skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment has very little to do with the comment above it, which makes the point that weight is dictated by net calories, with very few exceptions.
We have telescope technology to thank. The quality and the number of telescopes is constantly increasing. We don't just look in the sky any more, we watch the same spot over time and look for changes. We are seeing more spots, more time, and more changes. An investment in telescopes is an investment in physics.
For sites that I don't care that much about, I use and like Chrome's (relatively) new password manager [0].

I haven't looked into it in enough depth to be 100% convinced to trust it with my financially-linked passwords. (In reality, it's almost surely good enough, but I haven't reached that informed conclusion yet.)

[0] - https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-password-mana...
How easy would your tech adjust to recognising sound patterns, for example the idea I have would be an intelligent baby monitor that would identify the various noises a baby makes and alert you accordingly to the babies needs from food, nappy change, distress, pain, etc.

Would that type of stuff be viable with your technology?

Though would be a way of automated nappy changing, but an automated rattle or such toy triggered by the baby may well make some tasks less impacting and equally more engaging for the baby. Though identification of needs and with that recognition via audio would be the start.
The box tells you it requires Epson cartridges.
Welcome to saying OK to every site. Not sure how you've improved things.
I mean appetite isn't really quantifiable anyway. Sure you can look at leptin and grelin, one of which actually is greatly affected by fasting.

Less hunger, less calories.
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Perhaps it's because Mac hardware is fairly homogeneous, so it's relatively easy to write software that targets every model.

Who knows how many cameras and audio input devices exist for generic PCs. Probably most of them use standard APIs you could interrogate, but I bet not all of them.
Interesting muzzle device, definitely makes sense that this method of removing lionfish is more efficient and cost-effective (less time to actually kill and remove invasive fish / more kills per hour) than spear-fishing.
Amusingly your complaint is actually my preferred use-case. I want my RSS reader to essentially work like an automated link gatherer, because the reader's UI is inherently not going to be the intended presentation medium for most content. I exclusively open the collected links in separate tabs to read and I get annoyed when I accidentally expand them.
It's worth noting there is one way to verify camera activity without needing to offer source code or elaborate test setups: embed a "camera-on" LED on the power circuit. As long as somebody does a teardown to prove it and you're pretty sure no one has compromised your specific machine's hardware, it ought to be safe.

I don't meant to detract from the "trusting trust" question, there are lots of issues which really are best handled by just pushing the problem problem outside the average user's threat model. Even source-code verification isn't actually terribly robust on the user level: are you sure you got a clean install? Are you sure nothing has modified it? And so at a certain point "just trust Apple" is entirely reasonable.

But I do think we sometimes rely on webs of trust, elaborate app signing schemes, and other software or legal solutions when we could be getting by with a simple hardware answer. (And the entire IoT domain looks a lot like undoing solved hardware problems...)
> When it comes to diet, different foods and eating patterns do have different effects on our endocrine system, and that does affect how viably we can sustain ourselves on less calories. Different foods will also have different proportions that are retained vs passed the same day.

People who care about this aren't interested in the secrets of the endocrine system. They are interested in how they can remain trim while eating rich food like meat and dairy. These folks like fasting because they can eat one large meal and get more stimulation from the food.
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Also Pocket is nothing like an RSS client.
I can't tell from the slides, are the ill-advised recommendations a tongue-in-cheek title or are they serious?
See Figure 2 on page 3. Seems quite representative.
That article doesn't disagree with what you're saying. My two takeaways were:

1) We snack more now than we did 50 years ago and those extra calories are probably why we're fat.

2) Reducing the window of time that you eat during the day reduces your desire to eat and your ability to consume.

I'm not sure how you took that as perpetuating a secret to weight loss.
I feel like lack of logs can increase apparent culpability (as this scenario shows). It seems a little silly they don't store anything after two weeks but I was explained elsewhere that a lot of the reason was that those logs can contain user data and they can't lose it or turn it over to the feds if it doesn't exist.
When you get most of your money from one or two sources you aren’t really in control anymore. I can totally appreciate not wanting to be beholden to anyone.

The last consulting firm I worked for had over 70% of their revenue coming from two contracts, and neither contract used any of the tools or philosophies the consulting company claimed to espouse.

Ended up being the case that all the reasons I wanted to work there were just marketing messages and my sense of betrayal soured the relationship.

