skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In personal experience as a dedicated rock climber (traveling full time for half of the last 15 years), I can easily conclude that bursts of intense exercise accomplish a lot more for health and fitness than prolonged, more gentle workouts. Intensity readily builds muscle mass and coordinates muscle fibers, while fostering feelings of clarity and joy. It’s just the easier pathway to “being fit.”

Climbers train for intensity. One can easily convert high-intensity fitness to low-intensity but prolonged fitness. The other direction does not happen. High-intensity and short-burst fitness is more malleable, capable of becoming any type of fitness. Ie, a climber with bouldering fitness transitioning to sport climbing will take just 2-3 weeks to attain good results, while a sport climber transitioning to bouldering will take at least two months. Boulderers and sport climbers can instantly perform on multi-pitch routes, without a transitional period. The intensity gradient from intense/short to gentle/prolonged is bouldering -> sport climbing -> multi-pitch.

However, I have never been at peak climbing fitness without daily walks. The assumption I have always held is that walking resolves problems (much like what sleep accomplishes for tissues, immune responses, emotions, memory, and cognition). You’re walking, blood is flowing, the whole body is coordinated, you’re breathing through your nose, you can think… it’s integrative. Humans are designed to walk.
If they'd waited until 2024 they would still have been in the green, leap year and all :)
Maybe they couldn't update the status page due to the network outage.

I'm joking, but...
Show HN: I built a remove BG product using ChatGPT, Midjourney and HuggingFace
I wanted to select certain parts of a photo, extract them, crop them, and remove the BG. All without using a brush or any manual process.

ChatGPT helped me to come up with the product domain, write code snippets, and do copywriting. I designed the logo and photos with Midjourney.

I found many free APIs on Huggingface to do the image segmentation and removal of the background.
ℵ₀ [is] as much a (cardinal) number as 2

Note that this view is common but not universal: https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2023-January/023710.html
Try “Acrobats”
> It all came off after resuming a normal routine without dietary changes.

well, doh, if you eat the same and use less you will gain mass. It's not because (lack of) excercise, it's because diet not fitting lifestyle

Excercises help in burning more calories so you can actually eat some tasty food from time to time without getting fatter and not going crazy from eating only low calorie stuff and that's about the only effect for weight loss...
Honestly, 'google has gotten so bad', it is just a meme.

It is just not true.

Use any of the competing search engines for even a day and you'll come running back to Google. Believe me, I tried it. I really wanted to switch to Bing or the Duck, but they just don't compare. If the search results of Google are not to your liking it is because search is hard. Also login, if you are a super user, Google will catch on to this as well.
From my own experience working there... On the embedded side the problem was that the various consumer device Linux distributions really reflected org-chart boundaries, not really technical/engineering requirements.

And this impacted velocity and quality.

And yes, Fuchsia was not the answer here. Rewriting a bunch of stuff in Fuchsia just meant that the existing Chromecast distrib got neglected, bitrotted, and mistreated and failed to improve. But AFAIK it still hasn't gone away -- and likely won't -- so was that smart?

Multiple distributions for specific needs are fine. Multiple distributions for political reasons is something else.
> I'd love a 411 from any HNers with know-how

What's a 411?
Considering the only regions not affected are China and Azure Government, i would hate to be the guy that pressed "commit and push" on that :)
I covered this in my PhD thesis, please check it out and I'd love to hear your thoughts as someone working on this (relatively lonely) problem! https://yousefamar.com/memo/notes/my/phd/

From what you've written so far, while the tech is cool, I'm not sure you're trying to solve a problem that actually exists. This is coming from someone who is bullish on both cloud gaming as well as decentralised architectures for gaming (esp VR) but for other reasons.

You seem to consider updating and rendering millions of players client-side to be a bottleneck; it's not -- human perception bottlenecks kick in long before that. Players can't -- and don't want to -- see all other players that are in the same area. And if they're not, then sharding by area is a much easier solution.

Even if it were a bottleneck, the solution is not to offload that rendering to cloud GPUs, it's many well-established LOD tricks. Game servers don't send millisecond updates of every player in a world to a client, the bandwidth they end up using for good UX is almost always lower than streaming video. You said networks keep getting faster, true, but client GPUs keep getting better and better too. Shard-less horizontal scaling sever-side has already been done btw (see SpatialOS (https://ims.improbable.io/products/spatialos) or WorldQL (https://github.com/WorldQL/mammoth)) or the many proprietary implementations (think Fortnite, Roblox, etc) but I don't think it's as useful as we think it is.

Besides this, I can tell you for a fact that "we have more players than we can handle" is an extremely rare thing actually, even on launch days, even though it might not seem like it to us. The biggest problem for games is getting players in the first place. The ones that do tend to have big budgets to spend on their servers, and it's usually not budgeting that's the bottleneck, but bad planning.

