skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As shown in Figure 9, results indicated that “intermittent energy restriction interventions,” which include relatively long diet breaks, led to a fairly negligible weight loss advantage that was not statistically significant.

The problems I am seeing with all these studies is that the participates in the control groups (just regular dieting) are still losing weight throughout the study.

Instead, do a study where you have a bunch of people who are calorie restricted, and when the scale stops moving, have half the participants do a re-feed before trying to cut again, and the other half keep soldiering on as is.

Or to put it another way, we all know people plateau with diets. Running a study that where participants do not hit a plateau, and instead having science just go "oh well! Sorry can't help you!" aren't of much use.

(It is funny because the author of that article starts out talking about plateaus, and then runs a bunch of studies that.... don't encounter plateaus.)

I've met people, who are grossly obese, who after going from 400lb to 300lb, find that they aren't losing weight at even 2500 kcals a day. So they drop it to 2000kcal. 25 pounds later the scale stops, and they try 1500kcal, feel like shit, and they give up. Math says at 250lb they should be shedding tons of weight at 1500kcal, but they aren't.

I want to see a study that investigates that, instead of "oh someone lost 10kg, woohoo!"

10-15kg is a lot of weight to lose, but almost any dietary intervention will pull of a 10-15kg weight loss (which is what all the studies looked at show!)

> Theoretically, reverse dieting should be most effective in scenarios where metabolic adaptation is most extreme, and to my knowledge, the Minnesota Starvation Experiment reports some of the most dramatic metabolic adaptation ever observed in the scientific literature.

Except it was taking people at healthy weights and having them drop to an unhealthy low weight, and then having them regain weight.

The situation we are faced with now is people at unhealthy high weights, with all the hormonal problems that entails, losing a bunch of weight, and messing up their hormones in a different way, and now the goal is to stabilize their body at that new lower weight.

> As previously discussed, the available research hints at a number of subjective and behavioral improvements related to hunger, satiety, diet adherence, mood, and perceived energy level, in addition to improved performance

All of those "subjective" feelings have basis on the body's physiological systems. With better measurements, the underlying cause of those "subjective feelings" can be found.

Edit: FWIW I think the extreme weights we are seeing in developed societies have multiple underlying causes, and that pure dietary interventions are not the solution for everyone. From gut microbiome to environmental pollutants, to the # of ads for fast food on TV, IMHO the problem is multi-causal.
I've definitely had a number of minor scrapes etc. over decades and I've never once had an issue--though I've almost exclusively dealt with the larger companies for whom minor scrapes etc. are presumably considered normal.
I believe the rebuttal to this argument is partially done in the article by showing hospital admittance statistics. And if this was a factor, I trust that the authors would absolutely delve into this idea. They call out that self-reporting mental stat is not an accurate enough indicator, and choose to couple that with other statistics.
So the million dollar question... when to sell off to beat the boomer exit? :-D
Unless they’re planning to kill GCP entirely. Then everyone is a departing customer /s

But seriously, it seems like a fair-ish compromise. The 60 day limit is tough though. As long as you’re continuing your usage and not using offsite backups, ingress/egress isn’t probably too problematic. It’s only problematic when you try to suddenly egress all data you’ve ever stored, which you probably wouldn’t do unless you’re migrating away.
They're making chatbots specifically for humans to waste time with them (a.k.a. entertainment.)

Engagement and user retention are directly connected to their bottom line in a way that quality responses (e.g. introducing you to a more fulfilling hobby than chatting with AIs) are not.
You can mostly avoid running into the single return people, if you sneak into and out of the building by the rear entrance.
love the time I rented from Avis and got assigned a Kia Niro EV with, not shitting you, EXACTLY ONE PERCENT capacity left! I wasn't sure if I could get it off the lot! I exchanged it for a Bolt that fared better. Love that car.
The pertinent takeaway is that a professional career would yield a much higher percentage of total equity ownership in prior decades.

I worked at a shop where the pay scale worked out like the following.

