skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but then you have to keep exercising for the rest of your life. When something happens (e.g. you are busy in job or you get injured) you no longer can exercise as much as you need so you start gaining weight.

Fundamentally using exercise to lose weight is long-term unachievable because it is unpredictable. Losing weight via diet is much simpler you just eat less, there isn't anything that would objectively stop you from following diet, where as simple incident or scheduling issue can prevent you from exercise. Exercise is fundamentally wrong tool for managing weight.

Exercise is for building muscles, diet is for managing weight.
Modern food is kinda weird in how high-energy and very energy-dense food is the default and cheap, and it somehow is more expensive to buy less calories.
> I don't eat particularly healthy

Because it is about the amount you eat and not about eating healthy (whatever that means anyway).
>> the exact same people, speaking the exact same language and accent, wearing the same clothes, eating the same food, driving the same cars, listening to the same music, and practicing the same religion.

That's called a nation.
Gonna throw out an plug for Nutritionix and their calorie tracker iOS app for anyone inspired to go that route by the article - I tried a lot of options out back when I used to do serious powerlifting and it’s by far the best UX I found for recording macros. They’ve got a barcode scanner, a great DB of common fast food options, and you can even freetext stuff like “200 grams of chicken thigh” and record stuff that way if you use a food scale.

Eyeballing calories becomes way easier after a few months of practice and pays off for life. Was able to get all the examples listed spot on except the popcorn, which I had no frame of reference for.
It’s all explained here: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formu...
Yes, perhaps both regional and temporal differences.

Here is the seminal 1971 Esquire article, Secrets of the Little Blue Box:

http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/lbb.html

That was the article that inspired me to visit the San Francisco State University library to study the Bell System Technical Journal and copy down the in-band signaling frequencies to make my own blue box:

http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/bstj.html

I was in awe that the phone company had published all the information we needed to hack into their system.

It was a fun time. I got to be friends with phreaks like Mark Bernay and John Draper (Captain Crunch) - although less of a friend after John wanted me to "work out" with him...

We had two phone lines at home, and one time I made an 800 call from one line, got into the tandem and started routing the call back and forth across the country and up and down through Canada and Mexico, and finally called the other line. I wanted to see how long a delay I could get when I said "hello" into one phone and hear it in the other. It was a full second!

Later a friend was visiting who was studying Russian, and I said "why don't we call the Kremlin!"

My automated dialing tricks only got me as far as Italy. So I rang an Italian operator and explained that I was an American operator trying to place a call to the Kremlin, and could she route the call for me? And she did!

The Kremlin switchboard connected us to an English translator, and we chatted a while. We explained that we were phone phreaks who used a blue box to place the call and how we routed it through Italy.

He asked, "is that like ham radio where you get a license from the government to do this?" We said, "yeah, sort of like that."

Eventually I got busted. I was living with my parents in Pacifica and had my electronics and programming lab in their basement. This was before personal computers, of course, but I was working for Tymshare and had a Teletype at home so I could dial into their machines in the off hours.

When I got home from work one afternoon, a couple of phone company investigators and a police detective were in the living room, sipping tea. My grandmother was visiting and she had served refreshments while they waited for me.

After some small talk, I gave them a tour of the basement lab. They didn't arrest me or anything, just took a circuit board or two and said "we'll be in touch."

I had to go to court and paid $25 restitution to Pacific Bell, a $150 fine, and yikes, $450 in 1972 dollars to my lawyer who pleaded nolo contendere for me.

Afterward, the investigators felt bad about it. They said the last guy they'd caught had been a real jerk but I seemed like a nice kid. So they took me out to lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant!

I eventually ran into Captain Crunch again at the 2013 Homebrew Computer Club reunion. He didn't recognize me at first, but I mentioned that we used to hang out at his Berkeley apartment and smoke pot and hack on Forth code into the night.

John's eyes lit up: "Did we work out?"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geary/10861963196/
I understand that there may be other things to consider here. But, if given the opportunity to dink around with the physics and end up with an instant pocket portal that can do the cool cartoony stuff I am willing to give it a whirl.

I can see where it could be used in hot climates to help avoid energy waste. Buildings could be built with no doors and using UV reflecting glass for windows and people would enter and exit with their own personal pocket portals. Had enough for one day and feel like a cold brew? Flip that pocket portal like a disc golf disc and when it sticks to the wall just jump thru it to the street. It closes up behind you allowing for the absolute lowest conditioned air loss situation. No more door and threshold gaskets to replace, ever. Just keep your portal tuned to the right energy level and make sure that you never let it work like your money, burning a hole in your pocket.
> because there are women who actually want those jobs and are qualified and have a harder time getting them. And because when they do get them they deal with issues that the men in the same positions don’t have to deal with. And because they get paid less for the same work on average. These things are indeed bad for society, they make our environment worse than it could be otherwise.