I would be curious to know if you've validated this idea with any studios, and if so, how? Or is the 10-20 hrs mainly focused on building?
LastPass breach gets worse
They know how important developers are, that's why they bought Github. But developer experience is indeed one of the minor points of consideration when choosing a cloud vendor for large enterprise. Customer service, billing and integration into existing infrastructure is much more important.
Compared with some other alternatives that exist on the enterprise space like IBM and Oracle clouds, I will pick Azure gladly.
Cloud is the new power grid. When it goes down, we lose power to everything. Will we learn from the grid and decentralise some of the compute and cloud services?
Every time the copyright is challenged by a newcomer, we have a revolution for communication. When google and youtube came along and scraped everyone's content with little regard for copyrights, a new world was created. I hope all the lawsuits fall through, so that AI generated content can do the same thing
You work 8 hours a day though. Why be alone all those hours?
Yea, that existed, but it got even worse after the code was released. There are many examples of issues that most likely resulted from the leak.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/rbpyh0/this_happened_w...
Office359 strikes again
The article is directed towards elite, competitive athletes who are already in shape and have a training history. At that level, yes, of course there is more to it than a few short sprint sessions each week.

For about 15 years I've been relying on HIIT to go from being out of shape to in shape as quickly as I know how. Going from in shape to top fitness, and progressing from there is more involved, and sport specific.
I can't find the original article, but from Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis) [inflammation has been identified as playing a clear causal role] and studies(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20387988/) ironically tobacco studies, of 5% CO2 show an inflammatory response. Another poster here cited 3% was be the safe limit, so its feasible that turning the system off to save money could put the CO2 over 5% quite quickly. Also the concentration of oxygen is listed on Wikipedia as a direct cause of DVT, which would obviously be affected.
Teams is working now for me. However, all my notification preferences got reset!
Yea, I'm really not sure how this is a "misery". System processes are protected for typical users to limit the blast radius of malware, among other reasons. If you are capable of debugging system processes you should be able to manage to:

Restart macOS, holding ⌘+R. Open Terminal. Type `csrutil disable`. Restart macOS again.
Playing Military SIM War Thunder May Get You Classed as a National Security Risk
Am I paranoid in thinking that recent firings, and the attitude this article satirizes, may be a factor in the current Azure outages that keep me from working right now?
I am doing management and I'm an idiot at it.

Because it's like child rearing, or teaching, or vim vs emacs but there are more choices and many more dimensions, oh and there's almost no data, big cargo cults (from Toyota Improvement System, Deming, Agile manifesto to endless books by those who made it in the last decade), uncertainty is high, general intelligence is low, the interpersonal skills deficit is mind-boggling, burnout/disillusionment/fanaticism are rampant, perverted/misaligned incentives too, and of course all of that is driven by fundamental business constraints and various other sources of path-dependence.
I don't believe that's true? Xbox One and up use USB 3
My understanding is that a large chunk of the Fuchsia team is dedicated to experimentation. It’s like asking why Microsoft laid off part of their Microsoft Research team: it’s likely many of those experimental projects weren’t paying off and now the project’s direction is being pared down to known needs. Additionally, probably only 50-75 of those engineers are considered “critical”, with the rest being used to alleviate load and accelerate velocity (if it’s like any other large incubation/startup team).
I couldn’t find a Git link. Is this proprietary?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1

Commonly used as "information"
I'm glad I work for a company that uses Office 365 instead of the equivalent of Google or others. I really like Office products, for all their faults they allow me to work more productively than the alternatives. So I don't know why I have less in my head just because I can work well with Excel and Outlook.
I haven't seen any SLA deal that says the status page must show 99.9% uptime...
The dynamic is not that simple. Remote companies do offer a lower salary than they would in person - as you don't have to pay for commute, and you can live in Wyoming.

But not all remote companies are interested in a race to the bottom. If they were, they'd only hire from LatAm, Africa, and South Asia.
It doesn't really matter, at least if you're in the EU.

While Google, Amazon and others were busy complaining about GDPR, Microsoft was busy working on being compliant, with the result that today they're pretty much the only legal/compliant solution in most of the EU.

The more regulated the industry (health, finance, etc), the more you can be certain that it's running on Azure if it's EU based and running in the cloud.
We're migrating on Teams because of that kind of reasoning.

It's utter shit of a service. Even worse if you need to write integrations for it
It is not risky but it is hard and I rather do low intensity running 60 minutes than 8 minutes HIIT.
i meant the whole sim+phone plan thing and being tied to that provider as long as the phone works.

people, if they have to buy a phone on EMI, they do that from the bank and not the network provider
I am entirely behind it being said everywhere over and over again :)
What a funny write!

