skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the frustrating thing about diet research. Almost every diet works to help you lose weight, even the really stupid and unhealthy fad diets, but when a study is released about some diet, the media often reports that it doesn't seem to work very well, even if the differences are driven entirely by compliance.

I get that the research is often done from a medical or public health perspective, not a biological one, so compliance is an important factor to consider, but when I talk to people, I find the conclusion they draw from reading these results in the media is not that most people in these studies fail to follow the diet. The conclusion they draw is that a lot of people will not lose weight if they follow the diet successfully. This happens over and over again every time a new study comes out, and the belief a lot of people internalize from it is that we really have no fucking clue what the connection is between what people eat and whether they're overweight, and we don't know what if any change in how they eat will result in them losing weight.

That leaves them vulnerable to unscrupulous and/or unwitting opportunists hawking diet systems backed by complicated theories about toxins or hormones or genetic types.
I really wish this list had some built in sortability in the WebUI - there is an immense amount of information on the language detail pages that would be nice to see surfaced on that list.

Ed. Oh it is sortable by the presented fields, it's just a bit un-intuitively communicated via the UI
I take notes from technical books
> Assuming the tea actually sells

Anecdotally, my mother has been drinking Celestial Seasons for as long as I can remember (i.e. 20-25 years), and at any given time has maybe a half dozen to a dozen boxes of various types of it. Given that I grew up drinking it, tea bags with a string and tag have always been super weird to me.

> Do the 'pillow-style tea bag's use plastic?

Based solely on appearance/texture, they seem to me like they're some type of paper or light fabric, but it might be made from plastic.
Economics works the same everywhere? Very well. It has never worked in the US the way you say it has. And if you say it works the same everywhere...
If you’re solely using obesity as a comparison point Canada is just slightly behind in obesity but health costs are one half. The NHS while strained costs one third of what the US system costs. You could add the per capita spending of the NHS and Canada together and just barely be in the same league as the US incredibly inefficiency system.

Y’all better be hella fat if that’s the justification you’re using.
Starbucks has caused a lot of coffee shops to close. Boutique coffee shops have a significant advantage however—people like variety in their café's. This exists in some industries more than others.
Oculus Connect 6: New Oculus Half Dome Prototypes Show Advanced Optics
What are the implications that differ from already having Alexa running on your smartphone in your pocket, which the ring requires?
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Hi! I'm in my final year of high school and I want to study computer science at University. It's always been my dream to go to college and learn. I studied a lot in high school and I participated at many competitions, so I didn't think I would have troubles in going to university.
However, now I've found out my parents can't pay for my tuition fees and living costs. Also, there are no loans I can take out (I'm not in the USA, but EU).

Is there any job I could take as a student in order to afford to go to University? I would love to work in a field related to computer science, but I'm not sure I could find something.

Thanks a lot, any advice would mean a lot to me!
Some cities are better at this. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/bacp/supp_info/2012_pa...
M/W/F: Wake up 4:30, coffee, bathroom, gym by 5:30, office by 8:00.

T/Th: Wake up naturally between 4:30 and 5:30, coffee, breakfast, email, forums, run 5k or 10k at ~7:00, transition into working from home.
Oh dear. Because my fairly comprehensive skepticism on metaphysical claims applies as much to hubristic scientistic materialism as any other, I tend to be a defender of religious believers possibly holding their views rationally. But they do usually disappoint me.
Yeah, I actually flagged the post originally because it is so spammy and a dumb ad.
Java Ring 2.0
So... it's a clock. Except one that you have to talk to, instead of just looking at it.

I have a mantle clock for that. Every 30 minutes a gentle chime drifts through the house, keeping everyone on time. No charging. No shouting. No telemetry. No privacy invasion involved.

Best $7 I've spent in a long time.
The third line of thinking is a combination of the two: "In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine". This is a popular quote from Benjamin Graham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Graham), who taught Warren Buffett. It's basically the whole principle behind value investing.
This is a huge technical accomplishment if you peruse the related blog post https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-technical-challenges/ around network topology. If you compare CF to Fastly, Akamai, and LLNW (the other 3 publicly traded CDNs) CF is so much better staffed and managed it is mind boggling to see how the others will remain relevant over a longer timescale. CF is one of the few recent tech IPOs where I haven't rolled my eyes and groaned. I used to work at one of the others so know quite a bit about this industry and how far behind the major players are.
Perhaps he just does not want to use one more spy device. :)
That fact that you make those comparisons shows how deeply ignorant you are on this subject. Being a parent is fundamentally different from every other aspect of human life. There is no amount of study that can help a non-parent form an informed view on the subject.
Could be an implementation over Weightless-N which is open source, sub-GHz and works on the ranges this is supposed to work. http://www.weightless.org/
> which is now used by the government to squeeze tobacco companies by the nuts.

