skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The active ingredient is the same - the binders and fillers and capsule materials are mostly inert. This isn't true for all drugs - for the blood thinner Coumadin, you're meant to stick to generic or brand name and not switch between the two since there are known differences in efficacy.
As opposed to hoping for voluntary self-restraint and then washing our hands of the consequences? I agree with his response:

> Yes of course surveillance capabilities increase the states’ ability to suppress the restless populations…

> With some of the developments in nuclear technology, we now have the ability to wage wars that would have immediate planetary implications. So our technological prowess is galloping, whereas our wisdom and ability to peacefully cooperate with one another seems to develop at a slower pace. So, I think we need to spur on this cooperation horse to make sure that we can keep up with the galloping technological horse.

> If we think about this as a race between our growing powers and our ability to use those powers wisely, it seems unclear who will win that race.

What is stopping people from refraining from unethical use of technology, right now? Nothing. Yet many people still don't refrain, and think if something profitable can be done, if people can be manipulated or used in a certain way, then it's "smart" to do that. What'd be the the problem with not having growing disparities of power, and first becoming decent societies, and then getting to play with all sorts of fancy tech?

> If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

-- Stephen Hawking

And that inequality and making people superflous will lead to the possibility of atrocities that will be committed because they can be over in an instant, with nobody but perpetrators left to accuse them. Even right here on HN I had a short conversation with someone who earnestly thought we will and should be replaced with GAI, the next step in evolution so to speak, and that people should work towards that in secret, because people wouldn't accept being superseded by something much "better". I don't know what would lead to such an outlook, but it exists.

Just corporations doing mass surveillance isn't an absence of mass surveillance, the difference would be governments (a singular state is not mentioned, nor a police state) doing that too, preferably in working democracies, the achievement of which is part of the above "using our powers wisely" (and choosing wisely, whom we empower to do what on our behalf).
if it goes public, short it!
Two More Pyramids and a Sphinx (2019)
I think the very fact that we’re talking about it proves they are innovative, but I’d argue the innovation isn’t quite what they’d like to think it is.

This market is a tough one, with much competition. The fact we’re discussing this at all shows that they’ve managed to grow to become a recognisable name. Even if that’s just because of tons of VC cash, at least the VCs thought them worthy of investment.

Why? I think it’s a cultural change. Existing players market to companies, WeWork markets essentially to employees, it markets to the person who actually goes into the office and sits there every day, rather than to the balance sheet.

With their flexibility on leases, they pass the bar of cheap enough for the business considerations and do well enough for people’s minds, but with the trendy design, nice kitchens, beer on tap, plants, and effortless meeting room AV they appeal to people’s hearts. No one else does this. Is it worth it? Maybe, maybe not, we’ll find out in the long term.

This is innovative, and this creates meaningful hype. I believe they’ve got more right than you may be giving them credit for. Is it a long term business? Probably not this alone, there are loads of issues with WeWork as a business. I wouldn’t touch the stock.
Yet football players tend to make more money and find jobs around the sport more often than theater students do in and around the theater.
Yes, in cases where direct addressing is possible you get guaranteed constant time. That's really more of an array than a hashtable IMO.
Maybe I'd understand better if some one could define what this mythical "culture" is. The closest any one has gotten is copy-pasting marketing stuff from a prospectus.
So from a lawyer then?
I certainly agree to your comment on that "if". Up to now there has been a lot of talk and very little actual action. Although I don't think that it's because of conservative protective resistance - at least not in academia. The main issue is not knowing where and how to start. We'll see indeed who will 'win'. Let's hope it's not the Amazon's and Google's of this world
Previous [lack of] discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20959313
Last civil war soldier died in 1956 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson)

Lots of people walking around who could have known a Civil war veteran firsthand.
U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action
I am just reporting on real data I collected and asked a question. What are you suggesting is "pseudoscience" that I said?

I agree that not eating is what caused weight loss more than anything else. But, I have found that solid waste is not where I lost weight, but through urine. And I mean weight loss as in fat, not water.
how do you know what the search was?
European Central Bank Resumes Quantitative Easing
I hate to use the old correlation is not causation....

