skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Not OP, but went through a similar process)

The best way (for me at least) was to track my calories, using the food scale to weight things and nutritional labels (or looking things up in Google) to figure out the calories. MyFitnessPal for logging everything.

If you're asking how to know how many calories you need - search for TDEE calculator online, which will give you an estimate number of calories needed for maintenance, or how much for weight loss, given your height, bodyweight and activity level. But - these are just estimates! Track food intake for a month, see if you went down, if not, start targeting fewer calories (or more if you went down too quickly for your needs).
Exactly. VCs are not picking winners, they're playing a numbers game. For that strategy to work, your winners need to be massive.
I buy high mileage Honda minivans for no more than $3000 because they're dependable and cheap at high mileage.

I generally get 100,000 miles out of them, so 4 mostly dependable vans and 400,000 miles for about $12,000. You'll lose $12K in depreciation alone just driving a new car off a lot.

I've lived in them safely and comfortably for a total of about 3 years, living all over the western US from New Mexico to Montana. Rent $0. Rent saved? $40,000.

(There are costs, fuel, tires, etc., but negligible compared to rent (i.e. paying someone else's American dream).
> see value here and would opt for this were it offered to me by my bank

Fidelity has a Cash Management Account [1] that functions as a checking account as well as hold securities. (It also sweeps into FDIC-insured accounts overnight.) I find it useful for planning large expenses by e.g. buying a Treasury or other bond that matures around when that expense will be due, thereby earning a bit more yield while making the available cash actually represent unencumbered cash.

The UI isn't super modern, though. That may be worth giving up some of the securities features one will never use and the FDIC insurance.

[1] https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/fidelity-cash-manag...
bpftrace has lower overhead, because, thanks to BPF, it can accumulate all the data needed in kernel and only send a summary to userspace to be displayed. strace on the other hand uses the ptrace(2) syscall to set a breakpoint on each syscall, including the ones that you do not trace (when you filter calls e.g.) and on each syscall data travels between kernel and strace.

It's possible that in the future strace will use BPF as well to lower its overhead.

bpftrace is also more versatile. You could use it to e.g. collect stack traces for all the syscalls a program makes. You can also attach actions to more things than just syscalls. You can e.g. use kprobes to inject code into kernel functions which aren't exported as syscalls.
> It'd be nice if we as Americans or generally wealthy OECD westerners could be less provincial in our views of how labor deserves to be treated. They're not all in the same situation as us with the same options.

OECD westerners gave themselves, and their children, options. They were hard earned.
When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
"it will be the other kids’ parent who will decide for your kid. Apple will give your children’s picture to the other kid’s parents."

This is an absolute falsehood. Literally a total flat lie. Have people not read the paper?

Apple does not give android phone users the child porn. They block it on device. So no, it will not be the other children's parents who will decide it will be me if my child is sending it.

And if someone sends my child a photo of child porn etc, then apple will block it and will notify me and that is also fine - if you are sending my child child porn - then I have a right to know - and I will pursue you aggressively as almost any parent will I think.

The idea that apple is doing something wrong here is ridiculous. The lying about what apple is doing is also ridiculous.
I support your assertion that viral warfare is a terrible idea. But I wonder, if you pre-announced what you were going to do and then did it, Would you not successfully co-opt the primary vehicles of leakage?

I really do suspect that if, for example, some basement biohacker terrorist decided to release an engineered bird flu with high fatality, once having staged their distribution mechanism, they wouldn’t be able to arrange for the other countries to contain it simply by providing input information about what was about to occur.

It’s true that they would be small incidents, but essentially if you can disseminate the knowledge widely enough, and the effects are horrific enough, probably you would have de facto containment.

I have dreaded the scenario since my 20s, and that was a long time ago, and the scenario is many, many times easier than it was at the time.
I don't claim to be well-read on the topic, but this reminds me of Kierkegaard's infinite and finite.

"A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis."
> Vance was a very interesting writer, and the Dying Earth setting was highly influential on D&D (not that it originated with him)

That sentence reads like you're saying Jack Vance was not the originator of the Dying Earth setting, when he alone kicked off the genre with a book of short stories called the Dying Earth. I'm sure that's not what you meant.
See also my notebook (which was released after the OP's notebook and I was not aware of it until after I completed mine) from the same source which focuses on more streamlining and more deterministic output by using icon-based input/target images: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wkF67ThUz37T2_oPIuS...
Harassment from WISH HR/Legal employees. Told to deal with it or you're fired
Yet instead of 10 people all getting in their cars or ordering ubers, a single delivery driver can take an optimized route...
Source needed! Airships are quite inefficient, have high air drag and are slow.