As it should. These companies provide absolutely zero benefit to society, and rely on addicts to keep their business going, and they try to get more addicts in the process. Human greed is truly destructive.
> A bill of attainder is one that says “$Foo $Bar and $Baz of people will be punished/have properly removed”

Correct. However, I see no difference between this, and attempting to formulate a set of criteria that is obviously intended to make the law only apply to someone (or some entity) the legislature has already selected. I think we have lots of examples of laws in the current US code that clearly were written with criteria designed to uniquely punish certain individuals or businesses, and I don't see a substantive difference between this and a 'traditional' bill of attainder.
These days mine is just a hands free kitchen timer. I don't use it for anything else.
Good ol' DI;s
We want to be a full fledged talent agency for software engineers, and the first thing we're making better for engineers is the interview process. We help you design your own interview process to best show off your skills.

One of the things that make tech interviews so nondeterministic is that it's like taking a test where the teacher never told you what to study. With us you'll know exactly what and how many steps there are in every company's process, and what to prepare for - from the beginning.

A big part of this is negotiating with companies to create personalized technical interviews. Maybe you're an expert in Kafka, so you can give a small presentation on how they could be using it and do a Q&A with the team. Or you're good at getting up to speed quickly and want to show that off in some pair programming. We want creative processes that don't leave you feeling like you just went through a meat grinder.

Companies also want to test your knowledge in some way, so we work with them to get you a guide of what to prepare for. But no being peppered with random CS questions - you'll have a company specific guide on what is important to know for the role, and what you can expect and prepare for in the interview.

This has gotten a little long-winded, but would be interested in talking about what else sets us apart from Triplebyte / Hired, or anything else that comes up
>"Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument"

He is arguing that I should not be concerned with the "Echo Frames" if I use a smartphone because, as he stated, "A phone has more surveillance capabilities than anything announced today." It is a clear example of a whataboutism, as anyone who has done any epistemological study can clearly see. You pulling out a single line of the article in an attempt to discredit my argument is also fallacious, but I'm not going to continue to argue with people who aren't actually interested in having a reasonable discussion. Have a nice day
Celestial Seasons FAQ [1] says they sell 1.6 billion cups of tea per year, so this would work out to about 5 grams per serving, which seems around the right ballpark for the entire tea bag. Maybe their thinking is that without the staples, the tea bags are compostable, so they don't go in a landfill?

[1] http://www.celestialseasonings.com/learn-about-us/faqs
Uber would not have a problem with that. Rather the entire future of Uber relies on invention of self-driving cars. If they get that, they can stop relying on drivers which are currently 80% of cost and reason they are not profitable.
Sure, but I think it was expensive and complicated enough with their technology that becoming an alcoholic was very hard, compared to the modern world with unlimited supply of cheap bottles of hard liquor.
Because, in this case, you'd be playing a role in spreading destructive behavior in society. Unlike some other companies which have goods and bads, here we have a company that provides no good whatsoever.
This feels like one of those bad Kickstarter projects that get made fun of on YouTube.
One thing that seems to be lost here: this is an early-adopter product. It's entirely possible this is little more than an R+D product subsidized by those who want to participate.
You think the government should cap the price of suffering? What do you think should happen with malpractice or medical errors?

For example, take this recent news story and pretend this was in the USA, where a woman goes in for a routine procedure and ends up with an abortion.

https://nypost.com/2019/09/24/doctor-performed-abortion-on-w...

How would you like to strictly regulate damages for that? What do you think is reasonable for that situation? How about if someone is rendered disabled or impaired? Marred? Dead?
As someone who feels similarly, I'd say the difference is a tool under the control of the user, as opposed to "outsourcing" to a mix of closed-source software, opaque algorithms, and quasi-feudal corporations.

Eyeglasses, headphones, "dumb" hearing aids, all a-ok. Replacing vision or audio by a mysterious cloud product are over the line.

I'd argue that even smartphones and social networks distort the fabric of our perception, operating on dopamine feedback loops, sense-making, norms, and interpersonal relationships. These things are all deeply entangled anyway (if one goes full Luddite, but all one's friends have not, one is still captured heavily by tech in practice).

For those of who care, we have to draw whatever bright lines we can, no matter how arbitrary; for me, it's simply about having a clear line for what is private, and what is public (including anything living on cloud/FAANG, I treat as de-facto public). I want to have an intentionality with what I send over the wire, as opposed to sharing everything with the world as path-of-least-resistance.
Tobacco, etc. Because life is too short to think you're helping people become sick.
That's a good start, but there's more to claim 1:

...filter the plurality of photographic images using a transfer criteria wherein the transfer criteria is
a subject identification of a respective photographic image within the plurality of photographic images, wherein
the subject identification is based on a topic, theme or individual shown in the respective photographic image;
and transmit, via the wireless transmitter and to a second mobile device, the filtered plurality of photographic images.

