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Science isn't about understanding how something works. It is, as you say, about generating and testing hypotheses. In the case of machine learning, those hypotheses take the form of a program and an associated criteria. The hypothesis is verified by demonstrating the efficacy of the program. That a machine learning specialist is able to consistently produce effective programs demonstrates that they have a good understanding of the relationship between the program and its functioning. This is true even if they couldn't explain how the program "works" to the satisfaction of an observer.
In a theoretical world this makes a ton of sense. In a world where people grow accustomed to life as usual, fail to make adjustments BEFORE flu season, and we end up with the virus having a kick-started boost to start flu season, we're heading full speed into a brick wall.

If we can slow down beforehand, yes, we probably make beneficial progress towards herd immunity (albeit minimal). But in a leadership vacuum with an election ahead, this doesn't look good to me.
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This seems so condescending. Maybe it wasn't their intent.

"But obtaining a mere $2m-$4m (£1.6m-£3m; €1.8m-€3.6m) for a nutrition study is a lifetime aspiration for most nutrition scientists".
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Tl;dr: to get to the other side
Proponents of alt-truth theories misunderstand the claim ;-)

Yes, we can talk about the thermic effect of food, about how absorption of food differs depending on quality of food, stress, gut health, etc, but on average the effect was measured and is ... negligible.

There’s also another misunderstanding ... just because calories are what matters in weight loss or weight gain, it does not follow that counting calories is the best strategy for achieving your goals. It’s a logical fallacy basically, used by alt-truth proponents as evidence that the theory is unsound.

For all practical purposes however a calorie is a calorie.
If they read the article - probably nothing. At a really basic level, running a caloric deficit is a still a viable method of losing weight.

The article goes on to talk about how at a societal level we tend to fixate on calories only, and then outlines several problems with that. Namely that all calories are not created equal, because health is more than just body weight.
> 3. Journalist reports that Person A said X and that Facebook removed it.

Alternative: Journalist claims that Person A said Y and that Facebook removed it. Person A is unable to disclaim it because every time they repeat X it gets taken down and misreported as Y. The public are none the wiser.
It always seemed obvious to me that there has to be some caloric value left in poop, and that it probably varied from person to person.

I read a book about pigs a few years back, and it said there are certain breeds of pig that are easier to fatten up than others. It sounded like main factor was how long their intestines were. The longer the intestines, the more time to extract energy from the food. Thought that was interesting.
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Author here, thanks!

Haven't seen your tool in particular, thanks for the link, I'll check it out. I only used
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox before, but haven't set up an automatic archival pipeline (yet)!

Also, integrating with local web archives is on my Promnesia todolist! I expect them to be very useful for indirect history retrieval, e.g. "I haven't visited that page, but it's within one link". Having local web archives makes it possible to implement such functionality in efficient way.
> There are a minimal number of excess deaths now associated with COVID, so what is the problem?

I don't usually use such language on HN, but this is absolutely delusional. Covid19 has killed more people in 6 months, with lockdowns, than Malaria did all of last year. More than a third of those deaths are in the US.

How can you possibly in good conscience claim this is even remotely comparable to the Flu?
> I wonder what the "a calorie is a calorie" zealots would say about this?

I don't think any serious person ever meant this literally. You're misrepresenting them by saying this.

There are a lot of calories in coal but I can't digest it so they aren't the same as the calories in sugar. That's obvious, nobody serious is disputing that.

What everyone I know means when they say this is that if you're eating a massive cheese burger or a huge bag of nuts or a kilo of jerky then don't try to kid yourself that for some elaborate reason (I've worked hard today, they're healthy, I deserve a treat, I walked 100m today, I took the stairs instead of the elevator) that the calories in it don't matter. The calories in it are still calories. That's what they mean.

In practice, for me, in my experience, limiting my calorie intake is the only way to control weight to where I want to be. And that means not kidding yourself that a cheese burger doesn't matter for whatever crazy reason.
The globe might feel stable while sitting inside the US and reading domestic media sources, but it sure hasn’t been easy for the dozens of countries we’ve been invading/occupying for the past decades.
Rex Teams gets mixed reviews on Glassdoor. People who worked there complain about below-average pay, hierarchical top-down management, deceptive vacation policy, questionable mission statement. I'm wondering if Rex was under pressure to reform his company culture and decided to move his growing conglomerate to a more "friendly" environment.
“no models are correct, some are useful”

for most people that want to deal with any number of health issues focusing on reducing calories is usually a good thing to do. But human health is very complicated, so just about every recommendation should come with asterisks
iodine-131 was apparently detected June 2-8

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2020/06/various-re...
I think it makes more sense if you think of a virus as a software update for a genome. The question is not how a virus made it here--fashioning a delivery mechanism should be easy for a civilization advanced enough to hack into the genetics of a species on a distant planet--but who are it's authors and what new features or bug fixes does it provide?