- Eng2: 140k
- Eng Manager: 180k
- Eng Director: 250-500k depending
- C suite: 20 MM per year (direct payment)
- Founder: > 200 MM per year (ownership stake/cap gains).

I suspect that such scales are more common than we know.
Mmm, A620 has come down considerably since I last checked. That's good.
Yes. my goal would be to identify those properties from 3d models of knots, and a mechanism to generate plausible 3d models.
Or it wasn't Van Sabben, and the US/Israel just picked some random dead guy to pin the blame on.

These stories are all "according to intelligence sources", they can really anonymously brief out anything that serves their needs.
With the exception of GTA5 and DOTA2, none of the games they list are even in the top 50 on Steamcharts.

"and/or have a benchmark built in" doing a whole lot of lifting...
I think having trouble finding a postdoc is a good outcome of the process, the incentives in this case are working properly. Postdoc positions were designed as a short bridge between a PhD and a tenure-track position, not as a long-term crutch for people who are not ready to leave academic research.
The thread is about Google Assistant, not Alexa, Sonos, or Siri.

Regardless, do you think over 50% of households use the voice commands to the extent we call it "pervasive"?
love how the article ends with a bunch of Xitter links disproving everything it said.
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
Show HN: Script to Scan for % of Malicious Domains on Top Sub-Reddits
I wrote a script to scan top sub-reddits and calculate the total number of malicious domains associated to the links posted.
You could, but I think that ship has sailed.
Your concern is more of a sign that you'd be a responsible pet parent. I don't have experience with dogs (rescue or not), but caring for a cat is relatively straightforward and can bring lots of joy. Writing this with a cat sleeping on my lap, who showed up in my backyard a few years ago.
The cool thing about health insurance is that you pay a lot of money every month, then when you get sick or injured you pay a lot more money.
Are you suggesting that supply and demand market forces are somehow inadequate in allocating resources towards engineer salaries on HN? I am shocked.
Funny you raise that, as this is one of the very few tasks that Siri does do reliably for me :)

(Along with just-about-good-enough speech-to-text, if I speak clearly, and checking on the weather outside.)

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But yes, totally agree with your underlying point about the huge opportunity that Apple is leaving on the table with their lackluster approach to Siri.
You're not alone. Many are seeing the same thing.
As a knotable person myself, this is AMAZING.

Some thoughts on application of this knowledge would be to look at the patterns as you have described as cross-sections of rope weaving with the circular looming as the individual bobbins/spinny-things in an industrial loom - so rather that just woven-sheeth and full spin style cabling, one might achieve some really incredible properties in the woven elements along a axis such as these represent.

Especially if you further differentiate btwn material and woven state (Are you weaving in an already spun set of filiments? What are the materials for the various inputs, and even further - imagine you have a set of elements in the loom where youre certain threads are the static, more rigid scaffold - like woven titanium strands which then feed into another loom which is weaving in the kevlar or other materials including a core of optics which is protected by the outer woven sheath from these patterns of 2D knots stretched out along an axis - certain elements can be printed such like the articulating spine of a snake.

It could make a machinable-high-tensile strength cable with an optical core with protected turn radii (titanium snake spine)

See here for reference to advanced cabling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5aAd8Oy84
Also, with business travel, I generally haven't been allowed to expense fees to returning it with less than a full tank. With EVs, this would mean that I couldn't pay even a reasonable fee for this service.

That'd be enough to make me avoid them on business travel, even though I also tend to rent EVs when traveling for leisure.
You can replace a significant proportion of the grid with intermittent generation without any trouble. Using solar for the air conditioning load in the summer is perfect. Use whatever you want to charge electric car batteries because they're batteries and most cars are parked >90% of the time. You can can't shift 100% of the load based on time of day through pricing, but you can do a non-trivial amount.

Then you pick the low-hanging fruit and start trying to find a solution to power heat pumps in the winter at night and it's... not as easy. But a grid can be 0% fossil fuels without being 100% solar and wind.
> While the use of Books3 is not contested by Meta, the question remains whether the company was in the wrong when it did so.

