skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some ideas about what might be going on:

Confirmation bias: people who try new diets and hate them probably talk about it a lot less.

Placebo: people getting caught up hearing about how everyone with their diet feels so much better are convinced they feel better too

Gut fauna: any change, regardless of what it was, causing a population shuffling inside the gut

Avoiding "something": any change, regardless of what it was, involved exclusion of one specific thing which was a sensitivity/allergy/poorly digested/feeding a particular gut bacteria

Thoughtfulness: any change required people to be much more conscientious about what they ate which led to different habits, one of which was critical to feeling better

Lies and exaggerations: diet and nutrition has become a kind of religion replacing God in an increasingly atheist society, some people act with strange quasi-religious zeal for their personal health belief set

I tend to not believe anything anybody says about nutrition. Evidence for anything fits into three categories: guessing, anecdotes, extremely specific cause-and-effect studies without real-world conclusions. The fourth category of believable, properly blinded, controlled, long term human studies does exist but the volume is very low.
I have seen this so many times anecotally too. It’s not even “metabolism” so much as it is how hungry people naturally get. It varies so much from person to person. I could easily eat 4000kcal a day and feel hungry if I have anything less than 2200 or so whereas I know “hard gainers” who struggle to eat more than 1000kcal in a single sitting.

However I don’t think it’s purely genetic/intrinsic. At least personally I have seen that after a period of dieting my natural hunger reduced to about as much as I had been eating.

Anyway, I agree that these restrictive diets work in general by making it easier/necessary to count calories and eliminate some junk food. Really, eliminating dense addictive foods and counting calories is probably all the vast majority of people need to do to lose weight
Yes, something like that depending on the company and how committed employees are. It’s a horrible commute.

But for many companies, even 10% of employees quitting is enough reason to stick with the expensive office space.
Yeah, they have deep pockets, but IBM receives more patents every year than any other US company. They probably don't want to see the system reformed.
That’s funny. Setting timers for making coffee is actually the ONLY time I ever use Alexa or Siri. In fact, I have my one and only Echo Dot placed by my coffee setup in the kitchen.
Are the issues I've brought up not worth being frustrated about? Do you think I'm a hypocrite for complaining about the thing that I use?

What would you suggest I do?

I use Chrome sometimes. Firefox is bad in its own way, often emulating the worst of Chrome. Like, at least the Keystone agent is unobtrusive and you don't even know it is there. Last time I checked, Firefox's Updater.app is just as disrespectful to the user, but it is horribly inefficient and clumsy.
I think you are underestimating the appeal of being able to watch movies or tv shows with a friend or loved one in VR.
That's a "hi-fi perspective". People buying Bose products don't care as they are not hi-fi snobs.

They just want good enough sound, and Bose give that. But what they excel is noise cancelling -- and it's irrelevant if they don't "publish any measurement data" as tons of outlets measure them, and have repeatedly crowned them kinds in the area (with the exception of the latest Sony MX1000M3).
On the contrary, you proved mine. I worked in medical devices and hospitals for a significant portion of my career, and I really don't care that you aren't impressed by the term "cartel", that's your prerogative to turn a blind eye to the facts. It's a combination of inflated salaries plus numerical shortage of doctors (the two are related) causing the root issues here. You claim to be familiar with other health systems; care to explain why in every other developed nation where doctors are not so overpaid, health care costs are reasonable?

NPs and PAs are not allowed to perform a significant number of medical procedures; I see you ignore that, conveniently, and bringing it up isn't much other than a red herring.

The "cartel" term has been used both colloquially and in academic literature for quite some time:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2352286?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

Here are some other reading links.

http://www.jparksmd.com/blog/a-massively-overpaid-cartel

https://wallstreetpit.com/5769-medical-cartel-md-salaries-hi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/06/04/milton-f...

https://fee.org/articles/the-medical-cartel-is-keeping-healt...
You have no idea whether this website is doing that too.
The Failure Mode of Clever
> a protocol, a specification for completely decentralised, carry-with-us social networks.

