skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the misunderstanding here is that we are focusing on an offhand remark made mostly in jest.

You can read as much meaning and intent into it and in that sense it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for me to do a good job to counteract the manifestation of unintended meaning or intent into what I say, so going forward I will limit any facetious remarks.

Regardless, the data here was that I typed a search query and the outcome was from sources that lean left of center. I think people are best served when there is a diversity of views since we can potentially benefit from the lived experience of everyone, all of whom have something valuable to contribute to our discourse. In a political sense voters are not served well when the news organizations that are shown to them on a search result page are either pro or anti ruling party.

In my country most television news is pro-government, with the exception of one channel. This government frequently misrepresents data and it's helpful to us as citizens when our media organizations can hold them accountable. If Google were to favor some media corporations over others, it can potentially prevent the media from doing this.

Fundamentally I think a better news product is one that provides diverse points of view to the reader to help inform them of the diverse perspectives on a particular topic. By boosting some corporations over others, in a world where bias is fairly well established, I think the product does readers a disservice.
Isn't it amazing that working on/as a team is seen as an outlier?

We need more of this.
I find that there's a window where being hungry makes me mentally lethargic, but past that window, hunger tends to disappear and I find my focus and energy renewed
Rewriting TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust
@sakofchit just browsing from my phone but this seems like it's using the Telescope platform (though I believe the name has since changed). Is it? I had plans to use that to launch several side-projects back in college but felt like practicing and working on rolling my own... Been busy with life and work since so I have yet to truly launch anything.. ^.^'
I'm usually hoping that they'll send me on to level 2 support so I don't have to redo all of the stuff I've already tried. I won't even try calling support until I've exhausted their FAQs/Knowledgebase and Stackexchange/Google. Picking up the phone is the last resort. Unfortunately it's fairly rare that the phone support is of any help.
Google is changing its search algorithm to prioritize original news reporting
>Today's players have begun to incorporate strict food and fitness regimens to increase oxygen supply to the brain during tournaments

Is there really such a possible variance when it comes to getting oxygen to the brain? Why don't they just take hits of O2 then?
I understand that. OP said:

> There is no sensible reason to pay a premium for brand name if the generic is chemically equivalent.

If they're not chemically equivalent and have different medicinal effects as a result, then it's much easier to justify a price difference. I understand chemistry is more than just a list of ingredients. It's how those ingredients are combined that gives them their unique interactions.
That's a nice anecdote.

In the real world, though, athletics keep at-risk kids in school and trying to get grades because they want to play and need to make satisfactory progress in order to do so. Athletics have helped a ton of kids grow into prosperous adults because it kept them invested in their educations until they realized that it's what they needed to do anyway.
What I find amazing is that the younger generation has the entirety of the internet and all of human knowledge literally at their fingertips. The younger generation still seem to be oblivious to how the world actually works and runs, despite having the resources to achieve anything they want if they put their mind to it.

Granted there are those young kids who are exceptional and have created companies and new inventions at a very young age with the help of technology, but taken at a broad scale I personally feel they are extremely naive as well, especially when you account for what information they have access to.
The burden is on cyclists/scooter operators. In my city it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk. In California, motorized vehicles cannot be used on the sidewalk, I've been told by local Police officers I've discussed this with.

In the Netherlands, they know bikes and pedestrians don't mix, so they make separate paths. They are the gold standard for cyclist and pedestrian safety.

I, as a pedestrian, am an advocate for my safety. I walk 4 miles per day on the sidewalk and I can tell you since the scooters arrived, my safety is greatly at risk. With the number of hours I put in on sidewalks, it's only a matter of time before I get knocked down. I've had a bunch of very close calls already.

Will it be minor? Will I die due to a head injury? Don't know. The stakes are that high, though.

Everything you wrote is just avoiding the main issue.
Congress wants Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon emails as probe heats up
So your friend was unable to digest at least a thousand calories a day, likely more, and didn’t see fit to mention the endless diarrhea they must have been experiencing? If you’re spewing a thousand undigested calories out of your ass every day, you should know something isn’t right.

