skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantifying doesn't necessarily lead to overwhelming data or questioning.

If you want to improve something it is a good idea to measure it.

Sensible examples might include: repetitions and weights at the gym, body weight, running / walking distance, hours slept, time wasted on social media

Counting calories might not have to be done continuously depending on your diet and goals but definitely helps to realise how much sugar and carbs are in many foods. Calibrating your perception in this way might be enough to convince you to change your habits for good.

Many things can be tracked conveniently or automatically even without the need to go BigData.

A cheap air monitor can detect high CO2 or VOC in enclosed spaces. Without insight a simple fix such as opening a window may not occur to some.

The hope that our bodies can regulate everything intrinsically is not good enough in an increasingly artificial environment and natural is not always healthy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659983 is a decent thread from a couple of days ago which should tell you a bit more about its current state, the experiences of people installing it and running it and has a bunch of comments from the author.
Unfortunately there's no performant way to do this without webgl. Ideally we'd never show distorted maps, but Mercator is deeply embedded in a lot of code.
I include pulling a permit as part of doing a job properly.
How did you not get that the term '25 bytes' is merely the size necessary to store the number of possible ratios instead of any actual information?

Did no one read the discussion below about encoding information into pi? This is the same concept. Yes, there are only 25 bytes worth of ratios to chose from, but those ratios themselves can, possibly, POSSIBLY, store all the information.
120CAD = 92USD. Ouch.
No-one pushing rubbish code this time.
May be Canada can't attract top talent from USA but the best half of the team that worked with me in Brazil the last couple years are now in Canada, Ireland or Germany.
Show HN: WeWork location and price API when scraped through APIGenie
Pretty much. If generals are learning battlefield tactics and logistics from a captain, then the war is already lost.

There's a massive difference between sharing/communicating intelligence and teaching. The former relies on a common understanding of terminology, technique, etc, the later involves one side attempting to understand all of that to be able to facilitate the former.
The GENTLE Compiler Construction System
Most millionaires I know don't fly business class. People whose company is paying for their travel (and possibly are billing back a client), people using points, and the ultra-wealthy (>$5mm net worth) are the only people I know who would drop $10K on a 15 hour flight.
Should work in any browser with webgl. Let me know if it doesn't.
Tsinghua alums wants “China Superpower” Professor fired
Well, I guess I'm the third kind. I find the movie to be powerful in the depiction of the devastation caused by addiction. It does it's job excellently,it's also very gripping, but it's definitely not a joy to watch. I mostly become depressed after watching it. But I do watch it every 3 years or so :-)

Incidentally, I first heard the music when I watched the movie. The whole casting and TV selling and drug buying scene was framed by this music, and it felt very dirge-like. A foreshadowing of what was to come. And my mind associated it very strongly with those kind of tragic scenarios. But later I started seeing videos on Youtube about football or dogs with the same music.
HiDDeN: Hiding Data with Deep Networks (Stanford)
Agree. This barely fits the definition of "news".
You didn't see any because you were making fun of them or ignoring them for being "paranoid" about privacy. Or maybe you're just too young to remember.

All the discussions about Google, Facebook Android and iPhone already happened, including on this forum.
In general, you are right. Amongst super highly educated pairs I don’t think this is the same issue- highly educated mothers overwhelming return to work, see http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/chapter-2-stay-at-... which indicates mothers with a bachelors and higher work 79% of the time at any given time. Heck, assuming a 20 year motherhood window (2 kids in 2 years and stop) that translates to only 4 years out of the workforce per mother. It’s a fair assumption women with professional degrees leave to workforce on average even less. I guess you need to push up the numbers a bit because there are more women in the newer cohorts and those cohorts are in prime childbearing and rearing age, but that probably balances out with needing to take account of the women never having children (and not included in that statistic.)

We aren’t talking about dropping off the executive/promo track, it’s returning to work in the same profession at all.

All that being said, it looks like it’s the backlog, not dropout. Less than 10% of US med school grads were women in the 70s (https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/more-women...).

Assume a 40 year career and 34% female is right about where you’d expect the numbers to be.
Ah, my mistake. I must have edited it right out when I read the thing and took the quotes for 'I know I'm making up a word but can't think of anything better right this second'.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies
Really cool extension
Calculate Fibonacci numbers in O(log n) time using Matrices
The thing about path tracing that isn’t mentioned often is that it can take anywhere from 1/60th of second to 16 hours to render a single frame. The images that people associate with path tracers are usually of the 16 hour variety. Just because a game could technically use a path tracer as it’s render engine doesn’t mean it will provide any visual benefit over traditional realtime rendering.
What I did was to power up the phone from cold start with no sim card or WiFi. That gets you "Log in with Google account" or "Later". "Later" gets you past that, and you can then deactivate the "First time setup" app, so you don't get the message again.
High-performance data compression library with CUDA acceleration
There have been quite a few major discussions of that. I think people start to flag such a topic when it enters a later stage of repetitiveness. Call it the Snowden effect.
No. Romantic comedy is. Romance is many things. But it it is not funny.
Thanks a lot, and double thanks for the specific feedback! Will incorporate. :)
Thanks for trying it out
Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies
Where are all the Elixir jobs at in Toronto? I can't seem to find any.
That removes the Sync requirement, but still requires Send, so doesn't completely resolve the requirement for thread-safety (e.g. Rc can't be stored).
I meant silly from a species perspective -- like you never see a bear counting calories ;)