Scuttlebutt is exactly this: https://scuttlebutt.nz
Jessica Meir Just Became the First Female Swedish Citizen in Space
Me_cleaner might help with Intel's backdoor management engine
Google Bulletin Is Shutting Down
Ahh, I understand. I must have scanned right over that part.

As the sibling says, it’s probably the case that terminal emulators have this historic behavior for specific combinations, and not for the more general mechanism of merely setting the high bits of whatever symbol was generated. It’s probably a bit fallacious to test things in an emulator... perhaps the article is correct for the original systems?
Isn’t this just the Google Updater issue that removes the /var link on Macs that have SIP disabled? Perhaps that is required for Avid?
“Silicon-interconnect fabric, or Si-IF, offers an added bonus. It’s an excellent path toward the dissolution of the f(relatively) big, complicated, and difficult-to-manufacture systems-on-chips that currently run everything from smartphones to supercomputers. In place of SoCs, system designers could use a conglomeration of smaller, simpler-to-design, and easier-to-manufacture chiplets tightly interconnected on an Si-IF.”

Reading this reminded me of a remark from Bunnie Huang’s teardown of a dirt cheap ‘gongkai’ cellphone (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297):
“To our surprise, this $3 chip didn’t contain a single IC, but rather, it’s a set of at least 4 chips, possibly 5, integrated into a single multi-chip module (MCM) containing hundreds of wire bonds. I remember back when the Pentium Pro’s dual-die package came out. That sparked arguments over yielded costs of MCMs versus using a single bigger die [...] I also remember at the time, Krste Asanović, then a professor at the MIT AI Lab now at Berkeley, told me that the future wouldn’t be system on a chip, but rather “system mostly on a chip”. The root of his claim is that the economics of adding in mask layers to merge DRAM, FLASH, Analog, RF, and Digital into a single process wasn’t favorable, and instead it would be cheaper and easier to bond multiple die together into a single package. It’s a race between the yield and cost impact (both per-unit and NRE) of adding more process steps in the semiconductor fab, vs. the yield impact (and relative reworkability and lower NRE cost) of assembling modules. Single-chip SoCs was the zeitgeist at the time (and still kind of is), so it’s interesting to see a significant datapoint validating Krste’s insight.”

I wonder if there’s any advantages to si-if from an ewaste (aka reverse logistics, cradle-to-cradle) perspective
Not the OP, but I've ketoed for months at a time in the past, also for weight loss, and I can describe the lack of cravings like this: when I get hungry on keto, it doesn't demand my attention. It's something I know I can take care of at some point soon, but it doesn't make me distracted, give me pangs of hunger, or make me feel weak or irritable. I don't get "hangry." Eating a regular diet, hunger takes over much more of my conscious experience. It's something I need to address. Keto breaks that, and it's actually a wonderful experience.
In typical Indian fashion, we have expensive private tuitions for nearly everything - http://ucmas.in/
Starbucks' annual revenue is about 25 billion. Let's say they are making a (very generous!) 5% on that balance. That's 80 million dollars or about 0.3% of their annual revenue.

Starbucks doesn't run its payment app so they can make money on the float.
They should have limited the analysis to the most popular journals. There are tons more journals nowadays because its so easy to run one - but it s more important to know what’s happening at the well known ones. The lesser know are largely ignored
Substantially cheaper, with similar patient outcomes.
The Charger Daddies Will Stop at Nothing to Make Sure Your Phone Is Juiced
Based on my understanding, the patent still needs to represent an "inventive step" from the prior art. Let's say you can show that