Also this is still calories in, calories out.
How to join the drop:

1) install Keybase: https://keybase.io/download

2) add your device

3) in the app, go to devices (second to last item in the nav) and add two paper keys

4) click on your avatar (top of nav) and select "View profile"

5) click "Prove your [GitHub, Hackernews]" and follow the steps (HN might take a while to update, took about 2 mins for me)

6) now you should be able to join the drop
> People like Stallman don't get offended

What? Quoting Stallman himself at https://stallman.org/notes/2010-jan-apr.html :

"I have often felt offended by criticism of my views, but people have a right to criticize and even insult ideas they disagree with, so I learned to live with it and Muslims must learn it too. Nothing that people do or say is entitled to immunity from criticism — not even the Church of Emacs."

Also:

"The idea of charging people to use a toilet offends me so much that I absolutely refuse to use a pay toilet." - https://stallman.org/notes/2017-mar-jun.html

"I consider this just as offensive as barring women from seeing a film would be, or barring them from driving their children to school." - https://stallman.org/notes/2015-mar-jun.html

"I don't object to the existence of the song "God Bless America" although I find it insipid, and I love Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame despite its explicitly Catholic text and purpose--but I would take offense at the use of either one in an official context which implies government endorsement of the statements about religion." - https://stallman.org/notes/archive-2002.html

Or, he was offended when I refused to say "GNU/Linux".

Since he certainly does get offended, the rest of your comment doesn't seem to apply.
> Long story short: Although etymology would suggest that "TFA mentions this" is as aggressive as "Maybe you should RTFA", in actual developed usage, they're very much not the same.

That was my understanding and my intended usage.
I lost 35 pounds in about 45 days without working out (coding all day) by fasting for 3 to 5 days at a time.

I got a lot of keto flu tho, and would always eat after that, or try to minimize it by drinking a ton of (no sugar) vitamin water and/or 1 egg.
I apologize for not really having anything to enhance the discussion, but I like what you're saying and the ideologies you express; I thought you should know.
Unfortunately, we can't inoculate against the random accident. I try to remind myself of this every day as a devotion to be the best dad I can be today for my kids.
> Is Assange a Journalist? It Depends What Year You Ask

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-17/is-jul...

I don't think it's a matter of explanation anymore. Whether Assange is a journalist depends on political affiliations. It's a shame that the trump election had to end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater by discrediting wikileaks. This kind of thing usually has unintented, bad consequences.
I bet it's the dog food.
The initial step used c2rust[1] tool for automated conversion of C to Rust, and automated refactoring of the resulting Rust code. You can see the original issue[2] in Tectonic about oxidation plans. And there is a bunch of issues[3] if you want to help the project.

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

[2] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459

[3] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues
This is in fact quite common in the welding world. Several other comments mention companies that hire anyone and train them to weld. I've also read articles from the oil field companies that they do the same. So does the military, if you pass the aptitude test at least. That said, my community college will teach you to run a CNC laser welding machine, a CNC plasma table, a robotic arm MIG, etc. Getting into all of that off the street is rare.
It’s not about aesthetic judgement. If you won the genetics lottery and have a high metabolism, you will have more calories out. If you won the genetic lottery and grow to be 7 feet as oppose to be 5 foot 5, you will burn more calories and find it easier to be slim.

I didn’t win the height genetic lottery or the higher than average metabolism genetic lottery, but I did win the mesomorph one. I naturally look muscular whether I lift or not and I pack on muscle quickly. That isn’t due to any moral strength.
I know this company well and knew this was going to become a PR issue. Aimmune's product is just purified peanut flour. Convincing everyone it's worth thousands (to tens of thousands) of dollars is going to be tough.

That said, you're not paying for the peanut flour, you're paying for the comprehensive set of data the company had to develop to prove the product actually works.

Just rough numbers, a phase 3 clinical trials costs about $15K per patient per year. Aimmune ran a year long trial with 1000 patients (from clinicaltrials.gov), so the trial alone cost them almost $160M dollars. Add in manufacturing regulations, etc, you can understand why they raised $400M over the past 8 years since they were formed.[1]

The other thing to keep in mind is the pharmacoeconomic arguments. If insurance companies are paying thousands of dollars each time a child goes to the ER for a allergic response, pay $10,000 for this drug to reduce those may make total sense.

Also interesting that this article comes out the same day the stock is halted because the FDA review committee is meeting. You can peruse the briefing document to see what they'll be discussing.[2]

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/allergen-research-co...
[2]https://www.fda.gov/media/130654/download
Chess players are drug tested by WADA for major tournaments. Amphetamines would not necessarily help those without ADHD because they would slow down their thought process. Time management is an important part of the game and simply remaining focused is not difficult for top players.

