skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much. My dad's a doctor and has always told me Emergen-C is just fizzy Tang, if you remember that stuff.
Probably fallout from trying to juice the stagnating ad revenues. In a perfectly relevant search nobody would ever click on ads.

I heard from Bing engineers (circa '09-10) that every time Bing would release a relevance improvement, Google would increase their relevance metrics shortly thereafter, suggesting that their relevance is being artificially held back. It makes economic sense, and it'd be super easy to implement, so I believe it.
> "What is corruption? On the Internet, it's botnets and DDoS attacks."

While I don't disagree these are problems, it seems like the real corruption is misinformation. To follow the flow of the article, the cheaper and faster information flows, the more likely it is to be wrong. Think of how major news networks having "breaking news" that ends up being flawed or wrong. (I'm struggling to find it, but someone watched "breaking news" a couple of weeks after it broke, and tried to figure out how accurate news reporting was. Huge eye-opener for me). It used to be a small number of people knew how to make web pages and host them. Now anyone can comment on any number of social media platforms with maybe even more than one account.

To quote Dogbert: "Do you know how hard it was to spread rumors before the internet?"

And it's the people that are spreading the information, although some botnets seed it. People are very diverse, and are a great transmission mechanism, since they change it in any number of ways.

Also, I remember DDoS attacks and botnets were around and thriving long before most people knew what they were. Anyone remember WinNuke? This isn't some magical new problem, it's just that more people are affected, and therefore more people have heard of it.

I think the real problem with the internet isn't that it's too big, or has too many people, but now it basically mirrors the real world. Many people and companies are on the internet, trying to do what they were in the real world on the internet. That invites criminals and troublemakers to also do what they do on the internet.

The real problem is human nature, and that system is definitely large enough to be corrupted. And it has been, for a long time.
https://www.google.com/search?q=transparent+wood&rlz=1C1GCEA...
Unsurprisingly, it's a bit more nuanced in that case. Google Translate isn't great for legalistic documents, but that decision (https://www.conseil-etat.fr/fr/arianeweb/CE/decision/2016-11...) seems to rest quite a bit on whether or not it's an issue advocacy ad, which apparently require disclosures in France similar to how US campaign ads have to have "I approved this message" sort of things.

"France requires political ad to include disclosures" is, of course, slightly less punchy as a news item.
> However, reducing CI takes willpower but will make you lose weight. If you reduce it enough. Somebody may have a CO so low that the reduction in CI required to lose weight might require medical supervision (e.g. to prevent malnutrition.) That's probably not the case for most people though; certainly not people like myself.

Yes, this is exactly my point. I'm simply giving a measured defense of what berdon has been saying further up this thread: CO is not a known constant and may vary based on certain medical conditions. Because of this, CICO can sometimes (I think berdon would say frequently) be unhelpful advice to someone trying to lose weight, because they struggle with cutting CI far enough to lose weight, which may be due to a person's health and biological makeup.
I think its misleading to equate what was available then - both in quality and quantity - with what has been available in the modern world for the last 70 years.
Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ says he has found the next market bubble
https://www.ams.usda.gov/publications/content/introduction-o...

>Soil Fertility: Crops more easily resist disease, survive drought, and tolerate insects when grown in good soil. Organic crop producers build soil quality by adding compost, animal manures, or green manures. As soil organisms break down these inputs, they convert nutrients into forms plants can absorb and create humus that sustains soil quality. Organic producers must not apply sewage sludge or biosolids to soil. Additionally, organic crop producers use cover crops to protect the soil from wind and water erosion. Soil-conserving practices include the use of cover crops, mulches, conservation tillage, contour plowing, and strip cropping.
How One State Is Using a 'Netflix Model' to Treat More People for Hepatitis C
I think the idea is that even the pilot may want to see through the camera, i.e. first person flying.
> Growing food has turned into an engineering problem where people think you solve it by investing the least possible resources into it.

