skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not buying ice cream, cookies, chips, added sugar foods, and beer is necessary. Do not eat out, and do not let unhealthy foods into the house. And do not shop while hungry.

I've done all that and more for 10 years and still gained 100lbs. Exercise didn't help, just made it worse. Yes, I've gained 20-30lbs (not muscle, I wish!) in a few months by exercising more. I've failed to lose fat doing 10 months of 4x per week intense exercise.

It just doesn't work.

Then I just lost almost 50lbs with some "crazy" diet experiment by eating as much heavy whipping cream as I feel like. No working out at all.

These mainstream theories of "just eat healthy" simply don't work for obese people.
Ah, thanks for the context to the Humboldt University. That makes it even more curious for me why the LMU building looks so similar, at least from the exterior.

> The LMU on the other hand is way older, but the building is younger than the one of the HU Berlin: it was built in 1835.

That's what I said, yeah. So given that, I'm wondering whether LMU's building was purposefully built to look similar to Humboldt's?

Or maybe it's just coincidence, or was just common to shape buildings that way for a long time.
You're right that downstream libraries have often tended to introduce magic (some more than others), and moreover one library's magic is typically incompatible with other libraries'. It's something that we're working on but we don't have much to show for it yet. Two avenues are:

1. as you say, exposing patterns and tools for library authors to implement transformations/higher-order primitives using JAX's machinery rather than requiring each library to introduce bespoke magic to do the same;

2. adding JAX core infrastructure which directly solves the common problems that libraries tend to solve independently (and with bespoke magic).
I'd see Disney as buying Nintendo, rather than Apple doing something with either of them.

Both Disney and Nintendo operate on brands and content IP. Both keep releasing the same content but updated to dedicated fanbases
Is there a vendor for a test for this gene variant?
Give yourself some credit, you show a lot of evidence of willpower to try and execute things. If you are able to do 30 days of just about anything, you are better than most.

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To emphasize: the real point is the meta-framework of experiments. Formulate a hypothesis, design a 30-day experiment, test it. I’ve probably done dozens of these over the years.

Here are some examples from the last few years:

30 days of cold showers

90 days of no online news (I thought stress might contribute)

90 days of the carnivore diet

30 days of eating only at In’n’out burger

Doing Starting Strength, a beginner’s powerlifting program

Doing Simple & Sinister, a kettlebell training program

30 days of a low-fiber diet

30 days of a low-protein diet

30 days of a potato diet

30 days of drinking only distilled water (including for coffee)

Eating only pemmican, a raw meat paste invented by Native Americans
>he just cut access to a glorified enterprise chat app

And a glorified enterprise issue tracker.

I can only imagine how much information was unavailable because they couldn't access Jira or Slack.

>pick up the phone, or discuss it face to face in the office

Except you can't if that person was fired. But you can still search their Slack messages to find information on systems that they've helped to build.
Here in the US, there are a lot of really old motorcycles on the road, compared to other vehicles. As they’re mostly pleasure vehicles.
I'd love to agree with this. My heart is with Linux. But nah.

I run Linux and MacOS for work and privately.

For "I want zero configuration, just give me a default work environment!" Ubuntu and MacOS are both acceptable, but MacOS is both slightly nicer and degrades less over time, i.e. the amount of sketchy behavior the operating system does after it's been installed for a while increases faster with Ubuntu, in my experience.

For "I want a highly customized work environment", you do get a better end product with Linux, although you can customize MacOS very decently, too. But it comes at the cost of sinking countless hours into your setup. That's why I still use Linux, because I can get exactly the setup that I want.

Except really good battery management and hardware support. I only sometimes get suspend, and I can sometimes play games on Steam, depending on the mood of the distro, how long it's been on my computer, and how much I sacrificed to the gods. For software development with a persistent power supply, Linux friggin' rocks. With a good enough laptop, the battery usage probably isn't a problem at all.

