skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really common for the argument against CICO to be that it’s not perfect, measuring input and measuring output seem hard, and metabolism is elastic, and people are different. Those things are all true, but using CICO in practice to lose weight actually works, and it’s quite effective for most people, as long as you actually do it. CICO is how bodybuilding and modeling works. ;) The hardest part isn’t the measuring. The hardest part is making it a habit.

One secret about using CICO is that you do not need to know the gut absorption rate! You just need to track the calories before absorption, the numbers printed on the box. Easy these days with a smartphone app. The measurement does not need to be perfect at all. It only has to be decent on average. You can have variable accuracy of 25% on any given food and still get well under 10% on average for a week. It doesn’t matter if there’s a bias either, if you track your weight. The reason absorption and bias don’t matter is because you’re doing science with a black-box (your body). Measure the known input, monitor the output. Do it for a long time and you’ll find the maintenance input. Track input above that and verify mass gain, track below and verify loss. The maintenance value you come up with will “absorb” and bias, and gut calorie conversion rate, and other inaccuracies.

Measuring output is easy with a heart rate monitor. Changing metabolism we already discussed, but important to know that the range of elasticity is like around 15%, and in practice for any give person may be lower. It’s not some massive factor you can’t predict, it’s within a narrow enough range for the majority of people, statistically, that you don’t need to worry too much. And it will be accounted for if you track calories and weight over a long enough time frame.
I’m a manager who works remote. The problem isn’t the senior engineers or even the engineers with 3+ years of experience. It’s the junior engineers. They struggle to ramp as quickly while remote. That being said, my strategy is to get more senior engineers rather than juniors as I don’t want to commute either.
I have a stash of old black & white photos from my grandparents' youth. They are nice but I would love to digitize them and was wondering if there is a better way than a flatbed scanner built into one of those cheapo Canon MGX inkjet all-in-one printers. Ultimately I want to run the scans through some colorizing filters and reprint them into an album to make a fun xmas present.
I'll second this. I bought some ridiculous behemoth of a Fujitsu scanner that could do 60ppm 20 years ago when it was manufactured and got it working under SANE in Linux. I reported a bug that they fixed to make it work (it didn't initially) I think because it had really old firmware they'd never seen before.
> A lot of the leg work

You mean arm work? ;)

I could be wrong, but I think that a bigger hurdle than Apple Silicon itself is the Metal API, which seems to be the only reasonable graphics API to use for 3D games on Mac. Unless your game is also hitting iPad (Divinity: Original Sin 2) or you're entering some kind of partnership with Apple (Resident Evil Village, I'm speculating?), it's probably a big ask to either train your staff or hire devs to maintain a separate render pipeline to satisfy a relatively tiny market share.

As a Mac user, I'd love to be proven wrong, and I hope that Apple's PR with Capcom is a sign that they're going to start putting more money into bolstering the Mac gaming landscape. IMO, this seems like a "throw money at it" kind of problem where Apple needs to make it financially viable to port games to their platform if we want to see it done for big titles.
If you want to go for cheaper (ish), when I read up on chairs the ones from Sealy (the bed people) got good reviews, and I got one. It's very soft and comfy, and my children try to steal it.
Nothing surprising. The development culture was shit back there.

Though I would expect these keys to be just some stub config values which allowed engineers to quickly run the shit locally.
GoldenEye 007 – Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online
speechwriters are sweating rn
>This generation seems very sensitive to the prospect of computer crime.

You're right. I remember a time, maybe 20 years ago, when stuff like this would be generally appreciated by any community of hackers.
> valued by MBA/PM type

Or by folks who are not seasoned in user experience. Just because you use something doesn't make you an expert - UI is often thought of that way, but it is a real discipline.
He didn't lead that army. The secret service wouldn't drive him there. He directed them to the capital and then cheered them on though.
Serta, it's a Serta chair.
Do you have the illuminated back? If so, your cover is maybe 4" (10cm) thick.

I have the v750 and scan medium and large format film with excellent results.
You can buy Viewscan software from https://www.hamrick.com, made by a NASA JPL engineer, if I remember correctly.

You get a perpetual license (I reinstalled after 12 years and the updated software ran on my old license code). The software can pull detail out of even the worst negative. I cannot recommend this highly enough! I do have SilverFast as well, and have tried the Mac-native scanning, but Viewscan is the best.

If you have slides and you haven't kept the original film adapters, you can find them on ebay or even Amazon. They are simple plastic holders, nothing special.

You can usually select a particular film type if you scan color negatives that will automatically color correct for the film quirks. All in all, a very easy process once you get set up.

Hope this helps!
Reflecting on Books I Read in 2022
Just last year people were commenting here on HN that China is years away from making anything under 14nm and that even that would be hard for them. Then we heard about China being years away from hypersonic missiles and how they couldn't even make fast memory chips.