They are more comparable to ships, trains or cars. And here their inefficiency is very bad.
Most people would be okay with taxes if they decided what it was spent on, it is their money afterall.
The learning journey has been more good than bad. My favorite was that orbit seems far away, until you look out from an aircraft and realize you're 30% of the way there. Usually, from where you live, the next major town is further than LEO.
> Mono-propellant, and solid (not hybrid) rocket fuel fits the description though

Decomposition doesn’t count as “burning” which means combustion. Fusion and fission release energy as well, but I don’t think anyone calls fusion “burning” hydrogen.
Resistance’s hackers have seized Belarus passport and police data
To use your own analogy- as an RV lot owner, should you have the right to install cameras in every RV to ensure no one is cooking meth?
Pinto Madness (or a case study on engineering ethics)
Crashing aircraft into them was quite reliable, it just wasn’t cheap.
Fair point. Though, I would guess that Blackbird's internal mechanisms are well-enough engineered that it has very, very little static friction where it counts.
Yes, I don't really want to have to recommend to people that they have to run the compiler in a sandbox.
The idea of a space elevator usually requires an orbital anchor point, in which case lifting yourself up the tether would pull you fully out of the gravitational well.

I've not done the mechanics in a long time (not since college), but I believe the tether itself would be providing all horizontal propulsion. Essentially by riding the tether up, it starts pushing you faster and faster. Since the payload's mass would be small compared to the anchor, the drag on the anchor would be negligible.

There's likely some need for thrust compensation on the anchor over time to counteract the delta V lost to the lifting of payloads, but that would all be part of station-keeping and would be there for tether drag as well.
I think you are right if you assume that people generally keep their checking account balance at exactly what they need. If that's the case, then I agree, there isn't really a point to what we offer.

However, doing that is really hard, and requires you to micromanage your checking account. I personally (before using FC) had $10-20k in my checking account, because 1) I really want to make sure I don't miss a rent payment because I mess and 2) I don't want to micromanage. So, at least in my situation, some of the money is moving in and out and can't really be invested, but a decent chunk (probably >10k) just sits there. I imagine this is true for many people.
The real-world alternative to Apple is Microsoft, Google, and Blackberry, not GNU. Because almost no one and no money cares about GNU.
May I ask why you don't manage to make your room completely dark instead of wearing a mask?
https://www.magicalquote.com/moviequotes/id-like-to-share-a-...
Surely sticking with Google is not the logical reaction to this. I hate that Apple is doing this too, but Google is still in a league of its own when it comes to violating your privacy.
this article reads like the "a world without zinc!" school documentary spoof subplot on the Simpson's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1iCZpFMYd0

and the spat He... no, that's helium... She has with helium and in favor of hydrogen overshadows the more interesting suggestion at the end, that airships might make a lot of sense for cargo transportation. I wish the article made that case better!
Right. And I think projects like LineageOS are super interesting.

My beef is just with statements like "people ignore RMS," as I have yet to see any evidence of this. Everything I have observed is that anyone who has heard of RMS is fully aware of his concerns, but most of those people just have different priorities.
Private Equity means investment funds structured as limited partnerships that buy companies and asset classes that aren't publicly traded.

Amazingly enough, pension funds are allowed to park money with them. For whatever reason, unlike endowments, which are heavily restricted in what they're allowed to invest in, pension funds can invest in nearly anything they want to.

But they're still called private equity, which has nothing to do with who is allowed to give them money to invest.
My big gripe with Sony headphones is the touch interface. It's just not very good, triggers accidentally and is awkward to use intentionally (and gloves are out). I wish I'd bought the equivalent Bose headset (they cost the same) with physical controls. Sound and NC wise they're great though, I've never slept better on a flight.
Interesting. I did some back of the envelope calculations.

A 100% efficient electrolyser requires 39 kWh of electricity to produce 1 kg of hydrogen. Best practical ones need about 50 kWh [1].

Hinderburg had about 18 metric tons of hydrogen [2], filling it would require about 1 GWh of energy. The good thing is - it could be used as a way to balance the electric network because we don't particularly care when we fill it as long as it's done. So we can do it when there's overproduction only. The energy would be quite cheap - in some cases you can get paid for using energy when electrical network needs balancing. Same thing is done with other energy-intensive industrial processes like smelting.

In Germany (not particularly sunny but a lot of solar panels so effects of scale are there) the low bounds for price of 1 MWh of solar energy in 2018 was about 37 euro [3], let's round that up to 50 - filling Hindenburg would require about 50 000 euro of renewable energy.

Additionally it would require about 9 * 18 ~= 162 tons of water and some additives to make it conductive. Maybe sea water could be used as is?

[1] http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/3157/hydrogen-produ...
[2] https://www.history.com/news/the-hindenburg-disaster-9-surpr...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
> It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.

