skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We bought an LG washer and drying last year that tries to be smart and it drives me nuts. When you start it, it takes several minutes moving the tub in very small increments. It starts and stops and reverses over-and-over and I assume it's sensing the load. Then it starts and occasionally the balance is off and I does the thump-thump-thump thing. So I stop it, rearrange the load and restart. Instead of just resuming, it goes through the sensing dance again and I have to stand there three or four minutes before it actually starts to spin again.

If I could turn all the load sensing stuff off, I would. All I really want is two sliders that give me 0-100% for load size and temperature and a switch for delicate.
I wonder if there's anything unique about your situation or just a lot of bad luck. Are you buying generally higher-end items? What does the tracking reveal in terms of where in the process the item disappeared? In the US or China? Or was it just never tendered for delivery?

I've bought a lot of stuff from China on ali and ebay, but no single item over $30 in value. So far I'm at 100% in terms of delivered items. A lot of crushed packaging, but no damaged items. Maybe 95% in terms of on-time delivery.
I recently read The Obesity Code and it has completely shifted my understanding of weight gain. The bit that got me was diabetic patients being given insulin, which has a known symptom of weight gain - the very thing contributing to type 2 diabetes.

So the same calorie diet and the same amount burned can behave differently at storing fat because of a small pill. This for me flies in the face of calories in/calories out. A pill, or insulin can really screw that up.
I wouldn't fret much about trusting the editor, it's no more magic than the scene appearing when you load it from XML. But I agree that this remains my biggest frustration with Unity. It's fun to use, it's very fast to prototype with, but you hit the nail right on the head that "everything feels second class to using the GUI," and once you've worked in an engine that accommodates a text-first workflow it can really feel like mandatory training wheels sometimes. Maybe someone with more professional Unity experience can drop in, it's such a popular platform that it seems to me like there must be productive workflows that aren't hampered by the GUI in use out there.

Most other engines have different tradeoffs in my experience, and Unity is hard to beat because of how relatively robust and stable it is.
Problem of the day – Solve a problem – Start a business
That is brilliant. Did it take much maintenance?
> Caloric Deficit == Weight Loss

> The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s science. Nothing else matters for weight loss. The magnitude of the caloric difference will regulate how quickly or slowly you lose the weight.

This is actually not so clear cut. It's currently being debated if this model is right or the hormonal model is right. https://peterattiamd.com/do-calories-matter/

What I suspect with the author was that his caloric deficit was also restricting carbs and once the carbs was restricted his body started to burn fat when there was no more insulin in his blood.

Counting carbs and restricting them leads to an easier lifestyle to follow where you don't worry about getting hungry and making sure you're burning more then you eat (Vs counting calories).
Experts Warn Against Potential for Abuse in Israeli Cybersecurity Bill
You might want to look at this:
https://trello.readme.io/docs/api-introduction
Does anyone have any book recommendations that are similar to the content in this comment thread? (speculation on alien life, and such)
Prince had mailed out floppy disks to news organizations to accommodate that change. [0] The Prince font substituted his symbol for what would otherwise be a capital P. In addition, the font was also made available for download on CompuServe.

[0] http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/04/princes-legendary-floppy-...
[pdf] Visual Content Privacy Leaks on Social Media Networks
Last year I lost 44 pounds (20kg) by counting calories (I also used MyFitnessPal to count and record everything).

My advice to people who want to be successful into this, would be:

1. Be realistic with the calories you consume. Use an app to track everything down. Eat more raw vegetables and lean protein-source foods that are easy to account for and will fill you up (so you will not feel hungry all of the time). Measure everything to the gram. Buy a scale and try preparing most of your food yourself.

2. Don't have cheat-days. Get to your goal and then, you add a few hundred calories a day to equalize intake/expenditure (so you stop losing weight), so you will have a few hundred more calories a day to eat - now you can (hopefully) have what you want and would not be cheating.

3. Be realistic with the calories you spend. Get an armband to measure your movement throughout the day, measure yourself on the scale every week and if things don't add-up - correct for the error.