Our economic system optimizes for exactly this.
It might be a coincidence, but it's not the kind of coincidence where you can give a number that sounds like a legit prediction but is sure to be correct at some point in time. Which you seem to have implied in your post.

Had he given a number above $20k he would't have been right at any point in time. And bitcoin might have never hit $10k, which would also left him being wrong.
How many doorknobs do you typically touch outside of your home a day? Most doors here are automatic. Plus, I would be reluctant to use someone else's keyboard at work, even.
I think the "learning to learn" thing is a myth propagated by people raking in tons of money. I'm sure it happens, but I personally did not meet a single person who "learned to learn" while in college beyond some very basic studying techniques that could be picked up from watching a couple of Youtube videos.
Just like how many of them dream of white collar work at their mine/construction site/shop. The difference being is that when they find some white collar work, they no longer dream of blue collar work (because it sucks and kills you a day at a time).
Exploring the Great Warpath
No.

In more detail, “liberal” in US politics has a lot of conflicting uses and is almost a useless term. The US Democratic Party is dominated (though somewhat less so today than a few years ago) by a neoliberal, centrist (arguably center-right) pro-capitalist faction, which tends to also be where the most consistent support for gun control in the Democratic Party, or mainstream US politics more generally, is.

It’s next biggest faction (the closest mainstream US politics has to a “left”) is a center-left social democratic faction (some of which self-identifies as democratic socialist); this faction has a mix of people who are less supportive of gun control than than the neoliberal faction of the party, and those that favor more extreme gun control, and everywhere in between.

The actual American left, which is largely outside of the major parties, is also quite mixed on gun control.
So how long before it is possible to 3D-print a brain-sized, person-specific artificial organ, composed primarily of brown adipose tissue, blood vessels, and "skin", connect it to the blood supply with sterile tubing, and refrigerate it in a portable plug-in cooler, to create a 6000 kcal/day energy deficit?

Lose 100 pounds in 60 days without surgery. Some infection risk. Grid power required.
How would the trained guy be cheap talent? Now he's trained and on the market as a trained worker. Are you going to ask him to pay you back for training if he quits?
> Healthy foods and organics are more readily available now.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence that "organic" foods are more nutritious than conventionally farmed foods: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19640946
Why do you not want to have LinkedIn links on HN?
Welding sounds pretty good after a career doing software.

I mostly like the idea of it as a means to an end. Not so much a way to make money working on trailer hitches but as a necessary skill for a race car fabricator or artist.

Truth is, we should probably all start over every decade or so. It's impractical, but you'd go to your grave with a more interesting resume.
As a remote contractor, I'm strongly against this idea.

Living in a country with the cost of living lower than in the US allows me to take a job of an equally qualified American programmer by working for a smaller salary which is still twice as big as the highest offer from a local company.

The downside is that an equally qualified programmer from Egypt or Bangladesh can easily take that job from me, but I can find solace in the fact that this reduces the global poverty :)
[The (or any) Internet didn't exist when I started as a developer]

DevOps is about how CTO organizes engineering.

Is there an Infra team that supports everyone, maybe a separate Ops/security/etc teams that supports everyone. Then a bunch of App/Service dev teams. This is not devops.

Or is there only* a bunch App/Service teams, each wholly self-supporting and independent. Each doing their own infra, dev, ops. Maybe some teams' "Service" is used by only other internal teams (point being you can break up scope as fine grained as you want). The key is teams are self-supporting, taking care of the entire life-cycle of an App/Service.

Most "devops" sort of isn't or fails cause it's not "deployed as an organizational system, top-down (from CTO) across the whole organization.

All the things people typically bike shed over re: devops don't matter. Are you independent and self-contained? Are you responsible for entire life-cycle of Product/Service/App/Etc? Does the buck stop with you? Then you are devops.
If this is actually a problem, I'd much rather someone figure out which minerals need to go into the fertilizer mix (plus some downstream monitoring) than to assume that putting poop on the vegetables makes them wholesome.
From the discussion on this I've read, I think a good direction would be to consider statistical tests like this as simply not "publishable" at all the way we currently think of it.