Then we were surprised not only have been making 7nm chips for a year already, they also make the fastest memory chips. Our response? Let's sanction them so they can't sell those memory chips.

Instead of believing in the fairy tale that we can somehow block the country with the highest number of STEM graduates out of technology, maybe what we ought to be doing is to invest a little less in the bullshit professions and a bit more in the hard tech, not just here but also in places like Japan where they had the potential to compete with ASML but dropped out because it wasn't profitable enough more than a decade ago.
Morning Consult, a reputable American polling organization, conducts this polling in India.
I just happen to know that John Siracusa has been talking about it for two decades

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/

And an HN thread about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12484241
Didn't he break rules normal people would be banned for?
I highly recommend reading “Body by Science”. It shows how you can improve your overall muscle strength spending just 15 min in the gym once a week. Perfect for people like me who hate going to the gym. It’s simple. It works. I am 50+ and way stronger now than I was before.
If you do manage to hang onto your land then what? The development will drive up property values to the moon and bring in all the people and problems that are included with that. You won't want to live in what your town is becoming.
I think the problem is people are entering a matured industry, all they know is the professional buttoned up culture we have today. People have no further curiosity beyond working and making money in tech.

They do not have memories of a time when people tinkered around doing all kinds of crazy and possibly illegal stuff, just for fun, just to see if the could. Sad really.
Xbox One premiere was a disaster since the design reveal. I saw it and was like "you must be kidding". Original X1 doesn't look like magnetowid - my magnetowid looks way better! Xbox One S is what X1 should have been since the very beginning.
For the longest time and continue to think, no one uses no code tools. Let alone, anyone would pay for it.

OP. How did you figure out "this idea will make me money for sure if I continue to work on it"

What is your tech stack that let's you build project and sell.
That's a great take on introduction! Everybody writes the introduction to convince the reader how it's the most impactful work, while obviously most of them are not.

Best to understand the images, read the discussion/conclusion and only dig into details if you find the prior reading interesting.
In fact the damage would be mostly reputational.

I expect the code to be mostly worthless. There is just too much of it, it's poorly documented and, oftenly, just badly designed and badly written.

And the actual important data (index shards, voice models, all that crap) is not in these dumps.
Heck, didn’t Sears n Roebuck used to sell kit homes from a catalog back in the day? I couldn’t imagine buying a whole house kit from Amazon
And—long—kebab—case—isn't—well—supported—by—most—keyboards.
Came here to make that point. I know that newegg and bestbuy have done the same. And, much like amazon and ebay, I expect pretty much zero verification and Sisyphean dispute processes.
That's okay, even Stonehenge isn't a proper henge. For official henge status you need to have a ditch inside a raised bank. At Stonehenge, it's the opposite; the ditch is outside the bank. When I visited there a few years ago with some friends I took to calling it Stonething.
Sounds ironic when a secular institution, with so many atrocities on its curriculum, have media attention on these (and any other) topics.
The old-school way to scan film is to lay the film directly on glass with a thin layer of mineral oil. Works terrific for medium and large format. We used to do this for drum scanners.

https://www.analogfilm.camera/scanning/deciding-when-to-wet-...
Importing with `require` is CommonJS, not part of JavaScript’s spec. CommonJS is a Node-only thing so supporting it isn’t required in a JS superset
Even if it weren't classified as murder, I think they could at least charge with attempted murder.
The code is lot less worthy than the data for the models which is lot better guarded and is not in this leak.
Imagine allowing everyone to register an account on your email server. Now you have people maybe sending stuff to other email addresses on other email servers that's maybe 'problematic'. In the case of email it's not a big deal, but with the fediverse it's different.
Instances usually have at least a set of basic rules (e.g. no to nazism), and will block instances that don't also follow them because they don't want to see swastikas on their home feed.

In practice this basically means that while the fediverse is decentralized and all that cool stuff, it's made up of two main groups of instances ('free speech' ones and not 'free-speech') that don't wanna have anything to do with each other.
Self hosting an instance for yourself without blocking anything may work, but the second you open it to the public, questionable people are gonna join and retweet questionable stuff from other instances. If you don't take action you're gonna get blocked, and if you take action you're gonna have to eventually de-federate with these problematic instances yourself.
I love my typos sometimes :)
Healthcare, government, education too.

I really don’t like that shirt. Nicknames are earned. They have to be organic!
Broadcast messages to everyone on your network
> simplicity, elegance, and usability

Yet it copied low usability UI elements such as global menu bar and that big ass wasteful dock. What is the innovation here?
It should be treated the same way they've treated royalties.
its funny how huge chunks of the upper class white collar work force spent their entire youth stealing thousands upon thousands of dollars of stuff with zero punishment.
I didn't list "java" as a misspelling. It could theoretically refer to the command line program of the same name that the applicant knows about.