There are two kinds of animals that suffer from obesity, modern humans, and animals that modern humans feed. The culprit is clear, it's our interventionist mindset. It's the USDA telling you exactly to eat the opposite of what you're supposed to eat.

The answer is less intervention, not more. Try eating an all
or mostly meat diet and I assure you'll feel a lot better and food will go back to being an automatic function for you: http://justmeat.co/
Could you please not do this sort of tribal flamewar here?
> The Republicans won on this one--the 1996 telecom act broadly deregulated the telecom industry. Most of Europe followed suit and deregulated their telecom markets similar to how we did it in the 1996 act.

Seems Europeans consumers have reaped massive benefits since then:

At least where I live we now have fast Internet access, calls and sms cost nothing (theoretically speaking we get n free minutes and sms, but I never used more in the last few years) and data is cheap.

Not saying this is all because of the deregulation but I think it helped.
Please don't get personally nasty, even if another comment was smug.
So we use a symbol and when they ask what it is, we use recursion to demonstrate the idea.
Penetration Test
Surely there are health complications with all of those things from bowel issues, to STDS, to lung cancer.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Is 'Exploitation films' even a classical genre?

I mean if we go down that totem pole, then 'still image movies' are even further down.
Depending on the market but I would say innovate. Example I love to use is MySpace and Facebook, when FB came in they had a better way to do same thing and killed it.

Innovation could be anything in my small business that is in retail I automate as many work as I can to ensure I am efficient and my employees do only most important work instead of routine. That way I gained competitive advantage in many areas.
Moreover, the knowledge of how to make nukes keeps spreading, despite the best attempts of many powers to stop it.
What you say is a truism.

But the Great Recession really was an exception. Not literally--you couldn't know for sure. But being able to purchase a beautiful (round dining room!) 2-bedroom condo in a completely renovated building in Nob Hill for $300k or buy Ford stock for $0.99 were as close to "sure thing" opportunities as there ever has been or ever will be. And if they didn't pan out? You'd have worse things to worry about because it would have been Mad Max times...

Some may be skeptical about my examples (especially if they weren't paying attention at the time), but I assure you they were no-brainers. The reason many people didn't get rich during the time was because most of the people who normally would have had the money and inclination to make the investments were completely illiquid. And everybody else was simply scared. The flip side of irrational exuberance is irrational fear.

I didn't have enough money for the condo. But I bought 1000 shares of that Ford stock my first year of law school, and sold it at a 10x gain (!) the last year of school to pay for all my living expenses in lieu of more loans.
Glad you're still interested! I agree–R is light-years ahead of the competition (Python, essentially) in most statistical domains. It seems to fit the workflow better.
I guess we’re both in the same boat data wise. What Ive seen with my last set of searches is that the valley tops the list in terms of comp. If you take the next top 10 cities things drop off pretty quickly from there. Its not to say “no other place pays as much as SF”. Just on average the salaries are way off.
You crossed into spamming a long time ago in this thread. It's fine to link to your own work if it's relevant and part of an interesting conversation. It's not fine to hijack conversations for promotion. Please don't do that.
Looks like I great article. I'll have to defer reading it. During a quick scan I saw a mention of the SMA technology that allows for dedicated outlets to be powered-up in case of grid failure.

I built a 13 kW ground-mount system feeding a pair of SMA inverters. I have tested this feature by disconnecting from the grid and enabling the outlets (one per inverter). I didn't quite get to the 2,000 W rating SMA claims but got close. Which means that with this size of an array and two inverters I get somewhere between 3kW and 4kW of power to run various devices while the sun is up.

Considering that we might have a couple of power outages a year on average (if that), I felt this was a reasonable investment. Going with batteries is just too expensive and not justifiable at all given the reliability of the grid. One way to think about this is that the grid is your battery. A stretch, I know.