A. Classifying images based on a (pre-existing?) identification;
B. Filtering images based on classification;
C. Wirelessly transmitting images

were all known at the time. Then you could argue that a "person having ordinary skill in the art" would have known to combine A+B+C to solve the problem. Thus the prior art teaches the invention and the patent should be declared invalid.
I think you underestimate just how much marketing $ can drive innovation and user behaviour
This is our #1 request. We are definitely planning on launching an Android version in the next 1-2 months.
We were focused on getting the experience just right before launching in another platform. But we believe we're there now.
I'll give it a go, still have 1.1.1.1 installed, though disabled/stopped using it as upon my phone it just eat up battery. Kept trying on updates every now and then, but same.
Though beyond that, can't say I've bothered to dig/look into it and figured due to my phone being a 3 year old mid-range affair, now what you would call low-end - though QC 430 2GB Ram kinda works ok.
I was in a group of ~a dozen people recently and somehow it came up that over half of our wedding bands were from Amazon.
>random coffee shop person saying their song name out loud to play it instead of just using their phone screen

Well, if you do it once (to set an album or playlist or single song to play), nobody cares. If you talk to cue every song to be played, sure you'll annoy someone.
I'm not vegan, but I think that going vegan just to eat seitan sounds really awful. There are plenty of foods that are completely vegan that would make a great main entree. Obviously, you're going to have to eat processed stuff if you are trying to imitate something that is not actually part of the set of foods you are willing to eat. That's like if I wanted to give up potatoes for beef but still eat tater tots -- I'm going to have settle for something heavily processed.

On the other hand, if you just ate food that was naturally vegan, like lentils and rice. You would do just fine, and it is actually much easier to cook than chicken, since you don't need to worry about contamination, etc.
Scholar should be different, considering that they are the only ones in the world who are given access to everything
Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed
I think he meant shaving only 5 seconds off of the 200 second query.
What are you referring to there? The comments generally seem to be in agreement that this is a good move, or at least that the results will be good?
A related Show HN was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756353.
Smaller portion size. Of any foods. Of course, I am not a scientist.
Hey, which product are you using? I googled and the McLear came up top. Do you like it? The contactless payment thing sounds fucking amazing.
I haven't looked into the compiled code but the source repository still shows the Bromite logo and name: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/apps/browser

The AUTHORS file also mentions being a fork of Bromite, but doesn't list any authors that aren't part of the project: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/apps/browser/blob/master/AUTHO...

It looks like your patches have been changed to renamed Bromite to Browser in user-facing code though. Have you already asked them to add a reference to Bromite somewhere in the about screen? Maybe create a pull request to make it easier for them to accept your request if the devs themselves are lazy. They obviously won't rename the browser shortcut, but adding a reference in the "About browser" section shouldn't be too much to ask for.

Unrelated: I understand your position on cloud providers, but I think /e/ is different from MS or Google in that it's possible to swap out most of the integrations with your own servers (it's all a bunch of glued-together open source services, after all).

Without cloud integration, I doubt /e/ would reach any sort of mainstream of non-technical cult status at all. You'd be left with an app store on top of a build of LineageOS. It's the services delivered with the system that a) distinguish the project from LineageOS without GApps and b) provide basic usability many normal users would miss otherwise.
Why build any electronic device that cannot withstand scorching temperatures, extreme cold, function in the deep ocean? There is clearly no market unless it does those things. /s
I don't understand this comment. Amazon didn't invent mail order. They never have had a monopoly on websites that sell stuff to be delivered by mail, either.
> 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'm saying companies should be accountable for the loss they cause - if you're a Amazon Seller and you get your listing removed, you get an auto-reply and you try to talk to a human just to find a stream of auto-replies pasted together, because is in the sake of scale and progress the it's ok?

Same goes for copyright claims on Youtube. You end up talking to auto-replies.

Why should people livelihood be the cost to pay for scale? Why can't Google or Amazon pay people to supervise these replies and make amendments when the help is not only requested but required?

I don't buy that "cost of progress" argument. I'm pro progress, I'm just against half baked solutions that seem to be progress but end up being cost saving measures.