Also amphetamines don't "make you so focused that you forget to eat." Amphetamines directly inhibit appetite.
Bravo, Sergei Boiko! I hope people donate to your Yandex Kashelyok.
Do you have to be on a team for those majors? Or does it count towards them? If not, I'd say that's still not the same.
The "wealthy friend" referenced in the first sentence would have to be Rex Sinquefield, aka the billionaire patron of American chess, based in Saint Louis. I wonder why Sinquefield would want to remain anonymous for this article. He goes out of his way to plaster his name on everything, not just his chess championships ("Sinquefield Cup") but apparently professorships ("Sinquefield Professor of Economics") [0].

[0] https://unewsonline.com/2018/09/06/sinquefield-donation-caus...
This feels like death by IPO. They’ve signaled that both the public and private market aren’t interested. Now they have to choose to stay private and keep control, or go public and raise 80% less than initially planned, while giving away control. The best move (in hindsight) would have been not to try to IPO.

Have there been other examples of companies getting gutted by their IPO efforts?

(Another interpretation would be that they are a real estate company trying to pass for a tech company and everyone called their bluff).
This is for the exploit release is probably more helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951578
You might try clicking the link I provided. The Wikipedia page details the virus and provides links to other sources one of which was conducted on chickens where they measure input/output and still saw positive weight gain.
Aggressively invest in your coding skills
House Committee Requests Tech Executives' Emails in Antitrust Probe
This is absolutely false. Having lost 160 lbs over the course of two years I can say it is absolutely possible to continue losing weight from calorie restriction. Does it get harder to lose the same amount of weight? Absolutely. You are getting lighter and your base metabolic rate diminishes. You have to eat less food or do more exercise to maintain the same deficit. In reality, your burn rate just goes down. I was initially losing 3.5 lbs a week not even trying, in the end it was down to maybe half a pound a week in the final weeks. Your body doesn't enter some magical mode at 6 mos though, of course if you don't change what you're doing you will plateau in line with your decreasing BMR, but it just means you have to keep tweaking the formula of energy in vs out or accept a slower rate of fat loss. The exercise in itself though is pretty much entirely psychological.
> We may disclose personal information

This alone will be enough of a deal breaker for privacy nuts, such as myself. If I'm going to use your service, you just champion privacy. This means no marketing gimmicks.

Sorry. For me this comes no way close to being an iMessage alternative. Even if you become a privacy champion, you still need to expect us to trust your servers, which is a tricky thing without end to end encryption.

Maybe an alternate model is to get funding from big corporate sponsorship and have a distributed network that could be hosted on our own droplets (using open source, of course). You can then have a paid hosted saas for those not technically ready to self host. Until there's a solution out there that does just that, I'm very unlikely to bite.
AR seems like one of those things that needs to be executed "perfectly" to work. VR can benefit a bit from suspension of disbelief etc. ...but with AR the real world is harsh :)

But I bet we'll have "the iPhone" of AR doing it right and popping open the market! Someone will sure get lucky betting on it!
Thanks for sharing this! I'm writing a Sega Genesis emulator right now and your short bit on Z80 ALU instructions is really helpful. Cheers!
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.

There is an existence proof that this isn’t true - watch “My 600lb Life”.
Given X could potentially cause Y, the fact that Y happened is not evidence of X.

In other words, the mere fact that something happened isn't evidence for a proposed (even plausible) cause. Proving the cause requires further evidence.
Now instead of content being constrained to a tiny 2D rectangle - it can now encompass your entire field of view. The world will be overlaid with holograms that everyone can see and interact with.
What is deep work?
Obviously, the high cost of the therapy is news in and of itself, and it's very illustrative of the fact that high R&D costs need to be wrapped up in the cost of the drug, even if the drug itself costs peanuts to make. (LITERAL PEANUTS, get it?!?)

But what's more worrisome is that although oral immunotherapy appears to desensitize patients to the allergen, real-world evidence shows that these people actually end up experiencing allergic reactions more frequently than those who practice strict avoidance, the article reports.

Whether that's because the patients who've undergone therapy are letting their guard down, or because the drug is only semi-protective, is unknown. But the article argues that the therapy might lead to a net increase, rather than a decrease, in allergic episodes.
If you have the willpower to ignore your body telling you its hungry, then yeah fasting will work for you. Most people can do this for only a little while though, and then revert to what they used to do.
"However given the amount of boilerplate you describe, I cannot understand how such useful and reliable tools can be delivered in Go."

