skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> This suggests that while I was technically overeating -- by just couple of grams per day

I doubt you've hit this average, as it's unlikely you live in a completely controlled vacuum. It's more likely you've had far more noticable and extreme periods of change in both directions, while trending upward as you age and change your lifestyle.

To put it another way: I've gained 6g per day over my entire life. That's not much more than your 20 year example but there's a pretty obvious difference between me as a newborn and present day me.
Figures of speech are forbidden now?
Why people insist in BSDs when Linux works better?
There's nothing wrong with a bit of eccentricity, but of course people have limits. The ability to have impromptu conversations with strangers is a life skill worth learning. Being a bit weird or silly is endearing. Having it as a handicap in social situations, however, is a weakness
I use twitter because you can switch to a chronological feed by using the "sparkle/stars" button in the upper right corner. This removes all of the suggestions and tweets from people you don't know. Basically it turns discoverablity off. You still get retweets if shared by someone you follow (you can also turn that off by going to their profile).

This is the main reason it's the only social media company I use. I can avoid the algorithm completely.

I also use Twitter lists and made a list of close friends so I can see a feed of just their tweets in case I miss them in the chronological feed.

The tools are already there. The UX to surface them needs to be better though.
My favorite place of this sort is Vasa museum in Stockholm

It hosts a huge 70m warship that sank in 1628 on her maiden voyage 1.5 km into it. Highly recommended to visit.

https://www.vasamuseet.se/en
> In RISC-V, you only need the first two bits of each instruction to determine whether it's a 16 bit or 32 bit instruction

Isn't it one bit in the beginning(?) of each 16-bit instruction? So a 32-bit instruction has this information duplicated in the same place in the latter 16-bit half, since a decoder has to be able to decide whether it's trying to decode a 16-bit instruction or whether it's in the middle of a 32-bit instruction.

The above assuming that the common strategy for implementing a parallel decoder for RVC is to start decoding at each 16-bit offset, and then throw away those cases where it turns out that it was in the middle of a 32-bit instruction, and that RVC has been designed with this implementation strategy in mind.
Law Firm’s O365 Lockout Claim Goes to Arbitration
Sure, it will be regulated, but regulation will always be limited to the access points that any single government can touch. Go too far and capital flees to another jurisdiction.

The value of open source networks is adoption, and people will not adopt a crypto that has been hijacked and controlled by any entity.
There are wide color gamut RGB spaces such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPhoto_RGB_color_space

that do a better job of modelling many forms of color vision than conventional RGB spaces.

The response of the eye under ordinary situations is modeled well with three stimulus values, but real colors are on a spectrum. Consider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_3D

which uses a total of six colors and high precision filters such that there is a red that passes the left filter and a red that passes the right filter. The two reds look almost the same without the filters, but with the filters one becomes completely invisible. In situations where light is interacting with something other than your eye (filters, a prism) the physics become vastly more complex.

Speaking of 3D images lately I've been frustrated with wide gamut displays because I make images that are viewed through these glasses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

Namely the red channel goes to the left eye and the green and blue go to the left eye. (0, 180, 0) in sRGB is converted by the application (Photoshop, Web Browser) to something like (16, 176, 15) before sending to a wide gamut model. Adding a little bit of red and blue to the wide gamut green makes it look less saturated and more like the sRGB green, but it's bad for anaglyph stereograms because the extra red light causes an unwanted ghost image to appear in the wrong channel.
My Latitude 5420 has broken Ethernet on Linux... How it is possible to break Ethernet drives is beyond me.
This being underutilized is a good thing.
User got warring about upon connecting vape to computer - malware?
If so, it seems it would be undesirable for such AI to possess what we call sentience.
Sometimes people just stand up for what is right and expect officials to do their job?
Just look at the big bad orange man's past usage of twitter.
> Also the role of the player in EU4 and Victoria seems ambiguous.