Why can't a user who got wrongfully harmed be compensated? Is that against scaling? Or shouldn't that be a cost of scale?

Currently in my opinion it's irresponsibility. Irresponsibility disguised as Policy & Terms Agreements.

At least in the EU Amazon is being pressured to cut this bullshit and act properly.
The idea is clearly that these appeal to the earliest adopters of smart glasses, and future versions will offer more functionality. There's also some value to having headphones that you never have to take out when having a conversation (I know that technically I don't have to with my AirPods, but there's some social signaling implicit to removing something from your ears).
It’s not patenting facial recognition. It’s patenting the specific use case of identifying a subset of images to transfer over the wireless link based on the subject of the image.
Only one question - Why?
I guess this is always going to be news to someone, but it's getting quite annoying to read about that every like 5 years or so.
A small (non-growth) business owner should really never need to drive to work. Before they start or buy the business, choose where they live and where the business is going to be carefully.
Like including "Guccifer 2.0" the "hacker" that originally claimed responsibility for the DNC breach being outed as a Russian intel agent directly linked to the GRU or aside from that?
How is it not western supremacist thinking? This is simply the other side of the "all of the advances of the modern world are the result of superior western society", all of the problems of the world are the result of superior western society.
It's not just about cutting usage, it's about cutting the right kinds of usage as well.

Lots of Americans, anecdotally, skip out on regular checkups or checking on minor ailments because of anxiety about paying copays. And then eventually something that could've been easily treated when detected initially blows up into an expensive ER visit or requiring specialists.

A good chunk of this could be solved if we stopped using the ER as the catch-all emergency net for literally everything.
The original bill was to be voted just as the war ended and it included a critical detail: female military draft. The world war 1 machine was running out of men to send to the war and the volunteer system for women did not turn out enough people to fill the ever increasing demand in the war factories. Something had to give.

Creating a female military draft raise some major concerns in 1918, one being that women had not voted to enter the war in the first place. It was seen as a bit unfair to then demand them to help fix the situation. Thus the right to vote.

Then the war suddenly ended and the bill got postponed. The female draft part was dropped but the idea of women vote continued with force and a year later it passed.

Most historians agree that the world war 1 was the catalyst for the women suffrage movement, through there are some disagreement. Some points to the fact that the movement existed before the war, but how significant their political influence was at that point is far from clear.
Supposedly, in the 20s and 30s, some of the immigrants thought the white bread they were given in immigration was cake, as they'd only eaten black bread.

I believe that considerably predated the fluffy wonderbread style of white bread.
The Mac App Store updates automatically.

You see a download bar on app icons in the Dock and Finder while they are updating, then a badge (blue dot prefix before the name) on recently updated apps.

Rarely (i.e. on new user accounts) it may ask you for the iCloud account (if it was a purchased app, I think) or administrator password (after some major OS installations).

How is that frustrating and "making you worry" about updating?

It seems like you haven't used the Mac App Store or have changed the default to manual updates.
"Because everyone is going to be able to create their own... spaces... Horizon is going to have this property where it grows and expands and gets better and better over time."
- Zuckerberg keynote (1)

In related news, a high-ranking Facebook exec revealed that Zuckerberg had been planning to name this massively multiplayer online experience "Myspace".

After heated internal discussions, Horizon was chosen as the brand name for Zuck's vision for "the future of computing", as, well, it seemed somewhat less played out.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOJ8KE5g6kg&t=45m01s
Not a threat in any near future and if it was the global banking system would also be vulnerable. Almost as bad as the SDK article on Bloomberg.
Could be. I'll believe it when I see a $15K well equipped EV with 150mi+ range, no subsidies, no "fuel savings", no bullshit. We aren't there yet, to put it mildly, and given that battery production capacity can't keep up with demand, it's unlikely that we'll get there in the near future. But CNG is doable today. Pipelines are already there, fuel production capacity is basically inexhaustible for all intents and purposes, and existing manufacturers could easily adapt existing models of cars to the new fuel while they keep using the same facilities, equipment, workers, and dealer network as before.

