skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My current goal is to weigh 200 pounds by Christmas. So far I’m on track which would be 110 pounds in about 10.5 months.

After that, I’m not sure what I’ll do. The “healthy” range for my height is a bit lower than 200 but I imagine I’ll cut back on the intensity and focus on reinforcing new habits that I’m starting to form.

Already I’m making better food choices which is a huge first step but my portion control is not great. My drastically cut eating schedule let’s my eat a ton in a short period but I want to stop doing that eventually.

It’s a daily grind though; hard to deal with as a software developer that is used to brute forcing any problem I have.

Overall though, I’m excited for the future and happy I’ve learned this lesson while I’m still young and before I have kids.
Bear is a good writer, but his genetics are shaky... #2 and #3 are just silly. Doing a little embryo selection or even editing is not going to lead to a race of pod people who all have the same hair style and prefer Earl Gray tea.

Appearance is influenced by millions of variants, which have little or nothing to do on average to do with the variants which influence traits like intelligence (the genetic correlation is ~0 - you don't see genetic correlations between intelligence and well-predicted traits like hair or eye color being reported in the literature).

Even if the same genetic variants which influence something superficial like facial bone structure also influence neurogenesis etc, any editing or selection making people more similar will just be a drop in the pond. Think about siblings: compared to 2 random people, siblings are more similar on what must be tens of millions of genetic variants, and yet, consider how completely different siblings often look, act, and turn out! (Jencks, I think, in _Inequality_ points out that there's almost as much 'inequality' in life outcomes like income within American families as there is across families.)

Further, let's say that all of that turns out to be wrong; nevertheless, parental relatedness to children is desperately desired by parents and this is a major reason why sperm/egg donation are profoundly unpopular and why parents have such stringent demands of donors from banks and why people will deliberately select embryos with Huntington's and other serious disorders if the healthy embryos fail to yield a live birth. It would be entirely possible to simply tilt the selection or editing to preserve relatedness to parents on visible attributes - 'relatedness to parents' is simply yet another metric to optimize for, thrown into the stew with the usual ones, and it is one that parents will put a high value on even at the cost of some potential gains on other metrics.

(#5 is also quite problematic as it assumes that completely novel edits will be done on a mass basis without any kind of testing. In reality, everyone will focus on variants that already are widespread in the population and which are already being tested in the real world. It's the rare variants which are harmful, not the common ones.)
Something like this is built in to macOS.
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As mentioned Siemens (SF Muni) and Stadler (SMART) both make trains. Both have had some fairly serious problems, but none quite as bad as BART is having.
If you rush over to Amazon to download the book on Kindle, you may find that it is broken on all Apple Kindle apps. (See the reviews there.) I found that I was able to get past the fatal error by going to the Table of Contents and clicking on the first page of text.

Surely, Amazon is going to fix this soon. I'm surprised that they seem to do no testing at all of their product on even the most common devices.
Rosetta apps were not faster in emulation. This gets repeated a lot and while the Intel Macs were clearly faster at native apps, Power Macs were still faster clock for clock at their own PPC code. Barefeats did some head to heads; at least one benchmark has a Quad G5 beating a Mac Pro 3.0GHz on PPC software, then Apple's top of the line, and the 2.66GHz was clearly slower.

https://barefeats.com/quad06.html

Yes, the Mac Pro was way faster on its own turf, but Rosetta's overhead wasn't overcome by that. Not until the wide availability of Universal apps was the speed advantage apparent.
I don't own millions, but I guess if I did then no matter if I'd put money worth millions on the bank or jewelry worth millions I'd have someone with a legal degree reading the ToS for me to tell me if it's an appropriate offer for that amount of money.
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It was open to anyone years ago, but changed to this way as it gained attention from gov. It's very unlikely to see it going backward.
But is it FOSS?
> having the American government itself run a USD stablecoin.

They could call it "The American Dollar". It is hard to forsee a practical difference between a government sponsored crypto and a regular currency.

If the crypto couldn't inflate that would be pretty major, but governments can already do that with their own currencies and choose not to. If they had a crypto that technically was unable to increase supply, sooner or later (that is to say, sooner) they would replace it with a crypto that they could inflate

Ditto near-instant, secure exchange with anyone in the world. It isn't like sub-minute network communication is a secret technology; the delays that exist are probably more to do with currency controls and regulatory compliance.