Well said.

It's very easy to understand that content on a physical disk I own will not be scanned by some government-friendly surveillance program, and content I upload to somebody else's servers will. I am comfortable with [subsets of] my files existing on both sides of this distinction, but only because I understand it.

Now Apple is letting the surveillance apparatus reach into my own physical hardware, blurring the lines with some overwrought, proprietary crypto-gobbledygook solution. Given the details they've provided, I get why they might have thought this was in line with their general privacy ethos of keeping everything on-device, but the fact is that it is too complicated to build a reliable understanding of in my mental model of my own data privacy--and that's for somebody (me) who is quite technical and has even dabbled in crypto.

Now that I no longer understand Apple's practices as a steward of my private data, I can no longer trust them with it. It's a real shame.
TUM team ASIC implements post-quantum cryptography
> but I am mostly concerned from an environmental point of view because that laziness translates into huge amounts of perfectly good containers

I swear 99% of all trash I see relates to food take out. I would love some laws demanding that dishes need to be resusable and returend to the restaurant, just like glass coke bottles used to be returned to coca-cola.
Interesting piece! I think the article makes some good points, but I don't think that helium is the reason that airships have failed to find use cases. The benefits of hydrogen do not change the fundamentals of the business case. Hydrogen's cheaper, but even using helium the lifting gas is <20% of the operating cost of the airship. The hangar, cost of the vehicle, and maintenance are all more impactful than the cost of the lifting gas.

The bigger hurdle that airship startups have faced is the upfront cost of developing a new vehicle with a many ton payload. Projects trying to build very large airships have so far to get a vehicle to market, because of the amount of capital it requires and the lack of a strong, specific commercial case (Hybrid Air Vehicles, Cargolifter, Lockheed's Hybrid Airships). Changing the lifting gas to hydrogen does not address those challenges. But airships are certainly underutilized - I'm optimistic for their future!
The vaccines have not skipped quality control. They've done all the testing required by the FDA.

Vaccines are not 100% effective. The vast vast majority of people who have been vaccinated have not been infected with covid, delta variant or not. A very small number have been infected, an extremely small number of those have been hospitalized and an infinitesimal percentage of people who have been vaccinated have died compared to the millions of unvaccinated people who have died from it.

We've had millions of unvaccinated people die from covid and almost nobody vaccinated die from covid. So yes, the people who survived without vaccines were comparatively lucky.

But now that there are vaccines dying from covid isn't unlucky, it's an unfortunate choice made by people who listen to people such as yourself spread lies about the vaccines. By spreading misinformation you are contributing to the deaths of thousands.
Please. Let's stop trying to virtue signal a bunch of work-dignity nonsense under the guise of humility, and pearl-clutching over using words like "servant"

Gig work is a dead-end for its laborers. People with non-gig jobs - even "shitty" ones - actually have career advancement opportunities. They can leverage their qualities and hard work towards greater earning potential, rather than having it get wasted. Nothing like that exists in the gig space and that's by design.
Now, isolate those Indians who are living in India with an American standard of living (big house, car(s), frequent flyer), and I'm sure emissions will look a little bit more even. There are probably a lot more people living in poverty and not emitting much in India than in the U.S., it doesn't mean the situation per capita is better for these poor people in India that might lack electricity and plumbing (but on paper are living carbon neutral). Another case where the median might be better than the mean.
This is a brilliant turn of phrase and I’m definitely going to steal it
If you withdraw money using a Fidelity debit card (without Financial Choice), from a brokerage account without any cash in it, that withdraw will create a margin loan that you have to manually pay back and that you also have to pay interest on.

If you withdraw money using a Financial Choice debit card, that withdraw will automatically trigger a sale of your stock in the appropriate amount, so that you won't be building up margin loans.
We Migrated from AWS Lambda to ECS, but Hope to Eventually Migrate Back
gaming wastes more energy than crypto and add less utility
I don't disagree with your post, but one thing I want to mention is the origin of the term "Incident Commander"--it doesn't exist to be cool, but rather derives from how FEMA handles disasters. I suspect its usage in IT became a thing because it was already used in real-life, and it made more sense than creating a new term.

If you have two hours, you can take the training that describes the nomenclature behind the Incident Command System, and why it became a thing:

https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=is-100...

This online training takes about 2 hours and is open to the general public. I took it on a Saturday afternoon some years ago and it gave me useful context to why certain things are standardized.
> Yes, you can turn off iCloud Photos to disable Apple’s scanning

To me, it is such a weird implementation. The feature is about scanning on-device data, not data in iCloud, but for some reason disabling iCloud is the way to opt out? Did I miss any technical details?