Flu-like symptoms are probably just an unfortunate side effect. Things break during updates, it's an unfortunate fact of life. Maybe when a critical mass of people accept the update, they'll start building a giant transmitter for FRB's to let the sender know that the update was accepted.
The West doesn't really have things like jakarta, manila , bangkok, ho chi minh, hanoi..nevermind the chinese cities. Density is really not a problem.
Why does that seem condescending?
I'm not sure if I missed some other explanation around IP addresses, but aside from rotating IPs from ISPs this would have trouble in shared networks where people use the same browser and/or OS so the IP and agent string would be the same. Say, an office or home network. Any way around this using other data perhaps? Not dissing, just curious as to the server analytics space atm. With Chrome taking most browser traffic and Windows for desktop OS (Android on mobile, globally) there may be frequent false positives as such. Best next assumption as a "solution" is that one wouldn't expect all network users to visit the same site :p
Android TV and Air Fryer.
Which was handled before it made its way to the US in any significant capacity. Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January.
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Well to be honest UE4 codebase is one of the biggest garbage dumps I've ever had the displeasure to work with. I think the biggest problem is that it's just been accumulating 20 years worth of code and features without anything ever being refactored. And because of the current status you'd never actually want to modify any existing functionality because you're bound to break something. It's also super badly documented and riddled with bugs and really bad and confusing design deductions such as using instances of your UClasses to represent the "types" and and then having to use flags at runtime to see if "this" is archetype or not.
I once worked on an “Agile” team for a year and never met the Product Owner. All her wishes were passed to us through two analysts. I’m not sure how often they had contact with her, their boss actually drove the decision making. He would meet with her, summarize for the analysts, who would write the stories for us. Which would be communicated in daily 30 minute stand ups.
Or maybe instead of throwing more money at the problem we can face up to the fact that our democratic system is broken. That these institutions have been politicized over the years and are being run by people who are good at playing the game versus being good at their jobs.
> Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant.

That’s interesting. Since this is all open source I guess Epic could potentially benefit from this... It’s nice to see they funded another engine.
Now equalize labor cost... tada!
The Goiania accident sounds like the source of the plot for Pu-239
I could have worded that better. my point is not to minimize the stressful situation, it is that the stress isn’t going to end when leetcode is done.
It seems very relevant because the military was apparently completely unprepared for biological warfare. Like in all their talk of terrorism they hadn't even considered the possibility. Sure, this virus wasn't an intentional attack, but it easily could have been. How much good do all those weapons do when a virus can bring the country to a halt?
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I believe it's a better alternative to Chrome if you are already using Windows.

Edge Chromium still has telemetry data sent to MS but it respects the privacy control and group policy in Windows, so if you have already set Windows telemetry to low, it sent almost nothing. I recommends usage of "O&O ShutUp10" to disable all Windows and Edge telemetry.

It doesn't have telemetry data sent to Google (no contact with Google owned domain).

It also has a third party tracking blocker included and enabled by default which makes it way better than Chrome on that point. On my installation, it even blocks Microsoft tracking...

I use Pi-Hole to keep track of the domains reached by Edge and so far, there are nothing really worrying me (I already use Windows so my expectations are relative).
Theoretically maybe, practically definitely not.

HTTP is still very much geared towards request/response semantics, just sometimes serving requests you didn‘t yet know you want to make.

Also, WebTransport seems to be more of an extension of the idea of WebSockets to UDP and other reliability/ordering semantics than an outright replacement.
unfortunately MSVC produces hot garbage asm, clang and gcc produce pretty much the same asm output using your example.
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It's often distraction. If someone was talking about the Xerox star as the first desktop computer, then someone interrupted with talking about the hp 9100a, it's kinda derailment. The point is it was one of the first to it still had to establish a lot of things

What people mean is "before it was an established thing" "before parameters were known" or "after it was an established thing"

Like "tallest building" what they mean is "challenging to construct vertical structure that needed special considerations"

It's mostly used figuratively as a narrative backdrop like it is here and not as some indisputable factoid
If it's an accurate portrayal of their struggle compared to other scientists, then I don't see how it could be considered condescending. It seems sympathetic to me.
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"The top 10 companies control over 70% of what we eat and drink and have annual sales larger than the gross domestic product of many countries ... systemic change is needed first and this is likely to require governmental action.”