No more ambiguous than in the more popular Civilization games.
This strikes me as interesting in terms of the question of how important artist intent is.

It seems to me that for many pieces of abstract art it doesn't really matter which side the artist intended to be the top. It might matter if the orientation has an impact on the work's message (e.g. if the author intended abstract shapes at the top to in some way represent Heaven while those on the bottom represent earth). However, I'd suggest that "this is what the artist intended" is not on it's own enough to make the orientation important.
I agree that moderate amounts of exercise are not helpful in losing weight at all. I fluctuate all year between 73kg and 80kg (with a brief stint at 84kg the other year while I wasn't doing any cardio for 6mo and eating way too much takeaway).

In school I used to go to the gym every day for 45mins at lunch, and box 5/6hrs a week, from 14y/o. The last 3/4yrs I climbed 3/4x a week and the last 2 of those I also ran 3/4x a week up to ~40km/wk, albeit inconsistently around my 9-5 and part time uni course.

Every time I cut out one of the sports I enjoy, I am drastically less hungry. Yes, a 5km run might burn ~300cals, but if I'm so hungry I eat a whole extra meal, I'm generally more likely to gain weight. Same for lifting weights, but even moreso - if I go and hit a 200kg deadlift PR I'm going to be hungry the next day, but that 1-2hr gym session maybe burned 100 calories at most. Exercise for weight loss is only useful if "calories in" stays the exact same, and even then it would be way less effort to reduce "calories in" and not exercise (if weight loss is the only goal).

The point at which this stops applying is excessive cardio, ie running 40km+ in a week. That will pretty much always result in a caloric deficit for me, because at that point I'm forcing myself to eat enough food to recover (rather than having to force myself not to overeat). Most people exercising to lose weight (rather than for enjoyment, to push themselves/prove something, or to win a race) don't want to exercise. If you have to commit 6hrs a week to cardio to see any effect, 99% of people aren't interested, so I'd imagine they fit into the "not excessive" category where exercise might make them want to eat disproportionately more than they burned.

Controlling "calories in" (which will guarantee weight loss, as far as the laws of physics are concerned) is always going to be the easiest path to weight loss.
I run nvi+tmux under an OpenBSD netbook for C/AWK and Perl (sometimes TCL). If flies. No SSD. On gaming, I prefer Nethack/Slashem, IF and retroemulation. Or not, with Scummmvm.

I can always use the NUC at the living for games such as Jedi Academy or Jedi Outcast.
The delusional demands of some Twitter employees
>> 600 kcal in other terms is: a sandwich and 2 small pieces of chocolate

That's a pretty small sandwich, with none of the fun toppings.
I wrote a Haskell library to implement this as well [0]. It's a very useful pattern.

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/postgresql-replicant
Crazy? At 20 cents/kWh, running it for 12 hours a day costs 34 cents per day or $123/year.
I am actually the author, and I didn't start this thread. People have to decide for themselves whether it is worth reading or not. Lots of people subscribe to Substack to read experiences, opinions on various subjects.

Nobody will put in the effort to write these kinds of articles over time unless they can make some money on it either through subscriptions or ads. Personally I trying to find a balance by letting people read quite a lot for free, so it is worthwhile to look. Subscription can be had for free on a trial period, so you can can try reading my stories and see if it is worth it and cancel before you got to pay.

It is a certain mark of entitlement that people think they should be given all the content in the world for free without paying for it. Why should writers do all their work for free? You expect to walk into a magazine store or bookstore and grab whatever stuff you want for free and walk out?

Of course not. Content creators have to mix free and paid to make things work. One writes free stuff for marketing but you cannot only do that. Most people don't live of trust funds ;-)
How about letting the user choose? Because if Adobe stopped acting like they know better they could solve this with one click:

> You are using Pantone colors, but you don't have a license for them.

> [X] Replace with a similar CMYK value, obtained from printing the color in Bob's old home printer.

> [ ] Purchase rights to the Pantone library.

