skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is rude but what was your weight before you started? In my experience and what I've observed, people who chant praises of weight loss techniques always fail to disclose that they were overweight/obese (in the technical bmi sense). It isn't hard to lose weight when you're in that category at all. Everybody who is in the obese category can lose 20-30 lbs in about a couple of months without question simply by maintaining a decent sized caloric deficit. Intermittent fasting was not what caused you to lose weight. It is just a fad esoteric movement that instructs you to have some self restraint. Kinda like a religion.

The one tried and true, definite till the end of time means of losing weight is a simple caloric deficit. Eventually with intermittent fasting you will hit a wall because you still consume the same amount of calories and your body will adapt to the schedule. It will consume your energy over the course of time as opposed to immediately which will halt your weight loss.

I speak of this as someone who essentially did intermittent fasting unintentionally. I would skip breakfast and not consume anything besides coffee until 12:00. My last meal would be before 20:00. So essentially I'd go 16 hours without eating. I couldn't lose weight because after I got done exercising, I gorged. I replenished every calorie I burnt off on top of the residual I also could consume for the day. My stomach expanded to be able to hold the large amount of food intake too. Once I ate smaller portions over the course of the day, not only did my caloric intake shrink (because I helped shrink my stomach back down to size before feeling full), but I couldn't eat as much. So I felt "gorged" on 400-600 calories.

Don't listen to that "2000 calorie" rule. That is for people who exercise significantly or have physical labor jobs. When that number was created, it was assumed people worked physically. If you have a sedentary job, you do not need more than 1200 calories a day and can very easily get your nutrients with just that alone. If you exercise, it gives you an additional reason to eat more and more opportunities to replenish said nutrients.
ROCOR's Lenten fast would make a more interesting study.
Using an API like https://keygen.sh, you are in control of how you “fingerprint” devices, so creating an anonymized fingerprint should be pretty easy using a secure hashing algorithm. You can check out the privacy policy for info on data retention for things such as IPs in log data. Privacy-focused licensing isn’t *super* hard. Activating a ‘new’ device is as simple as deactivating the original device and activating the new device.

(Disclaimer: I’m the founder.)
Internal combustion engines are actually very efficient.

Burning gasoline in a power plant produces 2.13 pounds of CO2 per kWh, Model 3 LR consumes 16 kWh per 100km, so 34.08lb of CO2. A car consuming 7 liters of gas per 100km would emit 35lb of CO2. I assume energy loss from plant to battery is not insignificant so the IC should be better if the power grid is 100% petroleum (for coal it should be 2x worse).

Sources:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11

https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/info-tools/One%20tab...
You just described evolution.
You forgot step 0: ban every member of the Ba'ath party from participating in the government, thus ensuring a large supply of insurgents with military experience and access to weapons depots we didn't bother to secure.
Right, misinformation. Reasonable people can disagree about where the line between “actual fake news” and “news with a spin I don’t like” is.
How relevant and accessible to the public were general purpose computers in the past?

> To a normal person the mere thought of figuring out how to use a raspberry pi (or increasingly even a windows PC) induces a stress response.

I’d argue that this has always been true—the only difference is that now, if you’re willing to push through that stress, you can get one for dirt cheap. And I’d also argue that the reasons that this is true are completely ignored by the article at hand.
After reading your comment I had to check out the situation in the case of Donkey Kong Country, since that series has some of the most impressive SNES soundtracks in my opinion.
While they did an impressive job, there is still a distinct difference between the two systems.

GBA: https://youtu.be/UlTgFb0qbxQ

SNES: https://youtu.be/_4EjGXRDOH0

edit: They added some interesting didgeridoo-like sound effects to "Forest Frenzy" though
Well I would say that it gets easier as you go, other than you feeling progressively weaker and weaker. You probably made it through the worst of the hunger and cravings at 70 hours
A "good interviewer" is one who can ask "the right questions" when they've got a guest who may have something worth saying. A really good interviewer can tease information out of a guest during an interview that they likely might not otherwise have said aloud in a public venue.

Is Joe Rogan a "good interviewer"? I haven't watched enough of him to have much of an opinion, but what little I have watched, his guests seem pretty comfortable talking to him.
Very good points there.

I have directly experienced the problems associated with blindly assuming that you can write your own consistency guarantees in Redis. I didn't do it but I had to write some tooling to rewrite the AOF to get some data back...
The u'v' chromaticity diagram has been the recommended tool since 1976, 45 years ago, long before any diagram you will see on the web was created.

