skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your diet doesn’t matter if in the end you consume more calories than expended- you will gain weight.

This isn't true though, it's not the amount of calories you consume but the amount of calories your body actually accesses out of those consumed.

If most of the calories you consume simply pass through or get consumed by the parasites living in your large intestine, calories consumed can exceed calories expended by you while still losing weight.

The researcher who discovered the general role a pancreas plays in weight gain back in the 1800s had dogs living normal lives after removing their pancreases. Except no matter how much food they consumed, they continuously lost weight, and eventually died as if they'd starved to death. He discovered their urine was sweet after seeing flies were more attracted to their urine than the normal; without pancreas-created insulin the fat cells wouldn't store the energy, it was leaving the system in the urine.

This illustrates the role hormones play in energy storage/release. Everyone's hormone levels are different, and how they respond to different foods varies, it's all very subjective, sex, and age-dependent. So even within those calories accessed via the GI tract, there's hormonal variability in what gets stored vs. used vs. excreted.

Calories consumed only sets an upper bound; if you consume less calories than expended, you will lose weight. It's not a symmetric relationship like your statement assumes.
Obviously America has problems that should be addressed, but I tend to think these "blame the US for everything cuz it's irredeemable" are doing a pretty big disservice all around. If we could singularly find these problems to be a uniquely American thing, that would be great! That means we've identified the problems and conceivably we could change the US to suddenly fix it. I think the reality is that it's not that simple. History has shown us that people across basically every nationality are vulnerable to demagoguery, and I seriously don't think the US is unique in electing a bunch of blowhards as leaders.

There are lots of things about the US I would change (socialized healthcare being the obvious thing in my mind), but I don't think that we should delude ourselves by saying that the US is beyond redeemable.
I think they unexpectedly benefited from the shenanigans (PR wise)
> One answer, though, is "why not be both?"

Resource constraints basically, and the removal of the degree from free market mechanics. I.e. guaranteed loans, not being able to discharge upon bankruptcy, etc.

You also don't need to go to college to get an education in what are historically liberal arts subjects (history, etc.) and in-person classroom lectures for those topics really should be few and far between and extremely academic.

I probably remember or know as much about history as a random undergrad history major does just because I read a lot and you can't remember everything.

Most of those classes aren't worth a lot of money. In fact you can take pretty much any class you would want to for free with open lectures too. I'd also argue that most liberal arts courses don't teach students how to think critically as a broad skillset. Usually the professor just has a narrative or point of view that they want to push and you can't really write contrary to that without an inordinate amount of research which begs the question "why bother?" when the whole point of being there is to get a degree with good grades to get a job. The whole cycle is screwed up.

I'd also say besides some class signaling stuff I can't really tell the difference between university graduates and non-graduates. Work output is the same in my experience.
I don't know what you are on about, I assume you haven't worked in sales, but I have and I have done this pleanty and the conversation goes like this:

Boss: did you make a sale?

Me: Yes

Boss: good job

Im sorry but if you work in sales and your boss gets upset at returns your boss is new to sales.
> About 8 months ago I started really watching how much sugar and highly processed carbs I eat (not a keto diet, just not going crazy with pasta and sweets).

I would assume that this is the biggest contributor. Being consciously mindful of what you eat and how much you eat is extremely effective. But I say this for the benefit of others, and not to diminish your own efforts; if a regimen is working for you, then don't worry about analyzing and just keep at it! :)
I see nothing mind-blowing about the fact that 99% of the developers on the ground are not willing to take on the challenge of inventing and bootstrapping a completely decentralized network. And that they need to work today and not after 10 years, when such an effort maybe finally takes off.

Do you find these mind-blowing?

As for self-hosting GitHub, yes, that's much more viable and I believe more of us should be doing it (although I personally plan to still have GitHub as a central source of truth and just backup all my repos to several servers under my control). But GitHub is also very socially entrenched and provides a real value-add in terms of good PR interface, Wiki, issues, discussions and whatnot.
Kahneman's Thinking fast and thinking slow explains all of this. The fast-thinking part of our brain (the sub-conscious) tells us the "obvious" answer all the time. And it is WRONG. It's only by asking "stupid" questions that we start to engage our slow-thinking conscious brain and find out the truth.

Idiots.
Can you elaborate on the “interactions” you have during video sessions? I’m kinda uneasy about video classes and would really appreciate it.
Oh I see, that’s a tough one. And thanks for the feedback!
Actually the sum is only 0.00007% away from $155k.

(Before parent poster edited their post they had "$~154k").
> it is overrepresented

Definitely relative to the available jobs in those fields.