Now the x% of designers who really need Pantone colors can pay for them and the remaining (100-x)% users can use their files in peace. This is similar to what Inkscape does when converting a PDF with unknown fonts, and it's (IMO) a much better solution.
> We live our lives eating tons of sugar and thinking that this is the right diet

I don't think most people think it's the right diet. I think most people know that sugar is potentially harmful. Nobody is espousing the idea that sugar is part of a balanced diet, or that we should be increasing the amount of added sugar in processed foods. Or that we should increase our consumption of candy.

Rather, when we think of sugar, we think of obesity, heart disease, diabetes. Maybe even fructose toxicity?
Theory: modern art was promoted by the wealthy art world because it eliminates the ability of the artist to engage in potentially threatening or disturbing social or political commentary.

Case example (relevant to our current world) - Henri Rousseau's War (1984 - oops, 1894), depicting a girl/woman riding a horse across a field of bodies with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other. There's nothing signifying nobility and glory; it's mostly madness and lunacy. It has historical significance, as wars had ravaged Europe for centuries and the 20th century, with industrialized warfare on a new scale, was about to break new records for battlefield savagery and violence against civilian populations.

https://www.henrirousseau.net/war.jsp

What would be the 'modern art' version of 'War'?
Right, my understanding is that that law also affects entire subreddits.

Basically, I think they should go a step further: you only have access to EU-siloed twitter accounts without actively opting in and being warned.

My general read is that most Europeans would be okay with that (and would not opt-in), and the ones that wouldn't would just use a VPN anyway, so it wouldn't matter
I think it's safe to assume that China is now ruled by a totalitarian dictator, even if we haven't yet seen clear actions taken to that effect. There isn't a person in that "Congress" who isn't thinking "that will happen to me if I protest."
So they can't turn it the right way up, because M. Mondrian chose to make the thing out of sticky-tape, and the stickiness has dried up over the years.

I guess there's a reason the masters made their own paint, out of linseed oil and pigments.
An iPhone 5 has for sure less software support than whatever Motorola you had.

And no, there's no integration story. Android has issues iOS has not (and the other way around), but performance wise they're pretty comparable on similarly specced devices.

Unless you're comparing a flagship iPhone against a lowend Android, you won't see as big of a difference.
T2 Diabetic that keeps a fairly strict keto diet here.

Food is terrible these days. It's hard to get stuff that isn't loaded down with sweeteners, never mind salts and fats. All to make food taste better and to get you to eat it more.

The insidious part about this food though, you can't directly taste the part that makes it addicting. If you stay away from it for long enough you can feel it. You'll eat something seemingly mundane, and suddenly you'll notice, not only does this food taste really good, it tastes absolutely wonderful in every way. If you pay close attention you can feel some deep parts of your monkey brain light up informing you that you best eat as much of this splendid food as possible. Weirdly the food itself doesn't actually taste that good, but some of those deep sections of your poor old monkey brain believes it does.

I hear you, well just eat fresh food, plenty of veggies and fruit. That is the where food science has gotten down right diabolical. Over the past bunch of generations we have modified our own produce, apples are sweeter and tastier, so are pears and watermelon, and things like corn, carrots, tomatoes, onions even potatoes and lettuce.

There is no escape from the things that tells your stupid monkey brain, hey eat this you fool!

---

Before you dog pile on me, I'm diabetic thanks to the genetic lottery, not for a lifetime of bad eating habits. But thank you for your concern.
I don't know, but still, I was surprised.

Maybe I do know and it has to do with software bloat? I don't find it hard to believe that the software you ran on your Pentium was less bloated somehow.
> most of what it did was complicate web development

Only for those wanting to track users. Don’t track users, it’s all good, ignore GDPR all you like.

> and force annoying pop ups on everyone.