The “color of the universe” brouhaha is amusing, but trying to assign a color to the universe is somewhat nonsensical, and the result is not really meaningful to laypeople.
Find a steep hill and you can pedal as hard as you like without going very fast. But in general there's nothing particularly dangerous about riding fast if you have decent bike handling skills and watch out for traffic.
Not really. Indian devs afaik use the same websites Americans do (probably has to do with English being lingua franca in tech in India as well)
When was that? 30 years ago? Try having a conversation today with a progressive about virtually any issue where American conservatives may agree with people in Asia or Africa (or even a big chunk of moderate Democrats).

I noticed this particularly acutely in how progressives have rallied around Muslims but you can’t actually talk about a bunch of stuff my Bangladeshi mom and aunts believe. Same sex marriage is one example, but also abortion, gender roles, child rearing, civil order, religion in schools, etc.

Ironically, as a result, you can’t have public conversations about a bunch of stuff many Democrats (particularly non-white Democrats) believe. When Obama have a speech about dads raising their kids, he was shouted down by white liberals. Can’t talk about Latino views on abortion, or Muslim views on gender roles and procreative marriage.
Green flash: not that rare…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pg843QhHc
What sort of advice are you looking for?

I wrote this, most of the links are to primary research on fasting.

https://usetemper.com/learn/metabolic-fitness-no-bigger-oppo...

Most of the primary research isn't really focused on generating "advice." If I had to pick the protocol with the best direct evidence, I'd pick "early time restricted feeding" (eTRF).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29754952/
That's what Brian Johnson practices. It's not a fasting protocol I would actually recommend to most people because it's pretty inconvenient, but it's been directly studied as an intervention.
Google maps does this for all destinations...
It does a dotted line from the nearest road to the actual location if the actual location isn't on the road.

Hardly a surprise when you ask for car directions...
I'm just an interloper across the pond: is there hard info on the UK not being able to vaccinate all the willing?

I'm not convinced by the abstract argument, not because it's necessarily wrong, just because it feels _too_ easy: it was my abstract argument a couple months back
Oh, but it is true.

If their service is popular, then the public conversation is to that degree affected. Clearly.
Bug:

def pi():
...
while Ak != 0 :
...
result = ...
return result

The two lines ‘result =’ and ‘return result’ are indented too far.

Verified by replacing the last line by

print(stringPi[n-5:n+5])

and comparing the output given 1000 with https://decimal.info/digits-of-pi/value-of-pi-to-1000-decima...

The bug starts to show different digits after

3.141592653589793238462643383

continuing with 58735 (should be 27950, according to https://www.piday.org/million/)
Oh I'd say we have plenty of ways to measure and observe consciousness. We can measure brain activity during sleep and understand with some precision whether someone is dreaming or not, which is a state of consciousness. We can give someone a psychoactive drug, and ask them questions about how their consciousness has been altered.

> Forward movement can be measured. And if you removed parts of the car you would eventually get down to the bare minimum required for forward movement because you could observe it. You cannot do this with consciousness.

What makes you so confident of this? We actually have plenty of evidence in this direction with consciousness. We can observe that lesions in different parts of the brain have very predictable effects on consciousness. We can observe that psychedelics like LSD reduce sensory inputs to the thalamus, having very predictable effects on consciousness. Consciousness is obviously a process which responds to physical intervention, so why should we jump to the conclusion that it somehow exists outside the bounds of the physical world rather than assuming that it's just one of many physical phenomena we have yet to fully understand?

To give an example, we cannot reliably predict the movement of the economy. We can understand some of the forces guiding it, we can try to understand it in terms of certain metric, and we can take some actions to get the results we want, but ultimately we can't point to any one thing and say: "this is the economy". It's an emergent property of a vastly dynamic interconnected system of billions of independent actors, and as a result we will probably never be able to fully pin it down. But we don't assume that the economy moves as the result of some magical force controlled by the gods, we rightly know it's just something out of our grasp.
Your second link isn't the original SNES version, it's a remix designed to sound better. Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dghlAQDQneU

I still agree that the SNES version sounds much better than the GBA version, but people shouldn't think the SNES version sounded like that remix.
How can some people keep improving year after year on these tests, though? They don't fit into your possible options.
Smaller tasks and better testing. Automate from commit push through the e2e build & test
If they don't have a motivation to do so, sure, because it's extra work. Introduce a motivation, and that quickly changes given the wide range of introductory material out there.
I would guess most under 35 wouldn't even think to use a paper map honestly, I wouldn't and I'm actually closer to 40, but I've been getting my information from online sources since the the late 90's, I don't use paper anything in any other part of my life, there's no obvious reason to use a paper map over google maps or some specialist mountaineering app.
> But I don't think people get into any form of art, and I count programming as a form of art, expecting huge sums of money. We all do it for the sake of doing it, because it feels good to do it, to learn, to overcome, to achieve.