But even if the virus does “cause” obesity, is it causing obesity by slowing down the host’s metabolism (decreasing the calories out) or increasing appetite (increasing calories in)?
I thought you could write general relativity in a coordinate free manner that specifically doesn't rely on strong coordinate choices

Indeed. But even before you start messing with the formalism, the metric alone cannot be used to define a speed as 4-velocities are normalized. You need to decompose your tangent space into timelike and spacelike subspaces so you can have a dx and a dt.
I've been taking welding classes at my local community college (Washtenaw CC, just down the road from University of Michigan) around my day job as a controls engineer in the auto industry. This program produces people who win national welding competitions on a regular basis, but they're very open that you don't have to complete the entire thing. The instructor for my summer blueprint welding class kept talking about open jobs in the region and how to get into it -- what certs you needed and what skills to practice. Crappy jobs that didn't require certs paid $20/hr starting + benefits. A couple of years in and with several certs under your belt in a union -- pipefitters or ironworkers -- you could be making north of $40/hr. That doesn't sound high-paying, but many of the people at that level are nomadic, coming into a plant being built and working 12 hrs/day 6 or 7 days a week. Which brings me to my main point -- the statistics on this are heavily skewed. The guy that does that nomadic thing spends some number of months on until he quits and takes 3 months off. Other guys with no certs make money welding art or fixing simple things (a much, much larger category). The BLS numbers aren't a question of what you can make, they're a question of what the distribution looks like.
Some[1] will never drop the "simple physics" line because they don't care about learning about the biology of body weight, but rather reaffirming their aesthetic judgement that people they decide are overweight are also morally weak.

[1] Emphatically not judging anyone posting here; that's not my goal. I'm simply bluntly stating what has become painfully clear after having this discussion multiple times.
Senator Kerry Roberts from Tennessee literally said we should get rid of higher education. This is his quote, "If there's one thing that we can do to save America today, it's to get rid of our institutions of higher education right now and cut the liberal breeding ground off!"
A few weeks ago I spent an evening reading posts on svpow.com, and I have become a sauropod neck truther. If you just look at how necks actually work in living animals, you can immediately see how arguments based on the "osteological neutral pose" are complete bunk. Here's a place to start: https://svpow.com/2014/11/03/necks-lie-the-complete-story/
“Data” based on a sample set of 1 that can easily be explained by known phenomena? Did you measure your body fat percentage daily?
This is a pretty nice video (for those of us who prefer
watching over reading)...
https://twitter.com/syllogistic/status/1172537068783898624
Do you honestly believe moral judgments of historical or famous figures have to be suspended in every case where word of their misdeeds emerged after their deaths and they were never brought to trial?
Already downvoted by a millennial who is in some kind of default crisis. If you are a millennial then all problems come by default. Must be good to be so hive mindedly lemming as those hopeless skits are. Good luck. A rope is cheaper
Seems totally reasonable. An alternate way they could have given you feedback is: Seems like a <cool|bad> idea, <would|would not> be interested if it was in my area.
As all the celebrities who got "hacked" and had their nude pictures released on the internet can attest to, this is not the case.

The reason for this is convenience: In order to encrypt something you need a key. If you derive the key from e.g. the account password, then some people will promptly forget the password. If you derive it from the device key, then people will lose or break their device. Either way, they will get mad at you when you tell them that yes, you can reset their password/key and restore access to their account, but all their backed up data will stay inaccessible.
So Apple allows you to reset a password (e.g. by answering "security questions") and then you have access to some of your data again, which means Apple has to have access somehow to that data.

Apple divides the data they store into two categories: encrypted (to which Apple still has access if they want or need to) and end-to-end encrypted (to which they do not have access, so it will be gone if you lose the key):
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

So e.g. your photos and videos and files in general are recoverable by you, Apple, or somebody who got a hold of your password, or managed to reset your password.
While e.g. your keychain is "End-To-End" and meant to unrecoverable in the case of a lost key (well, unless your lost key was easily guessable and thus bruteforcable).
That's what statutory rape means... rape. The question is whether assault was involved. And this is completely unrelated to whether the girls were trafficked, unless there's evidence that he conspired with Epstein.

And that's the type of hair splitting that RMS does, and he needs to be more careful about it. He's not wrong in what he said, but he could be wrong for saying it.
Hello!

I wasnt aware "TFA" could be interpreted with a negative connotation, although that seems obvious in retrospect. Just trying to participate in the HN community, and also because its less typing : )

As a matter of writing style, repeating acronyms are invisible to the reader, whereas repeating words are annoying and remove value. This may be an opinion I gained from my military service, which was acronym-heavy.

I appreciate the question and its perspective.
I'm not sure how I could have made that any clearer. I included (show correlation) specifically for that very reason.
...well, I thought that the official narrative was actually "Huawei spies for China". But if it's not, what is the official reason for the embargo then?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59w49b/huawei-surveillanc...
Yeah, the faster you’re able to iterate, the faster you can improve.
Chemically equivalent but formulated differently. Think hot dog vs. corn dog: the meat is the same but the packaging is slightly different.