Pop ups reminding you that all those web sites:

1. Want to track users more than they wanted to avoid annoying users

2. Want to blame the annoying pop-ups on the GDPR instead of, you know, the tracking.
>Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy, but nonetheless, it's something I want to observe.

This is an interesting point, curious if you could elaborate how you see elontwitter as unhealthy to democracy.

Twitter has no impact on the democratic institutions or function of the politicians. In fact, national security ensures the function of the elected politicians to continue. The only day twitter's influence can do anything to influence the democracy is election day.

The only thing that is unhealthy to a democracy on election day is anything which makes the election unfair. It's not twitter boarding up windows while the vote is being counted. Twitter does have impact on how people vote.

It's the politician and journalist's jobs to ensure the people are educated and know how to vote. This is where twitter comes in. Their current censorship of only 1 side of politics was an effective way to ensuring people didn't know how to vote. Resulting in a measurable boost to the given team. This is the unhealthiness. This is what elon at least claims he plans to fix. So to me, elon buying twitter is potentially going to be better for democracy.
Why not just have one payment system to rule them all run by the government that is required by law for all payment of employee-driven services? Businesses could save a TON of money on payroll systems and HR.

A government-run system--presumably--would take care of withholding the correct amount of taxes and also making sure the business/person paying a salary never has to worry about running afoul of the law (having the IRS or equivalent) come after them.
they have the power to leave the stock. nobody is forcing them to be stuck with this arrangement but themselves.
Not an embraer pilot, but I suspect because (like many larger aircraft) you can't physically see the ailerons from the cockpit – that is why the big jets measure the deflection and (should) show it to you.

Part of me wonders if also as long as you see the ailerons _move_ you assume they've moved in the right direction. There have been similarly tragic rigging accidents in GA aircraft as well – and 38 incidences of aileron mis-connection in gliders between 1974 and 2014 reported in the UK. [1]

[1] https://members.gliding.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/201...
Show HN: Google Calendar today's events in macOS Dock icon
If you like me have many events during the day, you are probably also tired by constant switching to Mac Calendar or Google Calendar just to check when the next event starts. I searched for a widget that would show me upcoming events in some "always visible" way, but all apps showed the schedule in a separate window. So I decided to make a new app that would show a schedule right in a Dock icon.

More to this, My Upcoming Events shows a countdown in the same Dock icon several minutes before the start of the event, which is handy for me, so I can start right on time.

Limitations: MacOS, Google Calendar only.
I'm an American, and I usually consume about 48oz of Coke Zero a day.. So definitely believable.
Brunswick stew basically IS the leftovers from a BBQ put in a stew yeah.

The flavor can vary widely though based on what the leftovers were and if vinegar or more sweet BBQ based.
https://archive.ph/U8x58
Because somebody hasn't done all the work. Why would they?

As an individual crafter/designer I could see myself developing specifications for a small number of colors I use in a project. Doing 1000s of colors would be a huge project that would need some way to pay for it.
Guernica springs to mind.
Well, I agree that it's people's fault. But "the government" is also an ephemeral entity, as you put it. It is not a monolith, but a sometimes loosely connected collection of organs of power and ideology. Is the president "government?" Are teachers or cops who are government employees "government?" Are the contractors, or air force pilots "government?" If so, how could all these individuals collectively be held responsible for pollution? The discussion on what government actually is is completely outside the scope here, but the lines between whatever government is and capitalist urges, goals and methodologies are usually blurred. Louis Althusser mentioned above explained that state power cannot be had, it can only be used. And it is used in liberal democracies by capitalist agents, just as in totalitarian states by totalitarian agents. But always there is a coalescence of ideologies and apparatuses.
Not the OP but typically bureaucrats will talk about fees and fines, which continue without documentation of their purpose (at which point they are explicitly bribes).

Baksheesh, whereby people expect a tip ahead of time if you want decent service, is quite common in India and is essentially another form of corruption, especially when practiced by police, bureaucrats, etc.
The latter. The case design clearly doesn’t lend itself to replacing drives.