4. Don't go for more than 0.5kg loss per week. Having such a huge deficit to make 1kg of fat go away within a week can render you in a very unproductive state where you barely can get anything done during the day (that's ~1285 Kcal deficit a day, which is half of your normal calories per day if you are 30 yo male, not gaining or loosing weight and you weigh-in at 220 punds / 100kg, you would usually be expending about 2600 Kcal if you have at least some activity during the day like an hour of walking).

5. Don't listen to people's stories about weight loss and "what worked for them", if they are in their early 20's (I am 30 yo). Younger bodies (and minds) are more susceptible to magic.

If at the start of your journey you maintain some muscle through training - you will have to continue training during this period of weight loss, or that is the first thing you will lose. Even then, you have to know you will lose some muscle. I personally don't care about looks (I run and I train in Boxing) and losing some of that muscle doesn't bother me, since at the end I feel lighter, quicker and (compared to my new weight-class) stronger.

Good luck!

P.S.

- Even if you weren't training when you started and you are not trying to maintain gained muscle - doing some interval training during the weight loss will help keep your metabolic rate from falling. Your body will (partially) adjust to the weight loss by lowering your metabolism and this will solve part of the hunger, but you will feel sleepy, slow and tired and you will be burning less fat overall. Pushing yourself for just a few minutes a day with some HIIT or something similar, can offset this.
As you say infoSec groups are _very_ close-knit. Normally forming groups based off of geographic location due to regular social meetups. These groups also are normally all part of an online chat (think irc, but most people have moved onto some other platform these days)

If someone were looking to join the easiest way would be find a conference near you. In the US pretty much any major city has these, but in other countries I'm sure they are just as common. Some are very professional, some are less so. If there is copious amounts of drinking you're at the right place. Generally the smaller the conference the better, so that also means less advertising and harder to find

Lots of different InfoSec groups go to meetups so at that point just talk to as many people as you can, it might seem difficult to break into a group without anyone to vouch for you but most of the time everyone is open to newcomers
Happy this is not quite true. There is one therapy which reduces intake without making people physiologically hungry (addiction to food is a different matter) - gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy.
This is not about me blaming anyone. This is about educating folks that the shiny new "app" they installed is relaying data to a 3rd party and it may not be clear to people the legal and privacy ramifications of doing so. They must also be made aware that the 3rd party has no legal agreement with them so they are dealing with 3rd party data processors. I can assure you that most legal and HR departments have no idea that Slack does this.
I've been doing 16 hour IF for years completely unintentionally. I skip breakfast, lunch at 1pm, dinner at 8pm.

So I guess it's a habit thing. Once you make a habit of it, you just stick to it.
I guess I'm just blown away by the 1300kcal figure maintained for a year.

I frequently consume that before lunch and my dinners are often that large on their own. I'm 5'7" and 150lbs. I do workout regularly, but even without the exercise, I don't see how I could stay -200kcal/day on my BMR without making a mess of my metabolism and supplementing vitamins.
How dare you be hungry!
Create a Flutter iOS/Android app for a REST API by running 3 commands
Prime at Whole Foods Market
Well, many years later than everyone else, plucky little Britain finally gets into space - to collect the trash. Great!
Facebook's website shows a commitment to collecting personal information
Ask HN: Are You Backing Up Google Drive or Dropbox? How?
I was wondering if people are actually backing up stuff in Google Drive and Dropbox nowadays and if so how?
While I agree about the higher resolution point (SNES technically did support higher resolutions than Genesis, but not many games used this functionality as it used more VRAM), I'm confused about two other points.

> a sound chip that didn't sound muffled all the time because of severely limited sample memory

Huh? SNES sound chip, SPC700 has 64KB of RAM, supported 8 voices and had 32 kHz sampling rate.

For comparison combination of Z80 and YM2612 used by Genesis had 8KB of RAM, supported 6 voices and had 22 kHz sampling rate.