Spelling it JAVA means you are ignoring that it could stand for an acronym. I don't see how that's biased against non-native English speakers; languages other than English have acronyms. I suppose it could perhaps against speakers of languages that don't have the concept of uppercase/lowercase; but then wouldn't you expect speakers of these languages to reproduce the (unfamiliar) name "Java" exactly?
> I'd rule out kidnapping, because unlawful detainment presumes that the person can be released from that detainment. There is no possibility of release for Xavier.

False imprisonment seems to fit:

To prevail under a false imprisonment claim, a plaintiff must prove:

Willful detention in a bounded area

Without consent; and

Without authority of lawful arrest. (Restatement of the Law, Second, Torts)
It was informative though, but maybe next time precede with something like funny typo. Us as a group are easy to trigger into helping those wrong online :)
From that link, it also sounds like 14% is the best case that requires some help from the underlying OS:

"Two results are shown for WasmBoxC, representing two implementations of memory sandboxing. The first is explicit sandboxing, in which each memory load and store is explicitly verified to be within the sandboxed memory using an explicit check (that is, an if statement is done before each memory access). This has 42% overhead.

The OS-based implementation uses the “signal handler trick” that wasm VMs use. This technique reserves lots of memory around the valid range and relies on CPU hardware to give us a signal if an access is out of bounds (for more background see section 3.1.4 in Tan, 2017). That is fully safe and has the benefit of avoiding explicit bounds checks. It has just 14% overhead! However, it cannot be used everywhere (it needs signals and CPU memory protection, and only works on 64-bit systems).

There are more options in between those 14% and 42% figures. Explicit and OS-based sandboxing preserve wasm semantics perfectly, that is, a trap will happen exactly when a wasm VM would have trapped. If we are willing to relax that (but we may not want to call it wasm if we do) then we can use masking sandboxing instead (see section 3.1.3 in Tan, 2017), which is 100% portable like explicit sandboxing and also prevents any accesses outside of the sandbox, and is somewhat faster at 29% overhead. Other sandboxing improvements are possible too - almost no effort has gone into this yet."

It sounds like this last one is the most relevant to porting code to obscure platforms (which usually means embedded these days). 29% overhead for verifiably safe sandboxing is a good trade-off, but when you don't actually need that sandboxing, I wouldn't call that insignificant. Especially on hardware that's slow by modern standards to begin with.
You have to misinterpreting something. 2.5x is 4750 calories total. Athletes are eating more then that.
While I personally haven't worked at Yandex I can certainly say they are legit. I have a lot of friends who worked there and a lot of intranet URLs in documentation are legit.
Hey,

I am self-employed and have my own cloud app.

I currently work only 3 days a week and am there for my daughter two days.

——
That sounds sad and I hope you are feeling better today. I have had different experiences so far. My wife knows my condition and we are happy so far. I had directly taken time for my child. That was important to me.

I also program. But I am more often theoretically on the road. This fits quite well to pass the time when the child is sleeping. Reading is easier than programming :)

10 years ago I would have agreed with you. I was employed and not happy with the situation. Being self-employed has helped me.

I am also self-taught as I don't do well in schools and universities.

I will remember to spend enough time with my family. Thank you.
Oh my gosh - the touch movement of the globe on mobile is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. I hate smart phones and apps and this is a really good website implementation on mobile.

Well done even though the game is super difficult!
If computers are better at writing novels than humans then what you gain is access to better novels.

I enjoy reading novels, and I wouldn't refuse to read an excellent one because a computer wrote it.
Interestingly, ChatGPT seems capable of predicting this approach:

https://imgur.com/a/okzZz7D
Not really. French is effectively base-10, but with some vestigial names. English is basically the same -- we say eleven instead of ten-one. The only real difference is that we say eighty instead of quatre-vingt. But neither system maintains any semblance of base-20 beyond that.

A more familiar sense of disorientation of language mismatch would be when metric users encounter imperial units and their arbitrary bases.
I think a lot of the issue with Excel is the developers, often, look down upon it. This is too bad as it doesn't help those using it to solve real world problems and it often leads to them not seeking help. Then we end up with the billion dollar London Whale's.
Thanks. I Hope so.:)
I use a stop watch and take a break every hour. I do some light exercises, drink water, go for a short walk etc.

I ended up being more productive doing this. Because it gives me time to take a step back and think about what I are working on. I often find solutions to problems while taking a break.
i guess it's about recent exchange of their news service to vk. not literaly sold to the government

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/yandex-news-zen-vk-sale-co...
Most people don't make good photographic reproductions. They have mobiles with cameras, sure, but they cannot take an interesting or even technically good photo.

