skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is true strictly speaking, whether weight-loss actually happens is 99% a psychological thing, and ignoring that is ridiculous.
People aren't magical machines with infinite, perfect willpower, ignoring that this is the main factor is completely out of touch. That's what the whole conversation is about, how to make it easier for people, more realistic. Find foods that make people feel sated while still eating less for example. Find ways to make habits. etc.
You'd hope that quality requirements could be used to make a bar that is high enough so any accredited institution would be delivering highly educated and developed people. Anything beyond that would be nice to have, but not enough to be a deciding factor when judging merit.

When you think about it, what is it that we want? Someone with fancy labels who went to places that also had fancy labels, or someone who can do the thing we need?
so does that mean working out more => more breath/CO2 => more weight loss?

trying to reconcile this with the conventional advice that weight loss is 90% about eating right
> it is very likely that majority of those professors attended those schools via a sort of scholarship to start with as a result of their success prior to universities they got accepted.

When it comes to admissions to elite schools, money can all but guarantee access to those who can afford it

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/13/rich-kids-top-college-admissions
> many highly credentialed doctors and researchers were getting de-platformed for anything that remotely questioned the government's position on anything related to COVID

Blame the administration at the time. Judging by comments here, it seems like the current government is a bit more open about things.
HP48 was awesome, but now, quarter century later, I like HP42 (also Saturn-based) better. It’s more convenient for simple tasks, and I no longer need to do complicated ones on a calculator. It’s also way faster, and smaller - it’s exactly the size of my iPhone; HP48 is about 50% longer and much thicker.

Also, iOS version of Free42 is epic.
insert obligatory Rich Hickey mention
Eat a _lot_ less. Exercise (even just a little). Don't snack late into the evening. Be hungry, on a consistent and regular basis. Don't over-eat.

No magic, no cost, no special anything.

It's not easy, and most people can't do it, but it works. And even if some magic product helps you lose weight, you will still need to follow the above rules anyways.

It's like many smokers, they can't quit until they almost die, but then they just magically can quit, cause it's life and death. No magic product/idea, just time to make a change.
If it were that simple you and your car would be able to use the same fuel--it is likely a bad idea in most cases.
The research question isn't about whether "prestige is a good measure of excellence." That's the question that you ask after you discover that people are being hired based on prestige, if you don't automatically assume that's either a bad or a good thing.

If prestige is definitely driven by quality, it's not bad that professors are being hired because of the prestige of the schools they attended. But accepting that prestige is a good measure of excellence means that we're not looking into the history of how things became prestigious.
I agree that it would help.

But I’m pretty sure you can just touch the lower, outer part of your ankle (where it’s documented in the picture) to find out if you’re flexing the right one. Thinking about pointing my toes helped.

I think people are right the difficulty is oversold.
My opinion is that error-handling sum types are a poor-man’s checked exception :D

Here are my reasons for thinking so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32944346
My solution: use tech to overcome laziness, a Waterpik[0].

[0] https://www.waterpik.com/oral-health/products/dental-water-f...
She also mocked mask wearing among other unsavory political tweets. Being a public figure in a Disney production does require some restraint on your public commentary. Disney does not like negative publicity from their actors and actresses.
Is there data to show most crime in America is committed by Police? I find that hard to believe.
Meta is restricting Iranian phone numbers
Due recent protests in Iran, the goverment has blocked the Internet access, including WhatsApp and Instagram. But users outside of Iran with Iran (+98) numbers lost their access to the meta services!
Allocators really were slow. I.e. it was easy to write a general-purpose allocator 10, 100, or (on SGI Irix!) 1000 times faster than what their libc did.

Nowadays it takes work to get more than 10x, but hardly any to get there.
They absolutely do. Especially now that two years later the veterinary was right and the epidemiologist wasn't.

A short video that sums up that last three years of scientism by the establishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
Just read books. Most of the books are worth investing at least some time into it. You may always close the book if you are not happy with it, and put it away. Anyway, any decent book is much better than the best internet article.
Actually, ObjC objects are allocated with calloc() so it might be the most common one.

It also has a better interface than malloc() because it can check for overflow evaluating `size*count`, though it'd be even better if C had first-class types and you could pass that in.
This is pretty much why I left physics, any worthwhile research career was over before it even started since I went to a lower-tier state university. Not saying that's indicative of all fields considering the difficulty of physics and few number of faculty and lab positions available for such skillsets, but that was my experience.

I looked around at my professors in undergrad and virtually all had come from Ivies or other institutions of similar caliber.

At least software pays well.
There's no reason why certain physically and calorifically dense foods (eg. Christmas pudding) couldn't necessarily be combined with oxidizers and fitted into solid rocket motors, which could then be used to launch significant chunks of the earth's crust out of its gravity well.
Known for: Not discovering Neptune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Challis
Politics is when there is a disagreement about values.