I don't follow your logic. Multitudes of useful and reliable tools were built with assembly languages - is that evidence that assembly code doesn't have a lot of boilerplate (relative to modern languages)?
Wish the downvoters would give some explanation. I left my college with a vague sense of shame over the frivolous protests the student body participated in and the admin/professors allowed to disrupt class/activities/common-use areas. I'd have paid more togo somewhere protests had to be done off-campus or in a designated zone. At least in theory you're supposed to be there to learn.
To lose weight, eat fewer calories than you expend.

To gain weight, eat more calories than you expend.

It's that simple. This is basic physics, weight gain and loss is not complicated.
Sure, it is possible, but because the brand name passed the carcinogenicity tests in animals, and if the manufacturer kept their same suppliers and formulation, the risk should be much lower.

Whether that's true or not in practice is a different matter. But yes, I would have more confidence in a brand name after this report, which makes me cynical about the intentions of the reporting in the first place.

Maybe I'm totally being manipulated by big pharma, but I'll switch my medication to brand name as soon as possible, and that's just because my insurance is good. Very few people have that option.
nope, that's different:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker#/media/File%3ASnooke...
There are obviously issues with having drugged workers in dangerous environments.

There are other professions which have problems with substance abuse but which take an approach that is more focused on rehabilitation. I have heard of this occurring for dentists and medical doctors but I haven’t heard of drug testing all practitioners and can’t imagine the uproar such a proposal would cause.
www.totaljobs.com says an average car mechanic gets about 32K in the UK. That's about 24K take home. 40K vs 24K is a 53% increase in salary.

That's against 52K on glassdoor for being a military officer. But I am pretty sure that 52K is taxable itself so the actual different is smaller.
A complex number “is”† a quotient of two Euclidean vectors in a plane. That is, Z = u\v is the object which when you multiply it by one vector u, scales and rotates that into another vector v. We can write uZ = uu⁻¹v = v.

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf

https://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/GrassmannsVision.pdf

† More precisely, the algebra of complex numbers is structurally the same as the algebra of quotients of planar vectors.
> it absolves us of our shared responsibility to address the reality of his limited economic prospects.

Why do I have a responsibility for someone else’s economic prospects? The man profiled in the story didn’t sound like he was a victim of anything I’m responsible for: I didn’t make him late for work so much he got fired. I didn’t ask him to get married and have two kids at age 21. There is a whole bunch of “not my problem” going on there.

I’m also not convinced only $30-40 per hour in a pretty cheap cost of living area is a bad wage. That’s much more than many degreed people working in the city make. Also the potential with welding is that he could start his own shop and be making some serious money. The national demand is huge. My dad is a retired precision machinist and his “side business” in his garage makes him more money than his job working with physics Nobel laureates at a major university ever did. Most of his business is contract work for universities and oil field tooling companies and he hires welders almost continually. Most welders he works with are at full capacity and can’t hire people fast enough. The problem is that many people that go into the trades are like the guy profiled in the story: unreliable, often losers, who don’t stick around very long. The good ones, the sky is pretty much the limit. The economy is flying — there is a lot of work. Same thing in the construction trades as well, especially plumbing.
Your body needs fuel (nutrition) to sustain its activity.

If you take in more fuel than your activity requires, your body will convert it into excess fat.

If you take in less fuel than your activity requires, your body will burn fat.

What else is there to discuss? I honestly do not understand how we have these convoluted discussions. The only other thing worth considering is how you can make it easier for yourself to cope with the feeling of hunger, so that you don't give in and eat more than you need.
> Personally, I pay for 4-5 newspapers (which is too much), but after the sh*tstorm of the past three years (Brexit, elections etc), I felt that it was worth the money.

You don't think it is possible that those things could have been avoided if people had better access to high quality information from for example newspapers and scientific studies? Currently a majority of people don't think it is worth it to pay for quality information so they only consume the poor quality crap you get for free. I guess this situation is fine if you want to sit in your ivory tower and lament over the ignorant masses ruining everything, but if you actually want to solve the issue you should clamor for more quality information being made free because in a democracy it is the ignorant masses whose opinions actually matter.

"But it doesn't matter, those people are too dumb to understand!" you say, well totally blocking them from accessing information is a good way to ensure that the situation will never improve.