It seems that AI companies will have to pay publisher to use their content, after the courts have decided meta and openai were indeed wrong to use pirated works.
Show HN: Dotplotlib – hijacking Matplotlib to make better dot plots
Ask HN: Current Layoff Summary?
There are so many layoff posts on the front page right now. There are some duplicates which talk about the same company but different divisions and so on.

Is there somewhere a summary of which companies laid off and how much they laid off? Or is it too early?
I see, thanks for clarifying! Your mention of AI, is that with respect to residential construction or tech layoffs?
Discord interview questions are not your typical leetcode problems. Your premise is wrong.
I think you are very seriously downplaying the extra effort family care takers actually are making. For sure it is not comparable to the historical levels but it still exits. I get your point, but your comment is equally damaging.
Very much agree.
I am working with probably 40 consultants on a team of 80.
The absolute lack of pride in their work is pushing me to my breaking point.

I will know if I am going to leave in a couple weeks, 2 things need to happen for me to stay; I get promoted this month and half the consultants leave. If both don't happen I think I am gone.
Pixel phones are OK. They are just not priced competitively. They are priced like iPhones. But who are you kidding? Pixel phones are nowhere near iPhones.
This is the "Anti Stochastic Parrot" paper. I am happy to finally read a philosophical paper on LLMs.

I just have a small quip.

> While LLMs show promise in various forms of task generalization, their participation in the ratcheting process of cultural learning thus appears contingent on further advancements in these areas, which might lie beyond the reach of current architectures.

I don't think cultural transmission with LLMs is that incipient.

Evolution through Large Models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896

We have seen papers where LLMs are used as "search heads" or "mutation operators" in evolutionary methods. They can rely on their language proficiency to explore the most promising leads, spanning a vast combinatorial space.

And another example of "cultural transmission": GPT-4 has its paws all over Mistral and LLaMA finetunes. Plenty of cultural transmission between big and small LLMs. Not to mention Phi, a model trained purely on synthetic GPT-4 data. Synthetic data has been estimated to be 5x more efficient than human data, you can make a model 1/5 size with similar performance.
re: 1, 2, 3

Google has been hiring people into the same roles and teams where they have laid people off.

> all of these things are fairly obvious if you thought about it for more than 30 seconds, so its somewhat concerning you find this topic so perplexing.

Wow, you are rude.
>The reality here is that no one will trust a pinky promise. Especially not from Microsoft.

I'll just chime in to say that, while I appreciate the sentiment the user is conveying, I certainly don't trust a Microsoft pinky promise.
When open source platforms are worse than closed source
When I've used chatgpt and bard to write example code, it's always generated a complete example, not half of one.

Of course, I carefully frame the query so that's what I get.

However, when I asked stackoverflow, google, and bard a question about how to do something with github, all I received were wrong answers. I finally had to throw in the towel and ask people. I think it was the third person I asked who gave an answer that worked.

google itself has an annoying habit of answering a fundamentally different question than what I type in.
Yeah, I know. A lot of countries with much less resources and wealth than the EU host a lot more people. Which commendable. And shows that it is purely a lack of pilotical will on behalf of the EU to do more.

And still Erdogan used refugees to gain concessions and favors from the EU.
A CIA/Mossad pension plan?

Do you think he got the villa next to Epstein or Kobe?
The Enlightenment produced free speech and reasoning. Nietzsche said, "god is dead," but a lot of people said it before and after - because reasoning could not fill in the gap of a shared reality. Harari's Sapiens gives a good history; Hoffman's claim that "natural selection does not favor veridical perception" says you're pretty confused about what is actually going on wrt "truth"; Seth's "Being You" might help to understand what conscious beings are actually trying to do in relation "truth" and survival.
if it didn't spaz out while installing LineageOS on it, I'd still be using my Pixel 2 XL. it was probably struggling with some hardware failures (I dropped it a lot...) and wouldn't boot after.