That said, I agree that SNES sound does sound muffled, although this is mostly due to Guassian filter involved. The available RAM didn't help, but Sega Genesis had even worse in terms of available RAM.

> a faster CPU

Until you realize that all instruction execution times are multiples of four cycles. Yes, the CPU is 7.6 MHz, not 3.58 MHz, but effectively SNES CPU is slightly faster for FastROM games (not all games used fast cartridges however, for slower cartridges, SNES uses 2.56 MHz clock). Not much, but...
I've been struggling with weight problems and my self-image for as long as I can remember. I've tried the Dukan diet ten years ago, which was a total disaster. At my heaviest I was 84kg for 174cm. That's a BMI of 27.

Two years ago, I had a minor motorcycle crash, and at the hospital the doctor was scared about my heart rate. It was fast and it was loud, around 100 bpm at rest. I always had a heart with a fast beat so I didn't really care about it. Then, my son was born. At that moment I decided that I needed to take care of myself and started going to the gym. Alas, being a new parent takes a lot of time and energy, and I had to cancel my membership last year.

So I've been experimenting with intermittent fasting since then, and it's been the best thing I've done in a long time.

I started doing the usual "16/8", that is fast for 16 hours and eat during the following 8 hours window. Basically it meant skipping breakfast and having lunch at around 1pm, which is extremely easy to do.

The past two months, I cranked the notch a bit and I've been doing OMAD (One Meal A Day). I eat from 7pm to 9pm and the rest of the time I only drink water or black coffee. It just changed my life.

In the past two months I've lost 9kg, so now I'm at 73kg, and I've never felt so good in my life.

My mind feels sharper throughout the day, and I've developed a completely different relationship with food. I now consider it to be fuel, and I've started thinking about the quality of fuel I'm putting in my body. So now I cook and I try to chose good meat and vegetables, and I'm trying to cut on sugar and pasta. I still eat lunch sometimes (when I'm visiting my parents or I'm having lunch with a client) but I don't really care as I know that my weight is going to regulate itself in the few following days.

And my heart rate is now normal. At rest, it's beating at around 65 bpm.

If anyone's interested, I highly recommend watching Jason Fung on Youtube. His talks about fasting have been an eye opener for me. His approach on obesity through hormonal regulation is amazing.
Those services definitely exist. I’ve used the DAC[1] in Cardiff before for indepth review from expert users of assistive tech, but I’ve also taken part in standard user research with people with accessibility needs (ranging from blindness to motor problems to severe dyslexia). One thing to bear in mind when doing user research like that is that bringing people into your lab won’t work: people who use assistive tech setups tend to customise them to fit their needs, so you need to get out and observe ‘in the field’ if possible.

[1] http://digitalaccessibilitycentre.org/
Accessibility is never a problem until it is. And it will be a problem - eventually, every single time. My last two companies, i pleaded with them to think about it before it became a problem. They ignored me, and two years later - in both cases, I kid you not, we got named in ADA action and lost tons of money/time trying to respond. You don't get to choose whether or not you get sued under ADA, you just will as a matter of course (the bigger you are, the sooner). What you can choose to do is be thoughtful about it early, and see it as an opportunity to make your site better for everyone.. the thing is a lot of the a11y stuff you need to do is good for every user. ... or you can wait until you get sued and have your operations grind to an agonizing halt as you try to figure out how to undo the mess of years of bad coding in a massive whole-site rewrite.
As a developer, I believe it's a mixed bag.

I've made plenty of small, silly games that I could release on Android, iOS and recently also on Steam. That's great, I wouldn't be able to do so on Switch.

However, I'm now also working on a bigger game that takes two years to make, and when releasing on Android, iOS and Steam it will just drown in the sea of crap, which means I will have to rely only on my own marketing efforts. It might also get a Switch port, and it's more than likely that it will be much easier to sell there.
Apple’s Job Candidates Share Some of Its Most Mind-Boggling Interview Questions
I think that's a great idea. The value of an IP could be self-assessed, with the caveat that any party has an option to purchase the IP for e.g. 125% of the self-assessed value.