Apple is always pretty OK with handing over iCloud data to authorities. Not only that they have already stored Chinese users iCloud data in state controlled entity, this was their whole argument regarding the San Bernardino case -- on-device data is user's sacred privacy, but if the shooter's phone uploaded data to iCloud, they were willing to send a copy to FBI in a heartbeat.

This makes me wonder, is iCloud the underlying technical boundary for privacy?
" Is it still accessing information on the phone without being tied directly to you? "

I don't know. I do not have FB. But the fact, that I still have to have the app no matter what I want, illustrates my point, that I really do not own or controll this phone. But it works reliable, was affordable - AND I can remove the batterie.

And I do it regulary, because then I can be sure, it is really turned off.

Otherwise I kind of assume everything I do with it or around it, is potentially recorded.

So yes, I really, really want a phone that I can trust, even if it is turned on.
> intentionally hiding all human-to-human interaction

I do agree this is depressing but isn’t this also the selling point? A lot of people just want food, etc. with no interaction with other humans or any effort involved. In exchange, they’re willing to pay a slight premium. While I do agree it is rather depressing, I feel it’s more of a question of “have we humans always craved this and now we can deliver it or is there something particularly soul-crushing about modern life that makes this desirable?” rather than a question of “is it ethical for companies to cater to iffy consumer desires?” And I do believe it’s catering to rather than creating consumer demands. We’ve always had hermits, outcasts, people willingly living outside of society with minimal interaction. Perhaps now it is either more desirable or more acceptable to “hermit.”
The claim that if you buy an apple phone that it will notify the OTHER kids parents is a flat out lie.

Yes, android users sending porn to kids will be flagged by apple devices if the kid has one. My point, parents may like this.
HN loves throwing around accusations of "ad hominem", but dismissing someone's ideas on IP because he picks his toes is a quintessential ad hominem attack.
I don't really agree, pork products can taste great alone. cured ham is a great example of that. For sausages, the only dry sausages I've tasted are "hot dog" sausages that are an emulsion of meat (which is usually a bad sign).
Hydrogen burns and produces greenhouse gas!
Space elevators get you all the way out to geosync orbit (and beyond) - as you climb you accelerate as you move away from the surface of the earth, and so by the time you reach geosync height you are traveling at orbital velocity.
> upper class "liberals" sympathizing with the suffering of the underprivileged masses.

This actually created capitalism first. Liberalism and capitalism are deeply intertwined, and I'm not convinced you can separate them.
Yes. Just last week I replaced a std::enable_if that need 3 functions with one function that used 'if constexpr'. I'm sure I'll find more places soon.
There was a video from Collabora talking about Valve, immutability and different possibilities of deployment. I don't have the time to find and rewatch it but I'm not sure this article confirms that they will just do regular updates even if they say they are small. It could be interpreted in many ways. Maybe the video was only about the Steam Runtime.
To be effective, a space elevator would have to deliver the payload all the way out to geostationary orbit altitude. At that hight, the payload would already be in orbit without adding any additional horizontal velocity. But almost all of the height is higher than you can float a lighter than air craft (42164km vs ~40km for lighter than air craft).
Covering Covid-19 with automated news
To portray RMS as "against tech" is a very misleading characterization of him (he is an OS developer after all). To judge someone as a hypocrite, you have to first understand (1) what they say, (2) how they act, and then (3) compare the two. I don't think he ever said "don't use tech". You are vastly mischaracterizing what his position is.
How many millions of human trials will satisfy you without an FDA rubber stamp? Will FDA approval matter, or will you move on to your next talking point?
Show HN: Accessibility Testing Tool for Developers
For those of us who just bought new iPhones (over the 2 week return period) and are having buyer’s remorse after this decision, is there a way to return this now that the product is different than when I purchased it? Credit card chargeback, etc? I would like to switch to a phone I can control.
The way I’ve heard it described is that other priorities that are also important, like spare the air days or budget concerns, kinda edged out control burns in the recent past.
I've created this Chrome extension over a year ago to improve my dev experience with web accessibility. As much as I like working on it I suck in marketing. This is unfortunate, because the tool is not as widely used as it could be (even though there is almost 1400 weekly active users and 16 5-star reviews in the web store).
I thought the bigger safety problem with lighter than air travel was weather? As in, anything less than perfect surface conditions may result in disaster when you go to moor the aircraft.
I think everyone here has a living experience of how smartphones reduce productivity. Even seeing one makes me want to check if I have new messages for example. Even if this one test did not replicate, I think its fair to say that there is a dark side of smartphone use
https://threader.app/thread/1421949421781061633
> "This is so NeXT," I told Sally. "Everything works great in the tests, then when you try to make it work for real, in the field, nothing works. They build a computer out of magnesium, and it doesn't even burn!"

LOL