That the guy in charge of developers left about a year after we parted ways... every time I think about those people I wonder if he knew it was all bullshit or if he just got tired of dealing with attitude from stressed out developers and never understood why they were pushing back.
its not super clear who is making and losing money in this saga
The rules are psuedoscience peddled by health gurus.
You've chosen very different examples:

"A woman kills her partner after years of abuse"

Are you justifying murder? Why wouldn't the woman kill another partner?
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Congratulations, it was a great gift for the web. Nothing lasts forever anyway.
it's not an online password. You actually need physical access to the phone to do something with it. It's not as bad as what people make it sound.
For the majority, losing weight is not tough in theory. In practice, however, will-power causes most trouble. It is really easy.

Species-specific diet can do wonders in a very short time. I have tried it with my dogs and I am trying this on myself. I am seeing excellent results.
As others mentioned there’s an aspect of efficiency there but I think there’s something more important.

The whole discussion revolves around losing weight while diet and nutrition is not really about that. It’s about how to eat to stay healthy. Not being obese is just a part of that.

If you consider the bigger scope you’ll realize that despite the fact it came out from Neil deGrasse Tyson mouth, in this context it’s just a stupid thing to say.
Great! Now I'll be able to open XML files without that dumb dialog.
How is this any more effective than the software-controlled lights on cameras today?

IIRC all the good webcam implants ignore softlights -- presumably they'd slip by whatever code is monitoring the camera here
This is amazing! Good job!
The FAQ says "CDN hosting generously donated by StackPath".
Facebook purges over 800 political pages citing profit as the reason
+1

I just got a new craftsman table-saw yesterday basically for free. I need to pick it up before they go bankrupt!
This gentleman has been doing IF for 5 years and he appears to be doing intense exercise.

https://youtu.be/dW_99QcCTzE
It looks like he didn't, for the most part: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/blob/master/FAQ.md#can-i-do...

"It's super nice of you to offer, but I don't need any donations at this time. RawGit's server costs are minimal, and the lovely people at StackPath provide RawGit's CDN service free of charge. Thank you though!"
> not really:

Yes it does. You could construct the string using a for-loop. Thank you for proving my point and then down-voting me.
At least four things were admitted: that you received the information, somebody processed it, the approximate time you received/processed, and the intention to take action.

I would hope any well-intentioned and reputable company would not mind, but some might not want to admit any of that! Plenty of ammo for anyone who subsequently blames you if you then fail to remedy the situation in a timely fashion.
This was very useful service, sad to see it go.
This seems really neat, but my main, blocking issue is that there is absolutely no way to add pronunciation for a wake word. Therefore, if the developers have not explicitly added the word to their vocabulary, you are completely out of luck.
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Order doesn't matter but it helps make it more clear as why I included the same combination twice.
Cool, looking forward. Please put Judy in as well :)

Seriously, the 17 year old judy is still pretty good, despite it's lack of use of cool vector load / compare / etc instructions for quickly traversing tree nodes that are too small for a full radix search (ART does "simultaneous search", i.e. compares to all stored keys in a single instruction, while judy afaik runs a linear search).

It would be pretty cool if someone vectorized that in judy, and replaced null-terminated strings by a binary-safe representation. Unfortunately, all implementations are old and very hard to read.
Perhaps using a dedicated email for these sorts of reports could limit the damage if that were to happen. It would probably increase the chance of being flagged, though.
> Playing with other variables besides calories, like the specific foods you pick and the timing of meals, can produce dramatic, measurable health changes and make a huge difference in how hungry you will feel at different times of day.

It is true that the kinds of foods you eat may help you with maintaining a caloric deficit -- for example, eating high-volume foods such as vegetables, or low-GI whole-grain carbs may help you feel "full" longer than low-volume foods with high caloric densities (candy, snacks, sodas). But the most important thing is still calories. See a recent meta-analysis on this: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-...

Also, timing of meals is actually not that important for weight loss. It is somewhat important for sports performance (e.g., timing carb intake around sports activities). There was a meta-analysis a few years ago that gave more specific recommendations: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-...
I haven’t looked at the book yet, but it seems useful.

Unrelated: One thing I always liked about Ruby is, it’s easy for a good developer to come in and quickly clean up the messes made by the junior and senior-but-terrible programmers management WILL inevitably hire. Important to note that languages like Python and PHP have just as many sharp edges as Ruby (trust me, I’ve shipped large applications on all of them). Ruby just gives you a chance in hell of a quiet refactor when the “quick and dirty hack that management really needs right now” appears in a PR at 6pm on a friday.
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If you stop for a minute to think about it, it's a very sad state of
affairs that you need to buy a closed-source app for the most secure
consumer operating system, and pay constant attention to its status,
in hope to avoid (or detect) spying.