Also, the economy is less efficient, with inferior talent making games, and the talented woman doing something else that they're not as well suited for.
Came here to say this. One more thing to add: it's very likely that there are more competitors out there than the author realizes, and even more failed attempts at the same problem that the author never sees.

I've made the mistake of (falsely) convincing myself that what I was building was unique, probably because I wanted it to be true. It was rather stupid, but it's a mistake I will never make again.
It's just an example...

And you don't seem to understand that it's about the safety of the exhaustive check not just the sugar.
Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice
And I think the somewhat scary thing is that we've become a "bailout nation" at so many levels (both at the high end, e.g. "wall street bailouts", and at the low end, e.g. extremely generous covid unemployment benefits), that a lot of these folks will be bailed out for their poor choices down the road by the rest of us.

So it can make someone who is naturally cautious and prudent feel like a sucker when the shit hits the fan, because while they were delaying gratification and risk taking, the people who did "live for today" then get to cry poverty and get bailed out.

Worse, if you are prudent and save, you can end up being demonized as a "hoarder" when the tide goes out by those who weren't wearing swim trunks. This happened to my family during Covid. I have a family member in the medical field, who has always kept a decent-sized stock of surgical masks and other medical gear around, and was pretty prescient in early 2020 when the news first started coming out of China, stating "people don't realize how bad it's going to get." When Covid first hit, when medical authorities were still claiming "masks don't work for the general population", he always wore a mask in public, and in one case was derided for "stealing" masks from those who need it (FWIW he works in a hospital).
Look at the "day-ahead" values in "system-wide prices". Today is bopping around the $85 mark (per MWh?) but tomorrow prices are going to hit $727 a MWh at peak. So a nearly 10x increase in average energy prices tomorrow.

The article is saying that's because tomorrow demand is going to exceed supply again, and just like Feb 2021 in the Texas system that means prices float to match.

The expectation is that businesses will shut down and consumers will turn off their AC to shed load from the system, because everyone is a highly-informed rational actor and the $5k electrical bill will not be a surprise. Which it shouldn't be, you live in Texas, clean water and reliable power are not a reasonable expectation in the same way they are elsewhere. This is a cost you have to bear if you want everything to be so completely and totally market-driven - especially if you signed up for one of those "wholesale" electrical billing plans, this is the whole point. The market raises prices, you react accordingly and turn off your power, the intent is that only “highly informed” consumers who understand the risks will take them - just like playing with options, this can get you in trouble real fast if things go really bad.

(that said, non-wholesale plans will probably just cut your power entirely, because I doubt that is regulated either, it’s Texas! Sue, whoops, I mean, request binding company-sponsored arbitration if you don’t like it. But that could be preferable to getting a $5k bill for a single weekend of AC!)

Orrrrr, we could just regulate the power grid and ensure appropriate generation capacity, with appropriate building codes and grid/power plant building standards so they don't light on fire or freeze solid during peak load, and we can live in a modern society with electrical lighting...
Guess I was missing the context, I thought this was just within Java.
Let's go with the standard 3,500 calories to gain a pound of weight. Let us suppose that an individual's ability to accurately gauge daily caloric consumption is off by a mere fifty calories. Now, for a 2,000 calorie per diemm budget, that is a mere 2.5% error rate. Rather trivial, sounds like. But over a year, that adds up to a little over five pounds.

Not even half a can of soda off and you gain five pounds a year, or fifty in a decade. The math matters, but does does the calibration and the ability to accurately estimate consumption. Even a tiny error amount means long-term weight gain. It's pretty easy to be glib about it.

A fidgeter, someone who wiggles, bounces their feet, etc., can burn perhaps three hundred extra calories per day. You can also see how that adds up.

The tiny increments matter little against time.
This discussion about a Barclay's Bank json list of 74,000 numbers might have some ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326036

I was able to get it from a 1.3mb json file (uncompressed) to a 151k uncompressed but 4k compressed file using mostly deltas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28348965
> Abstract: This document describes the use of QUIC to provide transport confidentiality for DNS. The encryption provided by QUIC has similar properties to those provided by TLS, while QUIC transport eliminates the head-of-line blocking issues inherent with TCP and provides more efficient packet-loss recovery than UDP. DNS over QUIC (DoQ) has privacy properties similar to DNS over TLS (DoT) specified in RFC 7858, and latency characteristics similar to classic DNS over UDP. This specification describes the use of DoQ as a general-purpose transport for DNS and includes the use of DoQ for stub to recursive, recursive to authoritative, and zone transfer scenarios.

