jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Everybody is different, and my anecdote should have very little weight attached to it, but ...

I do an 18 hour fast once per week, which is a very modest fast. On the other hand, I have a very, very comprehensive and intense exercise regimen, so my resting metabolic rate is quite high, and 18 hours with zero calories clears my body out very thoroughly.

And I notice it greatly - it feels fantastic. I feel very quick and light on my feet. It's noticeable.

Am I improving my immune system ? Who knows. However, it is definitely less than a 3 day fast, and it definitely improves my health.
There is a fait détail you sud not point out : in sports or accounting, the art is stable.
Wereas in software programming the langage is nit stable at all ... ans it changes vert much the évidence of a stable-élite programmer.
It doesn't make universal properties 'impossible' and it certainly doesn't make shared properties impossible. Here's an example of a theory which would extend the basics set forth by Darwin: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory...

And anyway, Darwin's theory has already been expanded on with some discoveries relating to inter-species genetic transfer such as through viral infection and also some interesting insights about mitochondrial ancestry. There is still a lot of mysteries about evolution and there are certain to be unexpected surprises.
They were recently moved to the SiteSecurityServiceState.txt file: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775370
Can you share further reading material or studies behind spirulina?
Perhaps you started (2) before (1) finished?
Well. The author had mentioned it himself.
Yea, that's why I decided to mention it. I think it's a great idea and really important for learning a language.
I'm the original author of Basic-256, if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Most people seem to be pleased with it, but I'm starting to wonder if it's the right approach; maybe it's the C64 and not BASIC that's the key. I recently downloaded a C64 emulator and the "Programmer's Reference Guide" that I had as a kid; you almost have to try NOT to understand how a computer works in order to not get something out of a C64 and that guide.

Right away they delve into changing bytes in memory to draw on the screen, and I remembered drawing sprites on graph paper and figuring out what the binary representation would be. I was in second and third grade at the time, figuring this out on my own.

There is something about the C64. It's at the perfect spot of advanced and simple that makes learning easy.
Just picking some nits, but "But in this case this code is copyrighted" is wrong. In _all_ cases, code is copyrighted, even open source code. It's just that with F/OSS, someone has given you a license to use something they've created.

Other than that, carry on.
Not necessarily about flight sims.

Put your palm on top of someone's head and make them look around...
Also a regular in the Node irc room (JimBastard). I just connected the dots. He won a ticket to JSConf by winning the pre-conference talk in a bar about JavaScript competition.

He seemed ok in person, and I know he hacks a lot of his own code, but I'm surprised what a dick he seems to be being. He definitely wasn't this much of a jerk face to face. Oh the Internet, this is why we can't have nice things.
I play inverted, and it would feel "wrong" for me to not play inverted, as I see the mouse movement as moving my head forward or backwards for changinv my view. (forward to look down, backwards to look up)
And avoid a mistake many beginners in business make: charge enough! Charging enough means you can do a generous affiliate program and still make money.
Well you'd probably want to go deeper than 5 miles to be sure. But a massive comet strike doesn't guarantee the sterilization of ejected material which is really the difficult part. Because there is life that can handle vacuum you have to not only heat the world to 200C (we think) but you have do it in a way that nothing larger than individuals molecules escape due to heating. which is also tricky because at some altitude in the atmosphere evaporative cooling might allow for something to survive indefinite periods of superheated crust.

EDIT: really what it comes down to is how many 9s of biocide do you want. Ramming Luna into the Earth might accomplish 7 or 8 9s, but if you want to kill everything, 100% of life from LEO down not just practically everything it's going to take more finesse than that.
Highly recommend D3. I've used it for a large-scale project this summer, handling thousands (millions, even) of data points in the browser. Mike Bostock has created an immense body of examples and is constantly found answering questions on SO, etc. Kudos to Mike and D3 as a whole.

EDIT: oops, typo
I can only speak for myself, but i've found their Wiki always to be extremely helpful and for the most part, i can't seem to think of an occasion where i couldn't find what i've been looking for..
"The agency has dominion over any part of a vehicle sold in the United States, from the headlamps to the owner’s manual, but can’t regulate the speech of a corporation or its employees."

True, but the agency gives legal cover. When there is a question in court as to whether the safety systems performed "as advertised", the NHTSA is free to say that Tesla didn't follow the advertising guidelines, and therefore cannot comment on the performance of the safety system.

Drug companies can also advertise drugs outside the FDA guidelines, and would win a court challenge on 1st Amendment grounds. None do it because it would expose them to unbounded liability.
I don't relate to this. I finally pulled out of social networking altogether based on the fact that it made everything too significant, not too insignificant. Most of what is posted on twitter or on facebook walls would normally be kept to one's self; it was already insignificant. Now people are commenting on, debating, and retweeting stuff that might have been worth mentioning while trying to make conversation over lunch, but certainly not worth calling anybody to tell.