For example, pro choice vs pro life is about values, not facts.

Scientific misinformation is when someone someone makes statements that are in disagreement with established scientific facts.

For example, the theory of evolution is established enough to be considered a fact. Rejecting it is either misinformation, delusional or both.

Now, it is possible that there were elements in the Barrington Declaration that was also presenting alternative ways of looking at the data, maybe opinions that would be fringe at the time (but definitely mainstream just months before). But part of this is also how you quantify deaths.

Either you can count all lives equally, especially when including those who would have died roughly at the same time, even if they did not have covid.

On the other hand, if you look at number of potential years of life lost, the numbers become quite different, such as in this study:

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/potential-years-of-life-los...

If you look at the US (which was one of the highest), the OECD study above shows that 7700 years of life were lost per 100000 people, for the sample in time and age groups that were used. That is about 4 weeks for the average citizen. If you use a time window that includes 2021 and 2022, that could perhaps increase to 8-10 weeks per inhabitant.

Maybe this would have been 2-4 weeks higher, if lockdowns had only lasted half as long, who knows. Anyway, I think average number of life-years lost per capita is a relevant metric to compare to the sacrifices involved in long-lasting lockdowns.

Now, if you look at the main risk factor for dying from covid, namely obesity, the obesity in itself carries a cost in terms of expected years of life lost of 2-5 YEARS (not weeks as for covid), depending on the level of obesity.

https://www.hopkinsarthritis.org/arthritis-news/years-of-lif....).

In other words, if instead of mandating lockdowns, the government would spend a similar effort in schools, collages and workplaces to stimulate exercise, one could quite probably have have reduced years of life lost more than the lockdowns achieved, especially during the later stages of the pandemic.

Oh, btw, I'm obese myself, which probably contributed to me being happy about lockdowns for selfish reasons, especially before vaccines were available.
Denis Hassabis has talked about the next evolution of AlphaFold to be developed (and what the team is working on): predicting interactions between proteins. If they are successful (which I really hope they will be as a person with both chronic illness and relatives and friends with illnesses), I can’t think of any drug research where it won’t accerelate the drug development.
For all the comments wondering what the particular movement and equipment is, see pages 5 and 6 of the supplementary materials: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S25890042220114... The equipment is an electromyography system with realtime display. It measures the muscle contraction and is displayed to the subject so they can learn to recognize the movement that properly activates the muscle. Contrary to the video, you do not need to be an academic to buy one, they're fairly common in high-end sports coaching/rehab and you can find a cheap arduino-compatible system on Amazon if you want to DIY.

If you don't read much exercise science, it's worth noting the paper says "It is important to note that volunteers in Experiment I (Table S1) were typically sedentary (verified with an objective tracking device), and none of them had a high aerobic cardiorespiratory fitness (determined by treadmill VO2max or the maximal oxygen consumption test)." A common pitfall of exercise science is that almost anything works wonderfully on untrained sedentary subjects. Wait for replication.
What's hilarious is that jasonpeacock didn't just avoid reading the article, but it's clear that he also avoided reading the very comment he replied to.

It's like people just want to get outraged over nothing.
From the article:

So, how do you perform a soleus pushup?

In brief, while seated with feet flat on the floor and muscles relaxed, the heel rises while the front of the foot stays put. When the heel gets to the top of its range of motion, the foot is passively released to come back down. The aim is to simultaneously shorten the calf muscle while the soleus is naturally activated by its motor neurons.
She was fired for comparing conservatives to the Jews in Hitler's Germany, which is, at best, absurd.
Time alone mellows out most people.
Even people like John P. A. Ioannidis were being throttled and dismissed.

Can you distinguish between political and scientific epidemiologists?
wonder if drummers (who may activate it more than others) have statistically significant advantage over others with similar sitting down lifestyle and energy output... big claims, great if true!
> your subconscious invents an explanation that you think is a fact.

That may be the case for some people, but it isn't the typical case for me. Quite the opposite. My subconscious drives the show and after the fact if someone asks me about something or if I'm forced to confront why I did things in the very unlikely way I did them my conscious mind tries to create an explanation for the unconscious actions I've already taken.
Doesn't youtube.com reveal that?
How to create an automated Twitter bookmark organizer in Notion
Cyber: The Tool the US Military Is Using to Monitor Emails and Web Traffic
>>after a true blind interview is done, the result is way more biased than before,

How is a 'true blind interview' more biased? or do you really mean, they didn't get the outcome they wanted?
All muscles are capable of metabolizing fat. In cycling (and other endurance sports), one of the adaptations observed in top athletes is that their muscles become highly efficient at metabolizing fat during medium-intensity exercise. A professional endurance athlete will metabolize about 70% fat, 30% carbs for the majority of a multi-hour event. This preserves their muscle glycogen for the high-intensity bits where they need to push 400+ watts for 20-30 minutes up a final climb, or do a 1200w sprint to the finish line. When the intensity level exceeds a threshold, the muscle will begin switching to nearly 100% glycogen. Once that glycogen is depleted, muscles lose their top-end peak power output.