> [...] DNS over HTTPS (DoH) [RFC8484] can be used with HTTP/3 to get some of the benefits of QUIC. However, a lightweight direct mapping for DoQ can be regarded as a more natural fit for both the recursive to authoritative and zone transfer scenarios, which rarely involve intermediaries. In these scenarios, the additional overhead of HTTP is not offset by, for example, benefits of HTTP proxying and caching behavior.
Metabolic rate isn't the same for everyone. I also can eat in large amounts and not get fat.

Also don't think that because you are not getting fat that your body is in a healthy state.
You can be really skinny yet get insulin resistance, as I did.
I had forgotten about that recording. Thank you. Definite worth listening to.
> "Also, when you're nursing full time, you can't leave the baby. Ever."

outside of the first few weeks (not months), a healthy baby can wait an hour or two to nurse. you certainly don't want to constantly deny feeding for hours on end, but a couple hours is well within the environment in which we've evolved over the past many millenia. our bodies are amazingly adaptive and tolerant, even as infants. mothers, nursing or not, shouldn't feel any guilt for not dedicating every single waking second to infants (after the first few weeks). that said, i fully support multiple months of paid parental leave (socially supported rather than employer supported) for both parents to adjust to the new human in their lives.
I can't speak for the company in question but corporate culture can be very toxic here. They might have stopped remiting salary or threatened some other action if they do not resign themselves.
Who said it has failed? The headline says the grid can "barely" keep the lights on.

As hot it it may seem now, Texas gets much hotter in June-August than it does in May, as an ironclad rule. A system that is barely working OK now will fail later in the summer. Having spent 20 years in Austin myself, I can tell you that a nuclear war will feel like a refreshing dip in the pool by comparison.
Your last link is incorrect
People, generally.
> If you don't think it's important, I'd encourage you to seek the perspectives of someone who is not well represented, ideally just a real-life friend. You might learn things you hadn't simply hadn't thought to consider, through no fault of your own.

Agreed. If you don't have experience with something, the obvious thing to do is to talk to someone who does.

I've read so many stories from people whose fondest memory of games/TV/career/etc is finally seeing someone who looked like them, and how life-changing it was.
I use Things3 app on Iphone, it is GTD based. At work, since we use office 365, I use MS Todo app.
Because you're not eating enough? You can eat only McDonalds and still lose weight if you're eating below your daily resting calories. Your body composition will probably change for the worse though.

Likewise the person who struggles to lose weight with diet and exercise is very likely eating more than they think they're eating (or opting for healthy options that aren't actually healthy, like salad covered in 600 calories of ranch dressing)
Here's what the Washington Post reported last June:

The NIH released a statement Wednesday saying that a researcher who originally published the genetic sequences asked for them to be removed from the NIH database so that they could be included in a different database. The agency said it is standard practice to remove data if requested to do so...

Bloom's paper acknowledges that there are benign reasons why researchers might want to delete data from a public database. The data cited by Bloom are not alone in being removed by the NIH during the pandemic. The agency, in response to an inquiry from The Post, said the National Library of Medicine has so far identified eight instances since the start of the pandemic when researchers had withdrawn submissions to the library.

"This one from China and the rest from submitters predominantly in the U.S.," the NIH said in its response. "All of those followed standard operating procedures."

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/seattle-scientist-...
That's not what the article says is happening.

Also there seem to be enough things that are both acceptable and funny that the only controversial popular comedian is Dave Chappelle.

Jerry Seinfeld and various other conservative comedians have no trouble making jokes that aren't punching down. There are both liberal and conservative comedians whose entire sets are kinda racist, and they have fans all over the political spectrum.
If you squat, deadlift and walk enough, and are generally healthy, you physically won’t be able to eat yourself fat.
Saying exercise can help you reach your calorie deficit is fairly misleading. Yes, exercise burns calories, but even a hard workout is a small part of your daily calories spent at best.
That was me before 25ish. Good metabolism. If you're under 30, you may still be in for a rude awakening :D
The music is getting better, these last few years. There seems to be less of a stigma associated with doing Eurovision. You still have plenty of the downright odd stuff though.

This year Ukraine should win and it helps that their entry is genuinely pretty good. Norway have fielded a song about feeding bananas to a wolf, riffing on Little Red Riding Hood, in errm yellow. Spain's entry sported a pretty close shave and manages to lose even more clothing - quite a decent song too.

