skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super interesting. The first video on the page sheds some light on how this actually works. It seems like they convert the scene into shapes that can be represented via SDF's and smooth min (https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/smin/smin.htm) them to blend into an approximation of the actual scene. While also capturing some general texture color data to apply and blend into the shapes. I assume the shader ray marches the scene to compute the lighting reflections and bounces. I am curious how the probes/nodes come into play and how they extract the light data from the shader output to apply it to the scene geometry (is it simply added in screen space?) I would be very interested in reading more detail on how this is actually implemented!
I thought we already knew that caloric contents are context dependent? Or are we living in some strange dietary multiverse?

Weight gain, weight loss, muscle gain, muscle loss, are operations almost independent from each other. There’s a lot of huckstering out there that burning fat and gaining muscle are somehow interlinked or “oppose” eachother such that while you do one, you automatically undo the other. But this is just as ridiculous as the constant lack of good information on nutrition.

A few days ago we had that article on how Vegan diet tends to have people eating garbage. This is again because eating healthy and avoiding eating X have nothing to do with one another, but in the marketing of things we equate veganism with uber healthy eating.

At any rate, we need a comprehensive explanation of how the body works at all stages, and how does nutrition and exercise impact the body at each of these stages. Once you enter ketosis for example, rules change. Something to consider.

Food for thought.
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Smartphone

Smart watch for step tracking

QC35 noise cancelling headphones

Kindle paper white
> Eat whatever you want, just make it yourself.

I'm astonished by how few people prepare their own meals. You're playing the diet game on hard mode if you're limiting yourself to cafe/restaurant food (not to mention the cost!). Conversely, it's actually pretty difficult to eat poorly if you cook everything yourself.

Eliminating sugar, refined wheat and ensuring every meal is at least 50% vegetables by volume would go a long way to reducing the number of people in the "obese" category. In that respect, I'd agree that calorie counting is at best unnecessary, at worst counterproductive.

But even with such an incredibly low bar to clear, I'm not sure it will make a difference to obesity rates. I'm highly skeptical that the upwards trend has anything to do with confusion, cost, lack of information or anything like that. People just aren't willing to give up the constant dopamine hit from fried and sugary foods.
KVM Switch - i used to pull all my cables out and swap monitors and have 2 mouse and keyboards on the desk now i just flick a switch. Actually started to get infuriation switching between my mac and pc for work
> Create open source software that other people need, then sell training videos on how to use it.

Please don't do this, I personally hate this motivation for Open Source development.

The incentive of the project developer is not aligned with the user. The developer has the incentive to make the software complex and unintuitive, so that people require training to use it.

Any proposed changes to make the project easier to configure, threaten the income of the developer and will probably not be considered...

Monetisation is extremely hard to get right in open-source software.
It sounds like children’s magic wand thinking.

Convert all trash into its pure elements. Take chemical elements and transform into magic city, etc.

It’s fantastic but not based on reality.
> There are calories in diamonds

Not in this context. A nutrition label for a 50 pound diamond would indicate zero calories.
Instead of the last quote in the article, I prefer this one (got it from [0])

>"There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." – Martin Fowler

And there's plenty of similar articles, for example [1] [2]

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Naming_things

[1] https://dbader.org/blog/python-memoization

[2] https://mike.place/2016/memoization/
I mean... here’s Europe alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe?wp...

I’d be very keen to learn about a particular period, or multiple, of an earth without large scale armed conflict (obviously controlling for difference in scale over time).

Could you point me to a few?
Dieting is calorie counting in some way or the other. Eg: Weight watchers uses a point system. It’s trying to get calories consumed below calories needed.
Never heard the term trash poker. Is it more than carring a trash bag and collecting trash? Sounds very promising, I‘ll give it a try.
Is there a simple file-system-like project out there that has git-like capabilities but basically commits and pushes on any save. I’d like to just keep notes in markdown and sync notes among my devices. I don’t even mind dealing with merge conflicts. I want the git-like capabilities for file history.
Curious, unable to determine: is there a typeahead feature when inside wikilinks?
Most 3D games that aren't photo-realistic still need semi-realistic lighting to look good..
Agreed, buying a 100k email list and sending a generic email about a great new IOS application is silly.

But that's not what I mean by buying and sending emails!
The other way works like this:
1. Buy a super targeted email list (lets say early businesses that generate revenue through ads, if you're an ad network company)
2. Have a quick look at their website to double check they actually might be interested and gather some information to add to the email.
3. Use a tool like Gmass to send them a personal email like:
"Hey {name},

{personal message}

I'd love to show you a short demo.. book a slot here..we help ad-based business like yourself to... blabla"

I'd personally be ok to get such an email - what do you think?
I know that's a Reddit meme, but not buying software that you use shouldn't be a joke. Especially if you're a developer.
Just numbers. And yes you make a good point.