But when the government acts, it acts according to the influence of the companies that its regulatory agencies have been captured by, particular those same top 10 companies that control most of what we eat and drink. This is not a new development. When U.S. nutritional recommendations emerged in the early 1970s they were already being written by these same companies and their predecessors. From my perspective they were already dead wrong, and those recommendations have wrought enormous damage in chronic disease and lives cut short. There is no realistic prospect that this is about to change.

I've been watching as one of my favorite nutrition authors, Nina Teicholz, has been tilting at these windmills via the Nutrition Coalition. They have struggled mightily to present the dissenting science to the people who control these recommendations, and have met with roughly the same success as Don Quixote. Watching them lose their innocence is like watching a slow motion train crash and not being able to do a thing about it.

My preference is to get the government out of the nutrition science business, but that's about as unlikely. Barring that the best approach is to either ignore them or count them as just one more opinion, and to do the research and N=1 experimentation for yourself.
From a business perspective, Unreal doesn't really do 2D as per se (Whereas Godot is very simple to use) so improving Godot keeps people away from other tools like Unity which do have features that compete with Unreal.
He also had multiple sclerosis, so this is a heavy charge and I don't know anything, but I start to wonder if someone had some cruel ulterior motive related to that. (Insurance costs? Need to accommodate the illness?)

I did not know him and he did not know me, but when I worked at Microsoft I would see him around campus. Small story, I remember one day in the building 10 cafeteria he asked me to hand him a bag of jalapeño potato chips he could not reach in his IBOT thing. Seemed like a nice guy. I later read in his final blog posts that he had a fairly eccentric personal life.

I am late to say it, but RIP.
If by that you mean lazily as in functional programming, I don't see that would help.
My reading of it is that he got in trouble for blogging about a patent that, in his words, "never should have been issued," but in a general way that didn't name the patent. The picture he ran with the blog included the patent number, which someone else looked up, probably kicking up a stink, and his manager took that as a blog post critical of Microsoft. That's a lot of reading between the lines on my part, though, so who knows.
CloudSigma is another player in that space. (No affiliation)
Well... they are. A more interesting question is whether such people should be allowed out of hospital. For all the people afraid of letting thier kids play near cellphone towers, perhaps they shouldn't hug grandma for a while after such procedures.
If the intention is to send it to phones, then gif downloads are going to explode your user's data caps. It also seriously limits the quality of the resulting video.

I'd suggest relying on the <video> tag in browsers. It will be a lot easier to encode for your servers too (though may require some retooling).
Volatile in c++ has nothing to do with threading.
Where's the gutting? The budgets of the FAA, the FDA and the CDC are all at or near all time highs.
I may be naive but I think the coder in Sweeny likes to see what Godot is doing, and the skeptic in me thinks that Sweeny knows Godot would only ever really eat at Unity's marketshare.
I'll chime in from that group, it provides an upper bound value to work with.

Since nutritional science deals with a lot of macroscopic behaviors that are just stupidly complex and often individually specific with lots of variance, it at least gives you some ballpark bounds to work with, assuming of course businesses are able to give accurate caloric estimates (which they often don't--even more difficult if you're eating at a local restaurant).

The issue is the other side of the envelop: energy expenditure. It's quite difficult for any one person to estimate and your body will often compensate in ways you aren't quite aware of to save those precious energy calories. All you can really do is play with your caloric intake since you have some control and combine it with some information from certain exercises (use lower estimates for exercise caloric expenditures--round down every opportunity to also give reasonable upper bounds on expenditures).

So all in all, a calorie is a calorie but it just provides a starting point for you to work with in your own personal diet. You'll start observing other obvious macroscopic behaviors like "empty" vs "filling" calories that I find are, at least for me, significantly more valuable for weight management. They not only provide an upper bound for energy consumption relation, they provide a ground truth to tie back to my own body: how full or hungry I am after I consume said energy, how groggy I feel, etc. This ultimately, for me, leads to valuable dietary changes that give effective guidelines to proven end results.

When I gained weight during college, this was the trick that, for me, has lead to the most valuable lifelong weight management. YMMV.
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Hey bobbyz!

I'm really surprised that this is taking so much of your mental energy :/ I remember you wrote quite an aggressive message on the Hackathon Slack that had to be removed by admins..

It seems like you took my email so much more serious that you should have!

I definitely didn't want you to feel like I was faking a friendship, this was a cold outreach done because I believed that this could add value to you.

But it's just cold emailing. I didn't mass email people without a reason :) You met people, you might not want to lose touch, that's it.