It is meaningless to have a trustless distributed currency that is pegged to a large, untrustworthy centrally controlled currency. Its only purpose is to skirt around the edges of financial law. Governments do not support that.
Isn't it true the majority of oil used in the US is from the US now? We fell off in the 90s and 00s but I believe we are now amongst top producers again. I'm not happy about increased fossil fuel production but at least it takes some power from much less desirable hands like Saudis, Iran, Brazil, Venezuela, etc.
Philadelphia should be the capital of Pennsylvania
Sounds like it might've been this article?

https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/02/24/from-dotcloud-to-docke...?
I guess I want a holiday where I immerse myself in a new place (not that that is easy these days). Hearing and seeing people from my country reminds me I'm not immersed.
clothing optional days? doesn't your bum stick to your seat?
Wowa: A console addon manager for World of Warcraft written in Python
Yes, we could use multiple layers of different size of balls.

It'll be like sand blasting but softer version.

I didn't get you about the sieving! How would a dishwasher incorporate these balls?
Well, i think what you called convenience is mostly a UI question in the view of end-users, which is why i brought it to the table although the initial debate was whether we could trust proprietary software at all. Sorry if you thought that was irrelevant.

Just to be clear, i do not prefer software with a good interface over free software. But many people make this decision consciously and we should take that into account when developing software. I'm saying this as a free-software advocate myself who've been running GNU/Linux for ~15y and helped hundreds of neighbors, friends and comrades free themselves from proprietary software over the years.
The Titanic was (just barely) the largest ship of its era.

I'm fascinated by the Great Eastern launched in 1858, and not surpassed in size and capacity until Titanic's period. In length she held the record until 1899, in tonnage, 1901, and in passengers, 1913, the year after the Titanic sank.

Great Eastern experienced numerous technical challenges and was a mixed commercial success. She ended her service largely as a telegraph cable-laying ship, pressaging today's undersea Internet cables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern
Digging down a bit this method is published in Nature! https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21054
Pittsburg/Philadelphia should be the capital.
What kind of question is that? What is your intention, I mean?
I said couple, not several!

My partner is of half-Italian background, and today was the first time she used the chitarra [1] she recently received as a gift from her family.

So yep, making the dough, waiting for it to rise, making the sauce, then pushing the dough through the chitarra to make the spaghetti all takes a bit of time.

It's not an every-day thing, but as a couple's thing to do on a quiet Sunday afternoon, it was great.

And it tasted incredible. Worth every second.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_chitarra
Physics concerns aside, this reminds me of [founding Prime Minister of Singapore] Lee Kuan Yew's oft-mentioned quote on air-conditioned underwear [1]:

> The humble air conditioner has changed the lives of people in the tropical regions. Before air-con, mental concentration and with it the quality of work deteriorated as the day got hotter and more humid. After lunch, business in many tropical countries stopped until the cooler hours of the late afternoon.

> Historically, advanced civilizations have flourished in the cooler climates. Now lifestyles have become comparable to those in temperate zones, and civilization in the tropical zones need no longer lag behind.

> The ideal invention would be a light polyester air-conditioned undergarment, enclosed around the neck, wrists and ankles and battery operated. Everyone can then work at his optimum temperature and civilization can spread across all climates.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB915764828134990000 (non-paywalled: https://outline.com/d3TYvW)
'Genetic engineering' routinely moves traits by 5 standard deviations. Countless breeding programs have accomplished that or much more, and even under the narrowest definition of 'genetic engineering', something like editing in chestnut blight resistance will increase the trait by many SDs (going from ~0% chestnut trees surviving to a large fraction of them surviving). That is, after all, how evolution works.
OK. Note regarding "how CNCF governance changed their projects" that CNCF doesn't govern our hosted projects. Instead, to reach graduation, they're required to create and follow a neutral governance process. However, each project's is different.

https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/process/graduation_c...
I've also gained a much deeper appreciation of hieroglyphs thanks to this.