I do think Georgia Tech is a top school for computer science though.
The blood sport connection makes me wonder "when the chicken crossed the road[1], what was his entrance music?"

"He's constantly confusing, confounding, won't throw the towel /
Everyone give it up for America's favourite fighting fowl"

[1] a "road" might also be a sea route, but it looks like land-based roads predate seaborne trade by several thousand years.
Vitamin D. Totally changed my life. Haven’t had a real bout of depression since I started taking it.
I am surprised you didn’t mention syncthing!

Is it because you’re assuming a cloud backup is necessary component of syncing solution? In that case, you can just designate one of your synced devices to keep backups to S3/B2 :D
> Are you seriously suggesting that if the US empire scaled back its efforts in those regions then we'd return to the dark ages?

No, we’d probably return to the era of world wars.

> Because when I was in Europe Somali pirates were hi-jacking oil tankers and the US didn't intervene, it took the European companies and military to put an end to that entirely by themselves without the need of US involvement.

What?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Soma... :

> In the late 2000s, anti-piracy coalition known as Combined Task Force 150, including 33 different nations, established a Maritime Security Patrol Area in the Gulf of Aden. By 2010, these patrols were paying off, with a steady drop in the number of incidents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Task_Force_150 :

> Countries presently contributing to CTF-150 include Australia, Canada, Denmark,[1] France, Pakistan, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Other nations who have participated include Italy, India, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and Turkey. The command of the task force rotates among the different participating navies, with commands usually lasting between four and six months. The task force usually comprises 14 or 15 ships.[2] CTF-150 is coordinated by the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), a 33-nation coalition operating from the US Navy base in Manama, Bahrain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Task_Force_151 :

> On 8 January 2009, at the United States Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Vice Admiral William E. Gortney, USN, announced the formation of CTF-151 to combat the piracy threat off Somalia, with Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight in command.

> I just hope we can attain a position where the World doesn't need superpowers and can return to at least a mutually beneficial city-state model

That will mean war.

Within a single country, government serves the purpose of providing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. This monopoly is an impediment for the otherwise random violence people would live under. Internationally, the same is true for superpowers.
Don't benchmarks like these usually pre-warm the file cache? If so, then these benchmarks wouldn't be evidence that parsing is I/O bound, since they're reading from kernel memory, right?
A document scanner.

I had many years of old paper tax returns, and I wanted them in PDF format. Paid $400 for an Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 and absolutely love it. Put a stack of documents in the top, hit "scan", and a PDF appears on my computer. Zero hassle.

Anything that I get in paper form gets immediately scanned, backed up, and shredded.
But again... that's the point. Everyone already knew 'a calorie is a calorie' was not literally true - for example diamonds which you agree about.
Looks cool, thanks!
What brand of air purifier was this?
Can I use WebTransport for multi-tenant non-p2p video conferencing?
Agree, the Sony WH-1000 are astonishing. I can use them for everything from video calls to airplane travel, to grocery shopping.

https://remotivo.com/gear/product/headphones/
It goes on to explain what that means, and also which signature marks are represented in Unicode
Therapy. Best use of money in my life.

You don't need to have a "big problem" (like depression) to visit a therpist.
Many people can't avoid driving or being driven (to work, school, and etc).

Helping others not get sick of a disease we have no treatment for is a minor inconvenience.

At this point your comments are just obtuse or trolling.

And who dragged the US protests into this conversation?
I don't think there's anything naive about this take..

Why wouldn't a company like Epic, who is the dominant market player by far, put some funding into smaller open source research projects like this? Godot is no threat to them, and quite the contrary brings positive contributions to the whole industry.

Not only is it good PR, but as they say a rising tide lifts all boats.
Hydro Flask pint glasses. They look great. They're insulated, so they keep your drink cool longer and, even better, you don't have to deal with condensation. They're pleasantly textured for a better grip, and if you do drop them, they don't shatter into dangerous fragments. Much more expensive than glass, but way, way worth it. If price is an issue, I believe there are similar designs from others.
I think the reverse. The globe is relatively stable, and there are pockets of instability, some of which are the fault of the US.

Of course this is all a challenging exercise (which is my only real point) since we don’t have counterfactuals for any of these scenarios.
Functools’ lru_cache also has good methods for getting more info about the cache’s utilisation (.cache_info() I think), which is quite helpful when found in logs.
Yes, the foundations for ML are somewhat old, but the explosion of progress has put everyone on the edge of a fresh domain for which we are only now developing a theoretical framework.