Note that I post this as a comment on a comment of a news-aggregating site's comment thread on a blog (at least I'm hoping it's a blog and not a print column) hosted by website of the print magazine Forbes written by a columnist who wrote an essay debating the significance of a tweet (or class of personal emissions of which this tweet was representive) written by a guy who decided to delete 100 of his 300 apps.

Over lunch, mentioning that you just deleted 100 of the 300 apps on your iphone might be a spark for a good five minutes of conversation. On the internet, it sparks existential crises all over the world.

EDIT: I'm not sure if I'm expressing myself well here. I really, deeply, truly, honestly don't want to know that Scoble deleted 100 of his apps. I can also wait up to two years before finding out whether old friends have had children without losing any of the "oh, that's nice" feeling that I'll have upon hearing it. Facebook and Twitter seem to addict people to a stream of trivialities that wouldn't be worth turning over for in isolation. It might have to do with the fact that an orgasm is made up of x number of rubs.
"These sorts of people" is an interesting way to distance ourselves from this, as though we the tech-enlightened were somehow hardened against weaving our reasoning through the maze so that it reaches our predetermined conclusion.

I actually caught myself doing this last week while I was writing a response to a HN comment. I was emotionally invested in my assertion (that fat people are fat because they overeat, rather than the overeating being a symptom of some people's propensity to store more fat). It started out with constructing an argument that satisfied my conclusion, and each time I encountered some thought-roadblock, I diverted traffic down an alternate street. After several times of doing this, it dawned on me just how disingenuous this entire process was becoming, so I decided the better attitude is that of a fence sitter: committed to hearing future arguments from both sides -- made by people who are smarter than I, no less -- and then deciding which argument was more convincing.
Thats not a bad idea, but whats your scheme for keeping them referenced and correlated?
Especially not when your company has a solid plan for making money. Digg never did, Dropbox does.
Nice. I was playing with this yesterday and hit up against a lack of documentation on configuring your db connect strings.

Great timing
Yep. Pre-Jobs, the Apple offerings were as muddled as the PC examples given above, especially with the introduction of the PPC boxes, which were all assigned names like 7200/75 or 7215/90. Steve did away with all of these and offered only four core products (iBook, PowerBook, G-series and iMac) until the intro of the Cube, which nobody remembers, and the iPod, which nobody can forget. :)
I think a lot of people are missing the brilliance of this.

They're making it intentionally bad. For instance, I set a very cute picture of my niece as my google background...but it takes about an extra second to load the page now, so I removed it.

If anybody starts thinking about switching to bing, they're going to see the pictures, remember how much it sucked on google, and go back to the "good" google.

It's coke classic.
I'll get down-voted for this but oh well.

Who cares? If you don't like the rules then just leave, go to Android, or Windows Mobile, or whatever but don't write some post about how it's a travesty like it's going to change Apple's mind. Just leave, and stop whining about it.
Funny, there is even a Google Chrome extension named "Remove Google Background": https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gihbmmifmldhookm...

But what I have found out is that I rarely use the Google homepage any more. I usually search through the search bars on Chrome or Firefox, so I didn't notice the change until I saw it on Twitter.

Anyway, this nightmare will be over tomorrow.
Well-intentioned people aren't always enough to make an effective system. If the end result has and continues to be shoddy then maybe there's only one way to vote -- with your feet.
They had bad lawyers, then (or wanted to avoid a legal battle).

I know of several cases where the big bad megacorp has lost (one case: Intel Bras http://www.intelbras.com.br won against Intel Corp).
Will trade upvotes for summary :-)
To my understanding (after several downvotes, and few uncalled-for language), it is simple.

1. Dropship violated Dropbox ToS, by reverse-engineering Dropbox proprietary code.

Thats all.

Nothing to do with DMCA notice, which was sent by accident.
Yes, I was referencing Gmail's numbers compared to Yahoo! and Hotmail. Many people don't realize they have far more users than Gmail does. The majority of people using email today have no idea what a "conversation" is.

As for Outlook, CampaignMonitor's data shows that Outlook edges out webmail by quite a lot [http://www.campaignmonitor.com/stats/email-clients/]. Not sure how accurate their data is, but it's better than raw speculation.
That is great. I'd never heard of libebb before but have a couple of things I can already use this for. Thanks for sharing.
A lot of us have worked tabbed browsing into our workflow to a degree that the difference between 1 millisecond load time and a 5 second load time is negligible, since I'll spend enough time on the first tab to let the rest I've queued load up.

It's also worth noting that on mobile, the bottleneck is still the connection, not client or server side rendering.
This is the same issue I had with RateMyStudentRental (we license a private-label version of our platform to colleges and universities), so this advice is primarily aimed toward B2B businesses.