I'm personally re-thinking my approach to security and anonymity
online, esp. in light of recent news re: Facebook (Cambridge
Analytica, account breach), Google (Chrome 69, increased spying), etc.

I've bought a new laptop, and for the first time in 12 years it's not
a Mac - it's Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6 (similar/better specs vs Macbook Pro
at half the price) with OpenBSD, which takes 10 min to install, works
flawlessly with Thinkpad's hardware (minus bluetooth and finger
scanner) and have a security model I can trust.
Excellent points

> Or a skinny person with little interest in food?

And yes, that's me all the time.

What i'm saying is, everyone has a resting metabolic rate. That rate is relatively stable among the entire human population. If you eat more than your metabolic rate, you gain weight. Less, and you lose weight.

Most readers on hacker news are saying "duh ngngngng, but you're oversimplifying". Correct, I am. But the reason for that is I believe most Americans (maybe other countries too), do not believe the information I just presented. Most Americans think if they are fat that their resting metabolic rate must be 1500 calories different from most skinny people.

I think this creates a sense of hopelessness. "No matter what I eat, i'll be fat. But no matter what ngngngng eats, he stays skinny!" Even though the reality is my metabolism is average, and the referenced overweight person probably has a similar metabolism as me.
And who is Jason Fung? Does his name have any cachet?
"I've soiled myself... how embarrassing!"

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Baby_translator
No you wouldn't starve to death. If you didn't take a decent multivitamin you might develop life-threatening nutrient deficiencies, yes.

Also it's not as if we have a great understanding of how different foods influence our food consumption patterns.

I totally agree with ops point. Almost anytime the topic of nutrition comes up people are either unaware of the basic mechanics or have been convinced they're somehow fake [0].

[0] as in that there are huge differences in metabolic efficiency between foods or that people's BMRs usually differ greatly.
> Validate your data in application code, at consumption time, where you can handle errors gracefully.

Honest question: how can I validate data in application code when optional fields decode to a necessarily-valid value by design?

Suppose I'm an application author and I have an integer field called "quantity" which decoded to a 0. How can I tell whether that 0 meant "the quantity was 0 in the database" or "the quantity field was missing" instead?

(One answer is that I should opt into a different default value, like -1, which the application can know indicates failure. If that's what I should always do, then why not help me gracefully recover by requiring that I always specify my fallback value explicitly, rather than silently defaulting to a potentially misinterpretable valid value like `0`?)

I understand that required fields break message buses that only need to decode the envelope, but if I am working on a client/server application where message buses are not involved (as almost all client/server programmers in the world are), I don't follow how "everything is optional, and optional means always succeed with a valid default value" facilitates graceful recovery in the application layer. In order to gracefully recover, the application has to be informed that something went wrong!

It seems to me that this design more directly facilitates bugs in the application layer that are difficult to detect because the information that something unexpected happened during decoding is intentionally discarded by default. It makes the resulting bugs "not the protocol layer's fault" by definition, but that is not a compelling pitch to me as an application author.

What am I missing?
> For 15 million people, attackers accessed two sets of information – name and contact details (phone number, email, or both, depending on what people had on their profiles). For 14 million people, the attackers accessed the same two sets of information, as well as other details people had on their profiles. This included username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches.

Another reason to not use your phone number as a unique identifier.
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> But this alone doesn't protect this "bridge" process itself from accessing the the filesystem

Of course not, but the point is that the bridge process only comes in contact with the user and a software invoking it, and its sole purpose is to pick a file on the filesystem.

Including your ssh pubkey if that's what you need to select/upload.
The best way to think of this is it might take 100 seconds to 'record' those 10 trillion frames that occur in 1 second.

That doesn't seem to make sense, but imagine this. You want to shoot 100 frames of the first millisecond of an airsoft pellet leaving a gun, but you have a camera that only shoots around 2 frames per second.

Your airsoft gun shoots 1 ball exactly (1ns accuracy) every second, exactly the same velocity and direction.

You have your camera, that only captures 2 frames every second, but this camera has an insane shutter speed, 1 microsecond, and has a shutter with that you can time to the gun exactly.

You can also delay the release of the shutter by 1 microsecond increments.