Pixel 6s were on sale and I got one of those, no regrets. I am not enthusiastic about Google as a company, and I may consider an iPhone for my next cell, but I've been satisfied with the Pixel line so far.
Same reason why the Trump Tax cuts almost made PhD tuition waivers taxable.

1) Tech workers are liberals

2) Liberals being owned is good if you're an administration consumed with punishing your enemies and enriching your allies

#2 is also why SALT deduction was curtailed, to punish blue states. While I think that's accidentally good policy, it made people mad enough to flip the House in 2018.
> “The US is more diverse which is why we have more problems” is just an old racist talking point.

It also ignores the degree of racial diversity of other developed Western countries. Over 17% of Australians have Asian ancestry, and if you add to that other non-European ancestries it would be over 20% of the population. And yet, Australia’s homicide rate (on a per capita basis) is less than a quarter that of the US. New Zealand is about 16% Māori, 15% Asian, 9% Pacific Islander, with almost 30% of the population having non-European ancestry - and its homicide rate is a bit higher than Australia’s but still less than a third of that of the US. Similarly, New Zealand’s road fatality rate is just over half that of the US (per capita), and Australia’s is less than half.

So whatever it is, it isn’t racial diversity
The UAE is one of the richest countries in the world, not a good place to go for cheap bribes.
Park it in 5% bonds. Can the employees beat that for making rev for the company?
I wonder if this yet another layoff as a result of the R&D tax change for SWEs
Yes but I think the outrage isn't about wealthy engineers and merchants, but that there is not a suitable protection to prevent wealthy children from joining the rentier class and subsequent failure to contribute to society.

For arguments sake, I don't think it's outrageous to guarantee someone who has created great value that their children will live comfortably throughout their lives. But there may be a class of people who consume a disproportionate amount of goods and services who have not personally contributed to our society, but by fortune of birth are allowed to continue an extravagant lifestyle.
> New Outlook described in article is not PWA Outlook you have with "New Outlook for O365". PWA Outlook for 365 is different from this.

Okay. And?

As I mentioned in my post, the same behaviors discussed by the Proton researchers were also discovered by German researchers in the "New Outlook". Does the purchase channel matter here?
If leadership gets stock as part of their compensation, they don't get to sell it off until long after their tenure in leadership is ended.

The time horizon of these jokers is too short. If they had a 10 or even a 5 year risk horizon, they would not make these short-sighted decisions. The Welchian approach isn't just value destruction, over a longer time horizon it's quantifiably unprofitable for the business as a whole.

Forgive me a tangent here, particularly relevant with the 737, about how leaders regularly mistake economies of scope for economies of scale.

Scale and Scope are fundamentally different things, but M&A specialists and related finbros often treat them as equivalent. This is unfortunate. Scalar efficiencies are largely functions of density - more people buying the same thing over a given space. Scope involves equivalence - more people buying things that are just similar enough. This is a trap. In order to evaluate equivalence, you need domain knowledge, but in order to consolidate operations, you've already jettisoned that same domain knowledge. Also known as "Why do I need fuselage experts in three different places? It's just a tube! Let's just hire one outsourced Fuselage Expert".

Economy of Scope takes a truly heroic amount of domain knowledge among the M&A team to make it work, but if you're already convinced that finance contains the secrets of the universe, you're probably going to be dismissing domain knowledge as a basic concept.

Again - not for the first time - I marvel at the structural similarities of end-stage Soviet industry and our own late-stage financier capitalism.
>>Its the natural order of things.

No, there is nothing "natural" about our current ownership distribution. Was Gilded Age wealth concentration "the natural order of things"?

>>Its not like the 10%ers (outside the Physician cartel) are writing laws to entrench their positions.

Are you trolling? Have you never heard of PAC's? SuperPAC's? What do you think campaign contributions to legislators are buying? Many industries and wealthy individuals/groups are in fact doing exactly this.
> I'm not sure how they could benefit from killing him.

