skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the shocking things I figured out when researching this that no one ever talks about is just how efficient fat is.

If you burn 2000 calories a day and eat 2000 calories a day, you are in a steady state. Won't gain or lose any weight. But if you burn 2000 calories a day and eat 2100 calories a day, you have a 100 calorie gain. This should all be obvious. So you do that a month and a few days, and after a month or so you are up 3500 calories, which is one pound.

Now that you are one pound of fat heavier, you now burn an additional couple calories per day. If you continue to eat 2100 calories, you will gain 10 pounds before you reach your equilibrium weight from consuming 2100 calories.

Every 10 daily calories is worth 1 pound. Every daily apple is worth 10 pounds long-term. The 720 calorie average above is worth 72 pounds of fat. And that's even before we consider if now that you burn more calories, you will start eating more calories to keep the same offset?
> It's like they really think they can get away with offering "unlimited" storage without people taking full advantage of it.

I didn't sense that they were bitter about it. But in both cases I do have some sympathy for the business.

There is "unlimited" in the sense of what a regular average p50 user would consider reasonable ("every photo i've ever taken with my cellphone of my grandchild")

Then there is "unlimited" for a professional p99 user("Every RAW file of every photo i've ever taken as a professional photographer")

And then there is "unlimited" for a data hoarder p99.99 user ("Every movie i've ever torrented in 4k, plus multiple seasons of every TV show ever made")

As a business you design your model to attract to the p50 customer so that Grandma doesn't have to worry about deleting photos, taking things too far, and losing something important. Unlimited is powerful here. The hope is that the p99 use case gets offset by the person who's paying for the service but barely using it.

The p99.99 user? They're just a pain in the butt. You can't chase them away without also chasing away grandma (You can't say "Data cap of 1TB" - people have no idea how much data anything uses).

So of course you tolerate them. But ultimately? They're the reason you go out of business. They're the reason Crashplan switched to B2B, and why Backblaze isn't making any money. Can't feel good.
ultra-processed foods is the term you're looking for I think

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2019-06-19/ultraprocessed...
IPOs usually pop quickly regardless, if you believe in shorting it, you can get even better value for your short.
Yeah, pretty annoying when you want to access a site on your iPad without any mail client configured. I ended up needing to use airdrop to send the login link to the iPad. Totally not user friendly in my case.
Is Elon Musk one of the bigger winners from inflation?
> The use of mRNA vaccines in pregnancy is now generally considered safe for protection against COVID-19 in countries such as New Zealand, USA, and Australia. However, the influential CDC- sponsored article by Shimabukuro et al. (2021) used to support this idea, on closer inspection, provides little assurance, particularly for those exposed in early pregnancy. The study presents falsely reassuring statistics related to the risk of spontaneous abortion in early pregnancy, since the majority of women in the calculation were exposed to the mRNA product after the outcome period was defined (20 weeks’ gestation).

> In this article, we draw attention to these errors and recalculate the risk of this outcome based on the cohort that was exposed to the vaccine before 20 weeks’ gestation. Our re-analysis indicates a cumulative incidence of spontaneous abortion 7 to 8 times higher than the original authors’ results
(p < 0.001) and the typical average for pregnancy loss during this time period. In light of these findings, key policy decisions have been made using unreliable and questionable data. We conclude that the claims made using these data on the safety of exposure of women in early pregnancy to mRNA-based vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are unwarranted and recommend that those policy decisions be revisited.
The study indicates that at least 81.9% (≥ 104/127) experienced spontaneous abortion following mRNA exposure before 20 weeks, and 92.3% (96/104) of spontaneous abortions occurred before 13 weeks’ gestation
I am surprised no one has the most important factor at work here: prestige. Yes, editors can resign en masse but they can’t recreate a 100-year old institution. Think Harvard or New York Times. Big name scientific journals have the same level of prestige. Not saying this is right or how it should be, but we must recognize that this is the most important factor.

-someone who has published a paper in one of these journals
Looks like the Navy could use that map: "A U.S. submarine struck an underwater mountain last month, the Navy says" [1]

1. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051422572/navy-submarine-nuc...
Why did I never know about Twitter Lists before? Twitter has been unuseable for me because it just feeds me fucked-up shit from people I don't know even though I disabled all the notification options, just like for the author.

Examples: https://kingcharles.one/wtftwitter.png
> Yes, they're profiting off of a bad situation

That seems like it was the idea but amusingly, per this article, not exactly the right word for what they were doing
My definition of regular and pretty nice guy is not someone who spouts off against men who take parental leave to help their newborn and spouse during her recovery.

https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/joe-rogan-goes-after-pete-...