At the very least you must concede that applied machine learning is effectively a new field. Yes I'm sure a handful of neuron-like components have probably been assembled here or there in the past to do something interesting, but no one was going to college trying to make it big with a career in ML.
manuw - random-ish question i saw somewhere that u were using minikeepass which is deprecated on ios -- any suggestions? what are you thinking of using?
Think of fireplace pokers. These are used to pick up trash. Some have prehensile ends some just a sharp end.
JavaScript Switcher
> fintechs need utmost trust from customers in order to run their business

Wirecard has been repeatedly and very credibly accused of fraud and of cooking their books for the past decade. Clearly customers don't care otherwise they wouldn't have had any.

Wells Fargo fraudulently created millions of fake checking and savings accounts. Did it break the "utmost trust" you assert is required? No.

RBS was found insolvent after the 2008 financial crisis. Surely insolvency violates this "utmost trust" benchmark? Haha. No.

Barclays was found guilty of fixing interbank interest rates (Libor). Massive scandal that was all over the newspapers. And yet, same question, same answer.
I'm quite happy with tiddlewiki
tl;dr seems to be "probably" - my setup for this would be a MediaRecorder on your webcam and microphone input, piping data into a modified version of SRT for some level of reliability, error correction and buffering so the data arrives at the decoder at the right time. The problem is that MediaRecorder is not particularly configurable, and seems to spit out something different from the WebRTC encoder.
You really need to look at all cause mortality. You can’t just say A is associated with B, therefore we should keep A low. We make that mistake all the time as far as I can tell.
Extremely bright, high-CRI lighting for my home office.

I have extra lights I can turn on in the early morning to simulate daylight. This is far and away the most powerful tool for manipulating my sleep/wake cycles.

Even without seasonal affective disorder, an early morning dose of extremely bright light improves my energy and mood throughout the day. It also makes it easier to fall asleep at night because my circadian rhythms are further entrained.

> Just reading about air purifiers

I also bought multiple, large HEPA air purifiers for the house. I can't say I noticed any real differences. I keep them for peace of mind, though. I had better results with those adhesive strips that you put on your nose to open your breathing passages at night.
Mythbusting Competitive Programming – You don't need to learn it
Author here.
Sorry, If it feels misleading. I have no intention to mislead anybody. If you can suggest alternative title, I am happy to change title.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but I honestly couldn't disagree more with the overall premise with regards to losing weight. Yes, nutrition is certainly vastly more complicated than the single data point calories provide, but the vast majority of people (myself included) will never, ever be able to ascertain that knowledge much less be able to interpret them in a way useful for their own health benefit.

For me, calorie counting was a revelation. I'd tried eating less and exercising more without much success, and then I read a simple explanation of calorie counting and realized the whole thing could be simplified into a simple math problem. If I just kept track of my inputs (food) and roughly knew my outputs I could control my weight. Once I focused on that I lost ~45lbs in a year.
This memoizes closures of functions, and lets them be executed on other processors? Does it support dependency tracking between memoized closures (incremental recomputation), or do I have to roll that, myself?
That is not the premise of the article.
An alternative lies in the concept of harvesting stocks from flows, which suggests starting with a journal, a timestamped, immutable list of notes, both large and small (small is better in many cases); wikilinks within those journal entries form branches, but then notes from the journal can be transcluded into other structures as deemed appropriate.
On Launching Embarrassing Shit
I think incorrect is a bit strong, but you're right. ;o)

Isn't there another slight proviso, before the USPTO, that a third party disclosure is still a valid prior art citation, in the Grace Period if its source is not the applicant/inventor?

Also, outside USA (UK & Aus at least) there are specific international trade fairs that are recognised and disclosure at these gives a sort of grace period similarly to USC grace periods.

Like you say, there's account for abusive disclosure in various laws; also more countries accept grace periods for utility model patents than do for regular patents AIUI.

This is the problem with reducing complex laws to broad brush advice, lack of vital nuance; there's lots of geographic variation too.
Such a touching story. What is it model please?
Yes, also make sure you check out this guy’s other UNIX related stuff on archive.org
"Roadside Picnic" is a Russian book. The word "stalker" wasn't used in Russian language at all before it. Hence, it coined the term. The rest is demagogy.
Alcohol.

Not for the better.
1. Ring Video Doorbell 2 ($170)

2. Netgear Nighthawk router ($150, always works)
I wonder if that title is the best one to suit te reality. From an outsider it would look like control was 'taken' from, or never 'given to' the CDC, rather than lost.
Voat went out of their way to welcome banned communities.

If you find yourself collecting them too, ban them.
Frankly those should be defaults, not decisions you take based on data.