For "I want really good integration with my phone", you just don't have anything that looks like MacOS'es integration with iPhone. Sorry. I have a lot of quality-of-life experiences with MacOS that are entirely possible to set up with Linux (e.g. syncing on many levels), but I never got around to setting them up on Linux, and I just got them all-inclusive on Apple's platform.
> What really ticks me off with that is that it's based in denying freedom to everyone else.

Next time you're bicycling down the sidewalk, remember that this is how pedestrians feel about _you_.
I wouldn't try these until they've been studied further:
https://peterattiamd.com/the-downside-of-glp-1-receptor-agon...
I learned vim when I picked up linux, now I work at a company with a customized emacs tool we have to use. Doh it never ends...
I am guessing they mean premature death.
Microsoft was also forced to document many of its proprietary protocols (such as SMB) and file formats (such as Office).
Studies don't really support that. They show that rapid weight loss is more effective, but slightly worse for body composition. And slower weight loss is of course the opposite.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5702468/
> Ah yes, censorship makes people unable to see whether their lives are good or not. A real genius argument you've mustered here.

Wow, you're just going to be all sorts of mean today... feels bad...

But I think maybe I was unclear. I wasn't claiming the majority of the population in China was unhappy with their lives, or that we shouldn't believe them when they claim to be happy. My point was, it's bad policy to believe an opinion poll, in this case the arguably uneducated populace opinion of how democratic a country is, over experts in the field.

> You should also let people like Manning and Assange know that they shouldn't be worried about being sent into an interment camp.

Interesting red herring here, but my views on the reasonability of these two prosecutions. At least they were for crimes, not related to "subversion of state power". And the fact that there's really only 2 you can name also speaks volumes compared to the volumes you need for the number arrested by CCP.
There’s a line between factual statements and what is effectively marketing.

I’d you had a freelancer side hustle going on and your website was “I-work-at-google-so-you-know-I’m-good-at-my-job.com” and all of your messaging was geared around “hire an expert level google employee”, is this marketing or a factual statement about employment?
There is a YouTube video from someone talking to chatgpt to play SQL server.

It can reproduce the right output of 3 insert statements with a select *.

It can interpretate an SQL procedure too.

Whatever the architecture is behind this, is slightly more than just text prediction.

I don't think 'text prediction ' does this type of state management justice.

But hey let's see. Perhaps this is just an emerging feature from a tremendously huge text/language model.
A big part of learning how to be a better technical writer is to read and critique lots of other technical documents as part of your studies.
Walking for 30 minutes will go a long way to promote general health, but it's not a lot of calories burned.
Crypto Is Money Without a Purpose
As much as it was the slowest turd of a PC ever, I do have a soft spot for it since it was my first "real" computer. It would need to be running Crossfire on a cartridge.

I'm also sad to not see a ZX81.

And a TRS Model III but not a Model I?
I measured the electricy consumption of my 3D game
https://archive.is/xxOZt
Have you tried cutting out PUFAs as well? Check out the Croissant Diet:
https://fireinabottle.net/introducing-the-croissant-diet/

No guarantee that it'll work (I haven't tried myself) but seems like a thing that could help you.
Yeah, but having a bunch of unhappy employees isn't healthy either.
also from my bookmarks:

https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Tiny-Mac-From-a-Raspb...

https://www.shapeways.com/product/GJTPZJ76S/apple-lisa-2-mac...
Easy to forget, but an objective and great educational system (which doesn't optimize only for getting people to be able to do certain jobs, but to truly educate people about life), along with free speech is equally important as free elections in order for democracy to work.
Cyclists especially have a superiority complex. I always get voted down here when I point out that between precipitation, the winter darkness, the cold and age, there aren't many days when very many people can commute by bike. Oh, sure, there are a few great spring days. And there are some strong, hearty folks in their 20s who can cycle through the winter, but for the most part, it's not very practical for many people on many days.