Or speaks to someone like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXV4WtfMtA
Most of the harm from heroin stems from it being illegal and unregulated. It obviously would be abused if legal and readily available but even that would be better addressed by spending money on health/prevention vs. police/courts/jails.

My brother died of a heroin overdose many years ago. If it had been legal, pure, and known quality that likely wouldn't have happened (he could still have been affected by addiction like our mother with alcohol, but he wouldn't be dead).
Because the situation in these cities is largely from the criminalization of drugs?
> Anyone can control a huge portion of either network by spending millions. I'm not sure what the difference is here, except for the e-waste and electricity, of course.

You can't credibly say "I'm not sure what the difference is" and then say "except for the actual difference."

Throwing millions at Bitcoin mining will work if and only if you also have access to cheap energy. The only way to turn a profit is to have access to cheap energy. The key component isn't hardware but energy. (You can see this in how old mining rigs become profitable as price rises.)

It is in this way, the fact of required cheap energy, that Bitcoin enables decentralised mining. There is a strong incentive for any energy producer, and a race amongst energy producers globally, to source the cheapest energy because they can mine Bitcoin with it, no matter where on the planet, no matter how remote or off-grid the energy is as long as they can connect their miners to a satellite or fibre connection, hash blocks, and earn bitcoin.

Is this democratic? It doesn't sound like it. But if democracy is "rule by the people", and people are distributed all over the planet and energy resources are also distributed all over the planet, and these people are free to organise their sources of energy, then anyone is free to mine, whether from home[0] or industrially.

In proof-of-stake, there is no such natural/physical constraint to centralisation. Capital simply isn't distributed the way energy is. It seems also that there are incentives to acquire as much capital as possible to control the pos network. Is this certain? Hard to say but we will soon get to find out.

The number-go-up thesis for Ethereum's proof-of-stake seems to be something like: we can get something for nothing: the more that controllers of large amounts of capital stake for sweet rewards, the more eth is locked up, the more eth supply is constrained, the more price rises, the more profitable it is for everyone else to simply stake. In this endless spiral upwards, everyone will be forced to stake simply to earn increasingly valuable rewards.[1] Perhaps they've engineered a kind of democracy?

[0]: https://www.econoalchemist.com/post/home-mining-for-non-kyc-...

[1]: https://twitter.com/SquishChaos/status/1387074095007817730?s...
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Show HN: The most popular newspaper in Denmark, and its insane font sizes
You are right about the wording. So I asumed English is not his first language.

Another post by him supports this idea:

"I live in arguably one of the best countries for raising kids, with 18 months parental leave, free preschool, higher education, retirement homes for aging parents, health care, and just a child-friendly work environment overall (even dads are expected to be gone for at least a few months), and it's STILL super hard to raise a child"

He learned English by watching TV, which is something I couldn't have done. To GP: you are not stupid!
Ask HN: Where did Zillow data science go wrong?
News coming out now about the layoffs at Zillow due to heavy losses in their home-flipping program. They have a treasure trove of data, perhaps one of the largest, related to the housing market.
Previous Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10616989

But wow... I remember we had the same submission two to three years ago.... turns out its been six years.
Thanks for sharing this insight! I’ve always wondered the same - why did that X startup I worked at choose to stay unprofitable when they could have paused growth for Y months and turned profitable?

Another reason can be - investors are more interested in growth multipliers. X% YoY etc. As long as the potential for profitability exists on paper.
If you're interested in the method they use to calculate the Zestimate, one of their data scientists did an interview back in 2017 (before the home buying started) that talked about the factors involved.

https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2017/zillow-zestimate
I used to be a research ship tech years ago and did a lot of shipboard gravity surveys on Navy ONR contract. Which kind of dates my geophysical work :) Sure could cover a lot more are on with a plane! I also wrote software to do 2.5D forward modelling for a geophysical consulting business.
Highly processed? Ultra-processed?

The idea is that the processing can alter the structure of the food lightly (grilling a steak), moderately (frying a burger), or deeply (making a sausage, with all the extractions, admixing, etc). Deep processing is often used to make less edible things more edible, less palatable things more crave-inducing, and less nutritionally good things more palatable.
I've worked on a good number of teams just like yours. I always told myself things would be different when I was in charge. Then I was in charge.

I learned pretty early on that I have political capital, and very little of it. Instead, I have to have a manager that's pretty buck wild when I tell them I need them to be, and I have to deliver them some wins that will grease their wheels too. Good managers are hard to come by though, and if they get noticed they're promoted and gone in a couple of years.