That is, if you have a theory about how a Gene relates to height on tomatoes, and you do a test, that test would show you you're likely on the wrong track if it falls below some p value, but the only thing it tells you by being above is that "there may be something here."

I think this is true for many fields with a replication crisis. The problem isn't statistical, the problem is no theory. If you have a functional theory there's all kinds of things you do to gain confidence in it, and mostly those will contribute to the ability to predict statistical results, but that is completely different on kind than sending out a survey and noting that question 2 and 6 are statistically correlated.

When a field thinks that the kind of early suggestive work like this is worth talking about, they should probably just talk about it in conferences and similar venues, rather than "publish" it where journalists will pick it up in a "science shows" story that 95% (lol) of the time turns out to be wrong.

In other words, I think it is fine that fields talk about early non-theory results -- that can be interesting for specialists to advance faster. "Publishing" this mostly-going-to-be-wrong stuff is leading to confusion among the public about what the scientific process demands and how trustworthy it is. That is not a good outcome in my opinion.
These are normalized mass rates, ie grams per gram of plant mass. However, the mass yield per acre of cabbage has radically increased over that time period. Is it possible that a cabbage plant is capable of absorbing an absolute amount of minerals, and this is simply being diluted by ever-larger cabbages?
I wouldn't doubt that meat suffers from similar nutrient deficiencies. After all, livestock are fed from the same supply chain.
I think you’re forgetting about fertilizer. You can’t spray the common green fertilizer on Organic crops.

Some organic fertilizers I’ve used at my home garden: bone meal, blood meal, fish emulsion and egg shell.
There are quite a few centrist and even right-leaning Democrats. Joe Manchin, for example.
Surely only 20 hours a week, or 8 in the off-season, according to NCAA rules.
Microsoft largely got a pass for over a decade (or fines that became the cost of doing business), I can't see these companies being held to account, in the US anyway.
I wonder if this would spur the creation of shipping consolidation centers in China, where orders from multiple vendors (on a site like AliExpress/Alibaba/DHGate) are combined into a single box before sending (like Fullfilled by Amazon tries to do)
>It naturally puts American businesses at a disadvantage.

Yes, but it puts American consumers at an advantage! Are there more consumers or businesses?

I only hope the small Chinese sellers will be able to send their packages thru Malaysia or Vietnam for reasonable rates.

I've noticed that some of my eBay purchases of Chinese stuff come via those countries, at least according to the return address on the package.
> You could make the argument that China, who refused to negotiate with the US, was the party that fractured the global postal system as they forced the US to take such drastic action.

We're the most powerful nation in the world, not a toddler. "He made me do it!" isn't an argument for adults. We're responsible for our own actions. China may have made a bad decision, but that doesn't give the US a pass for making an even worse decision.
> While this is probably mostly true, there is good science indicating that certain hormonal portfolios "hold" onto calories better than others.

Yes, that's true, but too many people believe that hormones have a whole number multiplier effect when in fact they probably just nudge TDEE by, what, (off the cuff here) ten percent plus or minus? Maybe less?

Is that enough to significantly reduce a person's margin of error when they're doing CICO, particularly as they get closer to their ideal weight?

Absolutely.

Does that mean they'll get fat eating less than a thousand calories a day because hormones?

Almost certainly not.
"Helios and Matheson Analytics, MoviePass’ parent company, said it has formed a strategic review committee to explore a possible sale of all or some of its assets."

I'd bet money that anyone that downloaded the MoviePass app will shortly have just about aaaaaaaall of their data sold
I thought the article did a decent job of explaining exactly what the problem is in this case and communicating the scale of the risk. Your comment, on the other hand, sounds like a kneejerk dismissal entirely based on the headline not agreeing with what you thought was true.