The packaging can have a surprisingly large effect on drug absorption, and therefore efficacy. Notably with difficult to dissolve drugs a lot of work typically goes into formulating them to be more efficiently processed by the intestinal tract.
Absolutely, but they have that influence and so far they've mostly been using it in ways that make journalism worse (creating powerful incentives for shallow articles with clickbait headlines). This seems like a step in the right direction.
Yes, I spend most of my time in real life, which is why the modern equivalent of a pop-up book isn't that interesting to me. AR needs to have its "killer app" to draw me in. It's not there yet.

Meanwhile, VR can take me to another world. Games like Thumper, Audioshield and Beat Saber are enough to sell me on a crazy musical experience.
They have successfully marketed themselves as one and apart from a relatively small group, the common denominator perceives them as such.
This is a very false assumption, genetics absolutely do play a role in how much fat from dietary intake will be stored vs expelled as waste. Burning fat on the other hand, is universal and follows the law of conservation referred to in my other comment.
Most people don't realize that a huge amount of their basal metabolism goes into operating the brain. Just "keeping the lights on" in the average person accounts for around 20% of your total daily energy expenditure! 6k cals/day is highly suspect, but anyone who has spent all day thinking hard can attest to how tiring it can be. That big brain of ours eats a lot of calories.

The other thing is that stress causes the body to produce cortisol - the catabolic hormone which makes it easier for your body to break down tissue into energy. Naturally, this causes our body to respond with an instinct to take in energy. In many folks, this prompts overeating, which is why stress is often blamed for increases in fat, but if you don't adjust your diet at all, it can accelerate energy expenditure.
Just because your friend was pooping out the calories instead of burning them for energy doesn't change that it was still calories in vs calories out.

Like I said, calculating both ends of the equation is tricky.
They get room, board, all they can eat, an education (with an incredible amount of tutoring that is not available to the average student) and training that they absolutely could not get anywhere else. There's no market for minor league football in the US and there never will be.
Millennials are the rhyming tricks of the world. Truck millennials, they can't afford the fare. Great generation. Hard coded that they're going to bell.
Why do data rooms cost so much?
I just moved from tech to finance, and my firm pays a lot of money for data rooms. Why are they so expensive? Is there a good reason or is there an opportunity here?
The ESPN targeted ads provider requires "several minutes" to "process" the opting out of tracking.

Blacklisted ESPN and Truste.com from my forum. Blah.
Your strawman is implying I was trying to refute CICO. I never said that - I said people don't count all the outputs.
But not causation and still didn’t explain whether that could be explained by the standard CICO equation.
Most animals are hunted, flee in terror, are wounded, subdued, all while fully conscious. Only then, SOMETIMES, do they get killed by biting. Sometimes they are not even fully dead before the predator starts tearing their flesh.

And this is assuming they die by predator - otherwise, they may escape with a wound which gets infected, and they will get diseased, maggot ridden, and probably go hungry as well.

Nature rarely offers a peaceful death.
I have also seen many cranks in physics forums claim special relativity is largely an artifact due to the convention of Einstein synchronization, which they claim is falsehood, as this convention adopt the equivalence between "one-way" and "two-way" speed of light as an axiom, and special relativity would be the natural consequence. But there's no reason to accept that, without accepting it, all the arguments for time dilation, etc, collapse, thus special relativity is invalid, then they return to non-relativistic classical mechanics and Galileo transformation.

Not a mathematician or physicist, many things are not right in those arguments, I don't know what to say.
Without tactile feedback the hologram keyboards you see in sci-fi movies will feel terrible to use.
I agree, I think the statement is ambiguous.

1% of all products (e.g. one pill from every bottle of 100 pills) being tested seems like plenty.

1% of shipments (1 out of 100 shipments is sampled) seems insufficient.
It's the marketing of "in your city" when they only support (by my estimate) ~6% of the US population, which is at fault.

I assume your "middle of nowhere" comment is just trolling.
It may be the case that timing of meals affects how your body stores the resources from them. Anecdotally, I've also felt that if I eat the same amount of food earlier in the day, not right before bed, that it doesn't stick as easily.
Ancient Indian Rishis had calculated this astonishingly accurately.
The issue isn't storage requirements; the issue is that, in the environments where this algorithm is useful, random access to the storage device is orders of magnitude slower than sequential access. Think magnetic tape in 1986, or today's spinning rust hard drives that take relatively forever to "seek", or even RAM being accessed sequentially, allowing the CPU to speculatively pre-fetch cache lines in burst-mode.