Personally, I think the transactional nature of software positions is what largely holds us back. If I get promoted, then there'll be a new lead, and this cycle will start all over again.
Ok, makes sense. I was thinking about it where the coefficients of the polynomial were the variables.

That said I know nothing about optimization theory.
Interesting; at my local IKEA, the warehouse bit is on the ground floor, and while the normal path is through all the showrooms, there's a shortcut right by the entrance straight to the warehouse. Additionally, there's various shortcuts throughout their showrooms. I wonder if that wasn't in all their stores?
BlackRock was hired to run the feds open market bond operations. BlackRock are experts at buying bonds off the open market which is why they were hired.

BlackRock does not have control over the money supply.
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Your link:

> authorizes sanctions on individuals and entities

> a number of Russian and Ukrainian entities

> sanctions on individuals and entities

> impose sanctions on those persons

etc...

Your claim:

> The sanctions explicitly include Ukraine

Your claim is false by your own "evidence". The sanctions are not on Ukraine, they are on a few people in Ukraine.
If you're leasing the property, you're not a member of the propertied classes. You are yourself a renter fighting with other renters to scrap together some measure of survival. Your landlord is the one that was threatening you with eviction.
Sadly, they aren't even close to what Edge offers.

My main browser is Firefox with Sidebery. That's what Chrome should copy. Edge's vertical tabs are the next best thing...especially when you need a chromium based browser.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
I also have an issue with organic and natural* as well, but that's not exactly on topic.

If prefer people to use words that mean things. The article wasn't even about processed foods so much as how there is a nutritional model that shows high carbohydrate/low glycemic index foods are particularly fattening relative to their calorie content. The article could easily (and more accurately) be titled "New research highlights the damage from high carb/high sugar foods".

*I mean seriously, vitamin water is "natural"? That stuff is water and sugar alcohol, with a tiny bit of stevia added so it can appear on the ingredients list for people who look for that particular keyword. Those sugar alcohols do occur naturally, I guess, but not usually in foods, and never in such quantities (and never from high fructose corn syrup).
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Young like someone susceptible to severe covid
A system like what, precisely? Keep in mind that such a system needs to ensure that a submarine remains almost impossible to detect, which is the whole reason this type of platform exists in the first place.
I really like the core idea here: media used to be a push model, social media turned it into a pull model but they're trying to wrest it back. I always hated the push model of social media, which is why most of the online content I consume is via rss, including Twitter [0].

But I never thought of traditional news media media as being a push model. It makes so much intuitive sense when you say it: the reason I read newspapers is, at least in part, I want and trust them to tell me what's happening that's important. That's different than my programming blog subscriptions: I follow them because I've decided what they write is important to me.

It's a subtle difference but very impact-full, and seems correct.

[0] not sure of they actually have rss feeds but my rss reader supports them
> social status coincides very closely with race in the US

So I'm curious about this statement. As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, twice as many whites than blacks are in poverty. If social status were almost substitutable for race, how come there are 17M white people in poverty?

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-ra...

Edit. For reference, a nice databook from Pew Research, with income distributions by race in 1970 and 2016, though lacking absolute numbers presentation:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/07/12/appendi...
Zillow was at least a huge contributor to buyers needing to do the 10-20% over asking and waiving everything, so I wouldn't necessarily call that an indication of market health.
If it's big enough to hit, how does it avoid any of the onboard high-tech high-budget detection systems?

I understand the oceans are massive. But if there are 100,000 if these "structures" wouldn't there be better prevention? This are world class and world beating war ships, eh.
I have 4 machines backed up at Backblaze, and only the machine I'm currently typing on still exists. It's far less trouble to pay them a few bucks rather than try to consolidate all the stuff. (Which will not fit on this new SSD based laptop, I used to have a Terabyte)

It's data hoarding of a different nature, like the millions of rented physical storage sheds full of stuff that should have been tossed a decade or more ago, but aren't because it's "cheap enough, for now" a decade ago, then inertia.
The show seems to be heavily leaning towards the idea that this capability is going very important to the plot. A significant portion of the last episode consists of Hari Seldon explaining to Gaal how significant her powers are, and demonstrating that they can clearly predict complicated near-future events. I hope you’re right that the show will place tight restrictions on this macguffin, but I’m definitely worried.
For more relaxed work pace and Salaries and other benefits.
You pretty much just described a ponzu scheme. If we perpetually need more than we will never have enough as we head towards/are in a negative feedback loop of sustainable maintenance.
Its also a bet the company wont do a secondary offering at the higher share price and recapitalize, completely changing the fundamental analysis
If it were just marine life the Navy would certainly be willing to press the sonar button.

