skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the caveat that everything fitness is mostly a bunch of non-researched beliefs...

Which is better for establishing cardio fitness? Short and hard vs longer and moderate?
A scalar field is a field with one value at any point.

Temperature can be represented using a scalar field. There is only one temperature at any point in our universe.

Theories like Quantum Field Theory describe our universe as a series of interacting fields that are everywhere. The Higgs field gives us mass, a single number at any point in space.

In this sense, the space around us is permeated by many fields.

Space itself is not a single scalar field because space contains many properties at every point that cannot be represented using a single number — for that one might use a matrix of values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_field
It's pretty funny seeing people today seethe about the obvious (being unfit is terrible for you) the same way people in the 1970s were seething about the obvious (smoking is bad for you).

There is a reason why life expectancy was dropping in the US years before covid hit.
US Foods (already mentioned) and Shamrock are probably the two biggest alternatives to Sysco. Maybe Roma, too. And those specialty distributors that were mentioned, if I were to guess, probably take a nice double-digit percentage of purchases that restaurants make.

Less well known is what happens in much of the baking world: pre-made mixes. Most commonly, this means a 50-pound bag of all a product's dry ingredients and only wet ingredients are necessary. These products reduce labor, simplify employee training, are more consistent, and bigger buyers can get customization.

All big bakery retailers are using these: Panera, Whole Foods, Costco, HEB supermarkets, etc. Smaller establishments and franchises also. Less obvious uses are industries with constraints that benefit from what these products offer, cruise lines maybe being the best example. While this sounds like just more ultra-processed food, many of the products are legitimately good quality. Yes, a donut is a donut, but products like breads can be fantastic quality and respectably healthful.
how can we build a tool to stop a process forcefully but make it look like a successful termination? As far as I know, Linux doesn’t provide an API to perform such a kill.

Interestingly, Windows does:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processt...
Causality is likely bidirectional here.
Another unnecessary piece of hardware.
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> "He was saying that when it comes to who we are as a nation, we are a nation of immigrants, that is in our DNA"

If what she says is true, it is not in their DNAs. Not sure if Biden wants to change their genes.
I keep and grow as much seed as possible. It is the only way to adapt plants to your local environment and farming methods and needs. I get plants that are much easier to grow, then breed for taste or other features. Thats how the heirlooms were created.

If you are growing grains and harvesting by hand eat the seeds from shorter plants. Taller plants are easier to handle. And give more straw for animal bedding. Taller grains have been mostly bred out of the seed stock. Machines are more efficient on shorter plants.
Define substantial. I find that incredible.

EDIT: Now that I've seen the replies, I realize that this is from a very low baseline. I'm personally going to the gym four to five days a week already and my own cardiovascular fitness has not seen much of an improvement in many months.
One South African community stopped Shell oil in its tracks
So it sounded like the wafer was being used as an interconnect kind of thing that might be much easier to fab.

The actual processors sound like they’re being made on other wafers in a standard way and then cut out and attached to the interconnect wafer.

So it’s not like the entire part was built only on one wafer and a single mistake would cause the whole thing to have to be thrown out.

At least that’s how I understood the article + educated guessing.
I think that Apple end-to-end encrypts fitness data.
I just googled around and there were plenty of testing facility options in my metro area (Boston). Cost was reasonable too, typically less than <$100.
You're right, and I should've adjusted my reply to be a bit more precise. That said, man, from my perspective, it's barely different than an Android app. It feels like some weird twist on the "just ship your computer" joke with Docker, wherein they just shipped a chunk of Android phone with their app. Honestly, I mostly ignored these devices when the news and fuss came around, but this class of device really does hit me as the least compelling new class of device I've seen in quite some time, personally...
The trends aren’t really useful either unless you are recording strenuous exercise with the watch. I do a lot of cycling and my fitness in terms of how much power I can put out and for how long and my average heart rate for the same power has increased vastly, yet according to Apple my VO2 max has stayed consistent at around 45 for years since I only record walking exercises with it. I guess there’s not much it can tell if you only hit the mid 80s bpm at most during an exercise.

I realise it’s also another estimate but based on my cycling exercises Garmin is estimating my VO2 max at 55 and it does show a progression in my values.
To be honest, I think you have a bit of a self-defeating attitude. Building an open source project and then building paid tiers on top is not "slimy". It's one of the best and most sustainable ways to keep a project going. The alternatives are that it gets supported by a large company, in which case it becomes subservient to that company's needs, or it eventually gets abandoned because people need to eat.

I really don't understand the mindset that it's slimy. I get the "rug-pull" thing, but just because you made a project with features a, b, and c that are free, why does that make it slimy to add paid features d, e, and f on top? People are still getting a, b, and c for free, so what's the problem? There's no rug-pull there.