UK (my homeland) are hoping for a decent result after taking quite a few beatings over the years - "null points". Our boy has absolutely smashed it on the socials so should be OK. [Greece have just ticked under 18]

Whatever happens, we have our Irish compere to get us through the night. Graham Norton and before him Sir Terry Wogan, have been the voice of the Eurovision SC in the UK for absolutely yonks.
the roads this is meant for are mostly empty, so you have a long time to see someone coming.
That's a shame. I've been part of acquisitions of Canadian companies when I was still in the Bay Area. Other than conversion rates, we didn't price Canadian companies differently than the US acquisitions.
It still doesn't burn well unless it's in a fine mist. Even just a puddle of diesel is actually quite difficult to get burning on its own without some other material as a wick of sorts. https://youtu.be/7nL10C7FSbE Great practical demonstration of the different flammability characteristics of some common fuels.

For the tar that a container ship burns, it's not going to be very volatile. Coal also burns quite well, but unless it's powdered, good luck trying to ignite some with just a match.
> Even Australia is now in the contest(didn’t make it to the finals but I think they should have made it, there are worse songs that did).

Hey, Australia is definitely in the finals...

See https://eurovision.tv/
I don't doubt that copyright serves to cement usa's geopolitical position.

However on a scale of things that maintain usa's geopolitical position, copyright is kind of minor comparatively. Copyright is the long game soft power sort of thing. Ukraine is the short game. USA needs to show the world that if bad things happen to a country because they are friendly to usa, america wont let it go unremarked. If they don't, other countries will take note, and america loses its pax americana position. The ukraine thing is a rather direct challenge of america's hegemonic position. America is responding to it because its either that, or they lose their world position (or a step in that direction).

Im not saying america is above the type of long term power games you suggest, just that in this case they have a much more pressing reason to be involved, and i don't think secret conspiracy reasons make sense when their hand is basically being forced by direct means.
Yes, you can. By learning what good design is and how to accomplish it.

I am a software developer and I sucked at design. But I learned a few bits of design, tried different approaches from what I've learned, did and redid a lot of designs. Waited a bit to clear my eyes and redid the designs again. Until they looked OK.

I not want to say that I am a good designer or I can replace a professional designer, but that I think I can accomplish decent designs for my own needs.

It would be a better ideea to just pay a pro designer and save some money, since he will do the design way faster than I can and better. But I like to do all the things myself if it is a personal project.
Nice benchmarking, thank you for your effort.

Also the scientist was leading a team, so my program would've been used by at least 20 people, 10 times per day. That was why Python one was a no go for them from beginning.
Hollywood series
> Or maybe ask some women! See what your mom or sister says in response to that question.

Or your daughter.
Isn't it subjective immutability?

Your transaction might disappear from the history if the view changes to have some other branch be the accepted one
I think people shouldn't trust their instincts on this particular issue. They should consult a nutritionist and weigh all their food.
Sounds the same as the app I've had success with, Lose It. Also highly recommended.
PLAY YA YA DING DONG!
> A doctor writing a prescription for it doesn't help you get any if there's not any available in significant quantities- it's not a one and done thing, it is literally all the baby can eat until they've grown enough to be weaned off.

If it is available in any quantity then needing a prescription keeps it from being used for infants that don't need it. (Market naturally drops but I don't think risking the health of many infants who don't need formula to keep it cheap is a great ethical move anyway.)

There are infinitely refillable prescriptions and nutritional prescriptions, they have an advantage that they can be billed to health insurance which is fairer if an expensive diet is a medical need.

The overall effects of losing the local market, importing for infants that need it and having insurance pay much higher costs may well pay for itself if we could measure the future health consequences of unnecessary formula use.. but the rule of do no harm means we shouldn't try to feed kids formula without a medical need.
It's surprising how regs slow things down - it's just an accumulation.

Southern Cal wanted a desalination plant. Spent a TON of time in development. Shot down. Repeat time 100x, kind of crushing I think.
Good for Netflix.

Coca-Cola, Disney and others have recently been reminded that businesses are there (wait for it....) to make money for their owners!

Business should be professional and all about business. Politics belongs elsewhere.
That’s why it’s important to make exercise a lifelong habit. Diet to lose the weight, exercise to keep it off.

To some extent you always need to manage your caloric intake of course - but if you exercise regularly, the occasional indulgence isn’t a big deal.
It's more like they DO NOT want to believe how small portion sizes are required to consistently lose weight.

Even if there was a device that could scan all food before eating it, they would still exempt some meals with the "do not count" argument.

Rule of thumb, that if a meal is easy and fast to prepare, then it is probably not suited for a diet.

To lose weight you have to do a lot more exercise than you think consistently. And you have to eat a lot less than you think.

Most people just don't have that kind of willpower.