The problem is that navigation-quality sonar gives away the position of the submarine, which is the polar opposite of what the Navy has submarines to do.
Jesus, all of those quantities are shocking to me.

A cup of cereal is under a hundred calories, and a cup of milk less than 200, so a bowl of cereal with milk should run about 2-300 calories. 500 calories is a Big Mac. Are you spooning sugar into it? Cream?

What the heck kind of sandwich has 1000 calories? Okay, a fully loaded footlong from Subway maybe, but you seriously have that for lunch? A normal sandwich, such as you might make at home, has 300-500 calories. No 6 inch sub has more than 600 calories. Why is your lunch the same size as your dinner?

1000 calories for dinner is more reasonable, but still - that's a huge dinner. That's like a generously large platter of spaghetti bolognese. I don't know how you could be hungry for that after downing an equivalent meal at lunchtime.

500 calories from drinks is truly horrifying because unless you're chugging milkshakes that's probably all high fructose corn syrup. A quarter of your recommended daily caloric intake, in the form of pure refined sugar! That's an express ticket to diabetes-ville right there. 4+ cans of coke daily is not a healthy intake.

I'm not trying to lay into you here. I'm glad you're experimenting with fasting. But, reality check - I would physically struggle to eat that quantity of food without being sick. I wonder if all that soda is messing with your appetite?
Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Tear spaceships apart in zeroG while your suit runs out of oxygen. Totally awesome physics.
Aka entertainment. That there is a moral panic over watching him tells you more about the people panicking than the people watching him.
What’s the difference between a billion dollar corporation and a million dollar corporation in terms of the content that’s curated and presented to you? Is it that it feels like Joe doesn’t curate his guests? Because I assure you, with the sheer amount of requests he gets, he definitely picks and chooses the guests he has on, even if they’re from across the spectrum of opinion.

The idea of “stop letting people control what you consume but oh here’s a person who controls what you consume, don’t worry it’s fine if it’s Joe” makes no sense. Either it’s fine to receive a filtered worldview from people who provide a platform for opinions, or it’s not. And that’s what’s wrong with including Joe Rogan in this article.

I will give Joe some credit though, what he is not, is an engagement echo chamber, but that was not the argument pitched in this article.
ctrl-scrollwheel solves this problem in about 2 seconds.
I’m pretty experienced financially, and in my opinion they bought high and sold low. This is bad.
If so much people tried it yet most of them didn't become addicts this sounds like fantastic news to me. I used to be a "legalize everything, people should choose for themselves" guy until I tried meth once. I had absolutely no problem with it because I am lucky to be exceptionally addiction-proof but the way I felt during and after immediately led me to conclude "no, this can't be legalized, 95% of people will fail to resist". What you wrote, however, suggests people are way stronger than I expected.
this is yahoo 2: electric marketing dot com bust.

it was purely about marketing driving up its own value via poorly considered metrics that invariably included positive reenforcement loops. eg, yahoo sells an ad for a company which sells ads on yahoo.
Number 1 has existed for tens of thousands of years in much more severe shapes, civilization is still around.
When I was in my teens, I was a conservative. As I get older, I become more leftist as I read more history books. Entire countries have been formed on the basis of similar ideas. It's childish to think they can be dismissed flippantly.
I disagree. There would be "social caution" (yes it feels good but you'll get trapped). We could finally have grown up conversations about self-medicating and how to be a mindful consumer.
Except that massive profit is a ... massive loss.
+1 for Zero-k. You can run this thing on almost any hardware and it's a great RTS.
Joy at seeing any flavor of Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar still active!
tbf I think that there's something special about games like MC, I still like it even well into my twenties.

I don't play much but I do like spending a few hours on occasion spending time with friends, playing a game we started to when we were teens.

My recommendation to anyone who wants to play something creative, get on a voice call and get with your friends.
5 days also makes sense for a cautious quiet transit to a major port.
Warning - opinionated non-expert here.

I don't buy that it is as simple as the writeup implies. (I didn't read actual research it is based on however.)

Is energy balance true? Yes. But as the paper implies, we don't have direct control of that. I suspect it is _what_ you eat.

Does insulin response matter? Yes, I assume so. But that is not the only factor.

If you are not getting proper nutrition, your body will ask for more food. Naturally we know what we need. We get a taste for broccoli if we need nutrients in broccoli. But if people have somehow short circuited their food sense and don't realize they need broccoli and instead they eat more hamburgers or fruit loops or whole grain bread, they won't get the nutrition they need, and they will probably still want more food.

So insulin response, nutrition, and I am sure there are other things too.