I used to wonder how much meaning could really be encoded in them. It's a huge body of shared cultural knowledge that makes them work.
That's nice in theory, but unless there's surveillance it won't help. They'll ravage the land anyways if there's nobody there to protect it
In the United States the vast majority of lap pools are 25 yards. For club, high school, and collegiate swimming 25 yard pools are also the standard and most likely won’t change anytime soon - it’s one thing to adjust a track to run meters versus yards but there are thousands of already built pools that can’t be “extended”. Having said that, it’s not hard to find a long course (50m) or short course (25m) pool either as all international records and competition are held in those formats. Usually a 50m pool with either have a movable bulkhead that can dynamically be adjusted for a specific length, or also common is a 50mx25yd length to be able to have two options.
Ask HN: How to create and remember strong passwords
For a long time on I have been trying to create strong passwords in order to have a greater account security.
I used to create random strings and use them one per page however each time its becoming more difficult to keep them changed frequently.
I have given up to create a different password on every site and I have relied on lastpass for pages I don't really care about.
In opposite, here are many places where I want to have true secure passwords. AWS, GitHub, corporate account, etc. However, with so many accounts I always end up pressing the "Forgot your password?" and start again.
I have tried Diceware but didn't end up well.
What is the tool you have sticked with to create secure and memorable passwords?
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>> And yet IQ (which is a pretty good proxy for intelligence) is a highly inheritable trait, as shown by several twin studies.

Given the tight coupling between culture and IQ tests, it's not necessarily proof of inheritability.

Twins raised in the same household have nearly identical cultural exposure.

(Unless the control is an adopted child of the same age, raised in the same household...)
We are in the thick of it. Shame that politics moves so slowly in so many countries, and that money and economics comes above long term ecosystem health. I think if we recognized we are merely a species from that ecosystem, part of its food chain, maybe we would react better.

Reminds me of a friend who has this pet desire that 1/2 of all humans should vanish, this was before Thanos too. He just hates what humans do and wants less of them.
Hello Amazon drones?
I suppose the term "logging town" is less relevant now as the communities fade, but they certainly exist [Source: I'm working in a Mill Town right now]

Any any industry rooted in the natural resources of an area breeds communities that are located near them. I think most people _prefer_ settling near work if possible.

I guess I find it unfortunate that small but strong communities are a dying breed. A healthy community to live in is an essential part of a quality life. It's quite literally the foundation of modern society, and I sense that the concentration of populations in huge cities is only further compounding the challenges we face (climate change, economic inequality, the overall health of a population)
Twenty Years of Rewriting Logic
I downloaded the book "Carry On, Mr Bowditch." Opened it and only took three breaks. It's a fun read for both kids and adults. But you won't learn any new math through it.

However, it taught me a few things.

The importance of math and how tiny errors in calculations can cost lives. In this case, the lives of sailors. That before GPS, sailors used the position of moon and stars to calculate the longitude.

A bit of American history - why the US had to become a navy superpower.

I learned a lot about sailing - logbooks, knots, starboard, stern, lunar navigation, sextant... and how dependent on the whims of the Wind shipping used to be.

A bit about patience with people mentally slower than me in a given topic. The analogy used: Walking in the dark and hitting my leg against a chair. I'm angry and want to break the chair but it's not the fault of the chair.

Also learned about book writing. One could teach a class represented by audience of a book in search of explanations they'll understand. And then use those for the book.

The sentence "Math conquers all" might be a good summary for the book.
Type parameters are more like function arguments, not loop variables. There is often one or two arguments too but they are not as local (contained) as loop variables.
>It's a huge leap to argue that since some counterfeit goods have been sold via their platform, blatant theft from them or other companies is therefore justifiable, particularly when you don't mention that those counterfeit goods were sold by third parties, and that Amazon has a formal process to refund customers who have been sold counterfeit goods and to bar such sellers from their platform: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/201165970

You are giving Amazon a pass to engage in unethical behavior. Whether or not the products are sold from a third party is entirely irrelevant; Amazon is profiting from defrauding shoppers, plain and simple. And in spite of their meager penalties, they continue to do it. Why? Because they make money from it.

>We all learned as children that theft and dishonesty is wrong, because in families and societies alike, things quickly break down if it becomes widespread.

This is a platitude that people here are saying to make themselves look good. If they are not enforcing their morals among all members of our group equally, then I do not believe that they care about their system of ethics as much as they let on; they are virtue signalling.

There exist a different set of morals in our society depending on whether you run a business or not. Everyone decided to fixate on the shoplifting aspect of my comment and intentionally avoid the thrust of my point. I don't actually want people to shoplift; I am calling out the hypocrites who shrug at behavior like Amazon's then proceed to hop on a soapbox about shoplifting. It's disgusting.
There are hundreds, they don't need to be confidently predicted they just need to increase on average, and even if there weren't, all you need is a PGS for selection since a small predictive power is enough when iterated repeatedly.
In a responsive design, an image can be displayed with its proper aspect ratio, cropped as the author saw fit. It can be scaled to fill the available space horizontally or vertically, and it can be optionally optimized with a picture tag instead of a img tag to load a lightweight version if the available space is small.