Yes generics have proven to be broadly safe. That doesn't mean there aren't still issues that need to be addressed by tweaking or adding regulation. Yes even with carcinogens the contaminated generics are probably better than taking nothing. That doesn't mean that the contamination is acceptable.
Haha! It's indeed $75 ️.
I don't know that I can find any sources to cite but I once wrote some code for an anthropologist analyzing prehistoric tooth scans, and he mentioned that modern dental carries are substantially more common now than they were in the past because acid producing bacteria thrive on refined sugars that weren't used in modern quantities until fairly recent history.
Exercise can absolutely contribute to weight loss. It does not guarantee weight loss because an individual can always eat more than they burn (and indeed many do). That doesn’t mean it’s not a very useful tool for weight loss in a continued caloric deficit.

Maintain your caloric intake level “at maintenance” and add 5 miles of running per day and you’ll lose weight.
Did you mean to link something else? That page doesn't appear to mention kidneys.
Imagine that fat gets burned at the exact moment when you eat or drink anything. On your chart, even if it is realtime, you would see weight gain, then later during the day and night you pee and exhale little more than if that fat burn didn't happen. But that burn is say 1% of intake and it gets spread over few hours.

Would your tracking method allow you to detect the moment of weight loss in this hypothetical scenario?
Very good thoughts, although I feel a little weird about it subtly being a plug.

Also, re: the plugged company, I don't really see how this product is different from a VPN.
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I think it’s misleading to act like vaccines weren’t saving kids’ lives until my parents’ generation.
Remember the league of nations? The US has always been flipping the table over.
Material is blacker than anything even vantablack
Leaving the postal union in the method specified in the treaty, doesn't seem like "flipping the table over". It's more like, deciding not to play that game any more.
That brings to mind another interesting point--even if you can tell what DevOps isn't, so much of a "DevOps" role at any particular company is dependent on the technologies that the company has adopted. I imagine DevOps looks wildly different at a company that deploys a monolith to an EC2 autoscaling group versus the company that deploys microservices to Kubernetes. Similarly, whether you use a monorepo or a multirepo. These sorts of concerns drive virtually everything about the DevOps role--the entire structure of the CI/CD pipeline, the strategies for fast rollbacks, the local developer tooling, how much time you spend at which layer (e.g., if you deploy to EC2, you're probably spending a good chunk of upfront time configuring log exfiltration and process management versus something like Fargate). And this says nothing about which cloud provider you're familiar with, or the cultural concerns (one company's DevOps might be chartered with driving cultural change while another's is taking strict orders from management).

Given how large the gap between any two given DevOps positions, I wonder how valuable it is to have "DevOps" job reqs or conferences or other "DevOps" things.
> Then, the body increases its base metabolic rate and adjusts to the new food intake level.

This is a fairly pernicious half-truth, even among fitness types, which is used to explain away much more than it should. It has some truth to it, but people use it way too easily to handwave away differences in intake. It's true that the metabolism adjusts, but that adjustment is slow and limited. The gap between "slow metabolism" and "fast metabolism" people is only a few hundred calories/day at the extremes. Your body isn't going to suddenly start burning an extra 1k calories/day.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535334/

In this study, they found that the RMR for women varied between 0.721-0.926 kcal/kg/hr (1730-2222 kcal/day @ 100kg), men varied between 0.791-0.969 kcal/kg/hr (1898-2325 kcal/day @100kg).

That is, if you're the slowest of "slow metabolism" people, you pretty much just need to deny yourself a single box of M&Ms to match the net energy expenditure of the fastest of the "fast metabolism" people. Hitting average is even easier.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_vaccines
An industry that sells drugs would want the regulating authority to be underfunded when it comes to insuring the safety of drugs.
> Software engineering is about writing code, devops is about writing yaml files and keying into functionality that was implemented by software engineers.