Sedentary overweight people tend to become very inefficient at metabolizing fat. At anything higher than a slow walking pace, for example, they will begin the cutover to glycogen and turn down fat metabolism.

I believe the press release is saying that the soleus muscle is unique in that it does not have a readily accessible store of glycogen. So even in sedentary people that are normally extremely inefficient at metabolizing fat, exercising the soleus will force their body to metabolize blood glucose and fat. Normally it takes months or even years of slow and steady exercise to make a sedentary overweight person effectively metabolize fat while exercising at an intensity high enough to trigger serious metabolic improvements. So if true, the soleus muscle would be a magic shortcut to this process.
edit: no you are right, The Old Masters gets me too. I just rewatched it and :'(

Half right! "Tales of Ba Sing Se" and the very next episode "Appa's Lost Days", which apparently won a Genesis Award for Outstanding Children's Programming [0].

[0]: https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0000274/2007/1
True. And I suppose it does get easier the further you go, what with escape velocity going down as you remove more mass..
Why on earth would we want MORE restrictions and government interference / intrusion in our affairs? Especially in this era of worldwide creeping authoritarianism?

The only way implement these sorts of mandates is stomping all over a developer's right to freedom of expression. I'm a firm believer that code is speech and that limiting what a developer can do is infringing on his own right to free speech.
So what do you recommend then instead?
Wouldn't it be easier for me to go live on the moon instead? Or better yet, a nice, comfy asteroid?
> and knows exactly how capable the average person is at activating specific muscles on command.

"Basically terrible".

It took me a really long time to work out what exactly the fuck "activate your core" meant.

Never mind "activate this muscle you have never thought about before".
I think that I recognize the parent's allusion. The film is Ukraine on Fire, directed by Igor Lopatonok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_on_Fire

The executive producer (better known for his work as a director) was Oliver Stone. You can buy it on DVD from several major retailers or pay to get it instantly via streaming on Amazon Prime.

The reason "few US citizen seem to know about it" is probably because most US citizens don't watch political documentaries.
I think it's actually the opposite. Historically, nothing but Apple devices have been able to easily view HEIC images. I think half the reason Apple does it is to make life as hard as possible for people not using Apple devices, so they will give up and switch.
> The fact that operators can't be overloaded is a HUGE benefit.

Not if you're trying to work with other algebraic data types.

> If I see a + b I know that this is either a string or a number not some hidden method.

Great if your world only consists of numbers and strings.

And really in this day and age with strongly typed languages your IDE should be able to easily tell you if someone is doing something totally insane with any given operator. In most cases, they won't be and it'll be easy to decipher exactly what they mean.

Stop trying to prevent everyone from being able to do useful things just because some people write crappy code that abuses language features.
Sure, I think it’s good to both first get the data on which scholars come from which schools, and I also think unpacking the social and political construction of prestige is a great research agenda.

But to assess whether prestige is a source of bias in the hiring process, you have to separate prestige from other markers of quality. Otherwise, you have a big confounding variable problem. This author, and also the quoted professor of education, don’t seem to engage with that, and in fact seem to beg the question by assuming that prestige is an independent force in hiring decisions, which, I thought, was the thing the article was trying to demonstrate.
Pages are 16KB on iOS (and AS Macs). They're 4KB everywhere else on the world, which is too small these days, although there's things like "superpages" to help with that.
Best news in that article was a brief reference to video calls coming to huddles.

Been finding huddles really useful but sometimes a quick chat moves onto a more full on discussion and most of the time now we move over to zoom for that so we can talk face to face. Being able to turn on video for these huddles will be great.
It’s always funny to see that somebody’s thesis contains the word “wrongthink.”

Over the past few years I’ve noticed an strange plethora of people that seemingly act like the only important cultural touchstones that are worthy of referencing are 1984 and Animal Farm. It’s lazy and tired in my opinion (I’m more of a Huxley fan, and I agree with Asimov’s assessment of Orwell [1])

I’m not familiar with Tablet Magazine, but this whole article feels like a very belabored effort to sound highbrow and alarmist about hating the mods.

It will never cease to be utterly hilarious how social media has led a whole generation of grown adults to slam up against the phenomenon of “the mods” that those of us that were very active in online communities in the 80s, 90s or early 00s have been familiar with for decades.