I'd love to get an EV one day, when the pricing is less nutty than it is today. But it has to be economically viable for me. Right now it's not.
An ecologist who wants to map everything
Hmm. Lame.
A dog tag is... actually a fantastic use of something like this.
And what's more - look at the UK where we spend half as much per capita on healthcare and achieve broadly similar results. Yes, if you get a sporting injury you're going to be waiting 6-8 weeks for physio, but if you have a heart attack, cancer, are in a serious accident there is no wait.
Do you have a source for that claim? Because I also rather rarely play music through mine. Most people I know who have one use it mainly for smart home control.
I was wondering what 5F is haha
Nutella Cafe tried to pull the same thing when they opened their first location in Chicago, and would stop taking orders until the line built up out the door again. I'm guessing the strategy (rightfully) backfired, as the cafe looks generally empty these days.

Lines are great for hype, but don't try to artificially create them at the cost of customer experience.
Slightly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
The problem with "just SQL" is that you arguably want to compose queries.

A foundational observation that GraphQL makes is that every query is different depending on the client's needs. You can do "SELECT * FROM users JOIN companies ON companies.id = users.employer_id" and call it a day, but now you're already probably overfetching, and the next evolutions of your codebase ends up accruing extra logic to add or remove features: Some queries want to fetch just a subset of fields from each of those relations. Some queries don't want to fetch any companies. Some want to paginate, filter, order in different ways.

You can do all that in REST, of course. You can use an SQL builder to build the final SQL query programmatically. You can add WHERE clauses and FULL OUTER JOIN clauses to do your N+1 queries on foreign associations, with some kind of query parameter to define what associations the client wants. Field selection is also doable with query parameter and so on. You can also centralize a lot of the boilerplate to do this (e.g. FULL OUTER JOIN clauses on associations, if you do them, need to be untangled into object graphs after you get the flat results back).

And so on.

What you end up with is pretty much GraphQL. You need code — identical for every relation, modulo client-specifiable constraints and parameters — for filtering, pagination, selection, joining, etc., all of those things. You need some notation for letting the client specify what they want to fetch, both fields and associations. Then, even when you have ended up with something approximates GraphQL, you have to write a custom client for it that only works for this exact API. And then you have to write documentation. And tests, tests which don't just exercise your "business logic", but also exercises all the REST-based query API stuff.

The benefits to GraphQL are that it's standard, so you can piggyback off existing libraries both on the client side (things like Apollo) and on the backend, libraries that are already tested and documented. GraphQL itself defines a schema, which serves as documentation and a way to machine-generate clients. As a case in point, try out Prima's GraphQL playground app [1]. It's basically a web-based IDE for GraphQL. You can point the app at any GraphQL API, inspect the schema, write queries (you can autocompletion of all fields, queries, mutations, etc.) and see live results. It's a really productive debugging tool.

That alone is worth a lot, and that's why I'm bullish on GraphQL.

[1] https://github.com/prisma-labs/graphql-playground
They got their PhD and entered industry. Publication was no longer a priority and maybe not even an option.
Best Buy sees growth in health care technology for elderly
I would be surprised if those who go vegan and lost weight did not go low(ish) carb (whether intentionally or not) e.g. mostly nuts/plants/fruits and not filling up with a lot of chips or bread.
Doesn't an REIT (that "might be a viable business") fit your description as well?
My echo dot is visible in the kitchen from the couch in the living room.

You would be surprised how often I see the Alexa device lighting up because it thinks some dialogue on TV has triggered its “Alexa... “ behavior. The number of false positives is not small. At least once per day.

Fortunately, I don’t think the device asks “sorry, I didn’t catch that” anymore since they added quiet mode.
It's not a one way street, though. Americans go to other countries like Canada or Cuba for health care, including, famously, GOP Congressman Paul Ryan.