The tax on this value could scale from 1% for year 10 onwards, increasing by 0.25% per year. Year 50 of your copyright? Be prepared to pay 11% APR rent on its value.
I use mynetdiary. It's not perfect but it's free and doesn't require an account. And most importantly for me it's effective (lost about 17 lbs in four months).
Hopefully they’ll have gone through a similar ethical development that we have and they’re not still going around conquering other civilizations like we were back in the day.

Or maybe they’re their planet’s equivalent of Nazis and they’re bent on wiping out non-purple-eyed humans.
Interstellar 'biomes' would operate on much slower clocks. Human perception time-scale of ~1s is mandated by fast-paced ecosystem of our gravity well. Maybe we just not had enough continuous data in ~50 yrs ~ 10e10s to recognise intersystem channel modulation as such. Economy cycle phase shift across the civilized area cant be much bigger than cycle duration, so for inter-system distances of ~1 ly we are looking at 10^6 years (1 a.u. @ 1 year financial year for humans right now). Any real economy involving Mars will already showcase the need for much slower finance clocks and longer plans than we have in current economy. I guess cryptocurrency clocks will split into temporal tiers according to systems served by that time.
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The contents of the article is a bit of a letdown from the clickbaity title. Tuns out his father was a conscious objector and fled the draft in an off the grid commune, but otherwise Stewart had the privileged upbringing typical of Silicon valley, with not necessarily afluent but educated parents that provided him early access to a computer and instilled in him intellectual values from an early age.

That is nothing to be ashamed of, but it would be interesting and inspiring to learn of real underprivileged youths that rose from ghetto to fortune without strong family support.
It's not really a question of how many people are savvy enough to protect themselves from 3rd-party data collection.

I don't know how you feel about the GDPR (or the data brokerage industry, in general), but if web developers want to minimize government regulations we should probably architect our sites so as to minimize 3rd-party data collection of PII in the first place (which is enabled by including 3rd-party fonts).
Sure, but maintaining that deficit for a year or more sounds unhealthy to me. A few weeks here and there to lose a bit, sure.

I guess I'd rather exercise than starve myself. :)
Only if gravity isn't a requirement of life. We know that bad things happen to humans when in low/zero-g for more than a month. What happens to when we are talking about lifetimes - science is exploring this topic but doesn't really have answers.
Why exactly? Wouldn't that be akin to limiting medication to dried herbs of irregular purity and dosage because synthetic medicine cannot cure AIDS with antibiotics?

Even at the most risk adverse "needs to be better than both a human pilot alone or a human supervising it with overrides" would be a saner standard for autonomous operation. Since there have been cases of crashes from overriding an autopilot when it was judged as wrong but was actually right.
Can Robotics Solve Its Diversity Problem?
True, I wasn't thinking of surgical techniques. Sometimes that works without physiological hunger (or at least much). However, it also typically comes with a host of other problems and should only ever be considered in extreme circumstances, in my opinion.
Preparing for the End of Clicks Ft. Rand Fishkin
https://fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

The Hacker's Diet – How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition

first published 1994, also comes with software tools
... and Amsterdam is probably among the least bike-friendly big cities of the Netherlands (which is not a dig against Amsterdam).

It probably helps if provinces, counties and cities are all competitive about being the most bike-friendly place of the Netherlands. For example, there is a yearly "bike city/county of the year" competition and from what I can tell city councils are really, really keen on winning it, proudly naming their victory on the town signs. Apparently Houten is the bike city of 2018, and it's their second time[1]. My home-town of Groningen will have to step up it's game..

[0] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/zuid-holland-als-eerste-p... - Too Dutch, Couldn't Read: The province of Zuid Holland first to encourage bureaucrats, etc to use bike as mode of transportation.

[1] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/fietsstadverkiezing-2018/
So where does all the fat go?