Now electric scooters and eBikes will change the equation a bit, but there are plenty of purists who hate on them too. They seem to feel they're sort of like lite versions of cars.
Fair enough. Not all crypto is 100% scam. Some is still carrying value.

Is it "making things up" to not know this - particularly in light of the widespread reporting and web commentary?
I lost 150 pounds in 1.5 years doing literally nothing different but eating less, and kept it off for the next 15 (present)

You own failings are due to you lying to yourself about how much you eat.

Humans are not able to break the laws of thermodynamics. If you consume less than you burn, you will lose weight no matter what.
> He discovered that a full 20% of the sample characterized as “healthy” weight had been in the overweight or obese category in the decade prior. When set apart, this group had a substantially worse health profile than those in the category whose weight had been stable.

There are a few odd things about this approach.

First, 20% of people in a healthy weight being previously overweight/obese? This seems high? Could there be reporting bias or other things here? I'm still trying to understand the full study, but it is odd that more people lost weight than gained weight, according to the numbers I'm seeing in it. Although that may be partially explained by the fact that it was limited to people 45 - 85 years old.

Second, the methodology of taking anyone who was previously overweight/obese and is now healthy (weight-wise) into their own group and then attributing increases in mortality purely to weight seem suspect? There are a lot of things that can cause you to lose weight and lead to increased mortality that aren't related to weight, and those would be captured in here.

The conclusions definitely make sense and "feel" right, at least directionally, I'm just a little confused about some of the methodology to get there.
Then you would need to include the our history in the GPU calculation. GPUs require evolutionary bootstrapping - they didn't materialize alongside the first few hydrogen atoms post BB.
They are also using Electron apps. No wonder we are in a recession.
Python Programming Blitz for open source project – cash prizes
Greetings!

If you enjoy any of:

* python programming
* contributing to open source projects
* extracting clean text from raw documents
* NLP

Take a look at the Blitz that Unstructured.io is sponsoring through March 10. There are plenty of suggested issues that are of easy to moderate difficulty, and creative contributions besides those issues are also encouraged.
Yeah for sure. I kicked a 3 cig a day habit overnight. I was still eating junk food even into into a diet. Never really stopped, but I lost a lot of weight through aggressive portion control.
An attacker could also try to get a list of packages that the LLMs halucinate, and squat on those.
People are just happy when Dwarf Fortress succeeds at things. It's a massive labor of love that's finally getting recognition.
Correct. If you've got no background in vim, it might be a good thing Helix has broken "backwards compatibility" in order to have more cohesive key-bindings.
yeah, but what about . . .
Poor education, and also peer-pressure from similarly badly-educated peers.

They weren't corrected in the first place when they mispronounced it wrongly.
Were you with your company when they became large enough to worry about legal holds? If so, was there a conversation about the transition you were privy to?
I can show you the same trend in the Iraq War, and it doesn't make it not a war. I guess I'm not sure of the point.
This seems bit vague.
they say ozempic curbs appetite for booze. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you ask Americans how long the war in Ukraine has been going on, they'll almost all say “about a year”, whereas Ukrainians would say “about nine years”.
Why there fun to drive, are bigger and more room inside. Trucks are better especially in the snow, same with suvs.
If you look at the benchmarks used to evaluate these LLMs, you will find that they contain many questions that test semantic understanding. For example, the best LLMs are good at explaining why novel jokes are funny. Given that humor is notoriously difficult for humans to understand I’d say this is as good an example as any of how there’s more going on under the hood here than a fancy next word predictor would imply.
While I think that _may_ be the right thing to do here... it's a bit worrying as recycling names like that has it's own share of risks.
Ask HN: Do you use multiple payment providers?
I've read a few threads complaining about Stripe recently [0][1].