Should college primarily function as job training? No, but unfortunately - for what it currently costs - it has to.
Does anyone know how OPs blog is hosted? It looks nice.
The onboarding flow gives me pause - I'd like to check the speed / perf w/ my content before signing / paying.
Can critical thinking be taught?
100M-year old crab trapped in amber rewrites ancient crustacean history
So how do you handle political differences?

I can definitely feel closer with people if we’re on the same page politically.

And it’s really jarring to have so many things in common and then discover they’re promoting the destruction of western values …

I could definitely use some advice.

On the other hand back when politics wasn’t as in your daily life I really didn’t care about disagreements.
I suppose I fall in the a republican camp so i'll bite.

College is too expensive for what it gives. You gain a ton in maturity, soft skill building but unless you're in a STEM major, the material does not prepare you for the real world. Depending on what my kid wants to study, I will not be encouraging college.

So much journalism is so insanely biased. I respectfully disagree to anyone who thinks Biden is treated the same as Trump was.

I don't deny covid's existence at all. I took it very seriously in the beginning of the pandemic. But as more data came out, I realized it wasn't a big deal for my age group. I later got covid and only lost sense smell/taste for 4 days. Didn't feel the need to miss any work (remote job).

I don't like the boomer-esque decisions some of these republicans make in regards to tech security, abortion, or cannabis but I guess I have to side with that over freedom reducing laws, excessive money printing, and increased taxes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Use_by_militant_g...

It's not just wikipedia though, you can find it all over.

Hiluxes are extremely durable and widespread is why. Tacoma is the closest we get to a Hilux in NA. They use to be the same, but NA market likes things a bit bigger and luxurious so the Tacoma's just don't come in single-cab and generally have more amenities.
I think people are missing the sarcasm here.
You have "free(buf_2); // Safe if null", but if CHECK(buf_1) turns into a "goto error", won't buf_2 be uninitialized? And so can take on any value?
I was enjoying this article right up until he started shaking his fist at the heavens. As it meandered into rambling he undermined what was shaping up to be a good read. Losing me with foregone conclusion his roommate's hesitance to go all-in on masks was the reason she got, "long-covid".

Seems he glommed onto the mask because it was something an individual can control in the face of an ultimately nihilistic reality, over which one has little influence. Like buying toilet paper despite assurances there is no shortage, myopic assertions on the observable sure seems to make people feel better. Speaking of shortages, the criticisms of n95's stemmed from a legitimate shortfall among medical personnel, despite questionable value to panic-buying consumers. "The Science" I'm sure he cites behind this rationale has been pretty clear regarding how Covid spreads. Prolonged close indoor personal contact. Wearing the n95 at the grocery store or while walking the dog poses little benefit because those situations pose little risk. Given serological investigation puts the rates of asymptomatic infection anywhere between 10 to 40:1, his roomie is more likely to have contracted it from him than from her unwillingness to wear a mask. Possibly while sitting at the dinner table with our author, rolling her eyes as he urgently espoused the virtues of the public N95. We'll never know for certain, but he'll surely continue to conversely reason her disagreement on the matter led to that, "stupid" conclusion.

Given the clarity of hindsight, global epidemiological statistics remaining largely unaffected by public mask policy starts to makes sense. After all if his reasoning behind the mask had an air of truth to it you'd be able to observe at least some impact on infection rates before and after mandates. Yet for the most part communities all followed a the similar bell-shaped trajectory, regardless of policy or political orientation. I see a lot of people pretending this isn't the case, that there isn't two years of data suggesting otherwise, meanwhile the rest are quietly bartering with their gods the others will get over it and move on with their lives. It's really a shame his article blundered into Covid territory, because he was starting to say something worthwhile. Like most conversations Covid, the substance evaporated as we were left with largely emotional appeals. Shame we can't talk about politicized risks pragmatically, trying to fit them into a wider context of facts and numbers. Like, why am I even talking about Covid when upwards of 8M people, largely children under 5, die every year from respiratory diseases caused by pollution? Sure seems the world has other problems. Maybe, like politics and religion, the topic just isn't suited for polite company.
Do you expect people to pretend the trend isn't happening in order to comfort you? What does it say about your own values that they are so loosely held that you'd sacrifice them out of contempt like this?
You can’t remove his actions from context though. They are only even possible because of a deliberate and calculated campaign to discredit science and knowledge and punish those who have it. They’re banking on people like you just looking to keep the peace at any cost.

If you’re not actively working to dismantle the current Republican Party, we cannot be on the same side. I don’t mind alienating you; the masters tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
I've mastered about a dozen and can read another dozen or so.

I have the same problem you're describing, but it tends to be with languages I haven't used in a while.