No offense: but spoken like someone who has made enough money from something they enjoy to imply they'd do it without money. If you were working 12 hours a day in multiple minimum wage jobs I think you'd find your desire to program in your spare time quickly vanishing.
I don't think masters degrees are a scam. However, there are a lot of online only masters programs out there now, and I am not sure they provide the same value. More on that later,

Yes, MS are much more career targeted. That's a feature, not a detriment. In computer science undergrad, I had to take 2 religion, 4 philosophy, 2 history, and 3 language classes. None of those 11 made me a better person nor helped my career. There were 10+ other humanities classes I had to take which left me no room to do what I actually wanted to do: dual major in business and computer science. Note: there were ZERO classes I was given that had any web, cloud, or big data learning in them. I still felt restricted by the 10 courses I had to take for my computer science masters, but I routinely use what I learned in my masters at work. It was extremely beneficial/applicable. There is something to be said for context switching as well. I liked having a smaller-focused course load.

Another thing I liked / found beneficial is the dedication of my classmates. In undergrad, many students wanted to do the bare minimum and move on with their lives. A lot was about partying and sleeping in, which isn't bad, but having classmates who are passionate about the topics and dedicated to putting their best foot forward in class is nice to also have. Its nice having these two separate learning experiences. I've kept in touch with almost no one from undergrad, but lots from masters. The most valuable aspect of a masters is the students, which is why I am highly skeptical of online only masters programs.

In the end, my masters degree doubled my earnings and set my career on a whole new trajectory. Its a great way to energize or restart your career as well.
I didn't change composition of my diet much back then, but I noticed that on days when I fast longer, my BP goes even lower. I could probably fast myself into lightheadedness now on Concor (not that I want to).

People are fairly diverse, so different reactions are to be expected. Our gut microbiota is diverse, too.

I also noticed that even slight amounts of alcohol (1 glass of wine) are visible on my BP for about 24 hours after. An increase of 5-7 points.
The dotted line is not directions. It just indicates that you can’t get to the destination by car so it brought you to the closest place and you’ll have to walk the rest of the way. The dotted line is not walking directions but I guess I can see the confusion.
What is the property that makes those cells not concious? As you explain, there is some sort of difference there but it's not clear how that works.
This is correct. Right now our best and brightest can only build demos that fall apart the moment something is out of place. Humanoid or even partial humanoid (wheeled base) robots are far from ready for general purpose deployment.
OpenStreetMap really does crush Google Maps for outdoor routes and trails.
When you have syndromes with a huge number of symptoms, including extremely common conditions, and the symptoms are largely untestable, relying on patient self-reporting, then you're going to catch a lot of people with these symptoms.

This is the exact same thing with Long Covid, or Gulf War Syndrome.

The most interesting thing about Havana Syndrome is that it apparently only affects English-speaking diplomats in American and Canadian embassies. This is probably because they're familiar with the syndrome from news reports.
Hasn't Twitch always been that way? It's been my impression that streamers are a bit more nuttier compared to the average Instagram influencer or TikToker since most of them have to grind videogames while talking to their computer for 12 hours each day before being gaining enough of a following to set their own schedule.
We should really endeavor to build collectively owned institutions that can purchase and operate the robots (and physical space) we depend on.

EDIT: Imagine the "credit unions" I mention in the following linked comment, but holding homes and manufacturing space to be used by members.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27860696
Here's a video from 2018, from the official Tesla account. https://vimeo.com/192179726

It starts with the words "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself." The rest of the video shows the car moving without the person touching the wheel.

So yeah, I do indeed wonder where people have gotten the impression that it is OK to take your hands off the wheel in a Tesla-make car.
Matrix 2 was a cliffhanger leading to a letdown, but I loved the many little worldbuilding elements (like The Merovingian etc.)
Biden Wants to Give Us the Right to Repair. Now What?
I have a bachelors in computer engineering but I've taken drawing and painting classes at my local community college. It was a fun and we met once a week at night for 3 months. I think it was $120 for the entire 3 months but we did have to buy our own supplies.

I have a programmer friend that took welding and car repair classes at the community college. He just wanted to learn.
Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia have some of the highest obesity rates in the world.

https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/
I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week
How I Design Programs – Jeremy Gibbons [video]
I always use OSM while hiking. At least in Spain its coverage is much better than Google's. OSM shows the smallest trails where on Google Maps I'd be walking in a totally green screen. There's also a local alternative called WikiLoc but they're paid and they don't allow payments outside the play store sadly.