One common sentiment is not relying on a single payment processor:

> Not defending Stripe here, but DO NOT HAVE A SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE! Have 2-3 payment processors hooked to a common abstraction layer, split transactions between them. [2]

Do you use multiple payment providers? Curious if anyone used solutions like Primer.io.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33138278

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035581

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035581#34035829
In my experiments wearing a glucose monitor, even 5 minutes of walking has a massive effect on blood sugar. Might not make you slim, but might prevent your diabetes if you're borderline.

I counted the steps. Under 600 steps. Not even around the block, and a ~20mg/dL reduction in blood glucose.
Those are outliers.

For the rest of us there's discipline and sheer willpower, as well as smart energy management.

Train too hard? My appetite goes nuts. Train not enough? The weight loss is muscle. It kind of never stops.

(Speaking as someone fast approaching the big five oh, on the very upper end of the normal BMI and not enough muscle to sugar coat all the excess gut fat which somehow disappears when clothed thanks to an above average height yet is still very much a risk factor.)
“Lean mass loss was 2.6% versus 10.9%. Those on tirzepatide had about a threefold greater reduction in fat mass than lean mass, resulting in an overall improvement in body composition. Fat mass as a proportion of overall body mass decreased from 46.8% to 44.7% with placebo, compared with 46.2% to 38.5% with tirzepatide. Similarly, lean mass as a proportion of body mass increased from 50.7% to 52.4% with placebo, compared with 51.0% to 58.1% with tirzepatide. Fat-to-lean mass ratio improved more with tirzepatide than placebo, with greater improvements observed in patients who lost more body weight.”

https://www.practiceupdate.com/content/easd-2022-substantial....
+1 for the rapid fat loss. It's just that we don't even really know how to do one or the other reliably :)
A thing to keep in mind is that 1 MWh of raw calories takes much more than 1 MWh to produce (fuel for tractors, inefficiency of meat etc). The GPU energy is also easier to make renewable.

I did an extremely rough calculation recently that the training of GPT-3 is comparable to one transatlantic flight (all passengers combined) in terms of emissions, very depending on the energy mix of course.
Strange. Like most of the C64 games in that era in my country, my brother and I got a pirated copy with no instructions and we never had any problem figuring out how it works.
I always used do a double-take when I heard "I could care less." in Michigan.

Careful analysis indicates that it should be "I could not care less.".
Tell me about it. I don't mind helping someone, but when they don't pay attention the first time and I have to have the same exact meeting again, it's kind of a bother.
Oxidise Your Life
> I think the idea that people living in a country understand their own lives worse than an outsider is beyond absurd

I'd say the exact opposite - those in a system become desensitized to its failings, and steeped in societal myths. One needs to be outside of that to have a frame of reference to compare anything to.

Your argument seems to hinge upon material wealth. That can carry a lot of water for a system's failings, as it does in the US. But it's not particularly indicative of the shapes of power structures.
Ha, thanks :)

But I had that "willpower" for decades and didn't lose much weight. Certainly "pushing harder" didn't change anything.

And then flicking one little switch made it super easy with no willpower involved. So I just don't see how the willpower is related to losing fat.
The first rule of rust club is that you must talk about rust club.
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I'm (fairly happily) trapped in the Apple ecosystem (computer, phone, tablet, watch etc) and can't/am not willing to get out.
If a person gained access to all the assets associated with a device, wouldn't that mean they also gained access to the individual's digital fingerprint and/or face identification?

What I gain from this article is, "See? Storing all your identity (financial, personal, professional) in digital format on a small external device like a phone is not a good idea." To which 2007 would uniformly reply, "I told you so."

Now it's 2023, what do we do...

Apple's reply (IMO): We're not God, and we have no solution that won't completely destroy your privacy with us, a Big Tech company. Please take ownership over your identity, or else...
I replied to this comment to explain why I downvoted it, because it feels bad to not understand why you're downvoted.
A common tip for folks who don’t use mac much is to go into System Settings, Keyboard, and swap the Command and Control modifiers. Thereafter most common shortcuts are identical to windows muscle memory.
You mean the Enron dealing room? https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1542190/Enr...
Nerds with more dollars than sense. And that's looking in the mirror; I feel the pull even though I no way could afford it.