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ydollm/so_i_got_a_...
Hey HN

at the beginning of this year, I decided to learn French. In Mai, I moved to Aix-en-Provence (which is in the south of France) and spent three months learning the language. I think I've succeeded

During this time, I found a method that worked very well for me to quickly learn new vocabulary.

In short:
- Use a spaced repetition system like Anki[1] that quizzes you on words the moment before you forget them
- Use images instead of translations on your flashcards to make them super memorable
- Create mnemonics if words don't stick, either through a story or visually using StableDiffusion/Midjourney

I'm just getting started and will continue to write more posts on language learning in the next few weeks. I already wrote an article[2] about the principles of language learning that might also be useful to you. I'm curious about your thoughts.

I wish everyone a great weekend!

[1]: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
[2]: https://www.marcnitzsche.de/how-to-become-fluent-in-just-thr...
I just use Ableton. Would like to get my hand on a modular at some point
The difficult bit here is the tendency for developers to detest these parts of the job. In my experience, most developers would prefer nothing more than to write code in a cave, never to share a word with anyone. Reviewing a PR, writing documentation, and sharing knowledge are all things taking time away from their passion.

I think this is the origin for much of the friction we experience in collaboration and documentation. It’s easy to build something, ship it, and move on. That’s the dream we are sold as well: changing the world, one line of code at a time, from our basements.

I would love to see more focus on writing in our industry. Unfortunately, I haven’t experienced much improvement here in the last decade of working in the industry, across several organizations.

The writers among us are quite the minority.
Debezium supports outbox[1] pattern out of the box. All your application needs to do is to write to the outbox table and debezium will do the rest mentioned in the post and publish your events to kafka.

1: https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/transform...
You've staked out some pretty high moral ground, and a position that can be argued against any personal challenge, so I really hope you're perfect in every way or else karma is coming back hard!
People use Pantone because they want to get colors that don't exist in CMYK. It's what makes Pantone worth paying for.
In Germany, when the DHL delivery guy is unable to give you the package in person, they'll put a yellow note into your postbox and bring it to a nearby package store. The next day you can get the package in exchange for the yellow note, provided the recipient address matches your ID card.

If you had it deliver to a different address than which you are registered on, the store clerk is (technically) not authorized to hand it to you, because the addresses don't match. But the backside of the yellow note has a mandate form, which you can use to authorize any person to fetch it for you. So if the clerk refuses to give you the package, you turn the yellow note around, fill in the form and authorize yourself in front of their eyes to get it anyways.
More restrictive, for certain categories of speech, like hate speech, certainly. More authoritarian?

As a European (well, in the UK - can I still consider myself European?), I do not find my right to speak, or speak truth to power to be restricted unncessarily. I see what is happening in the US with the rise of genuinely authoritarian politics fueled by misinformation and hate speech and find it genuinely disturbing.

I guess a lot depends on the cultural context you grow up in.
We must follow strong man! Strong man will save us! Strong men have never overpromised, ever, and always do exactly what they say!
Freedom for whom? Total freedom means freedom for the strongest. Laws exists to ensure there is more freedom for the weaker and less freedom for the stronger. They prevent a stronger person from doing something that allows a weaker person to decide whether or not to do something else.
Yeah, SSD is a must for any serious work on a Pi, although I still can’t imagine running something like IntelliJ IDEA directly on it.

With the recent release of browser-access VS Code, I feel like we’re only a few years away from cloud development as dominant paradigm. We’ll grouse about it here (“what happens when my network connection fails?”) but I suspect using a “terminal” to develop on a remote machine is likely to be the only option for future generations of developers.
Meta spent $45B on stock buybacks last year at $330 a share
This was reaffirmed however long ago virtualization came about
Probably the best bet: naturally produced products without using hydrogenation and too much heat.

From the formal standpoint a high-quality fat product should not contain trans fats or contain just a small amount of them.