1. http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm??
While President Biden may not be a Dr, but his wife is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyZm6A0OfQ
I think the disagreement is about the extent to which these events will be damaging first and foremost, and policy discussions stem from that. I know plenty of people who concur "carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas" and all that comes with that, but don't believe that humans are going to destroy the planet within 8 years or whatever the doomsday date is nowadays. That's the big driver for climate change denial, not science skepticism, but over the top fearmongering rhetoric by the public figures championing climate change. The people actually trying to solve this problem are doing a disservice with their dramaticism. They discredit themselves with it, and unfortunately their cause will suffer because of it.
Seems hard to do since your gastrocnemius will just take over. Whatever, I'll do random heel lifts anyway. The calves could use some strengthening.
I'm guessing that most people will have very little trouble separating reality from fantasy.
Yes. It's just simulated fidgeting which has been demonstrated to burn a meaningful amount of calories.
Better than exercise in that most people living a sedentary lifestyle basically get none, and are shit at sticking with exercise regimens.

Better than IF in that IF is a crock of wank.

Better than weight loss in that most people who lose weight gain it back rather quick.

Basically they are saying this is low effort and efficient enough to be better than those options in the realistic scenario of many people being bad at the alternatives
Not correct.

It is very rare for memory ever to be freed to the OS before process exit. Malloc never does.

And, zeroing the memory, if code later uses it like a pointer, that will be null and the use will trap.
Which came first, the professor or the degree?

When schools open new programs, they need people to teach the degree when it didn't previously exist.

Simon Peyton Jones skipped the PhD but later became a lecturer and professor and a whole lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones#Education
Not really - Russian society is piss poor, their market is worthless compared to US or EU. That’s why China prioritizes western markets over Russia.
It can be faster or slower, it's a wash at worst if you're calloc()ing later anyway, and it helps swap (or memory compression on swap-less iOS).
I'm curious if this is the same muscle that causes Charlie Horses. I can activate it on its own without moving my leg and can hold it in tension for a long time but if you flex it too hard it knots and is quite painful.

The way that I can flex it:

Lie on your back on the floor with your heels on a couch, knees approx 90 degrees

Tip/rotate your foot forward and you'll feel a large muscle engage

Try and flex that muscle like you would your bicep or pectorals. You'll find that you can hold it for quite some time.

Edit: I managed to hold it for a few minutes and it's a very odd feeling afterwards. Almost like I had done a bunch of stairs with no cardio.

Edit 2: Standing afterwards wasn't fun - I had to stretch my calves out to walk normally.
I did attempt to search it based on the information you provided, but unfortunately couldn't find anything particularly relevant when I can't search in reference to the A-list Hollywood director you're alluding to and with any searches about Ukraine optimizing to being about the war with Russia which is obviously at the forefront of results.

You are being needlessly obtuse in your responses and in providing any clarifying information, which is either acting in bad faith or arrogance. If you believe me calling that out as such is a personal attack, then I suggest you provide sources so your points actually can be accessed and addressed.
>These are non-sequiturs.

And also probably little more than proxies for the age of the institution.
Blaming it on lack of apps is easy, but why is that?

My hypothesis is that MS did the same thing with Windows Phone as Google does with chat platforms.

MS had Windows Mobile 6.5. It had glorious phones like the HTC Diamond and the HTC HD2. It competed with the iPhone and Android, but it was steadily loosing because the UX essentially belonged to a different era, one where resistive touchscreens and styluses were the norm. WM 6.5 survived many many years afterwards

MS drops WM 6.5 and replaces it with Windows Phone 7 with no upgrade path, no compatibility, no migration path and no native apps(only CLR). Phones were cool even if technically limited.

MS then drops WP 7 (up to 7.8) and replaces it with WP 8. Again no upgrade path and only partial compatibility but at least we finally have native apps (and games). By this point the race was lost. People were no longer willing to invest in the platform and already iOS and Android were a long distance ahead. Phones were already lagging behind Android counterparts with few flagships. MS was also suffering because of Qualcomm.

MS finally released WM 10 and it was finally a really nice OS that just lacked apps, even from Microsoft themselves which started to release apps on Android and iOS first or only. Microsoft also slowly lost its hardware partners after it bought the biggest one, Nokia. The only phones were Lumias from MS and 1 phone from HP. At this point everyone saw it as a dead platform with a cult following. At the end, it was a really nice OS.

MS gives up, uses Android on the Surface Duo (which was made for Windows Mobile) and signs a partnership with Samsung to preload MS apps on Galaxy phones.

Meanwhile, you could upgrade an iPhone for 4 years or more. And even if the original was very very lacking (no apps, just webapps, no video, no copy paste, no file system, etc.) it captured the imagination and Apple iterated. And Google (and hardware partners) iterated in lockstep.

And now both are reinventing the wheel in lockstep. Other than foldables, we have not seen an innovation in this space for a long time.