This attitude is the ultimate reason for dysfunctional development teams and the source of the barrier between operations and development.

It’s also toxic.
As a job title I agree
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Criticism is fine, nobody has to be happy with the decisions Facebook makes, and are welcome to loudly and aggressively voice their opinions.

Suggesting legal measures against Facebook, "perhaps we need not only a separation of church and state, but also of tech and state", is entirely different and completely unwarranted on the basis of them "regulating (or interfering with) speech" as seen in the submission.

I'm not a user of Gab and unfamiliar with their apps, but I assume it can be accessed through a standard web browser (Safari, Google Chrome).
It is a crazy notion and you weren't careful about your testing. So far it sounds like you didn't actually measure the weight of your consumption and excretion. You just assumed they stayed constant. You also assume other things like that you pee the same volume after sleeping as after not sleeping.
Ask HN: We need a politics tab at the top of HN
This is the premier tech destination on the web. I'm tired of political flame wars reaching the very top of HN. We really need a politics tab to filter out this negative energy, especially with 2020 on its way. Can we please make that happen?

I fall victim.

And then I remember, then I repeat: I cannot solve the worlds problems. All I can do is solve my own problem. When I attempt to solve the world’s problems, I become a problem ...
Its difficult to find out if you've got deficiencies when testing for them is almost never covered by US insurance plans. Only a few are. The tests can cost $50-$200 per type of nutrient if you want to pay cash.
It would be appreciated if they used actual units and photos of the "super wood."

"Stronger than (some low ball grade of) steel" is not a unit as it's super easy to sandbag the thing you're comparing to and mislead people about how important the development is.

Are units like MPa or psi not commonly understood by the science-curious public? Why would someone like Scientific American not use actual units? This stuff is taught to basically everyone in high school.

(Maybe this is just the graduate student instructor in me, but it bothers me to no end that regular units are not used...)

EDIT: The paper does, of course use proper units (annoyingly, not in the abstract...).

The densified "super wood" gets a specific strength (strength per unit density) of:
422.2 ± 36.3 MPa/(grams/cm^3).

It is an impressive figure.
State of the art carbon fiber is ~3900 MPa/(g/cm^3), though, and lots of other fibers are higher than this "super wood" (including the best grades of Balsa, I believe).

Very thin gauge high performance steel ("piano wire") can exceed this slightly (428MPa/(g/cc))

Good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength
Doesn't seem to be in the Play Store either. Searching "Magnus" turns up other apps with similar names and "magnus.net" returns another art app followed by more like the first search.
Most people aren't fat because they're lazy. Most people are fat because they eat too much. We have a culture that glorifies food, junkfood more than the rest. Overeating when eating junkfood is absurdly easy. Teaching people how to eat healthier and eat less is the best known way to help people lose weight.

Constantly talking about genetic predispositions, obscure metabolism suppressing viruses or gut flora does about jack shit to help people lose weight.
France to Block Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency in Europe
The primary mechanism unions use to keep wages high for union members is to limit supply by lobbying to keep "un-certified" or "non-union" members out of the market. This provides a nice buffer, keeping the poorer class poor and protecting the middle class.
I think they're driving at "management is dictating technical decisions"; many people view DevOps as a cultural shift (if not a mindset) that includes empowering developers.

Interestingly, your question of illustrative of the "DevOps has no clear, standard definition" problem.
Does anyone play snooker in the USA?

That has tighter pockets than American (or English) pool, although not as tight as these Russian ones. It adds significant difficulty with the structure of play with the coloured balls.
My experimental concept for post-secondary schooling goes as follows:

Spend four years at junior college(s) taking useful sounding classes. German, welding, programming, calculus, jazz band, EMT, with no intention of getting an associates degree (which is of little value in any case).

Cheap, and you might actually learn something. In the modern era, I'm not so sure that following the obvious path is the right idea anymore.