But agreed - totally a grey area - I'm not complaining, I should of course expect such reactions!
Godot is more likely to eat Unity's cake than Unreal Engine's cake.

Unity is currently the dominating engine among mobile games and 2D games.
You can compensate for it a bit by reading the X-Forwarded-For header. In case someone sits behind a proxy, they usually set this header with the actual IP address of the client. You can see this here: https://github.com/emvi/pirsch/blob/master/fingerprint.go#L2...
Re: stealing money from homebanking and inside info.

I don't think either of these examples are analogous to what is going on. And even if they did, they are already regulated on specific jurisdictions (not worlwide though). The web is global. WSJ doesn't have to serve to a global audience. It is possible to have global regulation, but I'm not sure it's productive/intelligent to regulate how the technology works worldwide (ie. Regulate what links you can click and which ones you can't. Or regulate the legatity of source code of extension in this example). These are technological problems and should be solved by technology. In my view, they will be solved by technology before any regulation could be in place.
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It depends what ur treating . For some disease an increase in blood pressure is nothing ,taking BP meds fixes this issue
Notebag also pretty cool.
Just wondering what you would nominate for the worlds most trusted public health agency? Maybe the WHO?
Calorie counting functions properly for controlling weight. The physics and chemistry of it is sound. And the empirical proof is the many thousands of professionals who use it successfully: models who need to be a certain shape; football players who need to be heavy so they don't get lifted off their feet by their competitors; or dancers who need to be light so that they can get lifted off their feet by their partners.

I say that up-front because there are a bunch of people out there who think that the basic science of calorie counting is wrong; that there are other hidden factors that keep some people thin and make other people fat.

BUT, what is true--and which this article highlights--is that calorie counting is super hard to do. As a system, it's hard "operate". You can't make mistakes, like forget to enter a meal or a snack, or forget to properly record activity. And it's kind of miserable to live that way. That's probably one reason it's mostly professionals who really do it well.

In software terms, calorie counting has terrible UX. And our food system has bad defaults. The cheapest, most heavily-advertised food is often high in calories per volume.

And of course calorie-counting does nothing for your nutrient intake, which is arguably more important to think about now because foods across the board (i.e. even organic kale) seem to have falling nutrient content.
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Why you should measure the cost of your GraphQL queries, and how you should do it.

This is a summary of a research paper.
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Why would Epic put money into an open source competitor?

I could see funding open source that is complementary or, perhaps better, something your competitor makes money on. But this?

I was looking into Unreal for my next project, but Godot looks amazing. And they won't take a cut of my profits. It might do everything I need.
Does anybody know the German name of this story?
Some things like Facebook multi/group (2+) user video chat or google stadia require some form of chromium. I use Firefox for everything else.
All this trouble instead of just ressurecting usenet.
There is a lot of Python out there running in embedded environments, some quite old. Python is 30 years old after all.
I am not seeing in the article what the rotated Q is used for: what language(s), what phonetic value, etc.

Found this: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%84%BA

> Used by publishers as a signature mark on the bindings of printed books

I don't think I am familiar with this use.
It's not just intake but also how many calories we're burning. I've had dozens of days where I've barely moved more than shuffling around my home. Those days were rare or non- existent pre-lockdown.

As for eating out, I find it to be one of the great joys of life and civilization and wouldn't give it up for anything.
Ask HN: Has anyone heard of an ICU doctor getting an autopsy report on COVID19?
You have not answered Lend Lease point.

So you fight lie with your lie.

Your view is so one-sided that it is easy to accept opposite one-sided view. Not allies, not entire world - "it is all USA because USSR claims everything for itself, you can't trust these USSR liers".
Having calories on food packages helps though, even if it is reductionist, because it's a good surrogate for foods high in energy, low in nutrients, the kind of food that's designed to be overeaten.

For whole food, I agree that calories don't matter because we can trust our satiety signals. For junk food designed to be overeaten, I find that information quite useful.

Note that I do track my calories periodically.

In spite of popular claims it isn't that hard, technically speaking and it doesn't have to be super accurate.

The problem with calorie counting is one of mentality. Because you end up thinking about how many calories you have left, it ends up draining you emotionally and you can suffer binging episodes due to it. The brain is unpredictable and we can't necessarily control ourselves which is why we can get fat in the first place.

I think everyone should try to measure their calories for educational purposes. If you do, the best app is Cronometer, by far.

But to lose weight you need first of all long term compliance, so you need a strategy that can work long term. Counting calories doesn't work long term if you're too emotional and you can't help to treat those numbers as anything else than just data. Counting calories definitely doesn't work for me.