I'll echo the advice that cold-calling/emailing is emensely effective in the B2B arena. With colleges and universities, though, the sales cycle is excruciatingly long. So I couldn't waste a lot of time calling, emailing, and following up with universities that didn't already have a demonstrated definite need for what I could offer.

So I made a tool that aggregated RSS feeds from the student housing industry, as well as Google Alerts for terms like "problems with off-campus housing", to show me schools that were having problems with their off-campus housing. Then I'd spend my time contacting those schools.

I've since formalized this process and made it about 100x more efficient than it was in the early days. And that's the story of how http://www.leadnuke.com came about ;-)
Only if the number of things that you used to do was fixed. Adding features and increasing performance could possible cancel out, timewise.

That said, I think determining the utility of a product from the amount of time spent in it is a very difficult thing to do. Deriving utility from time spent, and then comparing it between products seems very nebulous at best.

Personally, I'm fine with RescueTime's presentation of the graph here. In the end, eyeballs are eyeballs. I don't know if you could generate a metric (from RescueTime, anyway) that could measure product innovation.
Note that there is also an optimistic view on that issue. For instance, the same effect ensures that mobile phones aren't accepted to take too long to boot (compare their boot times to the 2-5 minutes which computers usually need). So I agree, it's all about what latency people are used to.
I went with a "total comp" number that included salary + signing and annual bonus as my previous salary. It ended up being a 20% raise when the new company matched it.
I wake up every day and say to myself 'I'm the luckiest person in the world to even have a chance to live my dream'.
What about Culture Ship Names?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_%28The_Culture%29

Perhaps with acronyms for the longer ones e.g.

Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly (SAMWAF)
very cool! I hope you get good valuable traction with this stylish hack!
At a higher level. Yes, that's definitely possible - the .com nameserver tells resolvers where to find the nameserver for domain.com. Try 'dig @l.root-servers.net www.google.com' sometime.
A question about how this works, as well. Does it essentially then create a peer-to-peer transfer, running through ge.tt's server as a type of proxy?
First of all, there is no such thing as a Buddhist 'prohibition' of anything. The precepts are trainings that describe skillful ways to live, and are much more like guidelines which can vary wildly from person to person and must be worked out individually

Secondly, while I can't know for sure, I think the 'Stealing is Wrong' mentality is not a statement about whether stealing is good or bad, but how strongly it is stigmatized in the west. So, likening some other unrelated activity (such as copyright infringement) to theft has a powerful mental effect.

Finally, if you sneak into a movie theater or jump the fence at a concert, you are actually taking up a seat or space that could have been used by a paying customer. This isn't the same thing as downloading digital goods, in which your use of these goods has no impact on the producer unless it prevented you from purchasing something you otherwise might have.

Copyright infringement is not an innocent act, but all acts of infringement are not considered equal. Honestly, I feel like you're the one oversimplifying things.
The SF city plan is for individuals who make less than $55K.

I could have paid less for my insurance but I was making a lot of money and hadn't seen a doctor in a decade, so I wanted to make sure any horrible condition I had developed had the best care options available.
Chargify and Cheddargetter and Recurly are competitors and their products are pretty similar. I cannot speak to their specific benefits and disadvantages.
I love seeing the same data repeated over and over and over with no new analysis over the last time I read it. Especially when the data has been available and has been being talked about for a month now...
I would love to see the execution plan for that Regex-heavy SQL query. I'll send it to our DBA if he's ever having a bad day and needs a reminder of how bad things can be elsewhere ;)
ETH--Except the T (Technodeterminists) portion where I would further refine it to say it is not the Net per-se that brings about transformations, but the people (us in here) who conceptualize it and build it for the end users.
And, not to be a curmudgeon, but, most apps don't really need that level of optimization. In 90% of apps it's fine. The 10% that really need the performance are hopefully doing it right with well tuned indices, careful denormalization, and other things. It is unimaginable to me, that someone with a higher performance SQL/RDBMS backed app can't run a query planner and tame ORMs for performance and identify things like wildcard column select. But what do I know :)
That's a good reference.

I had assumed there were 1000 instruction memory SRAMs in there but of course that'd be impossible considering the leakage numbers and there's actually just 12 x 64KB SRAMs shared by all the cores:

Per core
640 bytes (128x40-bit) local instruction memory
512 bytes (256x16-bit) local data memory
768 KB SRAM on-die
12 shared SRAM memory modules, 64 KB each

Those local per-core memories are tiny and presumably implemented with registers. But can you really do much with just 128 instructions? The following makes it sound like they might be instruction caches:

> Instructions may come from the local instruction memory or they may be fetched from one of the independent memory module

But then goes onto say:

> the KiloCore's processors do not contain traditional caches.