Would it be better if a, b, and c never existed? It just seems like such a clear win-win to me.
Waist-to-hip ratio is as accurate as dexascans and VO2Max measurements done in a lab.

People don't want to hear it because they are out of shape.
That seems counter intuitive I’d expect that, if you are in very good shape you can get more sick before dying.
The E5-2697v4 chips are pretty good perf/$ for used servers.

I've seen complete dell servers with 2x E5-2697v4 / 128gb memory for < $500

E5-2697v4 (18-core) passmark is ~20,000 (cpu ~$50 used)

current i9-14900k (24-core) passmark is ~60,000 (cpu ~$500)
https://youtu.be/IgJ6YolLxYE

This video presents AFR, failure rates, derived from prior backblaze reports, aggregated.

Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in this report.
Its not cardiovasuclar, but the top 2 causes of death in the US are tied to obesity, which takes zero time to reduce. You just have to not eat, which is actually time positive.

Most humans are just incredibly bad at impulse control.
Oh that's just the start of it. I recently learned there are cheating methods that use sniffing and live modification of system RAM via PCI Express DMA transfers. As usual, physical access to hardware trumps all.
Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
Yes for sure. Track running can result in injuries on the left side usually in the foot/ankle area.
that’s an amazing change. Could you elaborate on your training regimen?
40 to 57 is a huge increase in a year - kudos!
Hi guys, thanks for your interest. The paper and the code are now released: https://github.com/HVision-NKU/StoryDiffusion. Currently, only the comics-related codes are made public. We are waiting for the company's assessment for the release of the video-related codes.
The big win for interoperability is that NACS as proposed flipped some CCS protocol features from "optional" to "required". The EU mandated some of those optional features. In North America so far it has been a free for all how much of the software protocol manufacturers actually implement of CCS and many truly have done "the bare minimum". That was the bargain that NACS proposed for Supercharger compatibility in the US was that the SAE should have to also start mandating those features. If it gets standardized that way, and it seems like that will happen, a lot of the interoperability issues should start to go away. One of those features was "Plug and Charge".
Getting back to the baseline isn’t a bonus
> If anything it’s a reminder of exactly why unions are needed more than ever.

Except in the software industry, there's too many stupid people who think they are really a "10x programmer" and fall for the Hank Hill special "SHH I'M PAYING YOU MORE BECAUSE YOU'RE A ROCKSTAR! DON'T TELL YOUR COWORKERS!"

It's like most people took a boot licking course or something lol.
I agree on house prices.

Maybe some news source would publish a graph over time of the ratio of house prices to, say, prices of gasoline, ground beef, carrots, a wool blanket, a car, a refrigerator, etc.

We are very short on news that has credible information, gets to causes, presents like STEM field information, etc.
They are literally the best positioned company in the world to win.

The best chips in every device capable of running LLMs today and they will only get better. When all of compute is AI, users will not want to put their entire lives into a closed company's AI. Apple will be perfectly positioned to let users own their AI, so the AI doesn't own them. Their strong stance on privacy makes this even more realistic.

They control the OS. As the use of apps die and all of compute becomes AI, they will have the tightest integration of AI in the world, if they make the right moves allowing them to ship fully integrated and optimized AI only machines. That means stripping out everything not needed for AI and focusing on functional capabilities exposed for use by AI.

If they are willing to bite the bullet when they see that apps will be needed less and less, they can focus all of the brilliant team they have on a much more simplified model and eliminate the complexity of interaction faced with Siri and the old model of AI.

Apple was operating with "old" AI and can now integrate far superior AI to make it perform far better and provide a superior user experience.

The biggest problem Apple faces is realizing they will lose significant revenue as the integration of AI, agents, and functions makes them unnecessary and we'll have to see if they can bite the bullet and radically reshape the company around it. Their hardware and control of the OS and functions makes them in a far superior position to any company in tech to win. They can't rush it though. They have to do it right and have a plan for the migration to what is inevitable.

Already seeing them working hard to do the research needed in the AI sphere. MLX performs beautifully. Their experimentation in small LLMs is brilliant, because they'll be able to deploy many small llms and agents with specialized functions in the short term, that can run on previous iPhone versions while they upgrade the hardware in future generations for llms everywhere.

They have some of the smartest people in the world on their team and they have the money to recruit more if they can share a vision of domination. I think it is possible, I just am not privy to how they are thinking about the future. If they try to hold on to their current model too long they could lose.
> people ship electron because it works the same across different OSs

Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then?

To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer.
hehe... face... plant...

