run rate means $2bn last quarter. We often look at annual numbers so reporting a run rate makes sense. It’s not meant as a deception.

Anyway run rate doesn’t project growth so if anything, it’s understating the numbers.
It is possible to read the article within the page source, albeit complicated by markup.
Would you be willing to elaborate on the reason why you avoid kubernetes?
But people are using Instagram. I don’t have numbers/data to back this, but anecdotally I see people using Instagram for viewing content, for sharing content, and for chatting, over their use of FB.

Even if FB is in decline, FB made a wise decision to buy IG and hedge with IG. Something about the simple UX is allowing IG to thrive, while FB has become more complicated over the years.
For me mindfulness has been like a flaming tire around my neck. Too much thinking. And WTH does one do with a Masters in Philosophy? Nice article BTW...
How would fraud detection work in this model?

Honest but blunt answer: We (my businesses acting as advertisers) don't rely on your (Google's, or any other ad network's) claims anyway. The only thing that matters is the metrics we measure on our own sites, and we're going to be able to separate those by ad campaign anyway. We don't care about getting more Facebook likes or how many Instagram views some image gets or how many impressions Google claims to have shown on third party sites. We only care whether a given campaign gave a good return on investment in terms of direct benefits and/or actionable leads.
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Well done, 75 lbs (or 5 stone, 5 pounds in real money) is incredible.
I’ve been doing masters swimming for the last few years, through waxing and waning levels of commitment and dedication. We do around 3.5 -4.5 k per session. When I’m consistently going 3+ times a week there’s no other fitness high like it.
Direct targeting basic car maintenance alone covers a lot of ground doesn’t it? cars, spares and consumables, accessories, tools, car shows, workshop equipment, vacuum cleaners, mechanical things in general and diy... it’s endless.

Edit: ok endless is hyperbole, but content targeting is hardly useless.
It's weird to see a recommendation to learn C when 'scubbo's questions already indicate some knowledge of memory management - far more than you will learn "learning C". The suggestion to "allocate memory progresively" and not-necessarily-contiguously resembles Lisp cons cells, and the questions about how to handle conflicts are the first steps to inventing (and then finding the downsides of) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR_coding.

The second question is also reasonable, "a value for a base class" is somewhat ambiguous - if I read the post right it means specifying a value for the derived class's inherited fields by using an instance of the base class without copying, but in languages with more dynamic approaches to dispatch it would also be reasonable to talk about reassigning the base class itself (e.g. MRO tricks in Python). And "such piece-wise allocation" is indeed possible in various Lisp-inspired object systems.
The death of Facebook might represent a considerable loss of human history. So much online interaction, so many communities have moved to Facebook, but unlike the various forum websites that people used before, Facebook groups do not get picked up by the Wayback Machine and conveniently stored for scholars or for just anyone who wants to delve into the past. I hope that if Facebook goes – and I would not mourn all the downsides of social media – appropriate archiving of public posts is done.
It does say "no person". But "due process" can mean anything.
Thanks for the perspective. As you said, it’s very tough in the moment to hear from the doctor that it’s in your head. When you’re physically ill and looking for real answers it really feels like a non-answer. To me as a patient that answer feels more like pseudoscience. It might be right or it might not be in my specific case, but when a doctor quickly gives up trying to diagnose a problem and suggests it’s in your head it’s an extremely invalidating experience.
In 25 years a woman might get this letter in their mailbox after a night with a rich guy: "You are pregnant with patented genes, pay licence fees or be forced to abort the child."
Extending this: there are services that will deliver your groceries to your house. If we go to a store and take things home ourselves, are we working for free?

There’s no correct balance between customer labor and employee labor. Choose what suits you. If your chose store forces you into an arrangement you don’t like, choose a different one.
Conclusion of this study [0]:
"Consistent with the carbohydrate-insulin model, lowering dietary carbohydrate increased energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance. "

Some numbers:
"[...] linear trend of 52 kcal/d [...] for every 10% decrease in the contribution of carbohydrate to total energy intake"

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Now on a personal note, as someone who always lived with nutrition plan (and macro tracking for the last years) since 17, I think it's highly unlikely that you take < 25g carbs/day (During bulking phase I dont manage to get under 300g per day).

[0]: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4583
So you’re looking into investing at a rate equal to the total VC funding in Silicon Valley?
An amazing tool, allows all kinds of manipulation to be done on data, really helpful in CTF games.
That's why FB is so paranoid & creepy about detecting the rise rival platforms:
It has the cash to buy the next 10 Instagrams, but it needs to get in before they become too big.
No, rich yuppies can still afford to live near work. It’s the service workers that can’t find affordable small housing, and then need to spend an hour each way on the train to get to their jobs.

You can’t impose “minimum standards” for housing by fiat any more than you can make a plane fly by regulatory directive. That idea displays a level of ignorance comparable to flat eatherism. All you can do is push on the balloon—and when you do, it’ll bulge out somewhere else. In the context of housing, that means if you make it illegal to build housing for poor people in places wit jobs, you’ll either make them homeless, unemployed, or you’ll saddle them with long commutes from places with affordable housing.
I’ve said this before, but assigning monetary damages is easy: poll Equifax’s attorneys (and maybe their execs) about how much it would take for them to be willing to release their entire Equifax file into the public record. Then, actually do it — introduce their entire credit files into the case record. Take the average amount from the poll, multiply by the number of people affected, and there’s your number.
It's an expression in English to refer to an item being charged to a customer. It is referring to old-fashioned cash registers that used to ring a bell after the cashier entered the price.
> I must be a rube, because I've never stolen from one of those things. When it makes a mistake I call the attendant to correct it.

That you know of - there are plenty of errors that are entirely innocent.

It wasn't even self-checkout but in college I went to Walmart to buy a new microwave for my sorority and it was so big we left it in the cart with the barcode up instead of putting it on the conveyor belt. I just assumed the cashier scanned it and since we were buying so much stuff the price didn't seem off. Well when I went to submit the microwave receipt for reimbursement I realized there was no microwave on the receipt. I had "stolen" it. (Though I'm not sure you can call it stealing when you lack intent.) But if I hadn't needed to look at the receipt to get reimbursed I never would have known I needed to go back and pay for it.
Long live Instagram

Facebook didnt monetize itself until they took captive for ransom the audience that brands had built with Facebook Pages . They 'll pull the same with instagram
I swim a lot, but find it quite boring.

I bought a waterproof Ipod shuffle + waterproof headphones from Amazon and it improved the experience 100x.

Note - use vaseline to seal the headphones into your ear, and wrap the extra wire under your goggle straps or you won't have a good time.

Highly recommend.
It's pretty obvious to see why: an insane number of adverts, and too much irrelevant content (people posting in groups, friends commenting on other friend's posts, people tagging you in "only 1% of people can solve this" nonsense, etc.). It's fixable, but maybe not without sacrificing advertising revenue.

By 2025 Instagram will be the same and I'm sure Facebook plans to buy whatever people migrate to from that.
Are FB/Twitter/etc. user engagement numbers influenced by removing fake accounts, battling misinformation, and banning some groups from using their platform?

Or are the number of stories/accounts removed so small that it doesn't move the needle either way?
Pray tell...what has Java done poorly to ensure this mistake happened?