Though I'd pay a bit more not to have the NFT. :P
Ubuntu is the worst distribution I’ve used in a long time. Try Fedora, I run it for work, same laptop for 3 years now, it’s absolutely perfect, very few issues.

We use Ubuntu at work for some things, even as a sever, I have no respect for it. I have no idea why it’s popular. Marketing ?
Having ChatGPT write code that you immediately turn around and execute is a very risky proposition for all kinds of reasons, the least of which are crashing at runtime or failing to compile. If you're having it produce code in a Turing-complete language, you've opened yourself up to the worst kind of prompt injection attacks.

A much safer approach would be to have it produce a JSON object that is interpreted by the wrapping code. This allows you to inspect the interpreting code and provide guarantees about what can and cannot be done by users.

But neither execution model solves my main point: someone still has to write the interpreter (or the library functions if you go the dangerous route). Someone has to think ahead and guess what the user is going to try to do and provide APIs that allow that. And that work is most of the work: our existing intent recognition models are actually not bad at all at their job, the failings these voice assistants have are almost all to do with predicting the ways in which users will try to interact with the system.
I find it a mix. There are days where the complexity is fun, there's (most) other days where I just need coffee before a day of complexity at work.
> Counting calories isn't that hard and it works by the very definition of energy.

It doesn't "work" unless your definition of "work" is "lost a few pounds of water weight over a few weeks." Certainly does not work when going from obese to normal weight.
OGD with a highlife back is a fairly popular choice in my experience…
> Cutting out the daily donut for two weeks is about a pound of fat.

For many people, no it's not. Becuse their metabolism just decreases by the exact same amount they cut calories. They cut out the daily donut, and they find themselves fidgeting less and wearing a sweater because they're suddenly a little chilly a lot of the day. And the scale doesn't budge.

For many people, losing weight is a whole lot more complex than reducing by x calories per day. Getting your body to burn fat rather than slow its metabolism can be maddeningly difficult.
Good insight here IMO
But then you'd not be comfortable with the hundreds if not thousands of other packages out there that use vim bindings.
Setup how? I've used vi/vim daily as my main editor for the past 35 years or so, over that time I doubt I've put more than 20 total hours into its setup. I've been using some evolution of the same .vimrc for decades and it's only accumulated a couple dozen lines. The longest setup task I can remember was a few years ago getting MacVim to launch with one window per folder (with files as tabs, in most cases that equates to one window per repo, handy when I'm working across a couple different ones), but that was all shell work, not within vim itself.
Literally none of the issues you mention are detriments to commuting safely by bicycle. None. The fact that you got downvoted should perhaps give you pause for reflection.

A more reasonable criticism is the danger to bikes from neeedlessly massive cars and pickup trucks. Or the danger from bike lanes that are not cleared of snow.
Do me a favor. Go to China and start an opposition party. Or hand out flyers in Beijing criticizing Xi’s third term. When you come back from the gulags in couple decades, tell us about your experience with Chinese democracy.
Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
Helix itself looks amazing, but the keybindings make me stay away from it. Even if they are better than the original, I don't want to learn another set of "non-standard" keybindings that I need to switch between only to use an editor.
How are they different from models that already exist like FLAN-T5?
Right you are, I never remember the proper name for the instance. I only use it to spaghettify code.
> It's because many kinds of lawsuits (not only the government's) can go into discovery and when you have 130k+ employees generating discoverable materials it becomes very costly to search and provide these for lawsuits.

If only they have technology that would help them doing such searches...
have you seen the web lately? javascript is increasingly being used on backend. not just for apps, for static one page sites too. those who disable javascript do not have a pleasant browsing experience and are forced to enable it often

I'm not here to guarantee anything, just mentioning the technology exists and is still widely employed. there are no guarantees with messaging app ticks either