So, you start by taking 1 picture, 10 microseconds after you shoot your pellet. Then in the next second, 20 microseconds, you do this 100 times. You stitch this all together, and you have a video in super slow motion of an airsoft pellet leaving a gun. It just happens to be 100 different airsoft pellets.
Actually, the guy got punched for insulting someone. He went on to talk about how in New York there would have likely been some warning first. So yeah, insults and name-calling comes with immediate consequences in real life. I think that's acceptable.

I'm not advocating public violence to limit speech or "de-platform" people. We have too much of that already. Rather, the point was to contrast the kinds of things people will say online that they would probably not say in person.
you can't go as fast
> The calories in/out model is technically true, it's just not very useful.

It's plenty useful. The biggest barrier I've seen so far in people trying to lose weight is that they just plain don't believe it, and think it won't work. They think they need some complicated specially tailored diet where they need to pick out specific foods, eat foods they don't like, eat at special intervals, and so on.

> Playing with other variables besides calories, like the specific foods you pick and the timing of meals, can produce dramatic, measurable health changes and make a huge difference in how hungry you will feel at different times of day.

That may be true, but various tricks you might choose to apply to your diet should come /after/ you know how many calories you're consuming. It's a question of where your attention is directed. The purpose is still to reduce calories, and preventing hunger in whatever way works for you or distracting yourself or maintaining a schedule are all just means to the same end: to reduce how much you're consuming.

The problem I see is that people seem to not agree on that /end/ and think they're trying to accomplish something else, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to be measurable or reliable.
> No you wouldn't starve to death. If you didn't take a decent multivitamin you might develop life-threatening nutrient deficiencies, yes.

You're claiming that a human can viably survive their whole life by consuming a daily diet of:

1. Olive Oil
2. Multi-Vitimin
3. Water

This seems extremely far-fetched. Do you have a source for this claim?
I should have stated the EU is like the early US and that it will probably have to grow federal power to succeed. Similar to how the US states found its articles of confederation did not give the federal government enough power to solve the problems it was expected to solve and 12 years later they were with the current US Constitution.
As much as I might disagree with Rand, I certainly agree with your insight. The financial leeches of Lampert's ilk would most certainly be the villain in her novels ("Lampert was the kind always ready to profit from the work of others, without doing any of the work himself..."), and not the hero.
I believe research has shown that humans have been malnourished throughout most of human history, which would indicate that we haven’t had a stable weight throughout history.
I put together a fairly comprehensive video tutorial for those interested in learning CSS grid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFDLHNm5KQ

It's definitely a bit of a challenge to 're-think' layouts for those used to floats / css positioning / flex (like myself)
It is worth mentioning that you can completely disable Pocket integration in Firefox using a flag. Not a solution, though, just a workaround (for now).

(Completely disable Pocket integration in Firefox, the browser. Not Mozilla, the company.)
It may take 100s of seconds to capture the data.
You didn't provide any evidence for your claim either: "The problem is that when you go long periods without reading novels, it’s harder to pick up a novel and enjoy it. "

Also, even if correct, you didn't address the risk factors involved that may cause "go long periods without reading novels".

It's intuitively attractive (but I'm not going to research the research right now) to presume that "junk" content -- stuff that provides immediate stimulatio (be they pictures, sounds, foods, or text) that are highly stimulating in a small package have a tendency to crowd out slower-stimulating content.
> The problem is made worse because overweight people typically greatly underestimate how much they eat, while underweight people (me most of my life) typically greatly overestimate how much we eat. It's nearly impossible to accurately gauge calorie intake without strict calorie counting.

This suggests that you might be able to take pairs of people, one who is overweight and one who is underweight, and help both of them by simply arranging for them to eat every meal together and do all their snacking together.

For each meal or snack, each buys or prepares what they normally would, but before they actually consume the food, they
each exchange half of their food with the other.

There...an easy to follow diet, without strict calorie counting, that should move the overweight person to a lower weight and put some weight on the underweight person.

You could probably build a reality TV show around this. Half the contestants would be people wanting to lose weight, and half would be people trying to gain, with the lowest weight person in the first group being substantially heavier than the highest weight person in the second group.

Each week, there would be challenges and contests which determine priority for picking who your eating partner will be for the next week.

Pick the contestants from a wide range of culinary cultures and ethnic and religious backgrounds so that some potential pairings would be difficult for the participants, and so doing well in the challenges is important.
The only reason why that particular research professor is not “just” a professor is that he was denied tenure at the University of Chicago.