I've also resigned myself to be ok with googling a lot of things:

"list comprehension python"

"typescript generic constraint"

"golang package visibility"

Once I got ok with this approach, I became a much happier and productive developer. Rather than beating myself up that I couldn't remember the details, I just "outsourced" said details to Google/StackOverflow and focused on the big picture.

As long as I grok the semantics, I haven't missed remembering all the syntax and idioms of each and every language.
Okay. It's right there on the title: "my script killed 10k phones". Do you have any reason to believe "killed" means anything lesser than "rendered completely useless, bricked"? Also, there's the fact the software "would lock the low-level features that allowed you to make calls". There is no reason to believe calls to emergency services were exempted.

I don't really want to comment on the rest of the article. Actually, as one of the "poor sods from places like Peru and Chile" I do have quite a few things to say about the author's gross negligence and his endless rationalizations. I just don't want to get permabanned for saying them. Suffice it to say that negligence of this magnitude is actually a crime where I live.
Bidule has been around for ages - at least 10 and maybe even 20 years.
This kind if thing had been happening forever. You either have to report it anonymously or risk going to jail over trying to be helpful.
NFTs in Augmented and Virtual Reality Mediums
> The only magic in the wins AMD and Apple have had the last few years have been in them being effectively a manufacturing process node ahead of Intel.

Except for all the features on the chips, differing design philosophies, and peripheral interconnects, sure the only difference is manufacturing node. But what have the Romans ever done for us?
One of the most memorable experiences of my post-doc was working with the venerable Joachim Cuntz. It was often amusing to attend talks with him as he'd usually blast the speaker with a barrage of seemingly rudimentary questions.

This trait is shared among almost all of the mathematicians I've respected deeply and it's always astounding how the most trivial lines of questioning can lead to deep, profound realizations.
a glass of red a night is most likely not going to give you cancer or damage your DNA. a joint a night on the other have just might (depending on your predisposition) have an extremely negative effect

besides given how long we have been consuming alcohol throughout our history, i think its effects are largely understood. we do not know this about cannabis
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/ceterisparibus.asp
I introduced Timescale at an IIOT company, we had thousands of sensors regularly sending data up and wanted to efficiently display such metrics to users on a per-sensor basis, and one "tick" of data had a lot of metrics. Timescale let us go from Postgres for metadata and OpenTSDB (awful, stay far away) for time series to just one Timescale instance for everything. Huge win for us. We had enough data that doing the same with vanilla Postgres would have performed much worse (billions of rows).

We wrote more about this for an earlier Timescale blog post: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-everactive-powers-a-dens...
It's the Internet. One of the things baked into the Internet is the abuse. It's been there from very early on, and it's never been substantially curbed. Some would probably rank it as a defining characteristic of the Internet. Many communities have grown on the Internet, in which part of what defines the in-group is when and how you're abusive, not whether (of course you are). This isn't a one-off, but a part of what communities grow around over and over again. Facebook and Twitter see tons of it, even when anonymity isn't a factor.

The medium is the message. One of the messages of the Internet, as a medium, is abuse.

Now, whether the take-away is "we should try to regulate it to stop that", or "people should stop using it to post details and thoughts, alongside PII and all tied to one traceable identity, that they wouldn't ever post to the public-use notice board at the local grocery store, because it's fucking insane (as Zuck might put it, they're 'dumb fucks') to post like that on the Internet and expect it to go well", or something else, is a matter for consideration.
Wonder if this outcome can be reproduced if asked in other spoken human languages and "AI"
>It doesn't matter that you're probably right.

I guess reality does have a well known liberal bias :)
I've been doing for years and it took about a month

- Wake up 6 - 6:15am
- Espresso shot around 8am
- Regular sized but healthy meal at 11:30am with a small pastry walk 12:30pm
- Regular sized but healthy meal at 5:30pm
- Little dessert 7pm
- Sleep at ~11 - 11:30pm

Highly recommend, as OP have had essentially nothing but positives including preliminary weight loss, easy weight management, higher energy, etc
Time to innovate, then :D
It's hard to reconcile this with personal anecdata, although it probably works because of behavioural side effects and not because of direct metabolic ones. I dropped 35lbs in 6 months using IF/OMAD, but I could easily attribute the ~6 lbs/mo weight loss to just applying any discipline at all to eating habits. It's a bit of a magic feather. I compare IF to religious people tithing a percentage of their income, where that exercise itself creates a habit of fiscal discipline that has a higher overall returns as a near term strategy than simply relying on ones already failed discipline for budgeting or saving would. It's like it's subject to the trade off of knowing results, truth, causality, pick two.
> Depending on the context some people are glad to converse instead of being on their phones

I believe GP's point is not that people aren't glad to converse or that small talk is hard, it's just that almost nobody approaches people to ask questions anymore because we have answers in our phone.
>Viewing anonymous posts on the internet is almost always voluntary.