Invaliding prior art has to cover every single thing in the claim. (And my hunch is that it's out there).
Which part of the EU are you based in?

There are multiple options available to people in your situation depending on your country of residence.
That page badly needs an update.

No mention that Luxottica merged with Essilor a year or two back. Essilor are mainly lenses, but also have a range of premium and designer frame brands they bought. EssilorLuxottica has a huge portion of the resulting market. No idea if it gets near or past 80% now, but they're a $50bn company.
And the ACA only puts a lid on insurer administrative overhead, not hospital admin overhead....
> WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate

But they can make the spaces more popular and raise their prices (thats the added value they claim). Coworking at full capacity can be quite more profitable than any other RE investment
Those countries are smaller and most likely have more functional governments than the United States. Having a dysfunctional government is a feature, not a bug, but it does mean that the national government would do a bad job running the health care system.
The "fix" looks more like a virus removal job. It includes

rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle

and doesn't replace it with anything.
trying not to imagine what'll happen if the battery starts swelling
maybe work on making the Alexa phone app more user friendly instead...
Where did I claim that? I'm claiming NPR is making/repeating a problematic comparison by using retail pricing for domestic shipping.

International mail is aggregated by China post, and they pay the USPS for the last mile. To evaluate to what extent USPS is subsidizing them, you need to compare to what someone else who aggregates and pays for last mile delivery would pay. This is very different from what an individual shipper would pay.
sure... but I'd trust Cloudflare over Comcast anyday.

Plus, (1) you can turn on/off WARP at your leisure and (2) they've explicitly committed to limited logging and not selling data which is pretty huge.

I use a small local provider where possible... but the reality is that they have to lease their lines from AT&T anyway. In general, there are very few providers out there that have capability to offer competitive services.
Sure, the government can say they'll only pay half as much as they do now, so providers will only provide half the care. Have you ever actually done any government procurement? Saying the government can just wave a magic wand and lower prices because "they said so" will only hurt the quality of care patients receive in the US.
It might be a whataboutism IF a smart phone company accused alexa of being a privacy violation, and amazon responded and said "no you are."
Color me skeptical, but I remember being 12 seeing this on The Screen Savers on TechTV in 2003
Many people do not use SIP.
Why would Google drop this contractor? They were quoted in the article saying they use both union and non-union contractors already.
Is this an early April Fool's joke?

It's yet another SV bubble "innovation" that's only useful on the west coast.

It's not going to work in half the world for half of the year. Winter. Pockets. Gloves.

See also: Apple EarPods, with the cords that get brittle in cold weather and become useless tangles that fly up in your face.

See also: Every iPhone I've ever owned which has gone into emergency thermal shutdown just because I dared to use it in Arizona or Nevada.
That's already the case in many industries - for many SaaS and telecom businesses the differentiator for expensive B2B plans is "24/7 support with a real human being", big IT companies like IBM and Oracle rely on "There's a human to blame when things go wrong" as their sole value prop, high-end retail like Nordstroms differentiates themselves from low-end retail like Walmart by the availability of personal sales assistants, and waiter-service restaurants differentiate themselves from McDonald's by the existence of a human who takes your order. The difference between Uber and a car service is whether the driver's waiting for you at baggage claim, greets you politely, and makes small talk on your way home.

Personally I like it - I usually pick the self-checkouts, kiosks, and apps over talking with a real human being, who frequently acts like a robot anyway and tends to be slower and make mistakes more often.

Also, I wonder if folks who say "if large scale comes at the cost of injustice, maybe large scale shouldn't be a thing" have really thought through the implications of this. I remember talking to a classmate in high school about Native American tribes, industrialization, American history, and how we really fucked over this idea of a tribe or village or community and the world was a lot less richer because of it. (This was pre-Internet - if only we could've guessed what the next 25 years would bring.) I agreed with all of his points, but then pointed out that the carrying capacity of the earth before modern agriculture, modern medicine, fossil fuels, etc. was roughly 1/20th what it is today, and did he really want to kill 95% of the people alive today? He responded, "Man, I feel shitty now." That's the nature of the scale vs. justice dilemma: you can't critically analyze scale & progress without also acknowledging the huge injustices it's created, but at the same time, reversing scale literally means death & suffering.
There is macsec, probably not that common but the ISP I was working for was looking to implement it in their network.