(sorry)
reminds me of the bicycle helmet stuff.

There was a ted talk that said bicycle helmet laws would kill more people than save.

The reasoning was preventing people from riding would also prevent increased fitness, and more lives were lost from that than saved from accidents.

EDIT: I think this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY
Original: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/holding-all-men-resp...
I don't think they meant cost, I think they mean like replacing your PCI bus with optical interfaces.
Not a source, but it tracks for me. Walk, jog, or run daily and you will have massive CV improvement from baseline in 3 months. people can and do go from being exhausted walking to their car to being capable running many miles in an incredibly short time.

The typical human body is very responsive when pushed.
Not a magic bullet, but there's hell a lot of difference between maintaining C and Rust code.

In Rust it's much easier to create robust and performant abstractions that are near impossible to misuse, eliminating tons of potential bugs right away.

In Rust you don't need 10 years of experience and staring with a microscope and at every line to ensure it doesn't introduce issues. In Rust trivial changes and indeed trivial, so you have more time to think about actually difficult parts.

In Rust contributors don't need to learn custom implementation for collections, string and other basic primitives on every project.

And most of all, people actually want to learn and work with Rust, so your contributor pool is expanding, not shrinking.
I think you neglect the motivation factor. Hard data that can be quantitatively tracked is motivating for many. Think of the fitness tracker market. It’s huge. For myself, the tests served as a wake-up call in a way that knowing I was 10-15 lbs too pudgy and not the fastest runner was not.

At the very least, good medical care provides information. What the individual does with it is up to them.
> why not make Electron a shared part of the OS instead of so many apps bundling it.

Because it's a wrong approach to a problem that was solved decades ago by much smaller and faster system libraries for UI development.
It could have been a lie. It was most certainly not a threat.
Cardio is aerobic exercise. If you have to ask, you’re not a world class athlete and the answer is longer and moderate.
You could certainly make it harder on yourself by malloc-ing each Shape individually and storing those pointers in a dynamic array. Using a language like C# ... would force that allocation structure.

What's stopping you from using a fixed array of structs in C#, just as the author has done in C?
Why did you switch from Love2D?
The Ray bans don't have any kind of display. They're really pretty useless.. I tried them but they're really a non product.

And they don't solve the #1 glasshole problem: a camera stuck in your face every time you talk to someone with one.

This is even less mainstream than the meta quest.
For most adults, a resting heart rate above about 60 bpm is a sign of serious underlying pathology. Doctors usually won't recommend medical treatment unless resting heart rate exceeds 100 bpm, but over time there is a significantly increased risk of premature death.
Because you couldn’t say “in mice” :-)
Probably a continuum of causal arrows pointing either one way or the other, in the group.
You say deep end, but any chance somebody had a crisis of consciousness with working with ad tech. Oh who am I kidding?
I don't think you truly understand what "no moderation" actually means. No moderation means you have to accept porn (and I don't mean "oh look a titty" not-really-porn; I mean hardcore revenge porn); it means you have to accept the dreggiest of spam imaginable. In general, it means accepting the sort of videos that are so offensive to people that you're going to get sued anyways by people who are upset over content on your site, even though technically you're not liable for it (this already happens today in spades, even with §230 immunity).

And an unmoderated site isn't going to be all that fun for users. If there's no curation, you're going to mostly find dreck, which will turn users onto platforms that actually have content worth consuming. If there's curation, well congratulations, content creators still have to pander to the curation rules which is effectively the same moderation environment anyways.
This is stale, last commit 5 years ago. Lost of listed crates are still go-to ones, but e.g. for logging nowadays I'd reach for `tracing`.
I’m on mobile, am I to understand each graphic is built from a single div? Incredible!

Good eye for graphic design too
One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couch_to_5K

9 weeks. I have basic fitness but have never been close to completing a 5km run (I think I finally realised I have breathing issues - seeing an ENT soon).
Don't mind me, just updating the software you use to access your documents, nothing to see here, move along.
What’s the best way to accurately measure one’s VO2 max, or at least ballpark it sufficiently so that you can track improvement over time without it being lost in measurement noise?
Also the appliances in my childhood home weren't energy inefficient but they were solid. My current fridge is full of cheap (and broken) plastic. My new stove lasted just past a year before a part that cost 1/5 the price of the entire thing broke. You can get appliances with a touchscreen but you can't get one that will last 20 years anymore.

If it wasn't for government safety regulations that 1950's Ford might actually be safer than what would be produced now without them.
This is incorrect. VO2max is influenced mostly by muscle recruitment - different muscle group trained would be a hindrance if anything
> designing their games in such a way that computer-assistance gives no benefit.