Using Vitter's algorithm for generating the random numbers in order, one at a time, lets you do a single, serial pass through the 2^64 records on said device, streaming out the selected records sequentially.

If instead you generate your 2^63 random numbers out of order, you'll have to do at least 2^63 random writes one way or another. Even if you have an extra exabyte to do these writes into (and don't mind waiting to generate all 2^63 of them before outputting the first one), it will take a prohibitively long time to do, since it's not sequential writing.

That's the motivation behind this algorithm; if the characteristics of your exabyte-scale storage device are not "sequential = fast / random = orders-of-magnitude-slower", then it may not be of interest.
This is a common misconception, let me explain.

> Losing weight and gaining weight is simple physics.
> you are losing weight because you are consuming less calories.

This is only true in the first up to 6 months of a calorie-restriction diet. Then, body adjusts its metabolism (lower body temperature, making you feel more lethargic to keep you from exercising, etc) and your weight begins to slowly climb back up, sans any further calorie restriction. At this point, it's easy for a dieter to blame himself of lacking willpower: "it worked, and it stopped working now, I must've been not strict enough!".

The same thing happens if you force someone to overeat even if they're not hungry. They will gain weight -- for up to 6 months. Then, the body increases its base metabolic rate and adjusts to the new food intake level.

As Dr. Jason Fung meticulously explains in his book Obesity Code, there seems to be a weight set point. He then argues that the root cause of obesity, and the body's set weight point, is insulin resistance.

The books hails your grandma's advice: "Cut back sugars and starchy foods. No snacking."

This is from the last part (The Solution):

1. Reduce your consumption of added sugars.
2. Reduce your consumption of refined grains.
3. Moderate your protein intake.
4. Increase your consumption of natural fats.
5. Increase your consumption of fiber and vinegar.

The author also stresses the importance of fasting.

Everything the book asserts seems to be pretty well backed by science, go check for yourself.

Source: Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung. Read it, it's not only a brilliant weight loss book, but also a wonderful book about how the wrong incentives for companies have led to the obesity epidemic in the US.
$25,000 is the total cost for in state including room and board, fees, etc. Tuition only is $9,970.
My local community college's welding program includes classes on robotic MIG welding, automated sub-arc welding and CNC laser welding. These things are progressing in the places where people need to learn it, but it does slowly sort it into fewer and fewer people.
Not going to happen because of the way Title IX works. Most universities would just shut down their athletic departments because the backup women's water polo player would be required to earn the same salary as the star Heisman-winning QB.
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> If I could go to a space where I'm immersed in code, data, paint or sound and could interact with it

You can code in VR, but it's crap.

VR is great, but trying to use VR as a replacement for classic computers isn't the right way. It's an entirely new paradigm. Take Tilt Brush VR for example - you're creating virtual 3D art which can only be viewed in a headset and that's how I'd view content creation in VR.

No, right now VR's best market is games and storytelling, that's what will really push the technology forward and eventually make the business cases a possibility as the tech becomes viable.
>Your experimental methodology is flawed because it fails to control for water loss.

I absolutely tested for water loss. What I found was that some extra (?) water retained until we sleep. And that something happens with fat or other processing that occurs during sleep.

Again, I charted my weight carefully multiple times a day over a month. Carefully testing when weight loss occured. I Recorded my diet as well as my exercise.

I lost .5 lbs of fat (on average) every day for a month.

The question I found interesting was "when/how do we actually lose weight?" It has to come out of our body somehow. And it's not through excrement, it's through urine. The reason I know this is because when doing my test I ate one meal a day, and I would sometimes not have a bowel movement for a few days, yet still have eaten a few meals and still lost weight.
I don't know how I bumped into your knowledge base, but it's been cool to see.
I've been stealing a few things here and there.
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Restricting your calories and causing lower metabolism only works for so long. Otherwise a person would not be able to starve to death, which is obviously not the case.
hey John :)

I feel the same way - I have a lot of great memories associated with those times, and some fantastic life and development skills picked up because of it (I wrote my first virtual memory subsystem for a mud to work around me not having enough ram to load the world). I feel very nostalgic about text based adventures, and really feel like a lot of gameplay is really missing the imagination and experiences that were able to be captured by such a "primitive" interface.
Url changed from https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/simjacker-mobile-hacking.h..., which points to this.