Despite it being funny, if it wasn't for the outright satire, it would be virtually indistinguishable from the recent tech layoff messages:

Gitpod - https://www.gitpod.io/blog/building-for-the-long-run

Microsoft (this is maybe the classiest) - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing...

Zuck/Meta - https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...

Stripe - https://stripe.com/en-nl/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons...

Spotify - https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-01-23/an-update-on-january...

The industry had been, for quite some time, growing both in terms of headcount and compensation, without regards to boundaries, sanity or practicality.

With that in mind, it looked like it was only a matter of time for this to happen. However, one cannot help wondering how much influence did profitability and future outlook had to do with it, versus how much it was about regaining control over workers and salaries and about "fixing" the stock price.

For me, the biggest crime is the fanatic enthusiasm and we-are-all-a-family narrative these companies were pushing while growing well beyond needed in 2020 through 2021 contrasted with the generic messages they are peddling now when laying off.
Why not enable easier override for specific scenarios?
Turning off completely feels like a bad outcome
ING bank in Germany: we will implicitly trim your password to 10 characters.

Various SAP-based systems: special character in password is required... but not THIS special character, different one.
So I guess it's not going to be the dreaded Linux killer everybody thought it would be.

Another day in the office for Google. RIP.
What other explanation is there? The layoffs are Google were not tied to employee perf metrics. The company is still wildly profitable. The severance package costs are high, and they will likely hire in various places by the end of year or into next, undoing much of the layoffs, so costs won't really be reduced by much if any.

These layoffs were coordinated across our entire industry, starting with Twitter, to bring discipline and downward wage pressure to tech workers. Musk at least made some (implausible) theatre out of supposedly "measuring" employees to justify his moves. Sundar/Larry/Sergey just used a glorified random number generator.
If they were relying on Outlook and Teams to be productive, they probably couldn't really work before either.
I'd imagine making something worthy of replacing Linux Kernel isn't easy, even for a big corporation with the size of Google.
Funnily thanks to the Hindenburg disaster the airship is much more popular worldwide (outside of Germany and maybe the immediate vicinity) than the person it was named after. Which is kind of unfortunate because Paul von Hindenburg is a fascinating figure with an enormous impact on world history.

Not only was he a highly successful field marshal on the Eastern Front in WWI (after being brought out of retirement to replace the panicking previous commander there), he later became de facto dictator of Germany for the remainder of the war (until it was time to surrender, then he threw the dumpster fire over the wall to the civilian politicians). (Of course as his second, Ludendorff, wouldn't miss to tell anyone after the war, Hindenburg's role was more one of moral authority, calming presence and coordination, the actual war plans being made by the people under him, most notably Ludendorff who was really pissed after the war Hindenburg took all the credit).

However he's even more interesting after WW1, when his popularity brings him to being elected as President, being in de facto control of Germany again thanks to a constitutional workaround, and then working to stop Hitler from getting to power before finally being convinced to give him the chancellorship. After his death, Hitler also took over the presidentship, and that was that. So Hindenburg was the only man who could stop/delay Hitler from taking power, and he failed.
Eh, better translated as “a summary” or “abstract” here.
In Roald Dahls short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator", it becomes impossible to separate the generated from the human. The machine initially is published under fake names, but what most don't realize is that for even established authors the profession no longer exists and they are left with the choice of destitution or licensing their names under which the the machines books can continue to be published.

"And worse is yet to come. Today, as the secret spreads, many more are hurrying to tie up with Mr Knipe. And all the time the screw turns tighter for those who hesitate to sign their names.

This very moment, as I sit here listening to the howling of my nine starving children in the other room, I can feel my own hand creeping closer and closer to that golden contract that lies over on the other side of the desk.

Give us strength, Oh Lord, to let our children starve"
> But there is no clippy lint

There actually is! You can activate the lint with a `#[deny(clippy::integer_arithmetic)]` or by using the lint group `restriction`.[0]

// https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#integer_arithmetic
#[deny(clippy::integer_arithmetic)]

fn main() {
let (a, b) = (u32::MAX, 1);
//let c = a + b; // clippy: `error: integer arithmetic detected`
let (c, carry) = a.overflowing_add(b); // or any of checked_*, saturating_*, unchecked_*, wrapping_*
println!("{a} + {b} = {c} (carry bit: {carry})");
// output: `4294967295 + 1 = 0 (carry bit: true)`
}

Playground link: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

[0]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#in...
I hope if you program you always do it in assembly language, otherwise you didn't really make anything.
There is really no basis for any sort of theory that says underperformance of Black Americans is purely due to genetics.

Primarily because genetic diversity among Black people is too broad. In other words, if you randomly compare the genetics between two randomly selected Black people, the difference, on average, will be far greater than comparing any two randomly selected white people.