Come on man, think this one through a little better.
Tons of money, a well loved and well known brand, tremendous product assets... why would you have the idea that their survival is jeopardy? We are a long way from that.
More personal, smaller scale, but many more individual conflicts per capita
Most of the applications of Hobby's spline would be better served by using Euler spirals instead. These are G2 continuous and have less curvature varation (in fact, Euler spirals are solutions of the Minimum Variation Curvature problem). I think it's fair to characterize Hobby's spline as an approximation to Euler spiral splines, just less expensive to compute.

I think there's even more to be done on this topic. In particular, I think the tension should increase as angles go up, which can solve the "flipping" behavior you see with both Hobby and Euler spiral splines. This is true for the Adobe κ-curves paper (which considerably overstates the extent to which it's the basis for the "curvature" tool in Adobe Illustrator; the latter has not to my knowledge been adequately documented).
Evoke: Emotion Enabled Virtual Avatar Mapping Optimized Knowledge Distillation
It can take months to go from obese to not obese through calorie restriction
It’s true. Between myself and some close friends I have seen the following in ~6 months:
- unable to run -> run a 10k
- increase of ~50% in a all out 20 minute cycling test
- max mile time 9min->6:30min

The human body can make incredible cardiovascular leaps when starting from a relatively low point
Discontinuity at the border isn't a big issue compared to all locations in the country being wrong relative to the satellite view.

If Google cared enough, I'm sure they could find a solution - since Google doesn't operate in China, they don't really have to respect Chinese laws. But Google doesn't operate in China so they don't care that much and are presumably happy to leave things the way they are.

Also, keeping things the way they are keeps drawing attention to the issue, which is probably better than to try and cover it up.
Wait-to-hip ratio is an accurate measurement of cardio-respiratory capacity ?
I went from having not run in years to running a 5k in about 2 months. I was obese when I hit that goal, though I recently graduated to being merely overweight.

My VO2 max as reported by my Apple Watch has been making steady gains, though I'm still far below average for my age.

I didn't train hard, just consistently.
You can create a shortcut that prompts you for text input, then appends the current datetime, and saves it to the health metric of your choice. You then export this to your home screen.

So when you get good data for your VO2Max (or anything else, really), you can easily save it and look at it on the Apple Health graphs.

The only way to get the Watch to stop messing it up with its daily hallucinated number is to turn off all fitness tracking (in the Privacy settings of all places).

But then half the reason for having the watch goes away.
Don't you use adblockers?
To be fair, our diets and lifestyles changed drastically in the 20th century.

When we're bombarded with advertisements of highly caloric, processed, sugary foods engineered to flood our taste buds and trigger dopamine, we can't be surprised that people get addicted to it. Combine that with forms of entertainment, transportation, and a work culture that keep us sedentary, and it's no wonder many people struggle with being physically healthy.
Looks like a more recent alternative might be: https://blessed.rs
If you've worked in environments dominated by unions you most certainly know that that story wasn't fabricated. I had a friend that worked show sites, comic con and stuff like that. She told me that in some states, when they set up a kiosk they weren't allowed to plug plugs into wall sockets because it required someone in the electricians union.

I'm glad you made a lot of money. Were you worth that kind of money? The guy walking around plugging plugs into the wall in my example was most certainly not. I'd rather just not do business than do business in environments where bureaucracies create pointless busy work to keep people paid.
It is a fair worry. On one side, there are sites with regulations that they are supposed to meet and it's hard to do so without knowing something about the passkey provider. If we want to try and replace SMS OTP, which is depressingly easy to compromise, we can't ignore such things.

On the other, we don't want to create a situation where it's impossible to start a new passkey provider because you'll never get 1000s of websites to put you on their allowlist.

So far, we haven't done attestation for passkey providers at all. There is only the AAGUID, which is a spoofable identifer should any sites try to filter based on it. There are legitimate cases where sites are required to know more, but we're trying to find a path that doesn't lead to the problems that you worry about and, so far, are erring on the side of openness.
It's not less energy and it's not cheaper; the only advantage is distance.
Exercise does have some positive contribution to inflammatory response. Chronic pain is a pretty big bucket, though.
The trends are garbage too. According to my watch my VO2Max has swung wildly between 55 and 45 over the last year, while every other measurement points to my fitness staying mostly steady.
What about it? It’s still coming out of my pocket, albeit untaxed.
I love this style of projects, OSS project for a very particular issue.

I keep thinking what can I do in the Typescript/Next.js/React ecosystem that's very useful to a technical niche but I haven't had the inspiration yet.
Morbidity and mortality, which is what the article's title is about.
5g once a day, standard gym goer protocol.