Multiplexing on what?
Also note that you get punctuation by making the shift key turn on the top bit of the numbers, except that 2 becomes “ — and back in the day, “ was in fact shift-2 on computer keyboards.
I did, and was later able to connect using LTE so I suspect this is due to UDP being blocked on those WiFi networks but I don’t have an easy way to confirm that other than seeing the timeouts in the logs.
I didn't say MicroG was a fork.
I'm in between you and the other person that replied to you. I can wear Airpods running no problem, but no way if anything like a helmet strap is touching them (knocks them out). I'd never get a motorcycle helmet on without knocking them out.

With that said, try some Powerbeats Pros. They're the Beats version of Airpods, and frankly, I like them better. At $250, they're pricey as hell, but they sound better and they stay in better. With ear hooks and a collection of different sized buds, it eliminates trying to make a "one size fits most". If you don't have "Airpods ears", the Powerbeats are probably quicker to insert once you know the "trick" to getting them in. I always to have to fiddle with Airpods a bit to get them to sit right. Powerbeats: stick 'em in with that little twist of the wrist, sorted. And the Powerbeats have physical volume buttons, the lack of such being my one annoyance with Airpods.
Oh damn! They should have made it in the shape of tiny angels and demons micro drones which hover over your shoulder. You ask a question and you get an assortment of positive and negative responses from them as they flutter and follow you around your shoulders.
Started my own business. Had enough of the corporate Rat Race after 10+ years. Now I am in the entrepreneurship Rat Race :)
It's a typical problem with investment. People who get rich in one industry suddenly think they have the expertise to cross industries, and it seldom ever works that way.
Amazon must know that and i guess thats why they dont give up the commerce biz
>1. How do you know what harvesting takes place

I'm basing my assumption on the wealth of information already available about Amazon and Alexa

>2. IF it is occurring, how has the status quo changed?

As I already said, now it can occur in public rather than simply in people's homes, and affect bystanders who have not chosen to utilize alexa devices
You can literally buy prescription glasses (including the lenses) for like 20$ on AliExpress. How much cheaper would you want them to be?
> phone numbers are not personal, embarrassing stories

Right, which makes the right to be forgotten even more important than the right to be removed from a phone book.

When you're disputing an analogy, the discrepancies have to actually be relevant and support your point. You can just say "you can't compare A and B because A is not B."
The table is a nice way to view ASCII (maybe better transposed?), but the discussion on CTRL-[ for ESC can't be quite right, since then CTRL-; would work too, no?
Marketing, claims denial, billing and executive compensation budgets that together amount for 20% of the expenditure of an average US insurer after they were legally capped to that level.
Pre-Authentication Remote Code Execution Published on Public Access Mailing List
Wasn't there a movie about that? With trolls or hobbits or something?
There are some procedures where shopping around is conceivably an option.

Once you're in desperate need (say, when it's bad enough that you're calling an ambulance), or unconscious, it's not realistic to suggest price-shopping.

Markets of the mostly-free sort work well enough for commodity products, like the kind of peanut butter you're buying a jar of every few weeks (though even that's regulated, from things to food safety to nutrition labeling); for everything else, government's a fabulous tool to make sure people aren't taken advantage of, whether it's through heavy regulation (e.g. Switzerland, as someone mentioned) or offering the service itself (e.g. UK).
All the businesses you mentioned still have core products that are now reliant on software - customer service, scheduling appointments, marketing, analytics/business decision making and lots more.
These frames sound outrageously expensive. I got mine from CostCo optical. Name brand, look decent, $149.99. Lens was $79.99 (+10 for the edge polish). I could even go for their own brand, although they didn't look as nice on my face. However did get one of their frames, but for sunglasses, where they worked much better: $49.99 for the frame.

There are online retailers with cheap, but also decent frames, for much less than what you are quoting.

It may be the case that you are much pickier than I am, or that the frames in the same price range don't fit you properly. But I have a feeling that you can get much better deals if you shop around. 450 for the cheapest frame is insane. I'll be re-evaluating the 'vision plan' I got in the open enrollment period, because the value proposition is not clear – they haven't even covered the costs at this lower price point.
Anyone with physical access can read unencrypted traffic if the ISP has not implemented any link layer encryption. All you need is to slightly bend a fiber and it will leak light.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21070110.
I guess all the down-voters never watched a Looney Tunes cartoon. Sad.
I would honestly probably use this if it were something like a tiny, unobtrusive, nearly-flat adhesive which I could stick to my hand or arm. Tie it in with some subtle bone-conduction headphones and I'd probably use it while outdoors. For example, it'd be awesome if it could do, say, or play certain things based on a sequence of taps which I can configure, like with Alexa Routines; saying "Alexa, resume podcast" out loud in public is a no-go. Make it thought-controlled and I'd use it without a doubt.

I suspect this is just a kludgy initial version of some future thing that could eventually become really popular.