Hopefully their paper has more info.

The survey that the "World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip" claim is based on (http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/misc/many-core.html) doesn't seem to include any network processors, some of which are technically programmable. But even if it had, they wouldn't have found any of the information required for the table and definitely not a datasheet!
I could be wrong but I think he's saying the opposite: people are missing that his code is about processes happening over time, whereas the focus of most games nowadays is on the objects. Or, what you can see in his static code isn't important, it's what happens during the running of the code that is.

Now I know almost nothing about game development so have no dataset myself or ability to understand the arguments either way.

I think we're seeing an increasing short term move to more complex, black box, DL trained models that will get behavior similar to the processes he seems to emphasize, and then we'll see a swing back to taking those gains but converting them into the type of readable algorithms like in his old games.

But I have no idea. Just complete 2 second conjecturing on my part.

Regardless, thoroughly enjoying reading his site and find his Object <=> Process gradient cycle to be crystal clear and fascinating and important idea.
Some of the lightest road bikes out there are steel, in the ~14lb range.

You can get stupid light in Steel, Ti, Carbon, Aluminum, but once you're in the sub 16ish lb range, you're going to be going with superlight parts all around, as there's just not that much frame left to make light.

You can make a fully equipped (steel) randonneur at 20lbs, with fenders, rack, pump, generator, and lights. It's not cheap (~10k+ is my guess), but man is it a well crafted bike. With some care, I think that style bike can be done with common components and off-the-shelf frames in the 25lb range.
Does it also make sense that they are currently ranked #2 in the world in cases per million in the last week for countries with more that 1 million population?

This is even after a down week in cases. Next door Lebanon is seeing cases fall at the same or faster pace and they peaked at the same time as Israel. Lebanon has yet to start vaccinating.

Case fatality rate has not fallen either. You would expect a huge drop in CFR if the elderly were protected, but this hasn't been the case.
Why would you run Nomad for a home server? This isn't for home server use. This is for practicing skills only required in commercial environments. Skills you only have a need for because someone pays you: because it's not fun and stupid.

Taking that process home and doing all that instead of just running nginx from your distro repos on the sbc OS is cargo cult insanity for 99% of cases.
Personally my 5900x is facing same issue and lot of 5900x and 5950x users reported in AMD forums

https://community.amd.com/t5/processors/ryzen-5900x-system-c...
I am using Pascal like language daily at work. Its modern version of Pascal powering modern ERP ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-centra... )

I have background in Javascript, Golang, Typescript and all other modern web technologies but I have to say I enjoy working with it and its very highly productive for me.
32bit EFI actually.
The rapid pace of development is testament to the fact that Blender now has more than twice as many full time devs working on it than Max.

It’s been a long road and for a long time it wasn’t obvious that blender would succeed. Just goes to show if you stick with an open source project over the long haul good things can happen.
For hardware, there are competitions, especially for Samsung OLED tablets. For software, there are not in same stage.
The point is, a company can try to artificially shape public opinion by placing an advert.

Without trying to be moralistic (or take any view on its relative merit) advertising _is_ largely an art of manipulation.

In the context of Wikipedia - advertising would destroy any value Wikipedia has, because it would mean that companies with commercial interests would have a way to counter (and artificially influence) opinion. It would also create a situation where companies with the most money, would have the most clout.

I think it would amount to a disaster if advertising was allowed in.
Instead of turning it of, just activate it for all sites. hilarious. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/idkjdjficifbfjjk...
Minklinks (http://www.minklinks.com/) had to go on the back burner a little last week and part of the week before. I'm behind but still working on it.
Yes, it is always possible to be misinterpreted. But a presentation is an organic whole designed to minimize such misinterpretation - and usually designed to do so through careful coordination of slides and audio. I see no reason to feel required to make a partial presentation available when that subset might encourage misunderstanding.

Consider: would Apple ever release a Jobs Keynote with slides-only. Not likely. The alternative they provide is to make the entire presentation (or select portions) available as complete AV presentations (QT or whatever).
> What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet?

> Email themselves attachments.

For me, that was the killer feature that got me hooked 2+ years ago.

Today we use Dropbox for so much more. It's become the ultimate networked drive that takes advantage of your local hard disk.

The one feature I wish it had was encryption.
Methane breaks down into CO2 and water in a few years, which is why half life of methane is relevant.
My understanding is that for CO2, thinking in terms of half-life is less relevant, the CO2 goes to plants and to the ocean, and if those two sinks are at saturation, then CO2 levels in the atmosphere will keep increasing.

But there's a good article I found now which might shed more light : https://euanmearns.com/the-half-life-of-co2-in-earths-atmosp...
There is some flexibility, but they are strict. Strict in weird ways. I'm actually a former Googler who can't get back in because my GPA. Go figure! :-/