Of course nothing beats a paper map for reliability but I tend to refer to OSM unless it's not available somehow.
So…

Many developers never get past a composition first mindset. That is beginner shit. It’s putting legos together without the instruction manual only to stress about how the pieces click together instead what the final state is. You end up with lots of decoration and shit everywhere. In the military we call this not seeing the forest for the trees.

As a senior myself in the corporate world who enjoys writing open source software there is a world of difference between people build products and people that just write code at work. It’s a difference in velocity, planning, and volume. When you are writing software on your own where you aren’t paid for your time you tend to be in far less of a hurry and yet produce 10x as much. As a corporate developer you are paid to hurry and complete tasks and in many cases with incomplete documentation, which is just writing code and sometimes guessing at what you need. When you are on your own success is measured in product delivery and feature completion, which is not just writing code.

Another major difference is communication. If you communicate poorly your open source software is dead on arrival. End of story. You should never have to guess at your business requirements, APIs, steps to reproduce defects, and various other things. The more you have to guess the more mistakes you will make. The only path to redemption is to communicate more precisely than those around you.

Perhaps the worst distinction is design by committee. Frequent long meetings just waste peoples time. The time that’s left over means hurry harder. A more productive direction is for some fool to sit a position of leadership and make arbitrary decisions. A wrong decision can be fixed, but wasted time is gone forever.

You can’t really explain this to a developer who has never written code outside the office because they refuse to believe what they have never experienced. The hurried low productivity churn is all they know.
You forgot another option. Immigrate to Canada and then move to the US on a TN.
Wrong IG name, its actually @marc.olsz
Yeah, you're an asshole and I no longer care about your article.

You made it much further than I did. Even as a (nominally) rational human being, I really don't see how I'm supposed to be obligated to take the opinions of anyone that would write such things seriously.

He does make some rather valid points with respect to the types of things you have to be willing to deal with if you choose to run Linux as your primary OS.
One thing that struck me recently was that the famous imagenet competition that was won by a neural net took place in 2012. So we have made fantastic advances in ten years. But I'd still say at best robots like you describe are 20 years away, and that's a long time horizon for a small organization.
It wasn’t luck.

After two devastating wars look at where Germany is now. An economic and industrial superpower
I write as a passtime, so this is a really interesting read for me. I'm not sure HN is quite the right audience for it though.
It's a bit hard to do a proper end-to-end comparison when it would have also depended on what kind of TV was attached to the SNES.

You could take a photo in a well-lit room, if you can find a room with a working GBA, SNES, and CRT in it.
I'm considering a masters in physics because I'm interested in possibly pursuing a Ph.D. there, but never got beyond 200-level in undergrad. The local university offers a physics MS that's basically a rebranding of their undergrad core, but at night to cater to working adults. It'd be cheaper to just take the undergrad classes, but that just doesn't fit into life, so I'm willing to pay for the privilege of being able to take them at night. (A Ph.D. program may never fit into real life either, but that's a different problem for a different day).
I just don't think this is a very interesting thing to contemplate, because I don't think any single neuron can be "aware" in isolation. Neurons are just information processing units and transmission untis. Awareness surely has to be a function of the activity of multiple neurons communicating with one another.
This study is in rats, and if I'm reading the article correctly it also involves a population of rats that are bred to be predisposed to hypertension. So although it sounds like there are some interesting anecdata stories in the comments, this is very far from being generalisable to human populations. Seems like it would be a pretty easy study to do in humans though, to the point where I wonder if it hasn't been done already, even if not specifically focused on gut bacteria.
What was your fasting routine? and for how long did you do it? Just interested in seeing what others are doing. I know there's 16-8 (16 hours no-eating, 8 hours where you can eat).
Recreating Wushu using low-detail-ragdoll CGI is an offense against Wushu.

I think "respecting the art" is a fine way to describe his decision.
Even if logically two statements are the same, the implication or tone can be important. There are media reporting guidelines on suicide e.g. the Samaritans in the UK provide one, as do the WHO and CDC.

https://media.samaritans.org/documents/Media_Guidelines_FINA...

https://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/resourc...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm

Though the Samaritans one lists "took their own life" as actually being okay and warns against phrases like "committed suicide".
Absolutely! I loved shooting down Y Wings in particular.
May be, but Iran is pronounced correctly in the guide (EE-RAHN, in section 'The Country'). Why mess up Iraq then. Strange.