This is simply because all of humanity stems from Africa, so that is where the most diversity lies.

There are hundreds of genetic markers involved in something as comparatively simple as skin color. The genetic markers involved in something as complex as intelligence are likely orders of magnitude more complex.

You might be able to extrapolate something from certain sub-groups that branch from very narrow branches of the human diaspora, but you certainly could never, ever come up with something that made any sense to apply to the extremely broad strokes that we use to "group" people here in this melting pot we call the USA.
bb.expert also has complete drug synthesis procedures up too!
Shows that all these availability zones and regions don't really help if an outage can knock out a whole cloud provider. And that's not specific to Microsoft. The only way to really ensure uptime is to use two providers. Sadly, that's basically only possible with on-prem/colocation where traffic is cheap.
And I'm not even sure about those two. There's a limit to deny first that most end users will gladly override to keep things moving smoothly.
> I think it's quite far from "great domain planning".

The poster saying they have 120 of them would imply that being sarcasm
Parochial north american slang originating from local directory assistance phone number in Canada and the United States.

Equiv. to give me the details, the lowdown, fill me in, etc.
I guess one risk is that they see a copy pasted chunk of GPL code. Or that a portion looks suspiciously like something a former Dev wrote for you before moving to riot.

Worse still a bunch of competitors suddenly have insight into prospective future features.

I'm sure the source code is part of the company's net worth should things go tits up.
I'm not sure Russia is as capable as you've all spent the last few decades making out....
Hey - one of the cofounders here.

That’s a great question. When you connect your calendar with most scheduling apps, there’s really nothing stopping most of them from doing malicious things behind the scenes with your data. You don’t really know if they’re just querying your availability, or actually pulling specific event data.

With Cal.com, that’s different. Since day one, I built it to only check free/busy times and that hasn’t changed. Also, as it’s open source, you can literally go on GitHub and verify what I’m saying, as well as comb through every line of code that touches your calendar.

It’s the same principle that keeps something like the Linux kernel free of malicious software. There’s enough contributors from around the world that audit and review the code, that you can ultimately trust that there’s nothing malicious going on behind the scenes.

Also just to clarify, with how most major providers’ permission systems work, it’s scoped that we can only access your calendar data, and not contents of your email and such.
Hey there! Thanks for sharing. The approach makes sense.

Where and how do you manage your community?
Sesame Street co-creator Lloyd Morrisett dies aged 93
Make tantrums your friend: meeting the fear of your child’s extreme emotions
This is one of the first articles that will be featured on our blog. We work with psychologists to help develop mental health for children. Sharing with the community, enjoy reading and let us know what bothers you most as a parent when it comes to your child's development.

Make tantrums your friend: meeting the fear of your child’s extreme emotions

How many of us have not been scared of “what’s coming” in the playground or at a social meet up? You can see your child getting upset, you try reason and still it concludes in a complete tantrum. The embarrassment that follows from the stares of people around us that feels like we are judged as not being good parents!

We all have been there.

But what if we say, there is a very simple solution to making these moments the best connecting moments with your child? Follow our tips below:

•Remember, a child always has a reason to react. It’s a very valid reason for them. How they react is what you both might not agree with. While you might want a clear verbal communication, your child might think laying on the floor and crying loudly is the best way in that moment. Just acknowledge that the child’s reason to feel that way is valid to her.
• 3 ways to help handle situation of extreme emotions:
o Patience: Sometimes, it’s better to just sit it out and not do anything. Remember, everything is a phase. It will get over. Let the moment pass
o Deep empathy: Deep empathy is when you really feel the pain of your child. When that happens, your ego in that moment will not matter. Only thing that matters is how distressed your child is feeling. A simple hug with sheer (and honest) kindness works best in such cases
o Role modeling: Remember, we always say - kids are always watching us and learning. So if you regulate your own emotions in times of distress, your kids will surely be inspired.

How you handle your child in their moment of distress can redefine your relationship. The child can feel understood, loved and knows you have their back.

Above tips are just tip of the iceberg. We have some fun games to teach children self regulation.

The Memi team
Expecting the “Made by humans” stickers and labeling any day now. As AI generated content becomes mainstream, we’ll see product labeling like we do with organic produce to differentiate the source.
Yes and no.

Famous art is about context, circumstances and marketing. Strip a famous piece of art of its context and it doesn’t have meaning. If you find someone who can put an AI generated piece of art in the right context, it could become the next Mona Lisa. But then, is the AI the artist or the person who uses AI to create context?
> such an important point here. The benefits of exercise are maximum when you start from a sedentary life. You will hit plateau at some point and then one has to re-think the plan.

They call it the novice effect in strength training. Also why you have to pretty much ignore any strength training research done on untrained individuals (unless you are an untrained individual).