No it isn't. Social media is a near required part of modern life for a lot of people, especially those in the public sphere. For example, it is near impossible to be a freelance journalist without a social media account. Once you have that account, people are free to push their anonymous posts to you.

>This is closer kin to victimless crime as opposed to real crime than it is conditional rules of engagement.

This is just a baffling comment and shows you are out of touch with the type of abuse we are talking about. I can't imagine you have seen any of this first hand if you think this is "close kin to victimless crime". There are very much victims on the end of this abuse.
This is exactly what I heard on The Daily. Everyone is buying stuff to get ready for the holidays but had nowhere to store it so they use the port. So normally when there would be zero container ships anchored there are now plenty. It’s a good listen but it all pretty much ties back to just in time manufacturing plus a lot of other complications. (Containers being all over the world because of shipping PPE and other pandemic items when normally those containers are filled back up and sent with other goods.)
If someone buys and apple tv and then buys Youtube tv - then the market fees are 30%

If someone already has youtube tv and signs in on apple tv, the sure...

BUT.. when you use an apple tv, Apple makes it remarkably hard NOT to use an apple account to not subscribe to services so in most cases, it's gonna be your wife seeing HBO in the apps and installing and subbing through there.

That's the entire premise of their walled garden and i still can't believe people pay a premium for it.
That’s neat!
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Donald Trump does a SPAC
It’s not an individual vaccine; there are dozens of individual vaccines across the world and they have all been proven safe. People are just scared of a needle and the sniffles (if your body reacts to the vaccine by getting sick, congrats! You probably avoided a trip to the ICU).
Calling someone a hacker when they are clearly not remotely hacking, and saying they exposed private info when in fact it was the government, both seems like things that could be defemation to me.
Can you provide some breadcrumbs to find opt-in ?
"looking stupid" seems like a poor abstraction for two other things: 1) failing to come to terms with your own insufficiency, and 2) being willing to do things that others are not doing. I think separating them out helps us realize they are separate skills, and this way, those of us who are not naturally talented at them are more likely to pick them up.

Another helpful thing would have been examples. What were the stupid questions he was asking in college?
>especially in the early years, it teaches students how to think critically

Is this a thing only in the US? I went to university in Europe and there were 0 subjects that were unrelated to the (STEM) degree I chose. It was all 100% technical stuff.
I’ve been wondering similar things myself. I abandoned front-end development and have been trying to relearn things I used to know as well as new things. I don’t even have a clue what kind of employment I could be worthy of and required steps to take to pursue it.
Yes, in any regard that matters. The IRS cannot just decide to start doing this. They have to follow the law.
I agree. Almost all of the difficulty is just not getting how mathematicians think or communicate.

Honestly I think a lot of effort is wasted starting with this stuff rather than more motivated examples... But the interest is the harder thing to come by, so at least they're learning something.
Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch
Reminds me of the one video I saw of this man spraying different things with some sort of polymer that was virtually unbreakable. He'd spray a cinderblock wall and then hit it with a sledgehammer. The wall would break, but the polymer would hold... so yay?

That said, It seems like the sort of thing you'd want to spray asphalt shingles with.
Isn't 'sleep sort' linear with respect to array size?

O(n) sort achieved?
> You're alienating people like me from being on your side.

On one side are the computer scientists and engineers who understand the nature of the problem. On the other side are ignorant and/or dishonest actors out to avoid being embarrassed.

It's all on you if you pick the wrong one out of loyalty to a political party.
I'll share mine, he doesn't say a word here.

https://youtu.be/5aeav3gVlAM
Southwest Airlines lost $75M amid mass flight cancellation
Politically speaking, this can only be a victory for the governor. In conservative political theater, any association with "standing up to the liberal media" is valuable. Furthermore, if/when this whole thing fails in the courts, either conservative voters will never know about it, or the legal defeat will only contribute to the "standing up to the liberal media" narrative.

At this point, it's all about getting on Trump's radar in order to secure his VP nomination in 2024. I totally believe that's what's going on here - political posturing.
> If the automaton is intelligent then it's not mindless.

Does the automation have conscious experiences? Take a simulation of a city populated with characters. Do those characters experience the city? Do they feel the warmth of the digital sun on their digital face?

> I actually think Turing created a decent method of detecting consciousness.

Would the turing machine feel anything during its conversation? Is there anything it's like to be code? All of these kinds of phrases are ways of specifying subjectivity.