Funny that there's a picture of a gasoline generator towards the end of the article. My guess is that I am likely to invest in a 5 kW to 6 kW generator before I ever add batteries to this system. Again, it's a matter of ROI. Also, I would not go with a gasoline powered generator at all. Gasoline degrades with time and could be a nightmare to maintain the system with sporadic use. I think a propane fueled generator might be a better idea. The fuel does not degrade. So long as you don't have leaks it'll be there ready to go when you need it.

I know way too many people who have been mercilessly duped by these solar companies who come in, hook them on some kind of a lease, install inadequate systems and move on to the next victim. Lack of understanding on the side of consumers has created a situation where solar is equivalent to magic and unscrupulous actors can take advantage of them. That part is sad.
Do you know French and love winter?
most of these comments are picking apart the explanation, but honestly this is a great way to introduce kids to the concept and have them "arrive" at the concept of infinity through their own logic.
This is somewhat related to these recent submissions:

Logic Programming and Compiler Writing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17674859

A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671478

I don't know if the GENTLE system is actually implemented in Prolog or if it's just using an input language based on Horn clauses.
Ask HN: What's the best helpdesk SaaS product for a seed-stage startup?
Looking for some tips on comparing options including Freshdesk, Zendesk, SalesForce Desk, ZOHO Desk and others.
This is not safe in general, even within a single language. For instance, on Windows, it is essentially required that a pointer is freed by code from the dynamic library (even if they're both written in, say, C) that allocated it, because (IIRC) they could be using different versions of the platform allocator.
Maybe Montreal is optimizing its marketing to another demographic. I never see media reporting about them anywhere.
I'd be grateful if anyone had any feedback on my portfolio https://paulsajna.com
You really think those are

a) as widespread as obesity

b) caused by ways that tracking the number of times you go to the bathroom, have sex or breathe would fix?

Obesity is directly caused by a failure to moderate how much we eat, so yes, some of us track how much we eat. It's not really that crazy. If you can do that without tracking it, cool, but its pretty damn clear a lot of people can't.
People have already described the form that already exists in Clojure, but it's worth mentioning that this kind of macro is called an anaphoric macro and is featured in Let Over Lambda (https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap6.html) and On Lisp. They tend not to be viewed as idiomatic Clojure. I would assume they are less used in Schemes since Scheme macros are hygienic by design and anaphoric macros depend on variable capture. That said I'm not a Schemer and may be wrong. These kind of macros are very much part of the Lisp heritage though.
Light years ahead? It doesn't even support 64-bit integers. The R language cannot count past 2.1 billion. In 2018. Don't get me started on the package system.
in most states now yes. all because of bill gates.
The State of MPI for Future Exascale Systems
Zoho has some very nice helpdeak tools. In fact their entire suite is quite awesome.
>Obesity is directly caused by a failure to moderate how much we eat, so yes, some of us track how much we eat. It's not really that crazy. If you can do that without tracking it, cool, but its pretty damn clear a lot of people can't.

Actually research shows that people who watch WHAT the eat vs how much they eat lose the weight and keep it off. Calorie counting empirically doesn't work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/well/eat/counting-calorie...
Me: Check calorie tracker. Nope, can't eat anything but salad today. Screw it, gonna gain some weight. Eat chocolate anyways :-)
> I meant silly from a species perspective -- like you never see a bear counting calories ;)

You also never see a bear walking on the Moon, or playing Candy Crush Saga.

> The culprit is clear, it's our interventionist mindset.

Or maybe that we no longer live on savanna, and the foods we have available are quite different from what our great-{n}-ancestors had.
Two points:

- What you said is true of any rendering method you use. If you have a complex scene, it'll take more time to render one frame.

- What I said about 2018 or 2019 is what nVidia's promotion is all about. See the demos linked at the bottom of my comment. They keep calling it 'real-time ray tracing' but it's really 'real-time path tracing'. And it's already happening.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdnwrt3Xdak

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjf-1BxpR9c

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhBlmKtEAk
Relationship  Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Relationship Coaches – Remote
I think I would take the same advice as is given for someone handling a gun -- treat every gun as if it is loaded. Treat every wire as if it is hot. Unless you have a really good reason not to.

Not doing so is putting an awful lot of trust into a potentially large number of people that you've never even met.

Because you just don't know what some idiot has done...like the guy in the video.
I do think it reflects more of a "not US" than a "not Silicon Valley/Seattle" problem these days. Anecdotally, I've discovered that most sufficiently large companies in the US now recognize and will credibly attempt to compete with the stratospheric Silicon Valley wages for the upper echelons of tech talent no matter where the company is located. For example, I've seen many cases of the Fortune 500, most of which are in inexpensive flyover metros in unsexy States (the US has ~55 metros with at least a million people), offering the upper end of the six-figure range for an individual contributor with exceptional skills. Seeing old, non-tech companies headquartered in Missouri or wherever doing this is a sea change.