I find the answer rather interesting as for 10 units of fat you burn, you breath out about 8.4 units of carbon dioxide and 1.6 units of water. Applying this to imperial pounds means that:

1 lb fat -> 0.84 lbs CO2 and 0.16 lb water.

¹https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141216212047.h...
Ask HN: Whose going to MongoDB World this week?
I'm headed to NYC for MongoDB World this Tuesday and Wednesday and wanted to open up a thread for anyone in the HN community to connect on.

Please post if you are going and what area of mongodb you either work in or are interested in.

I'm currently working on Chart.ly [1] where we are building dashboard/data visualization tooling on top of MongoDB and would love to network/meetup with anyone working on dashboards/charts/reporting with Mongo.

Will be in NYC all day Tues/Wed. Would love to meetup! Comment here or email me at harris @ chart - dot - ly

[1] https://chart.ly
He eats plants.
It would take many years since the spinoff that significant players would be comfortable enough to manufacture their designs with "Intel Foundry" since they known damn well there would be several hot-lines between Intel Foundry and Intel Designs.
Reminds me of a Scorpion episode where Walter automates texts to follow up on a date.
I think about the millions of galaxies holding their billions of stars and wonder how it could be possible that our little solar system holds the only life in the universe while the building blocks and conditions for life must not be that unusual. Who writes this stuff?
It's not so simple. What you eat and your hormones determine the fat storage on your body. 1 calorie of carbs is different to 1 calorie of fat and 1 calorie of protein. Just because they give the same amount of energy, your body uses them in different ways and required different hormones (like insulin) to regulate the consumption of them. It's like saying electric energy is the same as mechanical energy, they produce energy but we consume them in different ways.

Counting calories doesn't really work. What's working is restricting insulin in your system which allows your body to burn fat. When you have insulin it's impossible to burn fat.

Suggest having a ready of some of Gary Taubes and something like https://www.dietdoctor.com/first-law-thermodynamics-utterly-...
I would also add to your points:

- If you are lifting weights at a decent intensity, as in squatting 80% of your bodyweight for an example, you WILL gain muscle mass if you are new to it despite a calorie deficit. Noob gains are a powerful thing. Most people just curl 5 lb dumbbells or do some other motion with a weight that is barely noticable.

- This guy was eating at a very unhealthy calorie deficit (1000). You should never go over 500 kcal deficit if you don't want to lose loads of muscle in the process. A calorie deficit as high as his is comparable to a crash diet, and is prone to result in a quick upswing in weight once the diet ends, as you will have been starving yourself.
> Saying: "I build web applications" means nothing to them, and saying "I create website" makes you look like a wizard doing some black magic.

Who are these people? When people ask what I do I just tell them "I'm a developer; I make websites" and they understand what I do enough to move the conversation forward. Is there other context I'm missing?
For myself, I've built a web-based task manager. Nothing fancy, apache, PHP and JavaScript. It's tied into a number of the systems I have running at home, such as a similarly built budgeting platform that handles all our money and sends me a biweekly report of all the payments I need to schedule, and any checks I need to write (usually just rent.)

I've also setup some things for the wife, who's an artist on Patreon, where she uploads works she's finished to a given folder and my machine grabs them, resizes them to whatever she needs for different purposes, and emails them to her. It also applies watermarks depending on the appearance of it (light vs dark) and will also add it to her Jekyll website, commit the new image to the git repo, build and push it live with no interaction unless something blows up along the way (122 days since last workplace accident)

I also have a bunch of LED ropes, night lights, and our bedroom TV setup on smart plugs that are turned on and off automatically, but I don't know if that counts since I didn't build it, I just bought them.
Show HN: New Chrome Extension to Track Progress on Your Financial Goals
Thanks for the numbers! The US is great if you're in the top 20%, especially if you're married to another in the top 20%, but otherwise I think most people would be better off in more equitable countries.
Are we no longer differentiating between a blog and a blog post (i.e. an individual entry vs. the entire collection)?
You said a lot of things but in the end you ate less calories than you "burned". That is all it takes.