I see this quite often with people using smartwatches. "Oh I've hit my calorie burn target for the week, I can skip workout today". It's not just about calories but also about toning and stamina and establishing daily routine.
This is a great article and exploit. Good job and thanks for the learning experience.
It’s almost as if cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value, only extrinsic/speculative value.

Due diligence doesn’t matter to the people that expect a 10x or 50x gain.
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Apple Watch Series 5 - I am exercising more than ever.

Intelligent Investor - I read this book around 15 years back and I am at a better place financially, partly due to it.

Road Bike - Bought one around 5 years ago. Best way for me to exercise and feel-the-wind-in-my-face. Finally, wife agreed to get one as well. Now we are riding together. Best feeling.

A Home - It's a double edged sword. Spending tons of time working on lawn and garden. Great way to connect to the roots. On the flip side, it's easy to get sucked into projects and not have time to pursue side projects.
"A calorie is a calorie" guy here. I'm also a "food affects metabolic rate" guy, they're not in opposition (that said, . The problem is that people are latching to the idea that such-and-such diet allows you to eat however much you want, and you'll lose weight[1]. To which the answer is, that's not how things work, you still need to have a negative caloric balance to lose weight: "a calorie is a calorie".

Most of the effect of these diets (intermittent fasting, low/no-carb, etc) is due to spontaneous reduction of intake; I haven't seen credible reports of large effects due to metabolic rate change. Granted, I've stopped looking some years ago.

Worrying about "some calories increase metabolism" is majoring in the minors. "Some calories make me less hungry (therefore I eat less)", "some calories make me feel more energetic (therefore I move more)", "some calories come with more micronutrients", "some calories don't come along with poisonous crap" is what most of us should be worrying about.

[1] I know this sounds like a strawman, but this is the actual claim being made.
Seconding Cronometer as a good tool; it’s the best I’ve found, supports data export, and isn’t full of “social” features that obscure the key feature: easy and accurate calorie tracking. In particular it’s database is more accurate than the crowd sourced ones like MyFitnessPal.
Eyeglasses. It's actually very useful and relaxing to not see the life in blur.
I guess not many actually need to call linux kernel system calls directly bypassing proper measures, but how many fondly remembers int 21h?
in case you didn't know, come to /r/onguardforthee, the sane and inclusive Canadian subreddit
If we're making sweeping generalizations, then countries that don't project military power to prop up dodgy regimes and enforce their currency on major commodities don't get targetted by terrorist action. To be clear, I'm not saying every action that resistance organisations and foreign governments have taken in the last few decades has been superb.

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Did you encounter any interesting domains?
Lasik eye surgery. It cost about $4k per eye USD due to how bad my eyes were. I went to a super reputable place and now have perfect vision. I can barely remember what it was like before.

Even better, I paid for them using money I made from my first indie game release. Was a huge emotional win for me.
It is, though. It doesn’t speed up function execution, but it literally speeds up the function call.
Thanks for article

Just a side note: with Fibonacci + caching it solidly become Dynamic programming problem so Time complexity reduces from quadratic to o(n), IIRC .

There is a whole class of problems where
recursion + memoization(caching) = Top Down Dynamic programming ,
The other way to Increase performance and actually reduce call stack in these class of problems including Fibonacci would be Bottom Up Dynamic Programming

Some gists I found on it https://gist.github.com/trtg/4662449
As someone on the other side of this (who can defend their position if given the chance), I think the idea that censorship of my position is going to help it be more broadly accepted is probably false. On an intellectual basis, it doesn't indicate a defensible position, but we've moved past that: the debate is not a reasoned argument anymore. People are not naturally inclined to follow reason, and if people's values are adjusted to prioritize anti-racism over reason, then there is no contest; reason will lose.
> Any “solution” that basically tells people to ignore their hunger [...] is not a viable society-wide solution.

This is a really good point, IMO, because part of the problem is our food itself, with unnaturally and unnecessary high amounts of processed carbohydrates. That kind of food causes hunger to increase.

> A reduction of calories will normally result in the body lowering metabolic rate

This is totally true, but is so commonly stated as somehow proving that calories shouldn’t be counted. Sure, the body adapts, sure calories aren’t perfect or absolutely constant, but if you need to lose weight, what is the alternative? You have to eat less, so slightly lower metabolic rate may be a natural part of the process. BTW, how much lower is my metabolic rate if I reduce my caloric intake by 10%? How much lower can my metabolic rate go? If you’re going to point at metabolic variability, those questions need to be answered. The answer can’t be to ignore calories and not eat less, right? That would be far less effective than counting calories imperfectly. So what other action should someone take?
Ads are a distraction, a waste of bandwidth and CPU (and memory, and battery —- and energy and thus harmful to the environment), a privacy nightmare, and worst of all a malware vector.

Ad blocking is the first thing I install on a new device.