Practical example: a group photo of 15 people smiling at the camera on the official page of some event. You adjust colour, you rotate the picture to get a horizontal horizon, you crop different amounts of excess background on each of the four sides.
Then would you like "responsive" tricks to automatically slice away their feet because the screen isn't tall enough? Maybe their heads or a bit of both? Or should they be stretched instead, to disturbing squat proportions?

What kind of pictures look better deformed or mutilated than, at worst, unobtrusively letterboxed?
I wonder if this could be viewed as an application of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
> The consciousness radio-wave still exists, but it is not being received.

So when someone dies, their consciousness continues, but is unseated from their body?

Presumably temporary unconsciousness is explained the same way?

How do you explain population increases or population decreases? Is there an infinite pool of consciousnesses, and only an infinitesimal proportion of them are being received at any given time?

Do drugs affect the receiver, or the consciousness (transmitter) itself? If it's the former, you've just conceded that some fundamental aspects of our consciousness are contingent on the receiver, and are independent of the transmitter. You can't very well answer the latter, as drugs exist firmly in the physical domain.

You'll also need to account for wildly different forms of consciousness (animals), the split-brain phenomenon, and why certain arrangements of molecules and their associated processes (i.e. living brains) can act as receivers but other closely related arrangements do not (dead brains, and living brains subject to general anesthesia). To steal a word from Dawkins, the whole thing seems unparsimonious in the extreme.

To mirror lostmsu's comment, this is a truly extraordinary claim, made in the total absence of supporting evidence. I'm not convinced it's even a coherent model.
That's true, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. The whole world is going for the short term profit instead of sustainability.
Does the display matter for a terminal application? As for battery and weight, you are talking about pluggin in various other devices that you presumably don't carry around, so it wouldn't make any difference if you plug it in to the power or not.

If you often do carry it (without the other gear), then I can maybe see it, though you can buy a used small thinkpad that can easily run the terminal programs.
I have a rough draft that does this. It uploads the attachments to a local service. I'm not sure how hard it would be to bolt in object storage. It also parses the headers. I imagine it could be used for spam scores, subject/recipient search, and whatever other useful headers there are.
One of the wiki's sources might have been a better linked article.

The MIT summary [1] notes "The researchers first derived their result mathematically, then assessed how it works in practice, through surveys spanning a range of subjects, including U.S. state capitols, general knowledge, medical diagnoses by dermatologists, and art auction estimates." Across all those areas, this technique had error rates about 20% lower than other competing techniques. Those techniques included simple majority vote to two different kinds of confidence-weighted scoring.

The paper earned a prestigious publication in Nature.

1: http://news.mit.edu/2017/algorithm-better-wisdom-crowds-0125
>> educational attainment, elite professional success, number of patents, publications etc.

None of these are meaningful measures of intelligence.
Apple product ecosystem has fast become a solution looking for problem combined with touchy feely hokus pokus aided by synthetic exclusivity and nonsensical differentiation.

Why the hell do we need the iPad to take over the PCs? Why the hell do we need ARM CPUs in Macs? Nobody is solving any real problems with those things - it's only purpose is to make Apple's margins and control even greater. And we as consumers are supposed to pay attention to the news outlets droning on about it for no benefit!

I think Apple will do well going back to the basics - simplifying the product lines, selling what matters and focusing on increasing the reach of its products to price conscious buyers. I don't think the market has a big enough appetite for more BS however well marketed it may be.
Think about it, you're only one step away from using incognito tabs, which avoid polluting your main browser with cookies.

To me that's even more important on mobile where we tend to clean our browsers less often.
A takeover seems messy. Wouldn't destroying infrastructure used by businesses that destroy the rainforest be sufficient? And if any country decided to do that wouldn't a military-enforced economic blockade to quench those exports be even less bloody and achieve the same?

Total war to save the planet is an interesting narrative, but it does not seem very efficient unless you have some cheap to deploy doomsday WMDs.
You don't need to move anything to the client side, what you're doing is covered under fair use doctrine.
What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections
How would that help with this - "Banks typically argue — and courts have in many cases agreed — that customers are bound by the bank’s most-current terms, even if they leased their box years or even decades earlier."