It’s a pretty strong signal to others that there are consequences.
I like the proactive insights approach, a big problem with the Ai products i see in development is they all require the user to take action.
I never said it will be 10x more expensive: if the unit cost is twice as low, then having a 10x overcapacity is “only” 5x more expensive, but that's still too expensive.
Open AI pays $800,000 a year salary for highly specialized machine learning engineers.

Way different than the bread and butter jobs most of the tech industry consists of.

Open AI has maybe a thousand jobs out of millions of jobs in the tech industry. I wouldn't say its a good sample.
Also, American union workers press for higher salaries, American workers are not competitive due to living cost in the US

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-le...

You do not need to be a slave; it's enough to accept that the living standard comes with a cost.
not even that. the miners follow the nodes. if fidelity holds all transactions andbonly show them to their private miners, they will always mine with more transactions then the others, hence the 51 attack is based on transactions not miners nor nodes.

again, the cheerleaders who might know math (usually not even that) forget about the ruthless of business
A small piece of shrink tube fixes this. The difficult part is to squeeze it onto the connector
There are 2,000 people playing Tiny Tina on Steam.

There are a million people playing CS2. Fortnite sees about 2.6 million and peaks at eleven million.

The Finals has 70,000+ people playing.

Tiny Tina has about 1/5th of the player count it would need to be in the top 100. So yes, AMD marketing was pretty fucking desperate when they listed that game.
I'm not sure that experience would have been any better if you had tried to rent a gas vehicle. I had almost the same experience as you (attempts at backwards up selling, poor communication about returning the car fueled up, and customers served in a random order), but with a gas vehicle in Denver in 2019 at a Hertz.
Airbus A319 turns around after door indicator light turns on
I didn't know that and that's insidious
Using solar for the air conditioning load in the summer is perfect.

Ish. They don't completely correspond.
I did a contract gig for a Windows shop recently, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well everything worked. WSL2 made a lot of things soooo much easier.
The weird scaling is what's called in accounting the "half-year rule." Any depreciable expenses are assumed to have been incurred halfway through the year, so the first year you can only deduct half of the normal amount (and the other half of that is in the last year + 1 of the depreciation period).
https://layoffs.fyi/ ?
Delayed Open Source Publication
> It’s the natural order of things. Sure we can play with the levers of society and make it so that number is higher or lower, but you also might mess up.

These are mutually contradictory: if we can shift that ratio by policy, it’s a choice. Yes, some choices will have drawbacks but if the number has shifted by 20 points in recent decades it can’t be “the natural order of things” and it’s completely reasonable to ask whether different percentages would be better for society overall.
That sounds like an easy problem to solve, tbh. 100 miles and l1 at the airport. It'd be nice if they all installed at least a few rows of those.
D does in some ways have too many features. We'd like to prune out some of them.

I agree that named parameters can be very helpful. For example, if there are three bool arguments, it makes calls like:

test(true, false, false);

into:

test(format: true, output: false, skip: false);

which makes it much more readable.
I wasn't really just talking about the ammonia.

Tractors run on diesel fuel, the trucks that move the grain run on diesel, the trains typically run on diesel, the ships typically run on diesel. The plant that processes it into food runs on coal or natural gas, or possibly some hydro power or nuclear. The bag that stores the food comes from natural gas (sometimes oil). Then that package is shipped to a store using diesel. The store powers its lights (also made from a polymer from natural gas) via natural gas generators.

One of fertilizers you point out is ammonia comes as a product from natural gas & it's the only current viable way to do it commercially, at scale.

Sure one day, we may replace all these components, but in-reality it's not anywhere close to being replaced.
CEO walked free. Some of his minions went to prison.
This article simultaneously says “here are a bunch of things we claim happened” and then paragraphs later quotes experts who say they could not have or did not happen that way. Why is this valuable? I know as little as I did before reading it.
Those might be not necessary 2 threads of one program, but 2 independent programs.