Good human photographers are still a thing. They can even get a job out of it! There are books about photos by photographers of renown.

AI automation here would be more like AI deciding which photos to take, and taking them for you, with your interaction limited to "take some nice photos of my vacation". Then some other AI could give likes to the photo, closing the loop so that humans need not be involved at all in that silliness of photography!
Journal article is paywalled from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01970-1 but will probably appear in the usual places after a while.
No, I don’t mean the guy. I mean the paper.
The Readme so busy explaining what Apple are than what's this about.
I already do. I’ve bashed strange designs and my initials into rocks far from civilization when I’m out hiking. With the exact thought of throwing someone for a loop long into the future. They are always subtle and small (so as not to be annoying to other users ).
Then we can train FancyCodeGeneratorModel on it to bypass this unfortunate licensing problem.
I imagine or assume most science kits would have a book or instructions and hopefully not some here the next couple of years website to refer to.

I too was shopping for the same a couple decades ago for the same reason and had noted advertising in an unrelated magazine for Scientific American which was offering starter kits iirc. I landed on something else more practical instead.

Try https://www.scientificsonline.com/shop/science-kits?Page=1
Someone making $1m a year would need to work 7,400 years in order to be worth as much as this dude. Silicon Valley engineers are certainly well off but they are in nowhere near the same class as the kinds of people who are worth $7.48B.
It doesn't seem like you've really replaced anyone with this. You spent 8 hours doing the work that you could have paid an SQL analyst to do in much less.

Unless you're saying that your time is worth less than you'd pay the analyst?
That sounds very interesting, but where would you get the right software and drivers for the scanner?
> To date, I have not seen any positive evidence of these expensive policies and the _very expensive_ consultants who are hired to enforce them.

The positive effect is reducing the firm's legal risk if they are accused of discrimination. The positive side-effect is strengthening HR's and DEI consultant's role in determining the allocation of economic (and, in the case of influential schools such as the Ivy League, political) power, since they now derive strength not just from corporate hierarchy, but also from the legal and PR risk if management tried to oppose them.

They have, effectively, positioned themselves so as to select the next ruling class.
courts decide much more based on law than sympathies, seriously
> Imagine allowing everyone to register an account on your email server.

That is not what we are talking about with this sub-thread; the top-level comment carefully argued that people shouldn't do that at all--that you should only host your own accounts and that it undermines the concept to host random people at your domain (which I agree with 100%)--and the comment I am directly responding to buys into the premise and talks about servers my server federates with, not accounts my server itself hosts.

> Self hosting an instance for yourself without blocking anything may work...

Well, does it? The comment I was responding to claims that, if I host my own Mastadon server--which of course isn't going to let randos get accounts... you can't sign up for an @saurik.com email address either (nor should you be able to)--and then have the gall to merely federate with everyone everywhere, I will get blocked by common big servers.

I don't see why or even how this would be the case, but maybe Mastadon has some weird technical thing allowing this kind of weird transitive block which I don't understand. I am thereby trying to get some kind of explanation for how this works and then why people would go out of their way to do it once they figured out how, as it seems ridiculous to me, and I am using the same analogy used for hosting one's own email server to show why.

For avoidance of any doubt, the claim I am responding to--the thesis of the "second paragraph" that I say needed to have more explanation--was that "most of the wider fediverse will block your instance if you federate with instances that host nazis, child porn, etc.". Do you, I guess, disagree with this (and thereby agree with me and my complaint/confusion)? Again: this has nothing to do with letting people sign up for accounts on my server.
Wet scanning was the default for drum scanners, the gold standard in the 90s. Essentially, you lay a drop of mineral oil on the glass drum, create a bond with the negative and then tape it down for good measure since the drum spun at a pretty good clip.

Wet scanning is worthwhile if you have a higher-end flatbed scanner like the Epson V700, 750 and 900(?) because they use higher-quality sensors and real lenses.

I almost bought a drum scanner a decade ago but would have to maintain a Mac Quadra for it to run. For large format film, a wet mount scan on an Epson V750 with VueScan software is great.
We were interviewing someone that used to work with my manager... as his boss. My manager basically said "This guy is awesome, we'd be crazy not to hire him" but obviously my manager wasn't allowed to be a part of the interview.

He BOMBED the interview, which was a pretty simple coding challenge. I could tell he was incredibly nervous (despite being a very experienced developer) and it felt obvious to me that he was only bombing because he was just so nervous.

I could tell from talking to him that he probably knew what he was doing. We hired him and he was great. Some people are bad at interviewing (myself included.)
aliexpress is a goldmine, example of some small stuff with metal gears, very good manufacturing tolerances

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004936458606.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004830455177.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001110546573.html
You saying that US judges lack the integrity to issue impartial judgement?