For American software engineers, this is a brilliant change of condition. A decade ago, if you lived and wanted to work in the flyover metros, you were lucky to get six-figures at all no matter who you were or what you'd done. These days, big non-tech companies are willing to push toward a seven-figure comp package in flyover country for top tech people, in cities where almost no one makes six-figures. It has been really interesting to see.
I think your comments have serious merit. That being said many people are focused on building a faster horse that nobody even wants. Isn't it strange that this is still a thing?

What I am saying is that the "deeper insights about what people really want/need (based on their words and/or observed actions)" aren't really that deep when you consider the amount of information available. Its surprising to me that people like you and me rely on people's claims to develop a hypothesis and test ideas. Shouldn't it be easy to get insights on a large portion of the population?
I was also a bit disappointed how getting active (running 15km per week) did not result in losing any weight at all.

Then I've started calorie counting after readin this post 5 weeks ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391567

I've lost 4.5kg since then (I guess that is about 10 pounds?).

I wasn't really overweight before, but it's the first time my girlfriend said I look good in years :)

It's also a good motivator to stay active: When I eat too much one day, I can go run for an hour to make up for it.

The only difficult part is estimating calories in restaurants -- who knows if that dressing contains one table spoon of olive oil or three? (Funny enough, around here only fast food restaurants bother to provide nutrition info on their website)

Since I prepare most meals myself, that isn't that much of an issue, though.
New Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference
> There are two kinds of animals that suffer from obesity, modern humans, and animals that modern humans feed. The culprit is clear, it's our interventionist mindset. It's the USDA telling you exactly to eat the opposite of what you're supposed to eat.

There could be a different reason. Getting more food is lot easier for these two animals. Other animals (at least meat eating) need a lot more effort to get their food. It's a natural limiting factor. Non-meat eating animals need to digest a lot of fiber which makes eating a lot quite hard.
I don't think that is necessarily true. You might be able to tell using information from a data broker like Acxiom or search engine data that people are not satisfied with the current options for buying LED strips, for example.
This makes me suspicious of Spotify. This is bad advice that could maybe apply temporarily to teams where you're not working on mission critical business work (what is left to engineer at Spotify?)

I also don't like that he prefixed bad advice with "PERSONAL beliefs" as a cop-out for responsibility. This is a tactic used by people skirting ownership of ideas.
> And if I died today, it would likely end up back in a dumpster. Need to find it a better home.

How about a local (or regional) museum, or university library? There are probably lots of places that would accept this and look after it.
Feel free to send them this way. I’m currently working at a startup where the CEO is the product owner/manager, as well as doing all the CEO duties. A good PM would be a dream come true right now.
Off-late HN has been getting a lot of posts of the types:

"X% Americans live paycheck to paycheck"

"Y% American have nothing saved up for retirement"

"Z% Americans don't have $SMALL_AMOUNT for an emergency"

etc etc.

Your post perfectly explains why.
Calorie counting empirically doesn't work.

Read the article and study you posted. It doesn't show that, it just shows that you can lose weight without using the calorie counting technique.

Objective: To determine the effect of a healthy low-fat (HLF) diet vs a healthy low-carbohydrate (HLC) diet on weight change and if genotype pattern or insulin secretion are related to the dietary effects on weight loss.

Findings: ...weight change over 12 months was not significantly different for participants in the HLF diet group (−5.3 kg) vs the HLC diet group (−6.0 kg), and there was no significant diet-genotype interaction or diet-insulin interaction with 12-month weight loss.

A study on low fat vs low carb diets has got absolutely nothing to do with calorie counting.
> That is, it's all wide open if you know where to look

I believe you are right. My whole point is that I am surprised that process is not easier.
Step 1: go to NYC

Step 2: go to jp morgan library[1]

1. https://www.themorgan.org/visit/hours-and-admission
Hacker_news
Very true, best not leave Kirkland batteries in a device as pretty much all of them leaked.
This is demonstrably false. Tariffs are are one of the least pro-business legislative tools. Businesses and sometimes whole industries can evaporate when costs increase by 25% overnight.
> You also never see a bear walking on the Moon, or playing Candy Crush Saga.

If we do something right, like science and engineering, it doesn't mean we're doing everything right. In fact, most people are miserable and suffering from health issues that bears don't suffer from.

> Or maybe that we no longer live on savanna, and the foods we have available are quite different from what our great-{n}-ancestors had.

Although the megafauna are extinct (shame), meat is largely the same and that's what most of what our ancestors ate.
It seems that much of the discussion here can be distilled into not trusting people. Lack of trust that people will work, can do the work, will tell someone when they have a problem or surprise, and mistrust of the effectiveness of the particular Task Management System in use.

Daily standups as largely practiced today, are a means to overcome this lack of trust through micromanagement.